#love books

[bookymcbookface]

The Secret Life of Cows, by Rosamund Young

[queenofheartsdeservedbetter]

"Jude?" he asks.

"Go ahead" I say.

I hear the glamour enter his voice, heady and seductive and more powerful than I expected. "Crawl to me", he says with a grin. Embarrassment pinks on my cheeks.

I CAN'TTTTT, THEY'RE SOOO AAHHHHUEKENIEOWNWUWNW 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[bibliophilliqueee]

I hope to be talked about the way Patroclus talks of Achilles.

[thoughts-become-reality]

[thoughtsthatstayedwithme]

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Shoutout to the guy at the Waterstones counter one time a year or so ago who looked me up and down then said “I’m gonna assume you have a loyalty card”. Like yeah I was buying 7 books but still

[betterthanapokeintheeye]

Celebrating 40 years of The Colour of Magic! 

The Discworld series of books has been around for what seems like a lifetime, with 41 books in the main series and a huge amount of companions, maps, atlases, colouring books and short stories, Discworld has been in people’s consciousness for almost as long as I have been on this planet. 

It all started, however, with a set of 4 short stories which featured Rincewind the inept wizard and Twoflower, the Discworld’s first tourist which were published by Colin Smythe Publishing as the book we love The Colour of Magic on 24th Nov 1983.

We all fell head over heels in love with the Luggage and marvelled at Rincewind’s amazing ability to stay alive. Twoflower’s constant positivity at all the chaos and potential death inducing moments keeps the stories humourous whilst also giving us, the readers, a firm view of the planet we were going to spend the next 40 years wishing we were living on. 

Terry Pratchett was never going to be a fantasy writer, he wanted to write serious science fiction, how different would things be if he had never written The Colour of Magic. 

Tonight we will raise a glass to the book that started the Discworld swimming, we hope you will too. 

If you don’t own a copy, you can grab one via our Bookshop, https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/40-years-of-the-colour-of-magic-by-terry-pratchett

[rainreads]

"instead of flowers, bring her rare books" 🤍♪

[murakamijeva-muza]

Seems legit

[bestestbooknerd]

Another glimpse into my shelves

[razedwrong]

embroidery in a book

[queenofheartsdeservedbetter]

Cardan telling Jude that he loves her, is the only thing that made my happy

[wotchergiorgia]

17 people, 17 questions

firstly, thank you thank you thank you to @ekraaamm for tagging me!

nickname | gio (sometimes jo, but I hate it) - to be sincere, many people, to make fun of me, call me girgia, because when I was in sixth grade, while writing down my name on the Art folder, I forgot the O... so, well, basically giorgia became girgia to anyone who was there in that crucial moment.

sign | aries, rising in libra

height | 5,5 ft

last thing I googled | masterchef starting date

song stuck in my head | "there is a light that never goes out" the smiths

no. of followers | 140

amount of sleep | on average, I think around 7hrs

lucky number | 7 and I really don't know why

dream job | psychiatrist - forensic psychiatrist would be amazing, but I have to think about it

wearing | brown jeans, dr martens, school green hoodie - yes, today I look like a tree

movies/books that summarize you | movies atonement, about time (plus all the wizarding world production and A LOT of comedies). books the brothers karamazov, one hundred years of solitude, to the lighthouse, anna karenina, the umbereable lightness of being, letters to milena, the book of laughter and forgetting

favorite song | "something about the way you look tonight" elton john, "into my arms" nick cave, "last night I dreamt that somebody loved me" the smiths and "my melancholy blues" queen. I can't really choose

aesthetic | chaotic. chaotic academia in the cold seasons and chaotic cottagecore in the hot ones

favorite authors | kundera, dostoevsky, màrquez, tolstoy, woolf

favorite animal noise | bird's tweeting

random | I'm fond of chocolate. chocolate is my first and last love

tagging: @nymph-ad-ora @dopesoulcookiegoth @sapphiceffy @optimistic-nihilist @fictionalturtlenecks @in-love-with-remus-lupin @cunningfate @chillpotato @thelatinlibrarian @mkvx @nymphpens @poems-she-wrote @deniselavestal @ohwhpotter @expectolibrary @justpoetrythings @bookworm-on-rainy-days and anyone else who wants to join!!!

[cocoabuttavasa]

real life 🫀

[savage-flirtation]

[thoughts-become-reality]