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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Mar 20, 2022 19:20:26 GMT -5
Just wanna dump the weird things I find at my library etc. It's really fun. :3
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Mar 20, 2022 19:20:55 GMT -5
Today for library stories Found a full side of beef. Like, as long as my arm. Abandoned. --- Today in library stories, we found Zimbabwe money. Worth $100 USD. And no one has come looking for it for almost 3 years. No one knows what to do with it. --- Library story We have a pillar out front that is between the building and the book drop. People like to hide things behind it, so I check it every time I pass. Today, I found another pillar behind the pillar. A thigh high Roman pillar.
(To catch up on the chaos.)
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Post by Sand on Mar 21, 2022 11:12:25 GMT -5
Beef...?
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 21, 2022 11:26:59 GMT -5
not as interesting, but still o_O:
i started re-reading the Court of Thorns and Roses series, bc i lessed my screen time for lent and needed material. i have the first book but that it so i went to my local library to check out the second book. there were 33 holds on their two copies. this book came out like 5 years ago. why.
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Post by Leapkit on Mar 21, 2022 11:40:56 GMT -5
My only interesting library story is asking a librarian if they had a book and they checked and said they didn't. So I went to go look around I found not one but TWO copies of the exact book they said they didn't have. Someone was not doing their job correctly.
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Post by Northstar3213 on Mar 21, 2022 17:47:26 GMT -5
I have a few good stories after working in my university library for five years lol.
So while I was working there, there was a lady who I think had some mental health problems who would frequently visit. Let’s call her Linda. She would be very destructive on the quiet study floor: throwing books/desks/chairs and screaming. For years I heard of this woman but hadn’t actually met her until one day I was working in the stacks putting books away and this red-haired lady comes up to me and asks where she can find books on some topic I can’t remember and I answer her that they were a few shelves over. And she starts talking to me about how she’s so interested in learning about all kinds of things from the aforementioned ghosts to business to history and she was really really nice. I noticed one of my bosses walking by so I had to cut the conversation short and when I got back to the office my boss comes up to me and says “So I see you’ve met Linda” and that caught me by surprise. I would never have guessed the lady I talked to was the same as the one people around the office talked about. I saw her several times throughout my time there and it was always nice to see her. I think she finally got the help she needed and I hope she is doing well.
We also had a dude who was…exposing himself to female students. *cough* apparently he’d been banned from several other libraries before coming to ours
We also had a dude creeping on all the female workers plus one dude (idky since the guy didn’t creep on any of the other male workers lol). And we couldn’t get rid of him because we had no proof. Well I worked weekends and I was putting books away when I noticed a few of the bottom shelves had been completely torn up and disorganized. Obviously I bend down to go set them right and I notice out of the corner of my eye movement. I turn around to find that fecker with his phone out, assuming that he was trying to take pictures of me. He ran off real quick and I made it a point to take photos of the messed up shelves and emailed everything to my boss. Now my boss was the most awesome and chill guy ever, he came to work with a smile and a Hawaiian shirt everyday. But man he got so heated learning what happened I swear I could see the veins on his forehead. He and his supervisor go to watch the security footage and they found him. They found the dude following me around. This mean we could get campus police involved and the dude was banned from the library with a trespass order which meant if he was spotted on the premises he would be taken into custody.
Now back to my awesome boss, the guy was just the best boss you could ever ask for. He was always asking us student workers how we were doing, always threw a big party for graduating students, and baked pies/cakes/cookies/whatever. I genuinely miss working for him. ;w;
We would also find a lot of trash in the stacks. So many fricken coffee cups >:| the grossest thing I found personally was a banana that had been there so long it had liquified
I have a few more stories but I’m too lazy to type them up atm lol
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Post by Fireleap on Mar 21, 2022 20:33:30 GMT -5
I was an aide at my school library for a semester. One time I found a bunch of manga shelved with the nonfiction, and I mentioned it to the librarian. She told me, "Oh yeah, a kid leaves them there because those are his 'special' books". Her tone implied he was not interested in reading them. Another time she warned me to be on the lookout for kids wiggling on the ground to get into the library backroom.
