It's superb. I don't tend to struggle to compartmentalize while reading upsetting books, but for whatever reason this one got to me, and even though I've finished it's still looming in my thoughts. I felt the lack of quotation marks added to the almost suffocating atmosphere as well (not sure why).

I'd like to say "only a little" but truthfully I'm a visual person and have a very low threshold for visual clutter, so keeping my bookcase and library stack tidy and visually pleasing is a priority. For me that mostly means the books are neatly arranged, in broad categories and by height.

This might sound oddly specific, but I've learned a surprising number of words for various types and features of terrain from books, largely fiction books. Folklore is another big one too.

No doubt! I've reread the series a lot (about to do it again with the newest book coming out in January!), and they're all always both delightful and heartwrenching in their own ways.

If you haven't read it yet, Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" is fantastic. I read it for the first time just last month and can't stop thinking about it.

"Death Masks" is a gem of a Dresden File. Hope you enjoy it!

I'm sensing a theme... 🐇

*To be clear, I love "To Kill a Mockingbird", but I'll also criticize it cover to cover. In Southern schools especially, we shouldn't have been reading about a white savior and his privileged white children. We should've read books like "The Color Purple".

Aww, thanks!

This is the first I've heard of such a thing (I do indeed live under a rock—it's cozy here), and suddenly I feel the need to meet the challenge.

I'm so glad the movies squeezed in the songs they did; the songs are one of my favorite parts of the books.