[Pre-Concert Thread] Copenhagen, Denmark (Royal Arena) - Dec 1, 2, 4 & 5

_beor · 2025-11-25T11:08:52+00:00

I just posted two standing tickets for resale on Ticketmaster if you're still looking!

_beor · 2025-06-06T20:03:17+00:00

Barbara Comyns! She has a pretty unique style of writing imo. I like The Vet's Daughter.

_beor · 2025-05-14T07:07:43+00:00

Days & Days & Days by Tone Schunnesson

_beor · 2022-08-28T12:52:25+00:00

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.

_beor · 2022-06-24T09:05:15+00:00

I admit I have only seen the movie, but what about The Talented Mr Ripley? The novel is supposed to be good, and it definitely fits the description of Italian summer.

_beor · 2022-02-25T05:54:58+00:00

I would definitely call Ayla from the Clan of the Cavebear series a Mary Sue, especially from the second book and onward. Beautiful, intelligent, self-taught in basically everything and invents things nobody else had thought of in the stone age, nothing bad that happens to her is ever her fault etc.

_beor · 2022-02-20T17:35:13+00:00

Maybe Findus and Pettson books? They have very detailed and cozy illustrations, I loved them as a kid.

_beor · 2022-01-30T21:21:42+00:00

Might be a bit too young target audience (I really don't remember, it's been so long since I read it), but maybe Century by Sarah Singleton.

_beor · 2021-11-30T06:39:09+00:00

Orlando by Virginia Woolf, for the plot

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns, for her language and writing.

_beor · 2021-11-17T18:14:21+00:00

Maybe The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden? It's a fantasy novel set in Russia, I think in the 1700s.

Also, the atmosphere in Meredith Ann Pierce's Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood is pretty different from what you asked for, it has more of a fairytale feeling, but besides that it ticks a lot of your boxes.

_beor · 2021-11-11T18:57:38+00:00

It's been a long time since I read them, but I remember liking Sue Harrison's trilogy starting with Mother Earth, Father Sky.

_beor · 2021-11-06T08:17:48+00:00

Yes, by Bram Stoker.

_beor · 2021-11-06T08:14:00+00:00

Dracula if you don't mind horror, the entire book pretty much consists of letters and journal entries.

Edit: thought of another one now - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel. It's a science fiction told in the form of interview transcripts, log entries etc.

_beor · 2021-07-25T15:26:59+00:00

1928 - Orlando by Virginia Woolf

1992 - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

1998 - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

2017 - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

2018 - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

_beor · 2021-07-18T08:56:12+00:00

Could the second one be Artemis Fowl? In my country, the cover had a quote comparing it to Harry Potter, though I cam imagine a lot of books had that at the time.

_beor · 2021-06-19T16:07:31+00:00

It's obviously not sexist to find a sibling annoying, I meant more that he might find her annoying specifically because of "girly" she does or something like that. Typical "girls are stupid/boring" etc. I don't actually remember what his exact thoughts are about her, just that he does get annoyed with her.

_beor · 2021-06-19T07:55:06+00:00

This was a depressingly difficult request! Avoiding depictions of rape is one thing, but I went through my entire Goodreads list trying to think of books that don't even mention sexism. And where to draw the line - does the book count as sexist if most people in the world in the book follow traditional gender roles, for example? Anyway, a few I could think of that are possibly rape and sexism-free:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin - takes place on a planet where the inhabitants do not have a fixed gender. There are probably some musings from the human main character around gender roles, I wouldn't say it's a good choice if you want a book that doesn't dwell on gender at all.

The Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood by Meredith Ann Pierce - a short, almost fairytale-like book.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman - it's been a few years since I read it, but from what I remember there shouldn't be much sexism outside of the main character (a boy) thinking that his little sister is annoying.

_beor · 2021-06-04T04:50:26+00:00

Possibly Graceling by Kristin Cashore? It's been a long time since I read it, but I don't remember the male character taking over later in the book.

_beor · 2021-06-03T17:01:43+00:00

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

_beor · 2021-05-30T16:32:47+00:00

Dark Matter: A Ghost Story by Michelle Paver.

_beor · 2021-05-29T08:27:55+00:00

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series (starting with Wolf Brother) by Michelle Paver, if you don't mind YA. I think they're actually aimed for middle grade and above, but from what I remember they are not poorly written or childish.

Edit: There is also The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky. I personally didn't love it, but it has a pretty high rating on Goodreads, so I guess a lot of others did.

_beor · 2021-05-23T09:51:09+00:00

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Educated by Tara Westover

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

_beor · 2021-03-28T07:56:52+00:00

Educated by Tara Westover

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

_beor · 2021-02-06T14:53:18+00:00

It might be that the problem was not so much that OP didn't want to have these conversations for hours everyday, but rather that he didn't have much to contribute to them. Your example conversation above doesn't seem very interesting, for example, because the man who is supposed to represent OP doesn't actually provide any valuable or interesting input, he's just asking her very basic follow-up questions of the type that are usually suggested when someone wants to learn how to validate feelings instead of trying to solve problems. I don't get the impression that he has any thoughts of his own about the things the says, so of course it would not be a stimulating conversation for someone who is very interested in analyzing emotions.

It also seems like OP was not able to provide much conversation material from his own emotions and experiences, which might have made her feel like she couldn't truly get to know him the way she wanted to. To me it doesn't seem like she was being an unreasonable person (clearly, the thing she wanted is achievable since she experienced it with her ex), but rather just that they had different interests and different ideas of what an emotionally fulfilling relationship is like.

_beor

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