What are you reading in 2025?

[Retros_x]

Hailey Piper is being, once again, good for helping me focus that feeling and discharge it via fiction.

I never heard of her tbh, but what you wrote in this thread made me interested. Do you have a recommendation for someone who is new to her?

I would note that longer books are not necessarily "unedited", because again, length is a virtue and books are not inherently improved by beong shortened.

I don't mean that all long books are unedited, but I read more and more books that could've used better editing. It feels to me the trend goes to artificial length, not justified length. Or maybe a better phrasing: The justification for length does come less and less from the story itself, but the commercialization because as you stated yourself: long books sell better. Thats not a virtue for me, thats a sell out. Not all books might be inherently improved by being shortened, but also not every book is inherently good just because its long. You claim that as a virtue and inherently right, but thats not an objective truth. But I think we should stop this length discussion here, we are not on the same page and probably never will be. Still an interesting exchange and thank you for your calm answers, even when I asked you some provocative questions.