Shelf Source: Grubdog

When You Finish a Book That Moves You, What's Your First Instinct?

To talk about it with my friends, actually! I get excited over whatever I read and infodump to them the moment we get on a call together. They're my prisoners now sorry <3

Has A Book Ever Inspired You To Build Or Change Something On Your Site?

I've thought about adding a "book review" type tag to my blog to discuss/review books and other pieces I've read, but I've never been sure about what I would write exactly. Currently books are sometimes listed in the "read" section of my monthly summaries alongside a very short description, but I would like to start saying more... If I ever find the words...

How Do You Decide Which Books Deserve a Place on Your Site Versus Staying Private?

If they're worth talking about, basically.

Usually ones I enjoy and recommend are the ones I share. I can imagine myself sharing "so bad its good" kind of books in the future though.

What's Something You Believe About Reading Most Would Disagree With?

"Most" is subjective here I think, so I'm going with "most (of the people from the groups I'm from)". In which case: you should read books that make you uncomfortable.

Not necessarily ones that are outright hostile or triggering, but absolutely ones that push your boundaries and introduce you to new ideas.

Too many people are willing to stay in their comfort zone in fear of being uncomfortable, conflating discomfort with more extreme emotions.

If you don't know where to start, get on AO3 and find a tag/category you generally don't like but you think you can handle. I'm dead serious.

What's A Genre Or Type Of Book You Used To Dismiss But Now Love?

"Dismiss" is not the right word, but I used to be a purely fiction reader.

I never could get into long, nonfiction books dedicated to one topic both due to lack of interest and due to a misconception that books were static and the information would quickly become outdated (the speed at which books become dated really depends on topic, and even dated books have their own uses). I think the first nonfiction I was able to sit down and read was Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.

It didn't do anything special prose wise, it just was a topic I wanted to know more about and happened to be a brand new book that was gifted to me.