#books I read in 2019

[anxioussailorsoldier]

and even more amazing was the day Link realised he [redacted] him back

[veronicaneptunes]

A long time ago, we used to be friends... The Veronica Mars pilot aired 20 years ago today- on the 22nd of September, 2004.

[umbrvx]

a villain’s journey

[reddieswift]

from the credits of the girl who loved tom gordon by stephen king:

ok. i know this has been discussed on here before but i literally only found out about it today so... anyone else going insane over richie tozier's kinda canonical post-derry music career?????!?! hello?!?!

[expelliarmus]

[thisbrilliantsky]

saw these going around and i wanted to try it so here u go! i chose strictly from books only, tho if any of yall want to do it don't feel constrained! i had to or i'd never narrow it down to 10 :|

[noodlesandtoons]

Okay so for no specific reason at all, I need to ask a question for all my mutuals who have read ‘Moominpappa’s Memoirs’.

How do Muddler and Fuzzy get separated from Sniff? Is it ever specified? Cause I vaguely remember hearing somewhere that Muddler and Fuzzy suffered the same fate as Muddler’s parents, which was getting lost in a Spring cleaning I think. Except unlike Muddler’s parents they didn’t die.

I’m asking cause it’s been years since I thought about it and I don’t know if I actually read that somewhere or if I just made it the hell up.

[wanderingdesertrose]

Various covers of Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (formerly/alternatively titled Mistborn: The Final Empire)

left to right, top to bottom:

1) 1st edition hardback

2) 2nd edition mass market paperback

3) cover from when the book was rebranded as YA instead of adult

4) 2019 mass market paperback

5) UK cover

6) Croatian cover

7) Chinese cover

8) new US cover (2023)

[mayomkun]

I'm rereading The Hunger Games so I redraw my book Katniss and Peeta ✨ 2019 -> 2023

[thelosers-club]

Every time I read through the world of it book, I always laugh at this page because that sure the fuck is not richie. who the fuck is that lol.

[bblookyyy]

a lil guy

[hsslilly-blog]

is covid canon to pixelberrys universe. is it mentioned in any book? is it something that happened in choices continuity? is it implied or just not mentioned at all? if it’s not mentioned are you supposed to understand it happened?

[fluffylixie]

me: nooo im boreed i need to fight the boredommm what do i dooooooo OH WAIT, ill just re-read my favourite reddie fanfics for the 500th time :3

the actual IT book side-eyeing me from the shelf: 😦😦

[mummer]

cracking up that bill is one of those guys on tiktok who makes fun of black and white eastern european new wave films shot from the perspective of a pigeon

[princehoneytea]

do you ever just enter a State and buy every piece of moomin literature you can find

[eliotquillon]

just finished the rwrb movie and although i really enjoyed it (and was kicking my feet giggling the whole time) i do have a couple of major criticisms, some of which i think aren’t really the movie’s fault because they had to fit a whole book into 2 hours, but some of which left me kind of disappointed:

-i feel slightly icky that bea and nora got their screentime SIGNIFICANTLY reduced even after june got cut entirely (which i was upset about, but did understand). i loved zahra and adored her on screen but i do think it’s very odd that she is pretty much the only major female character in this movie since bea was nonexistent and nora got permanently spirited away to pez’s bed or something sometime during the second act

-it felt like a lot of the internal conflict in alex and henry’s relationship was very unbalanced and henry heavy - alex’s neurodivergence was erased, his bi epiphany was barely even an epiphany, and him not being explicitly kicked off the campaign after ellen finds out about him and henry essentially killed his whole subplot about realising he doesn’t need to have everything achieved at thirty and deciding he wants to apply to law school instead. which wouldn’t have been terrible but on the flipside it felt weird that we didn’t see very much of henry’s family considering how much they affect and shape his fear of being outed and his feeling of being in a glass cage - e.g bea’s treatment by the media during her active addiction (which was entirely erased), the extent of the tension between him and philip. felt like henry’s pov scenes were a super wasted opportunity for that and we were mostly just being Told about all of these things

-i am not actually that mad about oscar and ellen still being together lol but i felt like in the scene with oscar smoking the cigar on the balcony they were kinda building up to there being significant strain in his and ellen’s relationship that just wasn’t explored. especially since it’s clear oscar would never be able to be president because he’s not a natural born citizen + the sacrifice of his career for ellen’s is so much bigger now that he’s first gentleman in this version

-pacing in general was a bit off but the worst offender was the fact that there was a complete time skip between the alex henry confrontation/reconciliation and the outing. so much of the tension and desperation from that outing scene comes from the fact that the risk of it happening was slowly increasing throughout the book and it felt almost inevitable (the elevator cctv being leaked, henry having to fake date june) and honestly making it so abrupt weirdly reduced a lot of its impact for me

-similarly i actually completely understand why the richards plot / rafael luna plot was cut (i suspect republican election interference hits a bit too close to home after 2020) but my god was miguel a lame fucking villain and him being queer and hispanic erased a lot of the original commentary about racism and homophobia that the richards plot lent itself to. like in general this movie was a lot lighter than the book which is fine! but for a movie where the main subplot is a presidential election So Much of the political themes were heavily neutered or cut to the point that it seemed like the pressure on henry and alex’s relationship was disproportionately coming from henry’s side when in the book it was more balanced

again on the whole i really really loved this movie and i knew going in that certain changed were going to be made. and i hope more movies get made like it! these r just my Thots and i may change my mind when i rewatch it with my friend tomorrow