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a-libra-writes · 8 months

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to my ASOIAF homies who havent read the books yet and/or enjoy audibooks. .. may I please offer ... this fantastic amateur recording by DavidReadsASOIAF

#ive been listening for like 15 hours in the few days it is SO SO SO GOOD #i honestly dont care for the roy dotrice ones (sorry!!) & reading physical books can be v hard for me (ebook is impossible)#and this is just so delightful #his voices omg !! his Robert and Dany and Tyrion are such standouts so far #just had to share !!!! please give it a try #libra says #not writing #asoiaf

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raycatz · 16 days

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I'm not including a situation where someone might be injured because in that case I'm thinking the bed goes to them by default or they are nominated for it. anyone who wants to be chatty goes to join the living room floor gang.

What are your thoughts and headcanons? Do you have thoughts on how the boys tend to approach assigning beds in inns? Who do the chain choose to sleep near when camping and why? What are their dynamics like when settling down for the night and getting ready for the day?

In "Mirror Vs Open Closet Door: Fight!" by Gintrinsic (here) Four refers to the chain's decision on how to split up between inn rooms as the "Link-per-room ratio" which I find very funny. He, Sky, and Time also talk about their thought process behind why they do or don't want to sleep in a room with some of the others which I find fun and interesting.

So! If you have thoughts and want to share them! *gestures to the post!*

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #alrighty! now for my answers-#for the ranch question I think it varies which is why I'm asking in a poll. What do you think happens most often though?#each answer is a fun scenario so it's difficult to choose #but I think they'd try to act politely around Malon and Time for the first couple visits with straws or rock paper scissors #or showing generosity by offering the bed to someone else. (I bet Malon saying they're charming is quite the incentive #for more possible compliments. The chain as a whole would want to prove her right xD )#Once they're more comfortable in the house though I can totally see Wind and Legend making a mad dash for it while Wars yells after them xD #Wind probably ends up sharing with Four a lot since they're the littles #or Wind snuggles in with Wars Legend Wild etc #Wild and Twi/Wolfie have claimed the spot on the floor by the fireplace.#For inn rooms / castle rooms / camping - I tend to group them by how they're grouped a lot already #but a lil mixed up #Time - Sky - Wars are the good rest trio. they want a good night's rest please let them get their beauty sleep. often joined by Four #Wars goes between this group and wherever Legend is depending on how chatty he is that night.#Twi - Wild - Hyrule are snuggle/proximity buddies #Legend is attached to Hyrule's hip or sets up near Warriors to gossip and gripe. I can also see him setting up near Wild #in the eye of the storm as it were or just an interesting place to be. Wild and Hyrule can get to chatting about everything and anything #so if Legend wants background noise (Hyrule and Wild podcast omg)-#or a conversation he can be half a part of and jump in and out of while getting ready for the night or in the mornings-#this is a good place to be. add Wind and things get a bit more chaotic.#Wind gravitates to Wars and Legend too when curious and chatty. He gravitates towards Time when he wants something calmer.#Four tends to be near Sky or Twi or to Legend's group for the same reasons #I can see Four and Twi having a little book club going during downtimes where they talk about what they're reading. Sky likes to listen. <3 #Wind thinks they're nerds but so is he and he can't resist a good story so he orbits and sometimes settles in and peppers questions.#it's funny that Time Sky and Wars want to sleep the most but Legend follows Wars to chat (and ends up bringing people with him xD )#there could be some conflict there oooo #Twi is by Time #it's almost a circle but with clusters of sleeping bags near on top of each other and filling the gaps

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jayktoralldaylong · 10 days

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TRIGGER WARNING: MENTIONS OF RAPE

CAPTIVE PRINCE SPOILERS

You know what? This is.... Paces the room and slaps the wall with an open palm. No, this is definitely..... Punches a hole through the wall.

At this point, at this point, if I was Laurent, I would just let my uncle kill to be fucking honest. This is the height of things that have happened and I am losing my mind. It's not like I'm surprised, it's just the overwhelming audacity and endless betrayal.

