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[godzilla-reads]

Flowery Bookish Asks

💐 What book aesthetic color do you love most?

🌷 What is the oldest book you’ve read (whether that’s the oldest copy you have OR the oldest publication)

🌹 What live author would you invite over for tea?

🥀 What deceased author would you invite for tea?

🪻 Do you have less than or more than 200 books in your possession?

🪷 Have you ever pressed plants/flowers in your books? Would you ever try it?

🌺 What’s the prettiest book you own?

🌸 What season do you like reading in the most?

🌼 What is the next book on your TBR?

🌻 What’s the longest book you’ve read?

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[clockworkbee]

Why do you ship Jude and Cardan?

Well, I love them mostly because of their individual character's growth as well as the shift/progress in their dynamic with each other.

I love that I didn't know going into the books that they were gonna be enemies or even why, and that when I did find out ‘why,’ how it all played out. I loved the tension between them in The Cruel Prince, I loved the undeniable attraction and care shown in The Wicked King, and I'm an absolute sucker for their communication (dialogue) and actions in the Queen of Nothing. It doesn't end there, of course. When I expected I couldn't love them any more than I already did, How The King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories gave me more, and I loved how Cardan's backstory added to his personality in the three main books, and how far him and Jude have come in their relationship (the trust and security). I love how they both initially worked for their interests (in tcp) and then achieved them (somewhat) together, as told in The Stolen Heir. I'm so excited for their scenes in The Prisoner's Throne now!

Thanks for this ask, btw! There are some relevant posts by this user that I really love but kept in the deep dark cellar, aka. drafts until now, and this ask really just pushed me down the stairs to show them the light of the dashboard, lol. I'll reblog them still (or not, idk), but I'm linking them here!

I mean, Jude ships herself with Cardan, so why shouldn’t I?

‘why the fuck would you ship jude and cardan’ have you met me???? are you new?????

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[howlsmovinglibrary]

What didn't you like about lies of locke lamora?

Hey anon!

So the first thing you need to know about me is that I'm very shallow, and I struggle to enjoy any book that doesn't have a woman in, or doesn't have two women that talk to each other. I don't mean this in a tumblr media criticism way - although obviously, if a book has no main female characters, it is somewhat a red flag representation-wise. But I do absolitely mean it when I say I'm shallow. It's really not that deep, the diet of fantasy and YA fantasy i raised myself on (both good and bad) means that I prefer the concerns of non-male protagonists and if there's no women for me to latch onto I'm often bored. So Locke Lamora pining after that one girl we never see, and then that other girl who seemed cool then just died, didn't really do enough to hold my attention. The old lady was cool, though she wasn't there much!

I also didn't find the way the plot resolved itself very fun either. Unfortunately, Locke being a confidence trickster meant that many plot points were (understandably) resolved through him talking himself out of problems, which makes total sense! It's just, by the fifth or sixth time of him talking himself out of his problems I wanted a bit of variety, which wasn't the book's fault I just didn't get much serotonin from Locke's type of competency.

I've always struggled with act 1 of that book and idk why, so finishing it was a win for me! It's not badly written or even a bad book, it's just not for me. I got bored of the way sex was talked about, I didn't feel much attachment to the characters, and I didn't care about them succeeding which is bad, in a heist setting lol.

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[belle-keys]

A lot of the “spicy” romansce fantasy authors that kind of pioneered the sub genre (SJM, Jennifer l armentrout, laura thalassa etc) all started in YA, and then in mid series, they shifted and grew with their audience to go more adult in themes.

Do you think Cassandra Clare should have done the same thing and missed this opportunity? Would you have preferred if she reflected this? I personally feel like her fandom would still be as strong as ever if she followed her colleagues suit.

Or do you think that she stayed good sticking to her roots and her writing voice lends itself to not have more adult type of romances and benefits from a fade to black shall we say.

