#Crossings Book Club

[crossingscon]

Announcing our next TWO picks for CrossingsCon Book Club! Our March read will be This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. The book club meeting will be a week later than usual, on April 6 at 8 EST, to avoid any Easter weekend conflicts. Then on April 26, we're continuing the Queen's Thief series with The King of Attolia! Thanks for joining us, and happy reading!

#CrossingsCon #Crossings Book Club #Queen's Thief #Megan Whalen Turner #This Is How You Lose the Time War

[spurgie-cousin]

man apologies to anyone who came to watch Tim's engagement video, i had no idea that literally 99% of a video titled TIMOTHY'S ENGAGEMENT was going to be random preachers yelling and Jill giving us the VonTrapp family history lmao.

The video Timothy had on his own YouTube is so much nicer and ok, I honestly completely buy into the Jill Hates Heidi conspiracy so much because when Jill made videos like that for her daughters, their engagements were the main event. Tim literally got 2 minutes in an hour and 20 minute video like wtf

#i can't promise a mama spurgie reaction to Jill next weekend but it's possible lol #also tiktok is constantly asking me to sdd people to my live so if you want talk too literally just let me know I'll bring ya up #i think that would be fun but cross your fingers that mama SC has been in the cabernet and is down for doing a live reaction to Jill next #Saturday #Saturday livestream #cult book club

[clonerightsagenda]

My dad read Percy Jackson and Bartimaeus and Leviathan and Hunger Games alongside us so it's a shame my brother and I didn't read Animorphs as children because he would've read that too and I think it would've been an interesting shared touchstone to have as a family. Not necessarily a good one but an interesting one

#the three of us: ah yes the oatmeal. we've all seen it. #my mom: ??? #the true cross family appeal event was when I read pachinko and told my mom to read it #and then my dad read it and my brother read it and he made his college book club read it and my mom got it for my aunt as a present #massive success. yes I know that also has an adaptation but I'm not confident I could follow that large a cast while on pain meds

[fungi-maestro]

Here's a list of Question appearances up until about 2014 (when this website stopped being updated)

#book club #vic sage #the question #maybe i'll need to go through this and cross off ones i knew about #im having a lot of fun looking at this website so expect many posts about it in the coming days

[ofliterarynature]

This feels like an incredible reach but I’ve been dying for a halfway coherent way to rec this for ages, so - if you’ve read The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina and want a large cast of characters and more absolutely wild shit like plants growing from peoples bodies, mythic figures lurking around the edges of stories, people sprouting grasshoppers, and magic houses appearing from nowhere (or perhaps growing legs. Or maybe a volcano in Central Park instead) - you should read My Volcano. It’s literary, it’s speculative, it’s folklore, it’s climate fiction; the vibes are a little different but please read it and come yell at me.

Maybe you can explain the lemons.

#I’m mostly reccing this on the strength of the weird shit ™️ #but you know I just looked at the blurbs again and actually #just picture Orquidea crossed with Emily St John Mendel but high it’s great #we read it for book club a year ago and will still go feral over it #bec posts #2023 #from Instagram #books #book recommendations #the inheritance of orquidea divina #my volcano #I liked the first half of Orquidea but the second was just ok #tumblr ate this post the first time so akdjdksjsj this one better work

[sarcasmic-skies]

literally what the FUCK!!!! is going on w my insomnia recently. like it’s always been bad but it hasn’t been this bad this often in a long time. as of this moment, saturday, 4:24 am cst, i’ve been awake for 44.5 hours straight & counting. the week before last i was up for 71 consecutive hours. when i finally fell asleep after running on 90 min of sleep for those 3 fuckin days, i woke up three hrs later!! what the FUCK!!!! chronic insomnia can suck my dick and balls and thank me for it i am so over it. and YES i see the fucking irony that it rears its ugly head after i read/annotated fight club over n over for 10 hrs straight on thurs. it’ll be very haha laugh funny once my body knocks this shit off. fuckin hell. (i will update)

#ive had chronic insomnia since i was a kid but that doesnt make it easier to deal with lol #like. i just lie in bed with the lights off no music no sounds close my eyes n try to sleep #no distractions no NOTHIN #and i cross my fingers i fuckin fall asleep before i collapse and die lol #this is why when i read fight club for the first time 10 yrs ago #it was validating to hear abt someone else dealing w it so i was like ‘im literally the narrator’ #bc insomnia is literal hell at times it’s not fun cooky quirky it’s debilitating! #where’s a testicular cancer support group when u need one 😵‍💫 #and i didnt see the fight club movie until like. a year after i read the book LMAO #and before anyone replies like ‘thats rly serious’ or ‘have u tried ____?’ i know! and i prob have #like no this is not normal people behavior but this is my normal behavior it’s just more intense rn lol #i have a tendency to stay awake thru sleep medications lmao #ok disclaimers r done! whew #ty posts!!!!!! #ty posts

[eldesperadont]

sorry i rag on njpw a lot lol - overall i like the show a lot, they have more wrestlers that i like than hate, i prefer their tour concept over weekly tv episodes, i love the backstage commentary, i love their goofiness, their stables, but god it pisses me off that small choices in the booking can make me so upset, it just feels so easy to avoid these dumb decisions

