#books I love

[feywildfancypants]

My running notes from Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco:

I love snarky chaos characters so much. “Take it from someone who talks too much” *kills the guys while he’s monologuing* “you talk to much”

*mid battle* What’s the word for fucker in this language? *makes best attempt* is later corrected with the right word because what he says means cantaloupe. “Ah, I believe I am starting to understand your frustrations with my language”

Like Witcher if despite the witcher being badass, the vampires were even more badass. (Like even the “well fuck” is so Witcher 🤭)

Can’t say I love you. Just says fuck you instead.

Like, he’s a badass reaper and then the vampires are just all *you fragile, we protect you” and he resents them for it even if he secretly loves it.

Lady Song kicking ass again. 

10/10 would recommend. Soft, queer, bloody gory romantasy. *chefs kiss*

[fr1day-th3]

ʚ♡ɞ

[moonlightbambina]

Heartstopper is the anti-Euphoria and I am obsessed 🥹

[maidaaart]

The Zumra

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

[runixa]

The

The

The

The metaphor of the harp and whose holding it. The way Fitzroy always carries it, until the conversation on sky ocean and then as the sail, cliopher has it in every moment of danger.

They fall from the sky and cliopher holds tightly, keeps it from getting lost.

He keeps it from getting crushed.

Fitzroy has it when he shares. And...

Fuck. It's more than that. It's reciprocal. When they fall from sky o ean cliopher protects the harp. Fitzroy protects the boat.

These deep cores of who each of them are. And once they've talked, in every moment of danger they protect the other man's precious object.

It's... It's beautiful, and it's masterfully written.

And realizing it was reciprocal straight up made me cry, so I'm just going to go do that now

[coffeedrgn87]

new prized possession obtained 💜

[firefly-nightsky]

I am just glad the day I click the lockwood and co show on my netflix to see thinking it something like Ghostbuster ! Did not have any idea it was a Book series [ the best one might i add ] Netflix did not promote it ! I did not have seen the trailer!

I JUST CLICKED IT CAUSE IT WAS TRENDING NO.1 ! I LIVE IN INDIA !

It really did well if it reached to the audience who have never even heard of it before !

I bought all the books immediately! All the friends I recommended the show loved it !

Even though it's a children's books i read it as an adult and loved it ! Portland row reminds me of my childhood summer evenings ! It's comfort you crave ! I hope we get it to more larger audience! For Mr.stroud is a amazing writer and he deserves this !

[supernutellastuff]

Yooo I just read station eleven it was fantastic

(saw your tag on a post)

Also I really want to see those graphic novels it’s a shame they’re not real

Hiii I love Station Eleven so much. I can go on for years about it!

I first read it in December 2019, when news of coronavirus was just breaking. So that was obviously an anxiety-provoking experience haha. And then I re-read it last year, "post pandemic", and it holds up so well! Apocalyptic/sci-fi stories that centre the beauty of humanity, art, music, culture, cooperation, community, etc is one of my fav genres (re Mad Max Fury Road, Arrival, etc.). And yes my favourite bit was those graphic novels, it was so satisfying to read how she came up with the idea, the description of the text and the artwork - and it was brilliant to see how it touched multiple lives. I want to read them too!

Have you watched the HBO show based on the book? I still haven't, I'm a little scared it might not capture the book's essence haha. Also, I recommend the author's other books - Glass Castle and Sea of Tranquility - they don't reach the heights of Station Eleven imo but they're still pretty good, and they're set in parallel/overlapping timelines so some familiar characters turn up :)

[scentedsstuff]

'She didn’t dream. She didn’t believe in wishes. She was no romantic like Yasmine, but somewhere along the way, she’d grown partial to another soul.'

We Free the Stars, Hafsah Faizal

[bookishintherain]

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

Ok. I FINALLY read this. And absolutely loved it!!!

I’d started it on audiobook a while back and just wasn’t paying enough attention so I gave up.

But I went back and read it finally and I could not put it down! I think it’s my favorite Rogerson book so far, which is saying something because I’ve loved all of them. But this one. Just *chef’s kiss*

The characters complemented and meshed together so well. The plot kept moving and the stakes kept rising and the climax was perfect.

