#god it's my favourite book

[dysphoresque]

When frankenstein's creature said accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? And when Judas said why didn't you make me good enough so that you could've loved me? And when wych elm said why did you do this to me? I was your baby. You made me. But then sophokles said, i am the shape you made me, filth teaches filth.

#victor frankenstein #frankensteinsmonster #frankenstein #mary shelley #god it's my favourite book #judas #the last days of judas iscariot #stephen adly guirgis #mommy issues #toxic mom #toxic parents #wych elm #susan smith #i am the shape you made me #filth teaches filth

[darkacademiaarchivist]

I put together these podcast recommendations based on books a while ago, enjoy (they also work the other way around, I highly recommend these books, I made it my life's mission to make people read radio silence, it's SUCH a great book and it got me into Welcome to Night Vale and podcasts in general. Thank you Alice Oseman)

i'm never good at summarizing things but I tried my best lol

#the radio silence to audio drama podcasts pipeline is real!! #radio silence #welcome to night vale #the penumbra podcast #good omens #where the stars fell #cemetery boys #spirit box radio #american gods #alice isn't dead #yelling at everyone to listen to my favourite podcasts #my post #books #podcasts #audio drama

[panevanbuckley]

my favourite thing about apollo is that, even in life and death situations, he'll still say shit like, 'his chin was so weak I was tempted to create a gofundme campaign to buy him a better jaw.' about the guy trying to kill him. this dork is so petty and I love him for it

#like i don't usually opt for 1st person pov books but apollo's pov is so uniquely funny that i literally don't care #pjo #trials of apollo #apollo #my favourite god

[thelockedtombsexywoman]

#reading this part of the book for this and oh my god it’s so funny #everyone being so mean to Harrow about her terrible soup #augustine joking about how she should confess if she accidentally chopped part of her body off and got it in the food #‘let me give you a list of my favourite foods so you can get them interestingly wrong’ #the fact that line seems to be genuine. man’s so bored of his favourite food he wants it cooked badly just for some variety

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

quotes from alex turner's favourite authors that make me want to put my face through a wall:

"although i have never been an actor in the strict sense of the word, i have nevertheless, in real life, always carried about with me a small folding theatre" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"there is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts," - albert camus

"there is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself" - raymond chandler

"at eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air" - vladimir nabokov

"no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge" - joseph conrad

"everything i've ever let go of has claw marks on it" - david foster wallace

"we're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. how else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?" - david foster wallace

"i turn over a new leaf every day, but the blots show through" - keith waterhouse

"the truth will set you free. but not until it's finished with you" - david foster wallace

"curiosity is insubordination in its purest form" - vladimir nabokov

"i'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think i am or say i am, that's what i'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me" - alan sillitoe

"we live as we dream; alone” - joseph conrad

"i liked, as i like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unwares" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"whatever you get paid attention to for is never what you think is most important about yourself" - david foster wallace

"i continued to stir my tea long after it had done all it could with the milk” - vladimir nabokov, despair

"i remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind" - edgar allan poe

"all the information i have about myself is from forged documents" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"how odd i can have all this inside me and to you its just words" - david foster wallace

"you will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. you will never live if you're looking for the meaning of life" - albert camus

#all of these are from books/authors alex has explicitly mentioned being a fan of #god i wish he talked more about what he reads because i find the books and authors people are drawn to fascinating #it's such an insight into someone's psyche #then again maybe that's why he doesn't talk about it a lot - the books you love are quite a personal thing #but yeah #having read a few things i just thought i'd compile a little selection of quotes from his favourite books/authors that #idk - stuck out to me as being very alex #and it's safe to safe i have well and truly destroyed my own heart in the process #i also now absolutely have to read despair by vladimir nabokov #it's one of his that i haven't read but i had a little flick through it and oh my god i can totally see why alex is so into it #this list was almost entirely just quotes from that book #there are SO MANY that are just painfully alex #(in my mind anyway) #anyway #enough rambling from me #i might have to do a part two of this at some point #alex turner #arctic monkeys #lulu posts

