Foyles if you want a huge shop with a wide selection. Pages of Hackney is a great independent, and Skoob for secondhand books

Gay's the Word. It was founded in 1979, has survived multiple bouts of homophobic vandalism and getting raided, and it was the meeting place for Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (featured in the 2014 film, Pride). Excellent selection.

The flagship Waterstones in Piccadilly. It is our biggest bookshop chain but worth visiting that one as it is huge

Body Surfing by Dale Peck is to Buffy as The Magicians is to Harry Potter. 144 ratings.

My Ride With Gus by Charles Carillo is short, funny, and surprisingly touching. 265 ratings.

The Names of the Dead by Stewart O'Nan. Beautifully written book about a Vietnam vet. 273 ratings.

City Lights Bookstore in London, (Ontario) ;)

You should play the Dead Space game series.

Felt this way after my 14 book The Wheel of Time series ended. Been with those characters for so long I was happy I made it through such a riveting journey, but sad I had to say goodbye....until the next time ;)

Yes!! Things that helps me are switching to a nonfiction book for a bit, or focusing on an entirely different hobby for a while until the urge to read comes back.

Word on the Water!

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb.

Nothing beats Jane Eyre in my opinion, but I did really enjoy The Tenant of Wildfell Hall!

The Claw of the Conciliator is a good one. It's got a couple main covers, but they're all pretty special. You've got your weirdly tall horses in a canyon with some huge dude in a wall overlooking them, or some apemen blinded by the light in spooky man's hand.

Hatchards is amazing, I second this

i suppose i've had something like this with a few shows and videogames

something about them being such beautiful worlds/scenarios, with intense emotion and powerful social connections

and then i instantly slam back into the world of my dumb job, stupid conversations that dont mean anything...

and it's accompanied by like a flushing of the face at times, and maybe even a lump in the throat as i process the stark contrast of meaning between the fictional world and my local one, and then i gradually process it and it eventually fades away along with my frustration and sadness

The comments are so condescending, obviously people realize these novels are a product of their time.OP said the story hasn’t aged well for THEM, this is their thoughts on something they read as a child that they look at differently now.I used to watch Grey’s anatomy when I was younger and I loved the relationship between the characters Meredith and Derek after I rewatched it last year I realized their relationship was a hot mess.People should be able to talk about how their thoughts have changed without being treated like they’re advocating for burning books.

I'm the same way. I'm not sad the book is over, but for some reason it's hard to just get into something new.

The covers are why I put off reading them for years. I thought anyone who hates colorblind people that much as to make their titles almost unreadable doesn't deserve my dollar.

No, I don't feel this way, but I guess I must have at some point in the past because I know exactly what you're describing and what it feels like. These days I mostly just feel annoyed when I finish a good book, because I know from experience that it can take me a while to select a new book and get wrapped back up into it. Lately I've been known to just start reading the same book over again, just so I don't have to think about what to read next.

Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury

Good Reads ratings: 276

this is a "re-imagining of the world of Isaac Aismov's Foundation series set after the establishment of the Second Empire" from Wikipedia, which is not recognised as canon by the estate, nor intended to be one. with that said, and a warning that the vocabulary is WAY the hell out there and requires you to either eat a dictionary or use context clues every three paragraphs, this is a fantastic read.

quick rundown of the plot: math has gotten to the point that people can use it to predict the future of populations (psychohistory), and after this was used to limit a dark age from 10,000 years down to a mere 1,000 the galaxy has entered a second empire just like the first one. surely this won't have any negative repurcussions? enter the protagonist Eron Osa, a pscholar (psychohistorian that uses data of the past to predict the future) who was sentenced for a crime he can't remember because his computer brain with the crime recorded on it has been taken from him and has basically been reduced to a toddler since he used the machine instead of his wet brain for 90% of his life. the story follows him as he learns to use his feeble human gray matter in tandem with a much less impressive computer than the old one he had as a pscholar, and piece together what the hell he did to deserve getting it taken away.

it's been a few years since i read it, but i remember being blown away by how well the universe and various worlds were described, the cultures Eron wades through on his journey. it focuses much less on the mystery of his crime than the synopsis would have you think, but the answer is eventually brought to light. most of the fun came from trying to figure out what any of the giant words meant, since i was in high school and had never heard of things like psychohistory before this book, and i still haven't had the opportunity to read Foundation ungortunately. a great standalone book all the same.

It’s “leviosA,” not “leviOsa”

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The loosening skin by Aliya Whiteley

I loved it so much! ❤ I kinda wish I could go back and read it for the first time

Reading addicts have much less of a reputation for violence and property crime in pursuit of their habit.

Good information! It's a good book but not a hundred bucks worth of recommendation :D