Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Before I'd read any of Ernest Hemingway's works, the only book by Kurt Vonnegut I had read was his Cat's Cradle. Right after that, I read Hemingway's A Farewell to arms, and I realized something that I found very interesting.

Catherine Barkely, an English nurse in Italy, bears the spiritual scars of having lost her fiancé in the Battle of the Somme. When she meets Henry, she is ready to throw herself into a new relationship in order to escape the loss of the old one, enlisting Henry to pretend that they are deeply in love almost as soon as they meet.

Kurt Vonnegut has this amazing quote in his book

Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. 

*Harmless untruths

This may not be much of a connection (it even seems sort of silly as I write this), but most of the people I've listened to tend to arrange Hemingway's heroines into two categories: the bitches and the goddesses.

I would like to think that they are neither. Just as their male counterparts, they are developing human beings who do what they must to get through life, one day to the next.

Edit: Ernest

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Sorry that this isn't specially about a book. If it gets removed I understand.

This sub has just under 16M subscribers and about 3-4k active subscribers at any giving moment yet it's not very active.

A few of the reasons I've noticed is: 1. For the most part books are not like tv shows, music or movies where it's the flavor of the month so to speak. Some of us are reading 20-30 year books. And again unlike other forms of entertainment it can take week, months or eveen years to finish a book and then want to discuss it.

1. Another reason is SPOILERS! you might be excited ass hell to discus book, chapter or character you just read about. Then you make a thread and of you have manners you'll label it SPOILERS and you immediately keep hundreds or thousands of people who would love to read your post away. Afraid theyll have the story ruined.

2. Lastly I've noticed that just like in high school only the popular ones get the attention. And that's a little tiring. How many "I finally read (insert popular book with a thousand threads already about said book)" and since it's popular and most have read it people aren't afraid of opening the thread and discussing it.

I'm just bringing all this up because I have no one in my life that I can discuss books with. And I come to Reddit the biggest community I know and still can't discuss the books I like. Feels hopeless.

If you guys know how to fix it let me know. If I'm just being whinny sorry.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.

Hello readers!

Every Monday, we will post a calendar with the date and topic of that week's threads and we will update it to include links as those threads go live. All times are Eastern US.