I'm bored so I'm gonna go get some more books, but I'm not entirely sure what ones to get and my friend isn't responding to my request for recommendations. If you could only recommend one book, one single book out of all the books you've read, what book would it be? And I'm not necessarily asking what's your favorite book. What's a book you would instantly recommend to anyone by default. What book instantly comes to mind when you think of recommending something. Standalone or series, any genre.

Right now the only thing I can think of is starting the realm of the elderlings or just getting more books from series I don't own all the books for yet.

"Who am I? This is a question that others ask, but has no answer. I am my language, I am an ode, two odes, ten. This is my language. I am my language. I am words’ writ: Be! Be my body! And I become an embodiment of their timbre."

I am finding the poems more and more moving as we move through time in the collection. This declaration of love for language really struck me. I like words well enough, but I have never so strongly identified with my language. And that makes me a little sad. I know it's because, at least in part, I have never had to hide my language, never spoken more than one meaningfully. And those things, too, are sad, although in different ways. And while I have frequently spent time being the only person who speaks my language in a room, I have always only had to leave the room to be among my native language again. The privilege of being an English speaker is knowing I am unlikely to ever be truly without my mother tongue.

I've seen a few posts about pet peeves regarding phrases, or trends, etc etc, and thought they were really fun. Seeing how different, or similar people think and feel. So, I'm taking inspiration again. What are you most ridiculous, irrational, maybe unfair, bookish pet peeves? As ridiculous as you can get!

To start the thread, I'll say an unfair, ridiculous pet peeve of mine is when someone won't read a book only because it has a high page count. Is that affecting me at all? No, no it isn't. Ultimately, I don't care what people read, I'm not sitting up at night in agony because someone won't read that 800-page novel; seeing it being said though, for some reason, irks me. Crazy-ness I know. I'm ashamed.

Remember: We're all friends here, and this is in lighthearted good fun! So, if someone comments a pet peeve that you might do, don't take it to heart, read how you enjoy reading. If someone does a pet peeve you may have, don't make them feel bad, they're reading how they enjoy reading and so are you. Either way reading should be celebrated!

Stay creepy lovies, Crow