Bookish friends are great because you can be all "read this, it will absolutely crush your soul and tear your beating heart into a million little pieces and you will literally never recover from it" and they'll be like omg yaaaasssss
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My friend and I regularly trade books on the premise of "this is incredibly fucked up you have to read it." But I think I hold the title for recommending the most fucked up book. 😌
American Dirt by Jeannine Cummins. I can say quite confidently that it made me a better person. More empathetic. More compassionate. More willing to put myself in danger to protect those that can’t.
I notice that the posts on Bsky that typically get the most Likes are those about the Trump regime crushing our souls, tearing our hearts into pieces and warning that we will never recover from it.
Everyone needs a book buddy. Mine is a high school friend from 50 years ago. Sending each other boxes of books we’ve read is like opening a present Christmas morning. Priceless!
to which one indeed… the bluest eye or beloved by Toni Morrison, kindred by Octavia Butler, Sharon and my mother-in-law by Suad Amiry, another country by James Baldwin…?
I honestly haven't read it and as someone who suffers moderate-to-severe depression I probably won't. I want to, and if I ever get my mental health under control I might, but I can be dangerous to myself.
It’s brutal at times.
So maybe,
An escapist SciFi novel would be better!
I love the Martha Wells “MurderBot” series.
A moody bot who loves soap operas is all I’ll say about it.
Read it before you watch the movie that’s being released soon.
(Can’t wait!)
It's a series on Apple TV not a movie (at least, I presume it is not both). First 2 dropped last Friday, only 30 min. Early books in the series are novellas, tho omnibus editions exist now
One of my favourite series, so much so that I got the audiobooks as well as the ebooks
My 13-year-old played RDR and I've been struck by how much he talks about it being a "touching" story. He said it really affected him and now he's reading books about the west. Umm, video games making a teen want to read of his own volition??? Where do I get more of this?
Bioware, Bethesda, Rockstar, Telltale, Obsidian all write interesting games
Dragon Age Origins & on has excellent tie in novels, I may have mentioned. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Mass Effect, but really there are lots of great stories both in and out of the RPG genre.
(The second one still haunts me and terrifies me and makes me wonder if my life will ever be as it was before I read it again. It is one of the best books I will NEVER touch again.)
I love her Ithaca trilogy - beautiful, lyrical, heartbreaking, funny. Her description of Orestes having to reluctantly kill his mother Clytemnestra reduced me to tears. And the wisdom of Penelope, constantly worrying about Odysseus but at the same time furious with him - well, we've all been there!
Just finished the third volume and adored it. :D Each book she writes is just going to be a treat but starting always scares me a bit: she has a tendency to write things that have the emotional impact of a freight train on Acid. :D
I have to reread her Matthew Swift Chronicles soon~.
this is almost verbatim what i use to pitch books to my non-bookish friends and while this could be a matter of you and our loved ones being different from one another, i choose to believe that it's actually because this is the primary purpose of books for all audiences
Just a tiny rant please forgive me , on many occasions when reading on line posts , references are made to a person ,place or thing but not an actual name of those or the use of acronyms . So please please give names and titles
I do too! His works are overlooked nowadays, but his progressive thinking shone thru in his works. I was introduced to his writing in high school(long ago) and had a basic understanding. It was later in my 20s I began to appreciate his prowess as an author.
Time for a Nevil Shute revival! His characters seem to be ordinary, decent people caught up in extraordinary circumstances and how they react, something we could all learn from these days!
100%. A fellow bookworm and I were just talking about how I added Ravensbruck, the book about the women’s concentration camp to my Goodreads TBR, and she saw it and was like, yassss, and added it to her TBR too!
Please, stranger if you have a son like I do skip it. Look at it as a box with terrible knowledge in it only because it will haunt you. It gave me nightmares for years. I'll give you an audible credit just to keep another father from being haunted by this book, this dark story.
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Send us the Title if some!! ✔️✔️👍
Plus, cute cat photos. They're popular too. 😉
I threw my book at the wall several different times when I was reading the book “The Radium Girls” out of sheer rage.
The Colony by John Tayman.
I was running through to tell my husband about the horrifying details by page 9
Bought it for my dad and bonded with the staff member in Waterstones over how good it is
100 years of Lenni and Margot
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/01/08/how-a-teen-japanese-american-football-team-flourished-in-a-wwii-incarceration-camp/
I just finished reading Hyperion series for the 4th or 5th time and loved it even more!
“Perfect. I’ll cancel plans and cry in a sweater.”
walk away for awhile.
So maybe,
An escapist SciFi novel would be better!
I love the Martha Wells “MurderBot” series.
A moody bot who loves soap operas is all I’ll say about it.
Read it before you watch the movie that’s being released soon.
(Can’t wait!)
One of my favourite series, so much so that I got the audiobooks as well as the ebooks
Thanks!
At first,
Did not think I would like it.
I was wrong.
but I respect it greatly, & everyone needs it once in a while!
Those stories that pierce the heart.
One example:
The Stolen Throne, by David Gaider
Or a gaming example:
Red Dead Redemption
Throwing the book moments!
But Life Isn't Perfect = Realistic
There was no Redemption!"
In the words of GreatBritishBakeOff, "Gutted!"
But lovely vistas, the sprawling West, fun cards, great lead actor, really so much going for it.
a Zombie dlc I still need to play through...
Dragon Age Origins & on has excellent tie in novels, I may have mentioned. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Mass Effect, but really there are lots of great stories both in and out of the RPG genre.
Wanting to play BG3 eventually.
Where the red fern grows?
Now I'm sorry I ruined your weekend. And made you cry
It is - ironically - the book I read whenever I feel down and need a pick-me-up :D
Though North writes the most amazing trauma too. Try "The Pursuit of William Abbey."
I have to reread her Matthew Swift Chronicles soon~.
I love it
I love it 🥰
She’s all in 😆
“Say less.”
Adds to cart.
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