#i can't wait to read this book again

[messmagu]

Recently got into the locked tomb, it was only a matter of time, so now i have to figure out how to draw them! And a ton of other characters too, probably

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #these books are great #but so confusing wow #can't wait to finish them and read them again to put the pieces back together #blood #i want to try different hair on them too #I'm not 100% set on these but i do like them #tlt fanart #sketches #my art #magu arts

[chrysoprine]

I miss all of them so much aaaaaaaaaaa

#the locked tomb #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #tlt fanart #tlt #my favorite redhead #i just can't wait to read nona in french like please #and i have to read it again in english anyway #ah yes #rereading the whole book series again instead of making progress on the homework #chrysart

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Another thing that makes kaladin so painfully relatable is how much his mental illness hides his personality, because between depressive episodes and trauma he's this sarcastic little shit that smiles a lot at his friends and then the depression gets to him and all that disappears

#I'm dreading book 4 so much #my depression got worse while reading it the first time 😭 #also I don't remember exactly what but multiple times he says stuff that i think too often and having a fictional character say that l #ridiculous stuff caused by mental illness made me feel even worse #it helped! because it hit me how stupid it is and that i should avoid that type of thinking at all costs! but didn't i feel like shit for a #while #now i almost finished book 1 and book 2 has Shallan's past 😬😬😬😬😬 #can't wait to read again about her horrible childhood locked home with a violent father that take out his rage at her on others #that won't make me feel horrible at all! #it's not like i wasn't almost crying just at her getting an anxiety attack at the beginning #....these books feels awfully aimed at me fjskdks #the stormlight archive #cosmere

[forestfolke]

tfw freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake, it is not easy. it is not a gift given but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one

#a wizard of earthsea #the tombs of atuan #the farthest shore #ged #sparrowhawk #tenar #arha #arren #ursula k. le guin #reading these books recently felt like healing #she writes of love and compassion between humans and toward the earth so faithfully it warms my heart #i wish i could make some more realistic detailed paintings for them but you know how it is #i'd really like to read tenahu i can't wait to see ged meet tenar again :'-) old pals #my art #digital art #fanart

[solitaireobsessed]

Waiting on my Heartstopper Vol.5 and slowly dying every day I don't get to read it. (sobs)

Checked out Nick and Charlie and Loveless to *hopefully* distract me a bit.

#send help #I need heartstopper 5 #dying over here #I can't read the other four books again I've already read them all twice this week #heartstopper #I must know what happens #this is worse than waiting for KOTLC books

[oakfern]

why does consuming content destroy me. i am so bad at this. why can't i just read books and play video games like a normal person

#e #i'm sorry for this but i never make posts with essays in the tags so bear with me for once #every time i find a new Thing it eats me alive until i can forget about it #after i finished earthbound i cried for 2 days straight. u think i am exaggerating but i am not... it was scary. i could not stop bawling #when i read the locked tomb series i was literally emotionally destroyed for a whole ass month #while i had the books out from the library i just kept reading them. and rereading them. and rereading them #and i read really fast so i probably read each book like 5 times at least. and the emotional parts i read over dozens of times #anyway this time my Thing is lore olympus. i read all of lore olympus in two days and now i don't know what to do with myself #(ok to be fair i was caught up in like 2021 but it's been a while so i had to start from the beginning again) #side note: i can't wait for alecto to come out so i can be completely destroyed for the rest of my life

[prismatic-starstuff]

*blows a kiss somewhere in the general direction of the sky, and therefore space*

For HAL

#2001 a space odyssey #hal 9000 #i finished reading the first book today #first things first: beautifully written book! absolute masterpiece! 10/10 highly recommend! #but also #i'm still tearing up thinking about the murder scene (which is what it was) even though i read it a day ago #it was Not any easier in written form. not at all. still Extremely painful. #i love him and i hate what happened to him #can't wait to start 2010 so i can see him alive and well again #(sidenote: last time me and my mum watched 2001 i genuinely did blow a kiss at hal without thinking about it... #it's cool though #my mum understands #i told her before the first time we watched it: 'listen i'm Absolutely gonna fall in love with hal' #(and she expected that from me anyway) #and so my very immediate falling in love has been no surprise to her whatsoever ALSMSLXNSNXN)

