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[bookslutskye]

so i recently got top surgery and this was on my discharge papers after a mild complication

#me and my family have been laughing about this nonstop #transmasc #top surgery #book talks

[soracities]

i dont know how else to put this but to approach books (or any media, really) solely for the sake of relatability is genuinely incredibly heartbreaking......to have such little (or such unwilling) imaginative scope that you cannot stretch yourself, even marginally, in a different direction to what you’ve known or are used to knowing when the very POINT of stories is to transport you somewhere else, into someone else, so you can do just that........when fran lebowiz said a book “is supposed to be a door!” and george saunders said good prose “is like empathy training wheels” they were right!!! they were so so so SO absolutely entirely right!!!!!

#thinking about that last post still and i'm having so many thoughts #that people have relatability as the sole criterion is astonishing to me #like how else are you going to develop variegated textures in your relationships w others? #not to be dramatic but it seems like a little death to me. truly. #everything i read as a child and teenager was expressly something as different from my world as possible. bc i wanted to relate as something #other than me #once again it is. heartbreaking #truly it is #p #book talks #idir lúibíní

[dragonbadgerbooks]

I love seeing other people's book pictures and drawing inspiration for future ideas and that got me thinking recently:

What are some of your go-tos for book pictures?

My current favorite is a house plant that I bought on a whim. But I'm also a sucker for a good "book and a hot beverage" picture and I frequently will put a blanket or random piece of clothing with a fun color or patter on the floor and take book pictures that way.

#book talks #book talk #booklr

[the-modern-typewriter]

Yo, have you read the Captive Prince Trilogy by chance? I was reading through some of your older snippets and got vibes from it? I love that series :3

I have, back in 2017 - though I like C.S Pascat's latest, Dark Rise, a lot more. I'm looking forward to the next one in that series.

I have very mixed feelings about the Captive Prince trilogy, but ultimately at the time I read it I also couldn't put it down, so I have to rank it quite highly for that.

I also read Nora Sakavic's All for the Game trilogy in early 2018, which while VERY different to the Captive Prince trilogy, also has a...vibe? I don't know how to explain it. Either way, yes. It was a mood.

(My Goodreads is here)

#books #reading #book talks

[moononastring]

i really hope this book gets better. i'm a little less than 100 pages in and i'm so bored. it's just a lot of talk about intense blue eyes, there's a lot of staring between the mmc and fmc, and the writing is super repetitive that just feels like they are trying to reach that word count goal.

i'm really surprised cause so many people have rec'd the dark verse series and it has a pretty high rating on goodreads, but so far i'm struggling hard to get through it. sorry i know you have not read it yourself, but i need someone to vent to. i will keep my ranting as vague as possible cause i hate spoilers. i hope it gets better cause if it doesn't pick up soon i think i will be dropping this series.

GAH. This makes me sad because fr it’s so well-loved, I expected better!!! Maybe it’s one of those series to people where the writing doesn’t matter as much as them just having a good time with it and the characters? It doesn’t need to be good to have a good time kinda thing haha.

Though the vibes really seem so good!!

Did you read more? How have you liked it? ESP compared to Sinners Anonymous series since you just read it!

#asks #book talks #‘nonnie

[giggly-squiggily]

What’s Song Of Achilles? What’s it about?

I’m glad you asked anon! :D

So- The Song of Achilles is a book my Madeline Miller in which we follow the retelling of Achilles- a Demigod who was a massive part in the Trojan war. In this book, we follow the perspective of Patrocles- Achilles best friend turned lover turned true love who is often forgotten about in the tale (I could be wrong on this so don’t quote me)

The story follows their bond through the ups and downs- everything from sweet moments as the boys grow up to rather tragic events from the myth itself. It’s wonderful and a fantastic read- if you ever get the chance to check it out I highly recommend it! (Also Madeline Miller wrote Circe- which follows the witch from the Odyssey- it’s also an incredible read).

Thanks for asking! :)

#squiggily speaks #ask #anon #book talks #non tickle #song of achilles

[samuel-de-champagne-problems]

book haul!!! okay so i am officially on a book buying ban but i mean this was only 10 bucks total and it’s thrifted so that’s good for the earth and whatever

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green The Stranger - Albert Camus This Is How It Always Is - Laurie Frankel Homesick For Another World - Ottessa Moshfegh

Oryx and Crake - Margret Atwood

tagging!

@reidsbookclub @donwellabbey @sadgirlml @maltamurdock

#this is me rambling #book talks

[zozo-01]

Zo's Book Talks and Thoughts #1 

Currently reading "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid and I have thoughts I need to get out.

(Gonna put the rest under the cut because there will be spoilers.)

