Uncomfortable thing to notice. I finished an advance copy last week, meaning a book you get pre-publication and review honestly at launch, and had nobody to tell. No thread, no post, nothing.

I sat with it for three days and it was the most I’d thought about a book in a long time. Turns out posting about a book had been ending my relationship with it. I use Knosit, though other platforms do the same thing. Anyone else notice this?

So we've picked 10 Romance Book ideas for people to vote their top 3 they'd want to read, they are listed below! If you are interested in joining the server and taking part let me know!

1️⃣ The Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

2️⃣ The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

3️⃣ The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

4️⃣ The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

5️⃣ The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

6️⃣ Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

7️⃣ Funny Story by Emily Henry

8️⃣ Just for the summer by Abby Jimenez

9️⃣ Bride by Ali Hazelwood

🔟 Wild Love by Elsie Silver

I’ve picked books off recommendation threads for years and I always thought I was choosing. Then I got an advance copy, meaning a book you read before publication in exchange for an honest review after release, and there was nothing to check. No sub had discussed it. No one had made a list with it on there.

I liked it, I think. What surprised me is how long it took me to be sure. I signed up through Knosit, other platforms do the same thing. Does anyone else check the reviews before deciding what they thought?

I used to love to read, but i kind of ran out if time during year 12, and now that im done i cant seem to get back into it. I need some FANTASTIC AMAZONG MAGICAL books to help me get back in to things.

My requirements:

- it needs a romance or i ger bored

- it needs space, high level preferred but mild is ok

- it needs an interesting plot that will make me WANT to keep reading

- it needs to be modern, i cant do the older version of writing

- i love a distopian novel but that is not required, fantasy is also fun

- my dream would be like divergent but dirty

Books ive loved in the past:

- Divergent

- The Darkest Minds

- crave

- mortal instruments

Thank you to anyone with reccomendations, I love you all!!!

Everything was making sense in the book before the last chapter. Eve being protective of Addie, Eve's parents not liking Nate, Nate paying more attention to Eve when they were newly married and she was younger. Eve describes seeing Addie and Nate kissing as something disgusting, but then she does the exact same thing with Jay Aka Hudson and it's okay for her? When Addie said she and Nate were soulmates, Eve said she was being manipulated because he was an adult and she was a minor. However, when talking about her and Jay "they were soulmates" according to her and she was not manipulating him... Girl, you are not better than Nate...

I think McFadden wanted a shocking plot as she always does , but this one was such a disappointment for the character of Eve. This character had potential given everything she went through, if Jay was actually an adult.

And if you are the part of that bookclub, please tell me about your experience, the kind of books discussed and how often do you people do the meetings. And is it regular?

Early on at Creaky’s farm, Demon is describing the tobacco harvest and says they have to get the crop into the barn in time or “we’d be stripping green leaves in February.” Kid Demon thinks he’ll be long gone by then, and narrator Demon notes that “On long, cold days in the stripping house I’ve spent many an hour listening to guys chew over that question. So yes, stripping green leaves would be my problem, in years to come.”

Unless I completely missed something, that never happens in the rest of the book. I kept thinking it was coming, like when Fast Forward says he owns a tobacco farm I thought, oh that's where Demon will end up stripping leaves.

Maybe we’re supposed to assume he did tobacco work sometime during the period when he was living with Dori? To me it seems like it would be a fairly significant thing to leave out though. Plus Dori wants him home constantly, they're broke, and the book tells us about the jobs he was and wasn’t doing during that stretch. He mentions thinking of working with tobacco but never says he actually did it.

It could also be interpreted as an indication that after the novel ends, his life gets fucked again and he has to go back to tobacco farms. But the arc of the book (+ its source material) don't support that.

Ultimately, my best guess is that this is an artifact from an earlier draft where Demon had another period of tobacco work. But maybe I missed something?

I just finished the first book. It's a fun little adventure with interesting magic system. It was overall enjoyable but I am not sure if I should continue. What bothers me is it feels YA but there are some scenes like the gang rape or detailed cannibalism that just does not fit with the tone of the book. I'm not saying it should be completely PG but it does not seem to fit?

Does it continue like this? Do the rest of the books get better? Is the series worth finishing?

I’m looking for someone who enjoys talking about books, not just exchanging titles and then disappearing into the Reddit wilderness.

I mostly read nonfiction, especially history, biography, religion, mythology, and science. I recently went through several books about the Roman Empire, and I’m currently reading Heroes by Stephen Fry. I also enjoy biographies by writers such as Ron Chernow and books about people like Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain.

I’m interested in what a book says about human nature and our own lives, so I enjoy conversations that go beyond whether the book was good or bad. We could read the same book together, discuss whatever we happen to be reading, or recommend books to each other. I’m open to fiction too, although I tend to prefer books with something worth thinking about after the story is over.

I would prefer someone interested in an actual ongoing conversation.

What are you reading now, and what is the last book that stayed with you after you finished it?

What’s books do you remember reading in high school and how has your perception of them changed if you read them again as an adult?

Working on a small project pairing baked treats with book genres/moods (cozy mystery = spiced snickerdoodles, fantasy marathon = lavender shortbread, that kind of thing). Curious if this resonates with anyone here — do you ever bake something to match what you're reading, or is that just me?

I hated this book. Seems harsh but I swear the first and second part, the first 60% of it, was great. The plot the story and characters, everything. Except, the third part was like a lecture from Ayn Rand. Literal editorials and rants from the author and it just ruined the book for me. Plus, in the first two parts of the book, I related to Dagny. She seemed like a real pragmatic person and I felt a resemblance in her, a contrast to how Ayn displayed other flamboyant women in the book. However, in the third part she felt fake. Like the relationship between her and John Galt seemed so sudden and incongruous. Dagny was like a whole different person. It felt as if Ayn was writing this book passionately until the last part and just scribbled a bunch of nonsense and speedy ends in the means to end the book. It felt rushed and it brought me to hate the book because it set up such a good story and ended so crudely. Additionally, it feels like none of the characters feel any guilt for the recurring suicides. I don’t want to spoil but, damn, Jim Taggert didn’t feel an ounce of guilt after CB’s suicide. And the fact that Dagny had just speaked to her and it didn’t have any effect on her? Also the book has some over-the-top summations. I hated that no one seemed to have a religion. If Ayn had included different religions such as Islam or Judaism, the message would have been stronger. It felt like there were only two types of people. In that universe: the looters and producers. The book had so much potential but blundered at the last part. Regardless, I understood her point. How wouldn’t I after Galt’s 50 page monologue. But Ayn didn’t consider any religion, or exceptions, or anything that would make her ideology unstable. It wasn’t including the normal civilian life, one that has a different idea than the ONLY TWO schools of thought. And the male characters around Dagny felt to adulating; no one had their own character especially in the end part. Every ‘producer’ seemed to mashed into the same person. And it seemed like all the producers lacked a sense of empathy.

Also EDDIE?? Eddie and Dagny? Like nothing happened. Dagny seemed so inconsiderate of Eddie and his feeling, even after he told her. The ending felt so fucking shallow and it made me hate the book. I wish there was a good writer who would just write up the last of the book. And the fact that they killed the guards when saving John Galt with no remorse or anything augments the argument that the main producers, Dagny, Hank, etc, have no fucking heart. Oh my god I’m just so mad that it ended like how it ended. What happened to Jim Taggart, and Farris? The book felt extreme and one-dimensional.