Was in a mega slump after getting a degree that involved reading hundreds of pages a day of medieval lit and a mentality that I should only read „serious“ texts.

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett broke the seal. It was just so funny and entertaining, and I was genuinely interested to find out what would happen.

I think for people who were big childhood readers, finding something in a genre or style similar to what you found absorbing as a kid can really do the trick.

Growing up in a small village where lots of people just… stay, this is one of my favorite books of all time.

Captures a lot of incredibly vivid, nuanced details of the decisions people make and why in that sort of limited environment, and the long-term emotional fallout of those decisions after characters have a few more life experiences and their perspective changes.