I'm the one with unnatural feelings? ME?? YOU'RE the one who f*cking RAPED ME at the vulnerable age of THIRTEEN!!! I would lose my shit.

Not only has the Regent let this stupid believable rumour foster because everyone is well aware of how much Laurent worshipped his brother Auguste, but now he raises it as a countermeasure against Laurent ever revealing the truth. Like who the fuck are the people going to believe? Their bitchy prince or their seemingly benevolent leader with a heart of gold (he goes around fucking children!!! He's been bedding Nico since he was TEN!!! SCREAMS IN UNDILUTED RAGE!!)

I can't! I can't stand him. How?! Omg. Hoooow can people lie like they speak the truth? How can they do it without a shred of remorse? He took advantage of a young child at the time he needed him the most and he's flaunting that vulnerability, he's using it to his advantage because no one knows he likes children, because those who do know would never fathom that such a good man would do such a thing to his fucking nephew! He turned his nephew into a viper, he is the reason Laurent has no friends, no allies, betrayal and betrayal and yet another betrayal. And when the truth about Damen comes out everything is going to fall apart and I can't stand it. I can't stand any of this! I'm losing my mind. How? How has Laurent possibly put up with this for nearly ten years? I would have just given up and let the Regent take me, this is madness!!

#Please ignore how incoherent this whole thing is #reading this book has been an.... experience #It is so good #omg #not the dynamic I expected but i #genuinely adore every single narrative choice that went into the creation of this book #I'm just losing my mind because I've got to one to talk to and the happy moments are coming to an end and the slow is finally burning #but nah #some people are just shamelessly despicable.#I hope the Regent's balls rott off from the same diseased poison he keeps in his heart #Laurent would have been so small and slightly naive and so very trusting at that age. His brother being the only thing standing between him #and the Regent #and Damen took him away #the revelation will shake him #I feel like I'm going to cry #captive prince #damen of akielos #damianos of akielos #laurent of vere #the regent #The fucking asshole

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compacflt · 3 months

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question: how do you find your research/sources? yours and dancing disasters' icemav fics are so inside baseball i love it, but how do you go about doing research?

I just read a lot & google stuff I don't know & am curious about. not that hard to start learning. and in terms of reading I've been interested in military history & milfiction my whole life. mostly related to the US army, actually--im extremely new to naval history and naval literature; all of that interest was driven by top gun. I've also been fortunate enough to visit a lot of the places I write about--ive been to Pearl Harbor a couple times & San Diego MANY times, for instance, and I've toured a few aircraft carriers and military bases. I've also finally bitten the bullet and kinda shifted my career path towards aerospace, so I've been learning a lot just by working in the aerospace & defense sector/spending a lot of time with people who do.

that's obviously not to say that I am somehow Educated in all this stuff. im pretty open on this blog about me being young & naive & wrong much of the time about how the real world works. so, you know, a lot of shit I just Make Up according to my preconceived notions of the military & the world.

here is my recommended military/navy reading list, some fiction and some nonfiction.

someone also asked recently if I had read anything good in the last 6 months--yes!! three new additions to my reading list: a) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain. So goddamn good. If you have to read only one novel about the Iraq War, make it this one. It's more about America than it is about Iraq. b) Redeployment by Phil Klay. This one is a collection of short stories about Marines in Iraq, written by a USMC vet, talk about inside baseball. Crazy amounts of jargon in here, basically a "to-google" list. won the national book award which idk if it deserved, but it's good. c) No true glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle of Fallujah by Bing West. currently reading this one, really well done so far, talks a lot about how fucked the US strategy was in Iraq with Fallujah serving as a metonymy/case study for the war itself.

again... this is all mostly close-quarters-combat (infantry) literature, I really am not that interested in the navy/Air Force that much outside of top gun lol

though I did recently remember that in early 2022, before I was into top gun, I read "Wingmen" by Ensan Case, which is actually a gay US naval aviator romance set in WWII published in 1979! it's really authentic and kind of sad, obviously, since it was a 1940s navy gay love story published in 1979. I don't actually think Wingmen influenced how I wrote wwgattai or how I think of TG/TGM but I just remembered that I read that book in February 2022 and going "oh my god they were wingmen" so maybe you might find that book interesting.

