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This is not your average Christmas tree.🎄

St Pancras station in London features a book tree this year where you can sit down and listen to an audiobook while you wait for your train.

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"Here I was, the father of death, bringing life into this world as if I had any right."

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If anything happens to Rambo I’m going to kill everyone in this room and then myself. He’s perfect your honor

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What if I was the last living human...and you were a human-killing robot...and we were both boys....... 🙊🙊🙈🙈🙈

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I am obsessed with the way that 'home' has such a heavy emphasis in TJ Klune's books. It's finding a home or creating a home and having that home be your found family.

The House in the Cerulean Sea had that titular house in the sea but it became Linus's home with his magical family.

Under the Whispering Door had its tea shop where Wallace found a place to be.

In the Lives of Puppets has literal tree houses and an odd little family of robots and their human.

Green Creek found home in a pack and I could go on.

Each book is just so full of home and family and I love it.

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Just read In The Lives Of Puppets by T.J Klune. I love Nurse Ratched so much, and I never expected to find myself emotionally attached to a roomba with anxiety. Also, does anyone else think Victor is autistic-coded, or is that just me?

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me. me when a poem says something ive felt before

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“Most letters begin with a direct address to the reader.”

(This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone)

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“Books are too expensive” -> GET A LIBRARY CARD!!!

“E-books are too expensive” -> GET A LIBRARY CARD!!!

“Audiobooks are too expensive” -> GET A LIBRARY CARD!!!

“Video games are too expensive” -> GET A LIBRARY CARD!!!

“Subscriptions to magazines/newspapers are too expensive” -> GET A LIBRARY CARD!!!

For real, get a library card for your local public library and you will have almost unlimited access to all kinds of media for free. Libraries also often have many different kinds of classes you can take, often for free or very cheap. Oh, and don’t forget the computers and internet access you can also use for free.

In conclusion, yet a library card.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARY!!!

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IF YOU RUN A BOOKLR ACCOUNT PLEASE INTERACT WITH THIS POST I WANT TO FOLLOW YOU!

sorry for yelling I needed to get ur attention. Anyways if u are a booklr account or know of some amazing booklr accounts please tell me their @. (Also if ur booklr is not ur main drop the @)

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Just read The Seep. I liked the premise of this book, and particularly the prologue and epilogue (the ‘how to host a dinner party’ parts). I felt as though some aspects could have been explored a lot more; the worldbuilding could have been in greater depth and there could have been more room for character growth. However, it was also joyously strange, a lot happier than most things I tend to read these days, and quite solarpunk, and I really liked the quote: “Eventually, the conversation will flow to other things—typically, to The Past and How Great It Was, Even Though We Didn’t Know It at the Time, and The Future, that shimmering, mercurial beast, constantly breaking our hearts.”

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How have we never met before? they asked again and again, but what they were really saying was, How have I only just begun to love you?

-The Seep by Chana Porter

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“the seep” by chana porter is just uhm… alien-entity-drug queer cyborg/furry transformative utopia asking whats the meaning of life actually and what does it mean to be human? i read it in 1 day its so so good

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Books Read in 2022: The Seep by Chana Porter

“Eventually, the conversation will flow to other things—typically, to The Past and How Great It Was, Even Though We Didn’t Know It at the Time, and The Future, that shimmering, mercurial beast, constantly breaking our hearts.”

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just read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. this book was really something. immersive, traumatic, kind of melancholy—there was so much contrast between the almost idyllic childhood and the dark reality that lay behind it, but also a sense of the inevitable—even when the characters tried to change their situation, I kind of knew nothing would come of it; you could kind of feel their powerlessness, and that was what made it so heartbreaking. i Will be thinking about this book for the next several months.

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I really do just read books and go wow I’ll never recover

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initial thoughts upon finishing Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (I want to write a proper review but I really just have to say a few things):

it’s a really quiet novel, fuelled by tension and beautiful prose (this is my first Ishiguro and I don’t really know why it took me so long to pick it up!!) — the elements would tell you it’s a dystopian novel, and it sure is, but I saw it more as a commentary on the human condition positioned against the backdrop of a cruel world (how else could I describe it) where children can only keep their innocence for so long; and once it’s lost, where does it go? and in whose hands does it fall? I’ve read reviews that say it’s lacking action for something marketed as dystopian, but I think the dystopian elements were only there to provide structure as well as to serve as an overarching device to show that it’s only a matter of time before this innocence is taken away, hence the title. 

and I can’t stop thinking about Tommy and everything he possibly represents: repressed grief, anger, loneliness and a yearning for love — just the kind of innocence children have. he is often referred to in the novel as someone with “the bad temper” and I don’t think that’s fair — and this is neither on Ishiguro nor the novel itself, but on the way people like Tommy are perceived as in real life. these repressed feelings are often masked as temper and it happens. which is very very sad, and unfair.

anyway I’m so so sad I want to cry this was a really beautiful novel and I’m glad I took my time with it! definitely recommend if you’re into highly character-driven novels.