#219 - Reading Confessions: How Do I Avoid TikTok Books??
Books Unbound
Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay
4.8 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts. |
| 0:15.4 | But today we listen to your problems and we try our very best to help. Damn it. We'll try. Will we help? We'll see. Who knows? Are you excited, Raylene? I'm so hyped. I love doing these. It's nice to like just take a little brain break from thinking about reading and just kind of use our, you know, both of us have been reading a long time so I feel like |
| 0:37.7 | we've got good tips yes I feel like we've got something here you're right we have been dealing |
| 0:43.6 | with the ins and outs and intricacies of the reading life for a very long time so being able to |
| 0:49.7 | hopefully help out our fellow readers is pretty nice. If you didn't hear our first episode, |
| 0:58.0 | the concept for these episodes is very simple. We have listeners of the podcast, send us their |
| 1:05.1 | voice clips of the problems they're facing and we try and help them out a little bit of an |
| 1:12.9 | uggony aunt situation yes as they call it um your sugar action dear sugar that's right we just |
| 1:20.8 | want to secretly and not so secretly be Cheryl straight and I like to secretly call |
| 1:26.9 | this dear Rubin um it's not the official name, but I do like it. |
| 1:31.2 | It just sounds pretty nice. All right. Well, our first message that we are going to listen to is from |
| 1:42.1 | Annalise, who is having a little problem. Hi, Books Unbound. This is Annalise. I'm very excited for |
| 1:49.5 | this new segment, and I'm here to share my book confession. My bookish confession is that I use |
| 1:57.9 | goodreads to vet books that I know nothing about. So whenever I go used book shopping, |
| 2:07.3 | I'm always searching for obscure book titles, books I've never heard of. And although I'm willing |
| 2:15.1 | to take a chance on them, I do look them up on Goodreads to see what their rating is. |
| 2:20.5 | And usually if the rating is below a 3.7, I rarely end up buying it. |
| 2:27.3 | I know this is bad, but I was just wondering what your advice is to vet obscure books. |
| 2:33.9 | And if you think Goodreads ratings are any |
| 2:37.4 | accurate depiction of how good they are, and generally what your opinions are. So, thank you |
| 2:43.5 | very much. Looking forward to hearing your advice. All righty, Ann Elise. This is a very interesting |
| 2:50.3 | problem. You're totally right. It made me laugh as well because |
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