People think bookworms are just so so so simple and easy to please.
“Just leave them alone in a corner with a pile of books,” they say. They’ll be happy and content, particularly if you throw them a few biscuit crumbs at regular intervals. “Bookworms are so quaint and low maintenance!” they say.
And you know what? HOW D A R E YOU. Because do I have news for you that you are absolutely entirely for certainly–
….correct.
Yeah. Ok, fine You’re right. We are really easy to please. Dump me in a corner with books and snacks. Come back in 40 days. This is fine.
But even though the simple pleasures work every time, this totally doesn’t stop us dreaming up lists of other things we want.
And just to PROVE to you that bookworms do want more complex stuff than just books (but seriously we freaking love books give us all the books you want), I have written a super handy list of 10 things bookworms really truly want.
Obviously I can’t speak for all bookworms, but I speak for myself, so that’s the important part.
1. GOODREADS TO GIVE US STICKERS WHEN WE HIT OUR READING GOALS.
I think I’ve mentioned this one before but it’s worth saying again because (A) I can’t remember what I’ve blogged about before, IT’S BEEN 6 YEARS OK I’m bound to repeat myself, and (B) it’s so intensely important!! There’s this convoluted idea that people need complicated rewards to be motivated and I’m telling you: no.
We just need stickers.
I think there’s an age in life (like maybe around 12???) where you’re not into stickers. But if you’re around 5 years old or 20+ years old — you want stickers.
I would be 1000% more motivated to read if Goodreads passed out stickers when I hit various goals throughout the year (like read 10,000pgs; read 20 books; longest reading streak of finishing a book per day; etc. etc.) I would be an uNSTOPPABLE FORCE with stickers to motivate me.
2. CHEAPER BOOK SHIPPING.
Like most people who are either bookworms or just in their 20s, I AM NOT OF THE RICHES. I spend what I can on books, but they’re expensive. And I also have to spend my money on other dumb stuff like, you know….food and rent.
And back in the day, I whined like most of us do, saying, “BOOKS SHOULD BE FREEEE.” And ugh ugh, no. Look I get the off-handed comment! And I’m going to say “I WISH PEACHES WERE FREEEE” too because I really love peaches. But. Art shouldn’t be free. Artists deserve to be paid and recognised for their work because art is just as important as any other career. I mean look at history, what do we all gasp and revere now?? The ancient art left behind.
So hear me out: CHEAPER BOOK SHIPPING.
Obviously I’m still putting post offices out of a job, but they make an actual killing with prices and postage just goes up and up and the service is frolicking about in hell (AUSTRALIA POST LOST MY OWN FREAKING ARC OF MY OWN FREAKING BOOK, OK??? I WILL NOT FORGIVE. 5. weeks. it took it to get from UK to Australia..I can’t even…) So. Let me be a little demon spawn here and just say it shouldn’t cost $16 for me to send a book overseas. And then take 5 weeks to get there.
3. UNNECESSARY COVER CHANGES MID SERIES TO BE MADE ILLEGAL
This surprises exactly NO ONE. I think it makes most of us mad, right?! And even if you don’t care about matching covers, please don’t hate on people who do! It can really bother us…like to the point where I won’t buy a book if it doesn’t match because it makes me (legit, not hyperbolic) anxious to have a messy shelf.
Now I get that some cover changes are good. Like these days a lot of POC authors are getting cover changes to have POC models on the cover — and that’s awesome. That’s needed. But hello, publishers?! Just start the series with POC on the cover.
4. BOOKSHELVES THAT MAGICALLY EXPAND AS YOU ADD MORE BOOKS.
Sometimes I put unrealistic things on my lists to keep us all on our toes. Like #3 was hilariously unrealistic. But this?! THIS TIME I’M DEAD SERIOUS. Hermione got that handbag, and Newt had his epic suitcase that appeared to have its own solar system down there, and Mary Poppins was like a witch or something with her bag — so fair is fair?!?
If my bookshelves expanded WITH my books, then I would complain so much less!!
Or I’d find new things to complain about!! I’m so flexible like that!!
5. CAFE THAT SELLS THE FOOD MENTIONED IN BOOKS.
They put out the bookish cookbooks these days, so let’s take it a step further and have full booknerdom cafes!! Because let’s face it: yes I know there’s a Game of Thrones cookbook. And no way am I going to cook out of it because I’m busy READING and I can’t cook.
Like I just burned fried eggs this evening. Also once I made an orange cake and it tasted saltier than my sense of humour. And another time I cracked a hardboiled egg on my sister’s head. <— Actually that was pure genius and not a cooking fail at all. Although she is scarred and won’t come near me if I have eggs. *
Anyway basically: someone do this. I want to order November Cakes from The Scorpio Races and all the cookies from To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before and the magical toffee trees from Narnia and all the food in Harry Potter.
* I’M THE KIND OF BIG SISTER YOU NEVER KNEW YOU WANTED.
6. BE HIRED TO JUDGE COVERS
I’m totally sure there is a team of people in publishing who get to sit down with company mugs and look at a slideshow of upcoming covers and then judge them. * Suggest tweaks. Ask for font changes. Point out colour inconsistencies. Ask why the model looks dead inside. Etc. Etc.
HIRE ME. I’m an epic cover judger as is, so like I wouldn’t even need to be trained!
* Just in case you think I know what I’m talking about because I am, in fact, about to be a published author…LMAO NO I’M MAKING EVERYTHING UP.
7. BAD BOOKS TO BE EDIBLE SO YOU CAN EAT THEM TO SMOTHER YOUR RAGE.
This is one of the best ideas I’ve had so far because let’s face it: there is nothing worse than wasting money on a bad book. Books aren’t cheap and money is hard to come by unless you’re hitting pirates on the head and going through their pockets for loose change after stealing their tricorn hat. (Totally…um, not my secondary job.)
So if books were made of chocolate = boom. Problems solved. We’d just eat the bad books and there would be so much ragey satisfaction in it.
Don’t ask about the good books you want to keep…maybe they can be, like, swapped for normal-books??? Don’t ask questions. If I wanted logic, I would’ve done origami or something. Instead I am blogging.
8. FOR GOOD BOOKS NOT TO ALL BE RELEASED AT ONCE.
It’s like a tidal wave, honestly. There comes to a few certain times of year and it’s just “THWACK”. Hit me with all the epic releases why don’t you?! I didn’t want to be able to stand anyway. I wanted a broken wallet.
Me @ trying to live but books
And YES I realise this has to do with marketing and best-selling-times etc. etc. But tell my wallet and my impatience that.
