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I’ve heard it takes 70-100 pages for this first book to get good. However, the poetic narration is very aggravating to me. I’ve read hundreds and maybe even thousands of books in my lifetime. I also used to write poetry, was an English Literature major in college, and my high school senior project was a small poetry book.

However, the way this book is poetically narrated just makes the whole thing cloudy, and frustrating to me. Sometimes it provides wonderful imagery and other times it’s hard to even know wth is going on and like I’m missing huge parts. It almost feels like the author was trying too hard to create something different, that he lost touch with trying to just help the reader imagine and follow along with the story.

Does this get better and easier to follow ? Or is this how all of his books are ?

Guys whenever I stay away from reading, im productive-ish, but the moment I start a book I wont put it down until im finished it. Ill spend the whole day reading, finshing books back to back (especially if theyre a series) which ends up in me neglecting my responsibilities and school work.

Adviceeeeeee???????? Please and thank you T.T

I teach 6th grade and want to do a book club based on building empathy. I've selected the Benefits of Being an Octopus for my first book (it's fantastic!!) I would like to have a male protagonist for my 2nd book, but other suggestions welcome for later titles. I need books that are going to hook in my students who "hate reading" but my focus is in the empathy-making. Thank you!

Recently, I over-did it on reading, so far, I'm able to read online as it's easier, but physical books are so draining. I'm not sure how to find the motivation to read them. I'm so behind my tbr list so I haven't bought any more books. I think TikTok makes it a competition to read so many a year and it's really stopping me from reading. Any slow-reader friends advice? Thanks in advance!

Hey there, I'm new here, wanted to get back into reading and I've been stuck for a while to get something that's hooked me.

I really want something akin to what I've loved out of Skyward by Brandon Sanderson and Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

I really like:

• Found Family
• Romance Sub Plots (preferably heterosexual as a straight person myself)
• Witty Banter/Good Dialog in general
• Space Battles
• Space Stations
• Fast Pace

For me it was Six Of Crows! The beginning was a bit slow for me, but I'm so glad I didn't stop reading because I'm in love with the characters and the world.

Hello bookworms! This is Self-Promotion Sunday, a place where you can promote any of the following:

• A book you wrote
• Your blog
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• Your Discord channel
• a subreddit you created
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As a rule, individual self-promotion posts are not allowed on this subreddit, but a weekly post will now be scheduled so you can promote your projects to other bookworms.

the library books are there just for show :3 i usually borrow books before spending the absurd amount i usually do just in case i dislike them 🙏

So the background of this book, I read it when I was pretty young, like, around 8-10, and it's a young adult's novel. It's about this teen girl main character (I'll call Rose) whose boy-best friend/neighbor (I'm going to call Bob because I forgot his name) stopped talking to her. I'm pretty sure that the reason why Bob stopped talking to her was because he got beaten up by a group of guys and was embarrassed. There is a boy (I'm gonna call him Robbie) who she becomes friends with, along with a rich girl (I will call Vanessa) she used to find annoying, and another girl (I'm going to call Marie) with a dietary illness that she kept secret from her friends. I'm pretty sure Robbie used to be part of the friend group that beat up Bob. Rose, Marie, and Robbie all decided to work at a deli during their lunch breaks. Their boss collects 2 dollar bill and has yellow pit stains. Maire was secretly throwing away the lunch that her dad had prepared so she could eat the same lunch her friends were. She got really sick and had to go to the hospital because she either passed out or had a seizure. Robbie, Vanessa, and Rose have a talk about how time works. For an analogy, the rich girl uses her paved diamond ring. There is also a homeless guy who sleeps under a blue post box near where she lives. He acts somewhat erratic and kicks at the main road where cars drive. One day, when she's walking home with her friend, she spots Bob and tries to talk to him, but he crosses the street trying to avoid her. A car comes from nowhere and is about to hit him when the homeless guy jumps in front of the car and kicks Bob out of the way. In the process, the homeless man dies. The plot twist is that in the future, Robbie figures out time travel and goes back in time, and he is the homeless man. The girl later receives a letter from the homeless man, which he wrote before her death, and she gives it to Robbie. She later goes and lies down underneath the post box the homeless man used to and sees a drawing of a grown-up Vanessa. I'm sorry if this post seems like a mess. I'm a terrible writer, and some details might be false. I tried asking ChatGPT but couldn't find the book.

I read the three Engelsfors books —Chosen, Fire, and Key—that were translated from Swedish to English and absolute loved them, my favorite in a long time. Looking for more books, especially series , like them. What I mean specifically below:

—Female POVs and female friendship. The trilogy does a great job of centering their voices, what it’s like to be at that liminal stage, and homosocial relationships.

—surprising maturity of issues. It felt fairly “adult” for YA but in a good way. They talked about drugs, sex, death etc but it fit the tone of that’s how teenagers 17-18 act and behave and talk like. I recently read a YA book that talked about a “first kiss” being stolen from someone and it was so cringy I almost died

—Length. Very big one. It’s a three book series and each one is pretty good sized, like 500-800 pages. We have lots of time to explore not only the world and plots but the characters, their arcs, their relationships first and foremost.

—Characters. Here is where they really stand out. There’s five or six main characters and each is fully developed and 3D and they have arcs and change over the trilogy. Brilliantly done. Some start off as like not good people and really change.

—Relationships: some very good romantic relationships. A very well done slow burn sapphic relationship, a great tentative exploration between one of the POVs and a guy friend of hers, etc.

—Setting: this was urban fantasy, but the presence of magic or absence, whether it’s on earth or somewhere else, isn’t really as important as the characters and the length to develop them and whatever world/plot we get.

Hi, I'm looking for a book or rather books about a girl growing up poor or normal and suddenly being thrown into High Society. Preferably with lots of romance and by being found from rich/wealthy relatives.
I already Read The Royals ( Paper Princess and the following books ), Weybridge Academy and The Inheritance Games.
Thanks in advance :)

This can be f/m or m/m I would particularly like opposites attract, jock/ nerd or rivals , or forced proximity any trope is fine though . Banter would be great as well as spice. If it is set in the 80s that would also be fine

Don't get me wrong, yes, I read her fan-fiction, and that was amazing for its time but it didn't come without its controversies. I guess newer readers won't know about this unless they deep dive into the Author's history. However, the books, the world building, and everything in-between seems to be disliked by many because of the incest and other things like plagiarism. I just don't get why people still support her after all of this mess.

Update: I understand a lot of people like her and are still fans; however, I do encourage to a bit of digging yourself, and see for yourself. lol keep it civil this wasn't to anger anyone just discussion.

hi! i'm a teacher and i am thinking of starting a book club (middle school and high school) for next semester. i am currently set on using themes instead of all the members reading the same book. (ex. books that are set in a dystopian world, books that talk about mental health)

have you done this type of book club before? how do you usually discuss different books under the same theme?

Give me book about royalty/ royal life it could be any genre fantasy,romance , mystery anything .

I read Better Than The Movies during a heavy time in my life so I think the characters meant more to me than I realized. Because it's been weeks since I read Nothing Like The Movies and I'm still sad everytime I think about how much this book ruined the original. I'm still grieving the characters and the fact I can't read the first book with the same joy anymore knowing this is what it leads up to. I could go on and on about how unrealistic and unlikable this sequel was, but the thing that destroys it the most for me is how everything I loved about the first book has been ruined. Most importantly, the characters I loved so dearly feel like caricatures of themselves. Maybe it sounds silly but I was just wondering if anyone else has ever felt this way about a book, where they can't get over it and how did you get past it?

Has anyone read the wild huntress by Emily Lloyd Jones? What is your opinion? Is it good? I loved the bone houses, by her . I'm a bit low on money now ,so I'm wondering whether I should buy it or get it from the Library.

Overall a great month of reading! Red Rising, Mistborn Era 2, and Stormlight Archive are really living up to expectations! Also finished my re-read City of Fallen Angels up on audio in October and am almost done with City of Lost Souls. It’s been ages since I’ve read the second half of TMI so it’s been fun to revisit!

I’m making my way through my TBR list (currently reading “The Reformatory” by Tananarive Due, which is amazing and haunting btw). The remaining standalone books on my TBR list are:

• Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker

*Dearest by Jacquie Walters *Dinner for Vampires by Bethany Joy Lenz, *Ninth House/Hellbent by Leigh Bardugo (ik this one is a duology lol) *House of Bone and Rain by Gabriel Iglesias (sounds like a SJM book lol) *The unraveling by Vi Keeland *Masquerade by O.O Sangoyomi *So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison *The Lightning bottles by Marissa Stapley *American Rapture by CJ Leede

Feel free to lmk which genres you like, and I’ll recommend a book for you too!

If you comment your choice and lmk which genres you like, I’ll recommend a book for your next read too! I love connecting with people over books. 🤓📚🖤

I adore the cover and was super intrigued based on the synopsis, but the novel fell short of my expectations. It was certainly creepy and I liked some of the characters (Penelope), BUT it wasn’t quite as imaginative and magical as I expected. There pacing was a bit uneven but not unbearable. I’d still give it a solid 3.5/5 but it was not as amazing as I thought. What did you think about the book?

Hi guys, could you help me choose a book from tbr ?

I will pick 2 books to buy, so which one was your favorite between these ?

(sorry for my English, I'm french)

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If anyone is still in the market for spooky Halloween vibes in the YA realm, I'm on book 3 of the Jason Crane series by Richard Gleaves and I've really enjoyed it. Good mystery, ties to familiar stories (Headless Horseman, Sleepy Hollow), creepy vibes, but good teen angsty stuff too. My only meh is they are a liiiiitle long. I feel like this could have been split into 4 books and each book be more streamlined and on topic/concise plot wise, but either way, I've really enjoyed them.