Bad as in so different from the book I would say The Lovely Bones but I think it was much better than the book, which I never say but it tricked me into reading the book which I immensely did not enjoy at all and as an adaptation goes it really was so so different than the book.

As far as bad as in like bad movie and bad adaptation I have to echo I, Robot

Honestly any book I’ve been gifted that was not from a list I gave the person has been 0/10 I wouldn’t recommend giving someone books they don’t ask for unless you’re 1000000% sure about it

Weekdays it’s a toss up I try to read at least 1 chapter which equates to like 15-20 mins but that doesn’t always happen.

On Monday nights I’m able to read for 2-3 hours always.

Weekends I always read at least 1 book which normally is 3-8 hours of reading a day depending on what I have going on

Yes I definitely read outside my comfort zone however I haven’t really enjoyed most of the books that I read when I do read outside my comfort zone but to still think it’s important as a reader.

I am not a horror book fan at all and I rarely like them but genres all pull on from each other and reading classics and other genres can enhance reading your preferred genre but that’s just my opinion

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Nate Pederson and Lydia Kang I think it’s been there for 3 months but it’s a nonfiction almost textbook style book so I read normally a chapter every few weeks when the mood strikes me it’s a great book just basically a history/science text book with a little bit of funn commentary added into it

I also read Earthlings this year and I think I have thought about it almost everyday or at least once a week. It was a wild tragic interesting ride that I’m not sure I would even recommend to most people but it was so good I want to

I think of this almost daily it was the best adult dystopian science fiction maybe even one of the best books I’ve ever read can’t believe I did not know about her until my last year of college!

Not sure if this is the most inventive but I haven’t seen this done so well before

In Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow there are 2 devices I think were very well done. First of all one chapter is in 2nd person but it is very well done and made me sob into my book (if you know you know)

Also later on in the book there is a chapter where 2 of the main characters play a video game and the whole chapter is from the POV of their video game characters? It’s kind of hard to explain because it is so weird but very very good and a beautiful story of friendship in this chapter it was very interesting and I haven’t seen it done before so it was a cool read!

Goodreads at the end of the day is a social media platform not a judge of literature.

These awards are essentially a contest of which have been read the most, sometimes that is a great book, Babel IMO is a good book and also popular but popular does not always been good.

That being said I have no idea how the books are picked for us to vote on if anyone knows?

I’ve noticed most of them I’ve never heard of which is odd because I stay mostly up to date. I knew almost all of the 2022 nominees even if I hadn’t gotten to read them yet but 2023 I could only vote in a few categories despite reading almost double the books I read last year