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emmer_moans said:
Yeah, sometimes this is what you need. I'm just a bit annoyed I bought this as hardback last year and only just got to it and kind of wish I had bought it as a cheaper paperback or ebook 😅 I need to stop buying hardbacks as a knee jerk reaction and then not get round to reading them for ages... some I can wait for paperback (is what I need to tell myself).

Hardbacks need to be for authors I know I will love the book 😅

I went a bit crazy last year with some new releases and actually a lot of these I could have waited for. I've not been as bad this year, have definitely bought less. I am still working through the ones I brought last year. There's a couple of Janice Hallet books I got as hardback too, The Examiner and the other new one, which by the time I get to them I could have waited for the paperbacks, too.

I need to remember with these new releases that the supply isn't going to run out quickly. I don't need to buy well in advance of reading.

Trying to curb my tendancy to hoard too much like Smaug the dragon.
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I’m exactly the same and am trying to do the same now.
Unless it’s a special edition I’m only buying a hardback if I’m going to read it straight away. I almost folded last week then reminded myself I’m on holiday soon and won’t take a hardback and it’ll still be there when I get back.. I’m evolving! I do have some pre-orders but they’re all ones I’m looking forward to and will prioritise (she says..).
 
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CommentBelow said:
I’m exactly the same and am trying to do the same now.
Unless it’s a special edition I’m only buying a hardback if I’m going to read it straight away. I almost folded last week then reminded myself I’m on holiday soon and won’t take a hardback and it’ll still be there when I get back.. I’m evolving! I do have some pre-orders but they’re all ones I’m looking forward to and will prioritise (she says..).
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Ooo if I know I’m going through an airport I’ll always buy a couple as they have the airport paperback editions 👌🏼
 
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ToxicPony

I saw an interesting point about how we view male vs female deaths and the stakes of them, that we have a more emotional connection to the death of women whereas books where men die are usually crime, spy or war related.
 
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Harlot O'Scara

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ToxicPony said:
I saw an interesting point about how we view male vs female deaths and the stakes of them, that we have a more emotional connection to the death of women whereas books where men die are usually crime, spy or war related.
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Men regularly die en masse in fiction without people batting an eyelid. I guarantee that more men died in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan than women in those books in that article combined.

Literally thousands of nameless men died in the book I just read, a Bernard Cornwell depicting the Battle of Crecy (where as many as 4500+ men died in a matter of hours in real life).

This kind of crime content is often written by women, for women, and they generally have female characters (heroes and victims) because it's assumed that's who the intended audience will relate to the most.
 
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wishiniwasskinny

I do think some of the books they’ve used as the example (I.e. the impossible fortune from TMC series) are not relevant . The previous 4 TMC books feature multiple male deaths (and in The Impossible Fortune). It’s just that in that story a woman was killed, but was one in many deaths. Not just a book gratuitously about the murder of a woman.
 
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Harlot O'Scara said:
Men regularly die en masse in fiction without people batting an eyelid. I guarantee that more men died in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan than women in those books in that article combined.

Literally thousands of nameless men died in the book I just read, a Bernard Cornwell depicting the Battle of Crecy (where as many as 4500+ men died in a matter of hours in real life).

This kind of crime content is often written by women, for women, and they generally have female characters (heroes and victims) because it's assumed that's who the intended audience will relate to the most.
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Ah here, you can’t compare women murdered in crime fiction with men killed in battles that actually happened. Like the characters may be fiction, but the wars definitely occurred. You have a point re relatability, but the comparison doesn’t work.
 
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Harlot O'Scara

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Carapop said:
Ah here, you can’t compare women murdered in crime fiction with men killed in battles that actually happened. Like the characters may be fiction, but the wars definitely occurred. You have a point re relatability, but the comparison doesn’t work.
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But why are fictional women dying treated as somehow being some sort of problem to the point of requiring media think pieces? These women don't even exist. They were never "alive" in the first place. I just don't get why I'm supposed to care?
 
LaBlonde

LaBlonde

Harlot O'Scara said:
But why are fictional women dying treated as somehow being some sort of problem to the point of requiring media think pieces? These women don't even exist. They were never "alive" in the first place. I just don't get why I'm supposed to care?
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i mean; is that not what reading fiction entails? 🤣 if we’re only meant to care about or empathise with real people, and not write opinion pieces on fictional ones, this thread wouldn’t exist!
 
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LaBlonde said:
i mean; is that not what reading fiction entails? 🤣 if we’re only meant to care about or empathise with real people, and not write opinion pieces on fictional ones, this thread wouldn’t exist!
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But that article wasn't about specific characters, it was about some nebulous issue about the sex/gender of characters in a handful of popular books. That's what I don't see the fuss about. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Most of the time, I only "care" about fictional characters as long as the story interests me. Maybe I'm just heartless 😂
 
Harlot O'Scara

Harlot O'Scara

I'm reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks, which is a selection of his case histories as a neurologist, and it's very interesting but also a bit frightening.

Because what do you mean I could just wake up one day and have absolutely no concept of 'left'?!?!?
 
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Harlot O'Scara said:
I'm reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks, which is a selection of his case histories as a neurologist, and it's very interesting but also a bit frightening.

Because what do you mean I could just wake up one day and have absolutely no concept of 'left'?!?!?
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I've started reading that book but as a person with existing health anxiety and hypochondriac tendencies, it scared me and I had to leave it 😂 I hope to give it another go at a more stable time in life.
 
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Harlot O'Scara said:
I'm reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks, which is a selection of his case histories as a neurologist, and it's very interesting but also a bit frightening.

Because what do you mean I could just wake up one day and have absolutely no concept of 'left'?!?!?
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That book is so interesting! I find the way he writes very readable.
 
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QueenBW

I finished 28 Summers by Elin Hildebrand and despised it. Can't fathom why it is so beloved by her fans.
 
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LaBlonde

LaBlonde

i finished great big beautiful life yesterday and i need to have a talk with emily henry about the complete dip in quality in her last three books 🥲

all have involved couples i think should be actively avoiding each other rather than dating 🤣
 
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