6 Answers2025-06-10
Make up a cover story for any reason you have for knowing something. For medicine, tell people your grandmother was a healer. For advanced math, say you found an old scholar's notes or something. Never say "in my world" (it sounds suspicious). Make up a story for why you are the way that you are, and stick to it. People will look for inconsistencies in your story, so practice it until it feels natural, and until you can conjure up appropriate emotions to go along with the story (i.e. you feel a pang of nostalgia when thinking about your grandmother teaching you to make potions, or you scowl in frustration whenever you think about losing that notebook with all your math problems in it). Your cover story is your first line of defense against inquisitive mages and suspicious nobles.
4 Answers2025-12-21
Right now I’m reading ‘Court of Mist and Fury’ by Sarah J. Maas. It’s the sequel to ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ and I am absolutely loving it right now. The characters’ emotions are so intense to read in this book and the stakes are even higher than before. Plus the romance is getting even better which is making it hard to put down. Another darker but equally as romantic book is ‘Shadow and Bone’ by Leigh Bardugo. I really enjoyed this because it had just the right mix of magic and adventure, and I loved how the characters got pulled into the world and the epic journey that they were on. Plus there was just the right amount of romantic tension to make it a super binge-worthy read and have me turning page after page.
4 Answers2025-07-05
I really liked the audiobook for Dearest Milton James by NR Walker, and Madison Square Murders by C.S. Poe.
The narrator for the big bad wolf series by Charalie Adhara ends up being amazing by the end of the series, but the first book is not great. He really improved after that tho if you’re willing to try it.
6 Answers2025-05-29
Honestly, I don’t get the debate over this one. It’s a fantastic story. Read it. There’s lots of faerie politics and acerbic dialogue and tense character moments. And the reason people love it for all these different reasons is that it’s a really good book. Why does everything have to be labeled for us? Oh no, the genre police will come and kick down your door because you’ve incorrectly referred to it. No.
3 Answers2026-07-06
This book is my benchmark for authentic portrayal of marriage in crisis, grief and Black love. Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan is breathtaking in its depiction of 2 very real people and their history that is palpable on every page. I can only rave about this book because it ruined me for so many others and the emotional truth it conveys is just that powerful.
4 Answers2025-05-23
For quick picks, the Memorial Library circulation desk has a “Fantasy Favorites” display, and last week The Poppy War was one of the titles on display. Memorial also does a great job with interlibrary loan, and I recently received a copy of The Blade Itself. For e-book lovers, Hoopla allows searching of their collection using UW credentials, and I listened to all of The Sandman as audiobooks during finals.
8 Answers2025-07-18
I’m not convinced that blending fact and fiction in historical fiction is inherently difficult to do well or frequently fails to rise to the challenge. We’re smarter readers than that. We all make up stuff as we go along when reading any historical narrative, factual or fictional, as well as the news. Every narrative, whether factual or not, is comprised of an event or facts and the author’s interpretation of them. Thus a novel that mirrors this process will feel true to life. Most people are aware that a movie ‘based on a true story’ is mostly a work of fiction, even when it’s attempting to be entirely factual. Historians and biographers certainly imagine private conversations between their subjects. No reader expects absolute accuracy from a historical novel, only that the story is true in terms of emotional and thematic veracity. Does it feel true? Does it illuminate something about human nature within the given facts? Yes? Then it’s effective and an entirely legitimate form of modern fiction.
4 Answers2026-07-19
In DoL I got fed up with the grind and wanted something more visually pleasing. ‘Karryn’s Prison’ is my new found love. Although it has the core stats, the fighting and corruption mechanics of DoL it is actually a fully formed game with all the animations and a real objective to play for. Unlike DoL where you’re just trying to survive in a town, in Karryn’s Prison you manage a prison. The risk vs reward and system mastery is all there though, and it’s been much more polished visually than I expected.
9 Answers2025-11-04
Idk. This looks like super obscure internet slang. Can anyone provide a link for me to a dictionary or something? I’m curious now about this ‘internet happens’ thing.
10 Answers2026-02-05
We also have to admit the joy of our search for something. Perhaps you found this sentence by chance. Perhaps this is what you’ve been searching for all this time. A novel about the search for something. The thrill of the find. There is a whole section of fiction about interests you’ve never even realized existed. There’s a lot of scope for finding just the right thing for you. It’s like finding a favorite flavor of ice cream. The story inside is the prize but the search itself is half the fun. So, let your curiosity get the better of you and see what you find. Just click on a book that looks good and start to read the sample. The best answer to the question of what a novel is about has to come from within the novel itself and you have to read it to find out for yourself by turning the page.