#book commentary

[egret-orchids]

‘he has terrible taste in women’ my brother in ghezen that man is a homosexual

#egret.txt #six of crows #crooked kingdom #wylan hendriks #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #book commentary

[belle-keys]

My 2024 bookish predictions:

The Dragon Renaissance - With more Fourth Wing sequels in the works and season 2 of HOTD coming out in the summer, I think there's a good chance dragons and dragon-shifters could become the next big thing. Maybe they'll replace the fae as the "big" fictional creature?

The Percy Jackson Renaissance - It will be in full swing, accompanied by a noticeable Greek Mythology Renaissance among locals on Twitter whose knowledge of Greek Mythology is limited to... Percy Jackson. The Hunger Games renaissance will see its last days in January/February or so.

(Poorly written) military fantasy will become popular. Again, I think this will be an unwanted side effect of Fourth Wing's popularity. But I think the Gaza Genocide and institutions endorsing Zionism will play into this as well. I thinks we're about to see a lot of military propaganda in the book world and military-themed books trending.

Dark academia will enter into the beginning stages of its flop era. I say this as someone whose blog is largely dedicated to dark academia, but with Kuang not publishing anything in 2024, with Olivie Blake's Atlas trilogy coming to an end, and ST Gibson's An Education In Malice being... not that good, I can see people moving away from dark academia by the end of the year.

Colleen Hoover will release something. I don't particularly care for this, but I can easily see it happening. She didn't release anything this year so it makes sense she may have a 2024 release (and maybe one designed to improve her reputation).

The ACOTAR series adaptation will get chopped (officially, that is).

People will become less open about enjoying smut and dark romance with all the Twitter radfem discourse and backlash against poor quality romance ruling publishing. There will also be more "discreet" book covers. There will be a lot of anti-erotica discourse.

The Nobel Prize winner will be a POC.

Rivals-to-Lovers will replace Enemies-to-Lovers as the top trope. Less hate and more competition. More academic rivals, magic rivals, popularity rivals, etc. I can see people vibing with this in 2024 instead of the "I hate you but I wanna make out with you" vibes of full-on Enemies-to-Lovers.

JK Rowling will accidentally get herself arrested and/or indicted and she'll be all White Woman about it.

George RR Martin will announce that he "intends" to publish The Winds of Winter before the end of 2025.

A former Disney/Nickelodeon/child star/boyband member will write a memoir describing their trauma and they'll thank Jeannette McCurdy for giving them the courage to do it. The revelations will be insane and unprecedented.

#books #book blog #book community #book commentary #bookish #booktok #anti booktok #acotar #anti fourth wing #anti jkr #books and literature #rivals to lovers #enemies to lovers #dragons #pjo #dark academia #military fantasy #anti colleen hoover #book opinions #book criticism #2024 predictions

[shyjusticewarrior]

Peeta never takes sugar in his tea because he grew up eating bakery leftovers.

#media analysis #character analysis #book analysis #literary analysis #peeta mellark #thg series #thg #the hunger games trilogy #hunger games #mockingjay #the hunger games #books #literature #ya books #media commentary #book commentary #thg peeta

[sprintingficcommentator]

Spoilers for the story below

So I'm reading MDZS's book summary again and

"The powerful clans he had attempted to subjugate"

Babe, even the summary is trying to trick us into believing WWX is evil and I'm having none of it

Nuh-uh, I've read the book, that's BS babe WWX was just trying to farm to have some goddamn food in his own little corner of hell, bothering absolutely no one and he deserves the world entire even if he doesn't want it, fuck this shit

#not a fic commentary #book commentary #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #founder of diabolism #wei wuxian #wei ying #wwx #mdzs wwx

[crispycreambacon]

I'm currently getting into Frankenstein right now! I just read the beginning letters and Chapter 1-2, and my thoughts so far:

Gay gay homosexual gay

Either Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley are built different, or Victorian writers just have a tendency to make their character really repressed and gay

Victor Frankenstein's family exudes so much rich white people energy my god

So far, we're getting Frankenstein's backstory, and I'm incredibly amused by just how utterly normal it is. You'd never guess that the guy who created a living creature and is now the face of mad scientists in modern pop cultute would have such a normal—even described as happy—childhood.

Maybe it's a good thing I read Dracula first 'cause NOW I CAN UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE VICTORIAN WRITING HEHEHEHEHHEHEHE (I know Mary Shelley's book being published in 1818 technically makes her book part of the Georgian Era, and people classify her book more towards the Romanticism Era, but I'm reading the 1831 edition. Let me have this </3)

Overall, I'm really enjoying this. I've heard some really interesting discussions centered around Frankenstein, and I can't wait to be able to participate in those. The writing is also just very good, would recommend!