[souldagger]

kim bo-young 🤝 ted chiang

speculative fiction that builds stories around brilliantly crafted upside-down, inside-out worlds of alternate scientific realities that make the familiar alien and the alien familiar. and maybe make you have an existential crisis also

#i need every scifi enjoyer to read On the origin of species and other stories by kim bo-young but ESPECIALLY ted chiang fans oh my god. #genuinely one of my favourite short story collections of all time... #.txt #books

[lunarvien]

“You can just be friends with people, you know," Orla said. "I think it's crazy how you're in love with all those raven boys." Orla wasn't wrong, of course. But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment either with one another or thinking about when next they would be with one another. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want the other.”

“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.”

#feeling like a little gatekeeper because I now realised how does it feel #to love this much platonically #oh god I’ve been blessed #found family will always be my favourite trope #the raven cycle #the raven boys #the dream thieves #blue lily lily blue #the raven king #maggie stiefvater #trc #bookblr #book quotes

[papermonkeyism]

Oh. Wow. I'm suddenly having. Some kind of emotions? Definetely multiple emotions. Many of them.

I'm not sure if I know how to describe this... But, like, in the ancient times of my childhood, back before internet ever got to be a thing. Pretty sure the village I grew up in had a grand total of, like, maybe two computers at the time. With the beige boxes for screens. BEFORE dial-up. I had just discovered the existence of fantasy genre thanks to my literature teacher (technically mother-tongue teacher, but I think that doesn't translate to english directly as English is a foreign language here so the meaning of the class isn't strictly the same BUT I DIGRESS) who had lent me the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and I discovered there was in fact a fantasy shelf in the library, so I pretty much devoured most of the books I found there...

I was a MASSIVE fantasy fan. Still am, but back then I consumed so much more of the books. All of them. I was obsessed.

Like Special Interest™ level obsessed. Absolutely autistic amount, as you know. Except, as this was before internet happened to my world, there was nobody else I knew of who would also be interested, and somehow I guess I thought I was the only one reading this stuff.

At some point I kinda grew out of some of the prevalent tropes, and stopped reading (as much of) the books, and kinda fell out of the most intense obsession. Like I had a favourite book trilogy at one point that I absolutely adored as a kid, but which didn't really hold up after I re-read it somewhere around my later teens, and I found out I wasn't as into some of the tropes anymore. (like DnD alignment systems are fine for games built around battling but I prefer my stories without the "this entire race is evil and should be killed on sight" and such)

But the thing is, I haven't thought about those books specifically in twenty years. It was something only I had experienced and then gotten over, and didn't cast a thought about in two entire decades.

In hindsight, considering how much I like DnD now, it probably shouldn't surprise me this much and yet

But I just clicked some random pics of some art of drow elves and

What do you mean there's an actual fandom for stories of Drizzt Do'Urden? You're telling me that wasn't just some kind of childhood fever dream I had forever ago? Why do I recognize all these names of places and NPCs and stuff, that's not a real thing is it? These are Actual Memories I'm for some reason still having??? (oh gods, I'm suddenly getting flashbacks of tormenting my poor english teacher by asking her how to pronounce all the atupid drow names because "the author speaks english so I'm sure these names must have english pronounciation" I am so sorry...)

The fuck???

So.

I feel like I just failed a saving throw and took 3 d10 psychic damage.

I'm

What

#shut up paper #I'm just staring at a wall while my brain is doing all this remembering #Flashbacks to my most embarrassing teenage years #Oh gods #The Icewind Dale trilogy was once upon a time my mostest favourite thing #Followed by all the other books with the same characters that had been published by then #Ohgods

[erinsintra]

did you also have this phase in your childhood where ancient egypt was THE most interesting thing in the entire world and you were kinda disappointed at how no one was talking about it???? or were you normal??

