General Discussion

Omg I love The Locked Tomb, waiting for Nona is *killing me*. I just finished The Priory of the Orange Tree and I am obsessed! Like already thinking about a re-read obsessed, it was so good. If you like fantasy and dragons (you're on flight rising so I sure hope you do) you will love it! I'm thinking about pilfering some of the story for my own lore lol Somewhat related: I have a Harrow fandragon :) [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/74854965][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/748550/74854965_350.png[/img][/url]

@Apollumist Priory of the Orange Tree was the first book I finished this year! I still find myself thinking about it and agree on the obsessed train and wanting to re-read it!!

I am also in LOVE your fan-dragon, a perfect rep for Harrow!

I'm obsessed with the Mysterious Benedict Society books. I'm not entirely sure why.
Maybe it's because I was a fan of A Series of Unfortunate Events for a while, since it definitely gives me those vibes.

I'm deep into my War and Peace read-through thanks to the interest from a few of my friends who are also reading War and Peace. But I've also got House of Leaves on my to-do list, on recommendation from my s/o.

I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey for my American Literature class recently and enjoyed it a lot - it might be my favorite book I've ever had to read for school.

The other day, I also picked up Animal Farm by George Orwell at a book store and found that I enjoyed it quite a lot as well. I'm considering reading 1984 by the same author at some point soon, too; I never got to read either book in school and I thought they seemed interesting.

I read only one book this year and I'm in a huge reading slump... So seeing all of you gush about books is really nice, and is pushing me to try and finally pick up some of these! I have Gideon the Ninth and Priory so maybe now's finally the time!

I recently read "Cinderella is Dead" and it was such a great feminist and LGBT+ book!

I recently read Forest Born by Shannon Hale and I wouldn't say I'm obsessed, but it is such a good book. I can't stop recommending it. It's so well written. The characters are well-rounded, the foreshadowing is good, the protagonist's internal conflict is great. The antagonist mirrors her really nicely, it's got so many good twists (like, I usually ramble about books, spoilers included, but this is the kind of book best unspoiled), and the good guys win in the end. Which, personally, I like much better than leaving the villain a looming threat. It has a happy and satisfying ending.

Anyway go read it please it's so worth it

also @apexpredator I adored trc too! That was definitely something I kept pestering people to read. I love the writing style. It's just the right flavor of comedy and the characters' teenager-ness felt genuine. I read them all from my local library but then went and bought a copy of the first one. I would've bought the rest of the series but the book store was out of stock lol. I could gush extensively but,,, not right now.

I'm working through the Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis currently. I've read the first one, Out of the Silent Planet, multiple times before but it brings me closer to tears each time I read it. I'm just now reading through the second book, Perelandra, for the first time and so far there is a friendly dragon the size of a large dog who the protagonist sort of accidentally acquired as a pet, so that is wonderful. So far both books have had a lot of the elements/themes of Romanticism (i.e. innocence of nature vs. fallenness of man) for those who are interested in that sort of thing, as I am.