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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Close Verse Translation

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Le Morte DArthur (The Death of Arthur): All Volumes

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Thoughts from 34% (page 114)

Clear as day, every so often, modern values are shown. It's no news Greek myths had intercourse with animals (half of mythology wouldn't exist if Zeus didn't turn into an animal to get some), I don't need the characters to show they are very against it, I don't expect them to be. it's what comes with reading Greek mythology, you'll come across very wild things.

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Definition of Romantasy (or combined genres)

I've seen a few posts about this, and it's made me curious bc reading is fairly subjective, in our interpretations or interests. What defines "romantasy" for you? For me, "romantasy" is where the romance elements drive the plot with fantasy intertwined, vs. "fantasy with romance" is where the fantasy elements drive the plot with romance intertwined. Would love to know others thoughts/self-definitions! I think as new and continuous readers discover genres, it can be important to self-define these things, especially when publishers/booktok/social media™ advertise this stuff to us constantly. If you have other genres you think fit the above question, what are they? I'm also asking as a librarian bc we have wildly different ways to catalog "themes" (thank you Dewey, may you never rest in peace)

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are you also going through a reading drought?

a drought is also a slump by extension, but in a drought, you do read but none of the books bring you any joy, they do not change your world for the better, you get bored halfway through and you end up DNFing or hating the book. a drought makes you forget what it was like to love reading new books. a drought could last weeks on end, months too. in short, help me. PS. I made reading drought up so.

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Thoughts from 31%

A bit sifficult to follow, the format styling change for the change of stories sometimes is difficicult to see. I understand It's a debut novel meant for fans of the short series, so I won't sweat it.

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Just Stab Me Now

Jill Bearup

A desperate mother. A dubious escort. And a deranged author who won’t leave them alone. Caroline Lindley is determined that her new romance novel will be her best one yet. Fantasy! Formal gowns! Fencing! And, of course, a twentysomething heroine to star in an enemies-to-lovers plot with all of Caroline’s favourite tropes. But Lady Rosamund Hawkhurst is a thirty-six-year-old widow with two children, her sole focus is facilitating a peace treaty between her adopted nation and her homeland, and she flatly refuses to take the correct approach to there being Only One Bed. What’s an author to do? Based on her popular Fantasy Heroine YouTube Shorts series, Jill Bearup’s debut novel brings us the best of worlds both meta and medieval-inspired. Terry Pratchett aficionados will enjoy the political intrigue paired with convivial, tongue-in-cheek satire. And then there's the slow-burn, fade-to-black romance too . . . If you loved Stranger Than Fiction and The Princess Bride, you will soon find yourself cheering on enemies-to-BFFs Rosamund and Caroline as together they learn what it means to be the hero of your own story.

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Thoughts from 41% (page 389)

Not even half way through and I'm starting to skip allll the parts where Hermoine is just contemplating and contemplating and contemplating🫠

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Lord Of The Rings - One Volume Edition

J.R.R. Tolkien

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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The Green Knight, a mysteriously powerful creature, tests the honor and courage of King Arthur's youngest knight.

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Thoughts from years after reading

It still amazes me how relevant this book is. One thing that struck me about this work was how different it was interpreted by people from different countries (I read it in uni). History repeats itself, usually said, and yes, hearing people from countries that have been close to living in the reality of this book, and who think it is impossible for it to happen because they didn't end up like that that one time... It is scary to think that for some people this work was real and for others it seems like pure fiction.

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Read at least 1 book in the Summer 2025 Readalong.

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Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

Classic hardback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, featuring Tolkien’s own painting of the dragon Glaurung on the cover, which continues the tales of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century’s most acclaimed popular author. The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf’s lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan. Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien’s son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father’s writings.

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The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor.

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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

J.R.R. Tolkien

Begin your journey into Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The Return of the King is the third part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. The Dark Lord has risen, and as he unleashes hordes of Orcs to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into his realm in Mordor. To defeat Sauron, the One Ring must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way is impossibly hard, and Frodo is weakening. The Ring corrupts all who bear it and Frodo’s time is running out. Will Sam and Frodo succeed, or will the Dark Lord rule Middle-earth once more?

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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

J.R.R. Tolkien

Begin your journey into Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape, the rest of the company was attacked by Orcs. Now they continue the journey alone down the great River Anduin—alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.

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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

J.R.R. Tolkien

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.

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A Month in the Country

J.L. Carr

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.

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Time travel adventures

Hi! I just watched "Timeline", and I think of reading the book it is based on (even tho I read the film is very loosely based on the book). I want some recommendations on time travel novels that centre on adventure in historical periods (I may be a bit picky being this specific). :)

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Matter of Britain

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Any medieval literature of legend and heroes of Britain

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