Haaa. Thank you . 🥺🥺🥺

Oh thank you. I would request there.

For reasons of verification, this sort of request is best made through the Goodreads Librarians Group here.

I added that to the Goodreads book page you linked to. The edit should show up within ~15mins. : )

I'd say just be respectful and don't come off as a lunatic. If they ignore you then leave it at that. If they're successful at all I'm sure they've had plenty of people tell them what their work means. I'm sure they're grateful, but I doubt they respond to everybody.

My favorite author is Cormac McCarthy... I'm pretty sure he would tell me to get fucked if met him and told him what his literature means to me, haha.

I'm confused. What exactly do you think is happening? You think your grandma won't be able to go to the library any more?

The law passed last year only applies to school libraries. Rest assured, librarians at the St. Louis Public Library could still give Hustler to five year olds and not be in violation of this particular law.

There are 510 pages.

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I know it doesn't matter and just a number but it kinda motivate me to read more pages. 😅

Yes.

I contacted Lev Grossman shortly after The Magician King came out, and he was really nice with me - and encouraging too, when I told him I've wanted to write for a long time too.

Don't worry about it. It doesn't matter. Just read the book/s.

How many pages are there?

Send it to their publishers, who will forward it on if the author enjoys interacting with fans or send you a nice note of appreciation and a signed photo (if you're lucky) if the author doesn't want to be bothered or is too old to care.

Have you read the one where a wife bludgeons her husband to death with a leg of lamb and feeds the lamb to the policemen?

Murica ain't readin no books anyways

I liked it, and it is very much of a time and place, the 20s and eastern coast of the USA but I am not sure I would call it the pinpoint of american values and ideals. It is kind of vague social mobility right? Is it more a pinpoint of american values than say To Kill a Mockingbird or Catch 22or even Huckleberry Finn (I liked these much better...). Or Grapes of Wrath? (it is very earnest, very committed, and not enjoyable but it is certainly strong and fluent and a really great portrayal of America as a society in turmoil...)

If The eyes of the Dragon is first then you just write which page you are on. If it’s second then see which page it starts on and always write in Goodreads pageYouAreCurrentlyOn - pageDragonStartsOn

And Pulp Fiction! 1994 was a good year for going to the movies!

Gump & Co? Read it many years ago. The actual story itself seemed a bit subdued compared to the original. However, I'll immediately recommend it for the way novel Forrest refers to the Forrest Gump movie infiltrating and messing up his life, even meeting Tom Hanks at one point. Wonderful approach by Groom that I never would have expected.

You might also want to check out The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Only read the first one (there's a sequel), but it's possibly even more satisfying than Forrest Gump. Lots of fun.

Yeah that song ended pretty tragic 😂

> replace them into privately-owned and market-driven products.

This is an awful idea that completely defeats the purpose of a public library. Libraries exist to provide access to books and other forms of knowledge for people who otherwise might not have that access. By taking that away, you also take away what is historically an important means of social mobility for many people who are underprivileged.

My reading list was getting wildly out of hand, so I have to curate fairly aggressively. These days it's a running list of about 100 books and each new year I choose 25 books from it which keeps me going until the next year.

Yeah I think you misread the book….the whole point is that we imagine we have so much social mobility in the US but it’s not really true, it’s an illusion. Gatsby will never be truly accepted by the upper class.

No. I have vaguely kind of yearly TBRs, books I mean to read (or try) that year, but if I do not, it's fine. I got a release calendar and some books are insta-reads (but if it is not that is also fine).

I got a truly very large TBR and of books I mean to try, and that was a bit angst provoking (the DUTY of reading TBR books! It felt like slacking off if I did not) but honestly I got over it. I just can not read, or enjoy reading, books on schedule, so I try to be analytical about my exact mood (no depressing books if I am stressed...), alternating genres, if I "indulge" in just published new books (which somehow seem always more attractive) then I should give also a try to old TBRs (which somehow often are great).

I just try to pay attention to my mood, and changing genres, and themes, and lengths and all. I quit books at will and sometimes I sample paragraphs from 5, 10 books before I decide to start one. I am fine with this, it is what works for me.