Every week, I'll be making a pinned post inviting you to share your favorite books with the slop-hungry hogs of Hexbear yummy. Each week will be loosely structured around a particular genre, time period or other theme.

Last week's thread can be found here

For this week's theme: Worlds to get lost in

Books whose settings are so vividly painted that it's a pleasure just to spend time in them. Maybe it's a particular historical moment brought to life or a fantastical world. Perhaps it's a particular scene or milleu. Whatever the case, even if you wouldn't want to live there in real life, you don't want to come back to reality either.

Optional nerd discussion questions

What techniques does the author use to achieve the verisimilitude of their world? What particular aspects of the setting do you, personally, find so compelling? What is most alien about the setting to your own experience? What is most familiar?

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  • courier8377 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 days ago

    Just read Tolstoy's The Cossacks. What a wonderful writer. I had an old copy so the translation felt well suited to his style too. Definitely had a romanticised portrayal of frontier life, but going in with a grain of salt, I do recommend it.