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phaedraismyusername · 1 year

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I'm rereading I Am Legend for the first time since I was a teenager and good lawd i forgot how much our lad whinges at the start about that undead coochie

#chatting about that forced celibacy since 1954 #also when he said you have a mind use it #i genuinely thought he was off for a cheeky five knuckle shuffle #not forcing himself to read a medical textbook about blood #you know?#anyhoo #excellent book #highly recommend #neville may scream 50s white american guy with every inch of his being #but the framing and concept are super ahead of their time #also the movie sucks #just saiyan #booklr #book recs #i am legend #richard matheson

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kansouame · 1 year

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Ring Shout

- P. Djeli Clark

#ring shout #p djeli clark #excellent book #recommend

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hellfyri · 9 months

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Consuming a good book on two hours of sleep is actually the best experience ever and will alter your brain chemistry

#blep #sleep is for people who don’t have books to read #this is how you lose the time war #by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone #excellent book #you should read it

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kkecreads · 1 year

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Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

Published: March 14, 2023 Labyrinth Road Genre: Teen & Young Adult Poetry Pages: 382 KKECReads Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I received a copy of this book for free, and I leave my review voluntarily. Olivia A. Cole is a writer from Louisville, Kentucky. Her essays have been published by Bitch Media, Real Simple, the Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Gay Mag, and more. She teaches creative…

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hedgehog-moss · 6 months

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Forgive me for making yet another post about the French Revolution but one small detail that makes me laugh is when, as things started to go seriously wrong, one of Louis XVI's advisers tried to persuade him & Marie-Antoinette to get away from Paris and wait for things to calm down (the idea was "if you lay low and wait, the newly-created National Assembly will vote something stupid and lose popular support" which was a solid plan honestly.) But he was also like "whatever you do, DO NOT go East or South or people will think you'll get help from other monarchies to restore your power and that won't calm things down"

So the King was advised to flee to Normandy, which... is just a short ferry ride away from another monarchy. But that's completely different since it's England. To be fair to the English, the French monarchy had basically bankrupted itself a few years back to send millions in support of the American revolutionaries because it would be a shame not to take advantage of "perhaps the best opportunity for centuries to come to put England in its place" (actual quote by France's minister of Foreign Affairs in 1777)

—still I love the realistic approach of the King's adviser telling him, Sire you can't go near any of our borders rn, it'll escalate the situation, Parisians will know you're trying to get another country to help. Obviously you can go set up camp right across the sea from England though, that's fine since everyone knows the English wouldn't piss on us if we were on fire¹

¹ Perfidious Albion was like "aw no France is in turmoil and possibly weakened :) a shame :)" exactly like France re: them at the start of the US independence war ² they also thought well these backward french are finally following our glorious example and entering civilisation (parliamentary monarchy) ³ and only when the Girondins started being like "let's spread the French Revolution to the whole universe!!! or at least Belgium" did England finally decide "it's been a while since we last declared war on France actually" (but it was too late for Louis XVI) ⁴ That's not how footnotes work sorry. Trying to make my post look fancier

#autumn is when i read books about my pet century (the 18th)#current one is simone bertière's excellent biography of marie-antoinette which mentions all the above and much more!#i discovered that when she was a prisoner marie-antoinette used paul & virginie as a book cipher to encrypt her letters which made me laugh #i'll be the first to say it but paul & virginie was the Twilight of the 18th century #good on our late austrian queen for finding a use for this boring preachy novel

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subyssz · 1 year

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just finished reading metamorphosis

#im feeling nauseous #excellent book #gregor samsa is just like me for real #i feel like this book has so many themes in it but the obviously main theme is depression

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artificial-condition · 1 year

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Me watching tv: it’s what murderbot would have wanted

#my thoughts #murderbot #tmbd #the murderbot diaries #Martha wells #rewatching the queens gambit #good show based on an excellent novel #highly highly recommend the book #one of my favorites #beautifully written

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milesbutterball · 2 years

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#throw ego out the window #makes no difference #awesome #peace #loveislove #right or wrong #who cares #excellent book #the power of now #eckhart tolle

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dailydccomics · 8 months

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Nightwing by Jamal Campbell

#dick grayson #dc comics #jamal campbell #nightwing #variant cover #coveredit #dc #titans #robin #comic book art #starfire #comics #excellent

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fictionadventurer · 3 months

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Fantasy retelling of Northanger Abbey:

Innocent young Catherine Morland is overjoyed to have the chance to go to the King's City, leaving her quiet country town for a more diverse and magical metropolis.

Catherine loves reading fairy tales about the dramatic deeds of long-ago fae.