9. BE PAID TO READ
“Caaaait,” you say patiently. “Just become an editor or a professional reviewer.”
But see…that’s a lot of work. What I really want, is to be paid to fangirl. I mean technically I am paid to read RIGHT NOW because I’m paid to write novels (WOW OH WOW) and I have to read them 398 times to make them make sense. I have read A Thousand Perfect Notes so so many times.
But come onnnn. I wish book blogging had an easier way to make money!! I WISH. Everyone should totally want to pay me to write reviews were I compare books to potato salad, right!?
10. LIBRARIES WITH LADDERS SO WE CAN RUN UP AND JUMP ON THE LADDER AND SLIDE MAJESTICALLY DOWN ROWS OF BOOKS.
This one is slightly more extravagant than the rest. But seriously are we even living if we don’t all secretly want to do something glorious and pretentious sometimes?? I also add a cloak fluttering behind us as we make this leap, but the cloak can be optional, weather depending.
But seriously: Libraries + books + more books + actual piles of books blocking the door = this is what bookworms want. Even if we can’t possibly read them, who doesn’t want to be surrounded by books?! Put me in a room of books, even if I can’t buy or keep them, and I JUST GET SO EXCITED.
PRETTY MUCH ME.
I couldn’t agree with you more about the mid-series cover changes. I LOVE seeing POC on covers, and it makes me really angry that it seems publishers are waiting to see whether a series is successful or not before making that step. It would be awesome to see POC appearing on covers immediately.
I’d also love to be paid to read. It’s one of the only things I’m good at AND enjoy doing, and everyone says work should be fun… Right?!
I know right?! I mean WHAT YEAR IS IT. I’m glad publishing is changing, but it does need to move faster on this. And we also totally need to be paid to read.😂 This would solve so much ah hahah.
YES! Goodreads achievements should be a thing!
OBVIOUSLY I would like the literary cafe to have November cakes. 😉
I mean November Cakes are all I’m really hanging out to eat anyway.😂😂
I want my locality to have a library. Heck, for now, I’d settle for my city to have a library that will stock books I like to read – which is basically all kinds of fantasy and YA and romance – which is not authored by Dan Brown or JK Rowling or Rick Riordan. I mean, can libraries have books apart from these famous authors, too? And can I please have a library that stocks these books and is also not an hour and a half away from my house? Because I’d totally love that. So much.
Saaame though. I don’t have a good local library. *cries with you*
A lot of the things on this list sound so so good! Yes I would like GoodReads stickers :). Yes I would like cheaper book shipping (especially overseas). I would LOVE to have all matching series and no more cover changes midway through a series (and same for size changes, also I like the same font(s) to be used in the series as well). Bookshelves that expand (including an expanding room to put them in perhaps), that seems like a nice idea too (mine are mostly filled up!). I would like to try out the food mentioned in books! Food is so important, I love eating good food. But preferably make the food available at the supermarket too, so I can cook / make it at home, because I’m not fond on going out in noisy cafés. Be hired to judge covers and be paid to read, those sound like dreamjobs :D! I’m not sure about the edible one as I think it’d get very sticky if I’m reading a book that’s made of chocolate (I do love eating chocolate though), but it’s a nice thought :). It’s true a lot of good books are released around the same time! And yes to ladders in libraries :D.
I’m so glad we want the same things. 😂 *hi fives for our excellent taste clearly* And honestly we’d have to sit in like a freezer to read the chocolate book so maybe I’ll have to rethink that one.😂
Hmm what exactly does a 17-year-old bookworm want? Nothing much, really. Smaug’s hoard of gold is enough. And of course I’d like a dragon so maybe I’ll just tame Smaug too. Together we can rule the world and set it on fire. An Invisibility Cloak would also be welcome. I’ll take the Beast’s library too. I’ll spare his castle. I will not let Smaug burn that castle. So yeah. Just small dreams. Definitely no biggie.
Also…
GOODREADS STICKERS ARE WHAT I NEED IN MY LIFE. AND LESS SHIPPING FEE. AND MORE BOOKS. MORE BOOKSHELVES. MORE GOLD.
Excuse me while I try to tame Smaug and get his gold. Together we’ll pillage bookstores and steal bookshelves. We’ll make such a great team. He’ll wait outside libraries while I slide down the ladders. *insert evil laugh* 😈😈😈
I’m outta here. Got a world to run.
-R
I want Smaug’s hoard of gold toooooo. That would solve a lot of my problems. Also you could totally just ride Smaug to the bookstore too. THIS WILL WORK.
YES CHEAPER SHIPPING. I CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL BOOKWORM STRIKE. Can somebody remind publishers that we are not all Americans? And my bookshelf weeps every time a cover changes and my spines will no longer match. AND if books weren’t all dumped into stores at the same time, I would probably actually buy more! Because I’d feel like I was pacing myself with my money. So, really, publishers should fix this ASAP.
Ahh haha wouldn’t that be nice if the Americans remembered the rest of us.😂 And omg why can’t we just have consistent book heights at least?! SO MUCH BOOKWORM PAIN RIGHT HERE.
I just want food and books to magically appear whenever I want to a.k.a pretty much 24/7!
This is not unrealistic.
DEFINITELY NOT UNREALISTIC! WE DESERVE THIS.
I need a room that is like the TARDIS, where it looks small and ordinary, and on the inside is the Beasts’s library from beauty and the Beast. Like, the whole thing with the thirty foot ceilings, the ladder, the shelves (oh those shelves), and floofy carpets that you can sink into like quicksand. That’s not much to ask for, right?
YES SEE THAT’S NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR RIGHT?! WE TOTALLY DESERVE THAT.
I 100% agree with this, and I think the cafe should have a library with ladders and piles of books and look like the one from Beauty and the Beast (animated). And omg changing series covers so they don’t match like WHY!!!!!!!! Those will be the first covers to go in book cover judging.
Absolutely! And like reading crannies and nooks too so we can disappear with our bookish food + book. And also probably never leave.😂
I want #4 on your list. Tragically, the majority of my books have been relegated to the attic because NO SPACE. Only the most beloved now hold a place on the bookshelf in my room and lwt me tell you the competition is fierce!
I also want to know how long you spend arranging your books to make all those stunning photographs!
Ugh there’s never enough space right?! I’m trying to figure out what to do about my shelves right now BECAUSE NO SPACE. HELP.😂
aww thank you!! And it’s hours really.😂I love it, but I do spend a ridiculous amount of time doing bookstagram haha.
