swapping my phone screen time with reading 📚 danmei, a darker shade of magic & more

[@astrohunch]

in love w this video :D

[@bookswithlau]

@@astrohunch ❤️

[@nazimelmardi]

You can easily read Asian Saga. You won’t regret it. Shogun and Tai-Pan are fantastic and the rest just a genius family story over history events. Dandelion Dynasty is fantasy but only a minimum magic more political. Chinese inspired, how you build an empire.

[@bookswithlau]

@@nazimelmardi I had never heard of that one before! I'm adding it, thank you so much 😊 I've actually read Grace of Kings (Dandelion Dynasty 1). I didn't love how much action-focused it was 😅

[@nazimelmardi]

@@bookswithlau the first is the build up book. Literally. It sets up the scene. The rest is a political/ war story of 2 generations. Now that you read the first you know that it will be around that family at one hand how they build up the empire….. or they try. But on the other hand…. Now comes the outside threat. And 2 generations (their children too) deal with the consequences. Political, cultural, war related issues. Those books are very character focused… and very-very dark in some parts. Those dragons are not jokes on the cover art.

[@bookswithlau]

@@nazimelmardi i love books focused on characters, this sounds awesome! Thank you so much for the explanation! I saved the first one (Shogun, chronological order) but I've realized that there is another order to read them (publication order, being King-Rat the first one). Do you recommend to start with Shogun then?

[@nazimelmardi]

@@bookswithlau shogun -> Tai-Pan -> Gai-Jin. The King Rat is way ahead in time. It’s about in the 20th century while Tai-Pan is around the taking of Hong Kong from China by the British Empire and forming the East India Company.

[@bookswithlau]

@@nazimelmardi perfect, thank you so much!!

[@bhavyapatnam7586]

DEAR Lau, Please share a video that has best slow burn mm novels/ books/... Anything of good content with character improvement.so I don't feel like I am eating my free time😅...pleaseeee

[@bookswithlau]

@@bhavyapatnam7586 i have a video about slow burn mm romances, but I guess you already have watched that one 😅 I'll see if I can come up with enough recommendations for another one. If not, I'll let you know which ones I'd recommend! Edit: can you give me any examples of slow burn mm romances you loved?

[@yungihub]

oddio non credevo fossi italianaaa

[@bookswithlau]

@@yungihub oh, no, but almost lol Sono spagnola. I studied Italian for a year but remember little of it 😭😅