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Book Recommendations based on your Enneagram, by indepth_mbti on Instagram

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Know what's great? Books. Know what's even better? Free books. I meant to put together this list ages ago and was just reminded of it yesterday, so here's just about every method I know of to (legally) obtain free ebooks and audiobooks. I'll add to this list if I come across any more.

Free Ebooks:

*Librivox - Provides access to audiobooks in the public domain, run by volunteers. Mostly classics.

*Project Gutenberg - Provides access to ebooks in the public domain. Mostly classics.

Digital Public Library of America - Provides access to books in the public domain.

hoopla - Free app that lets you access ebooks and audiobooks available through your library. Requires your library card info.

*Libby - Same concept as hoopla. Run by Overdrive.

Sora - Similar concept as hoopla and Libby but instead it's for schools (requires your school info). Also by Overdrive.

The Palace Project - Another app like Libby and hoopla that provides access to library books. This one also allows you to download books from DPLA right from the app if you don't have a library card/your library is not yet signed up with them. The downside is they don't seem to yet have access to as many libraries as Libby or hoopla.

*Riveted by Simon Teen - Provides access to full ebooks and extended excerpts of popular YA books. The books available switch out monthly so you'll have to read in the given time frame.

*Tor.com Newsletter - Weekly emails highlighting their blog, scifi/fantasy news, and short fiction. Occasionally they pop in a freebie that you can download from book depository (I got Gideon the Ninth this way). Just make sure you download the book before the deadline.

*Bookbub - Newsletter that emails you daily ebook deals curated to your tastes, often includes 1-2 free ebooks in most of its daily recs. Also a great way to discover lesser known books.

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*Chirp - Newsletter that emails daily audiobook deals. I've never seen a free audiobook here but I figured they'd still be worthwhile to mention. Prices usually range from .99c to ~$4.99. Must download the Chirp app to listen, but it's a great alternative to Audible.

*currently using these ones myself

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1st December

I can’t believe it’s already December, this year has gone incredibly quickly. For today, it’s your favourite line from the Sherlock Holmes canon. 

This was very hard for me to pick, but I loved Sherlock’s line to Watson in The Hound of the Baskervilles:

‘I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.’

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“Watson,” said he, “if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ‘Norbury’ in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.”

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Yellow Face (1893)

~ Sherlock - The Six Thatchers (S04E01)

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Indeed, if I may make a full confession to you, I was quite convinced that the letter from Meiringen was a hoax, and I allowed you to depart on that errand under the persuasion that some development of this sort would follow.

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Final Problem (1893)

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watson and mary

watson and holmes

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Holmes with his first-class burgling kit on the way to break into someone's house, after declaring he'd make a great criminal:

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~ Sherlock - The Sign of Three (S03E02)

It was one of those dramatic moments for which my friend existed.  

~ JW ~  The Valley Of Fear (1915)

“Watson here will tell you that I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.”

~ SH ~ The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (1893)

“My old friend here will tell you that I have an impish habit of practical joking. Also that I can never resist a dramatic situation.”

~ SH ~ The Adventure Of The Mazarin Stone (1921)

Holmes laughed. “Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life,” said he. “Some touch of the artist wells up within me, and calls insistently for a well-staged performance.”

~  The Valley Of Fear  (1915)

A flush of colour sprang to Holmes’s pale cheeks, and he bowed to us like the master dramatist who receives the homage of his audience. It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

~ JW ~ The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (1904)

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Hi I hope you are well! I may be late to the party on this one, but I noticed a brilliant detail in your writing and wanted to give you props! :). Howling nights: “You know,” said Remus loudly…. “I think I found another Boggart yesterday”…..“Where?” asked James.“Crammed into the grandfather clock on the sixth floor.” POA Prof Lupin: "Boggarts like dark, enclosed spaces. Wardrobes, the gap beneath beds, the cupboards under sinks — I've even met one that had lodged itself in a grandfather clock."

These messages make me so happy, thank you for reading with such care ❤️❤️❤️

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Oscar Wilde, De Profundis // @i-wrotethisforme // Jorge Louis Berges // @smokeinsilence //@viridianmasquerade //Jorge Louis Berges // @honeytuesday // Kaveh Akbar // F. Scott Fitzgerald // AKR //Olivie Blake, from “Alone With You in the Ether” // Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrimage

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Thats just how older siblings are. I constantly talk about my sweet precious innocent baby sister who has never done anything wrong in her life and deserves the world and I will kill you if you do anything to her but when people ask how old she is I have to be like. Shes three years younger than me and incredibly sarcastic. But shes a sweet little baby TO ME.

but in this very ask you admit there is a difference between your perception and what your sibling is actually like. dean doesn’t have that awareness. he legitimately thinks sam is like that and then gets mad at sam for not being like that

because they are not normal siblings they are so twisted and fucked up and that is how i like them your honour

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It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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It’s probably a good thing sam never became a lawyer because he would be a terrible person to have in the legal system

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my identity as a person is an illusion, I am what you perceive me to be. I might be everything and at the same time nothing. but who am I for myself? the dumb yet knowing teenager or a void wrapped in a lustrous smile?

nocturne, excerpt from my journal

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I just have to say that. it would be amazing to me if every translation I read was extensively footnoted by the translator. I know this is not how everyone wants to experience a translation but I would like it and isn’t that what’s important

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SPN 14x04 Mint Condition

This isn’t a “poor Dean doesn’t have friends” post, but… I think he could really use a friend who is like this. Not only someone who’d nerd out with Dean over the things Dean loves so much, but also because of the “No questions asked.” Someone who, seeing that Dean’s feeling down, would just hang out with him and be there for him without immediately trying to make Dean talk about it. Let Dean work through things at his own pace.

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“But I protected myself , I surround myself with books, their silence does not demand anything, they exist ,they are alive,they are for anyone to open, unlike us human beings.”

-Bo Carpelan