She has a short story collection called Salt Slow which I quite enjoyed!

Peak Harry Potter was amazing. I got into when only the first two were out. As a teenager I read The Order of the Phoenix in one day, from the morning nonstop until the middle of that night. Good times.

What were the plot holes?

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> I have no idea who the fonz is

Someone already answered the rhyming part, but since you don't know the show...

Happy Days was the name of the show and started in 1974 and went on for 11 years/seasons. It was kind of "the 1950's / early 1960's show", depicting a rose-colored view of the 1950's high school scene. Probably connected to George Lucas' 1973 film American Graffiti in spirit, which depicted early 1960's "hanging out" lifestyle - and also had Ron Howard as an actor in it. You could probably throw in Grease the theater play in 1971 as an inspiration/trend of this 1970's glorification of 1950's culture.

Fonz was always doing the stereotype of cool and had plenty of girls while the mainstream kids in the story went to him for advice and lessons about things parents and school don't teach you.

The other day I was reading the reviews of Joan Didion's two books on grief. It seems she wrote them because having looked, she found there was not a book. Now there is: but on the loss of her daughter, in particular, the reviews seemed to suggest that she had found the limits of art. (So did the composer Leos Janacek in his opera about art and loss after the death of his daughter: the opera suggests that art is simply inadequate) There being a book doesn't always help. Sometimes specific advice, shared experience, talking to real people, is helpful regardless of if it does or not.

I've personally yet to find a book that discusses the kind of health problems I've experienced. Have never even come across anyone else with precisely the same issue, particularly at this severity. A male Greek philosopher probably doesn't know all that much about women's health: the kind of generalised life advice often found in philosophical books can just feel like a platitude to someone struggling with a specific issue. It's at best the equivalent of 'learn to live with it', which is much easier said or read than done. Even if the person knows there is no other option in living than to live with it, their conflict can remain in simply not wanting to, and hope is also not so easily extinguished.

I’d be fine with rothfuss if he just went and said sorry and he’s struggling to put it together but he’s just such a dick about it :(

I listen almost exclusively to audio books between chores and a long-ish commute. I love them. If I do need to read a "paper book" it's always an ebook. I'm always floored by the number of books still being printed. Apparently we are not that worried about the environment! LOL

I wish books could solve my problem.. I guess in theory the enchiridion of Epictetus has the solution, but is it actually possible in practice? According to Epictetus you could chop off all of someone’s limbs, gouge out their eyes, cut out their tongue and you would have taken nothing from that person. They should be able to be perfectly content living a virtuous, tongueless, eyeless, limbless life. Stoicism is a nice idea I suppose, and something to strive for, but not something that is actually possible for a human being facing extreme hardship.

Next time you meet a limbless, tongueless, eyeless person who happens to feel bad about their lot in life, I do not think you should recommend they read Epictetus in order to solve their problems. I think they would be quite offended lol.

TJR books aren’t meant to be heavy literature— they’re binge-worthy books! I never walk away with anything other than having been entertained. Nothing wrong with that!

Yeah I think that's fair and why it's not for everyone. I knew going into it that it was largely centered on their relationship, but if I was expecting a more traditional horror novel, I might've been disappointed.

I'll have to check out the southern reach trilogy!

exactly! Just the thought of being on the bottom of the ocean is terrifying. I kind of think of space the same way (which is interesting because Miri gets on that forum for people roleplaying about their husbands in space). It's just this sense of... humans aren't really "supposed" to be here, and it's only due to relying heavily on technology that can easily malfunction that they're here.

That kind of relates to the ending as well. I feel like >!the "creature" Leah saw at the bottom of the ocean was one that humans were never "supposed" to encounter. Not evil, but terrifying, kind of like looking at a god. When Leah is transformed, it's like she can no longer live on earth among humans anymore because she experienced this "thing."!<

One of the better books I read last year. Once I stopped thinking about the reasons and responses for the submersibles failure (and later events) and stuck with the motivations and allegory I really got into the characters.

I really loved it too!! I felt for them both so much!

My wife is not a person who reads books. She reads magazines and things online and a lot for her job. She loved Dark Vanessa though and since she read it she has been looking for more books like it but nothing I've given her or suggested seems to have hit that spot for her.

I've never been able to get into Manga, its just not something i enjoy. Same can be said of my husband's comics, i prefer reading those as omnibuses and graphic novels. So I've joined a few series- or author-specific subs and we do re-read-alongs, but it's really not the same.

If I could travel to any point in time again it would be 2005, high school rerun or not. Sigh.

TJR did work in film production for a bit, so I think her style and approach is definitely influenced by that world more than the straightforward literary one. The audiobook is a really good medium for it, three different narrators for the different sections (Monique, Sub Rosa articles and Old Evelyn's recollections), and I agree she probably had half a thought in her head when she was writing how it could be adapted, with the knowledge, connections and experience she has.

I do love her work as a sort of middle ground for me in terms of feeling a little deeper than just a simple beach read, but not a full on philosophical, leaves you questioning something novel. I can think about fame and the world of celebrities and how she portrays it- and then I can just shut the book and move on with my life.

I’d go further and say its a satire on the world social structure.

i loved this! im personally very scared of the ocean so i liked the scary ocean aspect as well as the very real and fracturing relationship. it was very haunting and creepy and i have thought about it like every few weeks since reading it in the fall. really stuck with me.

I really liked Harry and was disappointed with his drunk driving. I thought the book was pretty good, but couldn't really stomach the ending.

I enjoyed it. As a lesbian, I get tired of the while “have to stay in the closet” trope, but it was (is?) still a thing.

Reading aloud is absolutely a part of how books have always been read, including solitary reading aloud. If you prefer it it's fine.

Sideways stories - I loooooved that

I get a broken link for it :(