Big fan of BoC!! Would love to know if you have any other novels you recommend in RR that you enjoy and are not well known?

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Yes, it’s definitely a book hangover. I usually get one after an emotionally wrenching book. You finish it, stare off into space, think about the characters, think about how, in my case, fictional characters could impact me so profoundly. I usually take a day or two off from reading just to process my emotions from the book, then I’ll read an old favourite to put me back in the mindset for a new book!

Normal. When reading it goes to short term memory. If you're not using or reviewing it, it's not going to go to long term memory.

That’s definitely a must for a book lover! The building is so impressive and the manuscript selection in the free museum room is incredible!

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I love it! I’m going to make a lil list of candidates for myself 💚

no you should be able to recall every single word you've ever read for your entire life

The Three Body Problem, for the love of god- read it

Piggy backing off of that question, any tips on writing the actual start of a novel? Your prologue was wonderful, and it seems to be one of the most difficult areas for a novice writer to pin down.

It is actually extremely abnormal to remember everything you've read.

I have not. Thank you for the recommendation.

Definitely this! Should be noted that many are recent releases and exclusives alongside the more expensive, older editions.

Oooh that's a hard one because it's so different for all readers! I always bounce between books I can easily consume and practically have memorized, so for me those would be Memoirs of a Geisha, Jurassic Park, or Interview with the Vampire. And depending on how viciously I need to come out of a deeper book, I'll reread an entire series from my younger days like Animorphs or hunger games 😂

> Royal road without Patreon/KU is not paying the bills of full time authors.

Does Royal Road pay authors, at all? I was under the impression that it's like love in the '60s.

Yes the limitations of memory are normal. There is variability depending on the person and how interested you were in the book.

Have you read the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson?

It's different, but I remember it feeling like it was in the same oddball satirical ballpark.

I just read The Maid by Nita Prose and for some reason Molly's mannerisms and description just put Ana de Armas in my mind's eye.

I just sent you the WorldCat link, since that is my source. ^^

I felt that way after I finished Game Of Thrones, and also the Otherland series by Tad Williams.

After you get sucked into thousands of pages of immersive storyline, it's hard when it's over :(

Wow, thanks. Gonna have to look into these myself. I agree that it's a really niche field. Hence why I'm very worried about pitching anything like that. I do have a more traditional fantasy in the works so worst case scenario I can use that and come back to the superhero stuff with more clout.

One thing you can do is grab a light-hearted, easy series and just read the next book every time you need a pallet cleanser.

I do something similar where I'll always have a big history tome "in progress" so that I can flip over to that and read that for a couple days after I finish a good fiction book, to "cleanse the palate" before I start a new fiction book.

All the time.

I always have a bit of a "come down" like "OMG that book was SO SO good, how am I ever going to read anything better!?", and it can sometimes cause me to spin my wheels for an hour or a day when trying to choose the next book I want to read, because I over-analyze the stuff on my "want to read" list to find something that's going to be equally amazing and not feel like a relative let-down lol.

Yeah, Chunky, with the best connection to Tianlan outside of Jin, would be my pick for next strongest after Big D.