#I have a book buying problem

[impressionism]

You’re telling ME universe that after I spent $$$ at HPB during the holidays (with gift cards thank you) to find TVC, I just randomly come across some at Goodwill (yesterday 8/19) after walking around a horror convention??

Also this goodwill specifically I found other Anne Rice novels like The Mummy and Violin.

Not pictured is QoTD which I had that cover/edition and I’m sure TVL was either missing or purchased. I did buy 4/6 books pictured 🤷🏽‍♀️

#I have a book buying problem #horror #stephen king #the tommyknockers #tvc #the vampire chronicles #anne rice #iwtv #interview with the vampire #queen of the damned #qotd #thomas harris #hannibal rising #clive barker #thrifting #books #novels

[natsarrownecklacx]

I went into town today to get one book. They didn’t have the one I was looking for but I found some sales and ended up leaving with five…

#I have a book buying problem #in my defence I will read them #my friend literally said I wasn’t allowed to buy anymore and dragged me out #money well spent tho 👀

[rustchild]

controversial opinion about incredibly niche subjects, but i actually like the use of the universal ‘he’ in the narration of Left Hand of Darkness. I like it for the same reason that everyone hates it, and Ursula Le Guin herself regretted it: because it doesn’t fit.

The book is ostensibly written and translated by Genly, or by the observers that came to Gethen before him, and the central struggle of Genly’s story is his inability to give up the gendered frameworks he’s used to in the face of a situation where they don’t apply at all. Having that baked into the language indicates just how deep that struggle runs. In order for him to understand Gethen, to connect to Estraven--hell, to understand himself--he needs to give up on this idea of gender that is so fundamental to his cultural background that it’s baked into his language, and that’s just as much of a barrier to true connection as Estraven’s memories of Arek are to their use of mindspeech. Having that reflected in the text itself, and showing Genly struggle with it as he writes, is actually a super effective way to not only show this tension, but also draw further attention to the limits of Le Guin’s English-speaking audience.

#lhod #the left hand of darkness #genly ai #i just think it's more effective for building tension and character voice #than it would have been if genly was using a third-gender pronoun the whole time #singular they... maybe #but a genly who is able to adapt a new pronoun from the get go is a different genly than the one we see in the text #the only counter argument i would buy is that genly's writing in retrospective #and by the end of the book has finally (too late) come to understand the limitations of gender #but idk #i like genly because he's a guy who creates problems #not on his own but as a reflection of the culture he comes from #and i think that the fact that there's an inherent contradiction to how the text is presented to us #is a good problem actually #mine #for the three people out there who will care about this

[bunnyb34r]

Something I'll never understand is how apple elitists will find ANY excuse to bring up how they have [apple product] and you have [not apple product]

Like that annoying new guy that was in the breakroom and would not shut up (I get you're bored but it's 7am and we don't care), had walked past me and saw how small my phone is. It's not SMALL but it's not like the length and width of my hand, iPhones are like at least 1.5 the size now.

Anyway he was like "damn what kinda phone is that??" (Meaning what iphone is that) *sees the big SAMSUNG on the top "oh you got samsung. But I bet you USED to have an iphone before right?"

Why would you assume that?? That's such a fucking weird thing to say like unprompted to someone. And I was like no??? I've always had androids?? (And LG before smartphones lol) And it's like they always assume you didn't have a choice, and only got an android bc you couldnt get an iphone. Like no I think iPhones are pieces of garbage, I hate the way the app store works, and the only apple products I've ever had were ipod touches. I like being able to choose where my apps go and can download "non-approved" apps and shit. Bitch I CHOSE this phone bc I LIKE it. I only got my other phone (which IS iphone size) bc this one no longer gets service from the network I use. I use this one for everything but calls and texts, and my actual phone-phone for calls, texts, and sometimes youtube. I paid like $100 max for each phone, I ain't paying more than $150 for a phone that's gonna be slowed down by the company I bought it from in a planned obsolescence scheme to get me to drop another $500-$1000+ in a year or two.

