Can't wait for September 23! Congrats! I hope it's as good as your previous ones. Yippee 🎉🥰

POV switches are hard to get right. Some authors are good at it, some have more trouble.

Sounds like a good one. I like the illustration.

Good progress. Pretty puppy.❤

Great start. Keep it up. Rah! Rah! Rah!🎉❤🎉

Reading is always better with kitties.❤

A TBR list.....what an idea. I just have piles, shelves, boxes, of books I haven't read yet. Never considered making a list of which to read when. Does it help? I tend to just grab one and jump in.

My comfort read is Little House on the Prairie x

Love your library in a library.

Sounds like fun!

Quick way to review. ❤

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The longest was War and Peace. Don't bother, it's awful . Comfort read has to be The Hobbit. All time favorite - The Star Beast by Heinlein (at least for today).

Glad to see you back on KZbin. Hugs. The Ebony Gate is a really good book.

I'm glad you've finally got your diagnosis

I just finished this book. I adored it. Currently working on my own review :)

Thank you for your review, I really love this novel and I need to see other opinion about it. ❤

Have a great day 😇

I'd love to see this book featured in book clubs, neighborhood sessions, classrooms, everywhere. We so often don't get original (or at least first hand) sources, and this is a powerful source. It needs to be more widely read.

It is so disappointing when authors just abdicate like this. It makes me angry, not just for what IS, but also for what COULD BE, and a better book.

Hi! New subscriber. Another YA that I feel digs deep into the kids’ draw to brutality (in a much more gory way, but so well-written and realistic I was in pure disgust, disbelief and unable to put the books down) is the Broken Empire trilogy. It’s deeply beautiful, but so violent and philosophical. The protagonist is presented to us at 12 y/o, a deeply disturbed and traumatized kid who found catharsis for years- after being abandoned to die by his father, a king- on going on a criminal rampage with a band of outlaws. Then plot happens, and he decides he wants to be an Emperor, we journey alongside with him in a post-apocalyptic medieval world, a scenery I’ve never seen anything like. If it’s something you’d want to explore, there you have it ^^ just prepare for something stronger than Game of Thrones, bc oof… I’m not sure I can read the first book again, as beautiful as it was.

Of course, if you let your kid read The Illead, they get plenty of brutality and gore.

Never got a chance to read these. Sounds like an intriguing universe to explore, tho.

I always did like Beast better than the Prince.

I really like Ali's books - I think I've read them all now

Had no idea there was a feud in physics (say that 5 times fast!) Sounds like fun.

Most of us are fortunate enough to be shown rather forcibly early on that life is not in our control. When that doesn't happen, this is the result.

I like the Norse myths much better. Thor is exactly like the Ole and Lena jokes I grew up hearing.

I've always been partial to Canada's loup garou (werewolf).

Sounds like great fun!

So exciting!

Oooooh! I can't wait!

I still don't feel like I belong. Guess that's why I like cats so much

This is why I never really got into Greek myths. They are awful people. (Maybe if Persephone got an umbracat........)

I don't have goals per se, but I do keep track of what I read. Actually that's one way I realized my eyes needed medical attention - I had read less than half of what I did the year before.

The worst book I read this year is Land by Simon Winchester. I've read and loved many others by him, I preordered it, looked forward to reading it. And It Was Awful. The whole thing was how awful owning land is(even tho he admits he does), and how all land is stolen, and people only ruin things, especially if they have lots of money (unless they have the right politics). So disappointing.

Starter Villain has got to be one of the best books I've read this year. Love your recommendation of it. Love your review.

Surprised me how many of them I've read. (And some I've avoided for decades) Sounds like a good way to read more

I've been discussing this book in my writing class!

Goddess of the River sounds like fun.

Try actually reading the book (I have done). It is a nice story about first love.

You make a good point. Being available, versus being taught, being required is an important distinction that gets lost in the screaming. Please, less screaming, more thinking, people.

Love A Christmas Carol. Note, Bob was not an unskilled worker - he was both literate and numerate, able to speak and write well, able to present himself as a solid individual.

Frodo and Sam are almost archetypes of returning military. I desperately wish we had a Grey Havens for they who need it for their returning brokenness.

This is where the characters really develop. The Return of the King is impossible without what they encounter, survive, and grow from it.

I relate to the "7" comment. When I wrote for the newspaper, I had a deadline. I HAD to turn in my articles, even if I was totally blocked. I found that often, just starting in the middle and continuing to write would break the block. Then I could go back and make it readable and comprehensible and turn-in-able.

I've always wondered why Jackson skipped over Tom....

I love both the books and the movie. I agree, Tom being left out of the movie is bad, but a 50 hour movie is just not feasible.😊❤