Books I’ll (Probably) Never Read Book Tag!

The original book tag: Books I’ll (Probably) Never Read [Original Tag] by littlespider9, with some additional questions by me

Initial thoughts: I obviously don’t specifically avoid bad books—especially self-published bad books. Quality is not a requirement for me, haha. Similarly, I don’t usually care about the author’s life and controversies beyond buying it second-hand so as to not support the author. I’d probably avoid JKR at this point, because she keeps doubling-down in a way no other author is publicly doing, but I do have Piper CJ’s book for example.

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Judging Kindle’s Recommendations

I have wishy-washy opinions on Kindle’s recommendations inside of the app. It’s incredibly biased towards books I “own” (which were usually free downloads) and my most recent reads and I detest that I can’t tell it myself what I love and hate—we’ll get into that in a moment. I do appreciate that it’ll cycle books through that I’ve already got on a saved list on Amazon, though; I appreciate seeing those pop up as reminders.

On March 17, these were the recommendations:

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January 2023 TBR

I think that this is less of an actual reading plan and more of a place to list out the books that I would like to keep at the front of my attention. (Because heaven knows my attention is approximately that of a toddler. For example, Alexandra Roselyn on YouTube said that Fence was her favorite book(s) of all of 2022, so I put them on hold at the library… and then binged the whole series in a single afternoon. That entire process took about three days, despite aaaaalllll of these other books sitting right here in front of me. That’s me, very focused.)

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Even More Places in China That I Want to Visit

I have been to China many times. I lived in Hong Kong twice, I lived in Shanghai briefly, and I have taken all of those opportunities to wander around China while I was there. Even so, it’s an insanely huge country with an incredibly rich and diverse geography and local cultures. The more I travel in China, the more I realize how much I don’t know.

In the interest of not provoking political arguments, I’m including all of China’s main disputed areas in this list.

(map generated at: https://www.mapchart.net/china.html)

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Nov 26: A Thanksgiving Feast for Me

In addition to the general low-key anxiety of spreading COVID-19 to my aging family, I was actually in self-isolation due to hanging out with a confirmed COVID-positive friend. She had a false negative and then a positive, so even when I got my negative back I decided that it was better for all of my friends, my boyfriend, my family, and my sanity to just round out two weeks entirely.

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