#reading tag

[steelycunt]

a paperback book isnt alive until you break its spine btw like a long slumbering animal being carefully roused it actually needs you to do that like when you click your knuckles. for your paperback book the breaking of its spine is like the first stretch against your pillow in the morning

#have seen people online before say they dont open their paperback books past 45 degree angles so as not to break the spine which is crazy to #me r u afraid someones going to see your books and think they look like youve read them. you are upsetting the book when you dont #break its spine to read all its contents and not even do it that one favour to make the book more comfy youre making it so so sad #also make peace with a book with a broken spine or a bit of wear and tear so that you can start buying books secondhand instead of #off amazon maybe idk #reading tag

[deanmarywinchester]

“baru cormorant should be at the club” baru cormorant WAS at the club and it almost got her arrested for gay sex she didn’t even have

#saw a silly post. baru cormorant nightmare at the club <3 #my posts #reading tag

[headphonemouse]

"Dead wife Kim Dokja" this "dead wife Lee Seolhwa" that THE REAL DEAD WIFE WAS NA BORI

#reading tag #orv

[punctuation-completionist]

here are some fun (ish) facts i learned today while reading snails & monkey tails: a visual guide to punctuation & symbols!

the abbreviation of pound to lb is because the word libra pondo is where the word for pound comes from and lb is short for libra

this is also why this -> £ is the sign for pound if i understand correctly

the letter w is (was?) an orthographic ligature just like the letter œ or æ

not only that but the ampersand is a ligature of the letters e and t (though you can't really see it anymore) because et was latin for and

the word ampersand comes from the phrase, "and per se and" and it in fact... was originally a mondegreen (not as cool as that jimi hendrix one though)

ampersand in french is esperluette which comes from the phrase "es per lou et" in old french, aka "c'est pour le et" which means "this is for the and"

the ampersand used to kinda be a letter? like it used to be in alphabet songs?

the plus sign is also a simplification of et

an asterisk can be used to signify birth date, as well as the dagger being able to signify death date

a single dagger can be called an obelisk and a double dagger can be called a diesis

the obelisk and asterisk are the origins of the names for the characters astérix and obélix? or maybe they just inspired them? wild

the reason we indent at the beginnings of paragraphs is because originally space was left for people to put a pilcrow to indicate the start of the paragraph but then even after we lost the pilcrow the indent still stays

at sign is the worst word for the thing possible. english is slacking. it's very sad

some of these may have been obvious but i thought they were interesting. also, you should really check out this book the whole "visual guide" thing is super cool. it's a good book.

#original posts #not counting #punctuation #reading tag

[catastrxblues]

holly jackson really goes around ending her books with unanswered messages/letters huh

#can’t wait to see the one for rachel price #it’s going to be devastating oh my god i can see it already #and i’m not sure if i can handle it #holly jackson #a good girls guide to murder #as good as dead #pipravi #redarthur #five survive #agggtm #reading tag #nadirants

[epigonoi]

girls when book 6 of the iliad </3

#that one post that's like the love was there but it wasn't enough. it didn't save anyone . there were too many forces against it. #but it matters that the love was there ..... #this might be my last straw #andromache #hector #the iliad #hector of troy #tagamemnon #reading tag #fil.txt

[herigo]

#book photography #books #reading #bookstagram #booklover #booklr #books & libraries #books and reading #reading list #reading challenge #reading recommendations #reading community #reading tag #bookworm #new books #book blog #bookish #book review #book quotes #bookblr #book #books books books #photograph #photography #photografy #beautiful photos #photoshop #photoshoot #my photos #nature

[words-after-midnight]

I'm currently studying booktok. Some things I've observed so far:

- at least 4-5 videos recommending one of the worst thrillers I've read in recent years

- someone unironically recommending the weird stepfamily romance I saw a lengthy youtube crit of the other day

- a video of a girl reading the end section of a little life on an airplane (?!?!) and having my EXACT reaction (ugly snot sobbing)

- soooo much coho, sjm, ali hazelwood and leigh bardugo, which is more or less in line with the #booktok table at yours truly's local indigo

- a few trend formats that actually look kinda fun and a decent way to get recs (eg. "5 most [insert here] books I've read this year")

#y'all weren't kidding about the amount of coho and sjm stuff jfc lmao #booktok #reading tag #*pensively takes notes* i see... #writeblr

[padawankestis]

Clown Shoes Squeaking

#funniest line in the book I laughed so loud my dog turned around to stare at me #padawan spoilers #star wars #obi wan kenobi #star wars padawan #reading tag

[belleandsaintsebastian]

just started my annual little women reread and it is just so immensely comforting and lovely to find the march sisters every year back in their little living room lamenting winter and a lack of presents <3 no matter what happens i can find them there !!!

#reading tag #little women

[steelycunt]

mutuals if we were both insomniac-suffering teens living in an old factory building together in a fictional virginian town and you awoke from a fitful sleep to discover you had extracted a magical wooden box capable of translating languages from your dream and into our physical reality and then you left your bedroom to show me it and found me sitting on the floor making a waist-high model of our town out of recycled packaging materials would you. go and get orange juice with me yes or no

#sickening fucking interaction #reading tag #trc #also would we kiss. do you think

[deanmarywinchester]

the empire’s most genetically perfect beautiful woman: [nude and posing and showing off and talking about the figure of the seductress in art]

baru: [started making a metaphor about finance and got so hard she got nauseous] i think i hauve Kettling

#she is so <3 #my posts #baru cormorant #reading tag

[headphonemouse]

#orv #orv spoilers #reading tag #the reason i think of it this way is due to my time in the scum vil fandom when i read a meta post that was like 'sure scum vil is about sq #but the setting and the characters lbh especially all stemmed from airplane and lbh was an author self insert so any analysis of lbh #indirectly also applies to airplane and the major themes of abandonment and childish attempts at self fulfillment came directly from #airplane's neglected childhood' #or something like that #what im saying is its cumpl@ne all the way down

[chamerionwrites]

"An ancient English law made it a crime to witness a murder or discover a corpse and not raise a 'hue and cry.' But we live in a world of corpses, and only about some of them is there a hue and cry."

--Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

#reading tag #history #imperialism #cultures of dissociation #my posts #it is v hard to isolate quotes from this book because like all good writing the whole is greater than the sum of its parts #(also bc much of it is quite grim) #but ultimately my casementblogging is just an elaborate book rec #for a book which is only tangentially about him anyway. correctly so because the story is much bigger than that.

[catastrxblues]

i couldn’t find the artist but this is the pinterest post i used! please do tell me if you know so i can credit them

#also sorry if my scribblings offend you (lie) #don't know if anyone have done this but i just have to make it since i haven't seen any <3 #the secret history #tsh #henry winter #richard papen #reading tag #nadinee.txt

[epigonoi]

ngl these go really hard

#from shadi bartsch's aeneid and emily wilson's odyssey #odysseus #the odyssey #the aeneid #reading tag #fil.txt