#BookWorm

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

[leahgardner-art]

☕️

[bloodmaarked]

yellowface // rebecca f. kuang

first published: 2023 re-read: 26 april 2025 - 17 may 2025 first read: 2023 pages: 323 format: hardback

genres: fiction; adult; satire; contemporary; race favourite character(s): june least favourite character(s): also june first line(s): "'the night i watch Athena Liu die, we're celebrating her tv deal with netflix."

rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 thoughts: to be honest my original review pretty much encapsulates exactly how i feel about yellowface. i still loved it this time around, loved the writing, june, how it was still thought-provoking. the only reason i am knocking off half a star is that for me, i want a 5* book to make me feel exactly (or as close as possible to) the way i felt when i read it the first time. babel did this, yellowface didn't quite - but i still had so much fun rereading this.

obligatory r.f. kuang you will always be famous!

i am going to be so annoying when katabasis comes out.

[babygirlblackbird23]

“First because I trust Violet, and second”—he glances at Ridoc in a dismissive once-over—“it wasn't a big enough strike.” - Xaden

[monstermonger]

Bookwyrm :3

[bookstoreadbtr]

Is it possible for you to return from the library without a stack of books?

[writtenroses1813]

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

[lifedaiiry]

Tbh as long as none of this shit grinds your gears💦💦 who gives a hoot what you like? (because if it does that is a whole different can of worms ~__~)

Personally, I love stories with all these things. I also love stories centers around brain-damaged and/or amnesiac characters. I love stories centered around struggling, war, famine, physical disability, zombies, aliens, dictatorship etc. etc.

It’s all about interesting and different and new perspectives… And we all go through hard things. That’s just a fact. And if some perspectives are from the villians, and it’s done right, a story can go from “meh” to “fucking woah” in an instant. It doesn’t mean that I believe in any of this stuff or like it in reality.

So that’s why I hate it when people are like “Oh, you like xyz media? That means ur a nazi or a fetishist.” Uh, no it doesn’t, deborah, I just like to read interesting books o__o maybe u should get help

well personally i like it when there’s incest and necrophilia and murder and cannibalism and abuse and torture and gore and mutilation and body horror and sexual depravity and death.

[shisasan]

May 22, 1898 Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)

[bl-mitchum]

Listening to a funny scene through an audiobook at work trying not to grin like an idiot to myself ought to count as an Olympic sport. Jordan L. Hawk’s Whyborne and Griffen series is a national treasure

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: l_reads

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... reading is sexy ...

Rosemary Williams reading - photo by Stanley Kubrick (1949)

[psalmieee]

Writers when it's time to write the story no one forced them to come up with in the first place 🙄

[beccawise7]

Beware the nerdy girls.

We read & we know things. 😂

~beccawise7 💜🖤

[slayspeare]

Thunderbolts* and their reading habits hcs!

I like to think they have their own bookshelves of various sizes, and then a big team bookshelf where they put books after they finish, so that someone else can read them. 

Bob - devours books at an alarming speed. Reads literally anything, any genre and plot. After a team member finishes a book, if he hasn't read it he will read it after them and talk about it (“So, how did you like ‘The Foundation’?” “...I put it on the team bookshelf YESTERDAY, Bob!”). Loves paperback, but once Yelena gives him an e-book he also starts reading there. Never says ‘no’ to a reading shopping spree with the team, though. Also, gives me vibes of a guy who LOVES Tolkien books, but I can’t explain it. 

Bucky - also an avid reader. Although loves classics, he also tries to catch up with what came out during his Winter Soldier years, so he’s open to recommendations. Relatively fast reader, but likes to just take it slow and enjoy the book thoroughly. Donates books to schools and libraries, grumbles about book banning. He does buy books, but mostly borrows from libraries. 

Yelena - wasn’t big on reading until Bob recommended her a book, and she started to get into it. Not a fast reader, but not a slow one, either. Accidentally assembled an unofficial book club with Bucky, Bob and Ava that Alexei tries REALLY hard to join. 

Alexei - loves Russian classics (do I even have to say this?), but wants to connect to the rest of the team, so asks Bob and Bucky for recommendations. Specifically reads the same books Yelena does and tries to bond with her over them. Reads in both Russian and English, and grumbles how hard it is to find books in Russian all the time. In general, doesn’t read a lot, but can be found reading occasionally. Eventually, Bucky lets him into the little book club, and Alexei cries when they as a group read Little Women. 

Ava - reads to take her mind off things, so rarely reads sad books. Makes little annotations in her books, has a collection of highlighters and book tabs. Mostly reads paperback, but occasionally steals Bob’s e-book. 

Walker - gives me vibes of a guy who breaks books’ spines and dog-ears the pages. Says he doesn’t like reading, and mostly means it, but at times, members of the team see him skimming through the pages of the books sitting on their shared shelf. Yes, he thought Pride and Prejudice was good. No, he won’t admit it. It won’t get Ava off his back.