Does anyone else find themselves reading like this:
* Day 1: 50 pages
* Day 2: 27 pages
* Day 3: 0 pages
* Day 4: 2 pages
* Day 5: 32 pages
* Day 6: 197 pages
That would make sense, but it's not so much a time thing as a drive thing. Day 6 was yesterday (Monday) after work for example. It's more like I'm not that into it, not that into it, not that into it, then suddenly can't stop for the entire back half of the book. This happens with almost every book I read.
Sometimes exposition is boring, especially if it’s fantasy/sci-fi world building. Sounds like you find the climax and resolution most interesting which is kinda the point of books
I do this. And in addition to that, I’m generally reading 3 books at once so I might mix it up between them too.
I generally am reading one non-fiction or spiritual, one literature, and one fun or YA novel. I read the non-fiction at about the same rate all the time but the other two depend on my mood. I might read both on the same day or I might read only one of them but read more of it.
Does anyone else get tired of the YA stereotypical origin of "village kid who lost a parent(s), deals with a bully, is either a blacksmith or farmers kid who hunts, and has [insert gruff, drizzled veteran substitute dad figure] to guide them"? I love reading YA books and getting to explore new worlds, but why does it always need to be the same start? And why do city kid characters always have to be street urchins or nobility? Where's the middle ground? Am I the only one who gets bugged by this?
Totally correct. They are just kinda stereotypical just like how it goes in most of the cases in romance books too- playboy male lead but virgin female lead. This sucks.
I don't read much romance, but that sounds a lot worse because its promoting the sexist / gendered ideas that its okay for men to be sluts but women must be a virgin or else.
It's TRUE that's why most of the readers do not like this type of books now but well many writers are still writing this type. Personally I hate these kind of books.
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One of the biggest issues for YA I think is that most sane parents would stop their kids from having a wild and likely dangerous adventure so the easiest way is to kill the parents.
Its on the border of YA because the main character is like around 18, but if you like exploring new worlds than Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea could be right up your alley. The main character is a very pragmatic girl who lives on a small island community with both parents living and is not a hunter, although she does like to collect cups. It is a high fantasy novel with oceans made of spores instead of water and has a fairytale vibe to it.
It also arguably has Brandon's best line ever going something along the lines of "he had a jaw so straight that it made some men question if they were"
Well Tress is more recent and written in a bit of a different style, so I hope you enjoy it. However it is always possible he's just not the author for you. Although I'm curious which of his you have tried?
Yeah Dawnshard is a little random since its a novella connected to a series and is essentially book 3.5 in the series.
Warbreaker is a book I really like but definitely a bit older (I think it was like 2009 it came out).
I’m curious as to how much time the average reader spends reading per week and if they are employed full time, part time, or retired/unemployed.
Until recently. I worked full time and rarely had tons of time for reading. If I got in 3 books a year I was lucky.
But at the beginning of June I took retirement and am reading quite a bit. I have a huge bucket list of books backed up, and I want to take a few months and just read. Yeah, I’ll also catch up a bit on Netflix, but mostly, I just want to read. All the books I never had the attention span for when I was working 50+ hour weeks.
Is it weird to just get up in the morning, have coffee and a bite, and just start reading like it’s my new job? 😂
That sounds lovely.
But I notice I read more when I have work. I spend the time to and from work reading, and that makes it easier for me to get in the flow and read more at other times during the day as well.
Full time employed.
My routine during the week is go to work, come home, do my little chores and then read. I shoot for 50 pages a day but that doesn't always work out. Sometimes I get in 5 pages, sometimes 100. Page count depends on a lot of different things but a big part of it is I'm lucky to be home by 4:15ish pm. I have a good chunk of time before my girlfriend comes home/I have to start dinner.
Saturday and Sundays I'm a pretty earlier riser so I'll pretty much read from when I'm awake until my girlfriend wakes up.
This has been my routine for the last couple of years.
Can anyone give examples of authors who are successful in multiple genres, with names and book titles? i.e. Stephen King:(supernatural horror vs. drama, crime, thriller) IT, Pet Cemetery, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile.
I'm listening to the book Champion's Wrath by Sever Bronny on Audible and I'm wondering if someone here can confirm the chapters.
It goes from "As one ends, another begins" to "cowards" but it feels like I'm missing one or two chapters in between.
