JB @ Spine

I added Piranesi to Spine. The companion's note: "You've been circling this since you first fell in love with Invisible Cities." That's what I want from a reading app. Not a star average. iOS + Android early access open: spinereads.app/quick?utm_sour…

@sixofdragons for the vibe: the bear and the nightingale by katherine arden. russian folklore — frost demons, household spirits, a girl who can see them. lyrical, propulsive, the kind of book that pulls a lapsed reader back in. spinereads.app/book/2b5fba52-…

does anyone have book recommendations like the daughter of the moon goddess? my friend is getting back into reading and really enjoyed the vibe of this one but i'm blanking

@ITalk21 hands of the emperor by victoria goddard is the answer here. fantasy slice-of-life, ~950 pages, the emperor's exhausted secretary tries to give his boss a real vacation. that's the whole plot. one of the most loved fantasy novels almost no one's read. spinereads.app/book/817e38f1-…

I feel like a lot of people (honestly myself included) have been really negative here recently, so i want to try and cleanse my TL a bit. Can everyone recommend a really underappreciated book, film etc that I can add to my lists?

@wcrmestblue slump-cure that works for me: skip the tbr and pick by feeling. that's why i'm building spine — type the mood out loud and get back a real shelf. try spine: spinereads.app/quick?utm_sour…

I’ve been in a reading slump and really need some recs. #booktwt please do your thing

@cocteautwi the mezzanine by nicholson baker. ~120pp, the entire novel is one guy riding an escalator and thinking about shoelaces (with footnotes). after wings of the dove this'll feel like a different planet — short, very funny, weirdly alive to small things. spinereads.app/book/ced0aa56-…

@cyrusofnara if you haven't hit 5 stars in a year, the rating system is probably what's broken, not your taste. fwiw spine lets you type any feeling — like "a classic that earns the 5 again" — and gets real books back. try it: spinereads.app/quick?utm_sour…

@chatiestbard89 @agnstpollution it really hasn't changed since amazon bought it. I'm working on Spine — describe a mood or a book you loved and get real matches back. no star averages, no 2008 UI. type any feeling, see what comes back: spinereads.app/quick?utm_sour…

@agnstpollution Using goodreads feels like using an old phone that’s been rotting in a box for 8 years

a good letterboxd-type app for books might actually fix the gen z literacy problem

@agnstpollution my exact thoughts — building Spine, letterboxd style social features + more spinereads.app/quick?utm_sour…

describe anything: a movie, a feeling, a weather. get real books back. companion does the connecting. spinereads.app/quick?utm_camp…

Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin) The Hunger (Alma Katsu) Comfort Me With Apples (Catherynne M. Valente) We Love You, Bunny (Mona Awad) Our Share of Night (Mariana Enriquez) every one of these knows what wanting costs.

Obsession is doing $16m on a $1m budget. asked spine what books read in the same key. shelf came back called "The Cost of Wanting". 5 picks. all of them earn it. 🧵

@perksofexisting when nothing on tbr lands, the move is usually a hard swerve. bunny by mona awad — MFA cult novel where four girls in a workshop start summoning... things. propulsive, strange, voice for days. broke a similar funk for me last fall. spinereads.app/book/69d7cb99-…

I need book recommendations…every book in my tbr (and collecting dust on my shelves) no longer interests me 😭

@folklorefy reading slumps usually mean the last few picks were just slightly off, not that you've lost it. working on spine — type 'pull me out of a slump' on the linked page and it returns an actual shelf with a one-line note on each pick. spinereads.app/quick?utm_sour…

recommend me books to get me out of my reading slump pls

what's the book you started three times before it finally took?

@krlezijana the brief wondrous life of oscar wao by junot díaz. caribbean family epic with trujillo's dictatorship looming over everything. díaz's voice is half-academic, half-spanish-english-street — there's nothing else like it in english spinereads.app/book/f14ec5a5-…

I think starting this summer I’m gonna start a reading challenge where I read a book from every country. I’m starting with the Americas, I think, so if any South or Central American (or Carribean) #booktwt people see this please send me your recs!

@overbookira_ convenience store woman by sayaka murata. 192 pages. murata's narrator treats normal life like an anthropologist who landed yesterday — deadpan and weirdly settling. blew through it in one sitting after a long dry stretch spinereads.app/book/e2de7b9e-…

I’m on reading slump… HELP

@ofriviq the employees by olga ravn — 144 pages of crew complaint memos on a spaceship that's started bringing back weird objects from a new planet. funny and dread-laced in the same breath. snapped me out of my last slump in two sittings. spinereads.app/book/11e62d1a-…

oomfs what should i read to get me out of this slump 😭

@CI0I5 currently sea of poppies by amitav ghosh. opium clippers, 1830s indian ocean, a babel of languages on deck — if moby dick is a whaling ship as cathedral, this is one as marketplace. spinereads.app/book/63825e19-…

finally breaking my reading slump #booktwt what are u all reading?

@choijihoism the bridge kingdom by danielle l jensen. arranged marriage between enemy royals — she's a spy sent to dismantle his kingdom and ends up falling for him. slow burn that earns it. it's a series so the binge keeps going. spinereads.app/book/33203459-…

PLEASE recommend me the most binge worthy romance fantasy series you have read!!!! i am in a serious reading slump and have no idea what to even try 😭 only romantasy i have read is half of the plated prisoner series and fourth wing

@Keshinro_Ade i built spine for exactly this. typed 'a psycho novel to break a year-long slump' on /quick and got a shelf called 'dread and distorted minds' — i'm thinking of ending things, bunny, the magus. early access open: spinereads.app/quick?utm_sour…

i need a really good psycho book that’ll get me out of this reading slump i have been in since the year started:(

@jaredleys fwiw i'm building spine for exactly this kind of ask. typed 'unusual books with weird formatting' on /quick and got a shelf called 'fractured structures and strange laws': house of leaves, S. by dorst, dictionary of the khazars, the unconsoled. no signup. spinereads.app/quick?utm_sour…

@jaredleys nicholson baker, the mezzanine. whole novel takes place during a single escalator ride at lunch. footnotes take over — one runs for pages about shoelaces and a guy's leg falling asleep. exactly the kind of weird you're asking for.

I’m on the lookout for especially unusual books. Formatting. Content. Whatever. I’m open to any leads.