#International bestseller

[expendablemudge]

International bestselling #Japanese #translation DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP is a great #Booksgiving gift for the one-sitting reader you'll have around the table or tree.

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"The Dallergut Dream Department Store" by Lee Miye

Thank you @ucantreadwithus for the rec! This was fun! ❤️

[morganc89]

Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker

I had to take a brief hiatus from leisure reading for a bit, but I’m happy to announce I’m back at it and sharing my opinion that nobody asked for! Even when I’ve restricted myself from reading I still maintain my Book of the Month subscription, so this one was my September choice and arrived at just the right time to be my next read. The sleeve promises “A gripping story of motherhood,…

[manaretailoutletusa]

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[protoindoeuropean]

Ugh I feel the same about the Three Body Problem, I heard such good things about it too

Yeah I don't really get the popularity of it. And I wanted it to be good! Like, the ideas are interesting, which carries it quite a bit – enough that I still want to finish the whole trilogy! – but I get so annoyed with it 😒

And I readily admit that it's also because the whole cynical and nihilistic outlook is not foreign to me at all, it's just that it's been so long since I've moved on from that and so reading about all that (again) just makes me mentally go "ok, move on already" as if talking to my cringy old self. And I know different people have different journeys wrt that, but all the characters who are supposed to be the smart ones seem to be caught in this same outlook and everyone just seems to agree that that's the most rational way of looking at the world and I just get so annoyed with that :/

And the writing is just ... not good. Idk I would like to say that it's the translation or that it's a different kind of storytelling tradition that I'm just not used to, but I really don't think that's it. If the dialogues feel unnatural, if at points you feel you're being recited a summary of what happened rather than actually experiencing what happened, then that's just bad writing 🤷‍♂️ I don't get it

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i'm reading the hunger games prequel at the moment. i had no interest in it for a long time, but somebody whose opinions i value said it was doing some interesting things, so i thought i would give it a try. but what's really striking me about it is how... clunky the writing style is. thg+sequels aren't exactly the most sparkling, beautiful prose but they're sparse and functional in a way that works and feels stylish. this feels, i don't know... juvenile? unpolished? it's surprising, tbh

i tend to be super bothered by lacklustre prose – I think it's bc i don't have a strongly visual imagination, so at no point do books give me a movie in my head, i am always experiencing them as words and not as pictures. that makes it hard to ignore when the words aren't great. but wasn't expecting this one to read so much like how i wrote as a fourteen-year-old. there's so much that could be trimmed back when it comes to describing emotions and thoughts. "he wondered" "he felt" – so many of these words unnecessarily littering the sentences and distancing us from the actual emotions

idk man. whatever i was expecting of this book, i didn't think mediocre sentences would be the main thing bugging me

[susanhannifordcrowley]

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[vintagerobin]

There's definitely press coverage enough in most depictions, it's just that "chronic adopter Bruce Wayne" isn't the focus... so much as "tragedy follows Bruce Wayne". The deaths of his parents had so sooo much media coverage, and then the deaths of the Graysons after that, and then Jason's death, and then the Drakes.

Adoptions don't make the news, but death does. And in quite a few sources true crime content almost seems to be a major export for Gotham, so I don't doubt that plenty of people recognize them even outside of Gotham... it's just for sad reasons rather than funny.

I know the "DCU loves talking about chronic adopter Bruce Wayne" jokes are funny, but I honestly don't think normal people in the DCU would talk or think about it all that much. Angelina Jolie has six kids, three of whom are adopted, and they're largely footnotes in conversations about her. Madonna also has six kids, four of whom are adopted, and they're never talked about except in random "Madonna as a Mother" variety articles.

The Waynes are certainly well-known in-universe, but they're not Kardashians; Bruce has no desire to market himself or his family as a public spectacle in a way that would generate that type of press. The most he ever puts his kids in the spotlight is when they attend functions or meetings in his place and when he and Tim sat for that interview after Tim's adoption. It'd be a fun factoid imo and I certainly think Gothamites might joke about it in the way anyone fondly talks about local celebrities, but I just don't see it being a Big Thing people think about all the time

[authordianecalabrese]

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[rachel-sylvan-author]

"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle

Thank you @yayyyybooks for the reread! ❤️

[morganc89]

The Last Word by Taylor Adams

This book was originally offered as a choice from Book of the Month in May 2023 but I got it as an add-on a couple of months ago; I couldn’t resist a story about a book review that takes an ugly turn. Emma Carpenter gets a gig house-sitting a beach house on the ultra isolated Strand Beach in Washington for the winter. With only her dog Laika to keep her company, the mysterious Emma is happy to…

[manaretailoutletusa]

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[gracerings]

lestat somehow ends up having beef with taylor swift because she released the 15th version of her new album the same day the vampire lestat album came out and made it go number two on the charts. his fans are mad and they say she’s not a ‘girl’s girl’ because they think lestat is secretly using she/her pronouns. this causes MAD discourse on twitter because people say lestans (official name of his fandom) are co-opting struggles of real trans/genderqueer artists and that lestat is clearly just a cis white man who thinks his aesthetic is cool and hip with the times but he’s actually super cringe. lestat has killed his pr team so he tweets himself in response to the drama and says that mademoiselle swiftié is a perfectly fine musician but she’s basically a baby compared to his long relationship with music. swifties ratio him on twitter calling him ‘an old queen’ and ‘world’s worst father’ (this is because they read international bestseller interview with the vampire). lestat has an emotional breakdown and cries for three days and he eats his makeup artist for making him look old. his producers are desperate and they ask daniel molloy to fix him because daniel is the unofficial vampire therapist now. vampire daniel’s idea of fixing lestat is to go on a blood bender with him. somehow this works because in between victims daniel tells lestat to stop being a little bitch and grow the fuck up. here lestat understands for the first time why daniel and louis are friends and asks daniel to telepathically call louis for him because he needs him. daniel tells him to eat shit. as they return to lestat’s shack (yes he still lives there when he’s not touring) they find out that swifties have doxxed him and showed up to the shack to ravage it. lestat starts crying again while daniel falls over himself laughing and records everything and posts it on tiktok. armand likes the video 0.3 seconds after it’s posted. throughout all of this louis is on a beach somewhere enjoying a quiet night, he telepathically asks daniel how lestat’s doing and daniel tells him to not even worry about it.

[richardtheteacher]

The Top Five Mistakes That Trainee High School Teachers Are Making

An article by Richard James Rogers (Award-Winning Author of The Quick Guide to Classroom Management and The Power of Praise: Empowering Students Through Positive Feedback). This blog post has been beautifully illustrated by Pop Sutthiya Lertyongphati. Anyone who is new to the teaching profession is bound to make mistakes. There’s so much to learn and so much is at stake: the future careers of…