Learning your personal reading tastes is one of the best ways to enhance your reading life. Today we’re talking about the difference between a “bad” book and a book that’s just not for you (or not for you right now.) Plus, we’re giving examples of books that fall into those categories for us along with our RAD Reading recs of the week! Highlights: To read reviews or not to read reviewsRoni’s trying something new with book reviewsDawn is not allowed to be on TikTokWhere we look for book recommendations Roni’s favorite bookish podcastsBook twinsRandom raptors and when one-star reviews are unhelpfulBooks and movies that are so bad they’re good“Bad” vs. “unenjoyable” - there’s a differenceNot for you ever vs. not for you right nowRoni’s reading journal “breaking news”Running experimental trials on your reading lifeSeasons of life and how it changes your readingDo you need likable characters?What Roni learned while reading domestic suspenseDawn’s hate-reading/rage-readingDawn puts on her editing hat to teach us about author intrusionA list of books that were for us, not for us right now, and not for us everGrim vs. darkOur RAD Reading recs of the weekThe blooper reel Click here to get the full show notes, including links to all of our recommendations and anything else we mentioned in the show.Find us online:RAD Reading on Instagram RAD Reading Facebook Page RAD Reading Website RAD Rec Master List Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.