Hey guys, so I've seen the problem where new users and old users alike sometimes want to discuss more thank books with their new friends and are feeling attacked by the flags or gentle and ungentle comments to help them learn the rules. So I thought hmmm... how about we try and solve this and get the discourse under control so that we can all be friends again. With no divisions between old and new ect. So I have another bookish app to use in tandem with this one (NO i did not make the app in any way I have just been there awhile and NO i do not want people to stop using this wonderful space) Its called Byzans and here like Tome ect. You can discuss other content as well. If most of us use both the apps we can be friends in two anonymous spaces and discuss books and life alike. I know this isnt perfect but its what I have at the moment?

This guy's work sounds absolutely fascinating. Is anyone else going to add him to your TBR? How will you pick between his books?

"It features only one period in its 400 pages."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/books/laszlo-krasznahorkai-nobel-prize-in-literature.html

So. As the title says, has anyone read books of the similar sort? And I mean evil, not the kind that would just cave over just because some pretty boy/girl appeared and melted their hearts and turned them good. I mean a big baddie, I feel like we don't have those kind of female protagonist's enough that really embodies the conviction of female rage, unapologetically evil, rooted in malice, etc., etc.

"Ency was shouting, "You're not animals. They're going to kill you. Run. You need to escape," as if the head could understand what he was saying."

"as if the head could understand what he was saying".... the tremendous amount of dehumanization this book describes is so much more disturbing to me than the actual death/cannibalism that's going on. i actually cannot for the life of me comprehend how people could care so little about the tragedy of people dying. i see this kind of rhetoric all the time right now, with the way people talk about the various genocides happening all over the world, and i just don't understand how people won't/don't care about mass killings because they don't view some racial/ethnic groups as "people enough"

Wow, the introduction has my attention already. Do you often read the introduction?

Do you all think that new writers can still make a mark that is important whilst having a feasible book/writing career? (Asking as a hopeful writer)

i’ve found that i gravitate to more gothic/moody/gory books in general, but wanted some lighter reads as we head into winter so that i don’t depress myself😭 any recs (of any genre) please lmk!! <3 double points for coziness