#bookblr

[cubistemoji]

Some observations on book covers

Edit because apparently this needs to be said: the point of a book cover is to tell you what you're about to read and whether or not you want to read it. Following trends in cover design doesn't mean the book is bad or had a bad cover designer. It's visual communication. I've read and enjoyed about half the books featured here.

[princessmacabre]

slut shame me with poetry lines and I shall carve each word from your lips with my bare hands whilst caressing the book spines, making you tremble and get down on your knees, to worship me at the feet of the amcient poets, letting you bleed onto the library’s floor, feeding the concealed treasures all around us

I’m always a slut for libraries with beautiful architecture

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I firmly believe that some stories can never be translated into a different medium and that's okay

[maidenmystic]

[writersofia]

Isaac!!! I know I've hurt you a lot but I love you

constantly coming to terms with the fact i invented my favorite character ever. what do i do about this

[milliexxreads]

[the-sheepish-reader]

I feel guilty whenever it takes me a while to read a book. Then I remember it doesn't matter how long it takes me to read it. Reading slow isn't bad.

[bookwyrminspiration]

I engage with fiction in a normal way. don’t look at my blog

[captain-ozone]

Dungeon Crawler Carl #7 (The Inevitable Ruin) on audio! And I plan to start my physical copy of The Knight and the Moth today. 😊

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: matildascabinet

[vamplire]

i am not a hoarder of books. i am a collector of lives, a keeper of words, a bringer to new worlds.

[awriterfaraway]

Write for your heart.

Not for a trend. Not for a loved one. Not for a director. Not for a reader. Not for a publisher.

But for your heart.

Your heart would ramble about all the things it was villainised for feeling.

And don't abandon writing. Because you'd be abandoning yourself.

[kbkirtley]

My favorite thing in the promo tour has been Nicholas Hoult’s constant heart eyes toward David Corenswet. It’s like he method acted the being obsessed with Clark/David, but he toggled the hater/lover energy when the cameras were rolling. Can’t really blame the guy. If you haven’t watched the promo tour with the two of them (and their third wheel Rachel Brosnahan), I can’t recommend checking them out!

If you want more superhero content with themes of hope and good people using their abilities to fight evil, check out my superhero novels and short stories! The White Knight is out now to buy and Samson is available to preorder while The Street Rat and Eagless are always free to read at my website KirtleyBooks.com!

I loved every minute of Superman

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

yall gotta learn the difference between "this character is an asshole" and "this character was supposed to be super cool but the author is an asshole" and "this character is a teenage girl who was mean once"

[ghostingpen]

physically go to your local library at least once. seriously.

look around. find a random book with a cover that catches your attention. read the description. read the first page. if you like the sounds of it, borrow it and take it home to read. borrow a handful of books even.

if a book loses your interest, drop it. if a book grips onto you, ride that wave.

i've struggled to read recreationally for years despite having read so much as a kid. a lot of us are frozen by the seemingly infinite choices. even when we buy books to take home, we don't read them because which book is worth reading first? we don't have to decide, we have it right here in our bookshelves, we have an eternity of never deciding.

in this past month, i have read five books, most of them i've never heard of when i spotted their cover at the library. most of them, i've ended up loving. the due date of library books maintains the ability to read a book so i can return them to the library and leave the library with more books. an even better incentive than borrowing ebooks, because i actually have to leave the house and not be a hermit.

so if you used to enjoy reading but struggle with it now, ignore the book recs you hear. go to the library, come across a book that piques your interest, and read one page after another until you either lose interest or finish the book.

then it's onto the next one.