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timdrakesstaff · 1 year

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I got a bunch of books yesterday! It'll take a while to get to and through all of them because I've got a busy schedule, but I'm excited. Especially For S.(I'll RB with what the inside looks like)

I also got a second copy of Starless Sea so I can tab my favorite sections for him to read and send it to him

And also a field of birds in my area

I'll get through all of these and share my thoughts eventually. Maybe liveblog, I dunno

I... Don't know where I intend on putthing these, considering my bookshelf is stuffed full. I'll hafta double layer or something

#timblr #robin chitter #aristotle and dante discover the universe #scythe book #The seven and a half deaths of evelyn hardcastle #S. book #The God of Endings #Sorry for all book tags #They will be relevant eventually

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heliopixels · 6 months

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Started reading S. by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams and idk if its the ADHD talking but I think it's way more accessible than House of Leaves honestly. That's not to say that HoL is bad, just that it can be a HORRIBLE slog to get through at times with its academic language and large swaths of repetitive text. It is by no doubt a very good book, but I've had it for over a year and have sadly not been able to finish it yet.

S. On the other hand, engages with the reader more easily with how the 2 other readers leaving notes are fairly down to earth and informal, making it an easier read imo. That doesn't mean it takes any less time for me to get through however, because the way I've chosen to read it is to read all the typed out text in a single chapter first and then go back and read the notes and extras. Maybe it'd be even easier for someone who reads more books regularly but I haven't been able to do that in a long time so :/

#S. (ADHD) vs. House of Leaves (autism)#/hj #i mourn the time i could read 500 pages a day #S. book #??#S. doug dorst #S. j.j. abrams #V.M. Straka

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nedlittle · 1 year

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it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

#the picture of dorian gray #lit #this is a pointless text post #guess what i read for the first time in the year of our lord 2023 #and yes this is a real review on storygraph that i took a screenshot of. you people are so stupid god bless #girl he literally censored it himself did your edition have 0 introduction or background at all #greatest (s)hits #book discourse

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dollhousefemme · 6 months

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Mrs. S by K. Patrick

#lesbian #lesbian literature #butch lesbian #lesbian books #lgbt books #butch main character #dyke #k patrick #mrs s

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torpublishinggroup · 5 months

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wedarkacademia · 5 months

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#c s lewis #c.s. lewis #dark academia #quotes #spilled words #spilled thoughts #dark aesthetic #book quotes #text #words #words words words #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark acamedia #quotes to live by #quote

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sunnylemonss · 5 months

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it should be illegal for netflix to print their little "now a netflix series!" circles DIRECTLY on the cover of books that inspired shows they've cancelled

#saw these on some s&b and soc books in target yesterday #i was like bffr #netflix i'm in ur walls #shadow and bone #six of crows #netflix #also applicable to the half bad series by sally green #lockwood and co #too i'm so sorry my brethren we r in the trenches fr

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consumebread · 5 months

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It's bro's turn to cook *insert zero to hero here*

#disney twst #twst #twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #idia shroud #twst idia #my contribution meme to book 7's release in the en servers #i got a few more sketches in queue but ill get to those later #got more memes brewing too hehehe

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kitchen-light · 3 months

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Regretfully, I had to leave all my books behind. I couldn’t bear to make the choice between my beloveds, so I left them all. Give them back. Give us back our beds. Give us back our offices. And give us back our books.

Nabil S., from "It Was All Songs: A Letter From Gaza" translated from the Arabic by Sarah Aziza, published in Mizna on February 12th, 2024. You can read the entire essay here.

#nabil s #quotes #essays #words #palestine #found*#books

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inkskinned · 2 months

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my father told me he read it, but he hasn't read it. that's okay. my friends keep picking the words out of my throat.

someone once told me that the more trigger warnings that go on a book, the better it is. i didn't mean to write something with so many conditional phrases - i was writing about what i felt while being a human. sometimes you are a person and sometimes you are a statistic. sometimes it is falling upwards and sometimes it's sliding back down again.

my father tells me that it will be difficult to get people to read it. i didn't like the idea of a singular genre. i'm not going to lie to you - it is actually a difficult book to get through. i change the rules in it. it's not poetry or prose explicitly. it's neither false nor reality. i give you the tools to "solve" the book, but i let you do the thinking. my father says people don't care to think. i don't know about that - i think we just, like, enjoy reading.

the thing is - i was tired of stories about survival where someone with depression goes to therapy and wakes up okay. i didn't live like that. i was tired of books about violence, where the gore of what i experience was splashed in glitter to lick off the page. like, i was a person, you know? i had a life and a job and a family. and in books, i watched my story get ripped up so people could explore the viscera of my body. so they could feel good. my brother once called it inspiration pornography. we had walked out of a suicide-prevention seminar, both of us disgusted while the increasingly-elated presenter kept listing methods-of. i remember the look on my brother's face. like i would tear that man apart given the right time and place.

my father says that kids these days. he warns me against writing about things that are too-serious. he says that they don't want it. i don't listen. he does make me take out a scene from the book where i go to church after having sex with a woman. it used to be the 7th scene in the book. i don't think he's read further than that, it rocked him too hard to continue.

it's a book about being queer. it's a book about being raised catholic. it doesn't have monsterfucking, i'm sorry. it's just about, like.

at some point you have to choose to stay here. and then you do have to stay here, which takes practice. this is about forming the habit. this is about what happens after you've already started doing the work. because, like. you keep going. you have to. and it's like. very imperfect.

i should make a post on instagram. i should make this announcement less bittersweet. but like -- i'm giving it you, specifically, because i think you know why i had to write it. you and me. this little community.

body's a bad monster. here's the link if you're interested in ordering.

#i will never shut up about this #by the way . this is the book that u are trying to get me to eat #also available on other links!! barnes and noble and s&S #also btw i drew the cover :) they asked me to lol #btw this isn't self-published. this is like. book deal thru simon and schuster

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misforgotten2 · 4 months

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Every aspic of this is terrible.

The Art of French Cooking - 1962

#chicken #aspic #Cook book #cookbook #1962 #1960's #1960s #recipes #French cooking #ephemera #funny #humor #humour

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dduane · 7 months

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“In my own first story I had described at length what I thought a rather fine high tea given by a hospitable faun to the little girl who was my heroine. A man, who has children of his own, said, ‘Ah, I see how you got to that. If you want to please grown-up readers you give them sex, so you thought to yourself, “That won’t do for children, what shall I give them instead? I know! The little blighters like plenty of good eating.” In reality, however, I myself like eating and drinking. I put in what I would have liked to read when I was a child and what I still like reading now that I am in my fifties.” —C. S. Lewis, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children”

#C. S. Lewis #on the cluelessly mercenary end of the book-marketing mentality

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dyed-indigo · 3 months

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