#dancingdisaster's 'men like us' Directly inspired wwgattai and is the only other icemav/TG fic Ive ever read so I owe them a lottt #that fic opened my third eye as to 'omg what if ice lived' & then 'omg what if maverick died & ice never told him he loved him'#leading to my fics #thanks for the ask! PLEASE read billy Lynns long halftime walk #if for no other reason than its the best book I've read in 2024 and im already 12 books deep into 2024 #its so well written...... should be on the shortlist for the best great American novel......#a scathing indictment of the American christian conservative.... mmm I eat it up good soup #top gun #military history #guys I just found out yesterday that my ex whom I haven't talked to in 2 years has been stalking my twitter &#has seen me gushing about my gay top gun fanfiction #well he shouldn't have stalked my twitter ... genuinely insane behavior this is why I ended things #love men

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lobster-child · 2 months

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Character design sheet for Aunt Violet from Which Way to Anywhere! Aunt Trudie may be next… 🧪

#by the gods the cressida cowellverse has me in a mighty chokehold again…#and for any of you httyd/twoo book fans who haven’t read wwta yet please please please read it Omg #SO GOOD #she’s done it again #we are SOOOO close to the sequel book release in Canada I cannot wait #genuinely sooo excited #i love you Cressida cowell i love you subsequent drawing powers #which way to anywhere #httyd books #cressida cowell #cressidacowellverse

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jackmkelly · 8 months

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i think something that will forever linger in my brain about the newsies novel (which everyone should read! its so good and is available online !) is this part

there are So many other moments (him saying hes seen guys bigger than crutchie not make it out of the refuge, “you touch davey and ill-“ , jack basically saying going back to the refuge will kill him , jack sits around and talks about his day with all the boys, medda saying she sings to jack in his box , jacks family picture, jacks father canonically being a dilf ,the picture getting ripped up, etc etc) but that description . that being the way santa fe wouldve gone for him realistically . will Always ruin me.

#newsies #jack kelly #newsies book #if youve read it omg please talk to me abt it #i love it so much #it lets you get so much deeper into jack i am forever grateful #also hes only 16 in the book :(( little baby man :(

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raveartts · 1 month

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i forgot to post this but it's fanart for my favorite hazbin fic so far everyone go read it now pwease uwu

#raveartts #hazbin hotel #tw blood #alastor and lucille's relation ship is so 😍😍😍#everything to me #their banter is soooo good omg #this fic is like reading a fucking NOVEL #like an actual BOOK #and it's exactly what iw anted #just a fucking book from the pov of a serial killer that's all i want in life #first Exquisite Corpse (thank you SO much chloe ❤️) and now this fic #what murderer pov story shall i get to enjoy next #MORE SERIAL KILLER POVS IN BOOKS #WHERE ARE THEY #UNTAPPED GENRE RIGHT HERE #IT'S THE GOOD SHIT #BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD PLEASE MORE BLOOD AND GORE

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neoneun-au · 8 days

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just saw someone on insta say the reason tswift is so popular is because "no one has had more mastery over the english language" and i almost deleted the app

#L M A O thats so fucking funny #but also #be serious please omg #read literally any book #listen to mitski #go outside idk #mads.txt

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yeyayeya · 2 months

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Not my dumbass reading two novels at once and I am going insane over two characters and I’m not even halfway through both of them aha

