#bookeater

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Seguimos compartiendo las impresiones que los amigos de @carboneriadesevilla tuvieron de la presentación de "De ángeles y ratas" en compañía de muchos amigos, y del maestro @pablaco49. De nuevo, muchas gracias por vuestro caluroso acogimiento y vuestra generosidad, Francisco y Pablo!!! Y muchas gracias a todos por pasar la mañana del domingo en este evento. Un abrazo!! ¿Todavía no has leído "De ángeles y ratas"? Encarga tu ejemplar aquí: Pedidos en: [email protected] Tel. [phone] México: Librerías Gandhi Sanborns Librerías El Sótano USA: [email protected] Tienda WEB – http://plataformaplaca.com/producto/de-angeles-y-ratas-jose-antonio-rodriguez-cruz #bookaddict #bookstagram #culturaencasa #usa🇺🇸 #newauthors #bookstagramuk #bookstagramespaña #bookeater #bookstagram2022 #librosenespañol #habloandalú #sevillasur #sevillacultural #españa🇪🇸 #librosrecomendados #bookrecommendations #cultureinhome #librosymaslibros #libros📚 #librosgram #bookstagrammer #bookme2022 #booklover #amoraloslibros #books2022 #lecturas #leer #leoycomparto https://www.instagram.com/p/CisKABZjCjT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[simmonsized]

waited and got the matching paperback!

(do not talk to me about the stepback covers you know how I feel)

#i havent finished harrow yet because i read all of the bookeaters in one sitting but #yes

[starlightbooktales]

» what do you think you will read next? hello friends, i am in a huge fantasy mood so I am hoping to continue it with one of these books. I also plan on FINALLY reading the Hobbit here soon. I just want to read all the fantasy books, but I can never decide which ones to read! ♡ have you read any of these? which one should I read first? » hashtags:. #TBR #foundryside #lostintime #bookeaters #firstbinding #artofprophecy #vscoreads #bookaesthetic #bookcollection #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #igreads #booknerdigans #readersofinstagram #bibliophile #BookSpines #bookphotography #booklover #readersofig #bookcommunity #bookblogger #homelibrary #bookcollectors (at Boise, Idaho) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cix60USP4ea/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Book Eaters

Last week I finished The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean as part of a buddy read with Destiny.

This book was visceral! 🔥

Devon is a book eater, an individual with the appearance of a human (for the most part), that absorbs sustenance and knowledge from consuming books/any form of paper with inscriptions. She was raised by one of the six families, to consume nothing but fairy tales so she might learn good manners and presume the role of a perfect princess, to be wed and give birth to two girls. Instead, after a slew of runaway attempts, and the birth of her son (Cai) that has to consume minds instead of paper, she sets forth on a scorched Earth plan to save him.

I loved everything about this book. The chapters alternate between Devon growing up and a few years prior to the current events, and modern day. The pacing is perfect, as it's revealed who true allies are, how her second ex-husband was disposed of, and what her brother Ramsey is willing to do to keep the Knights running. Each chapter starts with a literature reference, always fitting to the theme in some way. One of my favorites was something along the lines of "Maybe some day I can read fairy tales again". The videogame references are relatable and meaningful in providing Devon and Cai some form of escape.

The characters are so compelling, especially Devon's girlfriend Hes, brother-in-law Jarrow, and human journalist Mani. Nearing the final showdown in the book, Cai talks about how despite society seeing him as a monster, Devon would eat the world to protect him and he'd do the same for her. I love this monster family!! Though the most monstrous character is by far Hes' brother with his Catholicism inspired sacrificial cult.

The author has mentioned maybe returning to this world from the perspective of a side character after publishing two very different books, and I hope she does!

Note: This book has fantastic sapphic and asexual rep! With Dean being autistic herself, I think it's fair to say that Devon is as well.

This interview with Sunyi Dean and a representative of the Los Angeles Public Library provided solid insight into Dean's inspiration: https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/interview-author-sunyi-dean

#BookEaters #Fantasy #Horror #Asexual

[inoshwrites]

"We can only live by the light we're given, and some of us are given no light at all. What else can we do except learn to see in the dark?" —Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

#book #book twitter #book blog #bookeaters

[bibliophage-art]

i wanna try and simplify my lineart so i can focus on colors. i’m way less confident with colors.

#bookeater posts

[book-eaters]

HP 3 - Chapters 1 & 2

As we know Harry Potter’s story presents interesting and memorable characters that keep living in every single reader. First of all, we have Harry Potter who has very beautiful green eyes covered by his characteristic round glasses. He also has short black hair and a scar with a thunder shape on his forehead. He is quite tall and slim, and has pale skin. On the other hand, the book also mentions his two best friends: Hermione Granger who is an intellectual girl with large front teeth and brown hair; and Ron Weasley who is a part of the Weasley Family, and their similar red hair. 

