#Book Prizes

[cupofteajones]

2022 Shortlist for Waterstones Book of the Year

2022 Shortlist for Waterstones Book of the Year

Waterstones, the UK Bookseller, released their yearly shortlist of this year’s best books of the year. The shortlist and award is selected by booksellers. If you are not looking to add more books to add to your TBR shelf, then reading this shortlist is highly unadvisable, you ‘ll have a hard time tearing your eyes away from these interesting blurbs: (more…)

[aj-artjunkyard]

I’m all for Unreliable Narrator Apollo™ straight up misremembering myths instead of admitting to myself that Rick got a few things wrong

Lester!Apollo: demigods can be so weird and unpredictable! When that Clytemnestra girl murdered her husband simply because he made one tiny little human sacrifice to me… yikes, am I right?

The same Apollo 2,000 years before, sending a 3rd volley of plague arrows straight into the Greek camp: Agamemnon when I get you. When I get you Agamemnon. Agamemnon when I get you

[onwhatcaptain]

I like to think that when he's up late running tests and waiting on results, Bashir reads the stuffy Cardassian literature Garak keeps recommending him.

[deereynoldsapologist]

EVERYONE SHUT UP IM THINKING

coriolanus was SO jealous that sejanus’s family essentially took the place of the snows in the capitol and then at the end of the book he literally TAKES SEJANUS’S PLACE. he takes his mom and his dad and his fortune as his own to replace the ones he’s lost by just slipping into the place his dead friend used to fill. coriolanus snow took sejanus plinth’s life and then he fucking stole it.

[introspectivememories]

TIM DRAKE: ROBIN #7 YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS

[gameraboy2]

Batman Wins a Prize by Norman Saunders

[nextstopparis]

cant stop thinking abt that merthur fic where they were married but then merlin got amnesia and arthur had to pretend they were just roommates and merlin reread his favourite book but didnt like it anymore. that shit had me STRESSED

[mysharona1987]

[garadinervi]

Chantal Gibson, reciprocal pronouns, (excerpt), in How She Read, Caitlin Press, Halfmoon Bay, BC, 2019 [The Griffin Poetry Prize, The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry. © Chantal Gibson]

Plus: #804 Gibson's poetic pyrotechnics: 'How She Read' by Chantal Gibson (Caitlin Press, 2019), Reviewed by Renée Sarojini Saklikar, «The British Columbia Review», April 18, 2020

[why-lamp]

well, here's the update to this post:

i finished it at 3am and cried a whole bunch. and not just about the story (which was very good, very tragic, and also very gay) but also the history behind the book and how it shouldn't even exist. i'll be posting a full analysis soon, Though it may take longer than I'd like (I'll be starting my first year as a teacher on Thursday). for now, i'll leave yall with these excerpts.

[araaggonart]

Won a ship-art contest at Närcon with this !!

[iwonaprizeforbeingthebesthater]

i'm gonna be real honest toxic old man gravity falls yaoi wasnt on my 2024 bingo card but I am NOT complaining

[goodbyedreamland]

Woods New Illustrated Natural History, mid 1800s

[mwagneto]

i left my phone in my room and picked up an actual physical book and sat down on the balcony and read the whole thing can everyone please be so so proud of me

[farosdaughter]

“Coryo only cared about Lucy Gray’s survival for his own selfish reasons”

Coryo thinking about Lucy Gray’s survival:

Before any thought of his own well-being or the incumbent threat of his family’s imminent homelessness, comes Coryo’s desire to help Lucy Gray survive the Games. Those worries don’t negate the sincerity of his intentions towards Lucy Gray, just like Katniss cared both about the survival of her family and keeping Peeta alive. Personal, ‘selfish’ needs can and do coexist with altruistic ones in most people. Not to mention that Snow being willing to do anything to ensure his and his family’s survival doesn’t scream villainous mastermind. He’s an underdog whose only concern is staving off hunger and doing a good enough job to achieve some sense of security.

His determination to keep Lucy Gray alive is born out of gratitude, honor as well as selfless love. Coryo’s motivation here is entirely altruistic: he risks everything he has at stake (his reputation, his chance to save his family from ignominy and hunger, his entire future) to give Lucy Gray a bigger chance at survival.

If it had only been a matter of getting the Plinth money, he would’ve focused all his efforts on endearing himself to the Plinths (as he ends up doing at the end of the story). On the contrary, violating the Academy rules and basically challenging the purpose of the Hunger Games could only result in Coryo’s fall from grace.

It’s not the cheating itself, but the circumstance that he did so for the love of one of the tributes that lands Coryo in exile. If he’d cheated simply to show off or for any other selfish reason, you can bet his punishment wouldn’t have been as extreme. Dr Gaul sees how having a soft spot for Lucy Gray will eventually compromise his allegiance to the Capitol: it’s one mistake that cannot be tolerated in the future elite of Panem.

[amicus-noctis]

“The master said You must write what you see. But what I see does not move me. The master answered Change what you see.” ― Louise Glück, Vita Nova

Photo: from Andrei Tarkovskys "The Mirror" 1975