> I think it's pretty irresponsible to not put a trigger warning for that along with the rape/SA.

I can count the number of books I've read that have included content warnings on one hand, though. Even among queer fiction it's not that common!

Just reading the summary bummed me out...

And to add to that, he'll also try to make sure that any of her relationships with other men fail. Like, nothing about this made any sense

Adore Ghostwritten to the moon and back. I had a bit more trouble connecting to some of the other books (I've read Black Swan Green, Number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Slade House, and The Jacob de Zoet one). Number9dream I loved the descriptions of Japan but I remember a pretty violent part that put me off. Slade House I remember enjoying but it wasnt exactly a "feel good" type of enjoyment. Black Swan Green I did not enjoy and Jacob de Zoet I found a bit confusing. Cloud Atlas I also found certain parts confusing. Ghostwritten might be my all time favourite book though.

I used to love Murakami books but a lot of the violent/sexual descriptions I now find off-putting and sadly ruined the books a bit for me. I do currently love After Dark though, and Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is very interesting and lacks overly explicit content (mostly). I did find a few parts confusing but I can reccomend. 1Q84 is absolutely masterful in my opinion, however, again there are some parts that I currently find too off putting to read it again.

I also used to really love this book called Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. However, now I find some of the explicit content a bit off putting. He also wrote a book called Anathem that I found confusing when I read it, but I'm thinking I might attempt it again.

A more "wholesome" read I've recently found is The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Higashino. Beautiful little book! A bit short though.

Another book I recently read and very much enjoyed was Piranesi by Clarke. I do wish it was longer though, and had a hit more character development.

I cant seem to find a match to Ghostwritten and Bone Clocks. I think they will forever be my favourites. Just beautiful beautiful books.

And thank you for sharing your book list with me. I love books that describe England and Japan. Take care!

I use Goodreads/StoryGraph primarily and set a number of books goal there.

Last year I joined a Facebook group and the host provides 30 prompts and a monthly bonus prompt. I have enjoyed that challenge because most of the prompts are pretty basic and typically don’t require too much research to find a book that fits.

Thank you so much for the detailed comment. I'm definitely interesting in reading it but I often struggle to step out of my comfort zone for books, as I have this funny rule of needing to finish a book once I start (even if I've lost interest). Hopefully I will muster the courage to try it out!

Writing important words down on paper can also help you to remember them. You will have a journal of important words that you can look at for definition and learn to use in conversation. And writing them actually helps your brain remember the word. Just try not to overwhelm yourself. That makes reading no fun 😊

pick a topic you are interested in and then read books set in or around that period, I'm fascinated by pre revolutionary russia and so Iread 19th century realist works like anna karenina and war a peace and they blew my mind

I always participate in the Goodreads challenge. My goal is 48 this year.

um...lolita...

Lolita. Every five pages it made me so angry because the POV character is such a horrible manipulator that I had to put it down and do breathing exercises. But it's such a masterful example of an unreliable narrator and the prose is so beautiful that I couldn't help but finish it.

It's probably the best book I've ever read and will never read again due to the animal rage it elicits within me.

It's vocabulary(I am a non-english speaker)

And, I’m sorry, I can never make spoiler tags work on mobile, but

At the end they peacefully coparent?! You allow an abuser to be unsupervised with his daughter??? That ends NOTHING. He will just abuse you as his ex-wife, but with the added leverage of custody fights. It gives him a new way to control and torment. He will continue to abuse women from his place of prestige and privilege, and will likely abuse his daughter too.

Seriously f that book.

For the reason you meant: Freakonomics. It really opens your mind to a few things that people still debate over. For the reason you don’t mean: cant hurt me by david goggins. I have never read such hilariously awful shit in all my life. It’s weirdly frequently suggested and it baffles me.

What kind of nonfiction do you like?

Try to find something similar to that in fiction.

Like science? Try science fiction.

Like history? Historical fiction.

Memoirs about crazy lives, full of drama? Maybe an epic classic like Crime and Punishment or Les Mis.

"I'm an omnivore."

If you ever want to make it worse, say it aloud. He's not joking. One of the most playful and enjoyable bits of prose ever written, followed so closely by a half-riddle with the disgusting answer of "She's 13 and I am 36."

That's exactly what it is. The fact that Ryle is just forgiven and there are no consequences and he gets to be a part of both Lily and their daughters life just sucked. The sister said that he had been going to therapy to manage his anger issues since he was a child. Meaning he'd probably been in therapy for around 2 decades... And he's still this bad?? The therapy ain't working, sweetheart

Right. The book still wasn't good.

The fact that this book is based on her parents relationship and CoHo has a somewhat firsthand experience of abuse should mean that she knows how sensitive this topic is. Yet, she still decided to use the abuse as a plot twist and failed to give content warnings about the graphic assault scenes in this book.

That's irresponsible, harmful, dangerous, insensitive, careless, etc. This is what pissed me off about the book the most

I couldn't even finish it! I DNF'd it a few chapters in. I haven't had much luck with her books (even the ones I did manage to finish).

I read a lot of historical non-fiction, and find classics work well for me. I struggle with a lot of modern fiction (I do like the occasional horror though)

My parents had The Gulag Archipelago, by Alzexander Solzhenitsyn, on the shelf. At sixteen I pulled it down and read it through, both volumes, cover to cover.

My parents were worried that it would send me into a depressive spiral. This was probably a valid concern, but for some reason it didn't. Instead, I felt saddened, but also in a strange way uplifted. Like I'd borne witness to something that more people should know about and remember.

So nowadays I feel like everyone should read at least one book in their life, that calls them to bear witness to man's capacity for inhumanity.

Nothing so far. I have PTSD from violent happenings in my childhood so I don't react the way normal people do. I tend to like when the difficult is done well. Makes it feel like I'm less alone.

If it's difficult just to be difficult it turns me off. Stop caring and stop reading.

So Americans weren’t disturbed by the nationalism in War and Peace before this war, they were just bothered by that one throwaway racist comment?

Wow, people are shallow.

(War and Peace is one of my favorite books even though I disagree with Tolstoy about practically everything. There hasn’t been a book written in any language without beliefs I find disturbing, so I’m just used to it, and writing my own.)

Probably The Discomfort Of Evening, for kind of a silly reason: I’m really squeamish about bodily fluids of all kinds, and this book really likes bodily fluids and also things that look, feel or taste like bodily fluids