#Bookblr

[learnelle]

Stopped by this bookshop after visiting the British Museum! My biggest regret is not bringing an empty bag to England, I found so many interesting books but had no space left for them 🥲

[sarahreesbrennan]

Preorder Sale

Today is the last day of the #BNPreorder deal, so I slide in villainously late because if you were considering pre-ordering my chaotic band of villains taking over a story, writers deeply appreciate a pre-order and you all deserve a wicked deal!

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/long-live-evil-sarah-rees-brennan/1144328593

[gushuwa]

19.04.24 one page kicked my ass, the other felt my wrath

[notjustpictures]

book recommendations, I think everyone should read this at least once. My sister bought me this because she knows how much I overthink situations and how I take things personally.

[reginadesomn]

Буду вязать весь день и читать.

Пока вяжу квадраты, чтобы собрать их в полотно. Пока учусь все равно. Будут накидки на диван/мини пледы, насколько терпения хватит. Розовые подойдут для моего кресла рабочего 😊

[aahanna]

Book fair pics

[papenathys]

I feel like a lot of reviews of One Last Stop are so fixated on trying to cancel the two characters for the most idiotic reasons..... including those weird reviews by non-Asians about Jane's fetishization, like. I have read that book multiple times and you're doing WAY TOO much about August being Jane's white saviour. Like that's a ridiculously bad faith interpretation. Sometimes people who are in love help each other. No aspect of Jane getting stuck in the subway was connected to her ethnic identity.

Also among the handful of tradpub butchfemme romances, Jane is one of the only butches not oversexualized or portrayed as a walking fuckboy to a weird capacity. Yet she is the one consistently called out to be a "hot Asian butch" stereotype while characters like Delilah Green or that ambiguous Kristen Stewart standin from For Her Consideration are considered "wife material" like ok. Whatever. Go outside. Maybe it was too much diversity for you.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Qanon romance anon: Haunting Adeline! The male MMC is just Q Anon and the book had to be pulled and edit some names out because otherwise it was just straight up blood libel!

Haunting Adeline also now opens with a blurb about how it's definitely not supposed to resemble qanon, in a real "my "I am not a human trafficker" shirt is getting a lot of questions already answered by my shirt" moment

hmm. the thing about this is that I think I have an exquisitely high tolerance for yuckybad gross shit in the books I read and even seek it on purpose quite often, and I love dumbass romance novels, but this seems to miss both marks in favor of being a shitshow incapable of sparking joy.

also god in heaven how is the paperback SIX HUNDRED PAGE. of qanon romance.

[thequeerlibrarian]

Second hand book haul 📚

[swansongofalyre]

thank u to hozier for writing this song just for my book. spoilers for my book, the musical hadestown, and several millennia of greek myth:

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imagine being loved by him, smh

true story: I was at a performance of hadestown a few years ago, there was a woman in the audience who clearly did not know how the story ended, because when orpheus turned around, she GASPED so loudly that the entire theatre could hear (I was up in a box very far away from her), and you could still hear her sobbing through the end of the curtain call, after "we raise our cups," after people started leaving their seats. I think about this at least once a week. it was such a funny and bittersweet moment. funny because everyone else in the audience knew what was coming, and it's rare that the ending takes someone that much by surprise. bittersweet because she was SO devastated (understandably), I think it's beautiful that the story and the cast were so deeply moving to her. I hope she is doing okay now!

anyway, some book things:

if you have been DYING to preorder my book but have been waiting for the right opportunity, barnes & noble is having a 25% off sale today on all preorders with code PREORDER25. you do have to sign up for their free membership, but in return you can save up to ones of dollars on my book.

as you can see from the video, I've gotten my advance reader copies, which I immediately used to create the world's most amateur stop-motion video. if anyone is interested in reviewing an early (free) copy, please let me know and I can send you one in the mail!

if you have no idea book what I'm on about, more info is here. in sum, I wrote a book that offers a modern perspective on the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus through the eyes of a Korean-American woman who uses storytelling to try to connect with her brother and understand her family history. it's like a light beach read, only with a few details changed.

[transbookoftheday]

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after.

When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle….

But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.

[melodysbookhaven]

“Being nice is a good thing. You can be strong and nice. You don’t have to be one or the other.”

Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

[delicious-studyblr]

it’s time to start working on my masters thesis. king arthur, protect me!

[imsayak]

People aren't homes, they never will be. People are rivers, always changing, forever flowing. They will disappear with everything you put inside them.

~ Nikita Gill

[fairmaidnelly]

[something-sweet-n-spicy]