Hello all, I recently watched a documentary about Samurai and would love that theme included in a fantasy book. Does anyone have some recommendations of fantasy worlds, cultures, wars, characters etc. based on Samurai or that aspect of japanese culture.

Good afternoon Bookaholics!

Lovely little question for you all today ☺️

Is there any classical literature that you think is overrated? Or any you think is super underappreciated? 🤔

I run an office book club and need book suggestions for our August theme: Beach Reads! Aka books you’d read on vacation! The theme is not genre specific but I’m envisioning literary fiction, maybe a light mystery. Something you would read by the pool since our company summer shutdown is coming up. Definitely something chill, casual, and under 400 pages! We try to avoid strict romance novels because this is an official company club but romance is welcome as a subplot. (We are scientists and the club is primary women).

Previous books we’ve read this year: -The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon -The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie -Katabasis by RF Kuang -The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna -The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Where I live, we’ve accumulated almost half a foot of rain in the last 48hrs (wow and also NEEDED). What’s a book you’ve read that just feels like a rainy day?🌧️💭

My latest discovery, from this year are definitely books of Charlotte Mcconaghy. I feel like the way she is interlacing nature with human tragedies is something incredible that I did not found in the way she did it yet. I read "Migrations", "Wild Dark Shore" and "Once There Were Wolves" as they are the only three books we have in my country and I fall in all of them just this year. My favourite one is after a lot of thoughts - the first one I read, which is "Wild Dark Shore". The plot and nature spoke to me the most, I even cried at the end although they are all beautifully written with such a sensitivity and a true look on our (future) world. I was wondering -if you read something from this author- what do you think about her work? Is it something you lacked before in reading or is it something absolutely not for you. I'm truly curious what you all think about it!

Hello fellow boundlings!! You know the drill… what’s a recent complaint (no matter how big, small, silly, dramatic, serious, etc) you need to shout to the void ?!📣

What's a book that you wish had more content avaliable? 🤔

For me it's dinosaur horror. I wish there was more because there is such a good opportunity. Games exist, but I wished more books existed.

I also would like more books about obsessive artists. Like the film Black Swan and Whiplash. If you're looking for a rec like it Boy Parts by Eliza Clark is great.