[reputahtion]

i  already  finished  book  one  of  p.jo  and  immeditely  got  all  the  others  too  lmfao  i  am  so  hyped  honestly  this  book  was  such  a  pleasant  surprise  and  i  am  glad  that  i  am  back  in  my  reading  era  <3

#i actually enjoy that it's an easy read but at the same time it's the first time in years that i've actually read a book in german again #and it was quite the adjustment but nonetheless such a good start to this story and i honestly can't wait to devour the rest of the books #over christmas / new years break ahhh #🐍ㅤ(ㅤ OUT OF CHARACTERㅤ)ㅤ―ㅤ OH MY GOD‚ SHE'S INSANE.

[kingofattolia]

the minister of war's name was Hector the whole time 😭

#grace for ts #queen's thief #UNDONE simultaneously by how this tiny detail is so inexplicably important to me #and how it's not inexplicable at all bc MWT just chose to not name a recurring bg character for FIVE BOOKS #and we still don't even know the magus' name at all........... incredible #anyway. so much about this book that i did not remember #it killed me & then brought me back to life & then killed me again #can't wait to read moira's pen now and see if it makes any more sense than last time #still so stunned by how much of an everybody lives/nobody dies book this is .......

[shinmiyovvi]

💗🌹 Painted Roses Moodboard 🌹💗

"Promise me you won't do anything stupid, Arthur. Especially if you're gonna die over this job you got yourself in."

"I hate to break it to you, sweetheart but... At times like these, I never make any promises. Not even our pinky promise will keep it because I know for a fact that I will die in the blink of an eye, Ji Eun."

#painted roses #painted roses moodboard #story moodboard #shin's bimbinis #original characters #arthur frensby #gong ji eun #ArJi #oc x oc #I got bored so I made this thing #can't wait to tell you all about the plot behind painted roses #no art btw since I have some schoolworks to deal with #I feel so rusty but I'll manage to give everyone of you more art content #for now have this cute aesthetic moodboard to heal my soul #I will post the cover page of the book by tomorrow in the morning in my place and the plot of it #that is why I am reading some novels that I have to learn how to write and build up a compelling story. #I changed the title again because the previous one was taken :'>

[vulpinesaint]

desperately trying to remember if there are any books i read this year that i cannot find on my library borrowing history or simply cannot remember. i am so bad about remembering books. LITERALLY REMEMBERED ONE AS I'M WRITING THIS POST. anyway i am attempting to compile a list of books that i've read this year so that i can reference it without having to forget everything. wish me luck. i have fifteen titles on there right now but i can't shake the feeling there's something i'm forgetting

#checking my shelf of books i got for school??? idk #none of this is helped by the way that i have seven thousand books waiting to be read right now and all of them are on my mind #and several of them i am partway through. but i cannot put bell hooks all about love on my list yet i just can't #opened this is how you lose the time war today. not liking it super much but it's not even 200 pages so we'll pound through it #and then my three books from merc (princess bride and two books from the fight club guy) #and all about love. and interview with the vampire #WITCHER NOVELS!!! I READ WITCHER NOVELS AGAIN!!!! adding two more books to my list #god i'm not even through blood of elves yet. awful. this is why i can't keep anything up i forget my ebooks exist as options #then i should read that book about eleanor roosevelt that my grandma got me. as a token to her dskfjghs #wanna reread the hours! have a physical copy just for that so i can annotate #gotta finish the once and future king. #all that to say that there are many books that will be on this list once i actually sit down and read some of them #have to remind myself that i Am actually doing good i'm at over a book a month rate. this is fine #two books a month rate! actually! #shout out to library due dates for being a fantastic motivator #seventeen books on the 'read' list this year. this is fine bracken. you're doing good #realistically this is SO much better than previous years 😭 good stuff. just gotta keep reading #valentine notes #list that would have been so useful to have when we were doing that book recommendation thing