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Post by --cato phoenix on Mar 22, 2022 1:06:12 GMT -5
not as interesting, but still o_O: i started re-reading the Court of Thorns and Roses series, bc i lessed my screen time for lent and needed material. i have the first book but that it so i went to my local library to check out the second book. there were 33 holds on their two copies. this book came out like 5 years ago. why. wait this is actually very interesting to me bc i ran almost the exact same thing with the same book my library. i have trouble staying focused on reading books and i end up taking forever to read them, so i use audiobooks since i can multitask and read while drawing and stuff. there’s a couple different apps i can use with my library card, the main one i use being Libby. a couple weeks back (i believe?) i checked out ACOTAR, don’t think i had to wait at all for it…. but then after finishing it, i went to check out the next one and there were a ton of holds on it?? i can’t remember how many there were then but i checked again after seeing your post and through Libby, there’s 12 holds on the audiobook and 26 on the ebook. i tried Hoopla, the other app, and luckily the audiobook was available (i don’t think they had the ebook to check if it was too or not) edit- decided to check the others to see how many holds there are now and WHATACoTaR- audio- 17 ebook- 58???ACoMaF- audio- 11 (someone must’ve just returned/cancelled?) ebook- 26 ACoWaR- audio- available ebook- 18 ACoFaS- audio- 9 ebook- also 9 and i don’t see A Court of Silver Flames at all on libby but interestingly, the audio for it and the rest are all available on hoopla without a wait
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 22, 2022 8:52:12 GMT -5
not as interesting, but still o_O: i started re-reading the Court of Thorns and Roses series, bc i lessed my screen time for lent and needed material. i have the first book but that it so i went to my local library to check out the second book. there were 33 holds on their two copies. this book came out like 5 years ago. why. wait this is actually very interesting to me bc i ran almost the exact same thing with the same book my library. i have trouble staying focused on reading books and i end up taking forever to read them, so i use audiobooks since i can multitask and read while drawing and stuff. there’s a couple different apps i can use with my library card, the main one i use being Libby. a couple weeks back (i believe?) i checked out ACOTAR, don’t think i had to wait at all for it…. but then after finishing it, i went to check out the next one and there were a ton of holds on it?? i can’t remember how many there were then but i checked again after seeing your post and through Libby, there’s 12 holds on the audiobook and 26 on the ebook. i tried Hoopla, the other app, and luckily the audiobook was available (i don’t think they had the ebook to check if it was too or not) edit- decided to check the others to see how many holds there are now and WHATACoTaR- audio- 17 ebook- 58???ACoMaF- audio- 11 (someone must’ve just returned/cancelled?) ebook- 26 ACoWaR- audio- available ebook- 18 ACoFaS- audio- 9 ebook- also 9 and i don’t see A Court of Silver Flames at all on libby but interestingly, the audio for it and the rest are all available on hoopla without a wait why is everyone reading that series right now????? smh... maybe its b/c it was spring break or something. my library has the audiobook available rn but i have the opposite problem as you, haha. can't focus on auditory stuff for more than a few minutes, or my mind drifts, so i gotta read stuff. i can't listen to podcasts for that reason.
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Post by sweetclover1 on Mar 22, 2022 11:19:47 GMT -5
I've been working in libraries for like 8 years from now (I'm going back in April too!!) and some of my favorite stories are:
We had an... interesting patron who insisted that our toilets were one decibel above the legal unit and he could sue. He told this to every single worker here (Note: this is not the case. The toilets were fine.) He also printed something out, had a librarian read over it, and then told her not to be alarmed if the FBI called her. He was an interesting dude.
The middle schoolers were absolute menaces and hid all of their open snacks under the bean bag chair. They lost their bean bag privileges after this. Also, someone from this group stole our Elsa cut out.
