The last year I’ve wanted to read more classics. But I have no idea where to start.

I always struggle with getting locked in with the books, mostly because I only read in English (not my first language) and hate reading in my own language.

However I have decided to give the classics another chance. I would love to know what classics you guys recommend.

There are a few classics I own; • The Great Gatsby • Romeo & Juliet • Alice in Wonderland (have dnf’ed this twice already🙃) • Dracula • Little Women • Sense & Sensibilty • Wuthering Heights

I usually read light fantasy, romance or thrillers. I’m also open to classics not in this list :)

If you’ve read classics before, what books are easy to get into? What would you recommend to someone who has English as a second language?

I would love your recommendations 🩷

Hello bookworms, as you can see from the title I’m looking for a very specific type of book.

Ever since I discovered I was aroace (though an oriented aroace) I have been in search of books about lone wanderes. Books that are about a single person (it can be multiple people as well, kind of like Lord of the rings!) that ventures out on a quest/adventure that doesn’t include any type of romance for the main character, (preferably for the major side characters as well if you have anything like it, but no pressure) but just pure, loving platonic relationships, I’ve been trying to find recommendations everywhere but I feel like many websites don’t really come with anything close, the best thing I’ve found so far is “Sword of Shannara” Which I am very interested to read :D (I have heard mixed reviews about it, mainly that it’s just a rip off of LOTR, but I’ll try regardless) so it would help a ton to get some personalised recommendations as well, thank you :D 🪷🌌

I’m curious to hear about why you may or may not block a user? Do you use this feature? I’ve never been on a platform like this where it shows you comment unavailable to indicate that you are blocked.

I was recently chatting with another reader about the vibes of a book and they didn’t agree, but instead of engaging in further discussion (to which I would have loved to have heard what vibes they thought the book had) they blocked me. I’m kinda bummed and have never had that happen before.

I wanted to open the floor up to maybe understand better. I don’t think I would block a reader in that fashion. Maybe I would use the feature if someone was sharing triggering content related, but not to end a conversation. I’m just surprised and a bit hurt.

Edit: WOW. Thank you all for sharing your experiences, opinions, perspectives, thoughts. This has really helped me see this feature in a different light and was very helpful for me to read. I appreciate you all. 🫶🏻

Is anyone like this? Because I’ve found myself creating really weird/good story lines for books but I can’t bring myself to writing them because I don’t know how to translate it in to words… 🙃

Like last night I created a story about a knight who doesn’t believe about the creepy witch that lives in the forest and goes hunting for her and falls in love with her 🙂‍↔️

Just had a post pop up on my feed with a Quest around a very specific author with a very specific neon set of books, and the itch to mute was beyond expedient. Not sure how overall that would work logistically, but it never hurts to be a little fanciful!

I am a terrible annotater. I was recommended to start doing so, but I don't even know what to do. (I was taught writing in books was basically blasphemy)

Any recommendations as to how I would get started?