#ReadAgain

[melissa-titanium]

I COMEPTELY FORGOTTO REPLYTO THSI IMSOFCUKING SORY HEOEPAKLR498S5EYH5HNIUT. BU T OH MY GO D  !!!!!!! FUCK. fuck. her finding her grandfathers grave thinking before that moment that Omg he will BREAK ME OUT OF HERE !!!!!  and thne realizing that will .Never ever happen .FUCK. oh my god.  :(  AH8934UI5YHNU  !!!!!

AND  FUUUCKKKK THEM JUST. BULLSHITTING AN ANSWER LIKE uhh well.  so and so blah blah BLAH AND EVYERONE JUST. BELIEVING IT PLEASSEE   SUN COMPLETELY LYING THRU HER TEETH. but also still getting caught up in all of that and like SORT of believing it . .. BUT HOLY SHIT. ANCIENT LORE!??!! THE CULT CAME FROM ANOTHER CAT FROM AGES AGO!??!?!  THAT IS SO FUCKNG AWESOME. im a sucker for stories heavily surrounding the world’s past  ITS SO AWESOME. . .

LARKS OLD HOME  F U  CCCCCK :( SUN DOESNT FUCKIGN CARE just using the place as a body disposal zone :( BUT LORD. YOUR LORE IS JUST SO FUCKING AWESOME GODDDDDDDDDDPLEAAAASE . AND HTANJYOU SO SO OSMUCH !!! FOR HSARING ALLOFTHIS LOR WITHME ILOVE LVOELOVE OCS GUYS ILOVE LROE ILOVE CHARCTERS AND STORIES AND ITS AWESOME THISIS AWOEME.

not rightnow but. soon. if any one is upfor art trades.... i got a bday in october that i gots to get to but i CANNOT .D RAW. TROLLS. OR HUMANOIDS AT ALL so i . need ; h;el459K659JDR09HDR0995IH0. SOON. ihave toomany art trades rightnow but S O ON

[becoming-not-became]

Book

A bookonce readthough cherished can never be readagain with the same awe and intensity but rather becomesa thing of comfort a blanket bound between its covers

[greenhareandblueduckread]

About green hare and blue duck

English

Hi, we’re green hare and blue duck and this is our sad attempt at getting back into reading again.

We’ve been highly addicted to books in our teens, but sadly, somewhere along the way we just… stopped.  After complaining to each other about our lack of enthusiasm, time, and dedication, we decided we’re gonna do something about it. Simply saying “Alright, we’ll start reading more!” didn’t exactly turn out as planned, cause let’s face it, we’re lazy f*cks. Realizing, we need sheer force and a guilty conscience to get our asses up and pick up our passion again, we figured, maybe there’s someone out there with the exact same problem as us. Aaand, we always thought book clubs are kinda cool.

So, we’d like to start 2021 with our very own book club and - with some nudging in the right direction from you guys - we might at least be able read 12 books a year!

After putting some thought into it, we decided we’re gonna do a healthy mix of different genres we enjoyed back in the days, and include some books about/from our recent home countries. That’s why on top of reading English authors, we’ll throw Austrian/German and Finnish ones, into the mix. We’ll read German and English versions and all of our discussions will happen in German and/or English.

To help us with this project, we’re going to have a varying questionnaire, making it easier to compare and discuss our thoughts and experience with each new read.

Basically, we’re ready to go, we just would like some of you to join us on this journey and who knows - maybe help us find a new book or two.

So, if you feel like you want to get into reading again, simply want to connect with someone online, maybe even want to improve your language skills - by all means, we’re not language teachers of any kind - join us! Everybody’s welcome and we’d be thrilled to interact with someone else, besides each other.

As this is our very first book club, we’re bound to mess up the analysing and deducing parts, however, all we want to do is fall in love with reading again!

If you are interested in joining our book club, message us, repost this post with an introduction or just stalk our page from afar.

  Deutsch

Hey, wir sind green hare und blue duck und wir werden hier den traurigen Versuch starten, wieder mit dem Lesen zu beginnen.

Lesen war schon immer eine Leidenschaft von uns und kein Buch war sicher. Doch irgendwann haben wir ein Buch zur Seite gelegt und nie wieder ein neues zur Hand genommen. Wir hätten es immer wieder probiert, doch es blieb beim Versuch. Der Alltag hat überhandgenommen und es ist einfacher den Fernseher anzumachen als ein Buch zur Hand zu nehmen. Tief beschämt und untröstlich über die verschwendete Zeit möchten wir gerne unsere Leidenschaft wieder finden, aber dazu braucht es schon Gruppenzwang und ein schlechtes Gewissen.

