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feywildfancypants · 8 months
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My running notes from Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco:
I love snarky chaos characters so much. “Take it from someone who talks too much” *kills the guys while he’s monologuing* “you talk to much”
*mid battle* What’s the word for fucker in this language? *makes best attempt* is later corrected with the right word because what he says means cantaloupe. “Ah, I believe I am starting to understand your frustrations with my language”
Like Witcher if despite the witcher being badass, the vampires were even more badass. (Like even the “well fuck” is so Witcher 🤭)
Can’t say I love you. Just says fuck you instead.
Like, he’s a badass reaper and then the vampires are just all *you fragile, we protect you” and he resents them for it even if he secretly loves it.
Lady Song kicking ass again. 
10/10 would recommend. Soft, queer, bloody gory romantasy. *chefs kiss*
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moonlightbambina · 3 months
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Heartstopper is the anti-Euphoria and I am obsessed 🥹
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coffeedrgn87 · 4 months
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new prized possession obtained 💜
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maidaaart · 6 months
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The Zumra
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
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firefly-nightsky · 11 months
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I am just glad the day I click the lockwood and co show on my netflix to see thinking it something like Ghostbuster ! Did not have any idea it was a Book series [ the best one might i add ] Netflix did not promote it ! I did not have seen the trailer!
I JUST CLICKED IT CAUSE IT WAS TRENDING NO.1 ! I LIVE IN INDIA !
It really did well if it reached to the audience who have never even heard of it before !
I bought all the books immediately! All the friends I recommended the show loved it !
Even though it's a children's books i read it as an adult and loved it ! Portland row reminds me of my childhood summer evenings ! It's comfort you crave ! I hope we get it to more larger audience! For Mr.stroud is a amazing writer and he deserves this !
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supernutellastuff · 8 months
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Yooo I just read station eleven it was fantastic
(saw your tag on a post)
Also I really want to see those graphic novels it’s a shame they’re not real
Hiii I love Station Eleven so much. I can go on for years about it!
I first read it in December 2019, when news of coronavirus was just breaking. So that was obviously an anxiety-provoking experience haha. And then I re-read it last year, "post pandemic", and it holds up so well! Apocalyptic/sci-fi stories that centre the beauty of humanity, art, music, culture, cooperation, community, etc is one of my fav genres (re Mad Max Fury Road, Arrival, etc.). And yes my favourite bit was those graphic novels, it was so satisfying to read how she came up with the idea, the description of the text and the artwork - and it was brilliant to see how it touched multiple lives. I want to read them too!
Have you watched the HBO show based on the book? I still haven't, I'm a little scared it might not capture the book's essence haha. Also, I recommend the author's other books - Glass Castle and Sea of Tranquility - they don't reach the heights of Station Eleven imo but they're still pretty good, and they're set in parallel/overlapping timelines so some familiar characters turn up :)
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yuriysnakeshadow · 7 months
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🤛🏿🇺🇦🤜🏿
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runixa · 4 months
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I'm rereading the hands of the emperor, and I've gotten to the part were we see his radiency's private study. In struck by the... The metaphor of it. The inner man and outer man, the one small inner room, drowning in the outer chambers.
But also by the parallel between his radiency having this one space he really occupies and decorated, and cliopher bringing his much loved, comfortable, shaggy furniture into his new huge and well appointed residency.
The ways and reasons the two mean are... Not fully able to be themselves are immensely different.
But they still aren't able to.
I... I don't think I've even begun to really put this thought into words. But it's... Striking. Heartbreaking, beautiful, full of love like everything between these two. Companionable and lonely at the same time...
I just... Damn.
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scentedsstuff · 11 months
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'She didn’t dream. She didn’t believe in wishes. She was no romantic like Yasmine, but somewhere along the way, she’d grown partial to another soul.'
We Free the Stars, Hafsah Faizal
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bookishintherain · 1 year
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Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson
Ok. I FINALLY read this. And absolutely loved it!!!