So I am on Chapter 28 of the book right now, basically after Evelyn, Celia and Harry go to the Mick Riva concert and the article about Evelyn and Celia gets released. This leads to the eventual break up between the two women.

I just... The way the whole argument scene broke my heart. It was a hard read to get through because I can imagine a million different couples who have had this exact same converstation over the millenia. (Including myself, although those conversations were internal and quite frankly, still ongoing.)

I completely understand and agree with Celia. They should not break up because of some tabloid will bring some negative press. Hell, why is there even any negative press about two women being romatically involved? "'It's not wrong,' Celia said, 'It shouldn't be wrong, to love you. How can it be wrong?'" It isn't wrong that Celia and Evelyn love each other. It's the world around that that's forcing it to be wrong.

But the conversation also highlights the privledge that Celia has that Evelyn doesn't. 

While Celia will absolutely face backlash from her family after she gets outed, she probably has some sort of financial back up plan in case acting didn't work out. Maybe she has some sort of investment or bonds in her name. Her family is an affluent family in Georgia so she probably has some form of financial literacy.

This makes her behaviour towards the situation reasonable. In her mind, its ok because she'll have Evelyn. She either has a financial back up or doesn't know what its like to have nothing. This makes her willing to loose everything.

Evelyn even calls her out on this. "'No, what's going on here is that you're a dilettante who thinks if this acting thing doesn't work out, you can go  back to Savannah and live off your parents."

Evelyn on the other hand, very much doesn't have that option. She says that in her very next line after Celia questions her about money.

"Yeah, I do. Because I worked my ass off and was married to an asshole who knocked me and around. And I did that so I can be famous. So I can live the life we're living. And if you think I'm not going to protect that, you've lost your mind."

Admittedly, we know more about Evelyn's perspective than Celia's. Maybe Celia did have to do some through many of the same hardships that Evelyn did in her early days. However, we know how talent agents flew out to Georgia to see Celia, so probably not. 

Evelyn on the other hand sacrificed everything. Her home (as terrible as it was) her body, her autonomy, even her identity as a Cuban women. She gave anything she had to get the life she has.

(This is side tangent in the middle of a tangent, but this also goes to show how WOC will always have to work harder than their white counter parts, but that's atangent for another day.)

This leads to Evelyn, as Celia calls it, being "cynical." She has seen the world's dark side and has learned how to appease it. To her, being true to herself isn't worth the life she has fought so hard to have. Because Evelyn has no alternative. She would have to go back to Hell's Kitchen. And like hell Evelyn Hugo would ever return to that place.

Thus leading to their eventual break (and perhaps break up because unfortunately I feel like they're not going to get back together later).

All of this to say is that it shows how both their backgrounds shaped their views of the world and I wanted to comment on that!

#i feel like i delved more into celia's part a bitttt more #mainly cuz so much of evelyn's side is given to us #whereas celia's is more implicit #I could be wrong about all of this #or maybe someone's already said the same things in a more eloquent way #but i digress #of course i spend more time on this than my overdue essay #plz send help #anywho these are my halfway the book thoughts #zo's book talks and thoughts #this is zo speaking #books #book talks #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo

[angelicgarnet]

the way people online talk about autism is getting really weird, like do they know that neurotypicals still have interests? that someone being passionate about a hobby doesn't mean they're autistic? you guys know that right

#woof #like self diagnosis is one thing #but saying someone is autistic because they talk about a specific hobby a lot is weird (and waters down the actual definition of autism) #and its no different than saying someone has ocd bc they organize their books alpabetically #or saying someone has ADHD because they got distracted by something #and people who aren't even autistic are honestly getting way too comfortable with autism jokes

[ruegarding]

that scene in tlo where thalia tells percy he can't start feeling sorry for luke bc luke made his choices. and thalia reveals that the reason they couldn't make it to camp in time for all of them to make it to camp was bc luke kept picking fights. and annabeth never saw this as wrong bc luke was her hero. so thalia had to pick up the pieces. and percy thinking both that luke was put in a cruel position and that luke was putting others in a cruel position. and percy is the only character who understood both sides of luke bc annabeth sees only the best of him and thalia sees only the worst. and that's why percy is the prophecy kid and the one who gives luke the knife. bc annabeth had spent the entire series essentially giving luke the knife when he didn't deserve it. and thalia was never going to give luke the knife. but percy is the only one who can see exactly when luke deserves the knife.

#percy had to see luke from an unbiased pov (hestia and prometheus's visions + may) before he begins to finally understand luke #he didn't need to see annabeth's luke or thalia's luke. he needed to see both. he needed to see luke as he is. #anyway pjo is a story abt faith. not faith in religion but in each other #percy jackson #luke castellan #thalia grace #annabeth chase #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo books #percy #luke #thalia #annabeth #min talks pjo

[blackwell-ninja]

Look I’m not the person to come to for objective reviews.