#mary shelly's frankenstein #frankenstein #frankenstein 1818 #frankenstein book #book commentary #book liveblog #live reaction #live reading #chris p fried rambles

[onemorechapterandcupofcoffee]

An Unwanted Guest

Sheri Lapena

Follow the story of a group of guests and hotel staff as they navigate being snowed in at a remote inn with a murderer among them. This book was a very enjoyable read. There are many twists that will keep you on your toes, and the ending will not be what you expect. 4.5/5 would read again.

#book blog #book cover #book review #bookish #booklr #books #books and reading #book thoughts #book recommendations #bookblr #book lover #thriller #thriller books #thriller fiction #book nerd #book recs #book community #book club #book commentary #reading #reading 100 books in a year #100 books goal

[jasminedragonart]

This might be a controversial opinion and I might get hate for this but I don't think the Sun and The Star is Rick Riordan's best work.

It feels, after reading this, then the Trials of Apollo and the Percy Jackson series that they all kind of have the same voice. Like, they're very quippy, very jokey, masks their emotions kind of main characters. I feel like they're the same person just in different scenarios.

I've not finished the book yet. I'm like 200 pages in, but, again, this is my opinion, I feel like Nico should have been written a little differently.

Like they talk about things like trauma and PTSD but it's not explored properly. Nico is almost blase in a way I feel his character shouldn't be. I saw it in the TOA books as well, almost like Rick didn't know what to do with Nico anymore and just made him Percy 2.0.

Also, a lot of the book already feels outdated. The problem with writing for a modern audience is that slang and memes change every day. So if you include it in a book it's going to be dated immediately because that thing isn't going to be published for months. It seems to be very dialogue heavy too. I remember the Percy Jackson books having quite a lot of description in it, but this one seems to hold quips and banter in higher priority to emotion and inner dialogue. Even the surroundings, I don't feel immersed in it. I feel like I should have been scared when they first got into the Underworld (Not really a spoiler, people know what the plot is from the blurb) but i wasn't. The atmosphere wasn't there. The description was lacking.

I don't know. Hopefully it'll get better. If not, then that's fine, it'll just be a book I probably won't re-read.

Again, it's not bad, but I feel like it should be different.

#the sun and the star #book commentary

[theheelerbooklifereads]

Some of my amazing booksta friends and I did a book challenge today.

Instead of it being the Monday Blues we made it Sapphire Blues. So, check out my post down below and you will see all the lovely people tagged in my post that have created amazing stacks! Go give them some love. 💎💙🩵💙💎

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxVa4BcrTYH/?igshid=MWZjMTM2ODFkZg==

#monday blues #book challenge #bookstan #book stack #bookstagram #book reccs #books and reading #booksbooksbooks #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #booklr #bookish #must read books #book #book commentary #book community #book blog #book blogger #bookblr #bookaholic #fall reading #reader

[alynnl]

Inspired directly by this post, and a conversation I had in Discord about the wizard pictured being Gandalf.

#memes #LotR #Tolkein #Middle Earth #Lynn's silliness #book commentary #Instead of going to Moria the Company goes to the Lonely Mountain #where in the dwarves from The Hobbit make Gandalf more ammo #lol

[egret-orchids]

ah yes. the two ultimatums. kiss pretty girl w tongue or kiss pretty guy with tongue.

#egret.txt #six of crows #wylan hendriks #wylan van eck #crooked kingdom #jesper fahey #nina zenik #matthias helvar #book commentary

[dyinggirldied]

Why is most books are being published as trilogy now? Like i would be going to the book store and find the most gorgeous covwr and interesting premire only the reas the cursed "First of the Trilogy" and im dead. I'm a broke ass bitch who, if you squinted enough, can afford three different books maybe of different genre, not three books of the same setting and characters and problems.

Like it's fine if it occasionally a book or two planning to be future trio but it's practically most of the books in the store now!

#this is not a hate post #much #im just mad that books also following movie trends #of getting sequel and trilogy #why is one book alone isn't enough anymore? #why do you keep drawing longer when you can explore more of different things #unpopular opinion #probably #gonna put that just in case #book community #book commentary

[therelignedstars]

//Nick what bargain did you make that made your future self upset with you?

