Any Omori lovers in chat? 👀 I’ve been replaying the game recently and my obsession is slowly coming back. I loved the storytelling, the tragedy, the overcoming anxiety and guilt, and found family themes of the game so much that I named my son (🐱) Basil 🥹🌻

This may be too niche, but if you’ve played Omori, let me know if you have any book recs that give the same uneasy/horror vibe, or similar themes, of this beloved game, or the sweet characters I’ve come to adore. It doesn’t have to be featuring a young cast or anything, just trying to find that gut-wrenching “I LOVE MY FRIENDS SO MUCH☹️💔” type of feeling that pulled me in.

How do y'all find the self control to stay away from tik tok and actually read your books. I feel like every time I sit down it's just easier to sit and doom scroll than it is to read and I want to get away from that. I'd delete tik tok but it's so hard since I get so many good book recommendations there.

Any Omori lovers in chat? 👀 I’ve been replaying the game recently and my obsession is slowly coming back. I loved the storytelling, the tragedy, the overcoming anxiety and guilt, and found family themes of the game so much that I named my son (🐱) Basil 🥹🌻

This may be too niche, but if you’ve played Omori, let me know if you have any book recs that give the same uneasy/horror vibe, or similar themes, of this beloved game, or the sweet characters I’ve come to adore. It doesn’t have to be featuring a young cast or anything, just trying to find that gut-wrenching “I LOVE MY FRIENDS SO MUCH☹️💔” type of feeling that pulled me in.

I had a few reading slumps this year and occurred to me half way through that short stories may be the way to keep me reading when for whatever reason can’t/won’t! So anything between 0-180 pages is the limit I set and it led me to some incredible stories - especially those that packed a punch 30>

Although the second person writing threw me slightly, the Six Deaths of A Saint by Alix E Harrow really was jaw dropping for me. Considering fantasy is so over saturated now, I thought Alix did an insanely talented job of cramming this whole world that just seemed so vast and full of possibilities (and tragedies) in just 30 pages Wow!

Anyway I read the rest of the anthology (Into Shadows) it was apart of which all again were pretty great reads, as well as some other collections of short stories! So my ask is for recommendations of any short stories I can note down for my reading slumps as it really is my tried and tested hack for ticking me over to still read or drawing me back in to the thicker stories!

Hello everyone, the new year is coming soon so I thought I might as well give this a try ... Every time I ask for book recs I'm hit with all the fantasy, whimsical, tiktok stuff that I don't really like (despite me saying that I don't care for it), so here goes nothing: does anyone have any good queer books to recommend to someone who loves narrative fiction, classic literature, etc? It doesn't have to be a romance at all, as long as the protagonist is queer (preferably sapphic) and it's somewhat relevant to the story!! I'm open to non-fiction as well, of course

(examples of books I've read and liked this year with this kind of vibe: giovanni's room, the color purple, ernesto,

So, I just started reading The way of the househusband... (๑'ᵕ'๑)

I haven't read Manga in years! And for some reason, I just really wanted to start. Especially romance! I just love seeing crushes, and relationships, and love being shown through art. It's kind of special. But as I was reading I was kind of wondering if they 'count' or rather if other readers add them towards their reading goal or books read. I know the community can be very divided on topics like this. A lot of people have the opinion that audiobooks aren't reading or shouldn't count, still!

So I'm curious! Would you, or do you, count Comics, Manga, Graphic Novels, towards your reading goal? Also please recommend Manga and Graphic Novels if you can! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و♡

I was going through Project Gutenberg's selection of E-Books and I realized that wow... there sure are a lot of books I've never ever heard of! So I was thinking it might be fun to ask about y'alls favorite underrated or unknown books that you have found (or have found you), and to say if they're available online. I'll go first: I found a copy of Marie Denis' "Des jours trop longs" as my uni was clearing out their library. It's a wonderful piece of prose about a woman reflecting on love, mariage, children, and pregnancy. Sadly, it's virtually unknown and you can barely find any info on it on the net, though I'd love if more people could read it. So how about you :) ?