#lectophile

[whatmthinking]

Bibliophile

A person who loves books is called a bibliophile. The term comes from the Greek words biblio, meaning "book", and philos, meaning "friend". Bibliophiles are often known for having large collections of books, and enjoying browsing through libraries and used bookstores.

Other terms for a book lover include:

Bookworm: A person who loves and frequently reads or collects books

Bibliolater: A person who is overly devoted to books

Bookman: Another term for a person who loves books

Lectophile: A person who finds delight in the world of books and stories

Reader: A person who reads, especially for pleasure

One of my personal favourite author is Khaled Hosseini. His books The Kite Runner and The Mountains Echoed have touched my heart. If you like to read some of the books you can go to oceanwavepdf can download free PDFs.

Happy Reading!

[lectophile]

Me making a post: type, type, type, la, la, la. OOH I didn’t even realize that until I wrote what I just did. Wow, I wish I was in high school again, my analyses skills are off the charts. Damn Ms. [insert English teacher’s name here] would be so proud. Should I tell her to read [insert book name here] so we can analyze together?

Me finishing the posts and adding tags: *types furiously so that I can get my post out to fellow readers ASAP* FCK WHY CAN’T I GO FASTER COME ONNN

[princessofmerchants]

[Edited to add image tag: Rules: Name 7 comfort films and tag 7 people]

I was tagged by @howling-mercy ❤️ (and I'm drunj so I'm throwing together this post and hoping it sticks! 😂)

Shakespeare in Love

Lion King

Frozen (and Frozen II)

Moana

LotR (like the whole damned trilogy extended versions)

mayyyyyybe HP: Half Blood Prince (it's been ages but the arc is deep in my soul so I'm betting the movie could be a comfort flick at this point🤷🏻‍♀️)

gosh I'm sure I'm missing a million movies that would give me comfort bc I barely watch movies anymore with kiddos monopolizing our TV but maybe... The King's Speech? saw it in theaters on a date with My Guy and I'm guessing revisiting it would give me comfort?

Let's tag some people, from both (❗️) my fandoms bc why the hell not on a drunjin Friday night? @arielle-reads @scullymurphy @the-bookish-deer @the-static-hum @lectophile @roseharpermaxwell @duskandstarlight (but my gods if a tagging meme thingy is not something you want to be doing at this time I'm TOTALLY down and take this tag as a signal I'm thinking of you and no action required at this time❤️💜💚😘)

[princessofmerchants]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CURATED COMPILATION! Also this? —

(I'm convinced that the caudron only tried to attack him in this scene because of her, I don't know why)

I can totally see this, and yet another example of how Extra (TM) the Cauldron truly is 👀😂 cc: @lectophile

I'm just gonna leave this right here...

"Cassian was sizing up Nesta, a gleam in his eyes that I could only interpret as a warrior finding himself faced with a new, interesting opponent."

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“It’s been a few centuries since someone got under Cassian’s skin that easily. Too bad they’re both inclined to kill the other.”

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"....He studied Nesta for a long moment. She was still glaring at the queens, her eyes lined with tears—tears of rage and despair, from that fire that burned her so violently from within. When she finally noticed Cassian, she looked up at him.

His voice was rough as he said, “Five hundred years ago, I fought on battlefields not far from this house. I fought beside human and faerie alike, bled beside them. I will stand on that battlefield again, Nesta Archeron, to protect this house—your people. I can think of no better way to end my existence than to defend those who need it most.”

I watched a tear slide down Nesta’s cheek. And I watched as Cassian reached up a hand to wipe it away.

She did not flinch from his touch...."

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"...She didn't know what to do with it,that rage.It still burned and hunted her, still made her want to ride and roar and red the world in to pieces. She felt it all — too keenly, too sharply. Hated and cared and loved dread, more than other people, she sometimes thought. Could sift between them all in a matter of moments, like she was trying a different set of clothes, and no one could tell or care.

Except him. He could see it, feel it.

That first afternoon, he'd looked at her— not at the face and the body that human men marked, but her— and he had seen at all. She'd wanted to hurt him for it before he could reveal those things to everyone else...."

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"...The guards shoved my sister into the Cauldron in a single movement.

My cry hadn’t finished sounding before Elain’s head went under.

She did not come up.

Nesta’s screaming was the only sound. Cassian blindly lurched toward it—toward her, moaning in pain."

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“Why do you bother, Cassian?”

... “Because I can’t stay away.”

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“Why?”

Nesta’s eyes shot right to his face. She spoke quietly to me, to all of us, even as she held Cassian’s gaze as if he were the only one in the room. “By the end of this war, I want them dead. The king, the queens—all of them. Promise me you’ll kill them all, and I’ll help you patch up the wall. I’ll train with her”—a jerk of her chin to Amren—“I’ll go to the Hewn City or whatever it is … I’ll do it. But only if you promise me that.”

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...And then Nesta began screaming. Not in pain. But a name. Over and over.

“CASSIAN.”

Amren reached for her, but Nesta roared, “CASSIAN!”

