Learning your personal reading tastes is one of the best ways to enhance your reading life. Today we’re talking about the difference between a “bad” book and a book that’s just not for you (or not for you right now.) Plus, we’re giving examples of books that fall into those categories for us along with our RAD Reading recs of the week!

Highlights: 

• To read reviews or not to read reviews
• Roni’s trying something new with book reviews
• Dawn is not allowed to be on TikTok
• Where we look for book recommendations 
• Roni’s favorite bookish podcasts
• Book twins
• Random raptors and when one-star reviews are unhelpful
• Books and movies that are so bad they’re good
• “Bad” vs. “unenjoyable” - there’s a difference
• Not for you ever vs. not for you right now
• Roni’s reading journal “breaking news”
• Running experimental trials on your reading life
• Seasons of life and how it changes your reading
• Do you need likable characters?
• What Roni learned while reading domestic suspense
• Dawn’s hate-reading/rage-reading
• Dawn puts on her editing hat to teach us about author intrusion
• A list of books that were for us, not for us right now, and not for us ever
• Grim vs. dark
• Our RAD Reading recs of the week
• The blooper reel

Click here to get the full show notes, including links to all of our recommendations and anything else we mentioned in the show.

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