Unfortunately Not a Real Pony

Our family owns a combined 448 books at the moment.

I finished reading that book, the one that I stayed up all night reading in my youth and then hated.

Looking back at it (coughcough) years later, I think my issue with it was that the ending was ambiguous - what did the antagonist/love interest do to the protagonist, if anything? What do the flashbacks mean? Is she really dead?

As a thirty-something I can read between the lines and come to a satisfying conclusion, but at the time I was so frustrated that it was ambiguous, and when I tried to talk to my mother about it the next day (well... eight hours later in the afternoon when I woke up, it was after dawn when I finished the book), she just laughed at me.

Oddly, while I mostly forgot about this book for years (and when I did think about it, couldn't tell you much about it), reading it again I discovered that both the plot and the format are quite similar to a novel I started writing a couple of years later. I don't think this is coincidence (I've read literally thousands of books, and very few of them made enough of an impression to haunt me a decade-plus later), but it also wasn't deliberate on my part.

There's a fantasy book I read years ago, which I remember staying up all night to read, but also despising for some reason.

I just remembered the title, and I got my hands on an e-book.

Does anyone have an English copy of The Silver Chair on hand?

My translated copy states, in the penultimate paragraph of chapter 15, that the lady in the green kirtle was "of course the same witch that had once frozen Narnia", but I think the translator could've added that.

"For centuries, the quinoa has been considered a food of low social prestige, although this prejudice is slowly changing. There needs to be a greater awareness of its nutritional value."

-Neglected Crops: 1492 from a Different Perspective (1993)

Twenty(mumble) years ago, I read Alanna: the First Adventure, in which the main character at one point burns vervain leaves and notes that she's working dangerous magic.

I was today years old when I discovered that vervain is a real plant. That I can buy seeds for at my local gardening center.

[Lie] I'm only going to read one chapter.

Codex Alera is an interesting case study in titles, because even knowing what the last book is named gives away huge plot twists.

Turns out that I CAN recapture the "can't think of anything except this book, must stay up late reading" feeling.

But only with books I read and loved as a kid.

I am begging authors to please learn ways to demonstrate that two characters are in love aside from jealousy.