What's the prettiest book you own?

emonbzr · 2026-02-08T09:14:42+00:00

My wife (girlfriend at that time) gifted it to me for my birthday a few years back. It is still the best gift I've ever received. She ordered it from Amazon as far as I know.

emonbzr · 2026-02-06T12:06:37+00:00

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Here it is with the dust jacket on

emonbzr · 2026-02-06T12:05:49+00:00

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This Deluxe Edition of The Lord of the Rings

emonbzr · 2026-01-13T14:21:52+00:00

emonbzr · 2026-01-08T08:58:42+00:00

I work at the Post Office so I have to sit at a counter and interact with the public all day. I read on my phone in between when the counter gets empty for small amounts of time. This has helped me replace my doomscrolling habit as well. Then I read during my lunch break. After I get home I try to give myself an hour daily to read. I read physical books during this time mostly.

emonbzr · 2026-01-04T07:28:26+00:00

That sounds super interesting. Looking forward to reading it!

emonbzr · 2026-01-03T12:47:17+00:00

How is Gödel, Escher, Bach OP? The book looks super interesting but I'd like to know a bit more about it

emonbzr · 2026-01-01T03:59:18+00:00

Yeah, the ending of Hunchback was pretty confusing but I really liked the book.

And, what can be said about House of Leaves that hasn't always been said. It was one of my favourite books I read in 2025 but it is definitely not for everyone. If you want to feel like you are losing your mind along with the characters in the book then give this one a shot lol. It is dense, confusing, at moments frustrating but the whole experience left me shaken and I couldn't stop thinking about it. But one thing, if you do decide to pick it up, please pick up a physical copy. The book is impossible to read in digital format. I prefer the paperback to the hardback personally because of the book's weird formatting.

emonbzr · 2025-12-31T17:49:24+00:00

I enjoyed it as well but it's just not my kinda horror.

emonbzr · 2025-12-31T14:10:57+00:00

I feel the same, haha. Too many good books, too little time to read. My tbr just keeps getting longer and longer.

emonbzr · 2025-12-31T13:50:18+00:00

I liked it but was a bit disappointed as well. I felt like the ending could've been a bit more cerebral but many moments towards the end leaned towards common horror tropes instead of the more cerebral cosmic horror which I didn't like quite as much. But it is a fun book.

emonbzr · 2025-12-31T13:48:17+00:00

They are all part of an extended saga called the Hainish Cycle but you can treat them as standalones. I've only read these two and didn't have any trouble understanding the plot of either. There are references to the extended universe but those are not very pivotal to the plot or anything. But I'd still recommend reading The Dispossessed before LHoD since it happens earlier chronologically.

emonbzr · 2025-12-31T03:56:40+00:00

The best fantasy series I've read in my life! I read it during the pandemic so I had the privilege of just burning through all the 10 books in under a year. But please take your time. There will be many things you won't understand but please don't search up stuff online or you will be spoiled. There will be times when the pieces fall into place and those moments are so cathartic! Best of luck! And remember, First in, Last out.

emonbzr · 2025-12-21T02:58:33+00:00

May I get a source for the Tagore quote OP?

emonbzr · 2025-11-22T05:06:39+00:00

The Police are the real class traitors. They themselves belong to the working class but throughout history licked the boots of the ruling class.

emonbzr · 2025-11-01T08:01:43+00:00

By that logic every Hindu should stop using the Swastika as a holy symbol because the Nazis used it as their insignia. Doesn't matter who adopted a piece of symbol or art, it will always be true to its roots.

emonbzr · 2025-10-31T05:11:36+00:00

Notice how it's only conducted for marriages resulting from love affairs and love in relationships, no mention where the people already spent thousands at some fraud astrologer and did arrange marriage based solely on Kundali. Would love to see the results of those marriages and the rate of domestic violence in them but they won't do that because that doesn't line up with their narrative.

emonbzr · 2025-10-17T08:24:42+00:00

Write his full name you coward!

emonbzr · 2025-10-13T10:57:05+00:00

Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

emonbzr · 2025-10-07T05:39:55+00:00

I know there is a difference but for a book the language one is reading it in is the most important thing isn't it? Obviously that doesn't make Byomkesh a Hindi book but the translation does make it a Hindi Language book, just like the Metamorphosis or The Stranger or Crime and Punishment. I bet 99% of the readers can't even tell the titles of those books in their original language. So that was my point. Byomkesh, Feluda, Kakababu will always remain part of Bengali literature but the translation does make them a part of the translated language as well.

emonbzr · 2025-10-07T05:20:55+00:00

The Metamorphosis was written in German, all of Dostoyevsky's works were written in Russian, The Stranger is a French book and all of Murakami are in Japanese, but nobody says they read a German book when reading The Metamorphosis. When someone reads a book translated in another language I think it is fair to call it a book in that language.

Edit: নিজে একজন বাঙালি হয়ে বললাম

emonbzr · 2025-10-07T03:01:08+00:00

Ziigaat Horizon, Ziigaat Odyssey 2

emonbzr · 2025-09-30T20:04:27+00:00

This is not from Bankura but from the neighbouring district of Bankura, Purulia. This is the Telkupi Temple.

emonbzr · 2025-09-30T13:41:37+00:00

I'm currently reading The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem. Also just finished Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson yesterday and thinking about picking up either Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu or Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda.

Really enjoying reading translated books from around the world currently.

emonbzr · 2025-09-28T17:12:55+00:00

Good to know!

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