But yeah apple superior you're right 🙄

#marquilla #i seriously do not understand the apple elitist mindset like iPhones are ugly lol like oh boy it has an engraved piece of fruit on the back! #gotta get a specific case that shows that off! i dont get the flex financially?? like you just seem like a dumbass to me if you spend that #much on a phone that youre gonna replace in a year or two like... i dont get it #thats not to say anyone with an iPhone is a loser bc i know you can get refurbished older models for a lot cheaper than they new ones and i #know some people do keep their iphones til they dont work anymore. i dont have a problem with that at all #my problem is with the people who go out of their way to snub people who dont have iphones or people who don't have the LATEST (within 2 #generations) of iphones. like THOSE are the people im talking ab #my beef is with the people who buy apple as a flex #especially mac books lmao those things are absolutely trash products my god

[cyancherub]

do you have any book recommendations for us :D

MAYBE SO.......!!!! u know i love talkin abt books!!!

well, ok since ive posted about most of the books ive been reading recently MAYBE i can also post about some that i ordered and am waiting to arrive??? because all of these sounded very interesting to me!!!

SO books i have coming in the mail:

surrealist novels:

the woman in the dunes by kobo abe

the hearing trumpet by leonora carrington

the melancholy of resistance by laszlo krasznahorkai:

the third policeman by flann o'brien

nadja by andre breton

(been really into surrealism lately if it isn't apparent. most excited for melancholy of resistance i think)

horror, gothic, etc:

bruges-la-morte by georges rodenbach

the damned (la-bas) by joris-karl huysmans

floating dragon by peter straub

classics, short stories, etc:

french decadent tales (oxford world's classics) by stephen romer

in watermelon sugar by richard brautigan

swann's way (in search of lost time, #1) by marcel proust

selected short stories by balzac

icefields by thomas wharton

some ive picked up recently & stoked to read:

ada, or ardor by nabokov (my most beloved author of all time)

carmilla by le fanu

nightmare alley by william lindsay gresham

a king alone by jean giono

twilight of the idols by nietzsche

transparent things by nabokov

dark water by koji suzuki

selected poems by jorge luis borges (also beloved)

trolled my goodreads for more recs

books ive read & enjoyed so far this year:

the iliac crest by cristina rivera garza

the tenant by roland topor (FAV!!! huge fav)

crimson labyrinth by yusuke kishi

pedro paramo by juan rulfo

carolina ghost woods by judy jordan

death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh

the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera

in the lake of the woods by tim o'brien

disgrace by j m coetzee

goth by otsuichi

books i enjoyed from last year:

the lottery & other stories by shirley jackson

the vegetarian by han kang

rosemary's baby by ira levin

piercing by ryu murakami (an all time fav)

the bloody chamber by angela carter (fav)

starve acre by andrew michael hurley (also a fav)

the glassy, burning floor of hell by brian evenson

the devil's larder by jim crace

monstrilio by gerardo samano cordova

and as a bonus, literally anything by nabokov. i have a big book of his short fiction that ive been reading slowly for a long while. despair by him is my fav book of all time, hands down. he is a master of absurdism (and a master of every language he writes in).

ALSO!!!! if youre into poetry, anything and every single thing by: t.s. eliot, baudelaire, rimbaud, borges. i also love neruda's poetry but i have heard he was an awful man so keep that in mind

#thotbox #thotmail #talky cherub #library cherub #i buy 95% of my books secondhand #i have something of a problem but i figure books are not the worst addiction one can have.....OOPS

[fandomchaosposts]

people on tiktok are so casual about oh I have 300 unread books in my house let's read them before I buy more like bro? I don't even have 300 books in total in my house maybe you should realize that's not normal???

#if it was like one or two people like okay you have reasons #but its pretty much every person on booktok??? #theres this person who reads like 4 books per week and they get at least 8 books per week like you see thats a problem right?? #idk maybe im wrong but i think they should realize that maybe #just maybe #they should use the library instead of buying 10 books per month (or week) that theyre not gonna read #fandomchaos posts #ethan complaints

[randomslasher]

Did you know. There are just. Books? About anything you can think of? And you’re allowed to read them! You can! You can just...pick them up and read. And you’ll get to learn about SO MANY THINGS. Did you want to know more about Seabiscuit? You can read about him. What about the dog sleds that delivered antitoxin to sick kids? Yep, probably several options there. How to identify native mushrooms? Check. Want to read about shoes? yeah I’m sure there’s at least one or two books on the topic. I haven’t even checked I’m just THAT CONFIDENT because there are SO MANY BOOKS and you can just READ them.  But there’s a catch: you can’t read all of them at once. That’s how they get ya. 