I just need an infinite gift card to my favourite book store! And those neverending shelves you mentioned, that don’t take up much more space than a normal shelf but can hold every book ever. See, I don’t want much!
Both of those would be infinitely lovely hahahha *dreams* 😂
Oh, I’d looove if Goodreads give us stickers when we hit milestones! I have an app to track all my tv show and they give stickers like serievore or drama queen. It’d be super fun! 😃
I actually always dreamt to open a bookshop with a cafe that sells like november cakes and blue foods. That’d be amazing! Also, I could add ladders on the bookshelves and have cozy book nooks everywhere. 💜
omg see yes exactly?! Like that’s the perfect thing we need stickers for. I’d be so motivated to finish series.😂 And that’s SO COOL that a bookshop did that!!
YES to Goodreads Stickers – or BADGES! Why not badges?
Shipping… Don’t even get me started. Anyone NOT in the USA cries about shipping.
Mid series cover changes. Hmph. When are those punishable?
May and September releases? Yeesh. Mainly September – I always find that month crazy difficult for my wallet.
Book food. Yum. I want to sit at a Wrath & The Dawn feast… I want to have ALL the Harry Potter food and I definitely want to feast at the Capitol from the Hunger Games… And maybe try Peeta’s bread!!!!!!
We can totally do badges too! ANYTHING REALLY. Just make it shiny.😂 And omg September is always a crazy month…in a good way but also my wallet is crying. Always.😂
Yes to every single item on this list (except stickers. I think I’ve told you about my weird sticker thing before. let’s call them badges).
The book cafe is a great idea! I bet that would actually be pretty popular.
I would LOVE to be able to judge covers. You wouldn’t even have to pay me. (Hank & John Green apparently just saw a few different cover designs of his book and were talking about their favorites, and I’m dying to see all of them.)
PS thank you for doing something different from a love theme this week! It’s refreshing to see something different. 🙂
Book cafes would be SO popular!! We have an Alice in Wonderland one locally and everyone loves it?! So like let’s expand this PLS UNIVERSE.😂
And omg I’m so excited for Hank’s book!!
Haha I admit the reason I didn’t join in the TTT post was because I was away and too unorganised.😂
I want libraries with ladders! Supposedly one of the local bookstores used to have a library ladder and then some kid thought it would be fun to take a running start and jump onto it and slide, and ran into a bookshelf and/or a person and so no more library ladders. We have to use stepstools to get books from high shelves like normal people.
And book blogging SHOULD have an easier way to make money! In any other part of the blogosphere people are paid to promote things? I read a lot of cooking blogs and they’re all paid, even if the get whatever the thing is they’re promoting is free. And yet for whatever reason, people seem to look down on booktubers and book bloggers who do accept payment, but no, it shouldn’t be like that. I’m not blogging right now, but when I did I spent hours at it. I know you do too, and 99% of other book bloggers spend hours and hours at what they do. We should get paid for that like EVERY OTHER TYPE OF BLOGGER.
Noooo omg this is why we never get nice things. 😭😭 But this will not stop me in my private library…when I get there eventually. 😂
And YES EXACTLY. Like no one gets angry when cooking blogs make money, but it’s this whole “taboo” thing for book bloggers grrr. Whoever started it needs to stop.😂 It’s actually a lot of work to do this and why can’t our skills and art earn us money so, ya know, we can afford to keep doing it?!
I am simply just going “YES”, “YES”, and mooooore “YES” and everything you’re naming here.
A cafe like that would be AMAZING. And please let it have all sorts of cozy nooks and crannies for us to crawl in and read while munching and drinking the food of the gods – because, admit it, that’s what it is.
Goodreads-stickers: HELL YES. I’d seriously dedicate a whole page on my blog just to show them off. No doubt about it. Like, HERE. Look at all my amazing reading accomplishments and then tell me I’m not accomplishing anything useful in life! [I’m sick and tired of people saying that as soon as they hear I spend most my free time reading..]
Apart from the cover changes.. What about the SIZE CHANGES. I don’t even want to know how many series I own where one of the books is smaller or bigger than the rest of them and it. hurts. my. eyes.
I love your lists. They’re amazing. And sooooo relatable!
I live in the US, and I can complain about the shipping costs, too. When it costs more than my book to ship it to Canada, there is a real problem and I don’t get it at all. Plus filling out the ridiculous form as if it was some sort of special package and not a simple book.
Yes, book covers. I have tired to collect Agatha Christie books for years, but they keep updating the covers. Please stop!
YES. The cafe better have reading nooks too because we need that. Also … we’d never leave BUT OH WELL.😂 And stickers would absolutely change everything. SO MUCH MOTIVATION. 😂
Ugh I hate size changes…they’re just as bad. *cries*
I agree with the cheaper shipping! Well, partly. I usually order from Book Depository, but they calculate added VAT based on my country. Yet I’d have to pay VAT at my post office anyway if I order anything that’s valued 20 euros or over. Why do you do this…..
Ugh that’s so unfair?! It’s free shipping to Australia but I still can’t afford to buy too much from there. Eeek.
WOW. I REALLY WANT ALL OF THESE. Especially the cafe that sells book food. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE GET ON THAT???
LET’S JUST GET SOMEONE TO START THIS FOR US. WE HAVE NEED.
Let’s say I’m around 12… I’m not into stickers. But I WOULD appreciate a cake instead.
CHEAPER BOOK SHIPPING. THAT’S PARADISE.
Ugh, yes, there is no point in changing the covers, or even the size, publishers should know we like collecting books of the same size or we’ll just FREAK OUT. If it doesn’t match at all then I would’ve had collected them for nothing?????
I just want a fairy godmother to expand my bookshelf… well, Hermione would be better though
I just read the second book of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before and I’m in love… with the FOOD. I’d love to taste Lara Jean’s cookies and cakes and everything that appears in the books, really.
That would be like the best job ever, even easier than writing (I still love writing, no I’m not crying, something’s in my eye)
You’re so right, spending money on a bad book is the worst. If it wasn’t bc I have respect for the tree, I would make a fire and eat marshmallows.
I vote for u, Cait! You totally should get paid for reading, I don’t I should get paid bc I’m not really a fast reader
Ooooohhhh, ladders! And also our cloaks waving while we’re sliding down
For some extra, I want a dragon (like a real one, dude, I wanna set this world on fire) and funkos, lots and lots of funkos !!!!!!!!!
I WILL HAVE YOUR STICKERS AND WE CAN SHARE THE CAKE. Problem SOLVED. And ugh I don’t understand why publishers don’t care about matching covers?! Surely they have to understand it’s a huge deterrent when they don’t have them?!
