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wiltking · 3 days

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dont want to jinx it but i may have found a slow paced mm space scifi romance thats actually good. im just over a quarter of the way into the first book and controlling my hopes with an iron fist... but im enjoying it

#its also impossible to find so if its good all the way through i'll uhh pass the file around. smile #book thoughts

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a-book-scarfing-goblin · 7 months

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I could spend all day reading or I could spend all day deciding what to read and never actually read

#bookish #booklr #books #bookworm #book thoughts #books and reading #bookblr

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out-of-the-forest-i-come · 2 months

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there's something to be said about how adam is always described as the soft one and ronan the harsh one when it comes to looks, that adam is a sepia picture whereas ronan is jagged stone, but in truth ronan is a huge softie and adam has such ragged edges. but also that ronan has enough edges himself not to cut himself on adam's and that adam has enough softness to be able to receive ronan's without destroying it

#the raven cycle #ronan lynch #adam parrish #pynch #maggie stiefvater #out of the forest out of the brain #out of the queue i come #book thoughts

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windsails · 3 months

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i forgot how much i lovee wheel of time. it's so well written...the patience it has in slowly unfurling layer after layer of lore...the way it manages to imply wider and wider depths of lost history underneath the existing narrative, centuries of forgotten legends all fallen into ruins. ruins which contain within their halls, secrets and mysteries which might yet benefit the characters of the present, whose ignorance is at the start of the story complete. the way it lets them sit with revelations for chapters at a time, unpacking the implications of every new concept and piece of information. the way lore actually has material implications for the narrative itself and the world...it's such an intricate world. that's what i love so much about it. and it's not just the world, but also the magic, the history, the myths, characters...it really succeeds in creating a feeling of uncovering lost secrets. and implying there's way more of this stuff than you can imagine

#wheel of time #eye of the world #book #book time #book thoughts #reading announcement

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burningvelvet · 6 months

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more rambling thoughts about wuthering heights now that i've finished my re-read

1 wuthering heights is basically the looney tunes if the looney tunes were goth. 90% of the novel is people arguing, dying, and running around threatening to kill each other, and often all three of those at once.

2 love how it's filled with dark humor. "he's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him" is such a camp thing to say about the terminally ill child you abhor and who you spend weeks trying to set up on dates with your dead lover's child so you can steal her property when your son finally dies. heathcliff lecturing his son on Seduction 101 right in front of cathy 2.0, trying ridiculously to play cupid and compel them to fall in love with each other before giving up and just kidnapping her instead... surely he's the most insane brontë man?

3 i can't remember what i had for dinner last night but nelly dean can remember what the weather was like on any given friday twenty years ago (love her and her snarky comments)

4 love how after nelly finishes telling the story to lockwood she's like "any way. so you know cathy 2.0 is single right ;)))" and then cathy 2.0 shows zero interest in him. so then he's like "oh i just remembered i have somewhere to be :/" then fucks off to london for nearly a year then when he comes back nelly is like "nvm as it turns out cathy and hareton are actually soulmates lol who knew! gee, it's a good thing she didn't like you!" and he's just silently suffering. emily was just fucking around here. hindley was the only linton/earnshaw/heathcliff who was wild enough to marry someone who didn't share either his gene pool or his neighborhood.

5 i imagine joseph to look like smeagol from the lotr films but taller

6 [heathcliff, after stabbing his alcoholic arch nemesis and then pushing his servant into the puddle of the blood] "Wash that stuff away; and mind the sparks of your candle—it is more than half brandy!” LMAO

7 this opinion list is just turning out to be a list of the most insane heathcliff moments but truly the novel should've just been called "heathcliff"

8 heathcliff's weird paternal feelings for hareton, saving hareton's life, him saying he would truly love him if only he wasn't hindley's child, basically giving hareton his blessing to love cathy 2.0 toward the end... so oddly endearing

9 heathcliff walking out just before the "i am heathcliff" part of her speech. why WHY

10 hindley protecting isabella from heathcliff before she flees was nice and i wish we saw more of their dynamic around the heights. honestly aside from the child neglect (which is par for the course in wuthering heights) hindley is a pretty sympathetic character; his rivalry with heathcliff was fueled by both sides and truly the fault of their father for pitting them against each other by letting heathcliff usurp hindley's place of favoritism as a boy. hindley's gambling and drinking, his general dissipation and failure to secure his son's future, are all tragic.

11 i think hindley/edgar/heathcliff are all interesting foils for each other; they each lose the women they love and are left to be single fathers, and each responds to the task totally differently. if we include mr. earnshaw, all the fathers in the story essentially fail their children after all the mothers die. hindley and heathcliff have a special parallel through their lifelong brotherly competition, the women they love both dying in childbirth, and in their own deaths. hindley slowly kills himself while ignoring everyone around him; heathcliff also kills himself, but only after trying to systematically ruin the lives of everyone around him. they also say that they want to kill each other but fail when they try; heathcliff nearly kills hindley but ends up saving his life at the last minute.

12 heathcliff jr. is so terrified of heathcliff sr. and so traumatized and petrified by fear and he doesn't deserve the hate he gets for being annoying. he's been sheltered his whole life, his mother just died, he was sent to his uncle/cousin only to be immediately torn away from them to be abused by a stranger who treats him horribly, he's terminally ill, he's still a kid, he's threatened into marrying someone he barely knows, etc.

13 if any of you have seen the british comedy show "the young ones" that's literally hindley's household in wuthering heights when joseph/hareton/hindley/heathcliff/isabella all live together. the filth, the slop for dinner, the petty games, the violence, the fierce hatred yet weird loyalty to each other, etc.

