It’s explicitly stated in one of the early chapters that the alien has nipples. Pierced nipples. Nipples pierced with gold bars. Where are gold-bar-pierced nipples on this cover? 😔 saddening to see the nipple-piercing erasure happening here

I’m so curious, and I have too many questions about everyone’s relationship to reading in English vs. reading in ur native language.

Do you pay it any mind? Is this something you actively try to balance? Can you decide to pick up a book translated from English to your native language?

Also for the people who, in addition to English and their native language, have a heritage language* they can read in. How comfortably can you read in your heritage language? Does that require A LOT of focus and effort like it does for me? In that case, how often do you make time for that focus and effort?

* = i was unfamiliar w this concept for a long time, so pasting this here from wikipedia for convenience: "A heritage language is a minority language (either immigrant or indigenous) learned by its speakers at home as children, and difficult to be fully developed because of insufficient input from the social environment."

Hello friends!

I have a question for those who read in several languages. How do your register the books you’ve read? Specifically, my problem is that the discussions on English-language forums (translations of books written in other languages) tend to be livelier than in the original language of the book. That’s why sometimes I register the books I’ve read twice: in the language I’ve read it and in the most popular translation, so that I could follow the discussions. Sometimes I would even register only the English translation. Have you encountered this issue? What do you usually do?

Hello everyone! I’m working on a list inspired by my current read (the Iron Widow follow-up) of morally grey female characters. I already have Gone Girl, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, Gideon the Ninth, Faebound, and the Poppy War. As per usual, as soon as I tried to brainstorm books that fit this category I forgot every book I’ve ever read.

Please make your cases for other female characters that fit the bill! Think characters who are motivated at least partly selfishly to help to save the world OR who will stop at nothing (even harming others) to achieve their (mostly) altruistic ends.

I’m wondering if Katniss fits this list and would love to hear thoughts!

Bonus points for characters from marginalized groups (especially those not yet represented on the list). As you can see, I definitely began from an already diverse group, but don’t want the remainder of the list to be white and cishet.

Edit: here is the link for the list!

I read Belladonna last year and absolutely loved it. Would you recommend reading the rest of the series? If so, should I reread the first book before continuing?