You pick another book to read. I find that the most useful way to do this is to take a hard swerve. Last year, I read Greg Egan's Diaspora, which is a super-heady, diamond-hard sci-fi novel that blew my brain apart. I followed it up with W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, which is pretty much the polar opposite kind of book. I'm not trying to chase the same high, I'm just trying to feel something new.

One weird thing was that I can’t quite figure out how old the >!murderous!< Italian boy is supposed to be. He’s unambiguously called “boy” but he’s described almost physically like an adult.

I imagine Commander Vimes as Hugh Laurie

Unfortunately, Persephone Books had to move, but there is still a big selection of their books in Waterstones at Piccadilly Circus. This Waterstones is the biggest bookstore in Europe, it got 6 levels and a nice cafe. Foyles is also massive and right around the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue. For all kinds of LGBTQ+ books, I heartily recommend Gay’s the Word at Russel Square. They have a wonderful selection, great atmosphere, and they have a lot of signed books and special events with authors. Last but not least, for Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Comics, Forbidden Planet at Shaftesbury Avenue is another great store with lots of good deals and many signed books as well. Have fun in London!

When I read the Stormligth Archive books I always picture Sadie Sink as Shallan Davar

Ok but Of Human Bondage, at least they have good taste.

I didn’t say he was a “sleazy abuser,” though. I said the story as a whole was “borderline yikes.”

And the reasons Kilmeny was kept sheltered/innocent are disturbing and not at all admirable. The major family theory for her inability to speak and be in the world is >!that she had to suffer for the sin of her mother being stubborn and refusing to forgive someone!<

Hi, I've been looking for the book "The clever princess" by Diana Coles for a while now, and it doesn't seem to exist anywhere on the internet, in any form, to buy physical or download in digital. It only seems to exist in a number of UK libraries, but I don't live near the UK so that doesn't really help. Here's the book's info according to google books.

Title: The clever princess

Author: Diana Coles

Illustrated by: Ros Asquith

Publisher: Sheba Feminist, 1983

Pages: 60

ISBN: 0907179207

It was adapted into the Japanese animated movie "Princess Arete" by Studio 4c in 2001.

Can anyone help me get or at least read this book in any form?

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I live in Greece if that information helps any.

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I just read that article but it’s a bit baffling what they consider to be shared plot points and similar phrasing.

Eg “Jeremiah and Matthew are both plain and practical-minded.” Those aren’t even Matthew’s defining character traits!! Kindness and shyness are! He’s the one who does encourage Anne in her romance and impracticality.

London Review Bookshop. This was one the best bookstores I've ever seen. A nice and tiny cafe is also attached. Very nice selection.

I’m Canadian too and am also going to London for a few days next month! Will be my second time and I am also looking for more bookshops to visit.

I have been once before a few months ago and visited Hatchard’s on Oxford St. It was incredible! You should go there if in the neighbourhood.

On our list for our trip next month we are going to visit Word on the Water Book Barge (literally a bookshop floating on a barge) and Daunt Books Marylebone.

Vin from Mistborn is Felicity Jones with dyed black hair.

Elend is John Kransinski in a white imperial officers uniform.

The most strongly I've felt this was when I read Anne of Green Gables in like three days as a kid.

It does! That's probably what I was thinking, too. He plays "grizzled" so well now it's easy to forget he was such a pretty-boy.

Skoob for second hand books in Bloomsbury https://skoob.com/ And Judd books https://juddbooks.com/wp/ Always an interesting stock of remainders and end of run And if you're interested https://www.gaystheword.co.uk/ For an excellent specialist collection.

Omg this is such a thing! My most recent experience with thus was when I finished up a novel called Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. It literally felt like I had been cut off from a group of friends and I was SAD! As others have said, one if the few negatives that I experience as a reader.

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It used to be wonderful but I visited it in May 22 and it was a sad shadow of its former self. Better cookbooks in any charity shop

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I loved this book too. Angela Thirkell's novels helped me get past the hangover of finishing it.

I echo lots of the recs in this thread already. Here are a few not listed yet :

South Kensington Books - I have a huge sweet spot for this one. It's lovely and extremely close to the museums (V&A, Natural History)

Art words Bookshop in Hackney is very fun and design-y. The Broadway Bookshop is only a few doors down from here.

Near the London bridge, the Riverside Bookshop is a nice stop as well.

@ all the people ROYALLY missing the point: she isn't even saying it aged up badly from its publication, she's literally saying it's aged disgracefully from when she read it AS A CHILD. She has a completely different memory of the book from her childhood! And now, with added wisdom, she's not liking the book anymore and she's marveling at how as a child she didn't even notice most of the weird things in it. Happens all the time. Some of my favorite kids books turned out to be absolutely trash quality lmao.

The author of my favourite book series that had been my favourite for three decades died a while back. When I finished the last book I cried for quite a long time. It was genuine grief, like a friend had died.