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DROP EVERYTHING NOW!!! The Speak Now (Taylor's Version) back cover has been revealed along with 6 songs from the Vault. Pre-order at store.taylorswift.com! 💜💜💜

📷: Beth Garrabrant

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my main hobby is relating taylor swift songs to book characters, and in my opinion she wrote

- ‘cornelia street’, ‘the lucky one’, ‘dress’ and ‘i know places’ for evelyn and celia

-‘ivy’ and ‘false god’ for eadez and sabran ix

-‘my tears ricochet’ and ‘getaway car’ ‘out of the woods’ for henry and camilla

-‘tis the damn season’, ‘the lakes’, ‘coney island’ and ‘haunted’ for francis and richard

-‘mad woman’ about genya safin

-‘right where you left me’ for addie larue

-‘long live’ and ‘it’s nice to have a friend’ for percy and annabeth

-‘afterglow’, ‘seven’, ‘state of grace’ and ‘the very first night’ for ronan and adam

-‘lover’ and ‘fearless’ for blue and gansey

-‘the archer’ for noah czerny

-‘mirrorball’, ‘this is me trying’, ‘peace’ and ‘don’t blame me’ for andrew and neil

-‘it’s nice to have a friend’, ‘you are in love’, ‘forever winter’ and ‘ours’ for will and nico

-‘cardigan’ and ‘untouchable’ about remus and sirius

-‘paper rings’ and ‘london boy’ about james and lily

-‘illicit affairs’ and ‘wonderland’ about roma & juliette cai

-‘exile’, ‘the 1’ ‘tis the damn season’ (again), ‘the way i loved you’, ‘all you had to do was stay’ and ‘back to december’ for rory gilmore and jess mariano (i know theyre not book characters but i love and miss them so much)

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confirmo.

finished the secret history and damn now i get why some people make it their whole personality that shit’s wild

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These covers 👌🏼

Some penguin classic covers I made of some of my favorite books.

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i see it now…

bunny corcoran in the secret history

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If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.

You leave the same impression

Of something beautiful, but annihilating.

— Sylvia Plath, The Rival

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“She was the mistress of all the novels, the heroine of all the dramas, the vague “she” of all the volumes of verse.”

— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1857 (tr. by Eleanor Marx-Aveling)

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Madame Bovary (2000)

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“She was the mistress of all the novels, the heroine of all the dramas, the vague “she” of all the volumes of verse.”

— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1857 (tr. by Eleanor Marx-Aveling)

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Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Trans. Eleanor Marx Aveling)

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Con Bella 🤍♥️

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Reading Fall of Giants by Ken Follet. I dunno why I love so much doing this kind of things. Call me nerd.

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Two Can Kepp a Secret by Karen M. McManus

The main characters on the story are Ellery and Malcolm, whose brother was the main suspect in a crime that occurred 5 years ago. Due to their mother's drug problems, Ellery and her twin brother Ezra move to their mana's hometown. Long ago, when her mother was in her senior year of high school, her mother's twin sister was the first young woman at Echo Ridge to disappear. When they arrive in the city, it is soon threatened again.

As well as “One of Us is Lying, this book was great! I liked the characters, especially the twins, Ellery, and Ezra. In addition to the detective plot, the story also offers us a nice romantic line, which does not hurt at all.

The story kept me hooked and I was able to finish it quickly. It is exciting and mysterious from start to finish. I didn't guess who the killer was, and I couldn't think of why. And the last sentence left me in shock. I loved the ending.

If you like detective stories, I definitely recommend this book

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The Guest List by Lucy Foley

➖The wedding party of the year.

➖An unexpected death.⁣

➖Thirteen suspects.⁣

At the beginning of the story, we are told that a murder has been committed, but we don’t know who has been murdered or who is the killer. As the story unfolds, the puzzle is added piece by piece and the suspicions change from chapter to chapter. The story is very entertaining and the twists are really exciting; during the whole time you wonder who has died and who is the killer and why, I actually was suspicious of everybody. I enjoyed this read a lot and highly recommend it.

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The Whisper Man by Alex North

“If you leave a door half-open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken . . . “

Until he was finally caught, the killer was known as ‘The Whisper Man’.

Of course, an old crime need not trouble Tom and Jake as they try to settle in to their new home.

Except that now another boy has gone missing. And then Jake begins acting strangely.

He says he hears a whispering at his window .

Oh, what a book this was! Crime and a bit of horror in a single story worth reading. The plot is great, it kept me in suspense and constant tension, not knowing what would happen next. I was afraid and wanted to continue reading/listening to this book at the same time. This story has a slight supernatural element, which some may not like, but in my opinion, this is what makes it interesting and intriguing.

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Ready for a new read... The Alice Murders by Guillermo Martinez

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Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

I think we all must have heard about "Jack the Ripper”, a serial killer who killed at least 5 prostitutes in the Whitechapel district of London in 1888 and has never been identified. This book places us in middle of the events.

I liked the heroes in this story and the way the author tells it, the location descriptions were well done, from the streets of London to Uncle Jonathan’s laboratory. The book has real photos from the 19th century that add authenticity to the story and make the monsters even more real. Plus, we’ve got very detailed descriptions of the murder scenes. Another thing I enjoyed was that this story includes authentic letters that the Ripper sent to newspapers. I’ve always been interested in this character, the Ripper, and I think that the theory presented by the author, worked pretty well with the characters she created.

Reasons to read Stalking Jack The Ripper:

- a great main character

- the author's writing style

- detailed descriptions of autopsies, murder scenes (an incredible research)

- amazing atmosphere of Victorian times

- a wonderful duo - Audrey and Thomas

- an excellent topic (the identity of Jack the Ripper)

- a very subtle romantic plot