I’d started it on audiobook a while back and just wasn’t paying enough attention so I gave up.
But I went back and read it finally and I could not put it down! I think it’s my favorite Rogerson book so far, which is saying something because I’ve loved all of them. But this one. Just *chef’s kiss*
The characters complemented and meshed together so well. The plot kept moving and the stakes kept rising and the climax was perfect.
Ugh. I loved it so much 😭
That’s all.
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shirecryptid · 2 years
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BOOKS I LOVE  ( 9/? )
↳  MAGIC SLAYS  ( kate daniels #5 ) by  ilona andrews.
the ringing of the phone jerked me from my sleep. i clawed my eyes open and rolled off my bed. for some reason, someone had moved the floor several feet lower than i had expected, and i fell and crashed with a thud.           ow.      a blond head popped over the side of the bed, and a familiar male voice asked, “are you okay down there?”           curran. the beast lord was in my bed. no, wait a minute. i didn’t have a bed, because my insane aunt had destroyed my apartment. i was mated to the beast lord, which meant i was in the keep, in curran’s rooms, and in his bed. our bed. which was four feet high. right.      “kate?”           “i’m fine.”      “would you like me to install one of those child playground slides for you?”           i flipped him off and picked up the phone.
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advocatekwlaunt · 2 years
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Super superrrr psyched that @everyforkedroad recommended that I give this a shot how exciting!!! I almost exclusively read queer fiction, I swear I keep trying to branch out but there's so much EPIC queer content...
So, that being said...
The last book I bought was: Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (Southern Gothic queer horror story- slow burn romance and just so, so beautifully written.)
Borrowed: Drag Teen by Jeffery Self. (Cute, very cute story.)
Was Gifted: A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara (It counts if I gifted it to myself, yes? Had them gift wrap it and everything) Also, it broke my Little heart. I still find myself muttering quotes from the book randomly in utter disbelief.
Gave/Lent to Someone: The Woman Who Made Me Feel Strange by Anna Ferrara (Such a good book- part of a trilogy, if I'm not mistaken and I plan on reading the other two soon BUT THE FIRST ONE WAS epiCccc)
Started: You Owe Me A Murder by Eileen Cook (Not a queer book- like I said I'm trying to branch out- and it's a thriller sort of crime thing? Not too bad so far)
Finished: We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (Whew.)
Gave 5 Stars: The Library on Mount Char by Scott Hawkins ( One of my favourite lines: "I'd drop-kick the baby Jesus for a Marlboro." That is all.)
Didn't Finish: Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee (Things became intense and I got scared- I will eventually go back to it but first I intend to forget what made me stop reading in the first place.)
Personal reccomendationsssss cus I also love recommendations: They Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson. Supernatural horror vibes with an amazing, epic woman of colour as the main character. Couldn't reccomend it enough.
Soooo, it'd be super cool if @use-your-words , @squash1 , @envyclearlace anddddd @crownamedtod shared their recently reads etc as well. anddddd anyone else!💜💜💜
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cowardlyriver · 10 months
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He stood straight, not leaning against the chair, color blazing in his face. He reminded James of the Matthew he had tied himself to at their parabatai ceremony so long ago: a Matthew who seemed to fear nothing: not shadow, not fire.
- Chain of Thorns, Cassandra Clare
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marblesarelost · 1 year
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I just went through my book wish list and put it on Bookshop.
(I'm not buying anything TODAY because I have to move in ....FML SEVEN WEEKS?... and I am not stupid enough to buy MORE BOOKS just to have to pack them up and move them. Not to mention some of them are on backorder or preorder and I don't want them going to the wrong address because I am moving in seven weeks.)
BEFORE adding a bunch more?
Um
It was over $300.
AFTER adding a bunch more?
I don't know how much it is, and I'm honestly afraid to add it all up.
WELP
Just added all to my cart.
