#book highlight

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[bensbooks]

2023 Highlight: All That Consumes Us

Everyone knows the students in Corbin College’s elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it all—free tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate. So when Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she takes it.

But once she’s settled into the gorgeous Victorian dormitory the academy calls home, something strange starts to happen. She finally has the chance to write, but her stories are dark and twisted. When she’s not sleepwalking, she’s dreaming about being trapped in a coffin, buried alive. And she’s starting to feel an unseen presence stalking her through the halls of her dorm.

As Tara slowly loses her grip on everything she’s ever known, she discovers a terrible secret at the heart of Magni Viri, one that just might turn her dreams into nightmares, one that might destroy her before she has a chance to escape.

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

Who got you crying like that???

Reading this and realising I'll never find rl Charlie Lastra who says things like this just to stop me from crying...

[balufy]

Arm of the Sphinx by Josiah Bancroft

[home-for-artists]

[luffysfakebeard]

Percy wears a “what would Percy Jackson do” bracelet

[jaxie101]

the hunger games has been my roman empire since i read when it when i was 10 and here are all of my smaller empires bc this has always been my favourite series ever:

the tributes being treated to a life of luxury both as a “last meal” sort of thing and as a way to make them more vulnerable for the games. keeping them well fed before the games so the starvation hits harder

peeta repeatedly calling himself a mutt after katniss does :(

katniss’ ptsd

katniss being such an unreliable narrator

when cato realised he’s just as much of a toy as the rest of the kids

when gale says he should’ve volunteered in peeta’s place. NOT for peeta, not to save him the trauma, the injuries or his torture, and not to save katniss and to be there for her, PURELY bc he knew that getting hurt would get her attention.

GALE GETTING MAD AT KATNISS FOR KISSING SOMEONE TO STAY ALIVE. EVEN 10 YEAR OLD ME WAS LIKE ??

peeta’s “real or not real” and how easily katniss accepts it as his way of recovery

how perfect katniss’ character was. i was a little girl and i wanted to be exactly like her when i grew up. she wasn’t the cliche “doesn’t need anyone accepts this specific guy that will always save her” she saved peeta, and some times peeta saves her

probably the overdramatic english lit nerd in me but katniss’ hair going from intricate braids to messy ponytails

(tw sex assault) in the books katniss was terrified that peeta was going to be r&ped, for some reason that’s always stuck with me

what happened to finnick

how well written and realistic the books were. peeta loses his leg to the infection, katniss loses her hearing in one ear, finnick suffers from extreme ptsd and it shows in district 13, peeta not being an easy fix. he still suffers years later, but he slowly pieces himself back together. Johanna’s anger, people often don’t like the fact that ptsd DOES make you angry, haymitch’s backstory and effie’s growth.

the mutt’s have the dead kids eyes in the first games

[rachread-books]

so, i read 'the little book of otter philosophy' by Jennifer McCartney

Here are some highlighted bits from the book that made me think after reading it.

"A good way to practise is to be curious about small things on a day-to-day level and then look up the answer." -p.17

"...we get one shot at life." -p.17

"... successful communication is saying nice things to people you care about once in a while." -p.32

"Basically, this is a good reminder that sometimes the things we love can disappoint, surprise and even hurt us." -p.37

"It's about recognising opportunities for fun in our daily lives and embracing them - right then and there." -p.56

"We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream." -p.60

"You don't need a lot of space to relax and be yourself, but you do need a space" -p.73

"The otter philosophy is about celebrating those differences, embracing, what you're good at and forgetting the res." -p.95

"A teeny, weeny bit of preparation can go a long way to making your day a bit easier." -p.99

"But remember that technology is a tool that serves us and not the other way around." -p.107

"Choose a good life. That's pretty much it. There's a reason YOLO is one of the key tenets of the otter philosophy. Live with joy and enthusiasm every day." -p.118

Read my thoughts after reading the book

[speaktospeakthrough]

Book wisdom.

[abzania]

List of Book!Crowley things I think you should know:

Owns a collection of soul music (that he's very proud of)

Has snake skin boots that may or may not be his feet

Has a tendency to hiss when he forgets himself

Whispers commentary to Aziraphale while the Metatron and Beelzebub discuss if Armageddon should happen

Is an optimist who believes the Universe will take care of him

Reads novels

Loves naps, particularly after a large meal

Bought petrol just for the bullet hole decals

Doesn't make reservations because that's something that only happens to "other people"

Believes every car has a cassette player, so every car he drives does, even if it's not supposed to

Breathes life back into a dove Aziraphale accidentally smothered in his jacket

Likes classical music, but can't listen to it because the cassettes keep turning into "Best of Queen" albums

Thinks about putting his message box cassette into his car to turn Hastur into a "Best of Queen" album but decides he's not that evil

Thinks satanists are weird/disturbing

Can do weird things with his tongue

Also, highlight from the book you should see, because Crowley is fucking adorable:

[l1inny]

[bensbooks]

2023 Highlight: Monstrilio

Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses—though curbed by his biological and chosen family’s communal care—threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

[balufy]

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson pg.88

[ruegarding]

i don't really think of percy as cynical or a pessimist bc he's so bad at it. like, even when he's at his lowest, when he's lost everything in tlt, he looks at the world and is angry bc it's so beautiful.

[luffysfakebeard]

words cannot explain how much I have missed this idiot