It’s fucking Danmei why

I guess I have a type of character to hyperfixate on

It’s Yin Yu all over again with those two fuck

#yeyarants #I’m currently reading erha and yuwu #yeah both by meatbun #AND I HAVE TO HYPERFIXATE ON THE SIDE CHARACTERS I HATE MY LIFE #for erha it’s Ye Wangxi #omfg don’t talk to me #I LOVE HIM #the urge to not search up anything until I finish #help me I want to but I do not want to be spoiled #THE BOOK 5 COVER #MY BOY #ASDFGHJKL #omg its Yin Yu all over again fucking help me #and for yuwu #even tho I got her for like a few chapters #it’s Princess Mengze #please don’t let her be the bad guy #I hope not #anyway currently going a bit insane over her character and her relationship with Mo Xi #HER OMG AND HER ILLUSTRATION????#my type to hyperfixate on is: characters who aspired to achieve something but failing due to another person being the reason they fell #no why I want to reblog stuff so bad but I do not want spoilers #danmei #erha he ta de bai mao shizun #husky and his white cat shizun #yuwu #remnants of filth #ye wangxi #murong mengze #rou bao bu chi rou

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stardustandrockets · 10 months

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Continuing along with my rainbow book recs with the color blue. I've read all of these except My Dear Henry. Each one has a special place in my heart.

Red White and Royal Blue was one of the first adult romances I read. Bookish and the Beast is my favorite of the Once Upon a Con series. Heartstopper is not only adorably wholesome, but it tackles questioning your sexuality, eating disorders, mental health, and so much more. Kiss Her Once for Me touches on liminal spaces and falling in love in those spaces. Check, Please! is a graphic novel about love and baking and hockey.

What's your favorite blue book?

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izartn · 11 months

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Hey, was Noé from Auvergne? Bc that's where Lestat is from. Mochizuki Jun, señora, I know you watched the IWTV film but did you read the books too? Are you watching the new TV series? Is Louis de Sade name an homage?!?! Just a min.

OK, so yes it's Auveroigne in Altus, which the vampire counterpart to the historical province. In the wiki, in Noé page says:

Averoigne is a fictional counterpart of a historical province in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer Clark Ashton Smith.[1] The province is considered "the most witch-ridden in the entire country. The location is frequently used in Smith's stories as well as his close friends'.

One of the main themes tackled in the stories of Averoigne is vampires. The forests of Averoigne are said to be infested with vampires as well as werewolves.

Which means that Mochijun, who has done her research very well for Case Study of Vanitas, would likely have come across this (which seems to be the kind of stories that also got Anne Rice to choose Auvergne for Lestat???) but given that Mochijun has also said (the translation of that interview is somewhere in my vnc tag) that she watched IWTV and all the multiple references to other vampires and Gothic stories and fairy tales scattered in Vanitas I wouldn't put it pass her to put Auveroigne as a wink.

Also here you have the Wikipedia for Averoigne.

I am obssesed by this btw. The stories and worldbuilding couldn't be more different but Vanitas does occur in France, mainly Paris and has vampires so the association was a bit unavoidable in my mind.

If you have read/watched both case study of vanitas and interview with the vampire I want some crazy talk here.

#meta #the case study of vanitas #vanitas no carte #vampire chronicles #iwtv #lestat the vampire #bc the info is given there #noé archiviste #lestat de lioncourt #omg those two names side by side is a trip #the vampires in the chronicles are so evil they'd eat the cast of vanitas for breakfast #evil and more powerful lol like I said the lore is super different in the two stories #but noé abilities being the power to see memories in the blood like the vc vamps????#mochijun I'm begging you have you read the books???? or watched the series? if you say no I'll believe you but please #vnc meta #noé does have a thing for depressed suicidal brunettes too doesn't he #that's a popular archetype so I guess it could be coincidence #sunny loving life chara VS pessimist realist learning again thanks to sunny chara #but its a bit funny with all this in mind

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stellaluna33 · 2 years

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Pet peeve: when people cite a quote by a famous author, but it's actually from a movie adaptation, and was never actually in the book at all... 😫

#Please. Can we just... Google these things first??#Just because a line was in the '05 Pride and Prejudice doesn't mean Jane Austen wrote it!#And that's just one example OMG #If you've only seen the movie and never read the book you may want to double check these things #And there's literally NO EASIER TIME to do this!!!#You don't even have to read the freaking book yourself!#Just look up the quote on a freaking internet search engine!!!

