✧✦Catherine✦✧6d ago

i'm considering asking people to recommend me bad books

it's easy to get people to recommend you good books! however, good books make me feel things, often quite intensely. i think usually this is appreciated however i am living what is considered an "interesting life" already and i really don't need a book to put me on the edge in addition to all of the things that normally put me on the edge, like "stalkers" or "immigration" or "wondering if someone i know got shot", etc. similarly i have thought enough about the nature of identity that i'm quite done with it for a while.

most recently i have read Blindsight, which was a good book, but it made me conclude that if i have to choose between another good book and 10 hours straight of youtube shorts, the latter will passively benefit my life by not taking up more of it than i can spare

please recommend me your favorite bad book

Show threadpelavarre6d ago

@whitequark

> don't need a book to put me on the edge

And you know cozycore is also a book genre?

For example, you learn Becky Chambers is a famous author if you search for cozycore sci fi to duck out of reading only about wars and other dystopias

Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧

@pelavarre i don't! this is the first time i've ever seen the word anywhere

(i had assumed something like that exists but not the specific name)

Mar 16 at 3:12pmWeb
Show threadOwenT6d ago

@whitequark @pelavarre I've not heard cozycore!

But on the cosy fantasy side, I felt the same after reading Blindsight and immediately reached straight for the next in the Legends and Lattes series.

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea is up there, too

Show threadInga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸6d ago
@whitequark @pelavarre
* "Non-Player Character" by Veo Corva is very cozy and low-stakes
* In addition to Becky Chambers, I'd also recommend "You Sexy Thing" by Cat Rambo, but idk it might make one feel feelings.
* Also "Bluebird" by Ciel Pierlot. And "Barbary Station" by R.E. Stearns.
* And everything by Kaye Draper I think? Although I've only read "Not Quite" and "Gesa's Menagerie" series. They're really good (reverse and queer) harems.
* And books from "Tales of Inthya" by Effie Calvin are cute and gay.
Show threadpelavarre6d ago

@IngaLovinde @whitequark

> but idk it might make one feel feelings

Compelling sketches of found families

Tough read back while you need found family and don't have found family, like if leaving home to fly off the grid at 17yo

Show threadOwen Anderson6d ago
@whitequark @pelavarre +1 for Becky Chambers in particular. I’ve really enjoyed everything of hers.