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Adding it to “want to read”!

Thanks!

So? You're still buying books from small, individual bookstores.

Off the top of my head:

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
• Giovanni’s Room
• The Death of Vivek Oji

Sure , no problem, just that it struck me as odd how repetitive this kind of opinion is , i'm sure there a lot of poorly written non fiction yet i don't see the amount of hostility towards it as much as romance. Anyway, i'm aware you can dislike an entire genre if you can , i just expressed what i noticed.

So that’s exactly what I don’t want to read haha

Well, it depends what you like. A Little Life is very depressing and has a lot of abuse in it, but it’s a beautiful story. Super long, but I couldn’t put it down.

Detransition, Baby is quite interesting but it can be triggering for some trans ppl imho

Permafrost is light and funny

Conversations with friends is Rooney’s book so it’s slow and “boring” but I like it. It just happens to have queer characters which I like.

You exist too much is very interesting book about Palestinian women and her relationships with others.

One last stop is also by Casey McQuiston and the female protagonist is queer :) liked this one even better than Red white and royal blue

It's still odd , in the romance sub reddit, even when most of us don't like non fiction or other genres, we never insult them or even bring them up . A book subreddit is supposed to be accepting of all genres , including romance since it's one of the oldest genres, older than sci-fi .

You're welcome :D

Thanks! Will post it there!

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

I'm just getting into queer literature. So far I've read GenderQueer by Maia Kobabe (it is a comic-style memoir), Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin (it's about a genderfluid teenager), and Gender Euphoria by Laura Kate Dale (short stories about trans/nb peoples experiences with gender euphoria). I liked them all but I really liked the art in GenderQueer.

Out of the books you listed, which one was your favourite and the one you would recommend?

Not really a romance novel, but, i liked Finna and Defekt by Nino Cipri.

Kinda quirky adventure novel one of the main characters is non-binary, helped me learn not to associate certain attributes with a gender.

Light from uncommon stars by Ryka Aoki

This is how you lose the time war by El mothar and Gladstone

Winter's orbit by Everina Maxwell

Also you should probably post this on r/suggestmeabook

Loaded By Christos Tsiolkas. One of the best books I have ever read.

GNU Terry Pratchett

I have to echo The Last Debate chapter:

> "Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”

In the classic French existential tradition Nietzsche looms very large, especially the explicit precedence of existence to essence, which is just a synthesis and concise restatement of what Nietzsche spent decades trying to say. It’s interesting that Kierkegaard has a stronger association with existentialism (I’m assuming you mean the French, ie Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus) for you because for Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger the subject has a primary role in the definition and expression of his essence, but he is not wholly precedent to it, he has an inherent nature. Happy new year to you as well.

I did not know there was a full color edition of TSATF!

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Very interesting; thank you for taking the time to post this. SK's influence on existentialism was apparent to me but not Nietzche's. Now I'm half-considering starting the new year by having another look at Unscientific Postscript (though if I'm going to go with something worthy, suspect I might be sidetracked by S. Weil further down the shelf).--Always nice to see a new connection made, especially one that isn't the likes of 'Wow, Stephen King and James Herbert both wrote stories about a deadly fog!' Happy new year.

Some writers tend to fall into a rut and end up using the same scenario over and over.

A scifi sociopolitical slow burn with a culturally sensitive topic sounds like money down the drain for a studio.

Hey! I have the same collection of War and Peace as you. I also have The Wind up bird chronical from the similar Japanese collection (planning on getting all).

Then I have a couple of Penguin Deluxe editions and they're so beautiful! Especially the Frankenstein one. I like collecting the series' that vintage/ penguin come out with so I also have a few books from the Penguin Sisterhood Classic series.

Lastly, my latest purchases have been the Gift editions of His Dark Materials and the B&N Hitchhiker's edition.