Ah, hope it works now.

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I never got the hype around it. I didn’t HATE it but I was underwhelmed. I think it’s just one of those things that depends on the context - ie how old you were when you read it, what’s happening in your life at that time etc.

No worries. You almost got it. You need to remove spaces around ! and remove the ** it is messing up the formatting.

I am yet to read it. But Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are two of my favourites. So I do need to get around to it.

Wow, ngl your response to /u/charliesmahm is weirdly aggressive considering their original comment was pretty damn benign. The way you go on an immediate unprovoked attack against a random user calling them a "coward", "moronic", and accusing them of "repeating nonsense" is suspicious as hell, tbh. Are you the author in question or something?

Oh, sorry, I didn’t know that formatting!

Frankenstein in Baghdad! Some of the dialogue bits being in iraqi Arabic was actually one of my favourite things about this novel.

There’s something about the scene to scene writing that I actually enjoy. I cant put my finger on it but i thoroughly enjoyed the whole first sequence with the car accident leading up to the contract meeting. It was brisk and engaging

I think in terms of overall narrative I do have issues though

Don’t worry the Goosebumps is the boxed set

Haha fair enough!

Counterpoint: As my mom once told me when I dropped the good china, "sometimes you have to mean not to."

Good writing≠ Hoover 🤫

Bookly is great for this, we also have a huge discord community of readers, we do fun readathons, and so much more just to help you form a reading habit

I wasn’t disagreeing so much as reinforcing with more accurate information.

People like to shit on Walmart.

While a lot of the points are technically correct, the whole point is to bring lower prices to the consumer.

Walmart simply cannot correct many of their issues without raising prices, because they already have a very low profit margin. It would quickly flip from making money from volume to losing billions.

Thank you so much for this information! Unlike Charlotte, I quite liked The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

I did the same thing as a kid, except I didn’t have a secret light so I’d just sit in front of the door and use the light coming from the kitchen and through the bottom crack…no wonder my vision is terrible now. Well my mom caught me doing it and just let me stay up to read

This is it, you have to cultivate a good relationship with reading. A relationship that is ruined by school for so many.

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Book budgets differ depending on their projected return & editor. 10k or a million, point is you’re not paying for that book.

I know publishers don’t create books but they pay the authors, editors, artists, production, marketing and distribution. If an online global archive can just make copies and give them away that affects the whole industry right down to the author.

It doesn’t matter if it’s an ebook (which these copies weren’t), at the end of the day they were giving out free copies of peoples work.

The IA is neither a physical building or an online library. Libraries share copies they have purchased or were given or can use freely (public domain) , they don’t make extra copies from an original and share them.

Hi everyone,
I started reading Little Women a while ago and quite enjoyed it but then I arrived at the part where >!Beth falls ill and it's heavily hinted that she'll die soon!<.
For personal reasons I cannot bring myself to continue reading about her decline. But I would so very much like to finish the rest of Little Women.
So I would be much obliged if anyone could tell me how far to skip ahead to >!move beyond her death!<. I think I can deal with >!the grieving family.!< A percentage, a page, a chapter number, anything would be appreciated. (I'm hoping it's not 99%.)
Thanks in advance!

FANFICTION!!! FANFICTION is the key. ( If you don't like reading w I suppose you like watching movies instead?)0 So when you get attached to a character or an actor, use that motivation to ' gossip ' about them to read fanfics about them. And boom you'll be under " binge reading spell '' in no time. Welcome to the club. ( Now you will never be able to stop reading waaahhaahahahahaha 😈🔥)

I read this book just after completing a long journey and just before I was setting out on the next stage of that. It was perfect timing for me. Perhaps others read it at a more closed off time of their life. Happy songs sound grating and effete when you’re hunkered down inside yourself. People could call Tao te Ching childish or simplistic. It’s less about the book and more about the reader. It’s always been this way

Anne was dead which is why Charlotte had control over the rights. and it's not that charlotte fought against the book for fifty years as she died a few years after Anne but just that the book was essentially lost because of her.

Wow, I had no idea! Was Anne still living/aware that Charlotte was doing this? Pretty bitchy move Charlotte.