#i read books

[visioncody]

Visions of Cody (wr. 1951) (pub. 1972)

—Jack Kerouac

#jack kerouac #literature #neal cassady #quotation #visions of cody #american literature #beat generation #english #quotes #allen ginsberg #cody pomeray #dean moriarty #follow #life quotes #lit quotes #love quotes #books #books and reading #i read books #america whatever that is #college #life lessons

[ninsiana0]

Read WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT by T. Kingfisher if you love remote villages, disreputable cabins in the woods, mysterious illnesses, nightmares, fungi, strongly spiced sausage, trauma narratives, endless cups of tea, propriety, knives & very good horses.

I received an advance copy of this book for review.

#Read This If #WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT #WHAT MOVES THE DEAD #T. Kingfisher #readers of tumblr #readers on tumblr #book recs #book reviews #book recommendations #readmore #i read books #netgalley #advance copy #book #books #i love books #nonbinary character

[cheryl-carol-cherlene-tunt]

Why do people get so obsessed with the idea of celeb couples faking their relationships for the media? You realize what you are suggesting is still a tropey romantic comedy?

#taylor swift #travis kelce #tom hiddleston #to name a few #i read too much fanfiction #i read books #fake dating #tropes #fanfic

[4everbrookemarie]

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS 🤗🤓😁

((The ** behind the title and author means I haven’t read it yet, but it’s on my shelf))

•We Over Me (Devale and Khadeen Ellis)

•The misadventures of awkward black girl (Issa Rae)

•Seven Days in June (Tia Williams) **

•Fierce Love ( Sonya Curry)

•Bamboozled by Jesus (Yvonne Orji)

•Around the way girl (Taraji P Henson)

•You should sit down for this (Tamera Mowry-Housley)

•Feeding the soul (Tabitha Brown)

•The hate you give (Angie Thomas)

•Dear Martin (Nic Stone)

•Letters to a young sister (Hill Harper)

•Higher is waiting (Tyler Perry)

•Well Read Black Girl (Glory Edim)

•The circle maker (Mark Batterson)

•Show and tell (Nobia Bryant)

•Live and learn (Nobia Bryant)

•Free Cyntonia (Cyntonia Brown-Long)

•Becoming (Michelle Obama)

•God locked out (Danielle Tashae)

•A child called it (Dave Pelzer)

•The lost boy (Dave Pelzer)

•The wait ( Devon Franklin & Meagan Good)

•The last black unicorn (Tiffany Haddish)

•We’re going to need more wine (Gabrielle Union Wade)

•You got anything stronger (Gabrielle Union Wade)

•WILL (Will Smith)**

•Checking in (Michelle Williams)**

•Inner Circle (Evelyn Lozada)

•Becoming Beyoncé (J. Randy Taraborrelli)**

#books #i love to read #books and reading #knowledge is power #knowledge #bookworm #nerd #book nerd #book blog #bookblr #books & libraries #bookish #good reads #iRead #i read books #i read a lot #i read it #bookshelf #recommendations #book recommendations

[katruna]

#dragon hoard #books #it’s what i do #i read books #and I know things #bookhoard

[winter-tospring]

The lathe of heaven, chapter 11

This mess. Going back a few steps back, a few dreams back to when Heather was Heather and not a pale version of herself. The Heather who was George's wife wasn't the Heather of before, and though he misses her, it's better to see her now in all her vibrancy of character, than nowhere at all but in his overlapping memories.

It's sweet, he wants to be in her life again, and like movies where characters lose their memory, he knows her, and will try again, to be in her life.

He sounds more serene. I don't know if his dreams really stopped coming true. He's not as stressed about it anyway. And what happened when he slept where the alien led him and he said the alien words? The world didn't change, and dreaming was pleasant. Did the aliens help? The aliens seem to help him continuously to find calm and understanding, through what's lost and caught in translation.

Haber ends up in an asylum, after pursuing his dreams too far. Everyone is terrified of him, the person who made this chaos happen.

It doesn't feel like the story is...resolved, but I don't think it essentially needs to? Things will change again some way, endlessly. I'm happy George is somewhat at peace, though. He deserves it.

I don't know what else to say, I'm really curious what others have to say about the end or the story in general.

Haber pushed the world into a nightmare and George dialed it back to a...realistic? Logical, nightmare. Mess of a world, but with connections that keep the world together. In that way, people can move forward, and move the world with them. Hm.