And yesss someone pay me to read and judge books.😂 That’d be perfect.
Haha. Great list! Love the tidal wave gif. I so grok that feeling. Stickers in Goodreads would be so awesome. Seriously, whatcare they waiting for? Even Audible has badges… And yesssss, I hate mid-series cover changes. Messes with my OCD. THINGS MUST MATCH.
What I’d like? A book/cat cafe. Because books + cats= life. Also, some way to have virtual collectible bookmarks on readers. I collect regular bookmarks. Why not virtual ones too…
Stickers would change OUR LIVES. We would have so much motivation with them ahahha. And yes I’m the same?! I need things to match…ugh it’s just so frustrating when they don’t.
OMG THERE’S SO MUCH YES HERE THAT I’M CRYING TEARS OF JOY. Well, no, I don’t actually have emotions, but if I did, this is where the tears of joy would go.
CAN WE MAKE THE STICKERS THING A GO, PLEASE? It’s the simple things in life. Plus, bookworms tend to be mildly creative. It would become a competition of all the pretty ways you can show off your Goodreads stickers. This would become a massive thing. GOODREADS, ARE YOU LISTENING? xD
I would like to make an addendum to number four. It’d be just great if the room could expand with the bookcases so that they don’t suddenly punch through my wall or something.
There were no dragons on the list. Not once. I looked twice, just to be sure. I’m sort of disappointed. What bookworm *doesn’t* want a dragon? A tame one, of course, so that no books will be harmed, but nonetheless.
I’M SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT. 😂😂 And let’s just all agree we need WAY more stickers in our lives. Goodreads needs to listen up, I have so many good ideas for improving it ah hahah. Ahem.
So yes an expanding house is next after the expanding bookshelves.😂
Channel your inner Belle with the slide of the ladder! You can’t tell me she didn’t do that as soon as she was alone in the Beast’s library.
Omg I FULLY agree. That’s totally what she did. (Definitely what I would’ve done.😂)
“If I wanted logic, I would’ve done origami or something. Instead I am blogging.” ROFL!
As an inveterate ebook lover, I want a reading app that makes my collection look like an actual bookshelf. Like, I want to be able to see the covers and spines, rearrange books, stack them how I want them, upload my own cover art if I don’t like the art it came with… I mean, when I have 100+ books on my Kindle, my options are limited to 1) itty bitty grid or 2) SWIPE FOREVER.
So. Virtual bookshelf. Somebody please make it happen. D:
Ah hahah we’ve all totally reached the point where we know my blog is just nonsense.😂 BUT YET HERE WE STILL ARE.
ooooh, yes, harry potter food. and i want kotlc food, like mallowmelt, and custard bursts, and ripplefluffs that i don’t have to make myself, and yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum.
the thing that i want the most is a machine to make fictional characters real. OR, send you into the fictional world, and also get you a cover story so you can hang around the main characters if you want, or just have all the characters accept that they’ve got a weird new companion who knows to much about what they’re doing and won’t shut up about the dragon they just saw. that would be so nice.
Most crazily, ~Olive
ALL THE DELICIOUS BOOKISH FOOD. WE DESERVE THIS.😂 (Ooh I want a dragon too.)
CAIT YOU LOOK LIKE SMAUG PEAKING ITS HEAD AROUND A BUNCH OF PILLARS LOOKING FOR DWARVES IN THAT SECOND LAST PICTURE OMG
I HAVE ACHIEVED THEN. THAT IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL: TO BE SMAUG.
I agree, I want to be paid to read and for my bookshelf to expand as I add to it, but what I really really want is….
Another Magnus Chase book (jk jk, I mean I want that but that’s not what I was gonna say).
A book house. No, not a library. Just… a book house. Where you have these endless shelves of books and they’re constantly getting the new ones and there’d be super comfy couches and chairs and window seats where you sit and read and there’d be a place where you can order drinks and food and they’d bring them to you (because you’re too busy reading to listen for them to call your name) and there’d be a garden outside where you can sit and read and there’d be flowers and plants and stuff that look straight out of fantasy novels and there’d be themed rooms where you can sit if you wanna really immerse yourself in the world even more and just…. I NEED A BOOK HOUSE OKAY?
(Okay to be completely honest I made that up on the spot because a fourth Magnus Chase book was the first thing that popped into my head and that sounded a little silly)
ALL OF THE GOOD BOOKS COME OUT IN CLUSTERS! OBVIOUSLY! AND I’M ALWAYS BROKE WHEN THE CLUSTERS COME!
Okay I would need all of the Harry Potter stuff. Butterbeer, chocolate frogs (WITH THE FREAKING CARDS, OBVIOUSLY), all of it. Other than that, I have no idea. I’m usually too busy caring about the plot to think about the food?
I still need to read the latest Magnus Chase book (I’M TERRIBLE😂) but omg the best thing about Riordan is that we know there’s always tons of books coming haha. Ahem.
Yes a book house. Let’s all live in our own book houses.
I also totally want to try so many Harry Potter foods?! Except maybe those awful sounding jellybeans or whatever they were. Hard pass.😂
Oh The Ship of The Dead was FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC! I ship Fierrochase SO HARD and I just I NEED ANOTHER ONE ASAP.
Book houses. GoFundMe. 👍
Some of my friends have tried and I just…. I don’t wanna get a barf one or a booger one or literally anything but a good-tasting one.
I totally feel you on the ladder one, I have always said when I’m older and I have a house of my own, I want an entire room to just fill with books, with bookshelves so tall that I need ladders to reach the top shelves (though that wouldn’t be hard as I am a tiny human being anyway). Well okay, so basically I want the Beast’s Library, but same difference no? I would love to be paid to read! It does feel like all the good books are released at once, but luckily for me September/October seems to be peak release time and my birthday is in September so I actually have money around that time. Unlucky for me, May seems to be a particularly big one too and I cannot afford all of the pretty hardcovers I want (insert sad bookworm face here). I would love cheaper shipping, although I usually end up buying more books just so I can get Amazon free shipping so……maybe not? I would love a literary cafe, I would eat all of the food, I really want to try that Poison Goulash from Daughter of Smoke and Bone, you know just to see if it’s really poisoned! I could definitely use your magic shelves, and maybe some kind of device that helps me read faster. And unnecessary cover changes, yes, this infuriates me so much I did a whole post on it! It’s great that POC are getting rep on covers and I am all for supporting that-but why can’t it be at the beginning of series? I mean I’m not a big fan of people on my covers, but knowing that people who need representation are getting it would make me much more likely to buy books with covers like that!
