#I'm a devour of books

[zhalfirin-binds]

Happy Edible Book Day everyone!

Again I took part in @renegadeguild's Edible Book Day event and proudly present my Book Suzette. I had a lot of fun making it and then dousing it in alcohol to set it on fire.

This whole book is made from crêpe the 'cover' with the crêpe-flower inlays. The 'pages' glued together with more crêpe batter. Only the text is cut from carrots an then baked into the batter (which worked a lot better once I cut the whole letters from one piece instead of cutting thin stripes and trying to to assemble them in the skillet while the batter was not yet baked through but yet solid enough to keep the letters from floating away)

[benevolenterrancy]

I'm on chpt20 and I want to study SQQ like a bug. My man is flushed, hair down, robes literally falling off his shoulders, LBH on his lap playing with his hair and kissing him... and he finally cottons on to the fact that maybe this isn't how you have a platonic and important discussion. Enforces it for all of five seconds at which point LBH starts massaging his waist and SQQ is back to being like "yeah this is fine and normal". Amazing. Can't believe he insults the IQ of SQH's characters.

[kyoshist]

I just drove 2 and a half hours to a super specific bookstore just because they were selling this book a week early🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[a-ramblinrose]

The only problem with reading in bed is remembering to put the book down to actually sleep. 🌙

[fictionadventurer]

Blue: A Retelling of "The Blue Castle" by M.J. Rednow

Valancy is not a rebel. Every moment of her day is controlled by the artificial intelligence that monitors her movements, but she doesn't dare to resist strict rules of Stirling Society. Any who object are cast out of their safe city and banished to the toxic, dangerous Wilderness. Yet Valancy dreams of freedom, inspired by the secretly subversive writings of John Foster. His supposedly scientific texts speak of the beauty of nature and spark thoughts of society beyond Stirling control--yet, for Valancy, these can be nothing more than dreams. Then the infallible AI medical doctor informs Valancy that she has less than a year to live. Valancy realizes that she doesn't want to die never having lived, and she begins to push back against the restrictions of her life. She speaks out against the pointless rules, helps an invalid deemed useless to society, and is eventually cast out into the Wilderness, where she marries a mysterious outcast who teaches her to brave the wonders and terrors of nature--and maybe, to bring down the Stirling society once and for all.

[itachi86]

i love this book it is so funny and awesome

[cookinguptales]

just watched the dirty laundry ep where one of them talks about how he wrote a short story that worried his teacher and like

ohhh I had one of those when I was a kid. my parents still talk about it to this day.

when I was about 8yo, my teacher put a poster up on the blackboard and said, "I want you all to write me a story inspired by this scene." the scene was of a lush jungle that had animals hidden throughout.

"oh, okay," I said to myself. "I can do this."

see, what my teacher (and parents) didn't know was that my grandmother, knowing vaguely that I liked to read but knowing pretty much nothing else about children, had given me a stack of books that she got at a yard sale. these books were very nice quality and I was happy to get them. too bad that they were all alfred hitchcock presents!

for the uninitiated, AHP was a tv series and book series that collected short, scary stories. stories about murder, stories about ghosts, stories about monsters of all kind. you get stories like du maurier's the birds and blackwood's the wendigo and that fucked-up short story that roald dahl wrote about that guy who collected fingers or whatever.

all that is to say that I had been consuming wildly age-inappropriate atmospheric horror for months at this point and I was like, "yes, I know just what to write!"

I ended up turning in this story about an explorer who was lost in the jungle and he starts hearing this faraway howling sound, which he realizes is a howler monkey. and he keeps getting more and more lost and the howling keeps getting closer and closer and finally, as he is about ready to collapse with exhaustion, he hears the sound of howls all around him and the story ends with the implication that he got mauled to death by howler monkeys.

