#book snark

[sluttypatrickstar]

#anti coho #anti colleen hoover #book snark #should i tag sjm in this as well–

[goblingardens]

I don’t know how else to describe it, but Bryce Quinlan feels like a walking r/thathappened post????

#and then everybody clapped #she makes me INSANE #bryce quinlan #sjmaas #yes i am hate reading this book #SJM snark #book snark #house of flame and shadow

[wizardemotions]

i had to get the slytherins out of my head. also the dynamic i personally imagine for eighth year drarry

#i love a harry who's not actually the most oblivious shit in the world postwar #i also love it when he's as much of a bastard as he is in the books #movies castrated his snark i think #quill to paper #draco malfoy #harry potter #drarry #theodore nott #blaise zabini #pansy parkinson #also sorry crabbe and goyle. you're sort of just unsexy lamps to me. there to be scary lackeys for draco and not much else #i'm sure i'll take my hypodermic needle of headcanon and pump em full of personalities eventually #just havent thot abt it much this go-round with this fandom #also yeah if you're wondering my harry's hairstyle is entirely inspired by avpm harry

[wisefoxluminary]

Mr D tricking Percy into thinking he was his father and bribing him to get wine is just hilarious. They nailed the humour and the character of Dionysus so perfectly.

#percy jackson and the olympians #the lightning thief #percy jackson #dionysus pjo #walker scobell #jason mantzoukas #this show is so perfect #they are killing it so far with this adaption #his snark is so on point #his adrian pimento was showing #it felt like the characters stepped right of the pages of the book i love so much

[mizzmellos]

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#Death Note #Mello #Mihael Keehl #Beyond Birthday #BB #originally drawn sept 2016 #i looooove the idea of them interacting both in-canon before B left wammy's and in an au where b survived and. idk was involved tangentiall #^not in any meaningful way just to provide snark #i'm just so obsessed w the fact that mello is the one who WROTE THE BOOK. #i was going to queue this but i colored it so i'm counting it as the new and remastered re-release #mizz art

[hangfiretales]

💙Rare Birds is available to preorder!💙

My queer fantasy series is now a thing!! I've been literally writhing with impatience to share this- and here it is, Book #1 of Hangfire.

What is it?

Rare Birds is adult historical fantasy, 344pp.

What's the plot?

As 1920s London swelters in the grip of Egyptomania, archaeology student Rom Godden uncovers a deadly family legacy. Along with her dearest friend, Rom joins forces with her sceptical brother to navigate an underworld of shapeshifters and blood magic. Deception stalks their path. Their precocious young stepbrother hides secrets of his own. If everyone plays for themselves, who can be trusted? One wrong choice could threaten everyone she loves, and Rom will have to bargain for her freedom as she confronts the truth of her inheritance: every promise has its price.

What's the vibes?

🗝 gratuitous historical references (you know my MO at this point)

🗝 chaos bisexuals (multiple). One of them wears a cravat

🗝 bonus sibling drama

Print or Digital?

Both! They'll be released on July 25 but they're up for presale now from Bookshop.org and everywhere else.

Advance copy giveaways will be happening over the next few months so sign up for the newsletter or keep an eye out here for that!

#rare birds #queer lit #indie books #queer fantasy #indie author #if you like snark and old manuscripts and girls who kiss #and teenage boys who think they're misunderstood geniuses #then uhh you're going to have fun with this

[all-all0s-eyes]

Not going to elaborate or spoil or anything I promise.

SYSTEM COLLAPSE IS AMAZING.

That is all.

(!!!!!!)

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #perihelion #murderbot diaries #book review #book recommendations #no spoilers #only hype #the snark and the sass #!!!!

[eriquin]

Well, I've started The Murderbot Diaries

@captainhaterade has been yelling at me to read these for ages, with good reason. They're amazing.

I keep typoing the main characters name as Murderboy. I'm sorry, Murderbot. I know you're not a boy. I love you.

