I loved the trilogy. Andy Serkis is a phenomenal talent. The way he uses his voice for different characters makes it so immersive.

When I read the books I tended to skip over the songs and poems, they seemed self-indulgent to me, something that Tolkien loved, but a slog to read. But listening to Andy Serkis sing them really brought them to life. (Except the songs that Aragorn and Legolas sang for Boromir. That was too much.)

I just started the final book of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall series and wondered if they were going to make another series of the TV adaptation. The article I clicked on spoiled the ending of the book in the opening sentence.

I know this is based on real people and events, so I guess they considered it common knowledge, but I didn’t bloody know!

I hated this book. A def dnf.

Time management is like most skills, it can be taught and it improves with practice.

My 2 favorite techniques are time blocking and the Pomodoro technique.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 🥹

Lol, I found his voice a bit too soothing, since I always fell asleep after like 2 minutes 😅

I meant impact on literature

Basically, these books are telling you to surround yourself with positive influences and avoid toxic people, but when you try to apply that to real life, it feels kind of harsh and self-centered. You might be worried about cutting people out of your life just because they have a bad habit or two, and you don't want to be a total jerk to your family and friends.

Here's the thing: it's totally normal to feel this way, and you're definitely not alone. These books can be really helpful, but they're not a magic solution for every situation. It's important to take care of yourself and set boundaries, but it's also important to be respectful and considerate of other people's feelings. If you're finding that these books are causing you to act in a way that doesn't feel right, it might be helpful to take a step back and think about how you're treating others. Are you being kind and understanding, or are you putting your own interests first?

Indira Varma is great at reading Pride and Prejudice too. Her Mr Bennett is so funny/on point.

"It had taken Estraven six months to arrange my first audience. It had taken the rest of his life to arrange this second one."

Sub Press 2nd edition Gardens of the Moon. the artwork on it is great. And a self published leather bound edition of Wapshot Chronicle by Cheever. he went all out on it. Leather bound, gold gilt pages, gold embossing, hand sewn binding. It just looks like a substantial book.

Agreed. Mistborn is much better

I love Six of Crows, the multiple narrators really makes a difference

Ooh, I just bought the three body problem as an audiobook, one, because the synopsis and two, I absolutely love Luke Daniels as a narrator.

It might tell us something important about her brother's personality.

Might I suggest, if you’re interested in British police procedurals, Jackman and Evans series by Joy Ellis and Kim Stone series by Angela Marsons. They are perfect examples of two detectives that are friends and never romantically interested in one another.

Writing romance/sex scenes is hard and very per person, men are horrible at it, women can't really write for men, and editors try to make them more general for everyone. End of the day you get a washed out version when you could probably make a cute/fun/hot side plot but it turns into watching your parents be handsy when you're 12.

I loved Mystery and Thriller books. SciFi too. The romance being shoehorned into freaking everything has made it so I haven't been able to pick up a book in a long, long time. I miss reading, but screw the darned Romance BS. If it's not Romance being shoved in, it's SA, or Abuse. There are other ways to create tension!

1. Read at least one nonfiction, including memoirs.
2. Dig into my backlist (Read at least 8 books)
3. Use more of my subscriptions as much as possible before buying (Easier said than done!)
4. Dig outside of my comfort zone more (e.g., Horror)
5. Complete 4 challenges
6. Read one 450+ page book.

I'm quite dumb and I tend to buy whole series in one go based on recommendations from random people I don't know. I most recently did this with Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy. I felt quite the fool midway through the first book, groaning and tutting at page after page of utter dross, knowing I had two more to go through.

If you can find it “the worlds of Ursula leguin” is a great documentary on how thrillingly radical her writing was / is. Left hand of darkness etc is a personal favourite, love how inhabited the world w feels, how unique it’s creatures. So different to strange colonial hot takes on “desert planet” or “jungle planet”

I’m now reading these out loud to my 13yo son (we have a tradition of reading out loud every night). I forgot how readable the language is! So easy to narrate.

It's one of those curious phenomena of Reddit where people upvote comments containing mutually contradictory truth claims.

Lol, child.

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