We had a patron who was absolutely shocked that we had a 10 cent per copy rule for print outs and insisted that she worked for the district and she knew it was only five (Note: District policy is 10 cents)
We had a ghost we affectionately named Bob. Bob liked to lurk in the YA section. Those of us who were shelving books liked to scare the tar out of each other because of this.
Right before I went to college, our library district thought it would be a great idea to create an automatic hold list, where if you signed up for this, you'd autimatically be put on hold for any book put into the system. Let me emphasize any. Now, let me give some context: There's probably about 15-20 libraries within this system, and new materials come in every day. Elderly people were coming in, confused as to why they had like 50 things on hold and it was. a mess. The automatic hold list lasted a week before it was pulled.
Fast forward to the university library I worked at. Honestly I don't have as many stories because I was in Cataloging
The state decided that our library wouldn't be a repository anymore, so we had to pull all of our gov documents. Which, usually wouldn't be a problem, except that when we changed systems not every single MARC record was transferred over... so we had to go shelf-by-shelf, looking for the gov stamp so we can pull them. This was... well. Time intensive.
Speaking of MARC Records, it turns out that our system decided it couldn't read a whole line every time, so you'd have to go in and manually. We still don't know why the system is like that. By the way, if you are writing out a record from scratch (you need a record for each book so patrons can check it out) it takes over an hour if you have no reference to use. Amazon took away their free option of downloading the MARC records and I swear to god people were trying to riot.
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Post by Dawnwing on Mar 22, 2022 12:26:18 GMT -5
During a teen group meeting I was in, a random guy wandered into the meeting room and interrupted the meeting, talking about something random. At one point he asked the librarian who she was, she said she was the librarian, and his response was “So you’re not married?” (She was, in fact, married.)
As a library aide in school I’ve got two Warriors-related ones:
- One day a copy of Fire and Ice was returned badly damaged. It was one of those sturdy hardcover library editions, quite new, and the spine was peeled off so that it was just cardboard and there was a lot of damage on the cover. I asked the librarian what on earth happened and she said the kid had taken a razor blade to it. I asked why, and she said “He doesn’t know.”
- A mom came in looking for something for her 10-ish year old son to read. Being an obsessed Warriors fan, I recommended Warriors. She laughed and said “No, not those, we’ve already been reading those and I’m trying to get him to read something else. How many times can cats fight?!”
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Mar 22, 2022 13:00:44 GMT -5
@ppl talking abt ACOTAR idk if it's less noticeable outside the pop-culture/social-media book community but ACOTAR is still kind of the biggest thing in NA/"romantic" fantasy, it never really dropped in popularity, and the recent-ish series rebranding also boosted its visibility. The fandom is also still super active (honestly more than the Throne of Glass fandom, the only comparable one I can really think of is Six of Crows, that one's also inescapable in book media spaces) which in turn keeps people interested, especially since the series is still unfinished. Think there's a tv show in the works too? Not 100% sure cause I'm not in the fandom and I wish I hadn't read the books, but I've seen some ppl talking about it. But yeah I don't think the demand for it is going down anytime soon lol
Also w/ thread topic I used to volunteer at a library! I think the weirdest things we had happen was a guy yelling at one of the librarians for speaking "patronizingly" to him, and the time a squirrel got in overnight and wrecked half the children's book room lol
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 22, 2022 13:37:49 GMT -5
@ppl talking abt ACOTAR idk if it's less noticeable outside the pop-culture/social-media book community but ACOTAR is still kind of the biggest thing in NA/"romantic" fantasy, it never really dropped in popularity, and the recent-ish series rebranding also boosted its visibility. The fandom is also still super active (honestly more than the Throne of Glass fandom, the only comparable one I can really think of is Six of Crows, that one's also inescapable in book media spaces) which in turn keeps people interested, especially since the series is still unfinished. Think there's a tv show in the works too? Not 100% sure cause I'm not in the fandom and I wish I hadn't read the books, but I've seen some ppl talking about it. But yeah I don't think the demand for it is going down anytime soon lol oh ho ho that would explain it. i didnt realize it was still so popular. usually new YA/Adult fantasies are popular for like 2-3 years and then the fans move on to other works (whether the same author or others). i thought it was just a trilogy tho and that ACOFAS was like, a "bonus" book, so i thought it was over. *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* what makes you wish you hadn't read them? sounds particularly ominous lol
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Post by BҽɾɾყႦʅσσɱ on Mar 22, 2022 17:07:27 GMT -5
My classmates and I had a sleepover at our school library once. If that counts as a "library story" despite it not being a public one so to speak.
