Hope you like it! All I would say is it should come with trigger warnings for baby loss, infertility and suicide
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Oh now there’s a question…should books have trigger warnings ?
No. You get the gist of a plot from the summary and if it's obvious it's about something personally triggering - i.e. suicide, infertility, etc then you should have the intelligence to avoid it.
I've read books with things people might find triggering that you'd never guess from the plot. But then I read mostly thriller so it's a given something horrible might happen.
I'm on the fence when it comes to trigger warnings in general and I've heard the argument that sometimes the warning creates more anxiety than the content itself.
I'm sympathetic to people who don't want to be caught off guard but I'm not sure how realistic it is to expect to go through life without learning to cope with sudden feelings of discomfort.
It makes more sense if the potential trigger is especially detailed or a massive part of the plot.
I don't have any triggers personally but I've definitely skipped pages in some books when something was hard to read.
I don’t think trigger warnings are necessarily needed for the same reason as @Phil Anne Throw Pee but I would make an exception to know if the dog dies.
I feel like they should. Reading is an escape for people and I know at my lowest its been a saviour.
Its one page at the start of the book, if you dont need then skip the page.
I dont need an escalator, I can walk up stairs, others do need it. If I dont want to use it, I dont.
I agree with this. Before having a child, I could read anything and everything and separate myself from it. Anything with baby loss etc is a huge no for me now and makes me feel anxious rather than absorbed in my book.
If it’s just an odd mention of something I’d prefer not to read about then that’s fine, but I don’t want to spend a tenner on a book and it be something totally unexpected and off putting to me if that makes sense?
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/ is for books too!
i went to that site SO FAST when i read lessons in chemistry
trigger warnings are a tricky one for me because my own triggers are so niche and never included in any list even if there is one. i just don’t know if it’s possible to include everything that an individual might find upsetting and i’ve been caught out so many times. ideally the synopsis should make the obvious ones clear but even then i don’t know if you can ever appropriately protect everyone.
I'm generally ok, but I did get a bit paranoid after complaints about presents i'd bought people - e.g. number one bestselling book had anal sex in it and I've forgotten what the child's mother complained about in a book or video I thought was innocent.
Hence when I was going to invite friends round for a cinema evening I watched the video first by myself, and thank God I did! It was a chick-lit type film, and then out of nowhere the hero was splattered by an articulated truck! It was such a shock that I shout cried. I would never have lived the shout cry down, as it came out of me so violently, and my friends would have sideeyed me at the films I must be watching.........
I was so relieved that I'd swerved causing a sensation amongst my dramatic, delicate friends! Phew!!!
Thanks so much for the heads up. I really appreciate it
Absolutely agree. I don't see the harm at all and I don't think anyone should get to police how someone engages with their leisure time.
It's slightly different in say universities where students are refusing to interact with difficult texts, hindering their ability to learn and develop. But I don't see how a page of trigger warnings is any different from not picking up a book because the blurb suggested it had...triggers.
Oh I’ve raised a point of interesting discussion!
I simply meant I was giving the TW as I don’t think when you read the summary / blurb of TWP it gives any indication that it features suicide and suicidal thoughts so prominently particularly.
I don’t know about inside books… but I’ve noticed on Booktok a lot of reviewers will indicate TW - mostly for sexual assault
I simply meant I was giving the TW as I don’t think when you read the summary / blurb of TWP it gives any indication that it features suicide and suicidal thoughts so prominently particularly.
I don’t know about inside books… but I’ve noticed on Booktok a lot of reviewers will indicate TW - mostly for sexual assault
I don’t mind trigger warnings if they are subtly placed so you can avoid if you don’t want to find too much out about the book.
I’d like them to ban putting you’ll never see the shocking twist coming off the front cover!!!
I’d like them to ban putting you’ll never see the shocking twist coming off the front cover!!!
I’m bored at work this afternoon so I’ve just been searching how to export my list of Kindle books to excel so I can see better what I have and keep track. I’m going to then go in and manually add my physical books and then if I have any duplicates I’ll either charity shop the physical or delete the kindle version.
I’m inspired by the lovely @ordinaryjelly to take control of my TBR.
I’m inspired by the lovely @ordinaryjelly to take control of my TBR.
Yes! I can appreciate why others want/need them but a couple of times when I’ve seen them in unavoidable places and have felt like minor spoilers eg. TW: Balls.. I didn’t know there were balls in this story and now I’m waiting for something to happen with balls.
Ideally I’d like the TW page to say - turn to the back page for TW but realise this is much less of an issue for me than someone who finds themselves inadvertently reading something triggering.
I think StoryGraph’s feature is really good - and user submitted too so likely to capture anything more niche.
Omg yes! That and LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY or such like. No, let me decide if it’s funny thank you.
All I want is a front cover with no accolades or silly quotes.
A blurb on the back which tells me about the book.
Is it too much to ask?
A blurb on the back which tells me about the book.
Is it too much to ask?
I was looking at ‘The Names’ on Tuesday and the headline quote is ‘best debut novel in years’ - now my expectations have been raised and I’m probably going to be disappointed.All I want is a front cover with no accolades or silly quotes.
A blurb on the back which tells me about the book.
Is it too much to ask?
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