I'd like to read more classic literature but I'm slightly overwhelmed with alllll the editions available for a lot of classic books. I tend to gravitate towards the Penguin editions as they're easily available, but was wondering if anyone had any thoughts/experiences with Oxford World Classics or any others for example? I like having notes to help me understand the novel better, though I don't necessarily want to be bogged down with endless notes :)

I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life.

What. A. Opening. Line.

I read this book last month, it was my first T. Kingfisher and I just absolutely adored her humor.. so clever and whimsical. I looked through her others and she seems to write a lot of horror. Does anybody have any insight into how similar some of her other books are in terms of humor and whimsical vibes?

something you can do so wrong in a fantasy/historic fantasy novel is use the F word. it shatters the illusion of the world to me and just feels lazy. authors, be more creative with your curses! take SJM in her Throne of Glass series--they use "rut" or "rutting" . so creative!

I love this book dearly and I just saw it recommended as a "romantasy" in an ig post. It actually made me want to scream (or cry idk). I believe we have a responsibility as to what we promote and to who, and how we advertise it. Saying a story about an abusive relationship is a romance is ignorant and dangerous.

Vampire equals paranormal not fantasy, in this case I'd say it's more of a gothic/horror read. And there are real life victims of toxic relationships, people who can be triggered by this kind of content.

The person admitted they hadn't read the books on their list but still it made me a little mad. I got war flashbacks of the It Ends With Us movie promotion campaign (Blake Lively is my personal nightmare).

Update : they took into account what I told them about the book and said they'll be more mindful in the future so at least there's that

Blake is genre defining feminism, and you're all sleeping on her because you can't handle a run on.

i genuinely cannot tell if i am a genius for having predicted the whole thing about like 10 pages in or if this book is just that predictable