After reading lots of Cormac McCarthy last year, and really enjoying The Border Trilogy, I keep seeing this one posted by others so I decided to give it a read. I hope it stacks up!

What up everyone! Here's my physical TBR. Just about to finish Babel and halfway through mere Christ. This is the year I got into reading, and I've never been more excited about reading! Anybody got spoiler free thoughts on any of there books, order to read, etc?

Sooo hard to pick a favorite but right now I’m leaning towards Johnny got his gun, I just finished it today and was tearing up at the end and I very rarely cry at books even when I do find them really sad. I’m starting the Didion one tomorrow and I’m very excited because its my first time reading one of her books.

Not really sure how to tag this so doing other genre. I’m a life long reader and up until a few years ago, I had vivid images in my head when I read.

I think the shift started when I began focusing on my reading speed. I read DAILY but I’m an incredibly slow reader. I can maybe get through 20-30 books a year depending on their length. With the rise of Goodreads/Booktook/TBR lists, I started to get really self conscious about how much I’m able to read in a given time frame. While reading, I would think I wasn’t going fast enough or that I was never going to get to other books on my TBR list instead of being immersed in my book. Because I was so focused on my pace, I felt like I unknowingly was losing the mental images I saw in my head while reading.

All of that changed though when I started reading aloud to my daughter every night. About a month ago my wife and I had our first born. I take the night shift, tending to her needs until the early morning. One of the things I started doing with her is reading to her aloud while I rock her to sleep. She obviously has no idea what is going on, but I’ve heard that even just seeing your lips move and hearing your voice is great for a newborns development.

Last night I was reading Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams to her. Again, she’s got no idea what I’m saying so I’m not too concerned about subject matter lol. But I was really getting into it. Doing different voices. Changing my inflection depending on the pros. And for the first time in a LONG time I realized I was not in my head about my reading “efficiency”. I could see the movements of the main characters like I was blocking out a scene in a movie. The landscapes were beautiful. It was such an amazing moment to become so conscious of the change in my focus.

Anyway, my recommendation to the community is to slow the hell down. It’s great to have a TBR list. It’s great to be a quick reader. But the magic of reading comes from exactly that, reading. You will die before you can finish your whole TBR list. Just finish the page you’re on.

(Butcher’s Crossing is also phenomenal BTW)

No spoilers. Did you enjoy this one?

I’m about 100 pages deep so far. I recently finished The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi and I really liked it. I’m digging City of Brass so far.

For me, I think it’s that feeling of wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes it’s an interesting character, sometimes it’s the way a story makes you feel, and sometimes you can’t even explain it. You just need to know where things are going.

I’ve also picked up books that started slowly but ended up surprising me, so I’m curious about how other readers approach this.

Do you usually give a book a few chapters to win you over, or do you drop it as soon as it fails to grab your attention?

I only read around 12 books a year on average. Is there something wrong with me if I can't boost that number? Anytime I try to push myself I end up burning out, especially this year has been terrible, as I'm only at six books finished so far and I only loved one of them.

I'd like to be the kind of person who reads a lot of books. I've learned the value of classic literature and I benefit a lot from reading biographies. I think books at their absolute best have the potential to surpass other forms of media.

I recently finished The Art of Being Alone and I'm looking for something new to read. I'm open to both novels and self-help books, just want something that's actually interesting and worth reading.

What have you guys read recently that you'd recommend?

My first true-crime book. Should I add any others to my TBR?

Hey everyone,
So, in a moment of irritation, I decided to get rid of my good reads account a few months ago. I was just always annoyed by the layout of it, but of course the one thing I did like was that it was keep track of all the books I was reading.

I read mainly on my kindle and I don’t understand why there isn’t a built in tracker over this. It just tells you what books you’ve read, not when and not specific to the current year.

So throughout my time on here, I’ve seen people mention different reading apps, like Fable, I think? I’m wondering if these are truly worth it or if I just need to go back to good reads and start fresh.

I’d love your opinions and/or recommendations.
Thanks!

It’s my birthday next month and I was thinking about reading 1984, is it any good?

The only books I’ve read is Dave Grohls storyteller and some of sun tzus art of war.

Aswell as some Children’s books when I was little and everything they make you read in school.

