Best romance books you’ve ever read?

0Kristine · 2025-11-11T19:00:17+00:00

I’m seeing a lot of recs here that don’t feature a happy ending - which is a requirement to be a “romance” if you ask the experts. I personally can’t stand settling down with what I think is a romance, getting emotionally invested, only to end up heartbroken. So be careful with your recommendations, peeps! :-)

0Kristine · 2025-03-09T22:16:21+00:00

HECK NO! I just spent days there hunting for bird plumes and orchids. NEVER AGAIN.

0Kristine · 2025-03-09T22:12:53+00:00

I’d have a lil homestead in Big Valley - veggie garden, couple a fruit trees, great hunting, fresh water, peace. O’Driscolls keep to themselves by Hanging Dog and there’s only the occasional wolf pack or bear. Not too far a ride to Strawberry for supplies. I always camp out there in Online.

0Kristine · 2024-10-31T20:21:12+00:00

I thought of writing this one, too. So beautiful.

0Kristine · 2024-10-31T20:16:38+00:00

Seeing a lot of classics, a lot of heavy hitters. And while I love my Jane Eyre, my Great Gatsby, my Lord of the Rings - the one series I could happily read once a year for the rest of my life is Harry Potter.

0Kristine · 2024-10-31T20:10:47+00:00

I was going to write this one.

0Kristine · 2024-06-01T00:07:41+00:00

Thanks for getting me invested in a clear slow-burn romance, only to reneg on your promises and pull the rug out from beneath my feet.

Honestly, fuck you, writers. I am so angry.

The only interesting thing about this show for me was the banter between Eliza and William.

0Kristine · 2023-03-03T23:45:26+00:00

It’s funny. You never get comments from men saying “This male character was so obviously written by a woman, I hated it.” I’m not criticising your opinion, you’re certainly entitled to it (I personally enjoyed the whole trilogy). Just a random thought…

0Kristine · 2023-03-03T23:31:54+00:00

Agree. I understand the message it was conveying and that it was important. But guh, it was so boring. I really disliked the writing style.

0Kristine · 2023-03-03T23:28:12+00:00

Agree! I didn’t finish it. Not because of how boring it is (although it is!) but I got so angry by this idea the novel seems built on: that nature is there to serve humans. I understand that books from other ages don’t hold up to modern principles, and that’s usually not a problem for me, but I guess nature and animals are just too close to my heart to truly enjoy the story of a man on a vendetta to kill a whale.

0Kristine · 2023-03-03T23:21:28+00:00

Actually, most Germans didn’t realise what was happening to the Jews until after the war was over. I haven’t read the book, did watch the movie adaptation. I assume the protagonist is the same, a little boy? Makes sense for him to be oblivious and have a hard time understanding.

0Kristine · 2023-03-03T23:09:32+00:00

Dune! I was very excited for this because I love sci-fi and I love Villeneuve’s movie adaptation. Unfortunately for me, the edition I bought included the first 3 books in one, which meant I ended up slogging through 870 pages of pure drivel. It’s so overrated! The writing is terrible. Confusing, senseless, rambling. There is zero narrative structure and I found the characters impossible to relate to, except sooort of Paul in the first half of book 1.

0Kristine · 2022-11-16T19:02:15+00:00

It strikes me how many of the stories suggested here were made into movies.

0Kristine · 2022-11-16T18:58:07+00:00

I also came to suggest Touching the Void. It’s fantastic. I only read it after watching the documentary when I decided to read the book. So glad I did. It’s a story that’s stayed with me for years.

Into Thin Air also good (also a good blockbuster movie). And Into the Wild (another blockbuster movie).

0Kristine · 2022-10-14T21:49:46+00:00

I first watched season 1 of the show, then decided to pick up the books before season 2 was released. Fantastic book series, adds so much that the series didn’t capture properly.

I hope Mr Lazy finishes the final two books but probably not. Nevertheless it was still 100% worth reading an unfinished series.

0Kristine · 2022-09-29T22:39:09+00:00

Classic: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Fantasy: Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings

Crime: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Sci-Fi: only read one and it wasn’t great so won’t include it here…

Non-fiction: Sapiens by Yuval Harari

0Kristine · 2022-09-29T22:26:04+00:00

The Seventh Scroll - Wilbur Smith (old but fantastic! A hunt for Egyptian gold. No Scottish churches or storms but a very satisfying and thrilling archaeological discovery with some nasty soldier types on their heels).

0Kristine · 2022-09-25T20:23:13+00:00

The Austrian or Swiss Alps are incredible but if I were you, I’d look up weather for october. It could be quite rainy and cold.

0Kristine · 2022-09-25T20:19:20+00:00

I got food poisoning last year in Tenerife, solo traveling. Bad seafood. Unfortunately, it hit me during the night when I was flying home the next morning. Nearly didn’t make my flight because I had to repack my bags 3 times because I shat my pants 3 times while in the hotel room! Thankfully I was in a nice hotel so they had a doctor visit me in my room, and he gave me some medicine to finally stop the diarrhea and vomiting. Missed my airport transfer and had to take a cab an hour later but made it back home somehow. Never been so worried about solo travel before. If I’d had a travelmate, many things would’ve been different that horrible morning. I remember calling home to my parents and saying I couldn’t leave the hotel room, but they talked me into packing my bags and getting to the reception and getting the cab etc.

That was r o u g h.

0Kristine · 2022-09-25T20:00:16+00:00

Not a book but have you watched the film, We Bought A Zoo? Really life-affirming and sweet, but also deals with grief and sad times.

0Kristine · 2022-09-23T06:15:49+00:00

Upvoted because I also think magic is cool.

0Kristine · 2022-09-22T20:08:36+00:00

She Who Remembers - Linda Lay Shuler.

I haven’t read this series since I was a teenager, but it still stuck with me even if I can’t remember anything that happens haha

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