#beyond the stars| ooc #book commentary

[spiderfreedom]

currently reading 'Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children Book by Hannah Barnes'.

some interesting observations so far:

the original Gender Identity Development Service, or GIDS, in the UK, used puberty blockers and then cross sex hormones at 16

GIDS was housed with Tavistock, which was controversial, because the Tavistock people believed in a psychological approach

when susie green established Mermaids, it turned into a very powerful patient advocacy group that pushed for lowering the age of puberty blockers

there are interviews with people who went to GIDS! one is with ellie, a gender non conforming girl, who went to GIDS for her dysphoria, but decided to continue living as a girl and that the problem was with society.

there's also an interview with phoebe, a trans girl who went on puberty blockers. there are some warning signs in her story that concern me (describes herself as a 'very gender non conforming boy', says that she liked women's clothes, was bullied for being gender non conforming). but she also describes typical sex dysphoria in the sense of being uncomfortable looking at herself in the mirror or naked. she was able to transition young and doesn't regret it, but believes that the process may be less stringent today and therefore some people will end up detransitioning. she worries some people may identify as trans as a 'phase' and that they should have more time before starting puberty blockers to think about what they really need.

there's a heartbreaking moment where phoebe describes wanting to preserve her sperm so she can have kids after she transitions, but the sperm preservation facility refused her because they believed sperm preservation was 'at odds' with 'gender reassignment' and that her transition might put her future child at risk. as someone worried about the sterilization risks of young kids transitioning, it's also horrifying to read about how she was unable to preserve her sperm even though she had the opportunity to.

around 2004-2005 GIDS moved to the dutch protocol, which began puberty blockers at 12 instead of 16

the Dutch admit that lowering the age of puberty blockers might "increase the incidence of 'false positives'" aka people who end up transitioning who may not have needed to.

#radical feminism #radfems please touch #radblr #book commentary #mypost

[crispycreambacon]

I finally got to reading Dracula let's fucking go!!!!! The plan is to read 5 chapters per day (I have severely underestimated how long this would take me 💀💀💀), and I stopped at Chapter 7. Maybe I'll continue reading it today, but I'm pretty good where I'm at :D

Some thoughts on it:

I love love LOVE the language used in Dracula. It's so descriptive with its setting, and when it uses simpler (or as Johnathan put it: prosical) language during scenes of terror, it hits so much harder and increases the tension. I will say though there is one character that makes me doubt my ability to speak English <///3 (I love you man I'm so sorry)

This book is kinda homosexual ngl /positive

It's so funny how much Jonathan, the main character, is such a normal guy. He's a real estate agent. He loves his wife. He speaks enough German to get around Vienna. He talks about the food he ate. He just wants to sell a house to this pale gangly man and suddenly he's being held hostage by Dracula.

Mina is such a lovely character. She's a schoolmistress trying to learn stenography, and she's so sweet. She really cares about the people around her. I feel so bad for her :[[[ Please let her have good things in the end, I will cry if she doesn't </3

THERE ARE THESE TWO CHARACTERS. RENFIELD AND SEWARD. THEY MAKE ME RICOCHET OFF A WALL. THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS SO STRANGE. ARE THEY OKAY???? <- mainly aimed at Renfield (I want Seward to get hit by a bus /hyperbole) I wanna study them under a microscope.

I love Lucy and her three suitors. There is no love square animosity between them, they're all happy for each other and lowkey Lucy's a polyam queen good for her

I'm scared. I'm scared for all of them I hope they'll all be okay in the end. My friend Rafael foreshadowned something between Lucy and Renfield and I am even more scared for those two. Oh god.

DRACULA UNHAND JONATHAN AT ONCE I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH OF A SILLY LIZARD EMO GUY YOU ARE, MINA WILL BE VERY SAD IF YOU DON'T RELEASE JONATHAN PLEASE I AM GONNA STRANGLE YOUR NE

#I have very normal thoughts about Dracula #dracula #book reactions #book commentary #chris p fried rambles #long post

[nightlyteaandpaper]

TW: Abuse

I can't be the only one who finds the amount of a*use in these books a little disgusting? I mean, every single character, especially all the women, has had some trauma against them. They have been SA'd or almost SA'd, and I know this happens in real life, but there is something almost insidious when one actively makes all the good guys in the book victims of trauma and the bad guys be the one ones causing the trauma.

It is almost like SJM uses trauma to draw a line. If you have had trauma, you are good, if you have not had trauma, you are bad. I don't know what Im saying, Im just saying things.

#writing #commentary #book community #book commentary #analysis #sjm books #sjm critical #anti sjm #sjm #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #sarah j maas #traumaporn #trauma #tw abuse #anti acomaf #anti acotar #anti feysand #why are all the good guys the ones who suffer? I just want one normal family.

[viiisenyas]

Uhhh… Isn’t he your blood, too?

Viserys I Targaryen, folks.

#this bloke is just… a special kind of stupid #It’s in episode 3 and 4 too with Otto replacing Alicent #viserys i targaryen #fire and blood #asoiaf #book commentary