[waitineedaname]

I finished the first mdzs book!!!! The book somehow manages to be sillier than the show while also having much more necromancy, which is a fun vibe

#i think for my own tastes starting with the untamed and then reading the books is the right order #bc i love watching the fucking greek tragedy that is wei wuxian's demise #and then the books are wei wuxian being a clown <3 love this guy #i already have the second book from the library so i'll start it soon #can't wait to experience yi city again!!! <- afraid

[moregraceful]

kinda eating drywall abt the karlsson trade but it is what it is

i consider it a win in that i didn't lose nick cicek in the trade honestly, which probably says intensely worrisome things about my priorities in the sharks org AND my perception of nick cicek's trade value but. yeah no we got fleeced not only by pittsburgh's most eligible president of hockey ops slash gm AND kent hughes, which is an ego blow on unforeseen and sloppy levels. like my mom could sell me to kyle dubas and i'd be like fine, whatever, but mike grier is a whole ass nhl gm. he should have protective charms in place against that man so i gotta ask. i gotta ask. mikey you good. you good babe??? you need some electrolytes???

congrats to sid crosby for adding another boytoy to his dman harem tho. personally cannot wait to see what happens when karly (mean cat), tanger (evil cat), and gravy (anxious greyhound) get in the same locker room. the sparks...they're flyin

#or gravy ends up in wilkes-barre. i'll kill you gmkd don't test me #back for a hot second to check one (1) thing for a challenge but i could not resist explaining my passions (gay defensemen) #maybe there's a god above...all i ever learned from love...was how to write ryan graves in various situations getting stressed out #have i ever written ryan graves smut? i can't remember. huge L if i haven't. someone inform me if i have. i don't remember at all #this tumblr break is going great. i started and finished a fic for time begins that needs psychological spiritual and emotional help #''you know what this baseball fic needs? a trans grandmother who is witch-coded'' boy no it doesn't!!!!! #if i were smart i'd lean into urban fantasy and just go nuts. blake sabol the magic is within YOU #alas the grandmother is simply from sonoma (at first she was from bolinas and then i was like i CANNOT validate those maniacs) #still packing but i'm so stressed bc i have one episode of tunnel talk left and i'm like what do i do if i run out of episodes untll sat #my sister told me to listen to the audiobook of gideon the ninth and i'm like dude i don't know if i'm smart enough for that #i bring a real ''checking books out on libby and not listening or reading to them'' that libraries paying for ebooks and eaudiobooks #per use on a proprietary license do not enjoy #so i'm holding off on gideon for now. i checked out the night tiger while i wait for time war to come round again we'll see if i listen #what am i talking about. i rediscovered spotify's tropical house playlist and that's all i fucken listen to now #on some secret level i am on a sunny beach far away from here getting [redacted] by [redacted] while [redacted] #it's so interesting how it took me a half hour to respond to this and yet i gave anon none of the commiseration they wanted or needed #cage replies #anon

[essektheylyss]

I AM attempting to read at least four books this weekend and that IS ridiculous but alas, here we are.

#no one look at my other fucking post I am NOT attempting proust okay #these are books of reasonable length. #here's my thing with proust. yeah yeah 'perfect novel' fuck you. that is not a novel. that is a series. #I don't care if it's one entity. so the fuck was lord of the rings and we have deemed that three books at this point. #just because a story is sustained does NOT make it a singular novel. I'll kill. #to be clear this is a joke. as mentioned I know literally nothing about proust and I have already forgotten the novel's title. #as per fucking usual. #honestly I'm gonna read it someday solely so maybe I understand what the fuck people are talking about. #anyway the books for the weekend are: authority (vandermeer). the gift of knowledge/ttnúwit átawish nch'inch'imani (beavert). #acceptance (also vandermeer). waterlog (deakin). #YES I once again saw robert macfarlane's name and blacked out and purchase a book. do not @ me. #(I did want to read waterlog after having read landmarks and then saw the new paperback edition on a stand at the bookstore so shhhh) #megs is reading #in my defense I'm going to be spending a lot of time waiting this weekend considering my spouse is in a race not designed for spectating #(it's a massive seven-part relay. and he's in a part where you can't even get in to spectate so.) #I'm mostly tagging along with my sister and her bf's friends so. books are necessary. #I've always been that dweeb with the book in social settings and I'm not about to stop now.

