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I'd strongly recommend The Broken Sword. I prefer it to Three Hearts and Three Lions, and I suspect in many ways it had an equal or stronger influence on D&D (...gnomes...).

I haven't heard it with ducks!

So, I asked my gf about this. She quit teaching in February 2020 because the students and parents in her new school were absolutely awful, and the administration had no support. Before that, she taught English for about 20 years at the 8th-grade level. So she's not totally current, but not a lot...

I'm going to talk to my GF about teaching, since until recently she was an 8th-grade English teacher - presumably one of the primary drivers behind the push to turn boys away from reading and intellectual pursuits. Anecdotally I can tell you that my daughter, who has grown up surrounded by...

I've read it and have zero recollection of it. Skimming back through it is one my list because people keep mentioning it.

That may be, but it's useful for discovering authors and areas you might be interested in. You need to diversify your book discovery methods. YES, which is why it's a BAD way of finding new authors and books. Bookstores want to SELL books. In an ideal world sort of way they'd love to "grow the...

I think it's pretty clear that the problem is 1/3rd of the books are Tchaikovsky, and that genre is just kinda meh for me. (I'm not sure why his characters almost all leave me cold, but they do. The spider was cool though.) ;)

I waited a long time to read Gideon the Ninth, and then was so furious at the ending I literally refused to read Harrow the Ninth for a few more years - guaranteeing I'd mostly forgotten the details of Gideon. Then I waited a few more to read Nona the Ninth, and f me now I have to wait for...

Kinda seems like you're arguing that if men buy fewer books, the publishing industry should keep publishing the same quantities for them, but at a loss. Anyway, They still publish books I enjoy, and I'm a man, so I assume that means they still publish books men enjoy. Sometimes I have to dig a...

"Rom-fantasy" has definitely had an upswing, and frankly I'm not that upset by it. Bookstores don't stock as much as they used to, and it IS harder to find something in a particular niche, but I regularly find really good books. Men don't read as much as they used to, and they don't read as much...

Generally I agree, but Barnes & Nobles has apparently been allowing more local control over ordering, and whoever orders for the Albany B&N is my hero.

I'm in NH and I've never heard of it.

I've spent a long time not falling down the hole of reading the Federalist Papers and now you've thrown it under my feet and I've fallen in. Gods darn it. Ugh. This is going to be a whole slippery slope thing.

I've been thinking of running a basic campaign/series of loosely-related adventures sometime soon. I haven't DMed for years, but the itch has been building. I'm reading the new core books to refresh my "gaming" memory of the rules (I've basically kept up, but not in practice), and also reading...

This. I, for whatever reason, don't sympathize with his characters. Some of the spiders were good, actually, but beyond that.... The concepts are interesting but the books just don't engage me a lot.

Yeah, my TBR "pile" exists in two different households, several different locations within each of those, and includes two large bookshelves. The "official" pile is on my bedside table and is probably at....I dunno. 12? 16? Pity the books on the bottom. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

Ugh. I thought I hadn't really read anything much in 2025 and then I put the "I guess I did read one book" books together and...yeah. Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson is a sequel to The Space Between Worlds which is noted exactly NOWHERE on the the front or back cover, and I wish I would...

Multiple small suns over one planet? I rather like that idea. Each sun gets a different personality. Some are dead. Or missing.

Just read the new James SA Corey The Mercy of Gods. No spoilers; enjoyed it. Slow start; characters are a bit weak; finds a better stride about halfway through and characters emerge through adversity. Very much looks to be a story in 3 parts. Still enjoyed it. First book of The Expanse didn't...

Hey! Tuckermans! Nice hike! :) My brother & sister & their families ski the bowl in the spring. Mt Washington in particular can be a real surprise. It's the highest point east of the Rockies & sits at the confluence of several weather patterns. There's a book, Not Without Peril, that explores...