Honestly I need ladders as is because I’m so short ahh hahah.😂 And omg I’m glad the book releases are coming nicely in time for your birthday. Obviously the publishers care about you the most, Jo.😂 (I do like how Book Depository has free shipping too! Just…now if only it was faster.😂)
And YES exactly! Just put POC on the front of covers up front where they belonged the whole time?! It’s 2018 already, designers and publishers. Get onto this.
Goodreads giving us stickers for reaching our reading goals is a GENIUS idea! Just like in Nanowrimo! We should seriously start a petition! 😛
Awe! I’m so sorry you lost your ARC! :O How RUDE! D: On Christmas I ordered a phone case from Australia and it never made it to me. But it got lost after it made it to the carrier in the US, so I guess it wasn’t their fault. 😛
OMG YES MAGICAL BOOKSHELVES AND ILLEGAL MID-SERIES COVER CHANGES! THANK YOU! WHY ARE THESE NOT A THING?! D:
And OMG you keep saying “people in their 20s” and I just turned 20 last month and I’m freaking out like this applies to ME now, I’m officially a 20 something! What happened to my childhood?! Who the heck gave me permission to be an adult because I would like to beg them to change their mind and send me in a time machine back to when I was five because I am failing!!! XD
And with the books made out of chocolate thing, you’re also forgetting it would be impossible to refrain from eating them before or WHILE you’re reading them, so you’d probably never be able to decide if it was good or bad. Is this part of your quest to read stories by osmosis? (I’m sure you said that at some point. I hope I’m not mixing you up with another blogger in my head, but I’m pretty sure it was you ‘cuz it definitely sound like something you’d say. XD)
AND I WANT ALL THE BOOKISH MERCH! More specifically merch from books I love that don’t even have fandoms. D: It’s always so sad and frustrating when I love a book so much but they don’t have a fandom cuz then I’m left alone with my thoughts and my feelings and no way to deal with them! D:
I know some don’t understand the point of bookish merch, but I think it’s really cool and creative, and if I had money I SWEAR I would only get stuff I’m 100% sure I would actually use. XD Like bookmarks! And candles! And necklaces! And one day I’m thinking about making bookmarks and selling them on Etsy, but I seriously need to improve my skills first. XD
We SHOULD. Although I feel like Goodreads doesn’t care about our petitions because they’re not into our half-star pleas either.😂
Ugh I hate it when mail goes missing…but it’s a bit rough when it’s your own book.😂 It was so hard seeing UK bloggers reading it and I’m like ??? I HAVEN’T EVEN HELD IT YET HELP.
DUDE YOU’RE OLD HAAAA. (Says me who just turned 24 and is not okay with that.😂)
Ok this is true. Maybe there could be extra pages so we could nibble while deciding if the book is good or not.😂
But they DID put in reread options!
And oh extra snacking pages! Great idea! 😋
YEESSS – so relatable Cait. Being paid to read and fangirl asdfghjkl #theperfectlife:) and can we get this expanding bookshelf on the market ASAP ahahah. I’d also love a bookshelf that has a secret den inside it?(not sure how this would work aha) where you can hide from all your enemies and read and write and eat cake and come up with cunning plans mwahahah
Lexie x
http://www.whatlexieloves.blogspot.com
p.s. looool I love the gif you used for no.8 ahahahahah
It would just be endlessly handy to be paid to be a massive fangirl ah hahah ahem. 😂 SOMEONE HIRE US. WE WON’T NEED TRAINING.
1) YES! We *need* stickers.
2) International bookworms know all about how expensive book shipping is and how freaking long it takes
3) OMG YES, BUT ALSO BOOK SIZES WHY?!
5) Um, we actually have that? I live in Greece and there’s a cafe/restaurant that has book themed menu and decorations, like for real. From HP, Alice in Wonderland, Disney, GoT, Hobbit, literally everything is themed from the drinks to the food to the desserts to the freaking bathroom (legit, there’s “the chamber of secrets has been opened enemies of the heir beware” written in red pain on the mirror). It’s magical.
6) I need this to be a thing!
STICKERS WOULD CHANGE LIVES. And omg INT people shouldn’t have to wait 32 years for shipping either what did we all do to deserve this. 😫 it’s 2018. WHY DON’T WE HAVE DRAGONS DELIVERING OUR MAIL YET.
And omggg I’m moving to Greece officially then.
I love the idea of Goodreads stickers! That’s so cute and such a great idea. I’d love to get those throughout the year.
It’d totally motivate me to read a lot more ah hahah.😂
This post is totally relatable! 😂If somebody invented the bookshelf that magically expands when you get new books would be a millionaire! (I should better get on it! That would solve a lot of my other book + money problems 😅)
But also books just raise our expectations of people in real world too high! I mean, you can’t find Jace in my school! It’s just depressing. I don’t even know how to solve this terrible problem..
Oh wait! I know! Why disappoint ourselves with real people, when we can be happy alone, with our books full of amazing book characters. 😀 Booklovers logic on point! 😊
Wouldn’t it be so helpful?! Ah haha. Obviously we’re going to need an expanding house too but pfft, one problem at a time.😂
Dude I hadn’t even thought about stickers on Goodreads before, BUT THAT IS A FEATURE THAT NEEDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED ASAP. I would never do anything BUT read if it was a thing. Like, how many hours have I plugged through pre-k math in Khan Academy so I could get the badges? SO MANY!!!
WOULDN’T IT CHANGE EVERYTHING?! I’d be so so freaking motivated with stickers. People need to listen up to what reward systems really work.
I WOULD KILL TO BE A BOOK COVER REVIEWER NOW. Thanks for muddling my brain with the idea–NOW I CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD. I neeeeed to be able to tell publishers to opt out of weird-looking covers, and to help them be ~perfect~.
AND THE EXPANDING BOOKSHELVES THING. My bookshelves have been with me since 2013, and I have long since run out of space for my new lovelies. T_T
SOMEONE LET THIS BE A CAREER FOR US WE’VE FOUND OUR CALLING.😂 And like obviously our opinions are elite and better than most other people’s so??? There’s literally no downside to this career I’ve just created.😂
GOODREADS STICKERS that would be so cool!!! I would hoard those things as badly as I hoard books, tbh.
My entire childhood was about hoarding stickers and what’s changed? Pfft. We deserve stickers.
Yes to judging the covers for books. And whilst we`re on that subject, matching covers for the books in a series. I adore “The Queen of the Tearling” trilogy, but not only are the covers ugly, they don`t match. I`d also like a millionaire to fund my reading. Not in the creepy way, more like: “Wow, you`re so young and devoted to books, I appreciate a young reader. Here`s 100k, buy all the books you want.”
