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Let’s Talk Bookish – Book Dreams

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Aria @ Book Nook Bits is the host for Let’s Talk Bookish! If you aren’t following her yet, good check out her blog and give her a follow!

April 5: Do You Ever Dream About Books?

Prompts: Do you ever dream about books? Which fictional characters have appeared in your dreams? Have you ever had book-related nightmares? Or do you have happier bookish dreams?

Welcome to the first LTB of April, everyone! Today’s topic is certainly interesting, all about dreaming. I have a feeling many will say they simply don’t dream or don’t remember their dreams, but perhaps there are more dreamers in the bookish community than I know.

I don’t personally dream about books. I think in the past I have had a nightmare or two over books like the Goosebumps series, but that was when I was much younger. I don’t think it’s too often that I dream about anything that happens in a book. That being said, I think that reading books does sometimes put me in certain moods that might tend to trigger dreams (not book-related). But I think it has something to do with me thinking and contemplating a book’s message or plot.

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Let’s Talk Bookish – Do Tropes Count as Spoiilers?

Fives @ Down The Rabbit Hole

Aria @ Book Nook Bits is the new host for Let’s Talk Bookish! If you aren’t following her yet, good check out her blog and give her a follow!

March 22: Do Tropes Count As Spoilers?

Prompts: A lot of the time, books will be promoted on social media books with their tropes. For example, a book might be advertised as being enemies to lovers, having found family, or starring a ‘chosen one’. Can those tropes be spoilers, giving away parts of the plot? What do you think about marketing books based on tropes?

Welcome to another week of LTB here at DTRH, everyone! Today’s topic is about common tropes, and whether they are basically spoilers. This is an interesting topic that I hadn’t thought about specifically in this perspective. I do consider the tropes of a book a lot as advertised before choosing to read it, but do you all ever see it as a spoiler?

In order to get people interested in a book, it must be promoted and advertised by their tropes. It could one or a combination of the many many romantic tropes, or it could be classic tale retold, or a combination of classic tales retold. Even on the back cover, a lot of other writers will often describe books…using other books! Are these spoilers in some way?

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Let’s Talk Bookish – Book Covers

Fives @ Down The Rabbit Hole

Aria @ Book Nook Bits is the new host for Let’s Talk Bookish! If you aren’t following her yet, good check out her blog and give her a follow!

March 15:  Book Covers (Davida Chazan)

Prompts: Do you ever get a book with a beautiful cover that is way better than the book itself? Or book covers that really just don’t fit the books? Some books have lots of different covers, for different countries and special editions. Are there any books with some great covers and some terrible ones?

Welcome back to another week of LTB here at DTRH, everyone! Today’s book is all about beautiful book covers, which I think resonates with most of us here in the community. Who doesn’t like a nice cover to go with a good story?

There are many times where a book with a beautiful cover is frankly just better than the story itself. That being said, I can see the use of having beautiful books with okay stories on your shelf just to serve as either a decoration piece or even a coffee table book. That’s for sure the danger of buying books solely based on a cover and a synopsis. However, even if I’m not the most impressed by the story, it’s usually not a regret to have purchased the book. I think there’s some intrinsic joy of just owning and looking at a pretty book, and I’ll stand by that.

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