I have a paperback copy of Shogun in 8 pieces and I've been rereading the pieces for probably 15 years

I don't dig ear pages, I just use whatever I'm holding as a bookmark. It's fun finding old business cards and notes years later although I admit it was less pleasant the time I opened a book to find a dried up slice of ancient cheese lol

My kid read them at 12 and was fine. He found it interesting and thought that they needed to cool off their relationship and change the dynamics so it provided some learning for him

Make sure your kid only watches the first movie though, not because two and three are inappropriate but because they are just dreadful lol.

I wrote a niche book and only one relative bothered to even flip through it, and it meant a lot to me that she did. At least give it a go. Try the into paragraphs to each chapter and only read further if you find it interesting. Then you've got an understanding of what it's about without needing to know the Latin classification of dozens of bugs you've never heard of

Giller Prize 2022 Suzette Mayr for The Sleeping Car Porter

I do book first and then movie unless the book is the novelization of the movie, then it goes second. I'm such a nerd that I have the books of stuff like the star wars movies (which actually answered some questions for me as the books contain "deleted scenes" lol).

I prefer to imagine the characters my own way instead of seeing them all Hollywood perfect (skinny, perfect teeth and hair, usually white rolls eyes)

If you are interested in how people at home coped during WWI, try the last Anne of Green Gables book Rilla of Ingleside

It's a different type of novel than most recommended here, but it covers the full span of the war, how it impacted families, rationing, suffrage, wartime elections, war weddings, war babies etc.

There's a great bit where one family locks their uncle in a barn and won't let him out until he promises to vote for a particular party

Christopher Moore

Douglas Coupland

Miriam Toewes

I hated my eReader at first (kobo) but my doctor insisted I try it. Since I switched my arthritis and scoliosis are better, as is my asthma. Turns out that old ass books are full of dust mites.

Now I find myself tapping the side of paper pages and not understanding why they won't change or I'll settle down with a book and expect the backlight to come on lol

Definitely do a reread, there's so much stuff that you notice as an adult. In Happy Golden Years Mr &Mrs Boast (the lovely young couple they spend the winter with in Shores of Crystal Lake) flat out tries to buy their baby

Someday I'm going to splurge on Pioneer Girl and get the full story

Ma says dozens of times that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian". I'd say that counts as hate lol, especially when you're saying that illegally squatting on treaty land

Marilla was a product of her time. The only bit where it's really egregious is when she's trying to decide if ruined food is good enough for the French farm hand and the pigs

Two thirds of the Ender/Bean books

I have 5000 books on my eReader (kobo not kindle), a backup on my laptop, and 20,000 books on a hard drive

Why delete them, they fit nicely inside your electronics

I annotate on my kobo or in messy scribbles in actual books

You know how people use filters and the pictures they post are basically lies? So are their annotated books. Stop tying yourself in knots over posers

I don't see many similarities. I mean, they were both female and both ended up being teachers but that was one of the only jobs available to women.

It's a novelized memoir on the wagon trail in the US with a birth family and sisters and crappy luck vs fiction about a settled life in Canada with an adoptive family and no sibs and higher education and incredibly good luck.

Even the racism is different. Ma hates the Indigenous and Marilla hates the French

My theory is that when there were less books (and less people who could read) it was easier to become a famous novelist. Today, F Scott would be writing fanfic on a blog decorated with pissing Calvins

But be tactful in front of your professor - some people take "the classics" very personally.... I ended up in a shit ton of trouble for summarizing A Separate Peace as "whiny closeted murderer wasting paper" 🤣

I didn't like it either. I thought it was a long ass pompous look at people in whom I see no redeeming value. I get that the book is supposed to make us reflect on the rich and their ways, but if it were up to me the lot of them (and the manuscript) would end up at the bottom of the pool lol

Christopher Moore books are like a very out of control d&d game

The Wild Cards series (edited by GRRM) is literally books created by a bunch of authors that played rpg together

I liked them okay, but I'm the kind of reader who can skim a boring part and then re-engage when something interesting happens. The torture is easy enough to skim over. It's creepy and monotonous but I've read worse

My biggest problem is that they appear to be written for people with no memory- each book spends more and more time summarizing the previous books but again I skim those parts.

There is some truly great story and some well developed secondary characters hiding in there if you're willing to search for it, and there's a lot of dreck to slog through while you're searching.

Get one from the library and see if you like it, if you don't, take it back

I've cared for infants with FASD and it can be more exhausting and stressful than caring for an infant without FASD. Legitimately wondering if this could be a contributor to the increase in post partum depression

That scared me too.

I was also slightly uncomfortable around soup tureens/unattended babies ;)

Rosemary's Baby

It wasn't the "evil" that scared me, it was how she was lied to and betrayed by everyone she counted on. That one still gives me the shivers

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know, but now it'll drive me mad and I'm going for a reread

NP. I love that store. They also have excellent fuzzy blankets and shawl scarves - there's always some deal that if you spend enough you get them 75% off. Both my blankets and giant scarves are still fuzzy and glorious after 5+ years of harsh use lol

Abe books is good. I've also never gotten a damaged book from Chapters/Indigo - they package carefully