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Where can I read a lot of this? I want great literary minds writing in detail about other great works of literature, they analyse, expound, dissect, sing praises and fanboy over their favourite writers and works. I want to know how differently a far superior mind reads and interprets literature than when I read them.

The best example I can think of is W.G Sebald's A Place in the Country where he writes about six different writers/poets. There's also Borges' Selected Non-fictions which contains his thoughts and reviews on different works. If you know any other such examples please recommend, the more in depth and detailed the better

Looking for more works like invisible cities where the authors focus less on plot and more on describing imaginary things like cities and people. I liked Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings a lot and also Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany. I have also heard about Tainaron but couldn't get my hands on a physical copy of it yet. If you guys know any such books with similar playful ideas please recommend. Thanks

I purchase most of my books from Amazon, the last book i received wasn't of good quality so I tried to return it but saw that there were no options to return it at all only replacement. Now in this case replacement wouldn't have made sense because the low quality of the book was from the publisher itself, if he sent another one it would have the same issues with paper quality and binding, so I just kept it. I'm looking to buy another book which is slightly expensive and I don't see an option to return it so if it comes damaged or is of bad quality I would again have to take a loss. Am I missing where the option to Return is mentioned or have they just completely removed it altogether? This wouldn't have been an issue if Amazon didn't frequently send me damaged books, some are like that from the seller but some are good but Amazon packages them so horribly that they get damaged on the way

I use my old Kindle and the mail to Kindle feature is very convenient to read. I can download an epub file on my phone and mail it to my Kindle. I have been planning to get a new e-reader and was wondering if Kindles are still the best choice? I see a lot of talk about kobo and boox too, do they also have a feature similar to mail to kindle? how do you guys send your epubs to your ereaders?

I really like short stories, and I like shorter stories, like micro fiction or vignettes even more. To some extent it's because I have become very youtube-shorts-brained with a horrible attention span but also because I enjoy seeing how deep writers can go and how much can they convey in just a few pages or even in just a few sentences. A lot of my favourite writers are those that can say a lot with very few words. Who do you consider the king of this? Of writing vignettes and micro stories? The greatest at it? Which books do you find the best at this?

And it's mostly because of the mods, user base and the design of the site itself.

Try going to a hobby sub or a niche sub for a very specific thing and asking a question. Your post will be removed. Maybe for not following rules, which are often nebulous and super long. Sometimes it gets removed because "it is a frequently asked question" when you search the sub for it none of the replies are actually helpful or they're years old and outdated. In some subs they'll remove your post and ask you to post it on some Megathread or Daily thread, these megathreads are always dead, you post there and it gets 2-3 disinterested replies that aren't very helpful or you get no replies at all because no one uses those threads anyways.

Or you could follow every single rule and your post will still be removed automatically by the automod as soon as you click Post.

In case your post doesn't get removed, the users are always weirdly condescending and mean, the fanbases are defensive over things that aren't even criticisms and you'll often get passive aggressive and even angry replies shouting at you. Some people here don't read the posts through and bring up something that you had already mentioned in the body text. People don't interact to understand, help or even stay neutral, it's like they come here to argue.

I expected them to be really engaging, they offered Dumbledore in his prime against a villain stronger than Voldemort and a whole arc about magical creatures. I don't know how you can make something so fun feel boring but somehow they achieved it. Something about the films just didn't feel compelling. I didn't care for any of the characters or their stories besides Grindelwald. HP had incredible actors all around, compare this to Fantastic Beasts the acting was very subpar, the only person whose acting was genuinely good was Mads Mikkelsen, he had a gravitas and presence that no one brought, not even Depp.

But my biggest issue with them is balance. They couldn't balance the fantastic beasts story with the Grindelwald one together, they clashed and took away from each other, and the result was that neither got enough time

Thodi aandhi chalti hai ki 3-4 ghante ke liye light gone. It has been out in my area since afternoon, I had to do office work on my laptop's battery power which eventually ran out so now I can't even work. The whole area where i live in has no light anywhere. Just sitting in the heat and waiting

Need advice. How do you guys meet new people if you don't have a friend group or social circle? I'm 25M, usually people have a circle and meet new people through that but most of my friends moved to different cities plus my job is work from home so I can't meet anyone through the office either. Are there any organic ways to meet people with similar interests? If you guys have any tips please suggest I'd love to join any groups, clubs or meetups happening.

Edit: people thinking this is about dating but it is not, I'm little just looking for new people to hang out with, groups where one can do some activity or talk, nothing more

I'm not sure what i even want but the title has been in my head for some days. I know most literature explores people, their actions and psychology but I was wondering if there's something completely detached from all of this from humans, their evil, their annoying traits, their psychology, conflicts, sex, desires, messiness, pains and failures. Especially the messiness of complicated overwhelming lives. I don't want works that hate these things, rather ones that are neutral, unconcerned and oblivious to them. Maybe stories about very abstract things? Idk, i don't even think something like this exists so give me anything that comes the closest to this description

Can there be wizards that don't need a wand at all? We see some magic done without a wand but nothing big. Is it possible for a wizard to be able to duel and use difficult spells without it? I think this would be a very useful skill.

Some other wand related questions:

What about using two wands? Again, wouldn't this be a lot more convenient? If you lose one you would still have 1 or 2 more in the bag.

Would using multiple wands divide the magic between them making attacks weaker or would it intensify the magic?

In the HP world, do wizards/witches only use wands to channel their magic or are there other things they can channel it through? Like maybe larger staffs or sceptres? In the Order of the Phoenix film, when the Aurors arrive to save the kids, there's a short scene at around 1:56:25 where Moody is holding a big staff, he thumps it on the ground which makes it shoot something and sends a Death Eater flying. Does anyone know what that is? Is it some other kind of magical weapon?

She does make many correct predictions so I don't understand why people call her a fraud? I think Divination in hp world is just something that can't be learned. It's a slippery discipline, when Trelawney makes correct predictions she doesn't seem to be able to do it consciously it just comes to her without her control. Like maybe seers have an antenna that they are just born with which the masses don't have, similar to how some people irl have an extra finger on their hand.

I once heard someone say that Don Quixote is a book that one should read at different ages of their life, a teen, an adult, an old man all get different things out of it. Though I can't verify this I am very interested to hear people's experiences that have been way longer on earth than I have, are there books that you read in your teenage, 20s, 30s, 40s, multiple times over the decades and still held up? Still keeps giving something new to think about? New things that you notice in it and appreciate? What have you gotten out of them? What have you gathered? Please share your experiences, would love to hear your thoughts on those works and what you feel about them.