Henry Tilney is a trickster fairy prince who is jaded by a lifetime of dealing with the machinations of the fae courts. He gets amusement out of living among humans and laughing at their follies.

Catherine meets Henry and is immediately awed at his backstory and (metaphorically) enchanted by his charming personality.

For reasons unknown, Henry's father encourages Henry to romantically pursue Catherine. Henry half-heartedly goes along with it, because it's not a bad idea to stay in Dad's good graces.

And then he's shocked to find himself actually falling in love--because Catherine loves him and because she's genuinely innocent and good in a world where he thought such people didn't exist.

To everyone's surprise, Catherine gets an invite to stay at Henry's father's palace.

An actual enchanted fairy palace? How could Catherine say no?

As they're traveling there, Henry plays up all the old fairy tale tropes warning Catherine how to behave. He's joking (things haven't been like that for centuries) but Catherine still takes it to heart.

Catherine hears of the dramatic tale of the life and death of Henry's mother (perhaps a human? So Henry's actually only half-fae?). With her imagination primed by the stories she knows, Catherine starts to interpret faint "evidence" as proof that his mother's actually hidden away under a fate-worse-than-death curse, perhaps just waiting for a pure-of-heart maiden to come break the spell.

Henry catches Catherine during her quest and is amused and a bit offended. Do you know what you're saying? Maybe things like that could happen long ago and far away, but the fairies are Christianized now. Enchantments like that are far too brutal to consider.

She's right that his dad's a jerk, though.

Not long after this, Henry's dad sends Catherine away in disgrace. He had heard that Catherine was the Chosen One of a prophecy and wanted her to increase the power of his kingdom. He's shocked to learn it's not true (you mean humans can lie?), and in his anger he's harsh in sending her away.

Henry refuses to abandon Catherine and gets himself banished for refusing to give her up.

He shows up at her ordinary home and declares his love and they live happily ever after.

#northanger abbey #jane austen #i started thinking about the parallels between coming-of-age and portal fantasy stories #remembered my assertion that northanger abbey is a portal fantasy #and took it a step further with fairy prince henry tilney #this book is so great for fantasy aus because henry makes an excellent magical boyfriend

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pineapplesquid · 1 month

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I got a book for the baby and:

#the book is #Mama Do You Love Me #and it is excellent #and surprisingly topical #walrus

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chiropteracupola · 5 months

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A very fine captain, and a finer friend.

#em draws stuff #em is posting about temeraire #temeraire #william laurence #sizes are not Quite right here but we will improve with time #I think temeraire would be Much larger by the time he gets his frills but also I was constrained by the fact that I was drawing on paper #not 100% settled on his look either but his antlers are Important to me even if they're not canonical #it has been Years since I drew any dragons I think... oh far too long :(#v. excited to sketch up some of the other excellent fellows in the coming months (starting reading throne of jade tomorrow!)#way back in 2021 eve proto-language said the way I drew pullings at the time was granby-reminiscent so I have been picturing That #let's see if I have improved since 2021 <- very probably I have done so #'specially as someone looked in my sketchbook today and saw this and told me I should be illustrating books #bestie (note: not bestie at all) you know I would if I could :/

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luxuryrapshop · 3 months

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#books #weed #art #black excellence

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kkecreads · 2 years

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The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

Published: June 7, 2022 Poisoned Pen Press Pages: 292 Genre: Amateur Sleuth Mysteries KKECReads Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I received a copy of this book for free, and I leave my review voluntarily. Sulari Gentill is Australian, born in Sri Lanka, learned to speak English in Zambia, and grew up in Brisbane. She went to University to study Astrophysics, graduated in Law, and after years of corporate…

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yourfriendjulie · 1 year

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happy Friday the 13th from my resident house demon, Matches

#black cat #cats #friday the 13th #books #having a black cat is the best bc you can always find excellent merch and then your house is filled with art of your cat voila

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femmefatalevibe · 1 year

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Femme Fatale Booklist: Seduction, Allure, & Sensuality

Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power by Kasia Urbaniak

Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer

Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott

Yes, Mistress: Why Men Crave Female Domination by Alicia Zadig

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

Be Your Own Brand of Sexy: A New Sexual Revolution for Women by Susan L. Edelman

All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

For Yourself: The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality by Lonnie Barbach

VIVE LA DIFFERENCE: A FRENCHMAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON AMERICAN WOMEN, LOVE, RESPECT AND RELATIONSHIPS by Guy Blaise

Rethinking Prestige Branding: Secrets of the Ueber-Brands by Wolfgang Schaefer and JP Kuehlwein (you are the luxury brand)

The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands by Jean-Noël Kapferer (Author), Vincent Bastien

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova

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