Annotate books that you think are going to be meaningful to your life.

They're your books; it's not ruining them if you make notes and find value in them.

I don't buy my books as an investment. I buy them to read them. Sometimes I underline or make notations about particularly powerful passages/lines, or I make notes about things I have questions about or to remind myself about something I looked up. Sometimes I make notes about my thoughts about the plot if it's something like a mystery, where I'm trying to keep track of my deductions, etc.

I like seeing my notations later, when I reread the book. Sometimes Past Me gets things SO WRONG that it makes me laugh, but other times, Past Me has interesting insights that Present Me has forgotten about.

I also like it when I buy books and stumble on other people's notations, though; so my opinion about notations is pretty positive.

To me, reading without annotating is like Redditing without commenting. It’s a conversation, not a diatribe.

Personally I find it deeply weird. Like, let’s turn some of my already-limited free time into something that feels more like work. No thank you.

Definitely read The Unconsoled. For almost all the reasons they said you shouldn't.

If you put a link in your post reddit will find a picture from that link to put in the thumbnail. Occasionally this gets a useful picture, and occasionally it returns something completely unrelated

I thought it was a comment on the stangeness of his identity

I agree that A Pale View of Hills is the best starting point for Ishiguro but I’m afraid to say The Unconsoled is my favorite so far, I think I have the last 4 left to read.

That's some catch that Catch 22

That threw me for a loop at first too. I really did not enjoy it either lol. But I did love Never Let Me Go and have been meaning to give Remains of the Day a go

Picture? I don't see one and didn't intentionally upload one.

EDIT: ah, I see it on mobile. Not sure why it's there or how to get rid of it.

I am a generally quiet and reserved person so I find characters that are loud and brash very compelling bc they're nothing like me lol

The picture is from Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84

Nick from Gone Girl, i haver never meet such a annoying and asshole of a protagonist that made me cheer for him to get fucked

Unabashedly human may be the wrong choice for Mr. Wong:)

It’s that damned voice.

He’d be crazy to keep flying those missions.

Perhaps my least favorite of the pilgrims, but one of the best stories.

Jean Valjean from Les Mis. There is just so much to his story. Jean Valjean’s transformation from the misanthropic convict who is (perhaps justifiably) angry at the world to a caring father and genuinely good man is beautiful in more ways than I can rightly express in a Reddit post.

The book is by no means an easy read, but few stories have caused me to return again and again to the characters, their lives and motivations like this one.

Many people don't like her. It's actually a pretty common opinion.

Personally, I enjoyed "It Ends with Us" because I related way too much with it, it described my parents relationship from the beginning to the ending. But I'm aware that it's a pretty bad book.

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Kaz Brekker, the demon himself

Lady Rebecca de Winter.

Gus McCrae from Lonesome Dove 👌

One of my fv