Title says a lot - sign up for free monthly ebooks. Caveat, Tor publishes science fiction and fantasy, so that is generally what you will have access to. Gideon the Ninth is a glorious (and also kind of pulpy) book. I would recommend it to anyone with a fondness for a good murder mystery, that…
Inspired by the #FacebookDown I tried to imagine a world where the internet would just stop and we would reinvent ourselves. Is there a book about this kind of thing? (I realize that it's a very specific question).
Are there any authors you refuse to read, no matter how many time people have suggested them to you?
To me the number one author I refuse to read another word from is Elizabeth Gilbert. She tricked me, she really did with Eat, Pray, Love. The reviews I first came across were quite promising and I had high hopes. A friend of mine and I read it together as our sort of private bookclub read. There…
I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and as much as I liked the story (making me interested in reading more of his books), the way Philip K Dick wrote women in this made me quite uncomfortable. Here's an example: " 'Welcome back, Mr. Quail', she fluttered, her melon-shaped breasts -…
Every time I read a sample it’s 20-30 pages long, but half+ of that sample is spent on book cover, the “credits” page, table of contents, acknowledgements & author notes, advertising, etc. In the end you get maybe ten pages of the actual book. Just… why? People don’t walk into a book store and read…
I just finished this book today and wanted to know what questions or thoughts it provoked in you guys and if you guys gained any insight while reading this? A few things I would like feedback on are- 1. The title of the book, 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?', the question does Android,…
Earlier this year I read Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a Japanese short novel about a coffee shop that lets you time travel. I was so excited about it but was let down by the very repetitive writing and all of the annoying characters. I know there's a sequel, but I have no interest in it. Another…
I'm curious how you felt in school hearing the N-word being read out loud, possibly by white students or the teacher, or when the real horrors of slavery were being discussed. And if you are currently an adult, has your view changed? Did it make a difference who the author was? As a white person…
I know there are a few of these already but I have so many feelings and the raw emptiness of just having finished the book. First, I have advanced degrees in physics and engineering and I’m amazed at how well-researched the book is. I think sci fi similar to historical fiction in a way. There’s a…
Hey all! October is starting and I am planning to read a horror book...cliché, I know, but it is the first time I do it.... I have read some Edgar Alan Poe and Stephen King books, and while they are scary, I can manage to sleep at night. I'm still looking for a scary book that will haut me for the…
I love to read some dark, twisted stories, but I'm never too sure where to look. These could be horror, just plain messed up, nonfiction, or even just weird to the point it's off-putting. I'd love to see your recommendations! Quick edit: Great recommendations! I'm gonna start reading some of these,…
I'm bilingual in English and Chinese. Most people know about Wuxia genre. Wuxia is so hard to translate into another language because it is so tied to the history and culture of China. You almost need a Encyclopedia to reference all the terms. The authors already expects you to be familiar with…
Not Narnia. And i prefer if the protagonist got to be an adult in the fantástical world. Ty.
I'm kind of new to the world of reading, these are the books I've read: 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Flowers For Algernon, Lord of the Flies, The picture of Dorian Gray. I've heard that Stephen King's books are really good, so I want to read one, I hope you guys can help me decide. Thanks!
I've read a bunch of Becky Chambers books lately and they were all really good. They tend toward short, highly enjoyable, character driven books. They're highly accessible with a fair amount of depth Most recently was A Psalm for the Wild Built which largely revolved around environmental themes. It…
I live in rural North Carolina, USA, and habitually make a weekly trip to the nearest sizeable town every Friday. Last Friday I was shocked to find the local library has closed, with a sign on the door saying the problem is a lack of funding. I gather there is a an issue with Federal budget spending…
You all probably already know about Project Gutenberg. I love it too, but have you ever gotten annoyed by the myriad formatting of those ebooks? This website standardizes public domain books with good paragraph/line spacing, chapter links, etc: https://standardebooks.org/ I am not affiliated with…
I recently saw a thread polling readers how gender balanced their bookshelf is. This made me go through mine. In doing so, I noticed that there are 4 nations whose authors are disproportionately represented on my shelf: 1. Germany 2. US 3. England 4. France (In case you are wondering, yes, I'm…
I've noticed that many of the books I order recently have a matte type cover, but it feels a bit like suede. I have an aversion to cotton wool, and touching these covers gives me the same feeling. Not only that they attract dust, and fingerprints, and I haven't yet found anything that cleans…
I migrated to Storygraph not too long ago to track my reading habits and to-read book list, and am glad I did. Storygraph gives great recommendations, more data on the types of books I like to read, and it's also nice to have an alternative to Goodreads that is not owned/managed by Amazon. I thought…
I have just finished a book that dealt with several important themes and as a way of exploring these themes, the book delved into pedophilia, sexual assault, cannibalism and more such disturbing matters. Personally, I loved the book for it's brave narrative structure and for making me pause and…
I had this idea from a post by u/puncmunc [/u/puncmunc] on r/movies [/r/movies]. I was wondering if anyone has a two or more books that pair nicely together. They could be fiction or non-fiction! I recently read The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, and A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes - I…
I am looking for a non-fiction book to introduce me to politics, I would like to learn what are the different political ideologies that exist, where they come from or what exactly they defend.