#life and times of eriquin #i'm like 60 pages into book 2 and i assume i'm about to see a pygmalion plot #with ART as henry higgins and Murderbot as Eliza Doolittle #but also with a LOT more sarcasm and snark #as it should be

[buffyspeak]

aria montgomery deserved better 2kforever like. in these first two seasons, her relationship with ezra is hard to watch (in more ways than one! i sometimes find myself rooting for them not to get caught, largely because i like and have sympathy for aria but also because the actors do genuinely have good chemistry. but then i remember how fucked up it is! that’s why the romanticization of this relationship was so dangerous!) - anyway. it was hard to watch and messy but she also had like. other things in her story that at least made her feel like a more fleshed out character. and i always see people saying things about how she’s not as kind as she acts like but she literally shows so much empathy to. most people. and her role as a psuedo caretaker/fixer in her family is so nuanced and interesting and informs a lot of how she interacts with ezra (she feels like she’s been forced into a more adult role, so she courts this adult ‘romance’. ugh.) and it legitimately could have been a nuanced and interesting story about family dynamics and the pressure on teenage girls in their roles in family and how that can be connected to grooming if it had been written that way but!!!!

anyway her story just becomes more and more entangled with Only Being About Ezra from what i remember. which is one of the reasons people kept theorizing about her being A but. i just see it as isolation (not total, she is obviously still very close with her friends, but there is a sort of disconnect.) and then they get MARRIED????? she deserved better for real.

#pretty little liars #aria montgomery #she is legitimately such a kind person #like. i know the WHOLE dynamiv witg jenna is complicated and the lying wasn’t great #but trying to tell her how her pottery looked in an emotional moment? #picking glass out of emily’s hair? #snarking on those sports guys when they were making fun of hanna at lucky leon’s #promising she’s not mad at spencer and giving her the worlds softest hug? #i love her! #she deserved to write and take photos and drink coffee and get a loving partner and not end up with her groomer!!!! #even it was like. s4 when they broke up bc of the book reveal #and stayed broken up #that still would have been better than nothing #anti ezra fitz #anti ezria #grooming mention // #ask to tag // #also her family did not deal with it the right way at all #i understand they were Concerned - as they should have been! #but i always see their s2 hailed as like. the appropriate reaction #but they literally treat her like a criminal like she is just as bad as him #they are more focused on being angry than protecting her especially byron #i just. ugh. #(okay that’s an oversimplification. they are trying to protect her. but the WAY they are doing it is driving her right back into their arms)

[artbymyth]

They’re judging you

#kanej #six of crows #kanej fanart #illustration #digital drawing #art tag #they’re best friends and in love your honor #and they definitely bonded over snarking over other people’s stupidity #I always love that Inej spends the first book just eye brow raised at wylan #I mean she eventually comes around #I just love that kaz is the one saying give him a chance (he’s insurance) #and Inej is the one saying I know better demo men buddy #it always showed that the two were more similar #also shows how Inej is this complex character with complex morals not a pure and innocent characature

[sluttypatrickstar]

#anti lore olympus #anti LO #anti rachel smythe #book snark #why's he built like mr incredible

[goblingardens]

«She wasn’t the scared girl running from him a week ago» EXCISE ME???? A WEEK???? ONE WEEK? 1???????

25 HOURS AUDIO BOOK AND IT ALL SPANS

ONE

WEEK

#i can’t stand this #i long for the sweet releaSe of death #only 2 hours left #wish me luck #SJM snark #book snark #house of flame and shadow

[iguessitsjustme]

hello friends i am back. just had a mental reset in a weird way but i feel much better now so i'm back to being silly goofy on tumblr

#rae irl #i had a very strange time away not gonna lie #i'm not counting the few hours i was here on saturday as being back really #but now i'm back to annoy you all #well sort of. i'll probably be on less next week for work reasons but i'll still be here #anyway accidentally formed a cult while i was gone #also had an entire mental breakdown and drank on a school night #realized i'm the only staff member at my job in my 30s and the next oldest is 5 years younger than me #send immediate assistance my desk mate quit so i am all alone and no one snarks with me #started watching anime again and also finished a book series i've been trying to read for years #there's more but i'm too tired and cold to keep typing #time to go reblog some things

[museenkuss]

Miranda Beverly-Whitemore, Bittersweet

A college girl longs for the attention and lifestyle of her rich, blond, tan, gorgeously purebred roommate Ev. The tragic suicide of said roommate's cousin and our protagonist's comforting words shake the object of adoration out of her ignorance towards the plain nobody, who then finds herself being swept into the exhilarating world of the rich. Instead of rotting away at her aunt's during the summer months, the protagonist is whisked off to the paradise that is the family retreat, where everyone is blond, tan, gorgeous (and the cottages have title-worthy names such as "Bittersweet"). The protagonist sticks out and splits her time observing/admiring the purebreds, pretending to read Milton's Paradise Lost, longing to belong, and, finally, untangling secrets she might just end up getting tangled up in.

