Sep 29, 2026 · 56 min · 13 segments
Welcome to our podcast, a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖💛 This week, we're keeping things light and playing a bookish round of "This or That," similar to *Would You Rather*. We each…
This or that, either you never pick your own TBR.
ever again whoa or you never get recommendations ever again wow starting us off with a
hard one never pick my tbr because recommendations basically like have helped me figure out what i like you know i feel
like all of my reads are recommendations yeah usually yeah
I guess I would have to say the same thing, because thinking about it, I think most of the books that I read were, even if not directly recommended to me by somebody I know, recommended to me by someone else.
out in the world somewhere
yeah so I would I feel like before goodreads and like booktubers book influencers book books to grammars I never knew what to read or like
before we all came back into our reading era I never knew what to read which is why I didn't read sometimes And now that there's
millions
of recommendations all
the time, I feel like I always know what to read.
I have a question, actually.
Yeah.
Would it be from, like, this day forward? Or would it be, like...
Probably from this day forward.
Yeah, this day forward.
Okay, I think I would switch my answer, then.
Ooh.
Because...
Well, okay, here's another question.
Does that mean that you wouldn't have anything like Goodreads? Like, would you be able to read reviews of books? No.
like
reviews from anyone from this day forward you cannot listen to anyone talk about books like it in one ear out the other but could i go like to goodreads and read a
random review of somebody no
okay then i'll stick with my recommendation yeah yeah well not always technically yeah you know well it can be like a recommendation to read or not to read I don't
This or that, either you never pick your own TBR.
ever again whoa or you never get recommendations ever again wow starting us off with a
hard one never pick my tbr because recommendations basically like have helped me figure out what i like you know i feel
like all of my reads are recommendations yeah usually yeah
I guess I would have to say the same thing, because thinking about it, I think most of the books that I read were, even if not directly recommended to me by somebody I know, recommended to me by someone else.
out in the world somewhere
yeah so I would I feel like before goodreads and like booktubers book influencers book books to grammars I never knew what to read or like
before we all came back into our reading era I never knew what to read which is why I didn't read sometimes And now that there's
millions
of recommendations all
the time, I feel like I always know what to read.
I have a question, actually.
Yeah.
Would it be from, like, this day forward? Or would it be, like...
Probably from this day forward.
Yeah, this day forward.
Okay, I think I would switch my answer, then.
Ooh.
Because...
Well, okay, here's another question.
Does that mean that you wouldn't have anything like Goodreads? Like, would you be able to read reviews of books? No.
like
reviews from anyone from this day forward you cannot listen to anyone talk about books like it in one ear out the other but could i go like to goodreads and read a
random review of somebody no
okay then i'll stick with my recommendation yeah yeah well not always technically yeah you know well it can be like a recommendation to read or not to read I don't
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