She scrambled to her feet, as if she’d leap into the skies.

Her body lurched, and she went down, heaving again.

A figure shot from the Illyrian ranks, spearing for us, flapping hard, red Siphons blazing—

...The earth seemed to shudder in response.

No—not in response to her. In terror of the thing that erupted from Hybern’s army.

...Cassian was halfway to us when the Cauldron’s blast hit the Illyrian forces.

...Ashes rained down upon our foot soldiers.

Nesta had known. She gaped up at me, terror and agony on her face, then scanned the sky for Cassian, who flapped in place, as if torn between coming for us and charging back to the scattering Illyrian and Peregryn ranks. She’d known where that blast was about to hit.

Cassian had been right in the center of it.

Or would have been, if she hadn’t called him away.

(I'm convinced that the caudron only tried to attack him in this scene because of her, I don't know why)

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“Something is wrong,” Nesta insisted.

“I’m not doubting you feel that way but … If none of the others are picking it up—”

“I am not like the others.” Her throat bobbed. “We need to leave.”

“I can send you back to Velaris, but we have things to discuss here—”

“I don’t care about me, I—”

The door opened, and Cassian stalked in, face grave. The sight of the wings, the Illyrian armor in this opulent, pink-filled room planted itself in my mind, the painting already taking form, as he said, “What’s wrong.”

He studied every inch of her. As if there were nothing and no one else here, anywhere.

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Cassian stepped in Nesta’s path when she tried to walk past him. Put a tan, callused hand on her forehead. She shook off the touch, but he gripped her wrist, forcing her to meet his stare. “Any one of those human pricks makes a move to hurt you,” he breathed, “and you kill them.”

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Nesta stood by the nearest tent, an empty water bucket between her feet. Her hair a damp mess atop her mud-flecked head. Watching us emerge, grim-faced—

“He’s fine. Healed and awake,” I said quickly.

Nesta’s shoulders sagged a bit.

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Your sister came immediately when I explained what we needed, Rhys said. I think seeing Cassian hurt convinced her not to pick a fight today.

Or convinced my sister to pick a fight with someone else entirely.

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This are nessian's scenes that I don't see a lot of people talking about and... they're beautiful.

I love and miss my babies very much.

[lectophile]

Okay, but owning the original paperback/hardcover edition of a now very popular book is a different, more elite kind of drip.

Like whose got the original Lunar Chronicles series? And who went to Barnes and Noble years later and got upset that to get the new cool book cover art they’d have to get the whole series again. I don’t have that kind of money yet.

[lectophile]

Think what your fire might do if you set it free.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

Please, they cried, on bony knees, it wasn’t our fault, the sun itself was late.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

At my father’s feet, the whole world was made of gold.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

When you are late to reading a popular series and you find the love interest before they’re a love interest.

Hello, Cardan. It’s nice to finally meet you.

[lectophile]

Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

However gold he shines, do not forget his fire.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[misswonderflower]

Thank you, dear @notmewrongbitch for the tag!

These are not in a specific order. And most probably these are nonexistent fandoms here. Sorry but not sorry.

1. Nesta (ACOTAR) 2. Ethel (Vango) 3. Tatyana (Onegin) 4. Liu (Turandot) 5. Aibileen (The Help) 6. Éowyn (TLOR) 7. Sansa (GOT) 8. Scarlett (Gone with the Wind) 9. Éponine (Les Misérables) 10. Elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice)

I am tagging: @duskandstarlight @ladynestaarcheron @unhealthyfanobsession @queennestaarcheron @ncssian @bliuc @lectophile @flowerflamestars @acosfisfeysandpropaganda @nestasgalpal

TAG GAME

LIST YOUR 10 FAVORITE FEMALE CHARACTERS FROM 10 DIFFERENT FANDOMS THEN TAG 10 PEOPLE

I was tagged by the lovely @kymbersmith-90 except number 1 the rest are in no particular order!

Emma Swan from Once Upon a Time.

Claire Fraser from Outlander.

Feyre Archeron from ACOTAR.

Elain Archeron from ACOTAR.

Nesta Archeron from ACOTAR.

Aelin Ashryver Galathynius from TOG.

Lysandra from TOG.

Arya Stark from GOT.

Audrey Rose Wadsworth from SJTR.

Lexie Grey from Grey’s Anatomy

Special mentions: Manon and Elide from TOG, Queen Anne and Constance from The Musketeers, Brianna Fraser from Outlander, Olivia Dunham from Fringe, Katherine Beckett from Castle, Dianna Bishop from ADOW, Lydia Martin from TW, Molly Dawes from Our Girl.

Tagging this beautiful people (I’m tagging more as I answer more lol): @silver-flames @suelky @azriiel @chthonicgardens @hacawijo @juusworld5728 @feyrearcherons @insulindsay @queenringer @ladylochan @silverlinedeyes @rhyssescups @izzyhavilliard @psychee92 @leiaamidala

[lectophile]

You may say they are shaped like us, but only as the worm is shaped like the whale.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

I have posted more this month than I have the last four years.