YEAH
It's under a grand!
.....barely....
But a lot of these books are REALLY IMPORTANT -- Jared Sexton, Heather Cox Richardson, stuff about how we really are facing a civil war coming, stuff about how shitty it is to be poor in America (not that I don't KNOW that shit),and then there's the books I just fucking WANT: the Wolf Hall books by Hilary Mantel, the Shigeru Mizuki Japanese history mangas, new copies of the Paks original trilogy and the expansion of the world as well (I didn't like those as much as the original Paks books, but I liked them well enough, and also Sergeant Stammel -- gods bless him), Gaiman's Norse Mythology and American Gods and Stardust and a new copy of the Graveyard Book, and the Chronicles of Prydain which I really do need to read, and then there's the James Clavell** books that I legit HAVE to have and the Tolkien, again, I have to have them because somehow I do not have copies of the big Four and the Silmarillion and yes I AM getting the illustrated Hobbit and the illustrated Silmarillion separately because ILLUSTRATIONS BY TOLKIEN, DAMMIT
(** Yes, I'm aware that Clavell's work is very problematic. That being said, my mother once told me, when learning that at the time I was reading Shogun and really liking it, that Shogun was the only book she ever saw my father, my actual father, read.
Now I know for a fact, solid and cold, that Daddy liked Stephen King. He read a lot of King after he and my mom divorced. He's who turned me into a Constant Reader -- okay given that I read Pet Sematary when I was eight at my grandma's house -- by giving me The Eyes of the Dragon when I was young; by handing me IT and Christine and The Shining and The Stand when I was older.
All that being said, there is something very special to me about reading and enjoying and loving books that my father read and loved. It makes me feel that we are still sharing, still reaching out to one another, beyond the Boundaries of Death's Country.
Not to mention, King Rat is....horribly problematic. Horribly so. Yet there is something in it that reaches to me. Here is greed, here is horror, here is the worst that man can be to man. Yet here is generosity, here is quiet stoic heroism, here is mercy, here is hope.
Clavell's work is problematic, yes. Lots of work is. But there is something to be learned from it. Do I think every work has something to be learned from? Not really. Some is just shit, and that's the honest truth. But some, we can learn something from.)
and FML I still need to find the complete Keltiad -- the Aeron books and the Arthur books, Blackmantle was a horrible revenge fantasy -- (And just for the record, I KNEW her, I KNEW Patricia, she invited me to her HOUSE if I were ever in NYC, she named me her War-Badger, I counted her as a FRIEND, I MOURNED her when she passed, and I STILL think Blackmantle was a HORRIBLE revenge fantasy) and the complete Belgariad along with Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress --
....FUCK.
(If you're wondering why I didn't mention the Malloreon, it's because I read the first book and hated it)
...I'd love to have the complete Foxfire series...
...guess I'm gonna have to hit up AbeBooks or something too...
RIP the cash I was gonna set aside just for me I guess....
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maidaaart · 4 months
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'Throughout my twenty years of detective work, I have never failed to solve a case. Except for one: the Forest Incident.'
-'The Forest of Stolen Girls' by June Hur
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firefly-nightsky · 10 months
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What is the main emotion you feel when reading Lockwood and Co, and in which book do you feel the strongest emotions, in yourself and in the characters/atmosphere?
It's warmth ! Definitely it makes me feel like I am at my childhood home during summers and reminds me of my best friends! All the love those three has in the first two books
I love the humor ! And how Jonathan stroud has incorporate it with the horror !
This books are scary too! The most I had felt scared was the third book ! The bloody staircase part but most was the fetch I can actually felt my heartbeat increased !
I am still halfway through empty grave but that graveyard part with lockwood and lucy was the most sad and heartwrenching I felt !
This book had made me squel like schoolgirl too for all the subtle way through the slowburn of lockwood and lucy ;had made me laugh out loud with those sarcasm of George but the most I felt was warmth
They feel like family !
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