I think she also started liking him after her misconceptions about wikhams narrative had been cleared and she was surprised at how well he treated her when she showed up at pemberly (she didn’t think she deserved his kindness and found it admirable that he would still be so friendly after she’d clearly been wrong)

Fala, meu mano/mana. Sou brasileiro também. Um autor que eu recomendo fortemente e que me ajudou muito a pegar o hábito do inglês é o Jack London. É um inglês simples e direto, mas umas histórias bem profundas, então acaba por ser o melhor dos dois mundos

Abraços

Everyone sucked up to Darcy because he was rich, but Elizabeth judged him by his attitude and behavior, not by his bank account. He wasn't used to that, it was unique in his experience. When she does start to like him its not (as she jokes when she tells Jane about her engagement) after she sees his beautiful grounds at Pemberly, but after he goes out of his way to help her family out of what was an embarrassing and potentially devastating - from a social point of view - situation.

I might try and get another pest control unit in and hope for the best. Until then, I’ll have to bear with these plastic containers :’)

Unfortunate then :( are there any chance of getting a second opinion?

Ugh you’re so lucky! Humid countries like where I live is a haven for all kinds of creepy crawlies. Unfortunately the termites eat my books.

I thought termites eat wood, not paper.

Luckily, were I live there is hardly any dangers for books: no molds because of low humidity levels, no paper eating insects... Just avoiding direct sunlight and small kids sticky hands is enough ;)

It’s pretty humid where I live with an average of 83% humidity with a relatively low dew point, so I believe the air is dry from where I am too. I have close relatives who live near me and they never had any issues with their bookshelves. I’ve hired pest control in the past but they couldn’t find any traces of termite colonies either. Perhaps my housing area might just be more prone to inviting certain pests :(

I only read books in English and I keep my phone nearby to lookup words if I don't know their meaning and they seem important to the story (most aren't though). 95% of books I get through without looking up a word. But I also want to mention that some writers or books are just harder to read because of they way they are written. There is nothing you can do about that, and if it stops you from enjoying the book then just don't read it. There is nothing wrong with that.

"The Tale of Death and three brothers" from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, part 2". That thing can drive your mind for a plenty of time, if you think of it.

Maybe it is a problem where you live? Where I live the air is dry and barely have any kinds of insects.

Pied Piper of Hamelin

With YA books you can usually take the rating and subtract 3.00 to end up with a realistic rating.

Fun fact, it was one of the very first book I read as a non English speaker, when I was a teenager. (my parents had grabbed a few second hand books at random, not knowing what it was). I spent a good half of the book going "what the... What the... I mean.. Am I reading what I think I'm reading?" it was absolute confusion for me because I knew I was reading correctly, yet I wasn't sure I was understanding what I was reading. Left it on a shelf for a few years, and grabbed it again much later. Loved it.

Read books for young readers like The Babysitter Club or Dairy of a Middle schooler. The vocabulary is easier. If you are just beginning the read English read Beverly Cleary books.

Other than his New England background, Lovecraft was probably most influenced to this end by the supernatural novels and stories of William Hope Hodgson, many of them maritime in theme and setting.

I guess Goodreads likes bad reads.

I'm very fond of Margaret Atwood. Oryx and Crake is great.

The Road is quite beautifully written, and about as bleak as you could imagine, but like most 'literary' works dipping their toes into genre, it's a tired and unambitious retread of far lesser known, generally lesser-regarded, but ultimately more satisfying and original works: you could look to Earth Abides, by George R Stewart; A Canticle For Leibowitz, by Walter M Miller Jr; I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson; The Postman, by David Brin; or much of Ballard's early work—The Drowned World, The Drought, The Crystal World.

If you do fancy reading outside of the genre specific, and into literary writers making a better fist of venturing into the post-apocalyptic, you could do worse than Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker, Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven, PD James' The Children of Men, or Nevil Shute's On The Beach.

Could you recommend any good ones?

Cormac McCarthy going on a Wikipedia spree sounds like one of the least likely things to ever happen

I pretty much love depressing dystopian type stuff and to be honest I found that book thoroughly boring.

Dangit I want to respond to this but don’t want to leave spoilers. I’ll just put my thoughts in a shoebox and put it in the back of my closet somewhere that it can’t hurt anyone.

Hmm let's see what else you might like. Have you read Hyperion by Dan Simmons? That's well regarded.

I've been reading Peter F Hamilton lately, which are not perfect but they are a good read still. Particularly the Nights Dawn trilogy, but I've also enjoyed Pandora's star and Judas

You might try William Gibson if you haven't already. Starting with neuromancer and working your way through. I think those have a charm of their own reading them these days.

Do you read fantasy? The wheel of time is a classic worth reading.

Yeah, great book. Banks is one of my favourite authors.