I'm a big nerd and I've read a lot of books of all different kinds, and I'm an English teacher.

Tell me what you like or what you're looking for and I'll recommend something I think is good

Also, fun history fact, this comm used to be called c/books until I started posting poetry on main every day in protest of there not being a literature comm. Direct action gets the goods comrades

  • Wertheimer [any]5•9 months ago

    Eliot Weinberger's 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

    David Bellos's Is That a FIsh in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    John McWhorter's linguistics books (yes, his politics are absolutely terrible, but ignore his NYT column and his anti-woke book and enjoy stealing and reading Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue and The Language Hoax)

    Andrea Marcolongo's The Ingenious Language, but only if you don't already know Greek. Likewise Mary Norris's book on Greek.

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]4•9 months ago

      I'd heard of that first one, incidentally, so I really would like to check that one out. Thanks for all the recommendations!