In her latest kickstarter, one of the four novels that are in it, will feature 10 spicy romantic couples from shadow hunters universe. Given this is crowd funded it makes me wonder if, if it were up to her, she would have gone more adult themed but her publishing contract held her back from it. But then from a publishers pov, isn’t that shooting yourself in the foot? All the authors I mentioned above changed their contracts I feel to reflect the direction the audience knew would give the most captain gain.

I would love to know your thoughts on this 🤭.

I don't think Cassie ever wanted to write romantasy or spicy romance-fantasy as her main "vocation".

I think I picked up on this when she deleted a lot of Julian and Emma smut scenes from The Dark Artifices because they didn't serve the progress of the story. Cassie has her indulgences, but she tends to not be overly focused on writing romance or smut in the grander scheme of the fantasy story. Cassie's guilty pleasure in writing seems to be writing semi-unnecessary angst and fluff between close friends more than anything, not spice.

I'm quite glad we're getting some spice from the Kickstarter project, and I think the reason she's making this an additional, optional project and not part of the main series is because she knows it's just for fun; it's not her main "thing", just an additional treat.

So all in all I'm quite happy she didn't follow with the Sarah J. Maas and company trend. And frankly, neither did Cassie's close writer besties either. Neither Holly Black nor Maureen Johnson nor Sarah Rees Brennan have gone into smutty adult fantasy either, so I get why it's not Cassie's preference. Cassie seems more set on establishing herself as a "serious" high fantasy writer now, hence rubbing elbows with George RR Martin.

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[aliteraryprincess]

For the book worm ask game (that I just reblogged from you), was there one question you were hoping someone would ask but didn't? (It's been a while since the original rb so I'm not sure what was asked!)

Thank you!

43. Title of a book you own that's in the worst physical condition you have. Explain what happened to it. Post a picture if you want.

Definitely my family's copy of The Hobbit. This first belonged to my mom when she was a kid (so sometime in the 60s). Then it went to my uncle. Then it went to my two brothers. Finally it went to me, and some little kid visiting my grandparents ripped a page out of it (from my favorite chapter!!! I was fuming). So it's in really rough shape, but I love it.

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[volturialice]

🥺 and 😈 and ☕️ tell meeeeeeee

🥺 what’s a truly underrated book/series you recommend and wish the whole world would read?

I already mentioned a few here, but I also think more people should read little oddities Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford and Prosper's Demon by K.J. Parker

and not actually underrated but no one I know is talking about it and I wish they would: Our Share of Night/Nuestra parte de noche by Mariana Enriquez

😈 who’s your favorite villain/antagonist? are they special to you like a protagonist is?

Other than the ones mentioned here, I also love the "antagonist who truly genuinely thinks they're the hero" types like God/John Gaius from the Locked Tomb and the Gentleman from Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I guess the pattern here is I love affably evil™ men with no self-awareness and horribly maladjusted women who knowingly and gleefully take out their issues on the innocent (I'm bisexual)

☕️ drop a HOT unpopular opinion about a book/character. be savage.

suldrun my beloved fellow Night C!rcus hater (I don't even need to tell you about that one) <33

[ok disclaimer that I wrote this at like 1 AM so it's even more savage than usual and if I flambéed anyone's fave to a scorched crisp then remember it's just MY OPINIOOOONNNNN]

some other books that make me feel like the only one brave enough to point out that The Emperor Is Naked:

Already mentioned The Cruel Pr!nce and The House in the Cerule@n Sea, but I also disliked Lone W0men, the N!nth House books (first one was ok but whaaaat even was book 2), and anything I've picked up by Sarah G@iley (has cool ideas and cannot execute them even a little bit.)

