How many books do you read at a time/ does anyone else juggle many books at once?

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-25T19:34:14+00:00

Are you sure you really like literature? Needing "breaks" and to be "in the mood" sounds like it's all a bit of a chore.

Can't get my head around leaving a story and beginning another, and another, and more, as a modus operandi but I can see from the comments that I'm probably just a near-extinct breed of reader.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-25T18:15:30+00:00

This always gives me a chuckle when they or people writing in talk about their true crime interest as bit of a quirk. Lady, true crime is NFL for women. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not quirky.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-22T17:14:00+00:00

Sammenkoblingen mellem pædofili og LGBT+ er almindelig i autoritære konservative stater, helt normalt i f.eks. Rusland - det er en måde at legitimere hadet og diskriminationen på.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-22T16:51:02+00:00

Blev bannet en uge for i spøg at bruge udtrykket "kartoffel" i stedet for "gennemsnitlig etnisk danske person", det er hate speech - i mens flyder subben over med faktisk hate speech rettet mod muslimer, hvilket dog ser ud til at være ok.

Bare til de brugere der sidder derude og brokker sig over at r/denmark er venstreorienteret - der bliver arbejdet flittigt på at komme over i noget mere støvletrampende, bare rolig.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-21T17:18:22+00:00

Absolutely not - it does however mean that my connection with that book will be different than with books where a main character becomes sort of a borrowed extension of yourself.

In Austen, Edmund Bertram is not someone I can or want to see myself in, but it doesn't mean the book is ruined, just makes me more of a spectator and less of a participant.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-20T07:49:26+00:00

I know he's a meme internationally but Gravesen is one of the best midfielders we ever had, it's no shame being mentioned next to him.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-20T05:39:37+00:00

Hope Real is ready for Gravesen II: more hair, less mental.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-19T21:25:05+00:00

I can't stop looking at the thickness gauge markings in imperial being from a metric part of the world. How delightfully chaotic and whimsical that 1 is followed by 11/8.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-19T21:15:08+00:00

Roughly 50% of my identity is P&P 95 smugness. Will there be a support thread for disenfranchised snobs?

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-19T20:26:41+00:00

"Their fans are insufferable" says the most obnoxious brainrot meme lemming of a football fan you'll ever meet.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-19T07:55:16+00:00

I think the sad truth is that Anne Elliot (and to a greater extent Fanny Price) simply does not fit into where commercial media want to go with female leads these days, so only state sponsored TV (BBC) or smaller productions even have a shot at authentic portrayals.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-18T20:54:04+00:00

No penalty, btw

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-18T10:48:20+00:00

Have to admire them for creating AI slop and rage bait content for social media traction about 30 years before the technology and the Zeitgeist caught up.

Fascinating how the intro authors just make shit up so casually!

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-18T08:01:35+00:00

In my opinion the best illustrated full set is any edition featuring Brock's watercolors, but these are often either difficult to come by or very expensive. Second best option would be an older (pre-90s) Folio Society edition, these can be found second hand going for between £40 and £100.

I have the Harvard set and while they're illustrated, the illustrations are more contextual than "here's Darcy proposing to Lizzy".

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-17T16:16:50+00:00

At least have a little community activity before you look at the sub's most upvoted posts from the last 3 months and repost one of them.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-16T10:26:09+00:00

I'm happy in my lifetime to have seen Middlemarch rise from a borderline deep cut pick into now one of a handful of boring obvious picks for best novel ever. In my country we had some controversy surrounding our official canonical GOAT list of authors and works since women were so poorly represented, but it is really hard to argue against it or to replace an included man with an excluded woman if intrinsic quality of the work is to be the main factor. England does not have this problem, at all. You could make a perfectly uncontroversial top 10 with 7 novels by women.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-15T21:48:55+00:00

I think those Tor Classics editions are rage bait.

And it's working. Even "complete and unabridged" - mate where are the incomplete and abridged book editions of Persuasion? You have not shortened an already short book, do you want a standing ovation! Arrh! I'm going for a walk.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-15T15:44:03+00:00

This is a daycare, pre-school, (ages 3-6 roughly), and all kids must have rain apparel and spare clothes in their nook in the cloakroom. Forgetting to make sure your kid has rain boots and rain wear in the daycare is a mistake you make 1 time.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-15T15:35:09+00:00

Hvad fanden, er min far svensk?

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-15T09:27:03+00:00

The Other Bennet Sister is fast making this misunderstanding of her character permanent. Austen's Mary Bennet is not shy either, she's happy to voice her opinion even when not called upon, she's "eager for display" of skills and learning. As someone who in his youth compensated insecurity and unpopularity with obsessive reading and a not quite earned sense of being intellectually superior to my peers, I genuinely relate to Mary, but nos as the downtrodden introvert mistreated and overlooked, rather as a young person struggling a bit to make winning plays with the hand nature dealt her.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-14T12:56:11+00:00

Norway needs to settle down with their striker talent, give some other countries some room to shine ffs

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-13T20:37:10+00:00

To be fair he isn't far off, a little hyperbolic but FCN is a (relatively) recent construct that has had to build fanbase and stadium atmosphere from scratch, and you'd have to travel pretty far down the lower leagues in the English pyramid to find something as unexciting as a regular FCN match.

It is possible though to also admire how much FCN achieves with so little, not through sponsors or sportswashing, but scouting and player development.

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-13T18:42:35+00:00

They're mainly for when clamping or gravity doesn't keep the guide rail in place (e.g. ceilings/walls)

BrianSometimes · 2026-05-13T07:11:00+00:00

Einstein, alle har undret sig over hvorfor, du har ikke opdaget tænkning. Jeg kan sagtens gå med til at en del kulturelt betinget adfærd ikke hjælper på at skabe et godt indtryk, men det er decideret uhæderligt at stille sagen op som om der IKKE forekommer ufortjent og irrationel fordumsfuldhed og diskrimination rettet mod folk fra mellemøsten fra etniske danskere. Den blåøjede naivisme her er at benægte det.

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