(I also, coincidentally enough, really enjoyed zoo books!)

lmao ~guess whose parents got a phone call~?

but it kind of backfired on my teacher, because my parents were fully delighted. they were like "WE DIDN'T KNOW SHE COULD WRITE LIKE THIS" and I did not get punished at all.

anyway, my parents still talk about "the howler" to this day when they want to embarrass me at dinner parties. :')

[zainclaw]

I just finished reading Dragon Age: Last Flight and I am fucking vibrating with excitement to get to know Davrin and Assan after everything I've learned about the griffons and their chosen Warden riders from this book omfg

[secondbeatsongs]

May I request “Nobody” by Mitski?

a popular request...

[houndsofcorduff]

Eight Authors Tag

I was tagged by @ark-inkweaving to talk about my 8 favorite authors (and their books) so let's get into it! Please ignore that most of these are books I read in middle/high school over 10 years ago, since college, I've really only had time to keep up with Sanderson. But seriously, some of these have scenes, concepts, and characters that will never leave me, even if it's been over a decade since I read it.

In no particular order

Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn Series

DJ MacHale - Pendragon Series

Michael Crichton - Timeline

Mary Higgins Clark - Pretend You Don't See Her

Anthony Horowitz - The Alex Rider Series

Justin Somper - Vampirates Series

Angie Sage - Septimus Heap Series

Jerry Spinelli - Milkweed

And tagging: @nightmaricwriter, @kingragnarok-writes, @illarian-rambling and @rhikasa plus as always an open tag

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || February 2 || Currently Reading: I Shall Never Fall In Love by Hari Conner

[distance-does-not-matter]

working at the public library is great you've got:

falling ceiling tiles

vinegar lady

more james patterson books than you thought existed

and so much more!

[anxietyfrappuccino]

not being caught up with the shadow hunter chronicles is wild bec the spoilers are wild. okay, and they make my head spin, and damn myself for not being caught up, like i could be having fun with the rest of the fandom rn but instead i'm over here like what the fuck do you mean sebastian morgenstern had a son??? cassandra what the fuck

[queenyuritheiii]

hi guys I fear I've lost interest in jjk and now I don't know what to do with my life

[bikananjarrus]

i finally started reading the high republic books! i finished light of the jedi last night, so here are a few of my (non-spoilery) thoughts:

jedi doing cool shit with the force is my favorite thing and there is SO much good jedi doing cool shit with the force content

also the way the force was described was just, really beautiful. it's been a while since any visual star wars medium has really made me feel in awe of the force, but this did the job so well.

the little worldbuilding aspects were really cool. (hypserspace travel still being developed, bacta isn't mass-produced yet, etc.) this book was just a really nice reminder about how cool and strange and fun the star wars galaxy can be (when actual effort is put into making it that way)

on that note, god it felt good to have good star wars content. like this was SO. GOOD. (and i'm so so excited to move onto the next books, but i kind of didn't want this one to end bc charles soule is such a beautiful writer. and he made every pov interesting and engaging; i was never bored)

i think maybe my favorite pov to read from was bell's. he made me laugh, and soule wrote him in such a way that was youthful but not childish, and it was just such a joy reading his pov. i felt so connected to him immediately, and was so proud of him by the end of the book! can't wait to see where his story goes. (also i love his and loden's relationship and i have SO many feelings about the end of the book like..... iykyk.)

avar and elzar. avar and elzar. AVAR AND ELZAR. they've got me down so. bad. help.....i love both of them individually, and their dynamic together is everything to me actually. (i have so many more thoughts on them, but i’ll come back to them later)

another bullet point to again say how much i LOVE jedi doing cool shit with the force, and relating it to elzar and a) how he describes the force as an endless sea.... yeah. i'm in love w that description; and b) him wanting to push boundaries, explore all that the force is capable, is just really really cool.

the epilogue. I have not stopped thinking about it. like i got yearning and terrifying force visions all in one chapter?? charles soule did that for ME <3

i'm reading the main books for phase one in order, so next up is test of courage, then into the dark. (even though i reallyyyy want to just go right to the rising storm lol)

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL by Em X. Liu.

I enjoyed THE DEATH I GAVE HIM so much that I immediately picked up the author's other book, which is both 1. Very Short (145 pages) and 2. Second Person (which: Hell--ahaha--Yes). I'm hoping this is a good palate cleanser after ORDINARY MONSTERS!