love it. Create a little book club for the both of you! it'll be awesome.

yessss the only time when sneaking past your bedtime is acceptable lol

my kids love reading and I love that they love reading!! continue to foster his love of books! right now one of my kids (a teen) is reading one of my favourite books ever and I couldn't be more overjoyed. I so badly want to talk about it but she's not at the good part yet.

I really enjoyed the first part of the book but then the 2nd part i couldn't even finish it so I didn't. Hugely disappointed and I love most of King's work.

Maybe instead of reading with a goal in mind ie. “I want to be smart, I want to look smart, I want to learn X……” just read for the enjoyment of reading. Get lost in the words and imagery that the book provides. Feel the characters. Don’t think that reading X genre is silly; reading is reading and you learn a lot from reading anything - proper grammar, how to formulate words/phrases in every day life, how to write better, speak better etc.

I’m 47 and will read anything that is a good story. I tend to gravitate towards certain genres but am open to read anything that is well written with a good story/plot/interesting characters.

All the light is so beautifully written it fucking hurts..... I have never said that about any book before and I've been consistently reading for over 35 years. I'm not one to fawn over beautiful prose and all that but goddamn, that was an incredible book. I read The Nightingale right after and holy shit, two incredible books back to back it was almost as good as sex. Those two books gave me massive book hangover for months. Ever had that? when you read a book/books so good that everything else after it enrages you because it's no where near as good and you scream THIS FUCKING SUCKS at everything else? Just me? alrighty, then.....

I reco'd all the light to one of my friends AND SHE CALLED IN SICK AT WORK AND FINISHED IT IN ONE DAY lol.

LOL same same....I work and I'm like oh look, work email .....scrolls reddit

enjoy the books that everyone has reco'd! I'm also perusing and adding to my TBR after I finish my current book (Cloud Cuckoo land which is another book that took me forever to stick to and I'm so glad I came back to this because it's damn good. Same author as All the light we cannot see and holy shit, this dude can fucking write ).

like chapter 5 lol

if you want to cry, Under the Whispering door (already listed for you) is the only other book that made me cry.

that's the only reason I keep trying; people are saying it's a fantastic book but whenever I try to read it, I'm waiting to be blown away but I keep wanting to throw it against the wall because it's soooo slow.

It took me about the same time to read A Fine Balance but when I finally did, it totally blew me away....so I keep going back to Eden hoping for the same experience but so far, zilch ☹️

if you liked Ove, the storied life of AJ Fikry and the brilliant life of Eudora Honeysett are similar and awesome.

OK, I have been trying to read that book for over 10 years....but holy fuck does it get better because I keep getting bored 😬

I also forgot to add A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

alrighty then.

• the house in the cerulean sea
• under the whispering door
• Roots
• Kane and Abel
• The cursebreaker series
• defy the night series
• The princess bride
• The storied life of AJ Fikry
• She's come undone
• the silence of the lambs
• the book thief
• memoirs of a geisha
• the hunger games (SHUT UP THIS WAS A FUN READ, OK 🤣)
• the passage series (by Justin Cronin)
• The stand
• Swan song
• To kill a mockingbird
• handmaid's tale
• Ender's game
• Old man's war series
• The godfather

ooooo this is a hard question because there are SO MANY awesome books. I can't just pick one so I will list them:

• red rising series
• the power of the dog series
• Pet Sematary
• The Shining
• IT
• The kite runner
• all the light we cannot see
• a prayer for Owen Meany
• the nightingale
• Pachinko
• Ember in the Ashes series
• The kitchen house / glory over everything
• song of Achilles
• Underground railroad
• the power of one

i could go on and on but then this will be a longass comment lol

FINALLY someone has posted about this; I always recommend this series and I wonder why it's not as popular as it should be because it's excellent.

yes, every book. It expands your vocabulary, grammar and written/comprehension skills...not to mention works your imagination and creativity! my kids have been reading since they were little and read above their age level. Now in their teens, their essays are top notch and I really do think that it's because of how much they read.

this right here is what I gleaned from reading this awesome book in high school.....that social structure/hierarchy is a construct that is not necessarily "bad"; it's what helps to separate us from the animals but once those structures are gone, it allows the darker instincts of human nature to rise and possibly take over.

I've never banned books nor do I believe in banning books. At 13, my daughter was reading Colleen Hoover and other romance books. My policy was: read whatever you wanted and let's talk about things you didn't understand.

When I was that age, I read everything I could get my hands on and I read pretty much every Stephen King book that he published back in the 80s! Didn't quite get a lot of concepts in his books as I was young but I read them anyway...and I'm fine. I do think at that age, they're fully capable of knowing what books they want to read.

Nope, I DNFd that book. The story seemed to just go nowhere and it was pretty flat.

YA/fantasy: Ember in the Ashes series, Red Rising series, Scythe series, Cursebreaker series, Defy the night series.

Historical fiction: The Nightingale, The Book Thief

I can read and drop off to sleep and have good sleep but if I'm looking at my phone, I don't get tired until much later and get shit sleep! I don't even look at my phone past 9pm to protect my sleep.

Ok.

I love all the light we cannot see (one of my favourite books) but have tried this book several times.... And I keep losing interest by chapter 3 or 4. I know, it's a bit early to abandon a book but when does it actually get better?

Red Rising series

A huge but amazing book: The Stand.

Swan Song is another good one

I bought my favorite series, Red Rising, in hopes that when my kids get older, they'll enjoy it. right now they're not into sci fi/dystopian 😒

I kept all of my original Stephen King novels (Pet Sematary, The Shining IT) for my kids and my daughter is loving them (she's now a big horror buff)....But I may have to get new copies for her because they're from the early 80s and I want to keep them for much longer.