I emailed The Reading Club app developers because I wanted to verify my comment above, and they gave me a lot of info. They confirmed it's currently 5 cents/month on Android for people in Ukraine (your phone knows were you are, apparently), and the Apple App store offers people in Ukraine a promo code ("READFREE") to have unlimited access for 1 year for free. (Most other places it's 50 cents to 99 cents per month).

I'm told that they intend to create similar free / nearly free opportunities for any location where school is disrupted by widespread violence/war/conflict (such as Afghanistan, Tigray, parts of Myanmar, etc.). If you know a place that ought to have that benefit, email them: contact@thereadingclubapp.com.

One shortcoming for use in conflict-affected contexts is that the app currently needs Internet to function properly (and Internet is often unreliable in these settings) but the development team says this will soon be changed such that the app will be able to operate just fine when wifi is unavailable (their reading library will download when the app installs).

Yeah! My mom and I are both speed readers (like I finished War and Peace in three days) and people always ask if I actually read the book or just skimmed through it. I did read it, I just read really fast.

You missed the part how I said it doesn’t matter how you consumed it it seems because you came in very hot with arguing my point that you agree with. It doesn’t matter how you consumed the story just that you did.

Words matter otherwise we would be watching movies instead of reading or listening to stories. Its the difference between he landed safely and he fell safely. Shouting vs bellowing, laughing vs giggling vs chortling.

That is LITERALLY what reading means… LITERALLY.

This is probably an evil opinion, but I don't mind spoilers...I actually like them so much I beg for them from the people that recommended the book to me, especially if it's a series and I get scared for the characters. When I read LOTR at seven, I begged my older cousin to tell me if Gandalf came back or not. My anxiety for him was just too bad, lol.

Lovecraft was considered racist by the people of his time.

I'm a teenager, and it's a odd mix of the two for me. Sometimes, I can't hear when I read, and sometimes I can. It really depends on how good the book if for me,

The right to "head canon". I know what the text says, but the story happened differently in my head.

In what way was he more racist? Like, was he a KKK member during its New England revival in the 1920's?

I'd honestly be interested to hear. I wonder if it's more that his racist views are more accessible to us than the idle thoughts of a random New Englander.

It's a favorite of mine, too, but I struggle to describe to people why it's so special. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

This an excellent synopsis of how I have always interpreted the themes of the book. Spot on.

That was heartbreaking. Thank you for the link though.

Yeah i do a re read of both every year.

Right =/= Above ridicule

Harry didn't defeat Voldemort. Voldemort killed Harry and his horcrux in the forest. Neville rose up killing Nagini and ran Voldemort through with the sword of Gryffindor in the great hall. That's what happened and you can't convince me otherwise, no matter what the text says.

Next, a wizard of eathsea

The only book that can follow this masterclass work.

That’s what she said.

i use masking tape to cover the ads and i draw a picture on it instead :)

such a beautiful and emotional book. it gives me a feeling that no other book has. I'm glad you got to experience it!

Yeah, dude. It’s like saying any music artist who ever used sampling is a plagiarist. Back then, it was different. You were basically flexing if you knew about this obscure Etruscan myth and were adding the translation or references into your poem.

I like the larger ones.

I foolishly tried to use It as a way to break a dry spell. Made it about halfway through before giving up on it. One one hand, halfway through It is as long or longer than your average book, so I didn't feel too bad about it. On the other...not did not work to get me out of my slump, it just burnt me out again

This was one of my favorite’s when I was little. Another fantastic one with a creepy art style is The Book That Jack Wrote, although I’ve never heard anyone outside of my immediate family talk about it.

Did you even read the book?

I'm listening to the Prancing Pony podast; they mention the alliteration in LOTR, and how you may not pick up on that if you don't read it out loud.