Wir haben uns gedacht, wir können ja wohl nicht die einzigen sein, denen es so geht. Außerdem wollten wir immer schon bei einem Buchklub mitmachen.

Also würden wir gerne im Jahr 2021 mit unserem eigenen Buchklub starten! In der Hoffnung, dass wir wenigstens 12 Bücher im Jahr lesen werden!

Nachdem wir uns ein paar Minuten dazu Gedanken gemacht haben, haben wir beschlossen, Bücher aus den Genres zu lesen, die  uns immer schon gut gefallen haben und auch Bücher von österreichischen/deutschen, finnischen und natürlich auch englischen Autor*innen zu lesen. Wir werden die Bücher entweder auf Deutsch oder Englisch lesen, je nach Verfügbarkeit und Interesse und auch in einer der beiden oder beiden Sprachen diskutieren.

Es wird einen variierenden Fragenbogen geben, damit wir einen Anhaltspunkt für die Diskussion haben.

Im Grunde genommen sind wir startklar. Bis auf die Tatsache, dass unser Buchklub noch keine Mitglieder hat.

Also, falls du – so wie wir – gerne wieder zu lesen beginnen möchtest, du einfach Leute suchst, mit denen du online in Kontakt kommen willst oder vielleicht sogar deine Sprachkenntnisse ein wenig auffrischen willst (wir sind keine Lehrerinnen!) dann mach mit! Wir freuen uns über jeden, der/die mitmachen will und Teil unseres kläglichen Versuchs wird.

Da das unser allererster Buchclub ist, werden wir bestimmt ein paar Fehler machen, unsere Analysen und Untersuchungen werden dilettantisch und vor allem lustig werden. Es geht einfach nur darum, den Spaß am Lesen wiederzufinden!

Wenn du mitmachen willst, dann schreib uns, reposte diesen post und/ oder stalke unsere Seite aus sicherer Entfernung, du kannst auch eine Maske tragen, wenn du dich damit sicherer fühlst.

[darkgothicsoul]

#readagain #harrypotter #lapietrafilosofale https://www.instagram.com/p/CTHcrZ0LbBIq-BvI2SOn6IrogSgoOIMm6fLGRk0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tymarcy644]

#Realrap #CapoShit #snapplefacts #readagain https://www.instagram.com/p/CQbUApdgMkpSYyBfeG5bHcc82EF2K8RHEuxitc0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kaushikdavan]

You’ll never know how much a person means to you until you lost them✌️ You’ll never know how much you love a person until you let them go✌️ You’ll never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice ✌️ You’ll never know how much you are loved until you love yourself✌️ All hidden scars of heart will heal, Every pain will fade away soon. With complete faith all hurrdles will end, we will heal🥀 . . . . . . 🌹🌹🌹#kaushik_davan #poetry #feelings #truestory #love#memories 🌹🌹🌹 #tryingtoheal#timechanges #whiskeyxlove 🌹🌹🌹#instagram #loveisbullshit #instadaily #insta#feed#like 🌹🌹🌹#love#share#feel #read #readagain #page 🌹🌹🌹#night#deepthoughts #sensitivecontent #loveyourself🌹🌹🌹 #standup #joke #trending #fail #nevertrust #anyone 🌹🌹🌹 @poemsporn_ @poemxheaven @poetstribe 🌹🌹🌹@wolfypoems @poisonandchoices@poets @saloniscribes @poetsglobe @thepoetics 🌹🌹🌹@rumi.quotes @unerasepoetry @poetsandwriters 🌹🌹🌹 (at ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ғᴇᴇʟɪɴɢs ツ) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNqay08pwz8/?igshid=cr891i4t4o2t

[katsindiebookblog]

I have spent every moment possible Reading this Book, starting on the beach and then every spare time I got... from the first chapter @therealsjmaas had me captivated, my heart has 💔 and repaired, to yet get 💔 again, a truly 🎢 of emotions as I got lost in Crescent City. If you've not picked up this book yet, grab a copy ASAP! #thehouseofearthandblood #crescentcity #sarahjmaas #bestread #readersofinstagram #bookstagram #bookcoverlove #bookshelf #readagain #sosaditsover (at New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLqzXDCApl5/?igshid=1kmmc26mdi4cb

[rbookdiary]

#1 The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

This is Miller's debut novel. She has a Masters in classics and was a Greek and was a Latin teacher for many years, so she knows a thing or two about the world she's creating in the book. It’s won the Orange Prize (now called Women's Prize for Fiction) for it in 2012, a prestigious achievement for a debutante.

The novel, despite its name, is not mainly about Achilles, the Greek hero, but about another little known character whose name was mostly lost in the rustle of the turning pages of Iliad, so to speak: Patroclus. He's portrayed in Iliad as Achilles' distant cousin. 

