#— knives’ library

[baejax-the-great]

My brother died very suddenly yesterday.

He was the kind of person who always had dozens and dozens of friends everywhere he went because he was easy to talk to and funny and treated people with respect, and his friends ranged in class, race, age, social ability, introversion and extroversion--no matter who you were, he could and would befriend you.

He would scold me for not asking him for help when I needed it, and he would mean it. He taught me to tip well. He loved helping people. He played practical jokes on the new kids at work, including getting one guy to "chop flour" because the flour they had in the kitchen was "too coarse."

He introduced me to some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life. He would always help with a recipe that wasn't working. He would tell me what to buy my foodie friends for their birthdays, and he never got it wrong. He loved meat and whiskey but also wine and fruit and he got me to eat beets even because he knew how to make anything good.

Mostly, he thought that people were all deserving of respect and decency. He was outspoken on this. For all that his friends ranged across demographics, he didn't tolerate anyone being hateful around him. But even then, he was nice about it. He would try to get people to come around to his side. He saw the good in people.

And he was happy. He had finally quit chewing tobacco and managed to stay off it for three years. He had a girlfriend he really liked. The pandemic had put him out of work for over a year, but he was back at his job and doing well and he liked it. He was good at it. And it's complete bullshit that he's gone.

[darlingdeathx]

I sat with my anger long enough until it told me its real name is grief. I’m not a whole person, and I don’t think I will ever be. Parts of me died in the house I grew up in, and I visit them in dreams. When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives. Your anger is the part of you that knows your mistreatment and abuse are unacceptable. Your anger knows you deserve to be treated well, and with kindness. Anger is important. It needs to be expressed, acted out and vocalized. When it doesn’t, it begins to manifest, to rage.

~ C.S. Lewis

[thesmartartslibrary]

[pekodayz]

idk i guess I gave one squeak. im not putting myself thru this anymore (will)

[camelspit]

christopher wolfe the only character ever

[rockislandadultreads]

Book Recommendations: For Fans of… Knives Out 

Did you enjoy the newest Knives Out mystery, Glass Onion? Here are some read-alikes you may enjoy!

Secrets of the Nile by Tasha Alexander 

Lord Bertram Deeley, a renowned amateur British collector of antiquities is entertaining his closest friends at a lavish cruise up the Nile to his home at Luxor when he suddenly collapses after offering a welcome toast, a victim of the lethal poison cyanide. Who amongst this group of his nearest and dearest would want to kill their generous host: an archeologist whose dig Deeley was funding until he suddenly withdrew support? A powerful politician whose career Deeley had secretly destroyed? A dyspeptic aristocratic English spinster whose hired travelling companion seems determined to protect her employer? Or even the formidable Mrs. Hargreaves, Lady Emily’s mother-in-law, who may have spurned the advances of Lord Deeley when they were both younger? A key clue may lie with several ancient ushabtis, exquisite three-thousand-year-old sculptures that played a role in yet another murder in Ancient Egypt, a crime with a very real link to Lord Deeley’s death. Lady Emily and Colin gather their suspects together to reveal the identity of a killer whose motive is as shocking as it is brilliant.

This is the 16th volume in the “Lady Emily Ashton Mysteries” series. 

The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith 

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult - the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division. These are their stories.

The first case: the small matter of a man stabbed in the back of the knee. Who would perpetrate such a crime and why? Next: a young woman's imaginary boyfriend goes missing. But how on earth do you search for someone who doesn't exist? And in the final investigation: eerie secrets that are revealed under a full moon may not seem so supernatural in the light of day. No case is too unusual, too complicated, or too, well insignificant for this squad to solve.

The team: Ulf “the Wolf” Varg, the top dog, thoughtful and diligent; Anna Bengsdotter, who's in love with Varg's car (and possibly Varg too); Carl Holgersson, who likes nothing more than filling out paperwork; and Erik Nykvist, who is deeply committed to fly fishing.

This is the first volume in the “Detective Varg” series.

The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray 

The happily married Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a house party, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances - characters beloved by Jane Austen fans. Definitely not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted him an even broader array of enemies. As tempers flare and secrets are revealed, it’s clear that everyone would be happier if Mr. Wickham got his comeuppance. Yet they’re all shocked when Wickham turns up murdered - except, of course, for the killer hidden in their midst.