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mycological-mariner · 1 year

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Crying while reading The Flight of the Heron. Keith really is just out here calling Ewen “my Achilles” nine times in two pages

#not to mention!#‘MY warrior’ and other forms of the possessive #mother fucker???#and then the book ACTUALLY PULLED the ‘only one bed thing’ like please #I seriously thought y’all were over exaggerating the homoerotic tension and you were WERENT #if anything it was downplayed!#’my Achilles’ stfu man #and his whole ‘I’m really going to miss him I hope we meet again one day but I’m sure he doesn’t feel the same’#JESUS Mary and JOSEPH son!#and yeah do I get why he dipped? of course. it makes sense for the story and his character #doesn’t mean I have to like it lol #man really stole this man’s clothes and left a farewell note omfg #HE DIDNT EVEN BREAK PAROLE BUT HE STILL LEFT A GOODBYE NOTE #i hate this book #it’s making me feel emotions #and I KNOW they’re gonna meet again - it’s literally a trilogy of books #but omg that reunion is gonna hurt isn’t it #if I were ewen I would ABSOLUTELY be pissed and freaking out! ofc I’m thinking he’s gonna snitch on us to the English!#oooh it’s juicy. and keith being such a lil bitch rubbing on ewen to get a rise out of him and then immediately apologising #this reads like fan fic in the best ways possible #and now we have to go back to England UHG #I will keep everyone updated whether you like it or not. likely not but fuck it #I need to have a little scream about this book #anyways #flight of the heron

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be-bisexual-eat-hot-chip-and-lie · 21 days

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is it finals season, yes

do i have things due, yes

do i need to write an essay and two finals, yes

am i going to reread check please, also yes

#omgcp #omg check please #this is my third read this year #i am but an art major #an autistic art major #book club with em

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hitmeupaep · 6 months

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misha please release a tell-all called “the things i couldn’t tell you”

#have had this idea since his book came out #like it would be so fucking perfect #please misha i’ll do anything #like the title alone is too good to not use #like imagine the famed misha collins first book being called “some things i still can’t tell you” than YEARS pass and his last book #as like a goodbye to public stardom is called “the things i couldn’t tell you” like fucking gasp #i won’t even sue you misha like this is written consent to take this idea #sorry i just re-read some of somethings i still can’t tell you at 3 am and am having feelings lol #misha collins #somethings i still can’t tell you #like omg thst title wtf is wrong with him i love it so much #truly the thesis to my life i’m sorry i’ll stop #if he doesn’t use it shit i will

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speckle-the-crow · 8 months

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Every time I read a book by Fredrik Backman, I'm left speechless. !!!LONG RANT BELOW!!! + my reviews of the books I've read by him

It all started one year when the book "A Man Called Ove" was chosen to be read in my bookclub. The teacher was talking about how he has a different style of writing and I'm like oh alright bet let's try it out.

GOD. That book was a solid 10/10. It touched dark topics like death and suicide while also having a good humor. The chapter with the cat being almost frozen to death had me giggling a little too much 😂 I loved seeing it on screen when the movie came out.

So many good quotes were in this book. Especially between Sonja and Ove. “You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,” “But if anyone had asked, he would have told them that he never lived before he met her. And not after either.” “Of all the imaginable things he most misses about her, the thing he really wishes he could do again is hold her hand in his.”

This book was just so amazing. I have nothing bad to say against it and strongly recommend it to be the first book one should read by Fredrik. It shows the dark themes he touches while having humor, how good the flashbacks are shown. How they leave you with more questions until you're gut-punched.

