#on books

[bookaddict24-7]

“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”

― The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

[kxowledge]

[innamorat4]

characters pining and yearning and suffering from the distance they feel from the person they desire while slowly going insane taking us through a slow burn romance until they finally admit to each other how much their bottled up feelings are killing them. and i get the frustration people feel, yeah they’re idiots for not talking about it earlier but for me this plot point that slowly culminates in characters spilling the feelings they’ve tried to hide for so long is everything. i eat this up. it will happen again and i’m not sorry in the slightest

[stargir1z]

"For Deleuze, the same assessment applies to Lacanian psychoanalysis as to the French novel, which is claustrophobic, closeted, closed-in upon itself to the point of a onanistic jubilation and neurotic self-obsession." Rosi Braidotti, Becoming Woman: Or Sexual Difference Revisited

[somerabbitholes]

hi, what did you think of in praise of good bookstores? i wanted to buy and read it, but the reviews are so mixed and i can't decide. thank you x

in all honesty, it wasn't exactly what i expected, and that did more to put me off than the book itself. i was prepared and hoping for a more bookshops (jorge carrión)-like thing on the sociology and history of the space and its function. in praise of good bookstores was that, but not enough of it in my view. it had quite a bit of interesting things to say about what makes a bookstore good, what booksellers mean and what they might do to make their store meaningful, but at times it felt more like a manual for booksellers and shops. i think i would have appreciated the book more, also, if it picked its battle and wrote either about the physical space and made a case for it, rather than shuttle between the physical space, the role of the bookseller, and their place in society. ultimately, it said a lot of things, but none of them strongly enough to stick out.

[agentnatesewell]

Okay I’m thinking this book I’m reading is a love triangle … the (English) Rose and the (Scottish) Thistle

[soulmaking]

[passionfruitbowls]

[catmint1]

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

—Ursula Le Guin, 'Sleeping Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading', Harper's Magazine, February 2008

[zahrareadsstuff]

All of booktwt coming together to appreciate the beauty that is the six deaths of the Saint by Alix e. Harrow is the best display of unity in the book community

Only time they've appreciated a book right tbh

I mean look at this display of writing

Gahhhhh the feels

[bookaddict24-7]

"A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection."

-The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente

[rellasnowheenim]

“I think, as readers, we all have a comfort read, the one book that protects us in the exact ways it needs to—whether it is a romance or erotica or a thriller or a crime story or a fantasy. A book that we find ourselves in, like looking in a mirror. Oh, you, too? It will ask, as it fills that soft, hollow place in your heart that nothing else dared to touch. I think we all deserve a book like that, whatever yours is.”

— Ashley Poston, from The Dead Romantics

[storytellinh]

"Indelible is a word for stories."

- Saint of the Book, from The Lives of Saint by Leigh Bardugo

Art by Daniel Zollinger.

[lcrdbyron]

From Walter Benjamin’s essay Unpacking My Library

[morrak]

In 257 pages, this is the first typographical error I’ve noticed. A quick search for “type specimén” in several engines is returning two sorts of document: translated issues from the Vietnam Standard and Quality Institute and digitizations of this exact book. Dis legomenon (in English, anyway; it’s plenty common in Romanian).

[soulmaking]

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals