There is value in things beyond surface level enjoyment. Many experiences, even apparently boring, uncomfortable, and even painful ones can bring important lessons. I don't think it is a healthy approach for a person to try to strip all but the most "enjoyable" or comfortable elements out of their life, and this applies also to reading books.

It's not going to kill you to spend an extra couple of days reading the slow bits. But it might bring a lot of value.

Thank you so much!!

Sabriel by Garth Nix (there is a trilogy and more bits of series but book 1 stands alone)

Poison by Chris Wooding

Anything by Frances Hardinge but perhaps especially the Lie Tree or A Face Made of Glass

Frogkisser by Garth Nix (a really just good fun book with loads of subverted fairy tale tropes but in the best possible way)

Uprooted by Naomi Novik (this one is adult rather than YA but it reads very easily. I adored it)

These are all absolute favourites of mine, hope you find something in there that sparks your interest!

There would be a lot more violence.

Hello. Per rule 3.3, please post book recommendation requests in /r/SuggestMeABook or in our Weekly Recommendation Thread. Thank you.

No! It can be any recommendation!!

Do you only want fantasy?

I just posted in r/littlefreelibrary about coincidences via LFLs!

Just before my trip to Morocco, I found Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman’s Journey Toward Independence in my book donations for the LFL. I also needed a book for my trip that if I lost wouldn’t be too upsetting. I took Year of the Elephant with me. Many of the same places I visited were featured in the novella.

>I never understood people who enjoy arguments rather than a simple disagreements

I mean, it all depends on context, but I got in a debate about Thomas Pynchon with a friend of mine last week at a bar that culminated in him raising his voice over the table and telling the rest of the group that I was an "odious motherfucker". Those kinds of heated debates about art are way more enjoyable than worrying about making sure everyone feels validated all the time.

Yelling and arguing about your opinion (if not literally, then in spirit) about a piece of art is a great time, as long as everyone is secure enough to know that saying someone's opinion is "bad" or "tragic" or "the worst thing I've ever heard" does not mean you think those things about them as a person.

Give me some Balzac, Lost Illusions-level shit-slinging about books! Tell someone they should have been sent to the guillotine for not liking Emile Zola. Tell someone they have an unhealthy fixation on 19th Century fuckboys after they tell you they love Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Tell someone they should be tried at The Hague for not having read Toni Morrison. It's more fun that way.

Let’s bring this kind of Ebert energy back into arts discourse and maybe we can all start having a good time talking about this stuff again.

In German witcher is Hexer and so on.

Or rusalka.... In English you could either just keep rusalka as in ,,The rusalka came from the water" or translate it as ,,water nymph" because that's ultimately what a rusalka is. Same with vila. You could keep vila (,,At noon in summer, vilas appear in the fields") or translate vila as ,,sun demon" or ,,wheat witch" or something. Do you understand what I mean? In original it's Wiedzmin, in English Witcher, in some other Slavic languages it's Vedmak. Still it's the same creature, but if You google Wiedzmin you'll get Polish result, if you google Witcher you'll get just the books :D

Yes, but there would be more rape.

If your wife reads it, what book will you read in return?

Any nice books about killing games? I liked The Hunger Games, Danganronpa 1-2 (not books, but same concept), and Battle Royale. I tried Red Rising but didn't like the YA vibes. I'm not looking for YA; more mature would be nice.

I don't know how they were translated to English. For example how is žmij? Or kelpi? Or striga?

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I started reading the Stand in December 2019.

Stunning book. Broke my heart.

I agree! My significant other is in school to become a therapist and I’m currently in therapy, so I was like, “Wow, this feels familiar!” Lol

I read anything non fiction World lore? Physics, Biology, ontology, epistemology, psychology surprise me something hard been reading 700 pages a day recently send it let’s get this knowledge

I like 52book. It’s a lot better. A lot of the times people will be like “I wasn’t a fan, but it sounds like it’s up your alley so you might like it more than I did.”

Wonderful! Thankyou

I enjoyed this one as well! I thought the “behind the scenes” look at how therapy works from the perspective of the therapist was really interesting.

Blake Crouch did an AMA here in /r/books you might want to take a look :) . Here's a full list of our upcoming AMAs

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