#I’m not saying the nonfiction is entertainment btw

[safirefire]

im still in the middle of Medical Apartheid and Cobalt Red just came off hold but then I remembered that All This Twisted Glory (This Woven Kingdom #3) comes out next week on Feb 6th and now I’m re-reading the first two because I loved them so much they really hit my need for a fantasy with an interesting plot plus a good romance and it’s by the same author who wrote Shatter Me so if you liked that series I highly recommend it because the main character is so Juliette coded and the writing is so beautiful with funny and quippy dialogue but their speech pattern is Victorian so it’s like a Cinderella/regency romance in a Persian inspired setting with djinn and magic so anyway this is about to be a Tahereh Mafi account for the next two weeks

but also I feel a little bit like

[engazed]

If it's okay for people to ask follow-up qs to your kind responses, could I ask- why does Dryers only have non-fiction in his room? I was surprised; I thought he'd have like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-type books or something! :)

Loving your answers btw!

I'm more than happy to answer follow-up questions! (I'm finding this game rather fun tbh.)

Here's the original Q/A.

So what does Dryers like to read? Let me give you an idea. Here is the stack of books on his desk:

Devil in the White City, by Eric Larson London at War, by Philip Ziegler From a Clear Blue Sky, by Knatchbull 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, by W.C. Sellar, R.J. Yeatman, and John Reynolds In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

So you can see he likes stories. Just, you know, nonfiction ones. He gravitates to true crime, war stories, and entertaining takes on history.

Some of these books are long and dense and he tends to skip around a bit, from book to book. But he always finishes. His collection of books is small compared to some, but he can honestly say that if a book sits on his shelf, he's read it.

[13eyond13]

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply! Don't worry, you didn't have to reread or rewatch anything, your replies were great nonetheless (btw, I spent a whole night reading the manga and a few hours of the day, so it wasn't impressive at all, it took a lot of time).

I agree with your reading of how and why Light treats her as he does. And I had a lot of fun with the hypothetical situations about how it could have been done you came up with! I really like the first two, where there's deceiving on her part. That could have been both very entertaining and satisfying to read. Yet I loved the third situation, about Takada changing her mind! I liked that it potentially focused more on personal moral reasons than emotional-related-to-Light ones. It also seems easier to fit and more consistent with Ohba's writing I think, and I loved how it played still with the parallelism between Takada and Light. I liked the idea of how after the meltdown both could have ended up taking very different paths. It would rise questions about why that is, about the differences between their personalities and morals, but also whether their ages could have had a say in their ultimate decision, which is something actually both L and Light brought up in the beginning, but now under a different light. I don't know, I just find it would have been a situation very coherent with Ohba's writing and very interesting, and I liked that it had still a bit of not everyone being absolute and blindly charmed by Light. Though maybe Ohba would have written her as not carrying on with the deed because of weakness...

Anyway, I'm talking a lot already, sorry. Again, thank you very much again for taking the time to reply, and for reading that other too long message, there was no need at all. I hope you're feeling better now. And I hope you're enjoying the new things you're reading and watching! I'm half tempted to ask, but that seems overly personal. Revealing what we love is very intimate, after all.

You're welcome 😁 And it's ok to ask about the other media! I gave myself the task of watching hundreds of new movies and reading at least 75 new books this year, since I'm working from home at a boring job and having to be pretty indoorsy most of the year due to the pandemic anyway. So far in the first half of 2021 I've read 36 new books and watched 155 new movies. I'm picking my way through the Beastars manga and Hunter x Hunter manga, as well as reading lots of novels and nonfiction. I developed a big writer crush on Patricia Highsmith back in like February and binged a bunch of her books, so they've been the biggest highlight of the new 2021 reading for me thus far. I've been watching some new shows too, even though I'm normally too lazy for finishing shows... Watched Invincible season 1 with my brother the other week. Also sometimes I'm playing games... Animal Crossing for the Switch took over my life for a bit several months ago, and now I'm having a blast playing the bizarro detective RPG Disco Elysium. I highly recommend that one based on the 10 hours or so I've sunk into it so far, super creative and interesting and strange