Ugh. I loved it so much 😭

That’s all.

[rrcraft-and-lore]

My copy of The Knight by Gene Wolfe.

I first started him so long ago but my introduction to his works were @neil-gaiman's recommendation and starting, in my case, with Books of the New Sun, which still blow my mind every time I go back and see how many layers there are secrets, the symbolism, and more. Peeling away at his works feels like what I love/enjoy about the FromSoftware games - digging through Dark Souls/Elden Ring/Sekiro lore, worldbuilding, and inspiration.

[shirecryptid]

BOOKS I LOVE  ( 9/? )

↳  MAGIC SLAYS  ( kate daniels #5 ) by  ilona andrews.

the ringing of the phone jerked me from my sleep. i clawed my eyes open and rolled off my bed. for some reason, someone had moved the floor several feet lower than i had expected, and i fell and crashed with a thud.           ow.      a blond head popped over the side of the bed, and a familiar male voice asked, “are you okay down there?”           curran. the beast lord was in my bed. no, wait a minute. i didn’t have a bed, because my insane aunt had destroyed my apartment. i was mated to the beast lord, which meant i was in the keep, in curran’s rooms, and in his bed. our bed. which was four feet high. right.      “kate?”           “i’m fine.”      “would you like me to install one of those child playground slides for you?”           i flipped him off and picked up the phone.

[advocatekwlaunt]

Super superrrr psyched that @everyforkedroad recommended that I give this a shot how exciting!!! I almost exclusively read queer fiction, I swear I keep trying to branch out but there's so much EPIC queer content...

So, that being said...

The last book I bought was: Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (Southern Gothic queer horror story- slow burn romance and just so, so beautifully written.)

Borrowed: Drag Teen by Jeffery Self. (Cute, very cute story.)

Was Gifted: A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara (It counts if I gifted it to myself, yes? Had them gift wrap it and everything) Also, it broke my Little heart. I still find myself muttering quotes from the book randomly in utter disbelief.

Gave/Lent to Someone: The Woman Who Made Me Feel Strange by Anna Ferrara (Such a good book- part of a trilogy, if I'm not mistaken and I plan on reading the other two soon BUT THE FIRST ONE WAS epiCccc)

Started: You Owe Me A Murder by Eileen Cook (Not a queer book- like I said I'm trying to branch out- and it's a thriller sort of crime thing? Not too bad so far)

Finished: We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (Whew.)

Gave 5 Stars: The Library on Mount Char by Scott Hawkins ( One of my favourite lines: "I'd drop-kick the baby Jesus for a Marlboro." That is all.)

Didn't Finish: Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee (Things became intense and I got scared- I will eventually go back to it but first I intend to forget what made me stop reading in the first place.)

Personal reccomendationsssss cus I also love recommendations: They Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson. Supernatural horror vibes with an amazing, epic woman of colour as the main character. Couldn't reccomend it enough.

Soooo, it'd be super cool if @use-your-words , @squash1 , @envyclearlace anddddd @crownamedtod shared their recently reads etc as well. anddddd anyone else!💜💜💜

[maidaaart]

'Throughout my twenty years of detective work, I have never failed to solve a case. Except for one: the Forest Incident.'

-'The Forest of Stolen Girls' by June Hur

[runixa]

I'm rereading the hands of the emperor, and I've gotten to the part were we see his radiency's private study. In struck by the... The metaphor of it. The inner man and outer man, the one small inner room, drowning in the outer chambers.

But also by the parallel between his radiency having this one space he really occupies and decorated, and cliopher bringing his much loved, comfortable, shaggy furniture into his new huge and well appointed residency.

The ways and reasons the two mean are... Not fully able to be themselves are immensely different.

But they still aren't able to.

I... I don't think I've even begun to really put this thought into words. But it's... Striking. Heartbreaking, beautiful, full of love like everything between these two. Companionable and lonely at the same time...

I just... Damn.

[cowardlyriver]

He stood straight, not leaning against the chair, color blazing in his face. He reminded James of the Matthew he had tied himself to at their parabatai ceremony so long ago: a Matthew who seemed to fear nothing: not shadow, not fire.

- Chain of Thorns, Cassandra Clare