#books talk

[wri0thesley]

not to be too overdramatic about it but booktok is a curse upon this earth

it sucks double fold too; there are writers who are writing specifically to fill that booktok niche because it makes money, but for every writer who sends their queries off with trope buzzwords, there’s a writer who has them forced upon them by a marketing team and whose work will probably get overlooked by the intended audience because of it! I know I’m guilty of outright avoiding books i see marketed as a ‘booktok sensation’, and i can’t be the only one!

and don’t get me started about booktok influencers and the whole sprayed edges special edition need to produce merch of a book just to try and get in an audience, too! booktok is truly a scourge

#nat.txt #books talk

[cuentodealma]

Sometimes I get this urge to re-read Melissa Febos' Abandon Me and it makes me smile cause when I read it for the first time I would've never guessed it would be the kind of book I would want to re-read, but here I am, thinking about "Fear of abandonment begets abandonment. I gave myself away to solve the pain of his leaving and in doing so performed my own abandonment".

#books talk #melissa febos #abandon me #books #journal #my writing #cuentodealma #reading

[ashfaqqahmad]

CRN-45

जिस हिसाब से दुनिया में बेतहाशा भीड़ बढ़ रही है... कार्बन उत्सर्जन बढ़ रहा है... लोग प्राकृतिक संसाधनों का अंधाधुंध उपभोग करके उन्हें खत्म कर रहे हैं... और लगातार अपने लिये स्पेस बढ़ाते हुए बाकी सभी क्रीचर्स के लिये जगह और मौके सीमित करते जा रहे हैं, जिनसे हमारा इको सिस्टम प्रभावित हो सकता है... तो  ऐसे में एक दिन कुदरत भी कोई मौका निकाल कर बदला लेने पर उतर आये तो? अपने देश को देखिये... देश के लोगों को देखिये... क्या इन्हें एक नागरिक के तौर पर अपनी भूमिका की समझ है? क्या एक इंसान के तौर पर अपनी प्राथमिकताओं का पता है इन्हें? आपको व्यवस्था वैसी ही मिलती है जैसे आप होते हैं और अगर आप खुद ही समझदार और जागरूक नहीं हैं— तो यह तय है कि आपको सिस्टम भी वैसा ही लापरवाह मिलेगा। ऐसी हालत में कोई डेडली वायरस इनवेशन हो तो? फिर वह वायरस नेचुरल हो या बायोवेपन... उससे ज्यादा बड़ा सवाल यह है कि क्या हमारी व्यवस्था उस अटैक को संभाल पायेगी? क्या हमारे द्वारा चुनी गयी सरकारों ने हमें वह सिस्टम दिया है जो किसी मेडिकल इमर्जेंसी को संभाल सके? शायद नहीं... कल्पना कीजिये कि ऐसे ही किसी विश्वव्यापी वायरस संक्रमण के सामने हमारी व्यवस्था कैसी लचर साबित होगी और करोड़ों लोग अकाल मृत्यु को प्राप्त होंगे। सीआरएन फोर्टी फाईव ऐसे ही एक विश्वव्यापी संक्रमण की कहानी है— जिसका शिकार हो कर दुनिया की तीन चौथाई आबादी खत्म हो गयी थी और गिने-चुने विकसित देशों को छोड़ कर सभी देशों की व्यवस्थायें इस त्रासदी के आगे दम तोड़ गयी थीं और त्रासदी से उबरने के बाद भी सभी सिस्टम कोलैप्स हो जाने की वजह से ऐसी अराजकता फैली थी कि लाखों सर्वाइव करने वाले लोग फिर भी मारे गये थे... और बचे खुचे लोगों में करोड़ों की भीड़ तो वह थी जो इस संक्रमण का शिकार हो कर अपनी मेमोरी पूरी तरह खो चुकी थी और ताजे पैदा हुए बच्चे जैसी हो गयी थी। यह वह मौका था जिसने उन सभी दबंग, बाहुबली और ताकतवर लोगों के लिये संभावनाओं के द्वार खोल दिये थे जो इस त्रासदी के बाद भी अपनी ताकत सहेजे रखने में कामयाब रहे थे। उन्होंने व्यवस्थाओं को अपने हाथ में लेकर उनकी सूरत बदल दी... देशों के बजाय ढेरों टैरेट्रीज खड़ी हो गयीं और उन्होंने बची खुची आबादियों को नियंत्रित कर लिया। लेकिन क्या यह व्यवस्थायें भी हमेशा कायम रह सकती थीं... एक न एक दिन तो कहीं न कहीं बगावत का बिगुल फूंका जाना तय था और यह कहानी एक ऐसी ही बगावत की है, जो दुनिया को वापस पहले जैसा बना देने की कूवत तो रखती है... लेकिन सभी पिछली गलतियों से सबक लेकर एकदम नये रूप में... उस रूप में जो प्रकृति के साथ संतुलन बना कर चल सके और बाकी सभी क्रीचर्स के सह-अस्तित्व को पूरा सम्मान देते हुए उन्हें उनके हिस्से का स्पेस और मौके उपलब्ध करा सके और एक नया एडवांस डेमोक्रेटिक सिस्टम स्थापित कर सके। amazon kindle flipkart

