Hello! I have a sense that my reading tastes are shifting, and so I am looking specifically for books that feel timeless - no social media, no modern technology, nothing super contemporary. Classics are not my wheelhouse lol so looking for recs there but also looking for recs for novels written more recently that feel timeless. Thank you all!!

hi friends, where is your favourite place to read outside of your home and why? i always feel like bringing a book out or going somewhere just to read makes it a whole different experience!

my number one spot has to be on the plane, especially a long-haul flight. the silence, isolation and my inability to sleep seem to be the perfect recipe for devouring three books in a row.

Hey y'all 👋🏻

I noticed that the Who's Who Wednesday posts have ended. I looked it up and saw that the user who started it originally deleted their account 😔😭 Jadelovesbooks

These were some of my favorite posts to read through so I'd like to bring it back if that's cool (or if these were ended on purpose, let me know and I'll remove this).

It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is possibly part 17.

If you participated in any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

If you’re new, introduce yourself!

I’ll go first.

My name is Wibbily. If I was a video game character, this is the loot I would drop after being defeated: 🎧 - over the ear headphones 🎲 - dice 🃏 - Pokemon cards 📚 - books ☕ - iced coffee 💄 - bright red lipstick

i find myself quite often going back and changing my star ratings of books (i rarely remove anything i wrote though i sometimes add updated thoughts to old reviews, clearly labeled as a edit) the main reason i find myself doing this is frankly just that putting distance between myself and the book and allowing my thoughts to fester (over weeks/months/years) allows me to form more complete thoughts (undistracted by the joy of finishing a book, and the scales [can] fall from my eyes, as Wodehouse would say.) do you do this? if so how do you normally go about? and it and what if anything causes you do want to change your ratings?

Have you read a translated book you liked so much that you will read—maybe even buy—every other available translation of it? Are you on a mission to compare/contrast different translations, to suss out which one speaks to you, or helps you see the book in a new way? Please tell me which books those are for you (and maybe even which translation you like best, for extra credit 😁), because I’d love to hear about them!

For example, I’ve started to get very interested in comparing/contrasting English translations of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. I read Dorothy Sayers’ translation first—which I still adore, because Sayers’ introduction to Inferno is a masterclass in literary introductions—and then at some point realized that my experience with the text is probably wildly different from people who read older/newer translations. Then one day I picked up Robin Kirkpatrick’s 2014 translation, and it was such a different experience! Obviously the crux of the story is the same, but it felt kind of like walking into your bedroom after someone rearranged the furniture: the same room, but also not. Now I am on a mission to read a wider sampling of the English translations of Divine Comedy (I don’t think I could ever read all of them in this lifetime lol).

Please tell me about your translation hyperfixations! 🙏👀