#Book Tag

[milflewis]

andrew going from being regularly monologued about over how the sunlight shines through his eyes the shape of his shoulders etc and him being Everywhere bc the first thing neil sees when he walks into a room is the exits and the second is where is andrew to getting like three offhand mentions about the creepy goalkeeper who hangs around kevin and neil and has a drawer full of cheese bc jean moreau could not give less of a fuck about him is so hilarious to me personally

[yuriverses]

the problem of thor bridge

he hates this guy so much i'm crying

[goblinaut]

decided to crack open alexandra rowland’s new book and we are starting off strong

tell me more!

[wrenmkingsley]

Update: As Trading is currently stuck in business processing hell, that is I popped it into draft2digital on Monday and it's not online anywhere yet, I made a patreon. I haven't been approved for a shop on there yet either, but you can join for 2 bucks and download the epub, mobi and/or pdf.

So, uh, I'm publishing my first book next week! It's just a 17k novella, but I'm already working on the next entry in the series. (Which will probably be twice as long. Not that I'm trying to do that, but you know how it is.)

A cosy, smutty fantasy novella, about a healer with self-esteem issues and a smitten demon. If only Tassilo had known what he was getting himself into with that first deal… But now there is an amorous demon dogging his step and with Tassilo's line of work, Charon has plenty of opportunity to offer him deals he can't refuse. As an adventuring party's tag-along charity case, Tassilo tries his hardest to earn his keep. He's useless in a fight and calling himself a healer would be blasphemy, but it's enough to patch up his companions if necessary. Tassilo does not know what Charon sees in a wannabe healer in hand-me-down boots, but the demon is eager to trade for time with Tassilo. Charon is charming, devastatingly handsome, and just a bit of a dork. Tassilo would be all over him if only he had an actual choice in the matter. But how can Tassilo refuse him, when Charon only shows up when the party's lives are on the line? When Charon's demands escalate to a day and a night spent in the demon's home, Tassilo resigns himself to being dragged to hell. Really, things would be far simpler if anyone had bothered to explain to him the basics of demonic courtship.

It'll be on all major ebook stores for 1,99, but if you're short on cash, just send me a dm, and I'll be honoured to send you a copy! Your access to books should never depend on your wallet. (I wanted to make it free on my website, but that's apparently a no no if you want to publish on amazon. Never mind that I don't have a website yet, lmao.) I'll also be looking into making it available through libraries.

I mean, I know the chances of me making back the money for coverart and editing on this book are slim to none, but that's okay. I'm in this for the long haul now.

I want to thank all of you who support The Other Shoe. The incredible reaction to what started as working title "accidental sugar daddy gale" has blown me absolutely away and given me the courage to really pursue writing. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

Coverart @klaradraws. Thank you again, you were a joy to work with!

[lesstheshadow]

started reading realm of the elderlings at the end of March. It is the beginning of May, I have read nine books, and emotionally speaking I am a mess about them <3

there are some things i find deeply frustrating about hobb's writing and sensibilities, but i am blown away by her ability to portray and develop characters with astonishing emotional impact, and the way the thematic elements are so deftly woven through the plot and the character arcs.

fitz in particular, especially since we spend so much time in his head, is so well-crafted. fool's errand made me cry like a baby because of the sheer pain that you can tell Being FitzChivalry Farseer causes him. and when he makes incredibly stupid decisions, they nonetheless feel so understandable. not only do we see why he's acting as he does, we *feel* why. we know why he is the way he is ��� all the complicated relationships and duties that have made him into who he is. it's absolutely fascinating to consider him from the outside, and what he must seem like to most other people, because i would bet it is so different from what it feels like to be him. and the fool!! ahh!!!! what a character.

you can't talk about fitz (and his relationship with the fool) without talking about the heteronormative brain poison that both he and the books have but. it would take too many words to talk about that.

the liveship traders didn't manage the level of investment in characters that the fitz books had for me, but i think the thematic development is unparalleled. the farseer trilogy has a lot to say about power and how it cuts the fingers of all those who wield it, but the liveship books pull their ideas about repeating cycles (of life, of generations, of trauma and its passing on) into such a cohesive whole — every character is living out the themes every day. and despite its faults (pacing problems, hetero poisoning, etc) i think the tawny man is my favourite trilogy so far because it manages to carry both character and theme in such a compelling way. there's plenty of generational cycles of absent fathers and unspoken love and lives destroyed by power, and through the agonising vividness of fitz, it creates books with incredible emotional power.

anyway! i am going to have to take a break for a little because the tawny man books destroyed me a bit, but i will be returning for more dragons <3

[yennefer]

not going to call it a "trend" per se, but i'm loving how many books i've been reading lately that feature older, more mature main characters. now that i'm older i'm much more interested in these stories and also life doesn't just end at 29 lol

[nightmarebees]

arcturus at the start of Mask Falling:

[laraluu2]

I read the stormlight archive for the first time this year and just finished Rhythm of War and it is incredibly funny to me how other people post about moash on sites like tiktok and reddit where basically all that is said is "fuck moash". Meanwhile on tumblr I'm finding the most absolutely gut wrenching and beautiful art of moash and deep, meta analysis on his character I don't really get anywhere else.