14 i really wonder how cathy would have reacted to heathcliff's treatment of everyone else if only she had known the full details (ie his harsh abuse of isabella, his son, cathy 2.0, etc.)

15 heights was my first brontë novel but i think i like jane eyre and tenant better now that i've read them all back to back! next on the list is likely agnes gray. anne, my underrated queen!

#literature #english literature #wuthering heights #emily brontë #book opinions #bookblr #bronte sisters #heathcliff #books #book thoughts #book review #classic literature #lit #litblr

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reddy-reads · 9 months

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Well fuck Balin

This is one of my favorite lines! It makes me smile every time

thoughts with spoilers for murderbot 6

Reasons "Well fuck Balin" is a great line

JollyBaby going "nah Balin is a manager" and MB being like "wait Balin doesn't lift heavy things because it's a manager? UGH" is just funny and relatable

It's also MEMORABLE

This means that later on, when we learn more about Balin, I'm not like "uh whomst the fuck?"

(I have a so-so memory and frequently struggle to keep track of different characters' names)

AND it's important that we remember Balin

I seriously think this one line is just... really incredible from a "how does the story fit together" point of view.

It's memorable, but it doesn't draw too much attention to itself. It's short and unobtrusive.

It's memorable because it's funny. It's not obvious like a character, I dunno, ominously standing in the shadows with its eyes/indicator lights turning red.

It helps the story function. Imagine how much worse the story would function if Balin was completely unmemorable.

And that's why "Well fuck Balin" is one of my favorite murderbot lines of all time.

#murderbot #well fuck balin #book thoughts

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pookiebearnancy · 25 days

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When he has daddy issues, is blonde, and his brother stole his girl >>>

(Grayson Fucking Hawthorne.)

#the inheritance games #delulu is the solulu #book boyfriend #grayson hawthorne #fictional men #my pookie #bookish #mystery books #romance books #booktok #book tumblr #book talk #book thoughts #book things

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stargazedmoony · 2 years

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“I should have brought a book”

—the thought that haunts me everywhere I go when I didn’t bring a book with me

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simsim54 · 3 months

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arthur: come here, son. harry: ron is in his room. arthur: i meant you. harry, voice cracking: oh. okay.

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bestbookfriends · 2 months

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Jack is already Venin by the time he challenges Violet

My question is not when did it happen, but how? Threshing is in October, and surely he wouldn't have done it before Orin tries to kill her for Tairn. But what drove Jack to need to reach for more power, and how did he know he could do it in the first place? Most people don't believe Venin are real, so how does he do it?

#fourth wing #iron flame #the empyrean #book thoughts #not quite shower thoughts

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wiltking · 2 days

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transgenderism win!!!

#wasnt handled in the best way i will say. giving out kae's birth name right after this was deeply unnecessary #but we take our wins 🥲#book thoughts #line and orbit #root code #also considering this was published in 2013? having lochlan solidly say kae WAS born a man is kind of huge

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a-book-scarfing-goblin · 8 months

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That moment when you see a book you already have but with a prettier cover

#book thoughts #books #books and reading #bookish #bookblr #bookworm #booklr #random thoughts

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out-of-the-forest-i-come · 2 months

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i love it when kaz manages to finally overcome and heal from his trauma surrounding touch as much as the next person, but it deeply frustrates me when it comes too quickly and when it's regarded as the only way for kanej's relationship to progess. give me intimacy that doesn't revolve around touch. give me love letters, and quiet nights spent in the company of one another. give me stories told in whispers about everything and anything, give me the trust and vulnerability that comes with showing the other your soul and mind, give me sleeping in the same room even if it's not in the same bed and knowing that the other might witness your nightmares, give me comfort that doesn't need touch to be effective and an Inej who doesn't demand from Kaz that he heals his decade-long trauma in a single week, because I refuse to believe it fits her character to be so inconsiderate when it comes to trauma

#six of crows #crooked kingdom #leigh bardugo #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #out of the forest out of the brain #out of the queue i come #book thoughts

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moonblacckkk · 4 months

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burningvelvet · 8 months

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more rambling thoughts on pride and prejudice and my first foray into jane austen so far

1 austen really loved the word “felicity” - i love getting a feel for an author’s language - i’m also so glad that she’s so much funnier than i thought she would be! i didnt know she was funny at all. everyone always focuses on the romance and heightened emotions of her stories but why have i never heard about her social commentary, sense of humour, clever use of plot, etc.? this is what i love & this is what she excels in imo!

2 mr wickham is so byron-coded its unreal. the regency era rake vibes are unmatched. his “idleness and dissipation.” his hysterical levels of pettiness and melodrama. tbh love him. can’t wait to see what he does when he finds out darcy has told elizabeth his side of the story

3 coming from my studies on byronism i’ve seen lots of papers compare/contrast the work of austen & byron & now i finally know why — they’re both great at satire but approach it in such different ways that it makes a really interesting juxtaposition. they shared the same publisher, although there’s sadly no evidence they ever met or corresponded; austen once wrote that she read a work by byron, but she gave no review of it — & his wife was a fan of austen, but byron/austen never mention each other personally or their opinions on each other/their works. i feel like he would’ve really liked her though. after i get more into austen’s other works now i want to read byron’s don juan and one of her novels back to back to compare the use of satire & social commentary from their differing perspectives!

#pride and prejudice #jane austen #book thoughts #lord byron

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thatdeshigirl · 1 month

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when the fanfiction is so good you start to forget which storyline is from the book and which is from the fanfic 💥💳💥💳

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