In the first chapter, we can see Harry potter trying to deal with his life in his uncle’s house. He is finishing an essay from school trying not to wake up his uncle and aunt. It is actually Harry potter's birthday but, as in every single birthday, he does not celebrate it since it reminds him of when he lost his parents against Voldemort. As he is doing his homework, he notices a group of owls with letters for him. One is from his best friend Ron; the other is from Hermione and the last one is from Hogwarts requesting him to ask his “Parents” for permission in order to let him attend the wizard village of Hogsmeade. He definitely knows that his uncle would never sign the form, but he decides to sleep and consider this letter as a special gift for his birthday.

The second chapter explores the dynamics of the Dursley family during breakfast time while on the news it is being announced that a prisoner has escaped. On the other hand, Uncle Vernon says his sister Marge is coming for Dursley’s birthday. Marge is well-known for mistreating Harry, for having lots of bulldogs. Vernon and Harry arranged to sign the Hogsmeade permission form if Harry behaves properly and to say about his “school” which is one for troublemakers (instead of saying he attends Hogwarts for young witches and wizards). When Aunt Marge has arrived, she starts drinking and shows herself really mean towards Harry, insulting him and his parents, which annoys Harry to a point that he uses unconscious magic on her, inflating her as a balloon. After an argument with the Dursleys, Harry gathers his belongings and leaves the house.

By: Armando Angulo & Manuel Pech

#harry potter #prisoner of azkaban #book review #bookeaters #booklr #book blog #reading #book reviews

[thepufflehufflekittehreads]

Past And Future Reads: September 2022.

I can’t believe it’s October already! Which means it is my birthday month. whooo! With the beginning of a new month, it becomes time to look at my September reads, and ones I’m hoping to get read in October. Let’s get started shall we? Longshadow – Olivia Atwater. 4.5/5. Proper Regency ladies are not supposed to become magicians – but Miss Abigail Wilder is far from proper. The marriageable…

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[batmanisagatewaydrug]

2, 3, 11 & 16 for ethe end of year book asks? ✨📖

Did you reread anything? What?

I think I only reread Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth for a lore refresher to get ready for Nona's release. I will do the same thing with all three before Alecto comes out, probably. OH and I reread Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe to get ready for that sequel as well. also reread a couple volumes of Paper Girls because I finally finished the whole series in one big start-to-finish sprint after putting it off for years. okay AND I reread the first four or five volumes of the Sandman. but other than THAT no I did not reread anything lmao.

What were your top five books of the year?

ugh ugh ugh I was trying not to make concrete lists this year BUT

fiction:

The School for Good Mothers (Jessamine Chan)

America is Not the Heart (Elaine Castillo)

The World We Make (N.K. Jemisin)

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (Akwaeke Emezi)

Jade City (Fonda Lee)

nonfiction:

I'm Glad My Mom Died (Jennette McCurdy)

How to Read Now (Elaine Castillo)

Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles (Eric C. Wat)

Hurts So Good: The Science and Pleasure of Pain on Purpose (Leigh Cowart)

Priestdaddy (Patricia Lockwood)

What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

I really enjoyed Anne Carson's poetry collection Short Talks, which was published four years before I was born.

What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

"over-hyped" feels like it's asking me to make a really negative judgment about a book and suggest that I the hype is perhaps undeserved, which isn't really the case here. I personally didn't really connect with Sunyi Dean's The Bookeaters and gave up about halfway through, but it's appeared on almost every round-up of the year's best speculative fiction that I've seen. just because the book isn't for me doesn't mean I don't think it should be for anyone, and I'm glad Dean has found such a receptive audience with her debut novel!

#bookblr

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 5/5

Book Blurb: Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.

Review:

You Let the Right One In except its from the perspective of the caretaker.... this is a story about motherhood, sacrifice, and how far we are willing to go for those we love. The story takes place in a world here there live secret families that consume books, literally. Their food source is books, after eating books they retain all of the book’s content. The protagonist is Devon and we get to follow Devon from the past to her current predicament. Devon was raised in The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Ever since she was a child she was raised on books for women- particularly books carefully curated of fairytales and cautionary stories... to keep her submissive and believing in a specific lifestyle... she was raised as a princess but she will soon become disillusioned with what her life truly entails and what is truly happening to her as she soon discovers that she has been raised like every other female bookeater- to be married off to bear children and then give up those children to the family and then be married off again and again and again, constantly being forced to give up her children and married off to men she doesn’t like. But Devon is vicious, she’ll do anything to keep her children and destroy the foundations she was raised on. During her second marriage she gives birth to a mindeater... essentially the monsters of their kind as they feed off of human brains consuming it and the person... they have to kill people to eat them and Devon will not let her son be taken from her, she’ll be the monster she needs to be in order to raise her child even if he is a monster because he is her monster and he had no choice in who he is. Devon will go to great lengths to find a way to cure her son and free them from the world that is closing in on them. She’ll kill, lie, and betray anyone to protect them. Love is a choice, and she loves her family. This book was brutal and vicious, it was heartbreaking and beautiful, it explores motherhood and love in such a raw way. Devon’s entire world is broken down, everything she was raised to believe and formed who she was is destroyed, but in it’s place she has her love for her children, a love she is willing to go to any lengths. She is faced with impossible situations and circumstances but through it all her unquestionable love for her son is clear. This was such a fantastic read!

