Oh nice! I haven't read Villette yet. I'd better go put it on my to-read list. I haven't read Agnes Grey either, so that as well. Thanks!

Yay! Nice. Anne is often seen as more modern than her sisters. You should give Anne's books a go someday. She doesn't disappoint.

Do it!

I sent a handwritten note to a first-time author to tell her how much I enjoyed her book, and she sent me back a very sweet, appreciative letter. She had contact info for snail mail on her website.

No you're clearly at least 13

I’m sure there’s great contemporary literature and modern romance out there, but why do the covers all have flat, vector-shaped people? They look like paper craft dolls. It looks juvenile on the cover when the story is borderline eroticism.

Lookin at you, Emily Henry!

Villette is my favorite: it destroyed me the first time I read it, I've never been so affected by a book before. Wuthering Heights is probably next (you're right that the character names are absolutely maddening, though), but I'm currently rereading Jane Eyre and absolutely loving it so we'll see. I have to reread The Tenant of Wildfell Hall because the pacing was entirely thrown off by the book description and so I don't think I really got a real feel for it the first time around. I'll probably reread Agnes Grey at some point too since it's so sweet, though I don't imagine it will shoot to the top of the list...

The only two that I didn't love (and will probably not reread, at least not anytime soon) are The Professor and Shirley.

Have you read Patricia Wentworth or Mary Roberts Rinehart? Those are two others I enjoyed. They are re-releasing so many Golden Age mysteries and since they are my favorite I’m in heaven.

Try sending them an introduction letter (or email) with picture of yourself wearing a clown mask, outside their house at night, holding a copy of the days best selling newspaper. If they don’t reply within a week or so just try another author as they are clearly not into the whole fan thing.

Love Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Haven't read anything by Anne yet.

When I buy a book and don’t like it, the DNF shame gets combined with buyers remorse. But now I DNF books all the time because I borrow them from the library. Life’s too short to read bad books. Put it back and borrow a new one.

Yes! Very much okay. Just don't be too disappointed if you don't get a response, or, if you do get a response, if it's more or less generic.

I hope the place has cameras. You may need it!

DEAR MR IM TOO GOOD TO CALL OR WRITE MY FANS

Haha! Nice one

If you like these authors you should try Patricia Moyes "Henry Tibbett" books, they're awesome.

The moors were so bleak there were only three names and everyone had to share.

I wonder how many authors look at their Goodreads reviews, I know I would

Treadwell’s Books near the British Museum if you want to find occult books

My first book hangover was from The Series of Unfortunate Events. I didn’t want it to end.

There’s also a hollowness that comes from knowing it’s not the original author. Even if other writers can mimic it, it’s not the same.

I agree, but read it when it first came out. One of my favorites and part of the Dark Tower lore is just a bonus.

Indian here, and I think that the Great Gatsby is a tragic love story. Not too keen with the American Dream though

Oh boy. I create TBR’s based on mood and season. It’s an organized mess. My physical TBR on my bookshelf is just a ~4 book lineup of what I plan to read next. I often ignore it and chose a totally different book from another shelf.

My digital TBR on Libby is organized into separate “season” tags. What season a book goes into is less about the actual setting of the book and more on the general vibe I get from the synopsis. Here are my descriptions of each season:

• Summer: parched surrealism, desert punk, windows open, sun going down.
• Spring: vernal, floral, light & airy, blooming reads
• Autumn: spooky, moody, earthy reads
• Winter: harsh, silent, hibernating, drifts.

I also have a generic TBR tag of books that don’t fit into the seasonal tags. Whenever I’m in a reading slump I just browse the current season. I also read about 3 books at a time: a non-fiction, a fun carefree fiction, and a more serious fiction. Currently that’s Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (non-fiction), The Sun and it’s Shade by Piper CJ (fun fantasy), and The End of October by Lawrence Wright (a fictional pandemic novel).

Definitely okay. Most authors have an email address or form on their websites. We love getting letters from readers. It really is one of the best things about being a writer. The only downside is that I don’t get to write back as often as I’d like.

So, please, write to them. You will probably make their day.

Does anybody know if the ISBN for the holographic version of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is different than the non-holographic one? And/ or if the holo version is just the UK edition?

I specifically want to buy the shiny one, but whether or not it's holographic isn't included in the descriptions I've seen and it's hard to tell from the pics