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The 2025 Goodreads Choice Award is out. So I am currently reading ALL the books that are nominated under Romance category.

Updated.

So happy to say, finally after a decade in goodreads I read 99% of it's romance category. Not so much of an achievement to some people but I've been struggling for years to, at least read 10 books of my favorite genre. I am grateful to have read some new authors to me that I am wanting to read their books for a long time like Meghan Quinn and Carley Fortune, and now I have a more backlisted books to add on the top of my thousands (not an exaggeration) TBRs. I also discovered that serial murderers' romance is not to my liking 😅 Not that I am hating it, I read them without struggling but I would not read them in my normal days. I truly did not love my most anticipated book, Say You Remember Me by Abby Jimenez which is also the same theme as The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang, that until now I am still sad about it. That is not the story I want for Quan 😢. So which book did got my vote? No one. It took me a whole month to finished 12 and a half books 😅😅 that I did not reach the dateline.

What romance book is my favorite of the year....?

This novella from Ms. Hazelwood is my fave!!!! Never thought that this 94 pages novella can be so impactful to me!!!! It's how Ms. Hazelwood writes male pining that always pulls my heartstrings. Despite my 4 months reading slump, I achieved a lot this year. THANK YOU 2025!!!!

#books #romance #TBR #goodreads choice awards

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What are you reading today? I’m almost done with ‘Before’ by Anna Todd, and I don’t want it to end because then I’ll be done with the ‘After’ series😭 Ughh the struggle is REAL😒😂

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I can’t stand… book culture. One time someone got me a canvas bag that was like “Books + Tea = Perfect Day” and I drove to goodwill with that shit so fast

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Most books suck. Most books are goddamn awful or utterly extraneous. Don’t get me wrong, I think we’re deeply lucky to live in a world where most books can vanish without us losing anything culturally or intellectually, rather than a world where books are so scarce that a single person might own like twelve in a lifetime. But still. Books are easy to aestheticize as Magical Portals of Adventure and Whimsy if you only read maybe two genres

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AH! Words for that whole… situation.

I work at a public library and book culture there is nauseating. Not really among the other employees (though we’ve had a few come through over the years), but the patrons?

Oh god the patrons. Most of the people who check out books are just regular people who like reading. I even have patrons who L O V E to read, and who spend a majority of their free time reading or discussing books, they’re part of multiple book clubs, they always bring a big bag and leave with it full. They aren’t the Book Culture People.

Book Culture People loudly announce that they’re so surprised that there are children who know what books are!

They act affronted when I mention our ebook service, and scoff at the idea that anyone could enjoy reading from a screen instead of off the page!

They are personally offended that publishers hire actors to read the books for audio versions, because they feel that “audio books cheapen the experience of reading” and “audio books are cheating”!

They have to proclaim their fetish for ‘real’ books, whether through tacky tote bags, weird quote filled pinterest boards and social media posts, or awkwardly shoehorning unimpressive humblebrags about all the classics that they’re reading into unrelated conversations with tired library assistants.

They’re terrible, and I resent them because I fear being grouped with them by the nature of my field.

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I was literally just talking about a friend whose classmate in her library science program was bragging because she didn’t use any digital resources for her final paper because she “respected books too much.” It’s such a bizarre attitude for anyone, much less an aspiring librarian, to have

I’ve also been approached by people while I read in public who are like “Oh my GOSH it’s so GOOD to see other people who READ nowadays!! Honestly I just have NO hope for our generation” and it’s like, first of all if you’re a reader you should know the last thing anyone wants is to be interrupted by a stranger for unnecessary conversation, and second please shut up holy crap

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Oh god, I’ve heard that one before.

Hating accessible books and shunning technology is basically the antithesis of modern librarianship.

I don’t get the ebook hate, ebooks are literally just books. You cite ebooks the same way, and depending on the format, you don’t even say they’re ebooks.

It’s a performative, self important approach to something that I genuinely enjoy, and I think it bothers me more than, say, fandom antics, just because it’s so much more common. People get offended when I tell them I don’t read a lot in my down time, that I genuinely prefer audio books, that I’ll skip their recommendations because I don’t share their tastes.

It’s so… boring.

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These are the same people who hate on genre fiction, or romance, because they’re not “highbrow” enough. Oh, you only read the “classics”? Well, I read to enjoy myself, not because I want to impress people with the fact that I had read all of Shakespeare’s plays before high school. Like, yeah, I was reading the classics, but I was also reading Animorphs and the American Girl books, and Nancy Drew right along side them. People who “only read the classics” are missing out on so much fun. Also, audiobooks are great??? They literally let you read WHILE doing almost anything else. I can do crafts, clean the litter box, cook dinner…all while a delightful professional tells me an adventure story. What’s not to love?

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Book snobs.

But really, even though I love my collection of physical books I can smell and pet and arrange and hug to my chest like a dragon loves her hoard, opposing ebooks and audiobooks is just…??????????????????????

Listening to a story is not a Scary New Witchcraft That Comes From The Millennial Cancer Rectangle Screens, audiobook snobs. It’s literally the oldest way to consume stories. Oral traditions carried on storytelling for millennia before writing was a thing.