#i had this big book about gods and mythology and it was SO COOL #my favourite parts were the chapters abou egyptian myths obviously #i used to think the egyptians still lived in desert villages and worshipped the old gods and such #fyp #fypツ #memes #explore #explorepage #funny #hilarious #writers on tumblr #fypシ #fypage #tumblr fyp #foryou #viral #foryoupage #egyptian mythology #egyptian #egypt #ancient egypt #egyptology #ancient #pyramids #middle east #history #history memes #childhood #childhood memories #hyperfixation

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads / storygraph

Translation State

space opera, standalone companion to the Ancillary Justice trilogy that follows three characters:

a reluctant diplomat whose dead grandparent left hir an impossible task as inheritance, to track down a fugitive from 200 years ago

an adopted mechanic who wants to learn about the culture he came from

and a young Presger learning to act human and become an intermediary between cultures who realises e might not want the life that’s been laid out for em

their lives collide and they become entangled in interplanetary politics

#Translation State #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #god i love Weird Fuckin Aliens #I think this is my favourite........ #or maybe it's just the culmination of having read all the books now. I do just really like this combination of characters & alien weirdness #ohhh the fish pond in the translator school garden asdjgfjkhskj #reet has some real murderbot energy with his pirate show #obsessed with qven. oh someone's arm was cut off? where's the arm? can i have it?

[ah0yh0y]

finished vol 2 of The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya today

and can i say ITS ON MY SHELF BOTH OF THEM

oh MY GOD

i am literally gesturing to the floor right now its so good

the character relationship THE ACCURACY OF THE MUSLIM REP THE MAIN ROMANCE like tis SO REALLLL

and the mc's faith is front and center and its like not just an aside IT GUIDES WHAT HE DOES

LIKE IT TACKLES ORIENTALISM SO WELL

i started crying in the middle of study my guys its OS GOOD

if i had money i would buy it but like like the first vol is $45 and the second is like $60 something and im too broke for this ISIDSIJDIODI

ANYWAY READ

READ THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL

ITS FREE TOOOOOOO

FEAST YOUR EYES AND YOUR SOUL UPON IT

#ahoys thoughts #ahoy reviewz #ahoy reveiwz #The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya #IM GOING INSANE #THE ART?????? #THE ARTS????? #anyway books with muslim characters withtheire faith fornt and center relaistically that feel real and not just token #MY FAVOURITE TROPE #graphic novel review #ALSO THE SUPPLEMENTALS ARE SO SICKKKKKKKKK #reimena yee #SHES THE PERSON WHO WROTE SEANCE TEA PARTY #AND ILLUSTRATED THE GOD OF AREPO COMIC #ahoy screamz #on my shelf #On My Shelf Books #OMSB

[beaft]

reading the reviews for "detransition baby" and what i find really interesting ("interesting") about them is that all the transphobic ones - of which there are many - assume that there is functionally no boundary between character and author. that is: they believe that every time a character thinks or says something, it is a direct reflection of what the author thinks or wants to say. the protagonist becomes a political mouthpiece. every "problematic" thought she harbours is a damning self-indictment of the author, who was clearly far too stupid to realise how misogynistic she was accidentally being (the possibility that said protagonist was deliberately written as a woman dealing with internalised misogyny is, of course, never mentioned).

i've seen this cropping up a lot lately, and it is interesting ("interesting") how a lot of these TERF talking points are found in both right-wing and left-wing circles. (if you write a toxic character it means you yourself are toxic; if you enjoy dark fiction it means you must secretly want to cause harm; and so on.) there's "cringe culture" to be considered too - don't use those pronouns! no kink at pride! stop writing/drawing stuff i don't like! you're making the rest of us look bad!

more and more queer people are being forced to sanitise themselves in order to avoid scrutiny from both sides of the debate. meanwhile, terfs and right-wingers are eager to pounce on any scrap of evidence that "proves" trans people are all perverts, and we're so desperate not to give them that evidence that we end up erasing the complexity of our own lived experiences in a pathetic rolling-over-and-showing-our-bellies appeal to a group that - let's face it - was never going to respect us anyway, no matter how well we behaved.

