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You can only visit so many alien planets and derelict ships before you run out of material.

Okay, thank you so much!

Struggling readers at 1st are often lacking in both sight words and confidence. Find easy books where he can read some parts, like Piggie and Gerald books. Read the same book over and over so he can memorize it. Quickly help him out with any word over 4 letters. School generally does a good job teaching the phonics and spelling, but schools typically can't provide students with enough time spent actually reading and learning sight words. As a result many kids in K-2 struggle with words that don't "follow the rules".

Thanks for the tip! I try to read for her, but she's just too agitated! I start to read and she just go away, screaming at the cats or something. She don't focus at me, reading and if I try to read with her in my arms, she just want to go to the ground.

100% agree about not forcing, but you can gently encourage and expose kids to a wide variety of books to see what motivates them. Sounds like this is what you guys did and I'm glad it works out. I think we book lovers sometimes forget that we don't actually love ALL books, on the contrary its really specific authors and genres that are responsible for our motivation. It can be very difficult for kids to find the joy of reading when they are limited to graded readers and other phony school books.

Colleen Hoover. I'm sorry, had to be said.

You do that, not someone else. You literally can count the amount of times a publication was cited and then check for what type of citation. You can literally count the amount of articles published by an author and the citations of each work, etc. there is no way to just “find the one person who already knows all this”

Sure there are plenty of people who have done it, but you can’t “vet” them unless they are also making peer reviewed publications, so you’ve gotta do it yourself anyway as if they are publishing, you’ll get to there content by doing the above anyway.

I read on my break at work (31 mins) all the time. Works like a charm when it comes to books.

I wonder if the Tor writer has made the aquaintance of Cordwainer Smith (pen name of Paul Linebarger.) His short story "A Planet Named Shayol" is one of the most gruesomely horrific stories I've ever read.

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Actually, many journals are publications by experts in their field on specific topics and not always a report on “findings” but a “state of the ‘topic/theme/industry’ as they see it with supporting sources.” While other journals are filled with reviews of such material.

Basically, you just gotta start digging in to specific topics on the peer reviewed databases and you’ll soon see they are easier to read than you’d expect, and come with the bonus of citations to supportive works you can then go dig into. Making it actually even easier to research a topic once you get started!

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Totally agree with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Blake Crouch is the one for me. Incredibly interesting plots, not good writing.

And now that I've read some of the other comments, let's throw in Stephen King, James Patterson, or basically any author that pushes out a book a year.

I’d be fairly cautious about using popular reception as a metric in this case, books which appear to be a breezy, comprehensive take on a given subject(“Guns, Germs and Steel”,”Sapiens”,”Zealot” and the like) tend to be very well received popularly but largely derided by subject matter experts. I would generally recommend either an academic in the field you’re interested in who also writes popular texts(a Bart Ehrman or Irving Finkle for example) or else just find an online community of scholars in the field you’re interested in and ask what their recommendations for a layperson delving into the field is.

Sorry I don’t have any more specific recs for you, nutritional science isn’t really one of my areas of interest.

Yes.

The peach-coloured cover is so hideous. It looks like clip-art, and so you'd expect a poor quality book. Fortunately my local library has the multicoloured version instead.

I mean I'm an English major and I wouldn't have been able to understand and appreciate Dante's Divine Trilogy if it weren't for brief explanations of what I just read. So this is a great point !

I enjoyed his legal thrillers when I was younger but my favorite book is A Painted House. It's the only JG book I've read multiple times. It's a great piece of southern literature.

That’s the dumbest take. Being at goodwill is not an indicator of quality

what popular science book did you get your definition of "conservative" from? i'll be extra sure not to read that one

None. Why would I judge someone over who they read? It’s their business. And those downvotes prove just what absolute snobs readers can be.

Delightful. What's a flanchion?

>Is there a book/author that you see on recommendations (be it on TikTok, Reddit, Goodreads, etc) which immediately makes you want to skip the entire list?

No. There is nobody in the world whose taste in books matches up with mine 100%, so any list of sufficient length is bound to have some stinkers. As long as the genre/topic interests me, there are likely to be some winners too.

I thought it couldn’t get worse than the first thing you said but here we are. If you haven’t noticed we‘re on r/books if I‘d looked for responses like yours I‘d have posted on r/conservative