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Post by --cato phoenix on Mar 22, 2022 21:42:54 GMT -5
ah that could be! i’m not in school so i don’t really keep track of when spring break and stuff starts.
i did know about the possible tv series but from what I’ve heard there hasn’t really been any news abt it in like a year so i wasn’t sure if it’d have an effect on people checking them out or not. i thought it was still pretty popular but didn’t know it was so popular it’d have that many holds lol
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Mar 23, 2022 23:06:37 GMT -5
@ppl talking abt ACOTAR idk if it's less noticeable outside the pop-culture/social-media book community but ACOTAR is still kind of the biggest thing in NA/"romantic" fantasy, it never really dropped in popularity, and the recent-ish series rebranding also boosted its visibility. The fandom is also still super active (honestly more than the Throne of Glass fandom, the only comparable one I can really think of is Six of Crows, that one's also inescapable in book media spaces) which in turn keeps people interested, especially since the series is still unfinished. Think there's a tv show in the works too? Not 100% sure cause I'm not in the fandom and I wish I hadn't read the books, but I've seen some ppl talking about it. But yeah I don't think the demand for it is going down anytime soon lol oh ho ho that would explain it. i didnt realize it was still so popular. usually new YA/Adult fantasies are popular for like 2-3 years and then the fans move on to other works (whether the same author or others). i thought it was just a trilogy tho and that ACOFAS was like, a "bonus" book, so i thought it was over. *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* what makes you wish you hadn't read them? sounds particularly ominous lol So the original Feyre/Rhysand trilogy is over, but Maas has decided to do a set of continuation novels that each focus on a side character from the original trilogy. not sure how many there are supposed to be in total, but the first one was A Court of Silver Flames, which was released last year and focuses on Nesta and Cassian.
and oop didn't mean to be ominous, they didn't ruin my life or anything, it was more out of annoyance. Gonna put my gripes under a spoiler tag so acotar fans can avoid, i'll be the first to admit my lit opinions are very subjective
But yeah I speedran the series last year because I wanted to read the Nesta book specifically. I had previously tried the series way back when ACOTAR was first released and didn't enjoy it, Nesta was just the standout character for me so when I heard she was getting her own story I was excited and decided to give it a second chance. But then between the fact that I just do not think the books are well-written (messy worldbuilding, bad characterization, plot holes, tonal issues, poorly utilized folklore references, unsubtle horniness lol), and then the disappointment when the Nesta book didn't handle her character arc in the way I'd hoped and was just overall the worst book in the series (also the smuttiest. that's another annoyance with these books, I do not care for sex scenes and the fact that they got worse with each book to the point that the series had to rebrand from YA to NA was just very uncomfortable), I ended up with the feeling that I'd wasted a huge amount of my time (it was like 2500 pages altogether???) for nothing lol
It's on me for continuing to read even though I wasn't liking the series, but I did genuinely hope that the Nesta book would be something I enjoyed :| just bummed at how it turned out and and seeing how popular the series still is just confuses me
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 24, 2022 9:19:50 GMT -5
oh ho ho that would explain it. i didnt realize it was still so popular. usually new YA/Adult fantasies are popular for like 2-3 years and then the fans move on to other works (whether the same author or others). i thought it was just a trilogy tho and that ACOFAS was like, a "bonus" book, so i thought it was over. *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* what makes you wish you hadn't read them? sounds particularly ominous lol So the original Feyre/Rhysand trilogy is over, but Maas has decided to do a set of continuation novels that each focus on a side character from the original trilogy. not sure how many there are supposed to be in total, but the first one was A Court of Silver Flames, which was released last year and focuses on Nesta and Cassian.
