Mint

Law school student, cozy mystery/romance enthusiast and #bookblogger.

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@PagesUnbound Even MG or YA books that are agreed upon as being in that category can be really dark. Hunger Games was all about kids murdering kids, Harry Potter has a torture scene and long battle scenes, I Am Number Four has kids running from murderers, and so on.

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@PagesUnbound The top votes that I'm seeing are also solidly YTA at this point with a lot of librarians pointing out that what OP did is not ethical conduct for a librarian (or person working at the library).

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@PagesUnbound And even if someone asks, the right response is probably to give some kind of cop-out or direct them to a resource where they can look it up for themselves because everyone's values on what counts as "sexually explicit material" can vary.

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@litlemonbooks No worries! I know WordPress scheduling can be wacky somethings :/

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@HardcoverApp @alitescape You have to manually input everything yourself since it's just on Google Sheets. I like how customizable it is, but I think it could be tough for people to navigate especially since you need some spreadsheet knowledge to navigate.

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@frappesandfic It's a weird situation where the subreddit mods aren't paid, yet Reddit relies on them to do a lot. In /r/romancebooks there was a mod that made a lot of users uncomfortable, power-tripping because posts 'weren't worthy', etc. and it was all over books!?

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

Haven't been in a reading mood lately. Don't know if it's because of recent world events, or just being interested in doing other things.

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@frappesandfic I think it's a good reminder that social media isn't obligated to provide US-style free speech for their users. Their platform, their rules.

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

The erosion of abortion rights is extremely rare in the world, and almost exclusively occurs in backsliding democracies. Here’s my reporting on the link between those two forces: https://t.co/aHgPWMv83T

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

So excited! Getting a signed paperback & swag of My Funny Demon Valentine by Aurora Ascher 😍

[Pages Unbound @PagesUnbound]

Book Blogger Stats Survey Results: 2022 https://t.co/DSm5B81z0T

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@PagesUnbound @frappesandfic As far as I can tell, the Nielsen study only looks at how piracy impacts US publishers. Not sure if it only covers American readers. And of course, always potential issues with methodology/sample size.

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@ShelfLovePod They didn't monitor anything. I can only remember one time when my mom expressed concern about something I read (sexual content that I was too young to read about in hindsight) but we just talked about it, she didn't take it away from me.

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@frappesandfic Fair enough!

Though I'd also argue that commercial fiction authors aren't compensated well enough for their work either, where they're also expected to do free labour (like a traditionally published author being expected to market their own book)

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@frappesandfic That's kind of the expectation in academic publishing 🙃

Journals make subscription $$ but don't pass it on to their authors because academics aren't directly paid by journals. Though their labour might be paid by the university they work for (or another source).

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@alitescape @frappesandfic It depends on where you live for the first two options. There are some places where there are no libraries at all. Shipping and currency exchange rates can be exorbitant, if someone is even willing to ship to your country at all.

[Mint @mintlovesbooks]

@frappesandfic I notice that books are often seen as 'different' from other consumer products. Like the ideas that knowledge should be free --> which impacts a lot of non-fiction and academic works (esp given how incredibly restrictive the world of academic publishing is)