I haven’t read it or any Colleen Hoover book (and I’m not going to) but for movie/TV deals a good storyline is much more important than good writing. Screenplays are very different from literature anyways, so they can just re-write stuff like shitty dialogue haha.

William Somerset Maugham is very readable. Clear and lucid writing that’s still complex and poetic.

Favorite line from the book:

The magic lifted her gently as though she were a note of music and it were singing her.

I watched the movie with my grandma when I was like 4 and I still remember it vividly over 30 years later. Read the book last year so amazing.

Hey, if someone's offed you in the last several hours you've already done it!

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I love audiobooks but I can’t get into ebooks. I have started like 20 ebooks on my app (Storytel) but I haven’t made it past 20 pages. My city library is wonderful though so I don’t mind, I just use the app for audiobooks and get physical books from the library. I’m in front of a screen so much anyways.

I do know e-readers are supposedly much better than the apps, but I don’t want a Kindle and if I get a Storytel reader I’ll never have any use for it if I change apps at some point. I already had to downgrade from limitless to 100 hours per month cause they hiked up the prices so much (Storytel unlimited in my country is 22€ per month. Why are book apps so much more expensive than streaming? Netflix is 8€, Spotify Premium like 10€.)

Nah, you’re not alone. I’m not a fan of ebooks at all.

I love audiobook for reading non-fiction books, especially if they are read by the author. But I find it extremely hard to read audiobooks for any sort of fiction. Those ones doesn’t seem as compatible with my brain

I have thought about that before but buying a kindle is way more expensive and inconvenient in my situation. Though is is not popular in my area so there are not many good kindle eBooks in my language, and the price of a kindle is not affordable to my pocket - money

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Tenant of Windfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

My favorite King book is “It” so I guess I disagree, but if you like his shorter work I do highly recommend “The Long Walk.”

I thoroughly enjoyed Bunny. Do you have a favorite between Bunny and Alls Well? I’m not sure which one I like best 🤔

1. This is definitely a novel with unlikable characters! Which I love! I think my favorite character might be Ellie, because I enjoyed what she represented.

2. I noticed a lot of Macbeth for sure. My favorite characters in Macbeth are the three witches and I instantly recognized their counterparts in Alls Well.

3. I think Grace probably learned the most. I for sure think Miranda is going to backslide after a while. However, I think the experience was overall positive for Grace.

4. I see this book as a tragedy. In shakespeare’s plays, a tragedy usually ends with the death of the MC. I think you could say that Miranda died at the end of the book. You could say that she is experiencing limbo or the afterlife at the end. However, I think she went through a metaphorical death. I am not sure if she is going to have a happily ever after. I think the three men will eventually get their refund.

5. This book NEEDS to be made into a movie like The Black Swan. I was definitely feeling Black Swan vibes. If you like this book, you should try Bunny by Mona Awad, but also Ninth House (Leigh Bardugo), Middlegame (Seanan McGuire), and Eileen (Otessa Moshfegh)

Yes, exactly! So much of what is described in the book just doesn’t make sense for it to have actually occurred. If I were to say any of the murders actually took place, I would say that I could give him the murder of the homeless man in the beginning as I think the logistics work and it’s detailed enough. I truly believe Patrick is just experimenting with these ideas in his mind or is straight up having delusions of legitimately committing these acts. The fact of the book itself being a satire in other areas, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of it was just Ellis pushing with what he could get the reader to believe Patrick could do or get away with.

Apps to read ebooks are not comparable with a e-reader ( kindle etc.. ). For sure not everyone’s cup of tea, but in my case I started to read more often while traveling. Having a library on you backpack is great. You can get books much cheaper if not for free. Saving favorite quotes and search are also great features.

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I agree! The way that Ellis blurs the lines between Patrick’s delusions and reality makes it really hard to tell what’s real and what’s not. I know I often had a hard time telling and would turn to other people who had already read the book to see what they thought. I see a lot of different people interpreting the book a lot of different ways and this is just what I came out with.

I felt the same way as you so I proceeded to take a very long break from the genre and it seems to have helped.

I mean, unless it's some precious, out of print book that can only be found for thousands of dollars, why not?

Where's the risk? I fuck up a $10 book while experimenting with art? Either way, I've learned something and probably had a good time.

My friend used to color in the pages of the manga she bought. The books weren't worth anything and she enjoyed doing it.

It finishes strong.

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J. Alfred Prufrock for the win.

My uncle wrote it. Dads big brother. Have t seen him in years.

I think thrillers have become more stereotyped. Yes, I couldn't finish Sharp Objects. John Sanford is still good though. I also like John Hart's Gothic thrillers.

I refuse to set a goal that puts pressure on me. I only set a #of books goal because both of the apps I've used to log my books have them and it makes it easier to see the books I read broken down by year, but I ignore that goal.

To avoid buying books that I later decide not to read, I use the library. I learned a long time ago that the pleasure or excitement of finding and buying books has nothing to do with my reading hobby.

Why do you want to read more? What do you hope to get out of reading books? Once you can answer those questions, you may be able to choose a book that you want to read.

Most of my reading goals are about my purpose for reading. Last year I wanted to explore new genres, so I set goals to accomplish that purpose. This year I want to explore new cultures so I'm choosing books written by authors from a variety of countries.