Depends on the type of book. I’ve got different expectations for a literary fiction vs a murder/mysterie.

Enjoyment is always the most important factor when reading a book though.

And I did stop rating most non-fiction books. Especially memoires.

The Hunger Games to this day is one of my favourite series. I really need to reread it soon.

How: goodreads

Why: I like statistics and setting reading goals. It’s fun to see my reading journey trough the years: what did I read at what time in my life? How much did I read each year? Did my taste change? Etc.

• Just pick up books that you are excited about.

• go look up books in your favourite genre.

• if you’re not yet super confident in reading English books try some YA.

I’m Dutch but read about 70 percent of my books in English. I prefer the original language when reading (if I speak that language off course). In the Netherlands Dutch books tend to be more expensive when bought new. So I hardly ever buy a Dutch book brand new. I either get them from secondhand bookstores or from the library. We have good accessibility to foreign books. So usually that’s where my money goes to.

Even books that are neither originally Dutch or English I will often get in English because of price and sometimes quality of the translation (bigger market so usually better translations - although not guaranteed).

20-30 books doesn’t sound too bad. I’ve got about 300 books and half of them are unread. I’m building a personal library. I would like to see my read vs unread percentage stay around 50 percent.

Well that’s you. I read mature stuff at that age too. And honestly I don’t think my parents could have stopped me. I knew a lot more about the internet then they did and most of the stuff I read was from there. I think if they had tried to stop me I would have been more determined to keep reading that stuff. So that would absolutely have backfired on them.

But I’m also from a country and culture that’s rather relaxed around sex. I think we are more worried about violence in movies/books then about some spicy stuff. I can even remember reading stuff for school that had had some serious adult themes in them. I guess we prefer our kids reading about that before they actually have to deal with it in real life.

I love books that look read!

I have some books I like to keep looking nice. They are special editions or nice hardbacks.

But anything else is fair game to me. I don’t want my shelves to look like a book store. I love it when my books look owned because it makes them unique.

She will likely stop reading when she comes across something she isn’t ready for.

Any book that gets a thirteen year old to read is age appropriate in my opinion. I never read Colleen Hoover and I believe she targets a bit higher then age thirteen. Again, if your niece really wants to read them I would let her. But course it’s up to the parents. I personally believe that when someone isn’t ready to read something they’ll put it down themselves. It’s not like with tv/movies or games that kids get peer pressured to read things they aren’t comfortable reading.

Also you can never be to old to read something. I read adult, young adult and middle grade books. I even enjoy some of the picture books I read to my niece and my friends daughter.

Yes, completely agree. The idea of quidditch isn’t completely bad but a few small changes would absolutely make it better.

The only problem I have with quidditch is how insanely overpowered the seeker is. A team can play the best game ever but still lose if the opponents seeker gets lucky and catches the snitch before the difference is 150 points… I think I’m too much of a muggle sports lover to not take issue with that haha.

Like there is literally a game where Harry catches the snitch so fast that his teammates could have just stayed in bed and Gryffindor still would have won.

But maybe I’m overthinking a magical sport in a children’s series haha

It’s been 52 books a year for a couple of years now. For 2022 I’m on track for the first time since January 1st haha. Years ago I had a year where I read 128 books and kept setting my reading goal higher every time I reached it. I stopped doing that. Next year it will be set at 26. I want to focus on the bigger books on my tbr so my second goal is for every two books I read one has to be more than 500+ pages.