It is natural, but it isn't going to make anyone read the thing you are talking about. There's a few niche books I like to recommend but I rarely if ever preface them with 'these are so much better than XYZ popular book, which is garbage', even if I do think that.

I think most books explain the in-world reason why the magic or the powers aren’t on display. In any case if it bothers you, you can read different books, different genres …

Thank you!

I never thought of it that way. I’ll give that a try. Thank you.

You could even throw caution to the wind and not count at all!

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• Just pick up books that you are excited about.

• go look up books in your favourite genre.

• if you’re not yet super confident in reading English books try some YA.

I’m Dutch but read about 70 percent of my books in English. I prefer the original language when reading (if I speak that language off course). In the Netherlands Dutch books tend to be more expensive when bought new. So I hardly ever buy a Dutch book brand new. I either get them from secondhand bookstores or from the library. We have good accessibility to foreign books. So usually that’s where my money goes to.

Even books that are neither originally Dutch or English I will often get in English because of price and sometimes quality of the translation (bigger market so usually better translations - although not guaranteed).

Myself, I try to read at least 2 chapters a day. In the book I'm currently reading, chapters are about 10 pages, so I'm usually reading 4 or 5 a day. I think a number of chapters makes more sense than a number of pages, but chapter length can vary quite a lot, so I think it would help to be flexible with your goal. Be willing to change it on a book to book basis.

In my opinion - it's better to set a low goal - one that is attainable. No point beating yourself up for failing to meet unattainable goals you've set for yourself. Set a realistic goal, and if you read more than that on some days, great.

I think that it's better to have a consistent minimum than a consistent maximum. This is because our time and energy levels aren't consistent.

Pick the smaller number for your "consistent" number. Something attainable, even on the bad days. Go for 25, if that feels good to you. However, if you feel like exceeding that, this is perfectly fine as well.

Consistent minimums are perfectly fine to encourage you to continue to read. I don't recommend consistent maximums, however. If you feel like reading more, then let it happen.

If you make it into a chore by having to stick to a page count, then you might make it less enjoyable. Just my $0.02 though.

But don’t you sometimes want to hate on stuff that is getting popular if you feel like there are thousands of better books? I read part of one Hoover just bc soooo many people recommended it. I am not snobby about books, but anyone who recommended this to me kind won’t be taken seriously for a while.

Yes. Or another amount. You can even vary it day by day.

Along with all the advice everyone else is giving, if you simply don’t enjoy reading, that’s okay too. You could watch documentaries, or listen to podcasts or audiobooks to expand your knowledge.

If you don’t like it don’t do it 🤷‍♂️

To answer your last question first, most boilerplate of this has been updated to include something along the lines of "entirely coincidental or used in a fictitious manner" to indicate that yeah, there may be some reality slipping through, but it's not implying this is really something they would do. It's all basically butt-covering to keep someone from suing for defamation, because you're clearly saying that this isn't what they would/have actually done.

Award/prize stickers, adaptation advertisements (and tie-in covers!), book clubs, etc. all annoy me, too! I honestly go out of my way, even if it means paying more, to find copies without those stickers printed on the cover.

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I thought that book was utter trash.

Especially one with… gratuitous rape scenes?

Who the fuck is this woman and why is she not in a psychiatric facility?

(As an afterthought, would anyone really expect better from someone who wrote a 'time-travel historical romance'?)

The intent is what mattered in the comment, and he could still take that and correct it with the exact wording. The dude and his comment are still pretty great.

I think you're going to love The Other Wind. Do read Tales of Earthsea first, it's great and introduces some important themes, but this is how I felt about the first 4 books and The Other Wind just blew me away. I really hope it's the same for you!

I love David Mitchell. The little interconnections between the books are such small things that make such a difference to me, and that can make re-reads so gratifying.

I recently re-read Black Swan Green which I think is one of the most underrated and least talked about coming of age novels, and it held up so well.

On the back of this post i think I might re-read Ghostwritten along with you.

Publication order. Ghostwritten, N9D, CA, BSG, JdZ, BoneClocks, Slade House. I had just finished UA, so I didn't re-read that one.