Nearly everyone at the house party is a suspect, so it falls to the party’s two youngest guests to solve the mystery: Juliet Tilney, the smart and resourceful daughter of Catherine and Henry, eager for adventure beyond Northanger Abbey; and Jonathan Darcy, the Darcys’ eldest son, whose adherence to propriety makes his father seem almost relaxed. The unlikely pair must put aside their own poor first impressions and uncover the guilty party - before an innocent person is sentenced to hang.

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz 

Alan Conway is a bestselling crime writer. His editor, Susan Ryeland, has worked with him for years, and she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. Alan's traditional formula pays homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. It's proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.

When Susan receives Alan's latest manuscript, in which Atticus Pünd investigates a murder at Pye Hall, an English manor house, she has no reason to think it will be any different from the others. There will be dead bodies, a cast of intriguing suspects, and plenty of red herrings and clues. But the more Susan reads, the more she’s realizes that there's another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript - one of ambition, jealousy, and greed - and that soon it will lead to murder.

This is the first volume in the “Susan Ryeland” series. 

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands - the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.

Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.

The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps. Now one of them is dead... and another of them did it. Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. But just how close is too close?

[conservethis]

16th century gardening tools!! in an herbal I saw at work on the special collections shelves.

[mtsodie]

ok two questions . first is the scott pilgrim show good . second is knives chau okay . like is she safe and sound etc

[sour-alien]

A ton of books and weed for my special day🥰

[sleepyminty]

I was curious how knives and binah would interact and after this it would be evident to say that the Abiter of the Head in Project Moon are a absolute menace

[benoits-neckerchieves]

Had a dream last night where I went to a library and for some reason there was a Pick N Mix selling sweets inside the library, and Rian Johnson was asleep in a chair next to it. Also, when I went to check out a book, the librarian at the counter was Jamie Lee Curtis, and then she sat on a bar stool next to me and started telling me stories about what it was like on the set of Knives Out. So yeah, Knives Out has infiltrated my dreams again.

[libraryleopard]

the other day i went to a virtual book event with freya marske for the launch of a restless truth and she was talking about the third book, which stars lord hawthorn (as i guessed) and the two hints she gave about it are that 1) it’s kinkier than the other two books and 2) hawthorn will be “made wretched by love” so i have connected the dots and come to the conclusion that the romantic arc in book 3 of the last binding trilogy will involve lord hawthorn realizing he is in fact a massive sub. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[thesmartartslibrary]

[zeawesomebirdie]

Yes I've enjoyed spending the last two months reading nothing but fic, but man am I so glad to be back to researching stuff for my family's farm!!

[sonicenvy]

got a contact high at work, which was, uh, terrible. The amount of anxiety, paranoia and confusion that I felt had me fucking losing my mind actually y'all. I don't smoke, so I obviously am not used to this experience, and all this has done is confirm for me that my choice not to smoke is the right one for me. I'd heard that smoking pot and bipolar disorder are not friends before and I'm honestly inclined to agree. The whole thing was pretty embarrassing actually because I was so out of it that my boss drove me home. fmlllll

anyways fuck those teens who were smoking pot in the park outside my library 2 feet away from us while we were doing a cute little elementary school kid leaf craft program. I was mostly just annoyed in the beginning, but when they started deliberately blowing smoke at us after we asked them to go smoke somewhere else where they weren't 2 feet away from a group of 5-10 year old kids I was, uh, pissed.

to make our experience worse, more teens showed up and started jumping other teens all around us. six teen boys were beating another teen boy into the concrete until he was bleeding (in front of the kids) while cussing each other out at the top of their lungs. More teens showed up and started beating up other teens. They refused to listen to any library staff. The kid getting his ass beat on the ground was screaming. The other kids were all filming it on their phones. we had to call the cops, which we HATE doing, but seem to always end up having to do on THESE same teens.

working at the library is great!

I had a great night at work tonight! /s

side note: I highly suspect that these same kids are problem kids at their school as well. Condolences to their teachers who can't have them removed from their classrooms.

The cops in the area are all pretty familiar with these same kids because they constantly are violently attacking each other, doing drugs in public and engaging in public property damage.

[ifaflutterby]

Do these people not realize the PHYSICAL DISCOMFORT i feel when books are gone!