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[jiinyu]

Hello.

While I can speak the English language fairly competently, my reading skills are not as great as I'd like. My group wasn't able to source many books in English that were at the proper reading level while I was growing up, so while I can read English, I'd like to be better at it. That being said I'd like to request some of your favourites from the library. I'm afraid I haven't dedicated enough time to perusing our shelves so it will all most likely be new to me. Chang'e and I will read anything, even poetry.

Thank you for your time.

Comments

[jiinyu]

That is helpful. What are these books about?

[adequacies]

[…] on second thought, The Giver is a bit too on the nose so I would avoid it. But it’s about a community that is dedicated to the concept of Sameness and a young boy who becomes the receiver of memories of the world before.

And The Old Man and the Sea is about an unlucky fisherman and his trials as he catches a large marlin and tries to bring it back to shore.

[jiinyu]

Yes, I can see how that would be considered on the nose.

I do like fisherman's tales, I will look for this book. Do you have a favorite book?

[adequacies]

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it.

And I have too many favorites, to be honest.

My favorite classic is Little Women. The one that stuck with me most as a child was called Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. I also liked The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown— that one is in the library.

[jiinyu]

My ma read Little Women to me when I was younger. I liked it but found it quite sad as well. We found a copy of the film once, but had no way to watch it.

Is it a book about the artist?