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#me #reading #books

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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

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Odyssey

based on this poll

#art #the odyssey #beautiful

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I can't be the only one surprised how casually you're just. Here. Mind talking about what it was like to like. Join Tumblr?

It was 13 or 14 years ago. From what I remember you just shouldered aside the mastodons, went into the Tumblr cave and carved your mark on the wall, telling people you were now signed up for tumblr, and then they would haul memes on animal hides past you. Back then it was mostly cats doing amusing things, obviously, but we would watch them by the flickering firelight, and chortle to ourselves hopefully before leaving the cave and trudging back to our lives.

#ye olde tumblr

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#children's books #queer authors

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Women want one thing and it's quite obvious, A large affordable interconnected North American Rail Network

#trains #public transportation #this is true #but also #i want it electric #and high speed #and i think that's so cute of me

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#emma #book memes #this is also just a really good meme format #meme appreciation

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Book 25 of 2024: So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

Faron channels the power of the gods. Her sister, Elara, is looking for her own place in the world. But when Elara suddenly bonds to a dragon, forcing her to join the army of the empire that (until very recently) colonized their country, Faron is desperate to break the bond and get her sister back. So desperate that she'll turn to any entity that offers help. I liked this - the worldbuilding and characters were great. My only complaint is that it felt in the beginning like I was picking up the second book in a trilogy. There was a lot of exposition setting up what had happened in the war where Faron got her powers and set the island free. Obviously the author wanted to tell a specific story, but it did create a lot of exposition up front.

What to read next: Blood Like Magic, by Liselle Sambury, for another high-concept fantasy that incorporates real-world issues of race and inequality.

#books #books i've read #read in 2024 #ya #fantasy #dragons

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god this tickles me

(OP's tiktok here)

#tiktok #this is really good

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Real life Tetris is trying to fit more books into your already full bookshelf

#my life #books

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Book 24 of 2024: Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

This was fun and frothy, very in the vein of Crazy Rich Asians, BUT. Kwan is not a great prose stylist, and I think after reading a few books by him his style--TONS of exposition, fairly wooden dialogue, wall-to-wall brand-name-dropping--is wearing thin for me. This is a great beach/vacation read, though--fast-paced, scandalous, gossipy, all rich people behaving badly and looking great while doing it. I'll almost certainly read his next book--I'll just wait until I need this kind of pure indulgence read.

What to read next: Pineapple Street, by Jenny Jackson, for another fun, gossipy read about rich people behaving badly--with, in my opinion, better prose.

#books #books i've read #read in 2024 #reading while parenting

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spiders have got to figure out contracting I need to be able to call my local spiders union and be like "hey can you send a guy out for a few days the fruit flies are back" and then pay it in spider currency. I'll learn the conversion rates. I'll be generous with my rounding. please.

#spiders #good ideas

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#truth

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Book 23 of 2024: Zoe Rosenthal is Not Lawful Good by Nancy Werlin

This was a damn delight. Zoe has her life all planned out, including how she and her perfect boyfriend, Simon, will apply to colleges together & go to the same place and stay together forever. Just one problem: Zoe can't talk to Simon about her fandom. She starts by sneaking off to one con to see the season 2 premiere of her show. Soon she's made friends, gotten involved in a fan campaign to save the show, and let her lies spiral out of control. This is a love letter to fandom with lots of hijinks and a great, complex main character who (as the title implies) is still learning about who she is.

What to read next: The Princess and the Fangirl, by Ashley Poston, for another delightful YA romp set at a con/in the world of fandom.

#books #books i've read #read in 2024 #ya

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Owing to the flood of shallow books which really are exhausted in one reading, the modern mind tends to think every book is the same, finished in one reading. But it is not so. And gradually the modern mind will realise it again. The real joy of a book lies in reading it over and over again, and always, finding it different, coming upon another meaning, another level of meaning. It is, as usual, a question of values: we are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interest, the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.

D. H. LAWRENCE

#books #re-reading #i don't re-read as much as i used to #but i like this argument for re-reading

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Panels 1 - 10

#solarpunk #comics #made me cry too!

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"There are only a few moments in every life where the world becomes entirely real: that night, the lake, the fog, your face so startlingly near, crystallized in me." --Lauren Groff, "Watershed"

#books #books i've read #lauren groff