I'm fascinated with all things codes within books. I remember when David Blaine released his book, Mysterious Stranger, he offered something like $100,000 to anyone who could crack the code and find the hidden treasure. There was a similar book released in 1979 filled with clues that led to a golden…
The title pretty much says it all. For context: if you've done a good bit of reading, particularly in romance novels, authors love to use a person's scent as a descriptor or way that another character identifies that person. For instance, I just read a book where the male character was obsessed with…
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Motar and Max Gladstone is a beautiful epistolary novella. It was a little hard to sort out at first but once I got the feel for it I was totally absorbed. It's so abstract in several ways and even had me looking up a few definitions as I read it. The…
I've really gotten into sci-fi and fantasy books lately and I'm looking for some more series (at least 3 books, preferably longer) that I can sink myself into. I've read and thoroughly enjoyed the following, so I would love some more suggestions that fit in the same realm of these series: *…
My last boss was an English teacher and I’m slowly working my way through his recommendations. This isn’t one of them… Stoner by John Williams is a desolate novel about the life of a Midwestern college professor. It’s not a book about a great man who accomplishes the impossible in the face of…
Let me start off by saying that this is my first time reading a novel outside of an academic setting and I am absolutely blown away. I’m only about 300 pages in and I feel like I just discovered gold, there are times that I have to stop reading because I’m so overwhelmed, not so much by the story…
I'm a woman in my thirties. I did a quick count of the books I've read this year, and they've been broadly 50/50 male and female authors. But when I broke it down by fiction vs non-fiction, I overwhelmingly read fiction by female authors and non-fiction by male authors, which interested me. Not…
I’m planning on buying the sailor who fell from grace today but i want some more Japanese literature, i don’t want some murakami i’ve read about his works and it’s not for me
I couldn't put this book down, but I ended up being disappointed. Not necessarily because of the ending, but because of a lack of character development. The protagonist stays painstakingly shy and self conscious for a very long time, to the point of becoming annoying. When she does gain confidence,…
I know those two are giants and arguably the greatest writers since Homer. But to my mind they differ quite a bit. Tolstoy is an outward-looking observer, a realist with acesses of philosophy, but not huge on feelings, instead he is quite content with immediate reactions and the narrative itself.…
I love Halloween and I love my somewhat childish Halloween adventure books with kids saving the world from some unknown evil. But a common theme among so many Halloween adventure books that I’ve read over the years is kids trying to get help from adults and the adults fobbing it off as their wild…
-Damn. Fucking hell this book was good. I have read Vonnegut before and appreciated his wit and storytelling ability, but this was my first go at Slaughterhouse-Five. I feel speechless. - I am in the military. I have deployed myself, but never off to something so powerful as a World War. So, I…
It took me a few tries to get into the first book over the last year. I read the same first chapter or two a couple times and just didn’t find anything that grabbed me so would go read something else. Finally I finished a book in the middle of the night while trying to read myself through a bout of…
I want a female protagonist. She should be successful in her career. Also, she should not be with men. I don’t care about her sexual orientation but I just don’t want a woman’s love story. I want more. I’m okay with both modern or classics but you should know that I’m not a native english speaker.…
Happy Spooktober! Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera. A classic that has been adapted into dozens of films and decades of stage productions. Horror beyond imaginable horror abounds at the Paris Opera House as the "O.G." Opera Ghost wreaks non-threatening havoc and plays spooky pranks on the new…
If you haven't read A Confederacy of Dunces yet, Mrgreen37 heartily recommends it. It's an absolutely hilarious novel focusing on one Ignatius J Reilly and his interactions with the inhabitants of the city of New Orleans after his mother decides he has to go to work to pay off a car the two of them…
I used to read loads. I could devour a 700 page book in a day, now I struggle with even 30 pages. I pick up a book and read for an hour, then never go back to it. I'm so tired of it. I have so many amazing books still to read but I just can't do it. I also find my ability to remember what I've read…
It seems like so many authors don't have a good grasp on how long it would take to cross a country or a continent on foot or by horse, especially in situations where there aren't decent roads. In many scenarios, you would be lucky to make it 20 miles a day (probably less if you have to stop to hunt…
