#books.txt

[harestigm]

i'm gonna read more, i miss it. i got some books that I have yet to read and they're all stacked up on the side of my bed (TWO STACKS!! mixed in with other books I've finished but STILL!! TWO!!)

its not overwhelming how much i've collected and haven't feasted my eyes on, more just "I can't believe it's come to this."

and theres only two reason why i let it get like this okay?? well three but still two

okay so one, i can only read one book at a time to get the best experience, and with school and assigned reading, I have no time for guilty pleasures like just reading on my own. if I could I would, but reading two books at the same time just sends a shiver down my spine and makes my shoulders hunch, like yeah a lot of people do it but me?? never.

two, i keep going to bookstores, and my book list keeps mounting, so I go to the bookstores, I take the books, and with the mounting copies of actual books I have yet to read, the new books get piled unto the old ones I still haven't read and so we continue like that, its a vicious cycle!!

three, time is of essence and i seem to just be gradually running out of essence. if I'm lucky I can spend my nights reading, and if I'm not, well whos going to stop me? (apart from the people in my head begging for rest lolll)

four, i reread books!! for the sake of nostalgia and going back to my roots and knowing what got me here!! and I can't just stop in the middle of one book and pick up another, I have to finish the book and when I do there has to be a grace period in between finished books unless its a sequel and even then I feel like I have to process the book before moving on. my current dilemma is that I'm reading a series called 'The Beautiful' and the author has only come out with 2 books of the series, it might just be the last book but I wouldn't know! I haven't finished it!! also I may have misplaced it and don't know where it is.

[fertilizerforflowers]

I just finished reading Richard Siken’s Crush after probably a year and a half of half lines, stops and restarts and etc. I feel like poetry shouldn’t be read at one. You read one and then you come back and then you digest and you read it again. Either way, I can now go hard on Litany In Which Things Are Crossed Out because it deserves so much love

[spiritunwilling]

Top ten August Bateman moments

1. Beating the shit out of Jack's dad

[hyrulesmilf]

another book rec - they both die at the end by adam silvera! good poc/lgbt rep and just a very profound, heartbreaking and heartwarming story. it's amazingly written and uh they do both die at the end but it's pretty obvious it's not used for shock value or anything like that. i just really, really love this book

Adam Silvera has also written two other books that I enjoyed with lgbt rep! he’s a really good author and also he’s a gay man I’m pretty sure which is nice for a change.

[jesscmccrees]

i gotta be real w yall i dont understand the appeal of k//anej as anythng more than friends like kaz is . Kaz. and inej is perfect

[bbrace]

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[spiritunwilling]

Saw a post about Fang Runin and Nezha and it took me a moment to remember Nezha is an actual character and it was not, in fact, comparing Rin to mythological figure Nezha as two fire-inclined kids who are down to kill.

[spiritunwilling]

It goes like:

Saint at seventeen, dead at eighteen. (Canonized long before your time.)

[spiritunwilling]

If I just keep drawing six of crows I don't have to think about blaseball and ffs possible plot relevancy™

[spiritunwilling]

If you wanna know how my day has been I woke up and reread Matthias' death scene and got sad about it then I reread Crooked Kingdom and I just got to his death scene again and I'm sad again

[spiritunwilling]

And also haha that detail about dunyasha training at a monastery in Shu Han

*looks into the camera*

[spiritunwilling]

Inej: idk you're pretty cringe

[spiritunwilling]

Seeing people on my dash watching s&b but never read the books is such a treat

[spiritunwilling]

Maniac Magee was weird right

[spiritunwilling]

Also since I brought up Dahlia in my tags I legally have to redraw this scene. There's a law somewhere.

[spiritunwilling]

Oh the urge to draw dunyasha as unsettling vs the urge to draw dunyasha as a3lin