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bookscone · 3 years

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D,G,I for the books and you ask....

D: What book do you hate that most others love?

1. I hate The Boy In Striped Pyjamas with a burning passion but I don’t think anyone even likes that xD

2. I don’t really enjoy Looking For Alaska which is a book I think many people like.

3. I didn’t like The Artist of the Floating World as much as I thought I would (a post-WW2 Japan? count me in!) because I thought it had so much more potential... but maybe that is just my own stupidity xD

G: What’s your favorite reading spot?

A windowsill in the morning, a quiet bench in afternoon and my bed at night.

I: Do you have a favorite poet?

I write a lot of poetry but I am sad to say I don’t read a lot of poetry books outside of school.

One of the first poets I ever liked was Edgar Allan Poe. He traumatised my childhood and I still love him. A month ago I made a presentation about Vladimir Mayakovsky and had to read his poetry for that - I really liked his style and ideology.

Overall, if I have to choose one, I would say Sylvia Plath because I read her whole collection, I know her story and the topics she discusses are of utmost importance to me!

(If this is interesting, I am planning to read the poetry of Maya Angelou because of her social importance and because my friends reccommended them to me. Also the poems of Percy Shelley because it is embarrassing how I know his whole life but none of his works.)

thank you so much for askingg^^

~Owl.

#books #ask #bookscone #thanks for the ask #books and libraries #bookworm #book quotes #book blog #booklover #reading #poetry #poets #sylvia plath #edgar allan poe #mayakovsky

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bookscone · 3 years

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A, C, S and X for the book ask? ♡

A: What’s the first book you see with a red spine?

I had all of my red books in one place so I saw like 4 of them at once!

I saw my copy of The Communist Manifesto in Russian and I Am Malala (if that can be considered red) and I don’t know which first xD

C: Do you remember the first book you ever read?

Um- I'd be lying if I said yes.

It probably was a children's book which I read when I was around 4-5. One of the first book series I've read was Hetty Feather by Jaqueline Wilson, in 4-5 grade. One of the first serious books I've read was Unique in 6th grade for school. Also The Book Thief in 6th grade - that got me into reading.

S: Hardcover or paperback?

Paperback because I am poor. Also because they are bendy and feel nice. Also because I read in random places like my bed - paperback comes in handy.

X: What book has your favorite cover art?

There are so many- I will just choose from the books I own.

1. To Kill A Mockingbird graphic novel version cover (muah)

2. The Phantom of the Opera Macmillan Collector’s Edition cover (a pic is on my blog)

3. Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World comic book cover (its so shiny and cool!)

thank you so much for the ask! <3

~Owl.

#book blog #reading #book talk #ask #thanks for the ask #books #books and libraries #bookworm #bookscone #book cover #paperback

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bookscone · 3 years

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Books and You

Reblog if you want your followers to inbox you with any of the following questions: A: What’s the first book you see with a red spine? B: What’s your most expensive book? C: Do you remember the first book you ever read? D: What book do you hate that most others love? E. What are three book blogs (besides macrolit natch ;D) that I should follow? F: What’s your regular order at Starbucks? G: What’s your favorite reading spot? H: What’s the longest book you’ve ever read? I: Do you have a favorite poet? J: Favorite woman writer? K: Favorite male writer? L: What’s your favorite guilty-pleasure read? M: Favorite classic? N: Favorite YA? O: Favorite contemporary novel? P: What’s your favorite book by a person of color? Q: What’s the first book you see with a yellow spine? R: How many Penguin books do you own? S: Hardcover or paperback? T: Used or new? U: What’s your favorite used bookstore? V: What’s your reading goal for this year? W: If you had to eat the same thing every day for a week, what would you choose? X: What book has your favorite cover art? Y: Do you have a favorite quote? Z: If you wrote a book, what would it be about?

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bookscone · 3 years

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Enjoy a book alongside your breakfast today 🥰

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

#books #books and libraries #bookworm #book quotes #book blog #booklover #bookaholic #bookscone #reading #emma healey #literature #bookblr #dementia #contemporary books #breakfast #positivity #motivation

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bookscone · 3 years

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On January 6th Capitol Hill was stormed by Trump supporting rioters who wanted to disrupt the democratic confirmation process and (probably) cause harm to the elected officials. The whole night I watched it live, I was speechless. I knew what the news would show the morning after, I knew how this obvious coup d’etat would be portrayed by far right news anchors.

I was speechless. I was on the other side of the world but I somehow was still worried. Somehow is the wrong word perhaps, I was rightfully worried. In fact, everyone everywhere who cares about human rights and fairness should be worried, regardless of their personal interests regarding the USA. “Why should we care?”, oh you for sure should. Because I know for a fact, if this were a smaller country with not as many resources, with not as much coverage, this coup d’etat could have worked. A sitting president inciting a storming of a governmental building is a first in American history and the whole world should care about negative firsts, preventing negative firsts.