#book review #bookish #book #the book eaters

[txbookeater]

It's not Pride Month in the BookEater household until we have rainbow cupcakes!

Happy Pride!

#pride 2022

[jose-rodriguez-cruz-posts]

Ayer disfrutamos de una increible presentación en @carboneriadesevilla junto al maestro @pablaco49 y varios amigos. Se habló de literatura, claro, y también de las esencias de nuestra tierra. No sólo de Sevilla y sus peculiaridades; también la gente se acordó de Cádiz, de Barcelona, de Córdoba, de Madrid o de Huelva. Situaciones similares, distintas ciudades. Es increíble cómo la alegoría, el poder de la palabra, evoca situaciones vitales y nos hace recapacitar de qué hemos pasado. Me siento muy satisfecho e increíblemente asombrado de que mi cortísima novela de pie a una revitalización tan grande. Seguimos... ¿Todavía no has leído "De ángeles y ratas"? Encarga tu ejemplar aquí: Pedidos en: [email protected] Tel. [phone] México: Librerías Gandhi Sanborns Librerías El Sótano USA: [email protected] Tienda WEB – http://plataformaplaca.com/producto/de-angeles-y-ratas-jose-antonio-rodriguez-cruz #bookaddict #bookstagram #culturaencasa #usa🇺🇸 #newauthors #bookstagramuk #bookstagramespaña #bookeater #bookstagram2022 #librosenespañol #habloandalú #sevillasur #sevillacultural #españa🇪🇸 #librosrecomendados #bookrecommendations #cultureinhome #librosymaslibros #libros📚 #librosgram #bookstagrammer #bookme2022 #booklover #amoraloslibros #books2022 #lecturas #leer #leoycomparto (en Sevilla, Andalucia, España) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cirp3IaDaBy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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📚📚Bookeater📚📚 | Heartstopper Vol. 1 por Alice Oseman Hoy te reseño uno de mis comics favs. Heartstopper Vol. 1. via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxUOrR0uVFw

#heartstopper

[inkdependentgirona]

📍 @cristinamandarinatattoo #gironatattoo #girona #tattoos #tatuatge #tatuaje #tattoo #girones #gironès #grn #catalunya #motivational #solidink #fusionink #dayjob #ogtattoosupply #2022 #kwadroncartridges #fkirons #salt #inkdependentgirona #memoriasdeidhun #lauragallegogarcia #bookeater #fantasy #fantasia #garrotxa #empordà #laselva (at Inkdependent Tattoo · Girona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmLTRTRN0fm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[nolitethoughts]

📓The Book Eaters

Gorgeous #bookpost from a few days ago.

✍️Written by the amazing @sunyidean

🖨Out by @harpercollinsuk (UK version) and by @torbooks(US version)

🎬Plot (from the publisher)  "A gorgeous new #fantasy#horror – a book about stories and fairy tales with #family and #love at its dark heart… Perfect for fans of #NeilGaiman, #SusannaClarke, and #LettheRightOneIn Hidden across #England and #Scotland live six old #BookEater families. The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on a diet of stories and #legends. Children are rare and their numbers have dwindled, so when Devon Fairweather’s second child is born a dreaded Mind Eater – a perversion of her own kind, who consumes not stories but the minds and souls of humans – she flees before he can be turned into a weapon for the family… or worse. Living among humans and finding prey for her son, Devon seeks a cure for his hunger. But time is running out – for her family want her back, and with every soul her son consumes he loses a little more of himself… This is a story of escape, a savage mother’s devotion and a #queer love that will electrify readers looking for something #beguiling, #thrilling , #strange and new."

Me, personally I am OBSESSED with the plot and the idea behind the book. In love.

Also, today is my birthday and I was curious when else was born on this day here are the results:

We have the amazing Ray Bradbury ( I mostly know him through his book Fahrenheit 451 a dystopian novel where banned books get burned by firemen. The protagonist is a fireman himself until he decides that he doesn't want to do this anymore and designates his life into saving and preserving literature.

We also have Claude Debussy 👏 I don't think I need to introduce him.

Dorothy Parker who was was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. ✍️

📓Follow me for more #bookish posts check out my #giveaway 

and see my work on my website (link in bio for this as well.)

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[siaasoa]

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

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