and oop didn't mean to be ominous, they didn't ruin my life or anything, it was more out of annoyance. Gonna put my gripes under a spoiler tag so acotar fans can avoid, i'll be the first to admit my lit opinions are very subjective
But yeah I speedran the series last year because I wanted to read the Nesta book specifically. I had previously tried the series way back when ACOTAR was first released and didn't enjoy it, Nesta was just the standout character for me so when I heard she was getting her own story I was excited and decided to give it a second chance. But then between the fact that I just do not think the books are well-written (messy worldbuilding, bad characterization, plot holes, tonal issues, poorly utilized folklore references, unsubtle horniness lol), and then the disappointment when the Nesta book didn't handle her character arc in the way I'd hoped and was just overall the worst book in the series (also the smuttiest. that's another annoyance with these books, I do not care for sex scenes and the fact that they got worse with each book to the point that the series had to rebrand from YA to NA was just very uncomfortable), I ended up with the feeling that I'd wasted a huge amount of my time (it was like 2500 pages altogether???) for nothing lol
It's on me for continuing to read even though I wasn't liking the series, but I did genuinely hope that the Nesta book would be something I enjoyed :| just bummed at how it turned out and and seeing how popular the series still is just confuses me
oh you're completely right lol, i agree with basically everything you said. the series is far from a literary masterpiece and im kinda puzzled why its SO popular. but i guess Maas has always had a cult-like fanbase. i tried really hard to read the Throne of Glass series (because someone gave me book #3 for christmas one year? for some reason?) and finally gave-up after book #2. it was not good.
i think ACOTAR is entertaining and a pleasurable enough read-- moreso than TOG-- but there's a reason why i dont own any of the other books in the series, lol. especially since i started re-reading An Ember in the Ashes while waiting for ACOMAF, and remembering how much better Sabaa Tahir is as an author. i bought all her books.
also agree on the smut thing... everyone in the books is so damn horny, and i have 0 interest in reading sex scenes. i skip over them. but as you said, theres more and more in each book, and i felt like i had to skip rather large chunks of the middle of ACOWAR.
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Mar 24, 2022 12:28:21 GMT -5
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Mar 24, 2022 12:46:37 GMT -5
I'm eating up all of these stories. 10/10.
Another story from my first month or so working, a patron came up and asked 'Do you have Mein Kampf?' And I just stared, like 'oh ... oh joy???' And my coworker is like 'No. No we don't.' And I have that moment of 'Oh good???' until she says 'It keeps getting stolen, so we don't buy it anymore.'
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Post by Leapkit on Mar 24, 2022 12:58:08 GMT -5
I'm eating up all of these stories. 10/10. Another story from my first month or so working, a patron came up and asked 'Do you have Mein Kampf?' And I just stared, like 'oh ... oh joy???' And my coworker is like 'No. No we don't.' And I have that moment of 'Oh good???' until she says 'It keeps getting stolen, so we don't buy it anymore.' UHHHHHH.