[bloodboundismylife]

Me and my blog on Wednesday when COP comes back:

#It's been forever since I've had anything worth reading #The last time I was genuinely excited for a book every week I guess was Bloodbound #And that's been three years ago now 😂 #Can't wait to see Trystan again! #Crimes of Passion #Crimes of Passion 2 #COP 2 #playchoices

[hazeism]

hi!! wanted to ask if you have any favorite books, either that you've read recently or of all time. Your prose is insane and I need to broaden my own vocabulary so if you have any book recs, fiction or nonfiction, I'd love to know :')

Hii :D ! ahaha, what a well-timed question; lately I've become the kind of guy who just really wants to talk about what people are reading, or are planning to read, and responding in kind, so thanks for giving me an opportunity to indulge that, haha. What a wicked invention the printing press was!!! (Also--thank you!! I'm glad my prose is to your taste. I'm happy !💕)

If you don't mind, I'll put a cut on this right away, because I know I'm very talkative, but let me put a TLDR above for all the novels/authors I mention here. Disclaimer also that I am kind of a dunce (I think you know this) so I like silly shit a lot of times . please be nice to me adfhbjkdg. :D

(No nonfiction also because I'm a frivolous and unworldly little sprite or something but if you want straight philosophy [which counts] come back and I'll do my Top Ten Epic Platonic Dialogues Compilation for you .)

TLDR: Read any UKLG you get your hands on, Cain by Jose Saramago, or any Saramago (though maybe not Skylight, which is not a good introduction to Saramago), very much enjoyed Sartre's The Age of Reason recently, Shadow & Claw or The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe. If you feel like it, come off anon and tell me what you like, so I can give more tailored recommendations!!

Now if you're asking for favorites, like just the particular and arbitrary objects of my partiality, that stir my stupid little heart, the true answer is probably UKLG's The Farthest Shore, just because it is very special to me. I can't, of course, in good conscience, recommend the third novel of a six-novel fantasy series to someone (but of course read Le Guin, everyone should be reading Le Guin, it's dire for universal soteriology that we all read Le Guin; You'll probably get told to start with Left Hand of Darkness, and that's pretty solid. I liked The Lathe of Heaven as well. And if you read any Le Guin it doesn't hurt to pick up a copy of the Tao. I love the Tao man.)

Some friendlier recommendations, though:

José Saramago is someone I really consider peerless; There's no way to pick up a Saramago and not know who's written it. Cain is a bit drier, a bit more abrasive (almost accusatory, in that particular way you'll find in a Buddhist parable) and bleak than some other Saramagos, but it's one I like (perhaps for the trite reason that I like bucolic atmospheres and Classical antiquity as a setting) so it's the one I'll put forward.

Uhh, I've also been enjoying Sartre's Roads to Freedom lately, starting with The Age Of Reason. I'm partway through the second novel and umm... despite all the other things you could say about Sartre, lmfao, let it not be said that he is not a serious literary force. Serious is maybe the only word for it. Dire, too. I keep a commonplace book, so usually I take excerpts, but this was the first time in memory that I felt compelled to commit entire pages, ahah (I just took pictures though, fuck copying all that).

If you're itching for esoteric language, Shadow of the Torturer (as usually collected with Claw of the Conciliator in a single omnibus edition titled Shadow & Claw; the first of the give-or-take five volume Urth series) by Gene Wolfe will scratch you BLOODY. If you're particularly fussy, you might be irritated by your compulsion to Google, but I find it really makes the experience when you type in a word and the only results are "what the fuck did Gene Wolfe mean by this?" hahaha; Honestly, though, those kinds of complaints are borne from a lack of immersion, but you'll notice pretty quickly that the verbiage is a pretty crucial vehicle OF the immersion.

