[ SECRET POST #4143 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4143 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Hank Azaria, The Simpsons]


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[Paul Hollywood, Great British Bake Off]


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04.
[All for One]


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05.
[Plato, philosophy(slash?)]


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[Fear the Walking Dead]


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07.
[The Nanny]












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General comments:

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Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

I was just thinking about the books I go to when I'm feeling down or when I'm sick and just want something light and comforting and realized they're pretty much all childhood favorites. I don't have much adult fiction that I'd consider a comfort read and I think that's partly to do with the nostalgia of childhood favorites and the fact that they're relatively simple and familiar.

How about you? Do you have any comfort reads that are novels meant for adults?

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[morieris]

Despite it's points of inaccuracy, Memoirs of A Geisha I suppose.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

Gone With the Wind. And The Complete Sherlock Holmes. In high school they had a constant place on my bed next to my pillow.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely Wodehouse.

Dorothy Sayers - a lot of mystery writers, really.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[philstar22]

Anything Tolkien. Most of his stuff isn't children's literature. Also the Star Wars EU books, particularly the ones by Zahn.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

Charles Bukowski always makes me laugh and makes me feel better about my life.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps cosy mysteries? Or just cosy sorts of novels in general?

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

The Dresden Files are a great comfort read because even though I'll know the plot of the book, I'll forget some of the dumb jokes.

There's a reason I read the one with the porn people a lot.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

Anything by David Eddings, though I tend to gravitate towards the Belgariad and the Elenium most as comfort reads.

And a lot of Valdemar books.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[kaijinscendre]

Maybe World War Z. Only book I have read multiple times.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

Right now, E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

... some of your comfort reads make me feel like I set the bar really low for myself.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[nightscale]

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett, not sure why but it's one of those books that I can quite happily read over and over when I'm feeling the need for something familiar.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas. It's... aptly titled, although there are some serious parts. It's about an Iranian woman (well, girl/young woman in the book) growing up and coming of age in 1970's America. It never fails to cheer me up.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis and Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

Most any of Pratchett’s Discworld novels that aren’t the first couple, and his and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens. Robin McKinley’s Sunshine. Pretty much anything by Lois McMaster Bujold. Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and her Temeraire series.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Just about anything Pratchett.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[(Anonymous)]

Almost all the Shopaholic books are comfort reads for me. Becky has her bad points, but she's a fun character. I also enjoy Twenties Girl and Can You Keep A Secret?.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

I think for me it's probably "The Phantom of the Opera" because it was the first novel I read that was of an adult nature that really resonated with me-- I mean, I think I read it in 5th grade and fell in love with the story.

Of course, I also liked Dark Angel by VC Andrews, though that wasn't really a comfort read, but it did have one of my favorite characters of all times in it, so there's that

Age gap between consenting adults, Y/N?

[(Anonymous)]

And what are your favorite pairings, fandoms and tropes?

I've got my second migraine in 4 days

[(Anonymous)]

What bad luck have you had recently?

Based on 6

[(Anonymous)]

What character do you think were underused?

Steven Universe (spoilers for recent episodes)

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone else want to talk about what happened?

Did Anyone Else See

[(Anonymous)]

These pictures of Kristen Stewart looking at Cate Blanchett?

Like, how am I really supposed to keep living in a world with these pictures, right?

https://twitter.com/iloveholtzbert/status/993942268703858688