I honestly love it - and as someone who read bit by bit and saw fanart and was lightly spoiled until I got to the end it was nice to have the perspective. It's one thing to just blanket hate a character - it's another to get a nuanced take that also takes into account the biases of the author and reader

[dykerory]

2025 Book Bingo!!

My dearest @batmanisagatewaydrug issued this challenge and here I am listing the books I intend to read in 2025! Under a read more because I'm not a monster

Literary Fiction: Our Share of Night (2019) by Mariana Enríquez, trans. Megan McDowell

Short Story Collection: Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy (1990), edited by Ellen Datlow

A Sequel: Don’t Fear The Reaper (2023) by Stephen Graham Jones

Childhood Favorite: When You Reach Me (2009) by Rebecca Stead

20th Century Speculative Fiction: The Time of the Ghost (1981) by Diana Wynne Jones

Fantasy: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (2023) by Moniquill Blackgoose

Published Before 1950: Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë

Independent Publisher: Creatures of Passage (2022) by Morowa Yejidé, published by Akashic Books

Graphic Novel/Comic Book/Manga: Something is Killing the Children Book One (2021), by James Tynion IV, art by Werther Dell’Edera

Animal on the Cover: Coyote Rage (2019) by Owl Goingback

Set in a Country You Have Never Visited: Let the Right One In (2004) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, trans. Ebba Segerberg

Science Fiction: Finna (2020) by Nino Cipri

2025 Debut Author: Needy Little Things (2025) by Channelle Desamours

Memoir: Camgirl (2019) by Isa Mazzei

Read a Zine, Make a Zine: Leaving this one blank for now! If anyone has any zine recommendations I'd love to hear them!

Essay Collection: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (2023), edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith

2024 Award Winner: Linghun (2023) by Ai Jiang, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Nonfiction: Learn Something New: Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids (2012) by Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero

Social Justice & Activism: Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (2019) by Sabrina Strings

Romance Novel: Such Sharp Teeth (2022) By Rachel Harrison

Read and Make a Recipe: The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco (2002), by Allen Rucker, David Chase, and Michele Scicolone

Horror: SOUR CANDY (2015) by Kealan Patrick Burke

Published in the Aughts: Abandon (2009) by Blake Crouch

Historical Fiction: The Hacienda (2022) by Isabel Cañas

Bookseller or Librarian Recommendation: Leaving this one blank for now as well! If any booksellers or librarians want to recommend me a book so I don't have to talk to someone in real life. I'd love that.

[anthonycrowley]

how i sleep knowing i will never climb mount everest

[menoasmess]

[delinare]

they’re cute :>

[lesstheshadow]

inhaled all three books of the farseer trilogy in the last month. love the way the characters are drawn and developed, love the ideas the books struggle with about power and how it is wielded. can't wait to read more and very tempted to skip straight to the tawny man trilogy but i know i should read liveship traders first

[edelweiss-maiden]

𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖆𝖓𝖙, 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖉. 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖒𝖆𝖉𝖊 𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖉𝖘, 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖒𝖆𝖉𝖊 𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖉𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖒𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖘. 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖎𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖘𝖍 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖉𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖒 𝖔𝖋?

[alightindarkplaces]

To the complete surprise of both hobbits [the rope] came loose. Sam fell over, and the long grey coils slithered silently down on top of him. Frodo laughed. 'Who tied the rope?' he said. 'A good thing it held as long as it did! To think I trusted all my weight to your knot!'

Sam did not laugh. 'I may not be much good at climbing, Mr. Frodo,' he said in injured tones, 'but I do know something about rope and about knots. It's in my family, as you might say. Why, my grand-dad, and my uncle Andy after him, him that was the Gaffer's eldest brother, he had a rope-walk over by Tighfield many a year. And I put as fast a hitch over the stump as any one could have done, in the Shire or out of it.'

'Then the rope must have broken- frayed on the rock-edge, I expect,' said Frodo.

'I bet it didn't!' said Sam in an even more injured voice. He stooped to examine the ends. 'Nor it hasn't neither. Not a strand!'

'Then I'm afraid it must have been the knot,' said Frodo.

Sam shook his head and did not answer. He was passing the rope through his fingers thoughtfully. 'Have it your own way, Mr. Frodo,' he said at last, 'but I think the rope came off itself- when I called.' He coiled it up and stowed it lovingly in his pack.

'It certainly came,' said Frodo.

What a cunt (affectionate.) A rare argument between the two, wherein Frodo is incredibly disrespectful and hilarious. I don't have an analysis right now but I needed to see this on my blog. These two are so funny I can't stand it! Also, Frodo laughs compilation, and especially, Frodo laughs at Sam's antics, or laughs at Sam, in this case.