It may or may not become a commitment, though, if you like Urth enough to want to read through, so if you want Wolfe without the strings--though less of the exciting vocabulary, which is pretty necessarily constrained to Urth--I'd really highly recommend The Fifth Head of Cerberus (the novella OR the novel, I mean the former is volumized in the latter so just start it and if you feel like stopping then stop, haha). Mr. Terminal E is incredible but I scrape enough time out of my daily life to gush about his crazy literary density so I won't do it again here (you should ask my coworker, lmfao, who one time went "stop, hold on, hold on." because my face started getting really red while I was explaining to him some Wolfean gesture). If you read any Wolfe, and I mean ANY Wolfe, because his permatypes and his manipulations of them are endlessly interesting, feel free to come back and chat with me over it!!!

I guess I have to disclaim that my habit is mostly to pick through an author's corpus over a course of, usually, a couple years, and then sometimes I'll read things that will inform my understanding of the genre conventions or currents that the author is writing in (been enjoying Golden Age sci-fi recently)--it's not really as deliberate of a process as it sounds, but I think if you were to map my habits, that's the landscape of it. This means, though, that my reading is actually pretty narrow in scope, and I am not very well read or very knowledgeable in general (who is, in this economy) but it does mean that of the authors I do like, I can probably find the novel that'll work best for your taste.

If you want to come off anon, or I guess just leave another message, haha, (or if someone else wants to, idgaf, we're all friends here at tumblr user hazeism) describing the things you like or look for in a novel I can probably give you a more relevant recommendation. I've been dosing people up a lot lately tbh, it's like a parlor trick I've been doing; I have a conversation with someone and afterwards they'll have a PDF with a relevant Asimov story in their messages, hahaha. I can't help myself sometimes.

Come back anyway, though, if you read anything I talked about, okay? I want to hear about it 🥺

And alsooo (turning to face the audience) if anyone ever wants to put recs in my inbox (or my dms : ) slow replies though sorry I'm a hermit) I'd be happy to take 'em down. Can't guarantee I'll read them in a timely manner, or that you'll ever find out if/when I do, but it's good for me to leave my comfort zone.

#also not what you asked but a thing that i find always pertinent is the fact that synonyms are a scam #no two words ''mean'' and by mean I mean Convey Meaning Serve Function Perform Their Obligations In Continuity Or Discontinuity etc the sam #thing. if two words meant the same thing they would be the same word and even that's a bit of a trap (though i guess there is allure in the #potential scenario in which you are able to so precisely construct the surrounding matter of a sentence that you can get a word to repeat #its exact sensibility when being reused--usually when you are reusing a word you are manipulating it to throw light into an alternate facet #i think maybe it seems like i have an extensive vocabulary (i can't say if I do or not) because I trot out all manner of words in all manne #of contexts. under that pretense. or maybe I am a douchebag who wants to live in the world of forms who knows #sorry for all my me btw your first mistake though was looking at me and going Yeah I bet he has both a meaningful answer AND the ability to #convey it. like no sorry. you'll have to pick through the charnel field again. one million words curse #anonymous #ask #mine #bet you were waiting for me to tell you to read asimov well no. don't feel compelled to do that. i mean don't let me stop you (at the momen #I need them to live so I won't judge you but dhfkudh) i mean if you're currently in a place where reading is difficult (we'veall been there #then his mission of clarity makes his books sublimely digestible impossibly easy to read they're comfortable novels without being totally #unstimulating andthey can in fact be very stimulating if you give them the room to proliferate in your brain . but the thing about asimov i #the best things I find are Daneel (who is a scam and will ruin your life) and HIS PERMATYPEESS guys I love permatypes lately but it's hard #to get the texture of the Asimovian permatypes (muttering about the continuum from fisher through terens) and really luxuriate in them unle #ss you read one fucking million novels . so if you feel like doing that do it but if you don't. don't. #i've been getting so many asks lately (i mean. three. but before that another three!) and it's ruining my icy and aloof image . because i a #a motormouth. and now I'm going to stop typing!!!!!!!!!