thought this would be a good way to look for interesting reads but is there a book that you love but wouldn't readily recommend to most people? and if so, why? looking forward to the answers 👀

thought this would be a good way to look for interesting reads but is there a book that you love but wouldn't readily recommend to most people? and if so, why? looking forward to the answers 👀

I LOVE tim tams and also love the way the audiobook narrator says it, it sounds so funny and out of place.

Does anyone remember the book/book series that got them into reading? I can't remember the very first book I read but I distinctly remember reading The Castle in The Attic and The Borrowers which completely changed the way I viewed my day-to-day. I always found myself trying to catch tiny people walking around tree trunks or the rooms in my house. They definitely fed my love and hope for fairies as a child.

I am a little obsessed with first lines in literature. Do you guys have any favourite opening lines in books? Either because they immediately drew you in or because they were particularly clever?

One of my favourites is from A Darker Shade of Magic: "Kell wore a very peculiar coat. It had neither one side, which would be conventional, nor two, which would be unexpected, but several, which was, of course, impossible."

Or, a very famous one, from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: "The story so far: in the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

I quite enjoyed this, but what surprised me most was the translation work, especially considering the fact that this is Ringwald's first translation. Molly Ringwald is probably known mostly for her acting, though now I would love to read more works translated by her. In the past I have felt that translations can sometimes be clunky or awkwardly worded (and thus preferred to read untranslated stories whenever possible), yet in Ringwald's translation of Lie With Me there is none of that: I never even felt that I wasn't reading it in the original language, French (which I don't speak). What a feat. ☺️

I’m just sitting here, and don’t know what to do with myself.

I absolutely love the social and emotional commentary here. Also, the words themselves are just gorgeous and sweet. I am not usually a big fan of romance stories but these two are so sweet together.