First thoughts

It's a fun summer read, probably best enjoyed while baking by a pool or at the beach, with sand sprinkled between the ice cream stained pages. I had no idea what the book was about whatsoever when I started and devoured it in a matter of days. If you like The Secret History for the cold months, you'll enjoy this one in the heat and fading heat. Were there lengths throuhout the ? Of course. Was it the most intellectually stimulating book with the most original plot? Of course not. But the writing is atmospheric, the setting is interesting and some details are original enough to hold at least my attention for the 380-odd pages. It pairs very nicely with some ice cream and inspired me to pick up Milton. Besides, it's very fun to think about the things that could've been that might've made it just a little more interesting.

Second thoughts in regards to the "what ifs" (with spoilers)

Firstly: Do you know that feeling when you can tell that someone is very excited about the punchline they're about to tell you, but you have to sit through about 30 minutes of storytelling before they get there? That's how I felt about the Swastika reveal. And, frankly, I'd known about that ever since it was mentioned that the german wife materialised in the family in the 1930s. Maybe that was just me as a German who's seen Germans appearing in American media, but they mentioned the dog named Fritz and the Lederhosen and whatever and I went "ah, okay, Nazi heritage". So the punchline of the nazi painting just had me smile weakly and go "ah, you thought that was very surprising, hm?" At this point, I would've been more surprised if the Germans appearing in a story like that weren't Nazis.

Same with the incest, by the way. I remember telling my mother "I thought she was sleeping with her brother but it was really just the help" with some disappointment that I'd been misled by the note of her cheating and the endless list of suspiciously blond and pretty brothers up for grabs. The reveal that he was her half-brother left me feeling vindicated that I'd read the room right (fancy, weirdly blond and handsome family = incest story), but again, I was smiling weakly. I have to say that the protagonist (whose name I keep forgetting) was really hammering home the shock we as the readers should be feeling about Ev and her half-brother, but frankly, it didn't quite spark for me. There were many aspects that were grotesque and interesting about their relationship - I loved Ev and her manipulations, her hot-and-cold, her jealousy, her arrogance, her desperation and sugary sweetness and the working class brotherlover who was too caught up in loving (serving) her (her family) to give up on that whole mess. But them being half-siblings? That didn't really shock me, especially since 1) their love was described in such a warm adn sweet way that you felt pity and hope for them rather than disgust 2) I'd expected her to be entangled with one of the "born and raised" blond-tan brothers the whole time. Every time the Protag stumbled upon another outdoors sex scene, I thought "oh? now?" but nope. It was always The Help.

Which brings me to another point: I kept thinking that the hints that everyone in this family was rotten in the same way were super interesting. Everyone was so eager to fuck The Help (even the 14 year old with her 17 year old "Bronx" semi-boyfriend she didn't want to marry but liked to keep around), disregarding everyone's feelings for their own pleasure. That made the ending where everyone is relieved, nice and kind, now that the Big Bad Uncle is dead soooooooo lame. And anyways. He dropped that easily?! Could've slipped him a "heart attack while swimming" pill 20 years ago, then.

