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mostlyghostie · 1 day
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Bedside table reads:
One book that’s lived here for two years
One short story collection where I didn’t like the first one and never continued
One interesting non-fiction one that I’m never in the mood for
One big fat classic I’m genuinely excited to start but haven’t
One extremely readable, plotty page turner that I started yesterday and will finish tonight
One library book that I need to return
One I’m actually reading properly- my ‘main’ book
What are you reading?
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somerabbitholes · 1 day
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an accidentally mild coffee, reading about the cold war in south asia and listening to the new hozier ep
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peachdavisbooknerd · 3 days
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Me giving my character trauma, no family, anger issues, nightmares, mixed up sense of self worth, fear that they will never be loved, etc:
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marbiesss · 2 days
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The birthday boys ❤️💙
3•27•24 🎊 3•12•24
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galina · 9 hours
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The best book I’ve read so far this year is Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.
When poets write novels I always get very excited because they enter into their contract with words in a different way to other writers, with a certain level of distrust of language’s abilities, with an understanding of the disappointing paradox in metaphors, and with a playful abandon for convention.
This book is a great example of all of those things. It tore me open so many times and put me back together again, too. It’s got everything — family, identity, death, nationality, history, death, art, politics, death, love, war, did I mention death, and dreams where the dead speak to cartoon characters
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sarceansurvivor · 19 hours
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i love books with traumatized character who don’t suddenly “get better” by the end, the ones who still suffer despite the story being over and needing to continue living their life with the trauma they hold
bc a happy ending doesn’t mean that you are suddenly healed of all your trauma and history
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therefugeofbooks · 1 day
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sunflower & next read
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starrynightsxo · 2 days
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*cardan existing*
tfota fandom: cardan no... stop... you're too man... you're too witty... it's too much... they'll kill you...
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headcanonsandmore · 7 hours
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Now that I'm reading books by Pratchett's male contemporaries in the 80s and 90s, I'm realising just how ridiculiously ahead of the curve Terry was in terms of writing complex female characters.
I'm reading through the Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E Feist at the moment and (aside from the sub-series that he co-wrote with Janny Wurts) his writing of female characters is incredibly limited (at least thus far; I'm on 'Shadow Of a Dark Queen' at the moment). Virtually every female character is allocated the singular role of either mother, love interest to a male hero, seductive villianess or sex worker.
This book came out in 1994 but it may as well be 1974 given how one-note the female characters are. And that's not even getting into the constant fridging.
Hoping that Feist's writing for women gets better as the series progresses because jeez...
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hotel-head · 18 hours
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philosophors · 1 day
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“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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cloudxworld · 2 days
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" Sometimes the wait is worth it. Don't forget the people of patience have beautiful endings "
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skylark233 · 2 days
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horreurscopes · 2 days
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does anyone know where i can get a normal ass relatively affordable notebook (dot or grid preferred but lined is fine too - not blank) with this kind of thick, recycled speckle-y paper? everything i can find is either stupid expensive and not actually a notebook ("guided journals" as pictured lol) or on the opposite end of the quality spectrum (tissue paper dollar store notebook). in my wildest dreams it's like a bound a5 that lies flat but i will take spiral too. as we once said in a long forgotten era: i have a mighty need please send me leads if u have them
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y2kaee · 2 days
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"We do not remember days,
We remember moments"
Cesare Pavese
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