#good book though

[guangchuans]

pachinko makes me shake my head like every two chapters

[thornsnvultures]

it's after 2:30am and I'm v sleepy but I did finish reading howl's moving castle and whewwww boy that book. very different than the movie, which I already knew but the extent to which it is different is insane. these are two very, very different stories. book!sophie kind of irritated me with the constant self pitying but I didn't hate it. and howl was a nightmare mess of a man but I enjoyed seeing more of his back story in the book. anyway I had a good time, definitely recommend checking it out

[starlit-hopes-and-dreams]

1 do you prefer a standalone or a series?

11 the best book you have ever read?

20 do you prefer audio books or e-books?

Elli, I love you for changing out those pesky shorthand yous. <3 Thanks for the ask! From this ask game.

1. do you prefer a standalone or a series?

Most definitely prefer a series. I get attached to these little fuckers and I *always* want more. Honestly, it is exceedingly rare for me to even find a standalone I want to read anyway, but *shrugs*

Also, I prefer a series that follows the same cast of characters, but I'll take reading about a new set of mc's as long as the old ones still feature in the book :)

11. the best book you have ever read?

Fuck this question 😂

The best, how? Like best written? best as in favorite? I guess I'll go with favorite? (which also, fuck picking favorites lolol)

Mostly bc I'm not a great judge of literary quality. I'm in it for the characters and there are some truly awful books written that the characterization completely makes up for, so take that as you will lol.

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I've been staring at this question for waaaaay too long. Also super hard to pick a singular book (reference first question lol)

Not gonna say its the best 😑, but The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey is a particular favorite of mine from way back when. It's part of a series, but it's the one I like most.

The Rowan is caught in a landslide that orphans her as a toddler, trapped in a vehicle for days while the entire planet listens to a baby wail psychically in their minds. Once rescued, she grows up with a handler's family. She is a strange traumatized child who keeps to herself, and is way way too strong (psychically).

She is set apart and isolated her entire life, either by her own choice or by the cruelty of others, and the whole book is just one blow after another until she walls herself off completely.

But she finds love and acceptance at the end and its just so 🥰🥰

20. do you prefer audio books or e-books?

ebooks ebooks ebooks ebooks ebooks

*comes up for air*

ebooks?

[goddamnshinyrock]

I had a new "oh, my family were the weird ones" moment recently: it seems no one else's family celebrated Frog Night (the first warm rainy night of spring) by going down to the local vernal pool after dark to help the amphibians safely across the road and listening to the spring peepers. (We'd then go back in daytime later on to observe the egg masses, of course.)

Apparently "Frog Night" as a holiday is a thing my mother invented and not a widely-accepted idea, which is a shame because I've been referring to it as if it was for the past 30 years.

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[theballadoflucygraybaird]

I’ve never read a horror book before and having the last house on needless street be my first sure was a time

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael Afton knows the FNAF Mimic’s secret..

[kaos-living]

I keep trying to figure out the first time I saw anything gay in media, and I've narrowed to down to a book my friend group passed around when I was like 8? or something.

Like the book still traumatized me but not because two of the guys kissed, you know?

[fieryphrazes]

Okay but can we talk about how Garden Spells is basically fanfiction of the movie Practical Magic, which itself is only tied to the book Practical Magic by the loosest threads. Can we talk about that.

[egophiliac]

*shaky thumbs up* I just finished ch5...... y-you were not kidding about it being a heavy one.....

:)

(how's that going so far, Mal)

[itsscottiesstark]

Am I the only one that actually agrees with Neil about season 2 being "quiet, gentle and romantic"? OBVIOUSLY not the final 15, but the rest was terribly sweet and so so so romantic.

The dancing? "I thought we carved it out for ourselves" "so did I"??? "Our car"????? Are you kiiiiidding me????

And- hear me out. What's more romantic than this:

[jesncin]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! This year I wanted to celebrate by showing you what Lunar Boy, our upcoming middle grade graphic novel, means to us as queer Indonesian representation: the thought process behind crafting a sci-fi Indonesian future that embraces queer history.

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[quiteunpersuadable]

Sometimes you read a book that was “shocking” to the general public when it was popular and you discover that it’s really not. At all.

[merlyn-red-0]

saw this tumblr ask asking about a kiss (and mr. neil gaiman responded with a kiss that was from The Sleeper and the Spindle, illustrated by Chris Riddell)

but I thought, well what if it was an aziracrow kiss after all idk

[starstuffandalotofcoffee]

this was a good read

[foxounderscorecube]

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

4 ⭐

I'm not 100% sure what I expected going into this, but I wasn't expecting such a funny book.

The writing style is old-fashioned, obviously, but it's like having your friend tell you what's been going on and I love it.

Maybe it's because I heard before reading it that Mr Darcy's autistic-coded, but I felt so bad for him, everyone thinking he was rude for so long when he just struggles with talking to people! His sister, too.

Anyway, the characters in this are great. Mr and Mrs Bennet are hilarious - the former for his sarcasm and detached, observational kind of wit; the latter for her well-meaning but absolutely awful insistence on getting her daughters married off to good (read: rich) men at any cost. This is rather unfortunate for the daughters in question - Mr Darcy, in particular, cites the parents as very off-putting to any men with any interest in them.

Jane and Elizabeth are very sweet women who I feel I'd like to be friends with. Mr Bingley's a good egg, although his sisters are total bitches. How he ended up so pleasant compared to the others is a mystery. Mary only features occasionally, but her tendency to show up and say something that she thinks sounds awfully clever was really funny - and I can't pretend I didn't kind of relate to that, as much as I hate to admit it. The younger sisters are silly little things, with their infatuation with officers , but it was good that Kitty grew up a bit by the end, even if Lydia painted herself into a corner, sadly.

Mr Collins!! Oh, he is awful. Proof that guys were doing the whole "you're not that hot anyway lmao" thing 200 years ago. His disastrous proposal to Elizabeth, and his denial of her rejection, made me cringe horribly. Poor Charlotte, who ended up stuck with him. I mean, she seemed okay with it, never expecting to marry anyone for love anyway, but she has to deal with him! His tendency to completely bow and scrape to anyone he sees as having higher rank; look down upon anyone he sees as lower; and humblebrag like nothing else regardless made him very fun to hate.

A lot of the story here is people misunderstanding each other. I mean, it's basically what the title says - the mistakes people make because of their pride and/or prejudice. That doesn't sound awfully compelling when I put it like that, but I was so desperate for it all to get ironed out and sometimes it seemed like there was no way that could happen, but things mostly ended happily aside from poor Lydia in her doomed marriage to Mr Wickham. I knew he was sus, but god, he was really sus. This was a lot of fun to read and I'm so glad I got round to reading it.