#Seriously #I just went to the antique store and bought 6 new ones #I have so many at home already #I'd say I buy on average 10 new books for every 1 I finish reading #it's a problem

[runwayrunway]

It's okay. The Ryanair flying boat isn't real. It can't hurt you.

#miss conenginality #look I LOVE flying boats I have a problem and it's called loving flying boats #for context this is pre-o'leary and was a wet lease that never actually flew revenue flights for ryanair. idk. #there isn't any more than just that online and I am not buying a book on an unrelated topic for this one fact #ryanair

[cinnabeat]

my favorite thing abt cale tcf is that if he really truly wanted to avoid the plot and live a peaceful life like he always says he couldve just completely avoided choi han and let him pass through or whatever but instead he personally invited him in and immediately started plans to prevent the horrors of the future war like yeah sure he was doing it to keep himself safe but he did it in THE MOST convoluted plot involving way possible like if he really TRULY wanted to stay safe and alone he couldve just not done Any of that. unfortunately for him he has a bleeding heart

#its been a while since i read tcf so excuse me if i got the beginning wrong but my point still stands #he couldve done literally anything but that you know #there was no reason #he woke up and was like huh im in the book series i was literally just reading and in the guy who gets beat up first thing #thats inconvenient #let me get the shield of vitality and avoid choi han like the plague #and in the process find more things to do to stay safe (read: prevent random strangers tragedies) and interact with choi han as much as huma #humanly possible #like hello #and then he just?? keeps doing it? #its like everytime he meets someone hes like do you have a problem? oh you do? sigh why does this always happen to me now i have to fix this #hes always like 'i didnt ask :/' when people tell him things buy then hes like #'but at leaat this conveniently fits into my ever expanding machinations' #mr 'im not a good person' my ASS #i really need to reread tcf its so funny #i miss my ultimate blorbo alberu #michi tag

[anthonycrowley]

everyone remind me not to lend out my crowley copy again my best friend had it so long she gave it back to me as one of my christmas gifts

#text #my post #mobi #gomens #i lend out my crowley copy because it’s my good copy because for whatever reason crowley copies were harder to find than aziraphale copies #so my az copy is the one that’s literally falling apart #so when someone’s like hey i should read that book you like i’m like here here’s the copy i actually like. because i am stupid. #i should just buy a lender copy i also don’t want more people reading my old copies anyway bc they’re pre tv release so they don’t mention #amazon on the cover. i have a few copies i could use as lenders or just buy a paperback copy for that #sorry. i recognize this is a wild problem for someone to have

[silenthillbunni]

📖🖊❄️

#journal dump bc i have too much on my mind #1) i HATE my neighbors. theres never one quiet moment. they stomp around and slam cabinets all the time it feels like #2) ​i've been reading more recently even if concentration's hard bc of noise. but i also feel like there r too many books i wanna read #but yeah. too little time. so instead i cant settle on a book and kinda dont even read as much as i want to. a stupid problem really #3) it's crazy to say but i wish i had a part time job. sitting at home 24/7 for 5/6 years has been SO terrible for me. #everything feels meaningless. every day is the exact same. im not LIVING. im rotting away and all my issues get worse. im also so fkn bored #and i dont wanna sit at home and do assignments (even if thats what i technically should be doing) #i want a job to go to which takes me away from home + gives me money #then i can come home and sit and rot and ENJOY it. bc now my lazy time is only smth negative and bad for me :/ #ofc i hate the mere thought of having some soul sucking utterly pointless job and our capitalist society is a slave hellhole. but.. as it is #im not even able to enjoy ANY of my time bc all my time feels bad. plus im only getting poorer and poorer so i cant afford to buy anything #4) im so fkn bored and going crazy from eating the exact same food every single day for the third month now. im sick of it #everything tastes so bland and disgusting. it's genuinely making me depressed 😭 i wanna eat REAL food. im so tired bc no nutrition :(( #i cant do anything except wait for my appt w the doctor next week and hope they put me on a waiting list for surgery.. but ong im sick of it #5) i miss my sisters :/ we live in the same apartment but its like i've completely ceased to exist to them #except when they need to be passive aggressive to me. lol. i miss them. but they just dont wanna talk to me :/ #but tbh. most of all... i just want my health issue to be over so my body can function normally again. #i can face anything in life if i can come home to a cup of coffee nd some chocolate ^-^ <333