A Study in Dr0wning. don't get me wrong I love Ava Reid's prose but christ on a cracker that was a drag. I suspect many of the people who rave about it were just so calibrated to expect bad/mediocre prose in their YA that encountering decent writing bowled them over

Daughter of the Moon G0ddess is a hot mess that IMO only got all that buzz because these clowns out here don't watch xianxia and so mistook it for having a shred of originality when actually it's a frankenstein's monster of scenes from Princess Agents and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms + 16 megapopular genre tropes in a trench coat. don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with being tropey and unoriginal but you have to be like, good at storytelling then

my other unpopular opinion is that everyone needs to stop trying to make me read The Song of Ach!lles. fetch is not going to happen, it could be the best-written book in the world and I would still loathe every word. I hate that fictional man so much I keep 16 heel-destroying weapons on my person at all times. I think everyone who wants to rec me specifically TSOA should be forced to sit through minimum 3 different performances of euripides' The Trojan Women before they're allowed to mention it in my presence

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[kmomof4]

Krystal, I am so glad you reblogged this, because I loved this set of questions and wanted it to get circling. Apologies if I ask you several…

For the Bookish Asks: A, C, H, T, U, V, and Y

I’ll never forgive you for this, Marta 😜 kidding!! Thank you so much for the ask! This really did look fun so I’m thrilled to answer so many!!!

A Author You've Read The Most Books From

Probably Stephen King. I started reading him my freshman year in college and by the time our first was born in ‘97, I’d read pretty much everything he’d written up to that point.

C Currently Reading

Does fanfiction count? 😜 but seriously, I guess you could say I’m currently reading When He Was Wicked, Francesca Bridgerton’s book by Julia Quinn, since I’m adapting it to a CS fic…

H Hidden Gem Book

So, I went back to my homeschooling days for this one. In the Reign of Terror by G.A. Henty. We only read a few of his books when the kids were growing up and they were all wonderful, but this was our first one we read aloud and it was just phenomenal !!! All of his books followed a young person living during momentous times in human history. This one was set during, you guessed it, the French Revolution. HIGHLY recommend.

T Three Of Your All-Time Favorite Books

The first two are easy peasy… It and The Stand, both by Stephen King. From the first time I read them to when I started having kiddos and no time, I read them both at least once a year. It’s now been well over 2 decades since I read either one and I could probably give you a pretty detailed description of what happens in each and every chapter.

For the third, I really don’t know… but I’ll list several that I LOVE that jump immediately to mind.

The Horse and His Boy C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia Book 3, takes place during the reign of the Pevensies in Narnia.

The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien yes, it counts as 1 book, sorry, not sorry…

The Viscount that Loved Me and An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn. Anthony and Benedict Bridgerton’s stories, respectively.

And finally, Nora Roberts O’Hurley’s series, that, as you know, inspired my A Family Affair fic series. I read the series, except Trace’s story (the older brother), before I was married, and when I found the last book, it rekindled my love for the entire series and it held a very special place in my heart all these years.

U Unapologetic Fangirl For

Bridgerton series

V Very Excited For This Release More Than Any Other

If you’d asked me that about 9mos ago, my VERY LOUD and EXCITED answer would have been the Special Edition release of the Bridgerton series in hardback that Chris ordered for me for Christmas, which also answers your last question. But, since you didn’t ask me that 9mos ago 😜 and it’s been so long since I’ve bought any real-hold-in-your-hand-book, I don’t really have an answer for you. Sorry?

Y Your Latest Book Purchase

See above.

Thank you again for all these, Marta!!!

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[stained-by-your-kiss]

Hello ✌🏽☺️ for the bookish questions i choose 21, 25, 26, 43, 48,49 and 50. Thanks

21: Best winter read?

Ok so the first thing that comes to mind is The Time Travelers Wife ~ I don’t know if it’s considered a winter read, but I personally read it during the winter years ago, and there are winter scenes, one being quite extreme.

25: If you could be a character from a book for just one day who would you be and why? (Bonus: any specific day in the story?)

Shiiiiiit ok - I would fucking love to be Stephanie Plum. To meet Grandma Mazur, chill with Lula and have some Joe Morelli?! 🥵 all while being a Bounty Hunter? Yes please! Hopefully it’s a day her/my car doesn’t blow up 🤣

26: If you could be a character from a book for their entire life who would you be and why?

