It’s always hilarious to me when a book is heralded as a must read classic and it inevitably has the weirdest plot imaginable. Here’s this book about baby electroshock therapy, it’s important for our society.

I will say this book is starting to feel a bit dragged out. Maybe I need to take a break and come back to it because right now I'm a bit bored

Hello wonderful readers! I've been seeing several posts where people talk about reading books in languages other than English, and I was wondering where I could find such books! My third language is Japanese and I need to up my proficiency ASAP, so I figured I could start by reading books in Japanese. I'm having a hard time finding books that are reasonably priced though (at this point it might be cheaper for me just to fly over to Japan and buy books there), so I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for places I could find such books without making my wallet cry. I'm fine with either print or digital

I've started reading in the language I'm learning and I understand it pretty well, but would like to be able to read a little faster by not needing to think about what every word is in English. 😅

When do you go from reading and mentally translating into your native language to reading and understanding IN the language?

Do you have any tips for intermediate learners starting to read novels in the language they're studying?

I've started to take the approach of a sci-fi novel that starts out with a bunch of conlang and you figure out the words you don't know as you go, but I'd be curious to hear how others go about it!!

I'm waiting for this book to hook me, but it hasn't quite happened yet. Unsure if this series is for me unfortunately.