[sixofravens-reads]

Next read!

Since I'm going to my local comic expo next week, and am of course bringing a book, I decided to read a smaller mass-market paperback that's easy to carry around. I might finish this before the expo, which means choosing another small book, but that's all right because I have quite a stockpile of them on my TBR.

#winter rose #patricia a. mckillip #currently reading #i have a problem: that i love buying mass market books (especially older ones with wonderful painted covers) but i find the intimidating #partly bc the font is often so small i have to squint a little to read it and partly bc my brain says 'ooooh this is a Serious Fantasy!' #even if it isn't #anyway. this is a good chance to make myself conquer a few of the many mass market paperbacks on my tbr lol

[fantasticalleigh]

no resolutions bc resolutions are for punk ass dweebs but i have a massive massive tbr and to watch list that i have been ignoring for too long now and 2024 is going to be the time to tackle it.

i'm the kind of person who rarely ventures out to find a new show to watch and sticks to their comfort shows (GBBO, Seinfeld, Bridgerton, etc.,) and movies and only watches new media if i KNOW i will love it because i am very stingy about how i spend my time to a fault. well, no longer!

#i say this bc i already watched Top Chef and Project Runway on Netflix and i forgot how much i love reality tv #but my netflix queue is so backlogged it's ridiculous #and so is my tbr list it's enormous #remember when i said 2023 was a no book buy year?? LMAO yeah i've bought like nine new books since then #and remember when i told myself i was going to read Don Quixote this summer??? #and they're stacked high on my desk and i keep telling myself i'll get to them #ffs i got a barnes and noble giftcard for crimbo and i just bought 5 new books OOP #leigh speaks #i have a problem T-T

[eddis-not-eeddis]

Okay, but how hard is it to just.

Not.

Write a love-triangle.

It cannot possibly be that hard.

#i'm going through my shelves and weeding out the good from the bad starting with the books that i suspect are not so good #and if there is a love triangle is immediately goes in the box #i am too tired for this #(i bought a LOT of books at book fairs over the past three years) #and even though i typically read 50-100 books a year #when i buy 300 every book sale #there is no way to make it through them all #i must cull #starting with triangles #(i've even found some squares) #(one might have been a hexagon but i stopped skimming when the third dude arrived on scene) #good grief #most girls struggle to net even one man #and here are all of these heroines barely able to beat off entire hordes with broom-sticks #it's being laid on a bit thick when there are three+ gents hanging around #i'm just saying #at that point i think all four+ people involved need to have a sit-down and reevaluate life choices #the problem with these books is a lot of them are vintage and i bought them based on title and prettiness since they have no blurbs #i've found a few truly wonderful treasures #but most are mediocre at best #and a few have been absolutely tragically awful

[lauravidarte]

My Poppy War designs (I haven’t check the grammar so don’t judge) for university and that R.F. Kuang liked on Twitter ❤️‍🔥⚔️✨

#the poppy war #fang runin #fantasy #book cover #illustrator #bookworm #bookstagram #if anyone wants to buy my design i have no problem #fan art #vidartetheartist

[ninjaaa-go]

cursed with the necessity of writing dialogue

#god dialogue just does not gel with me in the slightest #I think buy and large it turns out okay??? #but writing it is a serious struggle sometimes #and yet I have no one to blame but myself #who outlined this novel? me #and who filled it with dialogue? also me #maybe my next book should be about someone who’s alone a lot or isn’t chatty idk #writing #writer problems #writeblr #writblr