Whose recommendations do you accept without question?

[Emmalita]

Sophia picked up Liz Moore’s Long Bright River because President Obama recommended it. The story of sisters who walk different paths, wrapped in the opioid crisis, it highlights the importance of mentors. “A high school history teacher and a policeman in an after school program drastically affect Mickey’s childhood and future.” Read the full review here.

[Raven]

I'm actually the opposite. If anyone like Obama recommends something, I go the other way. And if a book is a Big Award Winner, I also tend not to read it. However, I do know that some publishers will always have a winner for me. Or an author I will probably like (or appreciate).

[Cait]

If my SIL recommends it, then I MUST read it. Her taste is great, and she introduces me to things that I would not have found on my own. Also, she seeks out recommendations from me, so we have a happy circle.

In the past two years, though- it's been other CBR readers. I wouldn't have even tried Tamsyn Muir and Becky Chambers without them!

[Leslie]

My belated brother John and I used to have what we called "Must Reads" - there were no discussions, just pure acceptance and a clearing of the calendar to read the book in question. Around 1989 I handed him an incredible thriller that I had purloined from a friend during that summer in Tahoe, a book no one had heard of titled "Silence of the Lambs". Two years later, he surprised me with tickets to a premiere showing the film at a movie theater on Polk Street (now a gym), San Francisco with the director, Jonathan Demme. Epic memory, thank you for the nudge. I would now say that I love using the comment section from Goodreads on a book I really like for compiling new additions to the to-read lists!