Love this book. It's what pushed me back towards studying Buddhist teachings in a quest for inner peace.

You usally find the popular books of the moment by looking up "booktok", no specific TikToker.

I read everything lol

‘In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.’ - The End Of The Road.

This sentence sets you up for a novel in which the main character cannot make a decision or commit to a course of action or opinion, and instead everything seems an equivocation.

This was the first one I thought of.

Foreshadowing of conflict, echoes of the novel’s theme of people always looking back and being trapped by nostalgia, the seemingly uncomplicated early days compared with the messy later days, and the ‘magic’ of ice, which reflects the recurring images of supernatural things being considered everyday and science and technology being consider mystical.

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In the myriadic year of our Lord — the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death! — Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth.

Marguerite Duras’ The Lover.

“Very early in my life it was too late”.

Definitely subscribe to publishers' instagrams and tiktoks. They promote what's coming out soon. There are often Goodreads listopias that are called "Horror books released in 2023" or similar. Keep track of what Book of the Month is selling.

"It was the day my grandmother exploded" Pretty well indicates that what is to come will be a quirky, sometimes mysterious, and darkly humorous account of family and misfortune.

No worries, feel free to drop me a message anytime if you ever want to talk about them! Hope everything goes smoothly dude :)

Pretty much non-fiction since 1985, almost all memoirs.

It was one of my favorite books I read last year. I'm so glad I found it. Definitely a comforting book.

I'm all over the place, I love skipping genres, but the books of fiction I like the most have one commonality: the character work is front & center

Same here. Life is horrifying sometimes. Sometimes you can't sugar-coat things. I do not like or enjoy knowing that people do that, but it is out there at the edge of strange disturbing things people do. Many strange disturbing things are commonplace but not considered. My friend who was upset by the >!monkey brains thing !<had visited a slaughterhouse and still has no problem eating meat. There are different levels of what we are sensitive to or shocked by. What is commonplace or accepted in one culture could be shocking in another - strange stuff. The book makes poetry of it all, yet it is readable like prose or a story - even in the form of a letter to his mom who can't read at all.

I also vote that you prioritize getting your eyes checked over "something comes up." In the last five years or so my middle-aged eyes have needed cataract surgery and one eye, terrifyingly suddenly, a detached retina repair.

(If part of your field of vision suddenly goes dark, do not hesitate and do not put it off -- see an eye doctor at once. And yes, this IS worth going to the ER if it's a weekend.)

Ive built up quite a collection of comfort re-reads at this point. It started with stuff like Eragon and Age of Fire books when I was in my late teens. Now my go-to's are Mistborn, Stormlight, and Cradle, but I have several re-reads of The Cycle of Arwen, Red Rising, and Powder mage series as well that are lots of fun to come back too.

Fantasy, literary fiction, historical fiction and memiors. I guess I am pretty straightforward.

If it’s consecutive days I usually don’t feel the need to (always stop at chapter breaks).

If I’ve been away from a book for more than a few days/a week, I’ll usually skim the previous page.

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Reading glasses are the magnifying over the counter ones. No prescription needed. Someone else's were lying around my place so I tried them on a whim, and I didn't realize how big of a difference they can make!

I have trouble getting through it for the first time lol. It's a good book, but to me really boring at times

Fiction - fantasy, sci-fi, whodunits, horror. I generally don’t get into the sub-categories of those genres

Non-fiction - this is quite a broad spectrum, but mostly psychology, neuroscience, evolution, religion, biographies, physics, astrophysics, biology, history, philosophy. Pretty much anything that I can understand and interests me.

The night was moist.

Thank you! Will look into.