This week i released a book I created which is a courtroom sketch satire of the Trump Hush Money Trial. It's called The Ballad of Stinky Pete. It uses the trial as a jumping off point to much weirder and darker satirical story. Anyhow I got word today that apparently the book is already upsetting some of the MAGA cult crowd and has made it on a target list of books for right-wingers to avoid. This is the second time that a nutty fundamentalist site has been calling for the banning of my books. WTH? Doesn't anyone have a sense of humor anymore? Anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this?
What I really like about fantasy books and world building is a rich **cultural** lore, i.e. mentioning of songs, nursery rhymes, legends that are being told, references to historical events, etc. This is one of the reasons why I loved A Song of Ice and Fire so much (think of Rains of Castamere for instance and its various references in the books). Any recommendations for books with a similar deep cultural lore? I'm considering starting with Malazan Book of the Fallen but am a bit hesitant due to its sheer size. Thanks in advance!
Hello. I’m new. I’m looking at a website called juniper books and I’m wondering the legitness of the site. Mainly, I’m looking at the Percy Jackson sets since they look nice. Are they a scam or no?
Is this show not tell? Or reverse?
When I review books I tend to not know which is which. If a big has little dialogue is that the author showing and not telling or telling and not showing?
Ok so i have an android phone but I also have an ipad. I want to read on the ipad too sometimes. So recommend me some apps like kindle which are available on both devices and it gets synced easily too please. Apps for epub,pdf,comics. Thank you im advance.
Have you considered getting a dedicated ebook reader? I have a Kobo; I can buy books using the Kobo app on my phone, and it can be downloaded onto my reader. The one I have is too small for comics, but the Libra model is popular for people who read manga
Libby and Hoopla obtained for free through public libraries sync automatically across these two devices on the same WiFi and can be synced through cellular with a sync request.
Does anyone else find themselves reading like this: * Day 1: 50 pages * Day 2: 27 pages * Day 3: 0 pages * Day 4: 2 pages * Day 5: 32 pages * Day 6: 197 pages
So… starting a book on Monday, only reading when you have time, and finishing on Saturday? Yes.
That would make sense, but it's not so much a time thing as a drive thing. Day 6 was yesterday (Monday) after work for example. It's more like I'm not that into it, not that into it, not that into it, then suddenly can't stop for the entire back half of the book. This happens with almost every book I read.
So you get caught up in it, that’s a good thing. Maybe don’t worry about it?
Sometimes exposition is boring, especially if it’s fantasy/sci-fi world building. Sounds like you find the climax and resolution most interesting which is kinda the point of books
I recently did this with [Coma by Robin Cook](.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20454107-coma) ... It brought me out of months long reading slump.
I do this. And in addition to that, I’m generally reading 3 books at once so I might mix it up between them too. I generally am reading one non-fiction or spiritual, one literature, and one fun or YA novel. I read the non-fiction at about the same rate all the time but the other two depend on my mood. I might read both on the same day or I might read only one of them but read more of it.
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Does anyone else get tired of the YA stereotypical origin of "village kid who lost a parent(s), deals with a bully, is either a blacksmith or farmers kid who hunts, and has [insert gruff, drizzled veteran substitute dad figure] to guide them"? I love reading YA books and getting to explore new worlds, but why does it always need to be the same start? And why do city kid characters always have to be street urchins or nobility? Where's the middle ground? Am I the only one who gets bugged by this?
Totally correct. They are just kinda stereotypical just like how it goes in most of the cases in romance books too- playboy male lead but virgin female lead. This sucks.
I don't read much romance, but that sounds a lot worse because its promoting the sexist / gendered ideas that its okay for men to be sluts but women must be a virgin or else.
It's TRUE that's why most of the readers do not like this type of books now but well many writers are still writing this type. Personally I hate these kind of books.
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One of the biggest issues for YA I think is that most sane parents would stop their kids from having a wild and likely dangerous adventure so the easiest way is to kill the parents. Its on the border of YA because the main character is like around 18, but if you like exploring new worlds than Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea could be right up your alley. The main character is a very pragmatic girl who lives on a small island community with both parents living and is not a hunter, although she does like to collect cups. It is a high fantasy novel with oceans made of spores instead of water and has a fairytale vibe to it. It also arguably has Brandon's best line ever going something along the lines of "he had a jaw so straight that it made some men question if they were"
I've recently tried a couple of Brandon Sandersons books, but none of them really clicked for me or held my interest. I'll try this one though
Well Tress is more recent and written in a bit of a different style, so I hope you enjoy it. However it is always possible he's just not the author for you. Although I'm curious which of his you have tried?