A book has to be like incredibly awful for me to even give less than 3 stars. Because I’m reading these romances to have fun. 1 ick is not enough to bring it lower.

That’s why it’s wild to me I read these reviews and they are like *this book was full of dark themes and the male protagonist was a bad person* and I’m like 👍🏻 but it’s fun.

Maybe that’s a me thing but 3 stars isn’t bad. Which is where I’m at with the current book I’m reading.

#the ginger speaks #book talks

[bookslutskye]

*everyone liked that*

#boop #boop o meter #book talks

[soracities]

Do you believe it’s necessary to read the classics?

The classics are not a monolith; The Count of Monte Cristo is not Madame Bovary and Madame Bovary is not Mrs Dalloway. Moby Dick is not The Phantom of the Opera, and The Phantom of the Opera is not King Lear any more than Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina, Animal Farm or Beloved are. "Classics" is not a definitive category and there's no one size fits all--each book is individual, each author is individual and each narrative is a distinct response to the world it's written in. I don't believe you can reduce all of that to a random time stamp and I don't believe you can make sweeping judgements on the merits of centuries' worth of literature either. Whatever category you put them in, they're stories; as such they're as "necessary" as stories have always been.

#ask #Anonymous #book talks

[feypact]

public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):

brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)

seattle (13-26yo us residents)

boston (13-26yo us residents, EDIT: just commonly banned books)

los angeles (13-18yo california residents)

san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)

these books unbanned cards (unless otherwise stated) get you access to each library's complete libby/cloud library collection, no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.

ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!

i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!

i use library extension (firefox/chrome/edge compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.

spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.

#library tag #banned books week #banned books #emmybody talks #for international users... your mileage may vary! #i mean i suppose you could lie about your age/location to get some of these. i doubt theyd check i would just feel bad. personally. #post brought to u by banned book week but also being moderately annoyed at ppl mad about the spotify thing #libraries are wonderful but they have their own limitations and i think using both is good!

[electricsocketman]

I think one reason Goncharov worked so well is that on tumblr you’re regularly being subjected to fandoms you’re not in and media you’ve never seen. I assumed the people i followed all just got really into some movie that I had no interest in and scrolled right past for a solid week before realizing.

#goncharov #as far as i know murderbot could be made-up everyone i follow is talking about it i don’t even know if it’s a book or a show or what

[moononastring]

i have the twisted series on my tbr. i'm almost done with king of wrath and i'm loving it. it's really fun and hot and a bit angsty. and i think book 2 comes out in april and i'm assuming it's kai and isabella's cause there's some sparks there so i'm eager to read it. i'll probably end up jumping into the twisted series after king of wrath cause i'm enjoying her writing style a lot. and agree i'm also really into romance books. usually i skew more toward fantasy, but romance has been my top genre read for the last few months. i will say if you try jumping back into fantasy i think you should try the wolf and the wildflower by ella fields. it gave me a lot of elucien vibes with reluctant mates and there was a lot of angst and hotness.

oh no i was excited to try the deception trilogy. that's a bummer, but guess it could save me time lol. i already confronted my friend about the creeper uncle book and she was like "oh yeah sorry forgot about that bit" uh that would have been a pretty important piece of info to warn someone about. just another reminder to always check goodreads lol

tbh i feel like book one is more a prologue into the camorra chronicles so if you skipped it i don't think you're missing much. book one is about the brother from the born in blood series (the little brother to aria/gianna/lilianna tho you said you don't remember the series so you probably won't remember him) and how he ended up with the camorra. it wasn't one of my faves in the series, i think books 2-4 were the best, but it was still an enjoyable read.

Yassssss I definitely recommend reading the Twisted series next! You actually meet Dante and Viviane in Twisted Lies! Kings of Sins is kinda a spin-off sort of? I do enjoy her style and she just does the tropes so well, it's easy to get attached. I WILL say...Book 1 (Twisted Love) was the weakest IMO but you still gotta read it though lol. It gets better with each other after that so for sure recommend it.

You had me at elucien vibes with The Wolf and the Wildflower and after looking at the book description and seeing "straight into the arms of a one-eyed warrior" IMMEDIATELY added it to my tbr haha. Other fantasy books I have plans for are The Serpent and the Wings of Night and Daughter of No Worlds by the same author and A Dawn of Onyx by Kate Golden.

Yeah that isn't something one should forget to mention HAHA but at least you know! I always say if you're interested, give it a go and if you don't end up liking it, at least you tried!

I do remember their little brother! I remember not caring much about him though HAHA but maybe I will for context at least.

#i appreciate you chatting books bby!! #book talks #asks #'nonnie