Take Harry Potter and Star Wars for example: a young orphan with hidden power rises to save the universe. Along the way he gains a rogue, a warrior, mentors, and allies.

The core story is the same—it’s the voice, the world, and the telling that make it unique.

You'd better get the men at work onto that.

Well you could call The Police , but well, you know...

Oh no, not U2?

Your next sneeze could spell disaster

She does that too, but being a bookophile, thats like choosing which of her children to give away.
😜

The Book Thief.

Precisely why I don’t do handyman work. I can turn a simple tap washer replacement into a situation where the authorities are asking how I managed to trigger a thermonuclear meltdown in the hot water system.

Put a hammer in my hands and everyone’s at risk 😆

My wife’s an author and buys so many books I’m starting to worry the house needs reinforced foundations.
The only way she’ll ever finish them all is if one of them contains the secret to immortality.

But hey, it makes her happy… so I guess I’m bound to support her — structurally and emotionally

I read because I love reading. What others read isn’t important.

As Richard Bach said, “If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, you have a problem.”

About 80% of my reading this year was revisiting favourites I’ve loved for decades, like catching up on old friends and reminiscing

Olive was the mean non-gendered one.
" .. used to call him names. They never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games"

Today is here, tomorrow is always the next day 😀

Humourously macabre on Christmas morning here 😀

Whatever makes you happy.
If you feel like revisiting old friends on your bookshelf, reread a favorite.
If you feel like expanding your world, pick something new and curious.
Read the trendy bestseller if you want, or ignore it if you don’t.
Just read because you love reading—and read what you love

Did she planet that way?

Humans chase shortcuts.

Tech empowers and erodes at the same time: my father, who left school at 13, can now write his life story… while my wife, who spent years perfecting her book, competes with millions pumped out in a week.

Languages change, technology is accelerating that.

If it sounds like I’m arguing both sides, that’s because reality kind of does too.

Books stay the same. What we do with knowledge never has. LLMs just crank up the speed and volume.

That's not new though — books have always been rewritten, reprinted, and reshaped over time, especially history and social commentary, until truth slowly bends toward whatever ideology dominates.

Just look at religious texts.

LLMs simply accelerate it, and mass media amplifies it even louder.