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Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth
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This is the book that restarted my passion for reading and fantasy back when I was in college. I have read many others since, some but not many with stories I would consider better, and yet the prose remains unmatched. I would love to hear recommendations from other readers for books you feel like are comparable in this specific aspect!
If there is anyone hesitant to start because the series is unfinished I promise it is worth it even like this, it touches your imagination in just the right way. The re-read value is immense and you will keep discovering something new every time.
2silvercherry commented on kateesreads's review of Possession
It took me an irritatingly long time to read this, for various reasons, but every time I picked it back up, I did feel, in a way, possessed. A big old dense book, 606 pages in my edition, and one that feels like you're doing your own academic research in a way: sprawling, occasionally tedious, frequently engrossing. Between the letters and the journals and the poetry and the academic scuffles and the newspaper articles and so on it feels almost like your own triumph by the time you finish it. Beautiful and evocative, an unbelievably effective pastiche, (both of Victorian England and 1980s academic England, not that it was exactly far away in 1995; but what I mean is it had that frequently almost thoughtless British judgemental nastiness in some of its dialogue and narration and it captures the state of academia + academic thinking at the time), and I enjoyed the clashing machinations of the scholars a lot. I can't honestly say I thought much of either Randolph or Roland (except for his advocating for Lady Bailey to have her wheelchair) but that's Victorian poetic men and colourless male academics for you...? (Being flippant, but I never WAS a fan of Byron or Shelley particularly...) I appreciated their function but I think I ended up pledging myself to Beatrice and Maud and Blanche and Leonora on the whole. And I especially enjoyed Sabine's journal section; vivid. Fantastically clever intertwining of family fates and romances and literature and passions, and a wry examination of the state of modern Victorian academia. Desperate to read some criticism on this. How many free articles do you get on JSTOR?? 😭 I've also tabbed ('tabbed' hah not really I just folded the corners lol) a bunch of pages to go back to because they had quotes I really liked.
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I’ve been reading this on audiobook, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor (who I LOVE as an actor!) so it was pretty clear to me that Piranesi is a man. It’s so bizarre to think of other readers who have had a completely different experience and thought Piranesi was a woman when they started the book!
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Phoenix Unbound (Fallen Empire, #1)
Grace Draven
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A lovely novel, even though it's meant for children. I wish I would have discovered this series as a child because I know I would have been obsessed. I think what I like the most is how the essence of childhood is captured. Christopher stumbles and makes outrageous assumptions but also grows little by little. He looks back at himself and realizes that yeah, he was a little silly, or he has made a big mistake, and yet he pushes through to correct himself. It's a book of fun and adventure that also has the right amount of valuable lessons for a child, exactly as a children's boom should be.
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Reading this book, the main feelings I was hit with were frustration, unease, but also hope. The so-called witches have no way out of their accusations, the men in power want death and will not be persuaded.
I found myself rooting for the characters and getting anxious for their fate. I think each of their arcs was wrapped up perfectly by the end, even though it was sometimes depressing.
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The Witches of Vardø
Anya Bergman
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The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)
Brandon Sanderson
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I LOVE fantasy series of all sorts but there’s something about dragons, dude.
Anyone have any recommendations for an Inheritance cycle (Eragon) lover?
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Hey fellow book lovers!! I’ve been meaning to get into sci-fi for a while, but I’m not unsure where to start. What are some good introductions to the genre? Thanks so much!!
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A really enjoyable book that shows the events of the classical world which most impacted the modern west. It does not dive in very deeply on a specific moment in history, but rather shows a big picture of the history of the Greek and Roman civilizations. I think it does a great job of summarizing what is a huge amount of information and is a great starting point for more readings on the classical world. It even has a further readings section to help with this. Because it is structured on various cities rather than time periods sometimes the timeline is not exactly clear. It also does not detail about topics like cultural import and exchange with other civilizations (like Egypt for example) or the treatment of women and slaves during this periods. The author sort of addresses this, he acknowledges this discussions but does not focus on them in order to present the topics which are most influential to our world today. I kinda get this because topics are very important but also could fill volumes, which would be too much for a book that is meant to be an easy read for people not very informed about the classical world.
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Hopefully this is ok to post in this forum! When I was in middle school I started reading this book series that I really enjoyed, but I cannot remember the name of it for the life of me. I borrowed 2 of the books from a classmate and they were translated in my native language, however I'm not sure the originals were in English. I think there is a high chance the series was originally published in Italian or French as other books I borrowed from the same friend were like that.
This is gonna contain spoilers for the books, but the plot as I remember goes like this: the first volume is about a girl who goes to a magic school where they have a method to travel to other dimensions.One of the protagonist's friends was a girl who could see the future and is tormented by this, at the end of the book she eventually leaves to live in a world where time flows backward and she can have peace. The protagonist obtains the ability to create her own world that she has to nurture or it will be destroyed.
The other book was a prequel about 2 boys and the event that leads to the magic school founding. One of the boys has an ability with which he can revive someone in exchange for his own life, which he ends up using right at the end. The magic school from the first book is named after him.
This was pretty long post! I asked the same question on good reads years ago and I was pointed to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Every Heart a Doorway, however the book is neither of these 2.
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Hopefully this is ok to post in this forum! When I was in middle school I started reading this book series that I really enjoyed, but I cannot remember the name of it for the life of me. I borrowed 2 of the books from a classmate and they were translated in my native language, however I'm not sure the originals were in English. I think there is a high chance the series was originally published in Italian or French as other books I borrowed from the same friend were like that.
This is gonna contain spoilers for the books, but the plot as I remember goes like this: the first volume is about a girl who goes to a magic school where they have a method to travel to other dimensions.One of the protagonist's friends was a girl who could see the future and is tormented by this, at the end of the book she eventually leaves to live in a world where time flows backward and she can have peace. The protagonist obtains the ability to create her own world that she has to nurture or it will be destroyed.
The other book was a prequel about 2 boys and the event that leads to the magic school founding. One of the boys has an ability with which he can revive someone in exchange for his own life, which he ends up using right at the end. The magic school from the first book is named after him.
This was pretty long post! I asked the same question on good reads years ago and I was pointed to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Every Heart a Doorway, however the book is neither of these 2.
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The Classical World: The Foundations of the West and the Enduring Legacy of Antiquity
Nigel Spivey
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