#be shh now #transphobia cw #this book wasn't my favourite but my god it was so refreshing to read about trans people being messy and unpleasant and problematic #and that seemed to be the exact thing all the reviewers hated about it lol #sad!

[mycological-mariner]

Two books, two quick little lines which whenever I think about I become hysterical

#posting on main #I’ll rb to my side #but oh my GOD #the carnivorous flamingo line!! #it lives rent free in my head #right next to ‘Jack you have debauched my sloth.’ #whenever I think about them! I get stitches I just start crying with laughter #I say they’re different and they are but there is SOMETHING in the Aubreyad books that’s so present in pTerry’s books #I don’t know what it is it’s like distant cousins or something #anyways this is slightly niche and not really the point of this blog #I mean. I post boats and history and Aubreyad stuff on here but my side blog is all discworld and books and films and fandom bs #nobody who sees this will care but it makes me laugh so I put them up side by side #favourite lines ever in modern western literature #and I am BARELY joking #discworld #men at arms #sam vimes #havelock vetinari #aubreyad #stephen maturin #jack aubrey #aubrey maturin #hms surprise #gnu terry pratchett #it’s just hit me - and this is so cursed but! I’ve made my cake and now I must lie in it #Jack and Ridcully - same energy #I’m already destroying my credibility here so I can’t really explain it! but you see it right?? #come ON #yep I’m so sorry

[xxrat--punkxx]

When ur enemies to friends to ‘besties😳’ to enemies to like MORTAL enemies but then kinda make peace then also still have a thing for one another-

#I should have posted these like ages ago- #whoops #but omfg this is one of my favourite books #it’s so fuckimg good #omfg #it’s so-yeah #so upset that this book doesn’t get any fandom and I’m so bitter abt that #like holy shit this book is good #high historical fantasy with magic and lesbians #I’m so bad at explaining but good god this is a good book #I have never sobbed so hard over an ending #‘readers of Gideon the ninth will love’ #my art #Luca Ancier #Touraine #the unbroken #c l Clark #book #books #the unbroken touraine #the unbroken Luca #magic of the lost

[jenna-louise-jamie]

from the alex rider ask game, ⏳️ and 👤?

-hightensileyoyo

⏳- if you could go back and change one thing, what would it be?

100% i would make yassen survive eagle strike. i think anthony's biggest mistake was killing off yassen after 2 books. and he was only in like 5% of one of them. no wonder why he went back and wrote russian roulette and we all ate it up lmaoo. but yeah, yassen lives. and then he'd have the potential to run into alex again!

👤 - favourite character?

ben daniels. i love ben daniels. i think he's the perfect Guy. he's just like a dude who's sane. a rare thing to be in the alex rider universe. i haven't read nightshade yet but im pretty sure after never say die he's just one of the regular background supporting characters. i hope that's true and if it is I'm so excited to read nightshade.

#the first one i was so tempted to make ian live also #because for some reason i love ian ?? #even though hes like not even a character in the books because stormbreaker started and dude was already long dead #but god i love yassen again for some reason that i can't quite fathom #second question yassen is almost my favourite i think it might depend on the day #but i love ben daniels with my entire soul #AGAIN FOR REASONS im not ready to fathom #thank you so much for the ask !!! #kiss on forehead 4 u #alex rider ask game

[slaughter-books]

Day 31: JOMPBPC: Favourite Books Of The Year

My top 10 favourite books that I loved reading throughout 2023, I love them all! 💜💙💚

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #favourite books of the year #read in 2023 #top 10 books #the chalice of the gods #the sun and the star #rick riordan #mark oshiro #check please #ngozi ukazu #this wicked fate #kalynn bayron #scattered showers #rainbow rowell #chain of thorns #cassandra clare #project hail mary #andy weir #i'm glad my mom died #jennette mccurdy #love in winter wonderland #abiola bello #the darkness outside us #eliot schrefer #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+ #maleficent #i love books