During the Trojan war, as the story goes, Achilles lays down his sword and refuses to fight owing to a perceived slight from Agamemnon, the Greek commander - and watches in supercilious amusement as the Greek army is routed by the Trojans, led by Hector, in his absence. Patroclus tries to persuade Achilles to fight and, failing, seeks permission to wear Achilles’ armor to the front lines of the Greek army - a trick to dissuade the Trojans from becoming too adventurous. Achilles reluctantly accedes, with the stern instruction that Patroclus will not fight. Patroclus succeeds in his ploy and rallies the Greek army, which beats back the Trojans - but then, he runs into Hector. He is killed.

Later, back in the Greek camp, Achilles goes berserk with fury when he hears the news of Patroclus' death. He finds Hector, kills him, drags the body behind his chariot back to Greek lines. He doesn't come to his senses until Priam, the Trojan king and Hector's father, comes to him to beg for the body. 

So much for Iliad. Achilles is the hero of Iliad, and Patroclus isn't much more than an excuse for setting the scene to showcase Achilles' valor. One could stop at that, and snap the ancient book shut, thoughts thrilling with the deeds of the warriors. But, as I like to imagine, this novelist took her woman's intuition to Iliad, and asked a question: Why would Achilles, the son of a goddess and already the hero of war songs of his day, go berserk at the death of one person? What drove him to the extreme cruelty that he displayed?

Hector in Iliad is no slouch, he's almost on par with Achilles in valor, but on the fateful day he meets Achilles for the final battle, he takes one look at the flaming face of Achilles and sees his nemesis. He then, contrary to all expectation, tells Achilles, 'I will make a pact with you - to pledge that the winner will allow the loser all the proper funeral rituals...', to which Achilles answers terribly, with words that have entered the cliché dictionary: 'There are no pacts between lions and men.' The actual words in Iliad are longer, though the movie Troy is more to the point. So the question the novelist asked was: Why would the death of Patroclus turn Achilles, a chivalrous hero, into a beast? And she answered: it wasn't just another person who got killed. Patroclus and Achilles were lovers.

This was a risky premise, not because it is not plausible - Miller in later interviews has quoted Plato, and other sources, to support this. It was risky because this premise would lead to a gay novel written by a woman.

The books builds into a great story, a very readable one regardless of one’s views on same sex love. The author also achieves the improbable - creating suspense in a story which has been known for centuries. 

[amlitlover]

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly." -- Brave New World's Aldous Huxley, born today in 1894 https://americanliterature.com/author/aldous-huxley/book/brave-new-world/summary

[moscanna]

The power of words. #layers #perspectives #readagain #breathing #reading #life #harperleequotes #goodreads https://www.instagram.com/p/CB7hp1Qox52/?igshid=1n6d78ay71aie

[francisalabama]

#thehobbit #jrrtolkien #capolavoro #readagain #book #booklover #whiletheprincesssleeps https://www.instagram.com/p/B7JKhHkqw4x/?igshid=6rbuy9enw2lj

[juneworks]

The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online

This is so good, I needed to post it somewhere so I could find it to read it again someday.

“Many experts fear uncivil and manipulative behaviors on the internet will persist – and may get worse. This will lead to a splintering of social media into AI-patrolled and regulated ‘safe spaces’ separated from free-for-all zones. Some worry this will hurt the open exchange of ideas and compromise privacy”

Pubbed MARCH 29, 2017

http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/03/29/the-future-of-free-speech-trolls-anonymity-and-fake-news-online/

[patrickassirtoty]

@i_motivaction . . #read #gotoconference #talkwithsuccessfulguys #becurious #readagain #beyourself #beyourownboss #findyourselfamentor #copywhatworks #addvalue #makeyourselfproud #dogsofinstagram #instadaily #followme 🔥🔥🔥 . . 👉check out bio for more details🔥🔥🔥 https://www.instagram.com/p/BxDPyOigw4N/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ci0mkq7dvk6o

[vrujen]

The tiny selves keep building us, only to be left to dry till we become just an echo in someone else’s tale of exploration. . . #red #beetles #insect #leaves #exploration #metaphor #think #readagain #traveller (at Gorumara National Park, Lataguri) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvW2Ud7AIlE/?igshid=1n0p1lo9cf1vc

[missveganbanana]

💕✨💕 #readagain #laotzu #43 https://www.instagram.com/p/BwYqxLzFGdYRSeDx_zf3qCV2n0Me6pwTReSSOI0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=176vkbu6c5zh9

[thedigitalsavvy]

Fears are fake assumptions. #MonaSays #ReadAgain ... Fairy tales, dragons and the truth. (Pic by @theoatmeal)