#books and reading

[weirdkidshere]

I fear no one is going to get this because it is a hungarian book we had to read in... I don't even know what grade. 3rd or 4th, maybe? It's called "A Pál utcai fiúk" ("The boys of Pál Street", written 1906), and it's about a group of kids who find a big, abandoned... field? I think? in the city of Budapest, on Pál street, and make it their own, and turn it into their HQ. They become friends, or more accurately, form a club, and have strict rules to follow. If I remember correctly, (I literally haven't read this book in seven years) there is also a rival club of boys, who they are trying to sabotage. I cannot for the life of me remember the plot, but I do know there was this one kid, young and scrawny and small, who was constantly trying to prove himself. Some things happened, which led the boys to believe he betrayed them, and was a traitor - not true, of course - and as punishment, they wrote his name into their rulebook with lowercase latters, the lowest and most humiliating thing a member of the club could be punished with, and they kicked him out. (Ah yeas, I remember, his name was Nemecsek I think!)

Meanwhile, however, in an earlier adventure, Nemecsek fell into a cold lake on a winter night, already a bit down with the cold. After he was kicked out, the boys ignore him completely, and shun their friend out - so they don't realise in time that the illness got serious. Nemecsek got pneumonia, i think, which at the time was incredibly dangerous, especially for a frail little boy like him.

Needless to say, he dies, with none of his friends there, his mother bawling on his chest, still believing his only friends hate him. When the boys hear about this, they are shook, of course, and immidiately forgive him and feel completely fucking horrible, but it's too little too late. They honor him by not only rewrite his name with the correct -capital letters, but by writing it in ALL capital letters.

I bawled my eyes out. I was such a little kid at the time, and i loved reading and getting invested in stories, and this fucking broke me. I finished the book at like 1 am one evening, which at the time was very late for little me, and my brother heard me literally sobbing and had to comfort me. First encounter with MCD. I didn't even think it was real. I just kept reading, because I was like "what do you mean? Books ALWAYS have a good ending please this has to be a joke - " it was not. Fucking. Broke me.

fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.

[rainbowofcrazy]

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Spread the world and happy reading!

[thenomadicquill]

You are not falling behind. If you haven't touched your WIP in weeks, if you haven't come up with a new idea, if you haven't gotten your book done and it's been 3 years, it's okay. You are not falling behind. Unless we are obligated to reach a deadline, we begin to believe that we are failing. We see countless people finishing their projects, selling their books, succeeding in the field you're in. And it's hard not to compare yourself to them, you're similar but they are doing the work, and you haven't written a paragraph in over a month.

Comparing yourself to others is a downward spiral that will never give you satisfaction. It's a difficult thing to try and overcome or ignore, but you have to. Instead of seeing other people's victories as a failure on your side, try and see them as goals. Goals to reach, inspiration to get back to your WIP, write that paragraph, or finally try and finish that book.

There is no secret that they know, and you don't. They aren't worse or better than you. There is no right answer. No finish line you need to cross. You work at your own pace, create goals to strive to and try not to compare your progress to others. Enjoy the process!

[spidersinmybook]

I vote no on 'invisible servants'. The number of times I would have passed gas in what I thought was an empty room... mortifying.

[giannaforreal]

i want to read here

[fictionalaffection]

[spookystrawberrystarlet]

shoutout to people who regularly use semicolons, I see you & I respect you

[bookishpraiseprincess]

buy me books & tell me i'm pretty

[a-r-labaere]

🌹🥀𝓜𝓐𝓥𝓘𝓖𝓝𝓔, 𝓞𝓡: 𝓐 𝓣𝓡𝓔𝓐𝓣𝓘𝓢𝓔 𝓞𝓝 𝓣𝓗𝓔 𝓜𝓔𝓣𝓐𝓟𝓗𝓨𝓢𝓘𝓒𝓢 𝓞𝓕 𝓘𝓝𝓝𝓔𝓡 𝓢𝓟𝓐𝓒𝓔 𝓣𝓡𝓐𝓥𝓔𝓛, 𝓐𝓝𝓓 𝓣𝓗𝓔 𝓚𝓘𝓝𝓖𝓓𝓞𝓜 𝓞𝓕 𝓔𝓡𝓘𝓚𝓐𝓐𝓡, 𝓦𝓗𝓞𝓢𝓔 𝓝𝓐𝓜𝓔 𝓘𝓢 𝓓𝓐𝓡𝓚𝓝𝓔𝓢𝓢 𝓜𝓐𝓓𝓔 𝓛𝓘𝓖𝓗𝓣, 𝓐𝓝𝓓 𝓕𝓤𝓡𝓣𝓗𝓔𝓡 𝓣𝓗𝓔𝓞𝓛𝓞𝓖𝓘𝓒𝓐𝓛 𝓔𝓧𝓟𝓞𝓢𝓘𝓣𝓘𝓞𝓝𝓢 𝓣𝓗𝓔𝓡𝓔𝓞𝓕 ?🥀🌹

“She went along, and went along, and went along.”  Color process illustration by Arthur Rackham for the book, English Fairy Tales, by Flora Annie Webster Steel, 1922.

[houseofchalamet]

i'm trying to fight the second one but THE VOICES-

[blueprint-9376]

23.03.2025 [🤨]

📒: 서평 쓰고 다음 책 읽기/ the day i wrote a book review and started the next book.

[meerawrites]

To me…

also Lestat in Prince Lestat but he is ancien regime and a bi vampire I do not know what you expected of him also… vampire and therefore everything Lestat did was okay - to me that is just a standard reaction to vampirism and biphobia + feature not a bug, and not the same scale as him ^^.

genuinely kind of insane that there are people who think making a fascist character gay would be, like, softening the critique of fascism rather than advancing a critique of cult-of-masculinity homosexuality lol

[silas-sola]

A little dOve told me that the glass scientists are getting graphic novels in December- excited to see the gUys in book form

Sorry for the hiatus </3

[useless-catalanfacts]

The public library with a highest number of science fiction books in Europe is the library Montserrat Abelló in Barcelona (Catalonia).

It has 2,287 sci-fi titles, from classics to new releases, the antecedents to sci-fi, books that are now discontinued, novels and short story collections, and also essays and encyclopedias dedicated to the topic. The library is still growing, and now is going to focus on incorporating new ebooks.

The Montserrat Abelló Public Library also organizes a sci-fi book club, sci-fi themed board games sessions, sci-fi roleplay games, conferences and study sessions about sci-fi, sci-fi book launch ceremonies, and more.

Source: Biblioteques de Barcelona. Photos: Ajuntament de Barcelona.

[meerawrites]

Not so loud, you are gonna scare the monosexuals!

*sighs* but yes, it is me I am the bi, I want his pseudo hand in marriage as well as his gender.