I love this post, thank you for sharing. I work to extricate myself from the root causes of suffering. If you are motivated out of fear and you're caught in suffering, the way you act toward others conveys that fear apart from what you want to convey. You're transmitting your fear and your suffering. In this way, the work on one’s self is the greatest gift we can give to the world. Choosing to love through the experience of suffering gives One the greatest understandings of love. That said, I’m very happy that you have changed your mindset and that books were the method to help you achieve that change in perspective.❤️

Books are beautiful in that way, and I too find immense beauty in the soft, silent quietness of reading. Experiences no matter the method or modality when looked at from the purposeful good that it is, takes one’s breath away in the shear wonder of it all. You my friend are a beautiful unique expression, keep that truth close to you. Many blessings to you, friend. Namaste 🙏😊

It's kind of triggering when books are so mediocre, but still so popular. It reminds me how bad the reading level is ad much shit-tok helps to promote crap.

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I'm looking for a non-fiction book to review for a European history class and I'm at a loss. The time period is 1789-1870. I am hoping for something perhaps in a more narrative style. I'm interested in women's history, childbirth practices during that time, and medical scientific advances (a book on Burke and Hare would not go amiss), dog breeding during that time maybe?

The book should be trying to make some sort of argument or present some sort of idea so I can explain whether the author made their point well.

If I'm reading Classics, it's to revisit (or, more likely, actually read) something I was supposed to have read in high school or at uni but blew off (& survived the class anyway) because teenagers are real know-it-all jerks sometimes.

I will occasionally do a "Classics Catch-Up" choice, but I'm more likely to read something escapist or "easy" when I have very little time to myself. That meant a lot of YA and graphic novels at one point; more recently, it means romance & erotica. Between the YA/graphic novels phase and now, I was really into nonfic.

If I get into a slump, I read short story anthologies and essay collections.

Did you like the first book?

Well, it's not originally a book, but in the webcomic Gunnerkrigg Court, the main character loses an item in chapter 8, written in 2006.

She gets it back in chapter 60, written over 10 years later.

This sums up everything I would have said. Dont police her tropes, police her plot and structure. Bad writing isn't a squick its overused and predictable writing.

John Irving is good at this. A Prayer for Owen Meany comes to mind. When I first read Irving, he was frustrating because I wasn't sure he'd tie up loose ends. But he does wonderfully in Owen Meany (and also The World According to Garp).

Blood Rites, Dresden Files #6.

Dresden tells one of his enemies, >!And next time, anvils!!<.

We didn't see the payoff on this until Battle Ground, Dresden Files #17. >!Dresden drops an anvil on an enemy.!<

So, 16 years, 11 volumes, and 2 collections of side stories later we finally got the pay off.

As long as no one is shoving anything down anyone’s throats, it’s fine. Once that stops, they can take a long walk off a short cliff for all I care.

The excerpts I've read of her books read like Wattpad (fan)fiction. AKA mostly bad fanfiction. And at least that's free.

I also think Hoover tends to appeal more to people that just want something easy and accessible to read, mainly young people who don't read a ton or are just getting into reading, and many people who read more regularly are a bit scared of the general public either holding her up as the standard or something to aspire to, like the trend of publishing will move towards books with the same style or quality of writing.

Ah, thank you! I couldn't remember any specifics, just that fact!

Hello! I've been dealing with acne and my diet it really bad so I want to read a book about skincare and food and acne can someome please suggest me good book about that. Thank you!

Oh man I need to buy this book for my kids!

Akshually the word was "stupid".

1. Kind of difficult to have favourite characters in this one, the narrator isn't very likeable and we see everybody else through her eyes. The scene with Paul and baby Ellie and Grace was pretty intense though.

2. Some obvious lines from Macbeth. Miranda's wound and dip in the sea are tickling my brain.

3. I'd like to think Miranda learnt something. It's hard with her as an unreliable narrator to know if anybody else did or not. And if Miranda's pain is going to come back, who knows how long anybody's newfound sympathy will last.

4. Problem play for sure. In the simplest definition, nobody got married or died. But it's also hard to say whether this is a happy ending or not.

5. Not sure I know of anything else quite like this one!

I like to counter with ‘what do you get out of watching TV?’

Stephanie Meyer (Twilight) and E.L. James (50 Shades) faced similar criticisms for similar reasons, they’re broadly considered to be bad writers.

At the end of the day, read what you like. If you enjoy Hoover’s stories and can look past the bad writing, who cares what anyone else thinks?

St*nky

People hate on her because tiktokers that also write books started hating on her because none of them are even close to being as popular as she is. Yeah okay her writing isnt good but people are reading it, giving her money, and tiktokers are jealous lol. Its simple as that. You wouldnt shame anyone else for reading something that isnt your cup of tea, but with hoover its wayyy more accepted lol

I mean youre saying people are idiots for reading in this statement just because they enjoy something that you dont. This subreddit is so annoying lol

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Gonna be banned in Florida

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