I found this tag over at Holly’s @ Nut Free Nerd and quite liked the idea; so here I am, doing it ! 😉
Let’s try our best to find good thing we do surrounding our reading, shall we ? Also, please note that this will be things that I personally think are “good habits” and yours may be different than me; Or you may not think thoses I stated are good ones, and that’s alright ! 🙂
Rules;
- Pingback to this post or me!
- List some of your good reading habits, the things you think you do well
- Nominate some of your blogging friends
My “Good Habits”;
✤ I review 99% of the books I read; maybe not all on my blog, but also on goodread and/or netgalley. Since I started this blog, there’s only ONE book I haven’t reviewed at all which is “Such a good girl” by Amanda K Morgan — Because well … I just have no idea what to say about it xD
✤ I read in both of my known languages; It’s only been a year since i’ve started reading in english, but this opens up so much more books to me ! As sometimes it may take YEARS for a book to be translated in French, or might just not get translated at all.. on the opposite side, I feel like after reading several english books in a row I just need that break and go back to my “source” (aka french books) or else everything just feels flat.
✤ I don’t look at reviews before reading a book or isn’t affected by them; So, Ithink I have a pretty good idea of what I’d like or not by reading the synopsis.. As we all know we all read books differently/see mental health reps differently, I choose to not peak at someone else’s thoughts before making my own because I fear that i’d get biased upon what i’ve read in thoses reviews. I much prefer read them after I’ve made up my mind on if I love a book or not to see if other readers had the same opinions that I did !
(and maybe fangirl a bit about said book in the comments *aherm*)
I tag .. *drum roll* ;
Jamsu, Lauren, Clo, Sim, Gayathri and everyone who wanna do it, of course ! 🙂
These are really some good habits 😊 I try to write reviews for each book too but well, they are not always timed well 😜 I have so many pending reviews to write 🙈 And this is quite good that you are not affected by the reviews.
Thank you :3
I guess that not reading as many books may come to an adventage in that situation :p.. I also start my review before im done so that helps! Ahah
your habbits are v great :’) ill have to think about this one when i come to doing my post haha. i think most of mine are bad habbits lmao
Thanks!
Ahahah yeah xD I wrote the first one and I went « eeeeeh » 🙈
Thanks for the tag!
No probs! Hopefully you’ll have fun writing it 😘
I like your good reading habits, mine are the same! 🙂
This is a really nice tag!
Thank you!
If you can think of more you can also do it 😘 I’d be curious to read it also!
These are great habits! I need to get on your level of reviewing books. #goals
Ahaha thanks! You can do it, xx
What a great idea for a tag, I’m definitely gonna do it … eventually haha.
I also review most of the books I read! Though sometimes it’s just a quick line or two (“this protagonist is so annoying, and I hate the love triangle, but the worldbuilding is cool”) to remind me what I thought, I got into reviewing for myself first and foremost, so it’s a habit that’s stuck. I’ve been meaning to branch out into reading in other languages, but I think I need to brush up on my Spanish and Chinese first, because it’s been quite a while and I’m rusty 😅 But I’m terrible at not peeking at everyone else’s reviews before I start … in some cases it’s helpful because I can find out ahead of time that a book is problematic (so I don’t have to waste my time on it), but in others I do feel like it skews me one way or the other by “priming” my brain to notice the things others have mentioned when I might not have picked it up on my own.
Definately ! other way around, I read reviews where someone would’ve said their relationship was toxic for exemple.. and im standing there scratching my head onto HOW I didn’t thought it was problematic myself XD even quite thinking the opposite.
Ah, no worries ! I’ve been studying english since I was 7 ithink, and I just started branching out at 23! so that leaves quite the bracket of time where I thought I just couldn’t read in that language and found it boring !
I feel you so much with the language! More often than not, publishers in the Netherlands start to translate a series.. and stop after the first or second book because it’s not popular enough. And I get it, they need to make money. But for the people that read only Dutch it sucks.. So I have a couple of Dutch authors I read, but most of the books I read are English.
ahhh, I have books like perfect chemistery and sweet thing that I couldn’t read the sequel(s) because it wasn’t translated so I feel you !
I just realized a few month ago that now I CAN read in english, it means I can read it now 😅
I don’t read books in my native language as much as I do in English.
It was hard for me to finally understand english, my native language is just easier on my brain 🙂
As I just started reading in english, on some cases I need to reread a phrase multiple time to understand
You’re English is very good (if you don’t mind be saying) I am learning French but it tough because I don’t watch any French movies or have conversations with anyone in French
Yeah ! that was my case too
I try ot avoid reading reviews before diving in too! Then once my review is written I go back and read them all Or nearly all!
Yep same!! I wanna go see what other people thought!
These are great habits, especially not reading reviews until you’ve read a book. I try to for the most part because hype can ruin my experience for me.
Yeah! Though general hype is hard to avoid… as people scream about it everywhere xd but i get what you mean.
Thank you so much for doing the tag! <3
Reviewing all the books you read is a great one. I always try to, but I have a review backlist of like 60% of the books I read in 2018.
Thats not bad at all! A bit more than half reviewed is good i think,
I love this tag… it’s great to see some reading/blogging positivity. I might give this a go on my blog 🤔great post!
You should! I would be curious to see your answers 🙂
I review all of my books too! Even if sometimes it’s just a sentence that encompasses everything I feel about the book.
Hey, still count!
That’s such a great tag! And I love your habits! I’ve started reviewing all the books I read too, even if they’re books I bought for myself, not requested or received for review. That is the fun of it if you ask me. I sometimes stay away from reviews, other times I check them to see if the book is something I might enjoy reading. It depends. Sometimes I’m able to not let another reviewer’s views see the book differently while I’m reading it, other times I’m aware of a detail just because of that review.
Yep! One of my next post is my opinions on reading reviews. And while its not my « go-to » posts, id go pretty much only after ive read it or if its a book i know I wanna read. Not really for making the choice in itself but to know more things about it if it make sense?
Same! It’s even more nice for a book you loved and purchased yourself as its basically just « GUYS! I bought this and OMG LOOKK!!! READ THIS » (basically me with Eliza & radio silence xD)
It’s so good that you review all the books you read. I am always impressed with your bilingual reviews as well. Keep that up 😉
Awww thank you 💕