Omg yes. Like a book fairy godmother?! That’s all we need.😂And I want everything to match tbh…it shouldn’t be that much of an ask!
Oh my goodness, if we had bookshelves that magically expanded as we bought more books, the world would be a happier place. Otherwise I have to *gasp* clear out my books?? To make room for new ones??? Who wants to do that?! And the best food for a literary cafe would 100% be anything that contains chocolate and comes with a cup of tea. Got tea? I’m sold. ♥
We shouldn’t have to go through the trauma of getting rid of books. WE’RE TOO YOUNG FOR THAT KIND OF SUFFERING. WE DESERVE BETTER.
Great list!
That cover thing is what is keeping me from completing my Enid Blyton Mallory Towers collection. I’m missing 2 or 3, but I have the brown covers. The new ones are NEON and cartoony. (shakes head) I did mix up my American Girl Kirsten collection covers, but one of her stories is about quilting so the combination of covers reminds me of a quilt. However, I do have three copies of Twilight (book 1) because I was given book 1 as movie tie-in cover and the other three were the black and red hard cover. So I found the black and red paper back first, then the hard cover. LOL
The bookshelf. I’m not sure I want it to visibly expand as I add books – no room for that at my house – but if the shelves were treated with Hermione’s undetectable extension charm that would be awesome!
By day I am a technical writer and editing is a lot of what I do. I’ve thought about trading on these skills and shifting to publishing house editor; however, having stacks of manuscripts on my desk featuring topics and stories with no interest for me would be a kind of death. I don’t think you get to choose which manuscripts to read. PLUS you have a deadline. Can you imagine reading 800 pages of (pick a topic you dislike) and being told to have it done in 24 hours?! ARGH!
Absolutely adore the idea of a bad book being edible.
Happy reading!
It’s so hard to get things to match, right?! My sister and I collected a TON of American Girl books but we got a bunch second hand and they were so faded you could barely see the pictures and just looked so weird next to our other ones.😂
But YES: Hermione’s charm on our bookshelves would absolutely fix everything.😂
I think it depends on what kind of editor you are? Like obviously an editor wouldn’t BUY a book unless they loved it and wanted to work on it…I guess interns have less choice, but knowing how hard it is to get through submission because basically the whole house has to love your work…I don’t think editors often would read a book they hated.😂 If ever!
The thing is you don’t start in editing at the top, so you would have to wade through everything to see if it is worthy to drop on the head honcho’s inbox. I bet even the head honcho has to read genres they are not 100% into.
And cheaper book boxes! I’d love to subscribe to some (Owlcrate, Fairyloot, ect.) but we are called BROKE BOOKWORMS for a reason, haha xD.
Ohhh yes those are expensive. But worth it!!😂
An acceptable list of stuff, I too wish to receive stickers for when I read books, but if I’m being honest, I wish I was given stickers for achieving other general stuff, “Did Laundry Before I Ran Out of Clean Clothes”, you know the important stuff.
To be honest, I don’t see why Publishing houses shouldn’t be asking Book Reviews opinions on cover designs, we’re the readers, they should be asking us for information like that AND paying us for our time. We could be Book Consultants 🙂 But yes, it should be easier for us to earn money via book blogging *sigh*
EXACTLY. I would just thrive on stickers for everything. Like “pulled an all-dayer without needing a nap” = sticker me. I mean for that, particularly, I deserve SO many stickers.
Book consultants, yes! I mean I guess they study all that kind of stuff and what covers sell, but obviously my opinion is elite and they should hire me.😂
Yaaaaas to all of this but especiall #3, #4 and #5!
Why do publisher’s think it’s okay to change the jacket mid-way through a series? Book readers are COLLECTORS, we like to have pretty bookshelves.
Expanding bookshelves is a genius idea, can someone get round to inventing Mary Poppins/Gallifreyan tech for readers please?
And yes, book themed cafes that create fictional food would be amazing. This seems plausible and needs to happen!
I know right?! Collecting is like a HUGE part of the bookworm life and we’re not shallow!! We just like collections! (And other collectors don’t get harassed as much as we do.)😂
This list is incredible! I agree with all of these! I personally also hate that there are so many different paperback sizes, even within the same series! This can drive me completely nuts! It makes it all so much harder to fit everything on my shelves and it does not look as pristine as I want them to.
Another thing, as you have pointed out so perfectly, books are expensive so I request books in my local library but their refusals drive me insane (okay, I do get that buying books in English instead of Dutch is not a super high priority but I intensely dislike reading translations). Like most ya books are refused books their part of a series and that does not fit into the collection -_-
Last but not least, I own a Kobo e-reader because that was the easiest e-reader available at the time and some e-books are just not available on anything other than amazon (and kobo e-books are usually more expensive too).
Sorry, rant over 🙂 I guess I had a lot to say about this topic :p
Have a wonderful week, Cait!
I know right!? Is it that hard to want to have books IN A NEAT LINE? IT SHOULDN’T BE. And ugh that your library refuses to buy a lot of books. I used to live in a town with suuuch a nice library and they bought most of the YA books I requested. I was devastated to leave bleh.
I have this one genius idea that I came up with ages ago. Here is what all bookworms need, right so there should be this cafe where no matter where you are in the world you can access the cafe (I don’t know how I’ve not figured that part out yet) and then there’s free WiFi, a library somewhere on another floor as well as a cafe which should include food from books for you and other bookworms who want that. The best part about this? No time passes in our own lives, so we could just pop to this cafe and chat with other bookworms from all over the world (and authors since they’re also like us when you think about it) and write our blog posts, read the books, Write reviews, work on projects together and so on.
It would be fabulous and then when we felt like stopping back in our own lives we could go. It has a few flaws in the design but it’s a solid start haha 🙂
I do loathe cover changes though, it’s why I’m an anxious mess knowing the first book is out in a series and the others aren’t. I get scared easily of cover changes, different sized books! (what even can we please have a standard size that is regulated throughout the world for paperback, hardback and if you want the text larger fine, have it larger on the same sized page – making the page larger doesn’t make the text larger *face palms*)
HEY I LOVE THAT IDEA SO MUCH (and I actually wrote a book with a library that you could do that for because it’s my ultimate life wish😂) and also can we never leave this perfect utopia?! I love it too much already afjdkslad.
Ugh to different sized books too. It’s so unnecessary!! Why do they even do it EXCEPT TO TORTURE US?!