Alright. Second book I've read was Beartown. I got it as a birthday gift along with Anxious People (I'll talk abt that later). I knew Beartown revolved around the topic of rape. But god, it was still a hard read. Watching a small town get torn apart over the drama, how nobody really believed Maya and she was even bullied for lying. It broke my heart, leaving me in tears.

The worst part? How real this felt. How it's probably happened to countless girls and guys before. Being raped but not believed, then being bullied and harassed.

The quotes hit hard in this too. "It's not always obvious, because the people around a bullied child assume that he or she must get used to it after awhile. Never. You never get used to it. It burns like fire the whole time. It's just that no one knows how long the fuse is, not even you." “Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.” “What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway. Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and anyone else anyway.”

I don't have too much to say on this book as it was an extremely hard read and took me about a month to finish. But it was still a great story. I don't know if I'll finish the other two books anytime soon. I think what makes it hard is that there's no "happy ending." The rape can't be undone. The damage can't be undone. Maya will forever be scared of the dark. How Kevin has status, keeping him safe. Yes, he is scared of the dark now, but it's not enough. Nothing will fix what happened.

And what I just finished reading today, Anxious People "It's a story about a bank robbery gone wrong? How can that make me cry?" -Me to my teacher.

God. What a book. This book made me laugh and almost brought me to tears. If I wasn't in school while reading this, I would be ugly crying.

This book perfectly embodies Fredrik's writing style. How EVERY little piece matters. Every character is important. You're reading and then hit with a plot twist. Knut being dead? Never expected. That one COMPLETELY threw me in for a loop. The way the chapter hopped back to the flashbacks and then to the interview, oh my god I loved this so much. Might be my favorite one yet.

Every character was so diverse with their own story and struggles, yet they all came together and helped each other when they needed it. I loved the fact that there wasn't a villain in this story- the bank robber wanted to harm nobody, just take care of her kids.

So many of these quotes hit home. The funny ones, the serious ones.

“Not knowing is a good place to start.” I always tell my therapist "I don't know." She said I'm the only person she allows to say that. The fact that a psychologist said that??? It just comforted me so much.

"...but inside she was standing in a forest screaming until her heart burst. The trees grew until one day the sunlight could no longer break through the foliage, and the darkness in there became impenetrable." This one also hit home for me. I'm a very angry person but try my best to control it. Multiple times a day, I imagine myself running into a forest, screaming and yelling my heart out, nobody hearing me. I felt so understood, so seen in this.

"Can you imagine what a bad parent you must have been for your children not to want to be parents?" Woah. I had to close the book and think about this. I don't have the best relationship with my parents, but they are okay parents. They might not rob a bank for me though 😂. But this quote just... I don't know. It really puts a different view on things. It almost makes me feel a bit bad. All in all, this is a quote that lives in the back of my head rent free.

Ever since the first page of this book, I knew I was in for a ride. It felt so long ago, reading chapter 2, "don't think about cookies". This book is a solid 100/10, I will never get rid of it and will reread it many times to come.

Please. If you're looking for a good book to read, please just do ANYTHING by Fredrik Backman. His writing style is unique, fun, just so different and a breath of fresh air. His books will make you cry and laugh and you'll find quotes that you carry on with you for years to come. As I write, I find myself often writing in his sort of style. He is truly an amazing writer and comes up with amazing plots. Before reading his works, only one book ever made me cry. (A Mango Shaped Space). But no movie has ever made me cry. I sobbed in the theaters watching A Man Called Otto. Can't wait to watch Anxious People on Netflix now! I've heard bad stuff, but I'll still watch it.

I hope I managed to convince someone to read a book by Fredrik Backman. Or possibly even re-read a book. I know I want to keep reading books by him. Maybe My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry?

#fredrik backman #anxious people #a man called ove #beartown #book reviews #basically a ramble about how much I love him #please I'm begging you READ ONE OF HIS BOOKS IF YOU HAVEN'T YET #I'll never get over his writing omg #10/10 his books never miss

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