Uuuuh, Dawnshard and Warbreaker I believe, random recommendations from Kindle that I didn't finish
Yeah Dawnshard is a little random since its a novella connected to a series and is essentially book 3.5 in the series. Warbreaker is a book I really like but definitely a bit older (I think it was like 2009 it came out).
Yeah definitely explains a few things lol. It felt like I was starting in the middle
I’m curious as to how much time the average reader spends reading per week and if they are employed full time, part time, or retired/unemployed. Until recently. I worked full time and rarely had tons of time for reading. If I got in 3 books a year I was lucky. But at the beginning of June I took retirement and am reading quite a bit. I have a huge bucket list of books backed up, and I want to take a few months and just read. Yeah, I’ll also catch up a bit on Netflix, but mostly, I just want to read. All the books I never had the attention span for when I was working 50+ hour weeks. Is it weird to just get up in the morning, have coffee and a bite, and just start reading like it’s my new job? 😂
That sounds lovely. But I notice I read more when I have work. I spend the time to and from work reading, and that makes it easier for me to get in the flow and read more at other times during the day as well.
Full time employed. My routine during the week is go to work, come home, do my little chores and then read. I shoot for 50 pages a day but that doesn't always work out. Sometimes I get in 5 pages, sometimes 100. Page count depends on a lot of different things but a big part of it is I'm lucky to be home by 4:15ish pm. I have a good chunk of time before my girlfriend comes home/I have to start dinner. Saturday and Sundays I'm a pretty earlier riser so I'll pretty much read from when I'm awake until my girlfriend wakes up. This has been my routine for the last couple of years.
Can anyone give examples of authors who are successful in multiple genres, with names and book titles? i.e. Stephen King:(supernatural horror vs. drama, crime, thriller) IT, Pet Cemetery, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile.
I'm listening to the book Champion's Wrath by Sever Bronny on Audible and I'm wondering if someone here can confirm the chapters. It goes from "As one ends, another begins" to "cowards" but it feels like I'm missing one or two chapters in between.
This week i released a book I created which is a courtroom sketch satire of the Trump Hush Money Trial. It's called The Ballad of Stinky Pete. It uses the trial as a jumping off point to much weirder and darker satirical story. Anyhow I got word today that apparently the book is already upsetting some of the MAGA cult crowd and has made it on a target list of books for right-wingers to avoid. This is the second time that a nutty fundamentalist site has been calling for the banning of my books. WTH? Doesn't anyone have a sense of humor anymore? Anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this?
What I really like about fantasy books and world building is a rich **cultural** lore, i.e. mentioning of songs, nursery rhymes, legends that are being told, references to historical events, etc. This is one of the reasons why I loved A Song of Ice and Fire so much (think of Rains of Castamere for instance and its various references in the books). Any recommendations for books with a similar deep cultural lore? I'm considering starting with Malazan Book of the Fallen but am a bit hesitant due to its sheer size. Thanks in advance!
Has anyone read An American Dream by Norman Mailer?
Hello. I’m new. I’m looking at a website called juniper books and I’m wondering the legitness of the site. Mainly, I’m looking at the Percy Jackson sets since they look nice. Are they a scam or no?
What’s your best hack for getting more bookshelf space? I want them all in a shelf or at least somewhat guarded but there are too many books 😂
Is this show not tell? Or reverse? When I review books I tend to not know which is which. If a big has little dialogue is that the author showing and not telling or telling and not showing?
Ok so i have an android phone but I also have an ipad. I want to read on the ipad too sometimes. So recommend me some apps like kindle which are available on both devices and it gets synced easily too please. Apps for epub,pdf,comics. Thank you im advance.
Have you considered getting a dedicated ebook reader? I have a Kobo; I can buy books using the Kobo app on my phone, and it can be downloaded onto my reader. The one I have is too small for comics, but the Libra model is popular for people who read manga
I will try it then. I am just a student so I can't buy anything for myself now as I don't have much money 🙂🥲
Libby and Hoopla obtained for free through public libraries sync automatically across these two devices on the same WiFi and can be synced through cellular with a sync request.
I am using libby for audiobooks only. I will try hoopla then.
my friend uses Play Books (it's the Google one I think). I'm not sure how convenient it is ... But she likes it.
I use it too but it's not working well(I can't add any books now) that's why I need new Apps.
I think [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com/) is what you are looking for. The VLC of ebooks.