This book sneezed in the direction of a really interesting plot - everyone being rotten in some way and the Protagonist still deciding she'd rather have that than nothing and "arranging" herself with the situation for years to come, bearing the Patriarch and his endless brutal lust with a smile, etc etc. We got HINTS of that, but then we had this Gallaway Brother Love Interest who was, for some reason, the only family member who was nice and pure and noble and whose "I NEED to fuck the lower class" instincts mostly resulted in him sweetly marrying the Protagonist. And, man! The hints we got! Every time I was like "oh? oh??!" - Her noticing that he looks like his father, the aggression that the other men inherited from the father (the oldest one who indulges in rape roleplay with, you guessed it, The Help, and Ev's halfbrotherlover who punches the car upon finding out who is father is, etc), the hiding of the girlfriend who's not important who's a wife actually but still not important but maybe yes but oh, no, she's just a friend whom Gallaway married out of the goodness of his heart... god, spare me. I was so excited about the reveal that Gallaway was like the rest of them and the Protag was ready to bear that for the money and lifestyle and allure, but nope. He was just that sweet, I guess.

And I'm aware that we have an unreliable narrator who might've done exactly that - decided to live a lavish life, ignore all the red flags, bear the horrors with a smile and drink her champagne, BUT the ending was just a tad too kitschy for me to believe that that was the intention. I keep second guessing myself because maybe the book is cleverer than I give it credit for, and I do think that she absolutely did decide to compromise herself, to throw at least a good deal of morals under the bus for the blond hair and tan skin and lean muscles. but not to the extend that it could've been, you know? Which is to say: It was really fun, but I kept thinking "this could be worse"

"Ev is sleeping with her half-brother (who doesn't know she's his half-sister) and wants to manipulate him into running away with her by faking a pregnancy" - but what if all that happened but she was also sleeping with her regular-degular brother? Arthonin or whatever his name was. I kept expecting that to be the big reveal and he ends up shunned and wife-less for his crimes (cheating with the au pair).

"Protagonist decides to marry into the family she knows to be rotten and makes them return the Nazi art and also the evil granddad was eliminated before the wedding even took place and now they're a democracy" - but what if he was still alive and the system can't be broken in a half sentence of "and they found a (forged) will that changed everything"

"Protagonist decides to marry Gallanger because he's sweet and lovely" - but what if he was still part of his family and still carried the nasty traces within himself and she accepted them?

and lastly.... what was that random bit about the killed turtles. I kept expecting that we'd catch someone (evil granddad, Gallanger, Ev...) in the act of smashing the turtles to death, which would've been awful and I genuinely was afraid of that scene, but it never came. and then we got a parting note of "lu is a good girl who is studying to find out what killed the turtles" ???? sorry?! that genuinely felt like a turtle-smashing scene had been planned, scraped, and hastily replaced with that lame throwaway line.

final verdict: FUN! I know I'm shittalking a lot here, but it WAS a fun read and I liked it.

#book review #read below the cut for my snarks and such <333333 #I haven't done one of these in ages (if ever) #but I felt the need to talk about this book

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 489

The Complete Alice & The Hunting of the Snark

Lewis Carroll / illustrated by Ralph Steadman

Salem House Publishers 1987

Once upon a time, it was my ambition to collect editions of Alice by renowned illustrators. They’re two of my favorite books, so I thought it would be a cool collection to curate. But at some point, I realized that this could end up becoming not only a large collection but also potentially a very expensive one, too.

I still have a few from the collection, but I’ve gotten rid of a bunch. This is one of the few I kept. The strange thing is that I’m not much of a Ralph Steadman fan. It’s just not really my thing. His work is very much of its time, and maybe that’s what I like about this. His Alice comes across a bit like Eric Idle in drag. His Chester Cat looks like a caricature of a Conservative Party politician, which it probably is. His horse-like Hatter wears Union Jack glasses, Walkman headphones, and a bowler hat with a note that—instead of “in this style 10/6”—reads, “Can you come back next week.”

It’s all very very British. Perhaps that’s why I keep it around. There’s a case to be made, I think, that Steadman’s Alice is, in spirit, the most similar to Tenniel’s original.

#bookshelf #library #personal collection #personal library #books #bibliophile #book lover #illustrated book #booklr #alice in wonderland #through the looking glass #lewis carroll #ralph steadman #Salem house #literature #children’s literature #complete alice #hunting of the snark

[onaslansside]

“a reformed monster”

🤔beloved, you are not

#it was SO GOOD to see his snark again #looking forward to book 2 tomorrow! #Athelas #City Between spoilers #Worlds Behind #W.R. Gingell