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Guys. I can feel it already. THIS is the year. This is the year that Jonathan Harker will go on his business trip with no issue. Just a lovely train ride through Europe where he collects paprika recipies for Mina, meets some friendly, living people looking to buy properties in England, and then returns home safely.

Free him from the time loop.

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William B. “Bill” Watterson II.

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Don’t forget to periodically cull the books you didn’t like, books that no longer interest you, books that have little or no personal value. Donate, sell, trade in or recycle to make room for better things. A library evolves, hopefully for the better. The goal shouldn’t be perpetual accumulation imo.

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Currently Reading: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

I continue my journey following the Atreides family, this time focused more on Paul's and Chani's twins, Leto and Ghanima. We see just how different they are, from their point of view, as we saw Alia in the first and second book. And we see how this difference can lead to power hunger and madness. As well as how isolating it can be and just how much you could learn.

Again, I still have no idea where this story is going, like I was with Dune and Dune Messiah. And I'm LOVING it, I'm REVELING in not knowing where a story is going!

#children of dune #frank herbert #currently reading #booklr #science fiction #book #dune #dune messiah

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my hot take is that if you want to write a book, you need to read books

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I'm on submission with my newest attempt at traditional publishing right now and it's really driving home the loss of Twitter to the publishing community. Yeah, there was a lot of drama and crap there. But when I've been on submission before and I'd wake up to a new list of editors my agent had sent my manuscript to, I could pop on Twitter and look up 90% of them, find their wishlists, see what kind of books they were publishing, find interviews they'd done. It was all in one place and free and easy to search through. Some of that stuff is still out there, but it's scattered or behind paywalls.

Just. Fuck Musk. He took such a valuable resource away from so many people all to stroke his own damn ego.

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Illustrations by Anne Yvonne Gilbert for the Books Illustrated edition of The Night Circus, 2022

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Round 1

I like to keep my life tucked neatly into boxes… But the boxes have been dropped in the ocean, and now everything is spilling out.

-The Girl From the Sea, Molly Knox Ostertag

It was my aunt who decided to give me to the dragon.

-Dragon Slippers, Jessica Day George

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

-Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

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my favorite children's book about dragons 🐉

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dragon book stickers are now on my store! the gold + the dragon and gem are shiny and metallic :)

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ATTENTION ALL DRAGON AU AND DRAGON LOVERS IN GENERAL!!

This is very impromptu of me, but I wanted to recommend a book to all of ya'll if you don't already know if it (it's something that was pivotal on my own love for dragons):

A Diversity of Dragons by Anne McCaffery with Richard Woods, Illustrated by John Howe

Yes, THAT Anne McCaffery. This book has a lot of fun stories and some incredibly GORGEOUS illustrations in it. As you can see, my copy has been well loved (and yes the book is incredibly large).

Here are two of my favorite images:

This book is genuinely stunning and I heavily suggest ya'll get it if you love dragons.

The last time I checked, it was $60 new. It's possible the price has changed since I last looked.

Anyway that's all I had to say 👋

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I just started working at a bookstore yesterday and the highlight of my day was an older man returning Fourth Wing and Iron Flame and being very disdainful about them as stories. Like yes, I hate them too.

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Found an Easter egg in the book The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older!

It's the second (and latest) book in her mystery series The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti. I can highly recommend both it and the first book, The Mimicking of Known Successes.

The simplest way to describe the series is that it's very similar (I'd say intentionally so) to the Sherlock Holmes stories, but if Sherlock and Watson were reimagined as lesbians with chemistry that was more than just potential subtext, and they lived in a future post-apocalyptic colony in space with definite Victorian-type/steampunk world building, but with a healthy amount of foods and other cultural aspects from many different cultures around the world.

In fact, one thing that surprised me at first was that the books' vocabulary commonly uses not only formal/older English words, but also words and expressions from many different languages, only some of which were familiar to me, but most of which can be understood from context. It's a choice that makes sense, though, for a society that's been removed from Earth for a long time, and what it would look like for different Earth cultures to synthesize into totally new cultures and groupings of people over time.

Anyway, these are the kind of books that you're likely to enjoy if you like TMBD. As a matter of fact, in the first book's acknowledgments, Malka Older listed Martha Wells first among the other authors she was thanking for their writing and how it impacted her. So if you're looking for a fun and interesting scifi read, these books are worth it! :)

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now i'm curious

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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

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“You call her Lazuli as if it means something to you. That alone would be enough to warrant my interest and favor. But there is something in her, something strong and resilient, like those rocks of hers, I suppose. I should like to see you break yourself against it.”

— Sandalio de Rabiffano “Biffy” How to Marry a Werewolf by Gail Carriger