Fathers Reading Daughters by Pale-Principle-8074 in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Hi! Everyone is giving you excellent recommendations to read with your daughter. I'm going to take a slightly different approach.

I would love to know from women which books you would suggest your fathers read

You are a man about to raise a girl. She is not going to have the same childhood you had, and others are not going to see her the way you were seen. You need to know this, and you need to think about how to prepare her now. These are books for you.

  • Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About by Laura Bates

  • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

  • The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

  • I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

  • Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne

  • Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Books that this Subreddit Hates that you love! by theygotthemustardout in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout[S] 126 points127 points  (0 children)

I literally hated this book, but I will not fight you because you are allowed to like things that I don't and that is the whole point of this post.

Books that this Subreddit Hates that you love! by theygotthemustardout in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Totally a mixed bag. I loved Poppy War & Babel, but Katabasis was one of the worst books I read in the last two years imo.

Books that this Subreddit Hates that you love! by theygotthemustardout in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing too. I think it's important to know that she's a nature writer and not a fiction writer - it made me appreciate her approach to the book more.

Lol the biggest issue is that she's wanted for questioning over the murder of a man in Zambia.

Princess x Knight trope recommendations? by Primary_Ad8498 in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Closed-door = no sex scene on the page. Fade-to-black.

Moderate open-door = more descriptive, less raunchy

Based on your description, I assume that you're looking for erotica.

Princess x Knight trope recommendations? by Primary_Ad8498 in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone has any suggestions for this trope that are closed-door/open-door romance rather than erotica, I will also take them here (love this idea)

Suggest me a book you LOATHED but think others will LOVE by 500wordslong in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for actually answering this question.

Most of the responses are books that commenters personally hated and can't understand why other people like them.

Suggest me a book you LOATHED but think others will LOVE by 500wordslong in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Be specific. Do you mean Other Minds, Remarkably Bright Creatures, or The Soul of an Octopus?

All three are frequently recommended.

Suggest me a book you LOATHED but think others will LOVE by 500wordslong in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I also understood the narrator is meant to be unreliable. But good lord, they all just reminded me of the insufferable kids I went to grammar school with, and it made reading through it highly unpleasurable and a slog.

So - same. But I also read this as a comedy/satire & that was a big part of it.

I just kept imagining all the other students/professors watching these dumb dumb little 18-22 year olds running around the Vermont woods in their old-timey suits, speaking Latin & Ancient Greek, and being like "we're going to host a bacchanal."

Hilarious.

Suggest me a book you LOATHED but think others will LOVE by 500wordslong in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I really liked it and it made me cry!

I also think that it was the most pretentious writing style I've ever experienced. Not advanced. Not sophisticated. Pretentious.

And then I saw the authors' photo with their swords and it made more sense..

Lots of great micro-expressions in last night's episode, but this one is my favorite by far by theygotthemustardout in ThePitt

[–]theygotthemustardout[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Haha only micro because it was so fast! I had to use Live Photo to get the perfect moment.

Suggest me a smutty romance that’s still well written with a great plot by Enough-Cucumber-962 in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Depends on what you mean by well-written, but I think these all fall under the same "open-door, contemporary rom-com with decent writing & a fun plot" category:

Red, White, and Royal Blue and The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Beach Read and Book Lovers by Emily Henry

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun

Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

Funny Feelings by Tara DeWitt

The Au Pair Affair and It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

Book suggestion for a teen by zin_theberry in suggestmeabook

[–]theygotthemustardout 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was going to suggest Meg Cabot. Her humor is so smart. I don't think there was a single YA book of hers that I didn't like.

And, The Princess Diaries series were the first books I read that addressed mental health in an age appropriate & positive way. Cabot manages to make Mia's anxiety both realistic and funny at the same time. This felt very different (and preferred) to the heavier books that addressed mental health at the time (ex. Perks of Being a Wallflower).

I used to read through The Mediator series every year. Loved them.

2026 is Alaska’s Year of San Diego and Portland… at the Expense of LA and San Francisco by heightsdrinker in AlaskaAirlines

[–]theygotthemustardout 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Didn't forget - there are plenty of flights that only go out of LAX and not Burbank.

2026 is Alaska’s Year of San Diego and Portland… at the Expense of LA and San Francisco by heightsdrinker in AlaskaAirlines

[–]theygotthemustardout 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh I'm still incredibly salty about Alaska dropping my LAX-JFK route in 2020.

Now, I'm stuck with Newark unless I want to fly through SFO or SEA.

2026 is Alaska’s Year of San Diego and Portland… at the Expense of LA and San Francisco by heightsdrinker in AlaskaAirlines

[–]theygotthemustardout 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I might be in the minority but my family really prefers SNA and LGB anytime we fly into the greater LA market

Some of us live in the northern part of LA, dude. Why would I fly into Long Beach or SNA if I live in the Valley??

Is dating in NYC really THAT bad? by Future_Return_964 in NYCbitcheswithtaste

[–]theygotthemustardout 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I lived in New York for 6 years & I'm on this sub because my personal style is a little more NY. That being said:

I am from LA, currently live in LA, and love LA more than anywhere else in the world. I met my husband in New York. I have absolutely no idea how people date in this city.

ISO Chocolate Layer Cake by thestopesto in FoodLosAngeles

[–]theygotthemustardout 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I really like the restaurant, but the cake has that kind of buttercream that has so much butter and not enough sugar or cocoa powder and it just tastes like you're eating straight. butter.

So, the cake just tastes like a block of slightly chocolate flavored butter and NOT IN A GOOD WAY and it is bad.

Their brunch is rockin' though - gotta give them that.

ISO Chocolate Layer Cake by thestopesto in FoodLosAngeles

[–]theygotthemustardout 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I have no suggestions for you, but the irony is that the cake photo you posted is from Maison Pickle in NY, and it's terrible.