#BookCommunity

[thoughtkick]

Something beautiful just started 💫

A very special person in my life—my girlfriend—has quietly started her own Bookstagram journey. She’s been in love with books for as long as I can remember, and now she’s decided to share that love with the world. Her page is a cozy little corner full of stories, thoughts, and gentle reflections. 📚 The posts are in German, but the warmth behind them speaks in every language.

If you’d like to stop by and say hi, she’s just getting started: Julis.booktalk on instagram I'm so proud of her. 🌿💛

[aorose-official]

Being a writer will have you rethinking your entire moral compass. Like maybe I am the problem

[forsworned]

I feel like if the boys didn't join the miltary they'd all be blue-collar workers. Like they'd be more than happy to work with their hands and have the thrill of doing dangerous jobs. It's grueling work but someone's gotta do it ;)

Like for take for example, Simon. He's an experienced welder and his hands are almost always soot covered and you're constantly scolding him for it. Scrubbing away at his calloused palms with mechanic's hand soap, getting into all the crevices and cracks. He's smirking down at you while you get to work and glance up at him for a moment, narrowing your eyes at him in a way that sends him chuckling.

He gently cups your face, "so pretty when you're all worked up, lovie." he coos. And you can't help but let your smile fall through the cracks as you pinch his side, sending the both of you into a fit of mirth before he tugs your form flush against his chest, leaving you a flustered, stammering mess.

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[fatimazainab]

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena, 1920.

[thewanderinginn]

New Audiobook Narrator!

The Wandering Inn has a new audiobook narrator joining the adventure! Check out the official announcement from pirateaba https://wanderinginn.com/2025/04/28/new-audiobook-narrator-announcement/ and Andrea https://www.youtube.com/@AndreaParsneauVO/videos Please give a warm welcome to Erin Bennett!

[writergallery]

Follow WriterGallery on Instagram to see more of my work or to buy my books! (Books linked in Instagram bio.) This is an excerpt from ‘Short Stay,’ a poetry collection with a mental illness and psych ward theme.

[athenanfaymont]

On Growth, Craft, and the Right to Say: Yes, Sarah J. Maas Got Better ✍️📚

After I posted about Tamlin’s villain arc — or more precisely, the lack of one — I got a lot of responses. Some were supportive (thank you! 💖), and others were… let’s say passionate in their disagreement. So I thought it was only fair to clarify something:

Yes. I do think Sarah J. Maas improves her writing significantly as her books go on.

And no. That doesn’t mean I hate her or her work — quite the opposite.

🌱 Let’s start at the beginning. A Court of Thorns and Roses is a decent book. Enjoyable, romantic, intriguing enough to keep you turning the pages. But let’s be honest: the character development is inconsistent, the pacing shaky, and the prose is a little flat. The book is structured almost entirely around two major events (Feyre entering the fae world, and Under the Mountain), and everything in between feels like it’s still trying to figure itself out. There is a clear intention to create mystery when she is alone in the palace, but the author is unable to achieve it.

If you don't believe this, read it again and you'll see the HUGE difference in pacing, depth, and intention once the Under the Mountain arc begins. The improvement in the writing and plot is clearly evident.

✨ Fast forward to A Court of Mist and Fury, and suddenly you have layers. Inner monologues that actually hold weight. Character decisions that carry consequence. Trauma handled with more subtlety. Useful dialogue. And writing — actual writing — that feels more fluid, vivid, and intentional. 🌊💫

🧱 By A Court of Silver Flames, we’re deep into themes of mental health, recovery, shame, and desire with a complexity that would’ve felt impossible in the first book. We get to Nesta's arc because Maas is already capable of writing something with that complexity. Before, when she tried (and I have to go back to Tamlin), she wasn’t able to.

This isn’t slander. This is growth. You can love a series and still acknowledge its early flaws. You can be grateful for what it gave you and still wish it had been tighter, smarter, deeper from the beginning.

🌟 SJM didn’t start as a literary genius — few authors do. But what matters is that she got better, that her books are now of higher quality, and that we can enjoy them more fully.

And that’s something to appreciate. 💜📖

[jonathanpongratz]

Book Review: Ophie's Ghosts

  Howdy Bookworms! I can’t believe Black History Month has flown by so quickly. Before the month ends I wanted to read something more fitting for the younger readers out there. That’s why today’s book review is for Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Ireland.  I hadn’t heard much about this book, but I love paranormal books and thought the YA/MG mindset was important to cover. A lot of black history is…

[amazonbooksauthor]

Too stubborn to stop!" "A little rebel’s big lesson." "Will they ever listen?" "Stubbornness meets adventure!" "One child, endless mischief!" "Lessons learned the hard way!" "Determined, daring, unstoppable!" "A fun fight of wills!"

[landfrogs]

[diastrefo]

A measly FOUR DAYS remain until IMMOLATION launches! 🔥

Add the book on Goodreads

[mymadnessisexactly2dayslate]

I've almost finished the secret history & I'm in the mood for books with a similar vibe or that consists of obsession/dark themes. Does anyone have any recs? Please nothing YA.

I do want to read if we were villains however I want to read Shakespeares work before hand.

Off the top of my head some of the books l've read with a similar vibe/ what I'm looking for are These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever, Sweeney Todd By C. Bond (this is a play), Macbeth (a play Ik) & Vicious by V. E. Schwab.

[aorose-official]

Funniest trope to read AND write is when two characters are both highly skilled at things within their group and when alone but when these two in particular are put together alone they lose all brain cells

[moirindeclermont]

🕯 The castle doesn’t sleep. It remembers. Just after dawn, in an old French château, everything softens—except the tension. No names. No spoilers. Just a moment suspended in velvet light, where the air tastes like secrets.

This isn’t just a chapter. It’s the crack in the surface. The calm before Paris. The truth, in its most fragile form.

📖 Chapter out now on Substack. Read it, feel it, don’t blink.

[fatimazainab]

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

[thewanderinginn]

We're hosting a livestream!

Got to https://www.youtube.com/@TheWanderingInn to watch. We're also collecting questions for our guest stars! Have questions on writing? Narrating? Content creation? Dying to ask about a character? Let us know via the link or a comment below!! https://forms.gle/QCZ1W59Rw8rW7T4p8