So my kids go back to school on Monday (thank the GODS) and I purposelessly took off Monday and Tuesday to just have two solid days of peace, quiet, and total aloneness. I really want to do a small readathon one of those days. Just read for 8 hours straight and hopefully finish a 500+ page book. Ambitious? Maybe. Crazy? Probably!

I actually saw a recent video of a woman who read The Count of Monte Cristo (1200+ pages) and it took her from 8am to 4am the next day! Literally read every hour until she finished. Her experience made the book that much more emotional and impactful and I just thought that was so cool. I couldn't do 1200 buuuut.... It inspired me for sure.

Have you guys read a really long book in one sitting? What's your thoughts?

I was thinking about how I find so weird one specific couple from a book (they get together in the later books so I can't tell). But I find their relationship weird because the girl is like 19 if I remember correctly and has been locked inside a castle most of her life. And she is also a bit naive in my opinion. And the man is a Fae, and is like 600 years old? Something like that. But he is much more mature than her. They're a side couple though. So what's a book couple you find weird or just hate?? 👀

Hi everyone,

First-time poster here, and I am in the midst of a dilemma.

I am a book podcaster who quite frequently (at present, it seems) interviews a lot of authors...so I get a lot of incredible post.

I was recently sent some books by an indie author (with a beautiful note)...so I started reading them, and they are simply proving not to be it for me, to the point that I am actually scheduling in time to read a few pages a day (which I haven't done since the days of the war-book-focused book club I was in). It could be that it's just that they aren't for right now, but I am honestly not sure how to break it to this author that I won't be able to invite them on my show for the time being. At the same time, I also need to avoid the slump these books are sending me into.

I have a lot of (hopefully) incredible books on my dining table (where I dump everything before I have to tidy it away)...what would you do? The mature choice would be to finish them and ignore that they are seriously depressing me; the choice I want to make is dump them in the ocean.

Hi! I'm not sure if this is the right place here. But I would like to follow more people who have more nuanced takes on classic works but not sure where to start. I'm a newbie when it comes to engaging with classics but I really like learning why a classic is a classic from people who can enjoy those discussions and the challenges in thinking deeper about something than I normally would. There aren't many people around me to talk about books in person so I like the idea of having a small community here to discuss classics with, cheer each other's progress, and recommend novels that fit each other's taste. And so if anyone else also wants to have fun conversation and also push the surface of these novels, I would love to follow you so I can learn more outside of my own perspective.

And if this is the wrong place for this, please let me know kindly and I'll delete it 🫶

Edit: After having it kindly explained, I could have posted this in the quest forums for classics but there are only a few forums and I did not want to spam across those areas. Also I forgot to mention, I'd love to know more about South Asian literature and engage with them