In the British mandate of Palestine, Jewish settlers had revived the ancient scriptural language of Hebrew and taught it to their children as a mother tongue. They got far enough with Hebrew that in 1948, when Palestine gained independence from Britain as the State of Israel, it dropped English as an official language.

well this feels... like a wildly disingenuous way to describe the formation of israel. you'd think a book about empire would, i don't know, do a little better? be more honest?

Ok so I’ve heard of the “Spellsong cycle” and “Mystwick School of Musiccraft”. But does anyone know books where the magic system is based off sound/song? (also if including sound, I’ve read the invisible college which was…mid at best and why is he in a relationship with his student at worst).

It’s for a story I want to write, where you essentially fight with songs, and you guessed it there’s a big bracket tournament. I just don’t know how’ll work, like would you have to learn how to freestyle beats and songs? What instrument goes with what and how’ll lyrics impact the attack.

Thanks and sorry guys 😅 maybe it’s time for me to learn music theory

I‘ve seen this scattered around the internet before, and almost exclusively have a great time reading these kinds of ‚bad’ descriptions. I couldn’t find something like this on pagebound, so I thought we could try. (be aware that this might end up kinda spoiler-y for one book or the other)

so, the idea is: you break down the plot as simple as you can, for example in a single sentence, and let people guess what book you’re talking about.

I‘ll start: woman sparks revolution by acting like she’s about to kill herself.

It was a bad idea to finish this book at work (audio). Now I'm sniffling and crying and my heart hurts.

this is so insanely devastating.. i am so devastated..