#Physical Book

[authortango]

This is so crazy to see. My name, Copyright 2022. My own little chapbook of poems in my hands.

This has been such a thrilling experience for me. The vulnerabilty this book holds and yet the love my friends and family have given me for it is wild to me. Thank you to everyone so far who has bought Embrace and Unravel. If you’d like to check it out, head to the link here.

I look forward to attempting poetry more deliberately in the future. :)

[pecandarosa]

The First Time Homesteader by Jessica Sowards

The First Time Homesteader by Jessica Sowards

The First Time Homesteader by Jessica Sowards is a non-fiction book by the immensely popular Jess from Roots and Refuge Farm on social media. It is her second book but the first one from her for me. When I heard about the book, I admit I was super concerned that the book would be ghost written but promoted heavily by Jess. I received an Advanced Readers Copy from NetGalley for review and I…

[lisabythebook]

Divine Rivals

Title: Divine Rivals Author: Rebecca Ross Genre: YA Romance Subgenre(s): Fantasy, Historical Rating: ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑

Review: The logline is a tad misleading. This is first and foremost an epic rivals to lovers Romance, set during a magical war between Gods. There is a brief mention of the lore and history of the war but the magical elements aren't really the focus and the war is a catalyst for Iris and Roman's Romance.

While I went in expecting this to be more of an Epic Fantasy with a side of Romance, I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this more. Iris is a strong lead and the banter between her and Roman was both hilarious and endearing. The book had a lot of cute and strong moments for a story that is set in the backdrop of a war. Even if you aren't a Fantasy fan, Romance lovers will definitely enjoy this book.

⭒⭒⭒ MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD ⭒⭒⭒

Full Synopsis: I am mainly writing this because there is a good chance I will completely forget the plot before the sequel comes out (Yes, unfortunately, this ends on a cliff hanger.) Please AVOID reading any further if you don't want the entire plot spoiled.

Iris and Roman are two journalists competing for a columnist position at their town's more prestigious newspaper. While both talented, Iris is a shoo-in for the position, except her home life hinders her. Her older brother has left to fight in the war - a war between two Gods who have recently awoken.

Dacre was a God who lived underground - similar to Hades, while Enva was a sky God. Bored one day, Dacre was enamored by Enva's musical talents / beauty and basically forced her into going underground with him. One day, Enva realized that if she sung lullabies, she could put Dacre and his subjects into a slumber. She used this as an opportunity to escape. She went back and played her lullabies for so long that they believe it put Dacre and all the other Gods into a long slumber. It was believed that Enva was also asleep and that all the Gods were defeated by humans but Iris suspects Enva had been awake the whole time. Iris' brother goes to fight on Enva's side.

Iris' mother is an alcoholic and lost her job after Forest left to fight in the war. She is accidentally killed one day. One night, Iris decides to type a letter to Forest on her grandmother's old typewriter. Little does she know, when she places it in the wardrobe, it is sent to Roman. Iris loses the Columnist position to Roman due to her grief over her mother's death and decides to sign up to be a war correspondent with a competing paper. She wants a chance to look for Forest as he never wrote to her like promised. Roman and Iris had been communicating via their magical typewriters, which belonged to their grandmothers and were specially made with magical abilities to be able to communicate with the other typewriter. Roman doesn't tell Iris who he is and instead goes by his middle name, Carver. Iris tells him she is leaving and he realizes she is headed towards war. Roman also finds out he is betrothed to a girl whose family builds bombs/weapons for Dacre. His family owns the railroads.

In the new town, Iris meets a woman (Marisol) who owns a B&B and another war correspondent (Attie) from her hometown. Marisol's wife (Keegan) is also fighting in the war. Marisol warns them that there are 3 alarms, one during the day that means flying Eithrals would drop bombs on any moving thing below; one at night which meant the hounds were out; and one that meant they had to evac because the town before theirs was being overtaken.

Roman ditches the job and his family and arrives in Avalon Bluff as an eithral alarm was going off and Iris saves him. They volunteer to go to the front lines to observe and report. However, Iris almost gets killed and Roman saves her but his leg gets badly damaged. Iris loses her mother's locket in the chaos. Roman reveals to Iris that he is Carver and they reconcile and Roman proposes. That same day, the evac alarm goes off and Iris gets word that her brother is still alive and fighting close by. She decides to stay with Marisol, Attie, and Keegan. Roman stays with her. That night, the gang plans a wedding for Roman and Iris and they get married.

The next morning, the town is attacked with tear gas and everyone gets separated. Attie and Iris were supposed to bring Roman and Marisol to a lorry and drive Marisol to her family near Oath (Iris' hometown). Iris sees Attie and Marisol headed towards the lorry while she is pulled by who she thinks is Roman in a gas mask. She is dragged away from the lorry and she realizes that it isn't Roman, but her brother, Forest. She sees Roman struggling behind her in the gas cloud but can't get to him.