Mmmmmm damn this is a hard one. If I try to put too much thought into this it will probably never get answered so I’m just gonna pick… Rachel Morgan - she’s a witch who lives and works with a faerie and living vampire. I stopped reading the series a while ago, but I think I want to pick it back up now!

43: Are you the kind of person who reads several books at once or the kind of person who can only read one book at a time?

I used to be able to read only ONE book at a time, but now that I’m reading different types of books and learning to read what I’m in the mood for, I can have 3 books going at once.

48: Where is your favorite place to read?

Anywhere 🫶🏼 I don’t have a specific favorite place.

49: When is your favorite time to read?

Early in the morning, before anyone is awake, while I enjoy a cup of cafe con leche 🫶🏼 ☕️

50: Why do you love to read?

Lots of reasons, but mainly because it’s an escape. And if I’m reading something near and dear to my heart or trauma, it’s comforting.

Thank you, @doloreschanal for sending this!

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[starfall-spirit]

Name the best book you've read so far this year.

I honestly couldn't tell you. Outside of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, I have been reading KU filth or been busy writing.

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[godzilla-reads]

WATERSHIP DOWN BOOKISH ASKS

El-ahrairah: How many followers do you have?

Rabscuttle: Who is your bookish bestie IRL?

Frith: Do you think audiobooks are real books?

Hazel: Who is your bookish bestie online?

Fiver: What makes you more nervous- running out of things to read or dying before you finish your TBR?

The Threarah: Have you ever changed your initial opinion about a book after writing a review?

Bigwig: Do you have a book you enjoy that not many people do?

Dandelion: Do you write at all? How do you share your stories?

Speedwell: How fast do you usually read?

Silver: How many books do you average a month?

Acorn: How many books did you read in 2023, 2022, 2021- if you remember or have records?

Blackberry: What book would you recommend to a child?

Captain Holly: What book are you avoiding reading at all costs?

Bluebell: Have you ever laughed out loud while reading?

Strawberry: Do you think trigger warnings are helpful in the book, even if it might spoil it?

Pipkin: Do you tend to read bigger or smaller books? Or are you averaging in the middle?

Keehar: What’s your opinion on translated books? Do you have a favorite country that you read a lot of books from?

Clover: What book has fundamentally changed you?

General Woundwort: What book do you hate that everyone seems to love?

Campion: What does it take for you to change your opinion on a book you’ve already read?

Hyzenthlay: Do you think reading is a rebellious act?

Thethuthinnang: What book do you want to recommend to everyone you meet?

The Black Rabbit of Inlé: How do you feel about Death of the Author?

Have fun!!

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[clockworkbee]

hellooooooo random question but if cardan was a season what season would he be?

Hey! that's... an interesting question 😅

My first thought was Spring. And the more I've thought about it, the more I'm like, definitely Spring but also kinda Monsoon? I mostly see greens and other vivid colors (that's how his blacks look even cooler) 😅 let me know what you think?

thanks for this ask!

—bee 💗

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[howlsmovinglibrary]

14 and 22?

14. What books do you most want to finish before the year is over?

Weirdly, I've actually read a lot of my TBR and as such struggled to find any books to put on my Christmas list??? I need to finish A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber, but also that book is turning out to be *rough* so it's not as urgent it should be lol.

I would like to read 4 more books because that would get me to 60 books (double my goodreads goal which would be neat!) so... honestly? If anyone has any recs for me I'll take them.

22. What was the longest book you read?

The Lies of Locke Lamora at 722 pages. Finally :))))))) I read it for my thesis (I did not like it).

end of year book ask!

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[belle-keys]

i have a 3 part question, we can anticipate overlap but i think it would be al ot of fun, i hope you don't mind :)

what are ur top five favourite most beloved series of all time?

what are ur top 5 most reread series of all time?

what are ur top 5 series to bring with u to a deserted island?

ily <3

I love asks like these!

Top 5 most beloved series of all time:

The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

The Poppy War trilogy by RF Kuang

A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin

Devil’s Night by Penelope Douglas

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I'm not a big rereader, but I have reread The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare multiple times, and Captive Prince by CS Pacat at least once.

