What are your goto ways to discover new things to read?
I have a giant mixture of how I discover new books, but my biggest thing is mainly browsing local library website and their weekly lists of new releases as well as different book review aggregator sites
Can you tell me why you like reading books from which movies are made?
I often find that reading a book after I watch the movie constrains my imagination to the images given by the movie, and I don’t like that. Do you ever feel like this?
I try to take recommendations from multiple places:
Friends and family
Goodreads
Social media/online personalities I enjoy
Algorithm recommendations (other people who bought that book also bought...)
And my personal favorite: wandering around in a bookstore until a title or cover catches my eye
This way I get recommendations with some context (this book is similar to another book I liked, or, Mary has good taste in fantasy books and highly recommends this one) and also some room for serendipity to find something I might not normally read.
Recommendations from friends and people I follow online, mainly. I follow a bunch of authors and narrative designers and between all of them I haven't ran out of books for my wishlist yet!
It's most from recommendations. From a friend, or online (previously reddit, now lemmy). Historically, my way to choose a book, is if I like something from a author, just start going through their full bibliography. So, a single recommendation of a new author can last me a long time.
These days, I am getting recommendations from our weekly "What are you reading" threads over at [email protected]. So many books are mentioned each week, my books wishlist has already grown quite a lot from it.