#3 – I’m with you on this one. I really like book series to look like a series and not some mismatched couple. also, I would like book series to release all the books at once instead of one book a year or something. I guess they want to drag the series on so they can make more money but I have heard some authors are still writing the same series for years so maybe that’s why series aren’t released all at once?
#4 – sounds good to me but how about books that shrinks so they would fit into the shelf and unshrink when you take them out to read? totally a fantasy but it’s not bad to think about.
#5 – I would like that cafe’s or book stores sells not just the food but also the merchandise, seriously when I see a nice scarf or a necklace or some really useful item, I want to get them.
#6 – I love to be a judge too.
#7 – sounds good. also, how about books that can change into another book after you finished reading it? I really don’t know what to do with books I don’t like other than give it away.
#10 – I have never had such fantasy but if I am presented the chance to be at a large library with wall to wall books, I would do this.
have a lovely day.
Oh I totally get why series don’t all come out at once.😂 I mean authors need time to write! And often, these days, publishers don’t even BUY the whole series right up front to be sure it sells, and if it doesn’t, they’ll axe it. (Which is why we gotta buy as they come out, even though it’s so frustrating for all the cliffhangers.😂)
And YES to a store that sells book merch! Also at reasonable prices?! Like I love Harry Potter stuff but I am NOT that rich. *cries*
Ah! You have some excellent points here, but I must say that literary cafes would be the most magical! THE TOFFEE TREE FROM THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW. YES. And all Harry Potter food, certianly. It would just make normal food more exiting too, like if someone put a pot of baked beans in front of me and told me they were the same kind that Peaceable Sherwood and Richard Grahame ate (from The Sherwood Ring, which not enough humans have read) I would be more excited about those baked beans than I have ever been about baked beans in my life. We must have these book themed cafes.
Sadly I am not really in need of an expanding bookshelf because I don’t have books to fill it… Such an object would only bring me pain and suffering.
Another thing that I really want is a Good Book Detector. It would be like a metal detector, but it would beep every time it went over a book that I would personally enjoy. One of the biggest problems as a bookworm is deciding what to read, because there are too many books and if one chooses a book that ends up being terrible (and not made of chocolate, alas) then one is plagued by the thought that the time used to read that book could have been used for a better book. Hence, my wish for this device.
JUST LET’S EAT ALL THE BOOK FOOD AND READ = AND THIS IS THE PERFECT BOOK LIFE WE’D NEVER NEED TO LEAVE. And omggggg you know The Sherwood Ring?! YOU KNWO THE SHERWOOD RING. I’m freaking out!!😱😱😍😍 I loved that book so much and no one really knows about it and that’s one of life’s most terrible tragedies. That book is GOODNESS.
*calms self*
Honestly I think a Good Book Detector would also be amazing, but would be really bad for our TBR piles. 😂
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! This is so exciting! Your are right, no one has heard of the Sherwood Ring, but I don’t understand why not because it is absolutely brilliant!!! Then again, it makes it all the more special when you discover someone who HAS heard of it. I am thrilled to know that you have read that book! Sometime you should do a post about all the best obscure books, then no one will have any excuse not to read them.
Wow, I am still freaking out that other humans know who Peaceable Sherwood is. It makes me so happy.
That’s true though!! It’s like we’re part of a very special and small club of adoring fans of The Sherwood Ring.😂 I STILL WANT EVERYONE TO READ IT THOUGH IT’S SO FUNNY AND PERFECT.
When Barnes and Noble was going out of business, my mom showed up and bought their sliding ladders. And I’m pretty sure that as soon as I move out to go to college, my mom is going to turn my room into a library. (Not that I’m complaining.)
By the way, I tagged you for the 7-7-7-7 Challenge over at my blog
Honestly your mother is AWESOME (and I’m devastated about B&N…I’ve only heard bits and pieces of what happened there but nooo, the books…*cries*)
All of these are soooo relatable. I especially want cheaper book shipping and for all of the good books not to be released at once. An Alice in Wonderland cafe recently opened up a few suburbs away from where I live. The menu looks amazing but seems a little pricey.
Let’s just all start storming the post offices and demanding our rights.😂😂 AND OMG ALICE IN WONDERLAND CAFE!! I have one locally too but haven’t really noticed if their menu is anything special, but the design of the shop is all madness and wonderland and it’s SO cool.
Seriously the expanding bookshelf with the cafe with book food is like my dream! Loooove this post ^_^
Thanks for sharing,
~Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
It would be the absolute PERFECT cafe/restaurant ever….why hasn’t anyone done this yet?!😂
I very much agree about the cover changes but I’d like to add: no trim size changes. Because it HURTS. It hurts so much when you get a book that’s a few millimetres taller or shorter than the rest — or more, and then it doesn’t fit on the same shelf. That’s the worst. Also, can hardbacks be shorter? They don’t fit on my tiny shelves and I have to store them horizontally or in stacks.
And I would also like to get paid to read. I thought putting Amazon associates links in book reviews might help but so far I’ve earned, like 70p from it, so it’s gonna take about a year to be able to afford a single loaf of gluten-free bread. :'(
Ugh cover sizing is just downright awful and I protest that happening too. Plus there’s literally NO NEED except UK vs US can’t get along apparently?! My copy of Lady Midnight is like 1cm taller than my TMI books. Why. Just. why.
I haven’t even bothered with affiliated links since I’ve heard they’re so bad, bleh. But like other types of bloggers get paid?! Why not book bloggers?!
I’d like some cheaper hardcovers 😀 😀 And your idea about magically expanding bookshelves is very appealing. Why buy new shelves, when the one you have just gets bigger the more books you add to it?
And bad books being edible? A great idea! But what if the bad book tastes bad as well? Would some sugar make it taste better?
I’d also like not to wait this long for the next book in a series I love! (Especially if it’s high fantasy. For example, Brandon Sanderson’s next Stormligh Archive novel is supposed to come out in 2020-2021..)
