Hello! I am looking for translated book recommendations. I have already read Idol Burning, A Magical Girl Retires, and Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.

Is anyone else struggling with reading while working on a paper? Every time I read for fun I feel guilty because I could be reading something useful for my research instead - even in my free time 😭I really need to shake this off otherwise I just end up doomscrolling or something.

Idk if it's just me but I find non standalone books very intimidating. I just recently came out of a reading slump and as someone who used to only read long fantasy series it seems super strange to me that I dont even wanna look at them atm I do miss the feeling of exploring a new intricate world, and I understand why that's difficult to do in one book, but even thinking about searching for each book and reading all of them feels so exhausting! I can't even comprehend how I got through hp and five kingdoms, anything more than 500 pages makes me physically tired to think about

I thought it would be kind of fun to see where in the world people are, and then folks can make friends with people from the same countries/ares (if they way, not pressure obviously). I'll go first. I'm Canadian, and more specifically I am in British Columbia (Vancouver Island if you want to get fancy). Try to find your country and join that thread! Everyone else?

apparently this volume in particular has a few lines that struck out to me so i chose to make this thread I didn’t want to be constantly anxious. I wanted certainty. I wanted to get rid of my fears. Basically, I wanted… “I want to be happy.” — page 110 hit way too close to home, unfortunately 😞

i'm almost done with this book. and i'm genuinely convinced that half of sinclair's problems would be fixed if he had just admitted to himself that he's bi and not stuck in comphet hell. it's truly amusing yet saddening at the same time seeing how gay he is for demian

what’s been the best book you’ve read this year, so far? i love it when a book sneaks up on you and unexpectedly - any surprises? my current top two are blood over bright haven (ml wang) and masters of death (olivie blake). when starting blood over bright haven i was pretty confident i would like it, but masters of death was a complete surprise!

Do you write a review immediately upon finishing the book, or do you prefer sitting on it for a bit? I like writing when everything is very fresh in my mind; no more than a day after finishing it, at most, but sometime I do look back on ratings for exemple and think.. I might have been a bit over-generous in the excitment of the read

I wanted to read authors from Asia, do you recommend to start with RF Kuang or Han Kang? Which books to you like? Or which other authors do you recommend? ❤️‍🩹

I was just wondering how long yall have been reading? And what got you into it? I can't remember fully but I'm pretty sure I've been reading all my life. It's just been one of those comforts in my life that's always been there <33

I read Kamogawa Food Detectives and Before The Coffee Gets Cold recently and loved the vibes of a slice-of-life novel, packed with emotions and coziness. Any recs for more Japanese novels like these?