Forest drags her away to safety. She finds out Forest has the locket she dropped when Dacre's forces were advancing on them at the front lines and realized he was fighting for Dacre. Apparently when he was mortally wounded fighting for Enva, Dacre healed him but forces him to fight for his side. He was pulled out of it when he saw the locket on the ground and knew Iris was fighting nearby. When they went back to look for Roman, Forest noticed a circle on the grass where they left him and knew that Dacre had taken Roman underground. Iris and Forest make it back to Oath/their home, while Dacre finds Roman and chooses to revive him. He does not set fire to Avalon because he has plans for it

[evilgoodguys]

he’d forgotten how much he missed that smile.

[gothhabiba]

do you know what we don't talk about often enough? there is no physically comfortable posture in which to read a book

[mediashadowreads]

[REVIEW] FAEBOUND BY SAARA EL-ARIFI

Book Info ⭐ Name: FaeboundAuthor: Saara El-ArifiRelease Date: January 23rd 2024Edition: UK HardbackPublisher: Del ReyPages: 386Genres: Adult Fantasy, Romance, LGBTQ+ Synopsis: DIVIDED BY BLOOD. IMPRISONED BY FATE. BOUND BY DESIRE. WELCOME TO THE INTOXICATING WORLD OF THE FAE. Yeeran is a warrior in the elven army and has known nothing but violence her whole life. Her sister, Lettle, is…

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[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[boltlightning]

they should invent a way to read in bed that's comfortable

[richardsondavis]

I'm thinking about how much I fucking wasted on those paper manga like fuck. I just feel guilty. I could've done some good there but no. No.

I had the impulse to buy and I deluded myself to collect for the sake of collecting. I am out of ₱8000 ($143) and I could've used that money to get better uniforms, to feed my brothers, to save it for a better device

FOR WHICH I CAN READ THE FUCKING MANGA I BOUGHT!!!!!!

I am just so frustrated at the regret I have. I wasted a fuckton of money. A fuckton.

I fucking hate myself for letting myself do that. I'm just so angry.

I wasted so much money. That was half a month's salary when I was still working. I'm just so fucking mad at the regret I feel. I just want to do it over but I can't. I can always try to sell it but that's about it. I can try to sell it at the least.

But who'd buy that? I'm just not sure anymore. Not sure.

[wizard-laundry]

the text originally read "EGADS! DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME?"

[owlbelly]

so. i understand where the sentiment "listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading the book" is coming from - i mean, yes, the bottom line is you are taking in the same words in what is possibly a more accessible (or maybe just more enjoyable) format for you! and i'm 100% in agreement that "book snobs" who say "no you didn't really read it" if you listened to the audiobook are full of shit. ofc you should engage with stories in whatever way works for you, there is no moral or intellectual superiority to reading words off a page vs. listening to them

but it also is different? an audiobook is a performance. choices a narrator makes about line readings can drastically influence the meaning of the lines. even just different voices, accents, etc. - there are creative choices being made by the person delivering the words to you, and that affects your experience of the story in a different way than if you were making those choices in your own head. it might even change the way you visualize what's going on!

this isn't a bad thing it's just An Actual Thing & i think it's worth talking about. it rubs me the wrong way when people act like accommodations (and for many people audiobooks are an accommodation) always result in a completely identical experience, or even that they should, & if you suggest that people accessing media in different ways are having different experiences it's somehow ableist

anyway on rare occasions i really enjoy audiobooks but mostly they are much less accessible to me than words on a page (i need to be able to reread, flip back and forth, go at my own pace) & i also just really strongly prefer to encounter a text on my own before hearing someone else's performance of it, if possible! again i don't think it's "better" to read a physical book i just think it is a Distinct form of experiencing a story & acting like the two things are entirely the same is sort of doing a disservice to both

[nibbelraz]

SVSSSAction Bingge/Yuan Prompt for Anonymous!

I went with Bingge reverse transmigrating to streamer Shen Yuan, who thinks it's some cosplayer in his home, and proceeds to comment on his 'Luo Binghe' outfit

This cosplayer sure looks gorgeous....

[jlbilu]

So I'm not able to read physical books due to anhedonia (this is true) but instead I can red fics and articles on Internet.

¿Hola?

[knightingale]

The "Sansa reminds Sandor of his sister" motive that some people try to hitch to his character really just flies in the face of his actual attachments to her, doesn't it? Sansa reminds Sandor of himself. He sees the little boy who used to love knights in this girl who's been swept up by the same romanticism. He sees his abuser in her abusers, the much larger knight(s) beating on the helpless child. He sees how she is betrayed by every level of authority that should have saved her and remembers his father's neglect and Tywin and Robert's apathy for Gregor's crimes. He's protective of Sansa because he was Sansa.

And GRRM's design, that one of the strongest warriors in the series, a fearsome and cynical 6'8" guy who's "muscled like a bull" and has the face of death itself, sees himself in this soft and effeminate teen girl, and empathizes with her because he was an abuse victim too, is INFINITELY more compelling than "Oh yeah I bet she just reminds him of his sister," who he's never mentioned and who we know literally nothing about. Way to unnecessarily water down a character, you couldn't have ignored the black and white text more efficiently if you tried.

[knowledgefactory5g]

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