This has been on my TBR for a while... Thoughts?

Hey all, my most recent post here was about Verity and boy, I was glad I asked for y'all's opinion! I finished it and also read your comments. Had a great time reading through them.

Now I'm about to start Anxious People; so far, I've only read Backman's short stories and I liked them.

Has anyone read this book and then watched the series? I'd love to hear your thoughts. Cheers!

Does this happen to anyone else? When reading a good book after taking a short break, you get so excited to watch this TV show or movie with the super cool plot and like all these characters and stuff and like imagine them in your head and then you realize it’s actually the book that you’re reading??

If a book comes in both paperback and e-book formats, which one would you get?

Hey everyone, I've been reading books for the past 8 years now (since I was 13 years old), but the recurring problem is that I forget what I read from the books I've read, yes I can tell you what it talk about and what can you learn from it. But the details gets easily forgotten by the days. Let me give you an example; if you read Atomic habits (a self-help book), you can tell anyone it talks about habits and that there is 4 steps to build or destroy any habit, but what you may have forgotten for example "that your identity becomes linked to those around you".

See what I mean? Like details get forgotten!

If you have any suggestions to how someone can never forget details from any book, your free to comment it down bellow so you can show me and other people how to better structure our reading!

If a book is available as an e-book, is it generally better to get the e-book version? And only buy physical books for the ones you can't get as e-books? What do you think?

There’s something so satisfying about the smell and feel of actual paper pages, but holding a light Kindle in bed without needing a nightlight is such a game changer.

What’s your main format for reading these days, and why do you stick with it?

I hated this book. It simply wasn’t what it intended to be.
Adam is a whining teenager all throughout the book, because he either doesn’t get what he wanted, or that it is everybody’s fault but his own. There is not a single instance where he is a mature adult in the situation.
It seems he prides himself on being an obstetrician and gynaecologist. When the humbleness and humility are lost, what is left is the underlying ego, and ego has no place in the medical field. Please, go ahead and curse the system, all the doctors will support you, we we can make efforts to get better reforms better working conditions, but ego, sorry to say will be supported by no one.
Being an OBGYN myself, it feels jarring to think that someone who got the education and sat through so many deliveries would reflect back on those days in such a negative light. In this field most of us are optimistic, seeing as we deliver babies and try to keep the mums safe.
Will have to accept, that he does have a good comedic timing and sense while writing, but most times it does fall flat considering those patients are real people, with real problems.
One of the instances that really irked me, was where, there was a patient with a psychiatric illness, and the author rants about how she could do this and take ‘important’ doctors away from other emergency patients, and what traumas must’ve caused her to do this, as though, patients with a psychiatric illness do things on purpose, if it were that simple, and these things were under the voluntary control, psychiatry as a branch wouldn’t exist.
Overall, I feel like, this book and his ramblings deserve more so to be in therapy, rather than in bookshelves!

I've just completed reading the third book in the housemaid series, the housemaid is watching and I wasn't really expecting what I felt, when I was reading the book, when I first picked it up. It is certainly my most favorite and creepy book in the entire series! I know, this is not the kind of review you must've heard before and I honestly feel this way.

It does have some trivial things like a sort of family humor and stuff, but that shouldn't fool you into thinking that is all it is there. And throughout the book, you would be fixated on a certain person, that they are the culprit. But, you would never in your wildest dreams would've fancied that the real murderer was who they are.

In a nutshell, I've thoroughly enjoyed my time reading this book. Infact, I read it in under 5 hours, in one sitting and ai was constantly scared for even the faintest noises. So, I'd like to leave it to your imagination how utterly intriguing it was. And I am not saying that everyone has to feel the same way I did. As it is said, reading preferences are wholly subjective and I am just sharing my thoughts on it.

If anyone, had a similar perspective, let me know!

So i was searching through a short fiction stories books . I loved the short stories like the third level, evan tries an O’Level and the midnight visitors, the rattrap . When i googled it google recommended me Oxford book of English short stories . I don’t know how many of you have read it is it a good choice or no . Please help me select a good short story collection.

Pretty good so far I’ve read the first 2 stories. Also the edges of the pages are golden which is cool

I want to read it but its very long. Is it worth it or should I start with something else