“Don’t meddle in our politics”. “Your opinion literally doesn’t matter”. Oh so wrong you are. Everybody’s opinion matters when an influential country looses whatever smidgen of democracy it used to have. And I don’t want to say America is destroyed now, because people will forget about this as well. However, I am so certain that is this exact chain of events had had ocurred in a Middle Eastern or a South American country, the USA would have been very concerned. Maybe a little bit too concerned. To the point of sending troops to overthrown a dictator perhaps.

This comparison pains me to make but, these far-right reactionaries and rioters should remember America’s considerable role in helping the Allience powers win the Second World War. They fought against the fascists, they were anti faschist. As partially ethnically Jewish, and as a human being, it makes me hurt to see some of those Americans now, storming the Capitol while wearing “Auschwitz camp”, “6MWE” t-shirts, ridden with anti-semitic dogwhistles and racist memorabilia. Petrifying. American’s fougt agains the monarchy, now reporters such as “Liberty Hangout” promote a US monarchy, a far-righ riot featuring the proud boys is blamed on ANFITA, Republicans fail in honestly condemning their own side. Disgraceful.

Not to be dramatic but, American history classes lack a very important aspect of the education they have to provide - teaching students about the horrying events of the past. It should not atop at “Colombus sailed the ocean blue”, “Natives and the whites signed a peaceful pact”, “We won the WW2”, “Stalin starved people to death” and other childish claims which lack all historical nuance. In Germany children are taught in depth about their terrifying past and never to repeat it. Even then far-right groupd still exist in Germany. What would you expect from a country where people with a basic high school education unironically think Hitler was a “sOciAliSt”.

My grandfathers fough the war. They were veterans, they were martyrs. They survived the Holocaust, they fled their towns t escape those exact “camps” that were printed on the rioters shirts. Seeing people who have never lived through that glorify the other side now makes me seriously doubt their sanity.

Misinformation and unableness to live in the same reality. Calling an establishment democrat president-elect a “marxist”. They want to “protect their heritage” with the flag of the confederacy that lasted only for 5 years and by flying a Trump flag over an American one which is the flag of a pathetic one term president. A man was waving the European country Georgia’s flag for f*ck’s sake.

6 million was not enough for them. I am disgusted and scared.

#politics #us politics #usa elections #usa #us #america #trump #capitol #capitol hill #us riots

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bookscone · 3 years

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All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Enjoying one of my favourite historical fiction novels alongside some old-fashioned tea.

What is your favourite historical fiction book?

#books #books and libraries #bookworm #book quotes #book blog #booklover #bookaholic #bookscone #reading #historical fictiohistorical books #world war 2 #ww2 books #anthony doerr #all the light we cannot see

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bookscone · 3 years

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81 years ago today (18th of November, 1939) Margaret Atwood was born.

Happy Birthday Ms.Atwood!

"The Testaments" by Margaret Atwood, 2019

(I will be sharing my Goodreads review and rating of this book soon)

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bookscone · 3 years

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Rereading The Hazel Wood for Halloween! 🎃

Stay away from...

•- The Hazel Wood -•

by Melissa Albert

#books #books and libraries #book quotes #bookworm #the hazel wood #melissa albert #gothic stories #fairytale forest #fairytale #hinderland #halloween #autumm #fall atmosphere #spooky reads

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bookscone · 4 years

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Today, October 19th is Philip Pullman's birthday!

Happy Birthday Mr.Pullman, your stories are truly magical 🔮

Northern Lights from His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman

#northern lights #his dark materials #philip pullman #the subtle knife #the amber spyglass #lyra #books #books and libraries #book quotes #bookworm #authors #author birthday #birthday #october 19th

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bookscone · 4 years

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Ask me any of these~

Books and You

Reblog if you want your followers to inbox you with any of the following questions: A: What’s the first book you see with a red spine? B: What’s your most expensive book? C: Do you remember the first book you ever read? D: What book do you hate that most others love? E. What are three book blogs (besides macrolit natch ;D) that I should follow? F: What’s your regular order at Starbucks? G: What’s your favorite reading spot? H: What’s the longest book you’ve ever read? I: Do you have a favorite poet? J: Favorite woman writer? K: Favorite male writer? L: What’s your favorite guilty-pleasure read? M: Favorite classic? N: Favorite YA? O: Favorite contemporary novel? P: What’s your favorite book by a person of color? Q: What’s the first book you see with a yellow spine? R: How many Penguin books do you own? S: Hardcover or paperback? T: Used or new? U: What’s your favorite used bookstore? V: What’s your reading goal for this year? W: If you had to eat the same thing every day for a week, what would you choose? X: What book has your favorite cover art? Y: Do you have a favorite quote? Z: If you wrote a book, what would it be about?

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bookscone · 4 years

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