#book #books #bookshelf #bookstagram #books talk

[bellaroles]

Had I known it would be this hard to get out of, I wouldn't have started reading these chinese fictions. (Specifically speaking, the adept/gods/devil fantasy romance genre)

#lol i had to adjust my mind while reading this #the good and the bad karma things that I learnt from being a buddhist since birth do not applies to the logic in these stories much #but i've been enjoying myself immensely #books talk #it all started by my watching love between fairy and devil #sometimes after my obsession fades i'll go back to reasing english fantasy again lol

[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

[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

[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

[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

[wri0thesley]

i am a quarter of the way through my goodreads challenge!! (well over a quarter but-)

(psst you are all welcome to be my goodreads friends, i am trying to remember to leave reviews but not doing too great!!)

#nat.txt #books talk

[cuentodealma]

11th March 2024

This blog is a journal, a confessional, a little girl's secret diary protected by a big pink plastic lock, a scrapbook, a poem, a note left in haste on the margin of a favourite book's page, a footnote, a grandma cookbook, the revival of my teenage self's blog from the 2010s, a letter, a draft, an essay, the inscription behind a vintage postcard, the piece of a story yet to be completed, la mia storia.

This blog is also as bilingual as I am, and tho the preferred language is English, i could also sometimes be posting in Italian. Se passate di qui, lasciate un segno! :)

#journal #diary #about #my writing #books talk #diary entry #books #quotes #in italiano #tv talk #fanart

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

#i literally JUST finished hill house a few days ago and i already want to reread. Badly. it's sooo so so soo sooooooooo good <33333!!!!! #also completely enamored by shirley jackson's writing style i NEED to read everything she has written ever like right now.. #opening lines of ALL TIME btw 👆❗❗❗ #r.txt #the haunting of hill house #ALSO i've seen commentary videos on the tv show they made of hill house but from what i remember of it it's SO different from the book??? #i think they were all siblings in the show which is??????? like why would you change that part?? i love sibling relationships as much as the #next guy but i feel like the fact that none of them knew each other was such an essential part of the story like why would u change it.... #also eleanor was like. an entirely different character who was also already dead in the show i believe??? and dr. montague doesn't exist?? #hill house could've been really good as a show idk why they changed it up like that...like was the original story not interesting enough for #you or something?? WHO decided to make that change i just wanna talk 🤨

[charlottan]

#my copy of women by charles bukowski has underlininggggggggggg😁 #book talk

[rukhsandbooks]

I was definitely captivated by the spark and allure with in these pages. I feel like all I need to say and all you should know before reading this book is that the first kiss sends electric currents through the pages and into the very soul of every romance book lover. And it only gets better from there.

Henry's writing possesses that very Emily Henry charm, she sprinkles banter and crafts characters in a way that leaves you wanting more. Every time I dive into her stories, my admiration for her grows, and my heart fills with joy.

These past few days have been a delightful indulgence. I have been delving into tales that have lingered on my TBR for far too long and have been unapologetically reading the works of some of my favourite authors (with a bit of non-fiction to keep myself on my toes). The liberation that comes from making time for these books has been exhilarating and I look forward to indulging some more throughout the rest of summer.

And finally, because this book is called Book Lovers, let me share a moment from my bookish escapades. I was about 75% into this lovely story, out in the wild at a downtown restaurant, when I caught the eye of another literary soul. She approached me as I tabbed yet another page of the book and we engaged in a wonderful conversation about how Henry's books serve as the perfect antidote for reading slumps (and life slumps too!).

Alright Book Lovers, what Emily Henry book should I read next?

#bookblr #bookish #booklr #bookworm #books #bookquotes #booknerd #book quotes #goodreads #bookblog #emily henry #booklover #booklovers #bookaddict #booksbooksbooks #booksta #books and reading #books talk

[rosekasa]

ladybug makes the observation at some point that chat noir, at the ripe age of fifteen, acts like such a dad sometimes. like he'll comment about how she should really sit up straight while theyre chilling out after patrol, and he'll start bringing a pair of binoculars so he can birdwatch from their rooftop, and he'll do that thing where after she casually mentions she's been craving strawberies lately he starts bringing industrial amounts of strawberries for her every time they meet. and she just thinks, wow, this boy must come from such a wonderful family for him to be so cute.

so when he quietly admits to her one day that he hasn't hugged his own dad in years, in fact he's not even sure if his own dad really likes him very much, her heart shatters

#i went to an author panel today and the book was about a father son relationship ajdkajsk #miraculous ladybug #ladynoir #chat noir #tagged:ladynoir #♡alizeh talks♡