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Post by sweetclover1 on Mar 24, 2022 13:03:15 GMT -5
I'm eating up all of these stories. 10/10. Another story from my first month or so working, a patron came up and asked 'Do you have Mein Kampf?' And I just stared, like 'oh ... oh joy???' And my coworker is like 'No. No we don't.' And I have that moment of 'Oh good???' until she says 'It keeps getting stolen, so we don't buy it anymore.' …Yeah that sounds about right
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Mar 24, 2022 15:33:44 GMT -5
Yeah. Yeah to both replies.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Mar 25, 2022 0:20:22 GMT -5
Back when DOTC came out, I was of the mindset that I would wait for an arc to completely be released before I would read it. I wasn't yet collecting the hardcover books, so I needed to borrow them from the library. I checked online and was able to get books 1-5 no problem, but when I asked about book 6 I was told there were 2 people that had it reserved before me. I added my name to the list, went home, checked the online site again to see if any other libraries in the city had it, and suddenly it said that it was available on the shelf at the library I had just left 10 minutes before. I drove back up there, and sure enough, there it was, so I checked it out with a different librarian and went on my way. I had all 6 books back at the library in a week.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 25, 2022 8:51:40 GMT -5
Back when DOTC came out, I was of the mindset that I would wait for an arc to completely be released before I would read it. I wasn't yet collecting the hardcover books, so I needed to borrow them from the library. I checked online and was able to get books 1-5 no problem, but when I asked about book 6 I was told there were 2 people that had it reserved before me. I added my name to the list, went home, checked the online site again to see if any other libraries in the city had it, and suddenly it said that it was available on the shelf at the library I had just left 10 minutes before. I drove back up there, and sure enough, there it was, so I checked it out with a different librarian and went on my way. I had all 6 books back at the library in a week. warrior books are such quick reads. i just re-read TPB in a week as well.
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Post by ✦ GreatSwiftFoxz太阳的✦ on Mar 25, 2022 10:12:16 GMT -5
I went walked my way down to my local library to get me "tallstars revenge" but when I came by to the warriors sections..one of the books pages were torn out I don't even think the librarians lol (I told them so they had to take the books away and maybe try and find who did it?
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Post by Northstar3213 on Mar 25, 2022 12:01:37 GMT -5
Oh yeah and my boss would let me decorate the office for the holidays uwu Basically I was the go-to person for any artsy kinda stuff. The year before I had to retire (grad school funding conflict) our local theater who was famous for showing old and unique movies was moving their video collection to our library and my department were going to have a poster board on display to commemorate it. I was tasked with making some of the assets for it and one of said assets was Godzilla (because why not). I worked on the weekends when everyone was out of the office so I couldn’t ask my boss what size he wanted. So I ended up making two, a smaller one and one as big as our white board. sta.sh/01wwrklxp5df
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Mar 25, 2022 12:56:41 GMT -5
That is amazing.
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Mar 31, 2022 1:04:03 GMT -5
oh you're completely right lol, i agree with basically everything you said. the series is far from a literary masterpiece and im kinda puzzled why its SO popular. but i guess Maas has always had a cult-like fanbase. i tried really hard to read the Throne of Glass series (because someone gave me book #3 for christmas one year? for some reason?) and finally gave-up after book #2. it was not good.
i think ACOTAR is entertaining and a pleasurable enough read-- moreso than TOG-- but there's a reason why i dont own any of the other books in the series, lol. especially since i started re-reading An Ember in the Ashes while waiting for ACOMAF, and remembering how much better Sabaa Tahir is as an author. i bought all her books.
also agree on the smut thing... everyone in the books is so damn horny, and i have 0 interest in reading sex scenes. i skip over them. but as you said, theres more and more in each book, and i felt like i had to skip rather large chunks of the middle of ACOWAR. I also DNFd Throne of Glass after book 2 lol that series was a cliched mess. Like ACOTAR I am tempted to second chance it occasionally bc I loved a single character but seven books is a little much.
I actually should try An Ember in the Ashes again tho might have to slide that one back into my tbr. I keep seeing people being really positive about it and I feel like I missed something when I read the first book. I do think it was probably the best-written out of the series I was trying around the time (stuff like ACOTAR/Red Queen/Legacy of Orisha/Poison Study- I read a lot of series first installments and then get really picky about which ones I continue with lol), but it seemed kinda edgy to me and Elias grated on me so I never picked up Torch Against the Night. I remember I did like Helene tho she was pretty cool.
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Apr 3, 2022 21:18:47 GMT -5
Today at the library.
Someone road their scooter (electric) right in front of the desk. When I told them they couldn't do that, they said their foot was broken. Er???
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on May 2, 2022 22:36:32 GMT -5
We've called 911 almost every day this week. :'D
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