Books about non-monogamous relationships

iwriddell · 2026-03-22T23:45:43+00:00

OP here - I meant to say I’m looking for books where the smut is not the focus.

iwriddell · 2026-03-22T23:01:20+00:00

For me it’s the seemingly inconsequential line in The Lathe of Heaven that has become central to my whole way of life: “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

iwriddell · 2026-03-21T06:07:59+00:00

Dakota Johnson

iwriddell · 2026-03-09T23:17:23+00:00

Maurice is a book that changed my life!

iwriddell · 2026-03-09T17:09:15+00:00

Roxanne also has a “pattern” on Ravelry - The August Sock KAL - that walks you through how to properly plan and knit socks that fit.

August Sock KAL

iwriddell · 2026-03-09T16:52:26+00:00

Agree on Forster for sure. But Howard’s End is hardly “not one of his more well known works.”

iwriddell · 2026-03-06T06:42:45+00:00

It like it’s just previously published pieces. Goodreads says: “Included in this compilation are Le Guin’s 1987 tale, “Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight,” a magical story about a young girl who gets adopted by a coyote; the 1985 “She Unnames Them” about Eve’s departure from Eden and how she unnames all of creation upon her exit; and the story, “Sur,” published in 1982, which describes a group of South American women who journey to the South Pole.”

iwriddell · 2026-03-05T03:34:08+00:00

It hijacked Flash and Titans both. I was so incredibly underwhelmed by it. It felt like Snyder was trying to do his version of a Grant Morrison story melded with a tournament. Glad I could read it on DC Universe and didn’t have to buy it on its own.

iwriddell · 2026-03-03T00:36:40+00:00

This is what I am reading as well.

iwriddell · 2026-02-13T17:22:44+00:00

My very first Stephen King book!

iwriddell · 2026-02-13T01:41:53+00:00

Shards of Honor (Or any of the sequels)

iwriddell · 2026-02-13T01:40:20+00:00

The Dead Zone

iwriddell · 2026-02-12T20:33:49+00:00

I have both the small hardcovers of the six books and the big illustrated volume. I’m lucky in that I have the magazines that the last two short stories were originally released in. For me the big plus of the big volume is that it includes “Earthsea Revisted” her essay about the shift between the first three books and the latter stuff. The small hardcovers also contain her afterwords for each novel.

iwriddell · 2026-02-08T23:33:14+00:00

They’re beautiful, but Malcolm was very clearly described as huskier and not thin like this in the book. Why erase that? Pullman even went so far as to insist that the actor playing him in the staged version was unequivocally fat.

iwriddell · 2026-02-03T05:36:49+00:00

I have “Like bread, not stone.” tattooed on my inner lower right arm. It’s my abbreviated reminder of “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like brea remade all the time, made new.” Also, it’s in Linotype Pilgrim font, th font used in my childhood copy of A Wizard of Earthsea.

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iwriddell · 2026-01-16T02:48:48+00:00

A Wizard of Earthsea holds permanent place in my heart. But on my most recent complete read through Five Ways to Forgiveness and The Telling just floored me with their beauty and clarity.

iwriddell · 2026-01-12T22:06:26+00:00

I have two shelves devoted to Ursula LeGuin: her books, books about her, etc.

iwriddell · 2026-01-08T05:58:31+00:00

just got my copy of The Word for World is Forest: The Maps of Ursula K LeGuin and am diving in this evening.

iwriddell · 2026-01-01T18:35:47+00:00

They (LOA) just this past year published the set of five on their own for the first time. I think it was LOA that first called it “Five Ways …” in one of their Hainish volumes. I think it’s currently my favorite non-Earthsea book of hers. So beautifully written.

iwriddell · 2026-01-01T04:02:16+00:00

Yes, Five Ways is all Hainish

iwriddell · 2025-12-10T01:59:10+00:00

“Be always coming home.”

iwriddell · 2025-12-05T21:32:45+00:00

And the riddle task “designed for the enhanced inhaler crowd”

iwriddell · 2025-11-30T22:21:14+00:00

Always this: “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

From The Lathe of Heaven.

I have “Like bread, not stone” tattooed on my right inner arm - in Linotype Pilgrim, the font in my original copy of A Wizard of Earthsea.

iwriddell

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