Mister_Sosotris

Mister_Sosotris t1_j2ep7kk wrote

As a former English teacher, I can confidently say that there doesn’t have to be a deeper meaning. You can always apply different branches of critical theory to find different layers to a story if you want, but you can also just get swept up in the story and enjoy it for what it is. It doesn’t matter what the author INTENDED you to get out of a story, but rather what elements speak to you specifically. Don’t feel bad! It’s okay to just enjoy things! ^_^

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Mister_Sosotris t1_j29crl0 wrote

Ok, but Mexican Gothic did this to me. Not because the story is wholesome or anything, but I LOVED Silvia Moreno Garcia’s writing style so much and she immediately became a favourite auto-buy author. And if you like romance, her book The Beautiful Ones is a high society second chance romance with some magical elements, and it’s WONDERFUL!

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Mister_Sosotris t1_j1m6zi6 wrote

I use StoryGraph. It has an awesome recommendation list that changes as you update your current reads, and it keeps your TBR pretty neat. I do think Goodreads has a better library of reviews, but I use StoryGraph to track my reading progress, and it has all these awesome graphs that track all your reading habits. And you can easily import your library from Goodreads

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