#book 22

[adriles]

when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

#book 22 #im verh drunk #hi #greatest hits #not really sure why this one resonated. are u all ok #is everyone just at the shiva #yall need to stop saying you arent gonna eat then in the tags #i love that a lot of you are getting beautiful things out of this #but some of yall need to know i wrote this while incredibly drunk #this isnt meant to be all that deep this is just shitty iliad posting #more comments like this is just judaism. surprise surprise im jewish #but again this isnt about sitting shiva #this is me drunk talking about the last 3 books of the iliad #idk what to tell u man

[july-19th-club]

seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you're done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything

#i personally like to not be doing things constantly at all times. it stresses me out #i know there are ppl who thrive on cosntant activity #but me i like to chill out. #and the problem then becomes that i only ACTIVELY remember to do work and Find More Work To Do when im stressed #at the thought that others might want to see me working #if im ever relaxed i just dont look for stuff to do #catch 22 of modern work culture which permeates even ostensibly noncapitalist structures like public libraries #for instance: will it really kill anybody if the books get shelved by me now after a very busy day? #or shelved tomorrow morning by. well probably me since i'll be the one at the desk #not in the slightest #but it was work that wasnt being immediately done by me. therefore it was incorrect behavior #that i failed to identify because my instinct is to relax when not immediately presented with a Situation #this got me labeled as 'having no initiative' by my dad from a very early age #and even as an adult i still feel like im a child with no initiative

[theredandwhitequeen]

Book 22 of the 50 book challenge. Broken by Karin Slaughter. Another in the Will Trent series. It’s very sad and hard to read but very well written and interesting. I like that I’m never sure who the bad guys are but it’s fun to figure it out.

#book 22 #50 book challenge #2023 #broken #karin slaughter #mystery #fiction #murder #drug trials #abuse #rape #assault #corruption #suicide #book #me

[brucedinsman]

Book Review: Amish Family Quilt by Samantha Price

Book Review: Amish Family Quilt by Samantha Price

Amish Bonnet Sisters 22 Amish Family Quilt by Samantha PricekindleMy rating: 5 of 5 starsanother baby bornMoving the storyline along we are heading for a new generation. We are rapidly running out of the original Bonnet Sisters. Debbie joins the gang and is on a family way. Read up on the drama in the last book. Now her baby is born and Peter seems reluctant to approach. More to come I am quite…

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#Amish Bonnet Sisters #Amish Family Quilt #Book 22 #Book Review #Daily Service 1 #Samantha Price

[shisasan]

July 20, 1930 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931 [volume 4]

#anais nin #july #july 22 #literature #words #quotes #academia #dark academia #quote #lit #books #books and libraries #reading #quote of the day #bookworm #book quotes #prose #booklr #bibliophile #excerpt

[anxioussailorsoldier]

Tolkien: "...You are familiar with Thorin's style on important occasions, so I will not give you any more of it, thought he went on a good deal longer than this"

#literally his words #the hobbit #bilbo #thorin #bagginshield #lotr #ok but bilbo then immediately drops thorin's full name crossly in response #THORIN SON OF THRAIN SON OF THROR OAKENSHIELD IF YOU'RE SAYING IT'S MY JOB TO GO INTO THE SECRET PASSAGE FIRST THEN JUST SAY THAT #it's perfect #I rewatched all the movies and now i'm rereading the book and I love all the differences #this one in particular stood out like a sore thumb #thorin is actually a chatty cathy #there's pages on pages of just him monologuing at the start #gandalf tries to interrupt and thorin just straight up talks louder over the top of him #“getting him to shut up is the trick” #this is one of my original fandoms - I'll always love them #fun fact about me I have 22 different copies of the hobbit #love me a hobbit

[anna-scribbles]

(12 year old me voice) hey does anybody wanna talk about percy jackson

#<—lie #(it’s my 22 year old voice) #12 year old me voice hey i can’t be friends with you unless you read percy jackson. #no yeah i’m being for real. go buy the books and read them. if you don’t read percy jackson what will there be to talk about #anna rambles #pjo #listen i’ve always been a recruiter. i have always been a one man pr team

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Something I never hear anyone talk about in the 'why are Young Adults (late teens to early 30s) reading so much Young Adult (teens) fiction These Days' discussion is how surprisingly difficult it can be to transition from kids books to adult fiction.

And I don't mean in terms of content. Forget themes, characters, plots, etc. I'm talking pure practicality.