It’d be good if I could remember some of the names of the characters in the books I’ve read. There was a time when I actually could tell you every character’s name from a book along with their surnames but now I have trouble recalling what I’ve read let alone the names of the characters XD
I’d love to be paid to read or write since these are the only things I’m good at XD
Let’s just hope the chocolate isn’t bad for the bad books, BECAUSE THAT’D JUST BE INSULT TO INJURY. *cries just thinking about it* Like no one deserves that. And omg waiting for books is TORTURE.😂I know we’re supposed to give the authors time to write and not rush art yadda ya but omgggg we just want answers.😂
Haha this list is so relatable 🙂 I NEED an expanding bookcase in my life right now please. But if edible books were a thing maybe I wouldn’t need one, bc I’d just eat the books that don’t fit…. Honestly I think you’re on to something with this post XD
(And I’m sure a lot of people would pay you good money to compare books to potato salad XD)
Honestly eating all the books that don’t fit in our bookshelves is the next step of logic.😂 (And SO TRUE RIGHT?! People should hire me for my epic metaphors. I’m the new John Green, but with potato salad and literally no clue what I’m ever talking about but it never stops me!! Brilliant!!)
ohmydamn, I really wanted that book cafe where I can eat all of Lara Jean-baked cookies!!! THAT WOULD BE FREAKING AWESOME!!!
WOULDN’T IT JUST?!? IT WOULD BE PERFECT AHH.
THIS POST IS TOO REAL. EXCEPT KAY – hear me out. Would we really want to eat an awful book? Like can you imagine the taste of that chocolate? You’ve already been through the agony of being disappointed by a book (and if you’re me, you refused to DNF it so you literally crawled, nearly dead, to the finish line) AND THEN YOU”RE GOING TO CHANCE IT WITH MYSTERY BAD BOOK CHOCOLATE?! It could be filled with grass clippings, or boogers, or that gross cherry cream stuff.
But see – not all is lost if you get a nasty chocolate book. You can wrap it up all pretty and pull a Minny Jackson and deliver a lovely book shaped chocolate to your worst enemy then BLAMO – Booger treats! Just thinking out loud here….
OKAY I’M LISTENING….you do have a point.😂 Unless like all chocolate was just created equal??? Otherwise bad chocolate is just a sin to this earth.
This is hilarious and true! WHYYYY is the cover judging thing not a job!? I would rate the HELL out of those covers. And seriously, I wish it was easier to make money for bookish pursuits. Seems unfair. Also AMEN to the whole “putting POC on the cover from the start”. Seriously, why is this not done!? It’s crappy, honestly. And then the poor author has to deal with people griping about the changes while they’re over here happy that their beloved book has an appropriate cover! This is really just a publishing fail.
I’d pay good money for the expanding bookshelves. Seconding the shipping- especially when I want to send books to people in other countries. A blogger wanted some of my books, and shipping was $23 for ONE BOOK to go to Europe. Like come ON! It’s ridiculous, and all the countries’ postal services need to get together and work out a better plan!
We would be SO good at that job, come on, it’d be perfect and totally fund our bookworm habits.😂 WHAT COULD GO WRONG ah ahha. Ahem. And seriously it’s absolutely crappy that POC authors have to prove to be “good sellers” before they get the rights they deserve. What yEAR is it. Sheeeeeesh. I’m glad publishing is changing though, but faster *claps hands* must move faster.
I know right?! When I was trying to swap books people in Europe kept asking and I’m like “just trust me…you don’t want to pay.”😂
Book themed cafes would be SO AMAZING. Seriously, why is this not a thing yet? Don’t people realize the vast armies of bookworms who would stampede to their doors if they opened such a place?? And can this cafe also have a gift shop that sells clothes and other non-edible stuff from books? Like Kell’s coat and Lemony Snicket’s accordion and Riptide and the Ring of Power?
Omg it would be BEYOND amazing!! The perfect place to go with books (plus if it was attached to a bookstore…okay this is heaven.) And omg I want the One Ring of Power too. For, um….good and upright reasons…
It’s actually the worst thing in the world when all the best authors out there release their incredible new books at the same time. They need to work it all out on a WhatsApp group chat or something.
As always a wonderful blog-post x
I know right?! Like then you have to make hard decisions and wE DON’T DESERVE THIS PAIN.
Expanding bookshelves would be lovely! Except the shelves would expand to fill the whole room, and then there’d be no space for me in there. That’s a problem. If I ever magically get rich, I’d buy a library with a majestic sliding ladder. That would be high on my list of things to buy.
So we need like MAGICALLY expanding ones, so they’re bigger but don’t take up any more room.😂 PerFECT SOMEONE INVENT THIS.
I am legitimately planning on opening a bookstore/cafe when I graduate college that serves fandom foods. This will be a thing. I will have many foods, and you can come in any time! And who knows? Maybe I’ll sell autographed versions of one of your books there!
DUDE, YOU SHOULD. IT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD INTO A BETTER PLACE.
Amen to number three! Well…all of them actually : ) Your list made me laugh, because they are all SO TRUE!
I’m so so glad you enjoyed it!😂😂
Cait I adore this post so much because it speaks to my heart! Lately I’ve been feeling a bit undervalued as bloggers because I know we work so hard at it and would like something in return (like I have food and books to buy thank you very much) but more often than not that’s not the case. Oh gosh that turned out to be a bit more deeper than usual but yes GOODREADS stickers. That is an Idea.
Yesss omg I understand. *sends cake and hugs* I feel we bloggers do a ton of work and, like, obviously we love it, but a lot of the time it’s easy to just feel like we’re doing all this hard work and no one appreciates it?! EH WELL. At least it’s (mostly) super fun.😂 It’d be better with stickers though. Stickers fix 89% of problems.
GOODREADS NEEDS TO GIVE ME STICKERS RIGHT NOW! Or digital badges, because those are like stickers. I want to paste them all over my blog. GIMME. *grabby hands*
WE NEED STICKER AND WE DESERVE STICKERS AND THIS IS THE HONEST TRUTH.
Pretty much all of these are true. Like give us a sticker please when we finish our challenges. It’s hard work and time and effort. Cheaper book shipping please and omg UNNECESSARY COVER CHANGES. Like the Across the Universe cover changes 🙄 I cannot. And Flame in the Mist cover changes are terrible like no. Just start with POC on the cover don’t just change it. Sometimes there are good cover changes but it’s so rare. Bookshelves need to expand rapidly because I need more space. I’m actually working on making a cookbook with all the goodies in books so hopefully that will work. Why can’t good books be released slowly but surely. It really does not need to come out all at once. And I need libraries with ladders so I can be Belle please!!! I WANT TO BE PAID TO READ. My dream job honestly. I am striving for that.
I KNOW RIGHT?! All we ask for is stickers. It’s not much and would motivate us 50 x more. I’d probably have finished my book challenge twice over by now if someone was bribing me with stickers. And agreed: sometimes the changes ARE good but mostly I find them annoying.😂 Like I way prefer the Harry Potter reboots, and VE Schwab’s Vicious/Vengeful covers are waaay better than the originals. But usually…can’t thinks just match omg.