Looking for sci-fi recs! Specifically ones that have something to do with space, just finished rereading the Martian and the first of the murderbot books and looking for more in that vein. 😌

Edit: thank you for all your recs! I’ve found so many books I’m so excited to read and I can’t wait until my uni classes get out for winter break and I can read all day. 👀

Hiiii It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is part 9. I think

If you participated any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

If you’re new, introduce yourself!

I’ll go first.

My name is JadeLovesBooks.

I just found diamond painting and I am obsessed with it I don’t like thanksgiving food My middle name is Noelle because I was born on Christmas Eve

I cannot be the only one that read some books as a kid that just....wow. Maybe we were too young, or too unsupervised, or just...why did adults think that was appropriate?????

I've been remembering a story off and on forever that I hadn't been able to find and I JUST remembered enough details to find them!

Did anyone else read The Angels trilogy by Lurlene McDaniel? Published in 1996 and wow did I get obsessed for at least a summer about cancer and illness.
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I also read "It" by Stephen King in middle school. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

And "Interview with A Vampire" shortly after "It". 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

What did you read when you were probably too young and did it stick with you?

I’ve previously made a post about the general reading habits of bi- and multi-linguals, which thanks to everyone for sharing; it was so very interesting to hear all y’all povs.

Now I’m here again to ponder; if you read a language, that isn’t English, and a book you are interested in is originally written in a similar, but different enough language, that you can’t read it; do you go for the translation to the most similar language you know, or the English one?

For example; I can read Danish and English, but I almost exclusively read in English. I have a couple of books originally written in Swedish on my tbr. Danish and Swedish are pretty similar languages, close enough that most Danish and Swedish people can understand both and communicate across, but I definitively can’t do that. Because of the language similarity, the Danish translations might be more accurate than the English? But also, in my experience, Danish translators are a lot more lazy, and/or brash in their intentional mistranslations.

What would you do?