As a kid, most of the books you read are calibrated to you exactly. Your local library likely has a 'children's' section, and that section is likely split into smaller sub-sections based on age group. 0-5, 5-8, 8-12, teen. A lot of your interests and experiences are pretty easy to guess at based on average developmental stages (eg. most 16-18 year olds will relate to Coming Of Age stories), so it's probably pretty easy for you to walk into a bookshop or library and find a book aimed at you specifically.

But get to 18 (or younger) and start straying into the 'adult' section, and suddenly nothing is calibrated anymore. When people complain that all 'grownup fiction' is about white middle class heterosexual couples going through angsty divorces in their mid-forties, this is what they're complaining about. They can't find books they can personally relate to, or that are about topics that they are interested in.

And yeah, sure, books shouldn't have to be relatable to be good or enjoyable. But there's also nothing wrong with wanting to read a book about young people, when you're young. Or queer people, if you're queer. Or people from your particular culture, religion, or ethnicity.

Even if we ignore the relatability aspect entirely, there's also nothing wrong with wanting to read a fantasy book that isn't just 'Tolkien but drearier' or a sci-fi that wasn't written by some guy in the 1960s who thought that women were just another kind of alien.

The problem is, fundamentally, that finding the books you like amid the haystack is a skill that most people are not being taught.

As a result, when they get past YA and try using the old tricks of just picking up whatever is on the bestseller list at the moment, or whatever their local library is currently touting as their 'book of the week', they frequently end up with something that isn't suited to their tastes.

And maybe they love it and it opens up a whole new genre that they'd never considered, but more often they hate it but feel obliged to slog through because this is a 'grownup book' and they have decided they want to be a 'grownup reader'.

A few times being burned like this, and they come to the conclusion that all adult fiction is boring, and that the people who read it are all either mature geniuses of the type they could only hope to be, or slogging through like they were and only pretending to like it.

Thus they run back to the familiarity of YA—which is fine, to be clear, there's nothing actually wrong with reading YA as an adult— but there's every chance that somewhere on the bookshelves is a potential favourite author of theirs that they will now never know because they were never taught how to find them.

#fiction #ya books #ya fiction #adult fiction #reading #ya discourse #genuinely i am 22 and i STILL struggle to find books i like #in ways that i never did when i was a teenager #i'm getting better at it

[adriles]

i have a solution to the pains of grief. we need to all violently exact revenge. also: weird ghost experiences

#book 22 #book 23 #greatest hits

[dailydccomics]

Earth-22 Wonder Woman and Earth 0 Batman by Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain

#wonderbat #dc comics #bruce wayne #batman #diana of themyscira #wonder woman #kingdom come #dc #earth 22 #earth 0 #dan mora #comic book art #comics #world's finest #batman/superman #yes i'm eating this wb crumb

[angelfic]

I wonder what it’s like to be watching/reading pjo for the first time as someone with a fully developed brain and not as a 10 year old who proceeds to make one of the godly parents their entire personality on 2010 tumblr…

#you’d have to let me know #I’m seeing people watching it without having read the books like it’s just not the same #you are watching it as a grown person meanwhile I’m suddenly 10 again except I’m actually almost 22 so it’s a mindfuck #pjo #percy jackson #pjotv #pjo disney+ #pjo tv show #pjo series #percy jackon and the olympians #annabeth chase #grover underwood #pjoverse #percy jackson tv series

[lilsillustration]

Comfort drawing them after a bad day >

#percy jackson #annabeth chase #heroes of olympus #percy jackson and the olympians #percabeth #book percabeth are TALL AFFFF #they’re like 21/22 here #im obsessed with percabeths college era

[velvet4510]

Don’t forget that Aragorn made Frodo’s birthday into a national holiday in Gondor … I will never be over this.

#lotr #jrr tolkien #lotr books #lord of the rings #tolkien legendarium #fourth age #gondor #king elessar #aragorn #frodo baggins #lotr aragorn #lotr frodo #aragorn elessar #september 22 #middle earth

[spocks-evil-godmother]

Why don't we talk about Yossarian more? He is like the most Tumblr user literary character of all time. He finds fun little ways (faking an illness) to get out of doing his job. He makes blackout posts using the outgoing letters of other soldiers. He hates war but finds everyone he knows oddly compelling. He has a weird homosocial thing going on with a chaplain. He likes hornyposting on main but still finds sex complicated. He's haunted by the horrors, even.

#like come ON #catch-22 #catch 22 #joseph heller #yossarian #mitch pitch #no one can tell me that any other character from books is more tumblr #sure your blorbo is emo but is 80% of their dialogue genu-ine shitposting? #that's what i THOUGHT