Book Blogger Test Tag

Thank you so much to Taylor and Michaela for tagging me in this!

THE RULES:

1) Thank the person who nominated you and add a link to their blog.
2) Answer the questions asked on this post — don’t stress it’s quick!
3) Nominate and notify some peeps. 5 preferred.

1. What are your top 3 bookish pet peeves?

1. When books of the exact same editions don’t match in sizes (i.e. The Iron Fey series, the AUS paperbacks of the Abhorsen series)
2. When I request an ARC and get approved less than a week before the book’s release (SO STRESSFUL)
3. Insta-love

2. Name a perfect reading spot:
I’ve always dreamed of having a house someday with a big bay window facing either a body of water or a quiet wooded area, with soft cushions and pillows and plenty of room to prop my feet up. Preferably, it would be inside my personal little library, with floor-to-ceiling shelves and my workspace and lots of soft, warm lighting.
3. Give 3 reading confessions:

1. When rereading books I’ve read recently, I often skim the less exciting parts.
2. Though I’m scared to do it in my own books, I love seeing books that have been highlighted in.
3. One of my favorite parts of the day recently has become coloring in the little bars in my daily page tracker in my bullet journal.

4. When was the last time you cried during a book?
At the time that I’m writing this, Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman. I cried a LOT during that one.
5. Number of books on your bedside table?
I don’t keep books on my bedside table because I very rarely read in bed (I go to bed later than my fiance and our son do, so if I read in bed it’s only on my kindle app on my phone); however, my version of “the bedside table stack” is “the desk stack”, where I currently have 13 fiction books, 1 textbook, and a cookbook.
6. Favorite reading snack?
I don’t snack while reading often because I don’t like getting the pages dirty, so when I do, it’s usually something not very messy, like grapes.
7. What are 3 books you’d recommend to anyone?
There is no book in the world that I would recommend to anyone. I just don’t do that – I’m big on knowing what your genre tastes are, your likes and dislikes, potential triggers, etc., before giving recommendations. At bare minimum, I’ll typically ask the person requesting recs to tell me what their last favorite book was and what their favorite genre is. I’m sorry, I just get really weird anxiety whenever recommending a book to someone that I’m not sure they’ll enjoy! (That said, if I know your reading tastes, I will send you recs ALL DAY LONG because I live for that shit.)
8. Provide a picture of your bookshelf:

I know you can’t see the whole thing, sorry, but this was the most recent picture I had and I have no good lighting to take a new one right now!
9. How much do books mean to you in 3 words?
In 3 words? Hmm… “escape from myself“. Sorry, it sounds dramatic, but truly – I struggle with a slew of various mental health struggles as well as various physical ailments and invisible disabilities, but books and the book community offers me a tremendous amount of reprieve from all of that.
10. Biggest reading secret?
As much as I love blogging and know that I would miss it horribly if I ever stopped or even went on a substantial hiatus… every now and then, a little bit of me misses the days before writing book reviews, when I didn’t take notes or read critically and could just go at whatever pace I wanted and read whatever I wanted without worrying about ARC release dates or anything. Don’t get me wrong, blogging is 100% worth it for me and I’m not going anywhere, but I do have days where it feels a little bit like a job.

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