5 Series I'd bring to me on a deserted island (with reasons):

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, for hope.

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, as I’ve only read one book in the series but I wanna read the rest of them sooner than later! Best way to pass the time.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, to remember humanity.

Foolish Kingdoms by Natalia Jaster, because it’s one of my comfort series.

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, to reconnect with my youth.

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[volturialice]

🙄 and 😌 for the emoji book game thingggggg

🙄 what’s a popular book that you dislike, but you’ll get crucified if you say it?

sooooo many. uhhh The Night C!rcus and The Cruel Pr!nce come to mind immediately. Also The House in the Cerule@n Sea (I think we're allowed to dislike that one now that the author has put his foot in his mouth, but we should have been allowed to dislike it before. it has all the moral nuance of an episode of Barney)

Also I didn't like Deathl.ess but unlike the other three I don't wanna knock the quality of that one, I just personally found the style annoying

😌 what’s your go-to genre if you’re in a reading slump or don’t know what to read next?

reading slump: sci-fi, especially shorter stuff like novellas and short story anthologies

don't know what to read next: I usually reread a classic but I actually haven't run into this problem in many moons since I started keeping an actual physical TBR list/putting 8 things at a time on hold at the library/setting my own personal Cait Corrain Bombed Books Challenge

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[kmomof4]

K, I, L, A & N for the bookish survey!

Hahahahahaha!!! Saw what you did there, babe!!! Thanks for playing!!!

K Kinds of Books You Won't Read

I’m not a big fan of science fiction

I Important Moments of Your Reading Life

That’s a very interesting question… I would say two important moments in my reading life was when I read The Lord of the Rings the first time and when I started reading fanfiction. For LOTR, I read them the first time after I saw Fellowship and Two Towers in theaters. I loved both movies so much that I couldn’t stand to see such wonderful movies and have no knowledge whatsoever of the source material. And then, of course, I was introduced to fanfiction in the spring of ‘16, and I’ve barely and only occasionally emerged from that rabbit hole since.

L Longest Book You've Read

Hmmmm… really not sure. I don’t pay attention to that kind of thing. I do know though, that The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel, Book 3 in The Earth’s Children series and the unabridged version of The Stand by Stephen King are both over 1000 pgs.

A Author You've Read The Most Books From

Probably Stephen King. I was introduced to his writing my freshman year in college and proceeded to devour everything he’d written. By the time our first child was born in ‘97, I’d read almost everything he’d written up to that point, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-25 books.

N Number of Bookcases You Own

Well, we actually have an entire wall of built in bookcases in our den, but if we’re talking portable bookcases that will go with me if I ever move out of my house, 5.

Thanks again for playing, babe!

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[mutantenfisch]

For the Bookish asks: 3, 8, 10, and 14?

Ooooh these are fun ones! Let's go! 3 - Currently reading (again, lol) John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A long-time favourite of mine with two very good cinematic adaptations (1980s miniseries with Alec Guinness as George Smiley and 2012 movie with Gary Oldman and an all-star cast) 8 - Best Cover Hands down Thomas Edward Lawrence's thesis about Crusader Castles in the Levant 10 - Two books you love from opposite ends of the spectrum (however you wanna interpret that) Dashiell Hammett's noir classic The Maltese Falcon as a gritty and kinda pulpy detective story that laid the foundation for many following books, movies and characters (looking at you, Fallout 4's Nick Valentine <3) Deborah Blum's fantastic non-fiction work The Poisoner's Handbook about the history of forensic medicine and chemistry in the early 20th century in New York City. I highly recommend this book to everyone. It is amazingly well researched and very engaging and entertaining <333 14 - A book you love but wouldn't really recommend to others T. E. Lawrence again, with his legendary recollection of his wartime memories The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I love this book to pieces but it is a) a real door-stopper, especially in the German translation i also own and b) heart-rending and disillusioning and i cried a lot in a very painful way.

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