#nina reads

[ninadove]

The band on the pier is playing a harsh waltz in good time, and further along the quay there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street. Neither of the bands hears the other, but up here I hear and see them both. I wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me! I wish he were here.

Oh my God... the two bands playing in a distance from one another, but neither able to hear the other... while Mina is wondering if Jonathan is thinking of her while she's thinking of him... She wants him here, to unite their own "songs"...

Like two bands distant from each other, the two lovers think of the other, but cannot hear each other... They are too far away...

Anon you are so right and I am holding your hand as we wait for the lovers to reunite 🥺🩵

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[practicefortheheart]

I'm not a huge fan of audiobooks (I'm so very picky about voices - I actually had to abandon Stephen Fry's Heroes audiobook because he did an accent I didn't like and I couldn't get over it - STEPHEN FRY, what is wrong with me ), but I do like to listen to stuff while commuting and cleaning, and since I'm picky about podcasts as well, I tried one again anyway - I'm listening to A Power Unbound, and I honestly need Josh Dylan to come and read all my books to me. Every single one, he is SO good. (the way he does Edwin's voice!!)

Also the book itself is really good, but I did have to get over Josh Dylan reading explicit sex scenes aloud to me. It's an experience.

(any other audiobooks you can recommend? with nice voices??)

[heartshapedness]

- from bliss montage by ling ma.

[darlingaffogato]

ugh, no, not me crying into my lunch like i'm heartbroken over harrowhark talking, kinda, to herself.

[omegaverse-anesthesiologist]

why is ao3 is blocked on the hospital wifi????

[rosesteeth]

— mosquito; by roma tearne

[adaki]

GIRLS NITE OUT >_< ((clockwork could not make it)) (wip)

[niikaido]

laios: "she probably wanted to eat them with you"

[inthedarktrees]

In tiny tub which is in the kitchen, Jo Ann reads a paperback while bathing. Apartment does not have radiator heat but it does have hot water.

Nina Leen, Life, May 17, 1954

[allwillbecomeclear]

I just finished reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle & I'd love if literary tumblr could give me some insight about it. I know it was Shirley Jackson's last novel before she passed, and I have some knowledge of her life, but I don't know much.

I'd also just like to know what people think is actually happening in the story. It reads like an actual nightmare (like all of her "horror" stories), so well that I have trouble discerning the reality of it. Which I know is the point, but I just wonder what Jackson would tell me if I could ask her about it.

[shriika]

thinking about a younger katerina

[gurlypop]

☾ ⋆*･ﾟ:⋆*･ﾟ

[practicefortheheart]

I'm about halfway into Ravensong and I feel like the actual plot is really kicking off and though I had to work a little to get through the first half, I do like that we get the time to get to know everyone properly and to feel like we're somehow part of the pack, as it were.

SPOILER AHEAD

I think every book is from a different character's pov, but I would love to have another Ox pov now that he's changed.

[heartshapedness]

— happiness, as such by natalia ginzburg

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

My Six of Crows blanket is officially finished!!

I’m so happy with ittttttttttttt

I know a few people have said they’d be interested in a lil guide on how I did it (I don’t have a pattern bc I just decided to draw up the chart for it myself on a whim and then got committed) so I’m planning on writing that and sharing it soon, please let me know if you’d like to be tagged!

Anyway I don’t think I have anything else to say, I just had to share because I am OBSESSED with how this came outtttt I’m so happy

[restinslices]

*Gets on the highest cliff*

Ahem…

JESPER FAHEY IS NOT JUST A COMIC RELIEF CHARACTER. YES HE MAKES JOKES AND FLIRTS BUT HE IS ALSO A COMPLEX CHARACTER THAT HAS BOTH AN INFLATED SENSE OF SELF AND POOR SELF ESTEEM AND HAS NO IDEA WHAT HIS PURPOSE IS IN LIFE