#love finishing books in one sitting

[jewishcissiekj]

Finished The Fight to Survive starting Midnight Horizon tomorrow let's go bitch

[asterlark]

just finished system collapse and i literally almost CRIED reading the last two paragraphs, not because anything bad or upsetting happened, but simply from the power of murderbot & ART's friendship. what the fuck!!!!!!

[luxaofhesperides]

I will not be "growing out" of being aroace.

dear wendy by ann zhao

[schleierkauz]

tiny little cornelia promo interview has me severely compromised

this one

at no point does she say anything she hasn't said before (& that i haven't documented before somewhere in the bookshop Q&A translations) but STILL. her summary of what she can tell us about the story made me Unwell (putting the translation beneath a cut just to be safe)

"Well, the way I write is that I don't want to know anything… don't want to know too much about the labyrinth I'm entering. For me, the excitement of writing is about not knowing what the story will eventually reveal to me. So I'm not going to spoil the adventure the readers hopefully have waiting for them too much. It's about revenge. The title says as much. Orpheus' revenge on Dustfinger. And you could say the revenge of a reader on a character he once loved very much. For that character not loving him back. It is also about the question whether words are more powerful than images. It's also about being young and getting older. It's about a thousand - hopefully - themes so every reader can pick something out that speaks to their own life. Something they never thought about before. I hope it will be a journey from which you can bring back plenty of images and many places you might like to travel to."

[smute]

i often read the haunting of hill house around this time of year and i always think to myself ah cozy spooky fall read maybe i can spread it out over a few nights just to get in the mood for halloween surely its not as bad as i remember just a wee little whore story :) but cheesus on crackers it scares the shit out of me every time

[crimeronan]

oh i've started listening to nona btw, my audiobook hold went thru at the library after many weeks of waiting. i also realized part of why i'd been putting it off was because i know i'm gonna miss a lot of important details and characterization and implications and have no idea what's going on during the first read and embarrass myself, which is silly. not knowing wtf is happening is a Vital Feature of these stories. i do not need to retain every single page of a book with perfect clarity or absorb every single thematic implication as i read it in order to enjoy it. <-desperately chanting this sentence while gripping the sink staring wild-eyed into the mirror

SO the plan is to just casually let it play through once so i get the vague shape of the story & then, if i have enough time left on the hold, to do a second listen wherein my brain will Actually Pay Attention. we'll see.

[mythology-void]

reaffirming the idea that yes, I can do anything. and everything. perhaps even all at the same time

[steelycunt]

going to buy a new little book as a treat...maybe hamlet we'll see...i have bonjour tristesse but i sort of want 2 save that for a sunny warm day maybe if i go to the beach...maybe i'll bake something...stick things in my little journal...what a tuesday...im going to see if there are pigeons in the garden...

[touchmycoat]

ANOTHER BOUND FIC! I’ve wanted to bind House with Lily’s fanart for ages. Next time I bind a book of this length (~40 sheets of paper) I’m going to try a single book, just to see how a thicker book looks and feels…

[depresseddepot]

the hollow places by t kingfisher was fucking terrifying

[cosmik-homo]

Like possibly hot take but I find the Thing with Fitz and. The Fiol, one could say, to be much MORE interesting held within a context that respects Fitzs historical social attitude and sexual politics. Im sorry if the guy that got lynched to death at 15 is a little weird about the idea of being contexualized as a homosexual in Medeval Public. And anyways treating their Unrequited Requited deal as the crazy one sided situation it is makes everything about Little Mx Gayboy Moth To The Flame Mount Rushmore Behavior 'Yeah I guess if i expected you to call me beloved I really am a fool' soo much more interesting. Honey I know you quite literally have to be here but for sure you can do this without hurting yourself so much. Right. Right. Wait not like that.

[sunstainedpages]

I love how I'm like 'oh I'm going to read this book over a few days to savour it and enjoy it' and then immediately sit down and finish it

[keeps-ache]

honestly.

[cetoddle]

i finished the girl who fell beneath the sea it was pretty good

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2022:

Kino’s Journey Volume 1 by Keiichi Sigsawa (2000)

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore (2017)

This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion (2019)

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex edited by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence (2007)

Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino (2022)

No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein (2017)

The Remedy: Queer and Trains Voices on Health and Health Care edited by Zena Sharman (2016)

Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor (2015)

A Cruelty Special to Our Specials: Poems by Emily Jungmin Yoon (2018)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]

[rubberbandballqueen]

a kid at work was like "look at my stuffed animal!!" and i was like "ooooo" bc i love soft things n then she was like "would you like to hold it?" n i was like "BOY WOULD I!!" n then she was like "but he's been injured so i put a band-aid on him" n i was like "oh does he need to be sewn up?" expecting this child to have been like me n just put band-aids on her stuffed animals For Funsoes but then she was like "yeah :(" and showed me the hole n i was like "oh my god. would you like me to fix him up?" n so anyway i have now fixed up the giant gaping hole in her stuffed sloth hehe c: