Book discussion, reading habits, recommendations and the strange gap between admiring a book and enjoying it.
A broad reading community for recommendations, reactions and thoughtful disagreement. Spoilers should be signposted when a discussion depends on them.
I read an odd, beautifully written science-fiction novel and loved it, but lists of ‘best sci-fi’ mostly suggest action-heavy series that don't sound similar at all. Maybe what I enjoyed wasn't the genre label but its la...
I went through a long stretch where almost everything I read was for classes or practical information. When I picked up a novel again, I kept reading it like an assignment: underline, remember details, make progress. Wha...
Someone keeps recommending a fantasy series to me with the warning that ‘it gets amazing around book three.’ I can believe that an author improves, but two full novels are a fairly big entrance fee. I have stuck with med...
The novel I want to read is nearly 800 pages. My reading window is twenty minutes before bed, and I worry I'll forget the secondary characters between sessions. On the other hand, a long book might be exactly what makes...
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