#like plssssss at this point i want bullet club GONE cause they do the laziest dumbest fucking booking with them #and the only reason love some of the bc guys so much is cause they do such good work !!!! #im gonna pissed about kenta and taijis character assassination for weeks #KENTA ELP REMEMBERED YOUR BIRTHDAY AND ALL #COME ONNNN #im only gonna be okay with this if they double cross finlay and it was a plan all along #eventho i wish it wouldnt have come this far in the first place #my personal idea for post jay bc would have been finlay not turning heel but trying to destroy everything thats left of jay #and guys like Phanta kenta etc fighting back #trying to bring across that jay wasnt all bad like he kinda showed in the end #IDK THEY COULD HAVE DONE STH EMOTIONAL AND GOOD HERE but thats way too much nuance for a njpw plot 🙃 #i feel so demeaning and pretentious #but wheres the lie?? #percht.txt

[crossingscon]

My dear Mood Indigo... My careful Cardinal... The Crossings Book Club presents: This Is How You Lose the Time War. Saturday, April 6, 8pm EST.

#CrossingsCon #Crossings Book Club #This Is How You Lose the Time War

[readinthedarkpod]

Admitting to being a Disney adult on a public platform... the bravery.

B: But it's like one of those multi-industry companies that needs to do charity campaigns to distract from the big corporate wheeling and dealing that they do. KRISTEN: *fake coughs* Disney. LAETY: Great. Yeah, pretty much. B: *laughs* you said it, not me! KRISTEN: Well I can hate on Disney because I'm a Disney adult!

Click here to find out where you can listen to the full episode (spoiler alert: anywhere podcasts are!)

#Always practice safe hex #safe hex #juliette cross #a lesson in thorns #lesson in thorns #smut #sierra simone #thornchapel #books #bookblr #book podcast #book club #podcast

[fictionadventurer]

Fortnight of Books 2022: Day 3

Book you recommended most to others in 2021?

I recommended 84, Charing Cross Road every time a book rec opportunity came up on tumblr. It's so easy to recommend--it's short, hilarious, heartwarming, and it's all about books, so people who like to read are extremely likely to love it.

Book you most anticipated this year?

The Blackout Book Club by Amy Lynn Green. I was impressed by her style of Christian fiction that makes Christianity a part of real life instead of part of a glossy sanitized fantasy world, and though The Lines Between Us was mildly disappointing compared to her first book, I still finished it wanting nothing more than to read another of her books. I thought I'd have to wait until next year, then was shocked at the beginning of November to learn the release date was two weeks away. I was barely able to read anything for those two weeks because I only wanted to read that book. I borrowed it from Hoopla the evening before the release date, and I read it in about two days.

It lived up to my anticipation, with a very sensible perspective, good history, complex and sympathetic characters, and a very fun book club that feels like how actual people approach books, instead of the book-lover's ideal where every book is life-changing. I plan to continue hanging out with the book club by reading most, if not all, of the books that they read--Mrs. Miniver was already a winner.

#fortnight of books 2022 #84 charing cross road #the blackout book club #amy lynn green

[universalzone]

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Scarf/Shawl/Wrap.

#romeo and juliet #romeoandjuliet #william shakespeare #star crossed lovers #love story #i love you #montagu #capulet #book club #bookscarf #universal zone #UniversalZone #bookish #bookworm

[notsobeautifuldisaester]

The next time I see a webpage trying to lure ex christians back to xtianity when searching for ex christian stuff my head's going to implode. 🙃💥

#tw christianity #xtianity #ex christian #No Paster Bob the people who were scared off from your cross worshiping fear based book club don't want people nagging them to go back #Please stop #go away

[fungi-maestro]

I still can't fathom how Vic has had three love interests for over 50 years he has existed. He's so weird he should not be fucking.

LMAO? You're right, honestly. He is so weird. I think he's full of red flags, personally, and yet somehow people keep falling for his strange demeanor and weird behavior...... Maybe there's hope for us all.

#seal.txt #ask #anon #book club #vic sage #Vic's lovelife is interesting #i think its funny that myra fell in love with him as Vic Sage and began an affair and then SEPERATELY fell in love with The Question #something about vic is hypnotizing to select people out there and its bizarre #i can appreciate him aesthetically as someone attracted to men but i think i would turn him into a fine mist if he went on a date with me #i would tear that guy apart like a badger #purely because i think hes the kind of guy that would be slightly rude in ways that dont quite cross any lines but make you annoyed

[likeadevils]

The fact that Taylor is confortable in going to Harry in the middle of an award show to say hi, I think it speaks to how that relationship ended, they may not be friends anymore, but she doesn't mind that people know they talk, same with Joe Jonas, I think those are the two guys she's confortable with to do that... (And Taylor Lautner, but they're barely in the same place, although I love that his wife is such a fan ahah)

yeah! i also think it’s a real testament to just how popular and influential she is that both joe jonas and taylor lautner ended up marrying fans of hers

#asks* #i just want her and harry to be like. book club buddies or something #i want them to share some niche hobby that they talk to the other about #also i feel like she and tom could have a conversation if they ran into each other #but they wouldn’t like cross a room to say hi