#Aaaaahhh!!!! #the lathe of heaven #ursula k. le guin #I read books

[postsecretsalone]

#post secret #book #collection #I love #reading #postsecrets #books #read #love #book collector #i have books #I buy books #I gift books #i love books #I read #I read books #I collect books #bookish #bookworm #books and reading #booklover #booksbooksbooks #booksarelife #postsecret #reader #read books #bookmark #book shelf #stars #postsecretasabookmark

[happyheidi]

𝖠𝗋𝗍 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗇𝖺-𝖫𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺 𝖲𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 | 𝖨𝖦: 𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺_𝖺𝗋𝗍

#this has to be one of my favorite little comic ever cus YEEEES #I love me a good rain lighting thunder trio <3 #ESP while laying in bed with a good book #had to share #cottagecore #comics #art #cute #drawing #rain aesthetic #cozycore #cosycore #reading #comfycore #wholesome #we had MASSIVE rain here today and some lovely lightning & thunder . so this was basically my just switch night to say and bed to couch

[bookpdf]

there should be more hours between 6 and 10pm. like even just two more hours. for my assorted hobbies & activities

#heartbroken that i can't play video game and read a book and work on my art in a single evening when im already tired from work!!!

[waitineedaname]

I simply don't think that's true eBooks.com but thank you anyway

#i love getting automated emails from book stores #about authors who have been dead for decades ajdbfkdjdj #i had to read nietzsche for my existentialism class. god what a pretentious dude

[visioncody]

Visions of Cody (wr. 1951) (pub. 1972)

—Jack Kerouac

#jack kerouac #literature #neal cassady #quotation #visions of cody #american literature #beat generation #english #quotes #allen ginsberg #cody pomeray #dean moriarty #follow #life quotes #lit quotes #love quotes #i read books #books #books and reading

[ninsiana0]

Read HEARTSONG by TJ Klune if you love sad gay werewolves, finding your way home, eyeglasses, memories, trauma narratives, ace love interests, sitting beneath trees, the scent of lake water, traditions, loss narratives, crackers, and waves of blue.

#Read this if #Heartsong by TJ Klune #Heartsong #TJ Klune #green creek series #Wolfsong #book covers #book review #book recs #book recommendations #book reviewer #readers on tumblr #readers of tumblr #readmore #i read books #sad gay werewolves #werewolf #werewolves #i didn’t love this one as much as Wolfsong or Ravensong but i still loved it

[sowlmates]

gotta give it to the percy jackson fans, you really do love your main character. for other franchises, fans usually place the #1 blorbo title on a specific side character. but in percy jackson you really love your percy jackson

#it's percy this percy that and I really love this for you all #percy jackson #i haven't read the books so i have an outside perspective at best so sorry if this is wrong after all #1k #pjo

[orcboxer]

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

#orcspeak #edit: this is not about fanfic nor is it about a specific fanfic nor is it about a specific show or movie or book #this post is about the time loop trope itself which occurs in many different stories spanning many different art forms #i don't read or write fanfic and I'm not looking for fanfic recs and whatever character you think this is about there's #an 80 percent chance i don't recognize their name

[winter-tospring]

that chapter 6 was so GOOD but I say that about all of them. but it's true. just keeps getting better. I do think we got to the core of the questions of the story with this one, though. I have so many thoughts.

a plague that decimates the world population but doesn't create systemic change :))) "There were no songbirds anymore, either"

Last paragraph, I've seen quoted here, it's probably the big one of the book, one of, anyway. Immediately reminds me of Janet's speech about the universe not being a machine (in The Good Place), and makes me think I should make one of those masterposts where different sources talk about the same idea. It already kind of has a tag of its own on my blog. Anyway. THOUGHTS while reading this:

Everybody kinda wants to change the world, and she asks the question of "What if you could change anything you wanted, easily, but the way to do it meant rewriting history every single time, erasing people, places, memories? What if it meant using someone's body and psyche in a sort of dream torture, to achieve what you think would make the world better? " (which kinda ties in with her short story" the ones who walk away from omelas")

This is more of a general comment than about this book, it's just making me think: There's probably a white western perspective to account for when we think of peace as almost impossible? Ask them to stop wars and the killing of poc, and the answer will be "actually, its not that simple, it can't just stop, or it wouldn't be the world, it wouldn't be humans." is that right? Are we sure of ourselves or are we trying to justify our actions with an alleged nature that people have, to enslave? Is world peace really unattainable? Why is it so hard to imagine peace without having to talk about its flaws, and not emphasizing just how many people would live, and be treated decently, and not go hungry? Why must peace be a utopia? I wonder how other cultures think of it.

Then Orr dreams, and he dreams the world has united to form a front against alien attack.

So it takes a new enemy to unite old enemies? It takes a new war to end an old one? That is not peace. Is it? Can peace have boundaries, and if it's limited to a group, and if that group wages war outside of itself, is it still in peace? Might the people inside the group take out their anger on outsiders instead of people they've now united with?

Now we encounter a valid argument : the theories around how things would change given a prompt by someone with good intentions to someone with the power to change things: can the person with this power imagine, subconsciously, what they consciously would want? There is a lack of control and precision at work that makes the changes unpredictable, despite how well intentioned the prompts are. Different people's subconsciouses would create different dreams and different worlds, even with the same prompt.

It's not only a matter of what we believe, but in this case of the story, how reliable the subconscious is. Very important variable that takes the author's opinion of the possibility of peace almost out of the equation. She's simply giving us an example of what one brain could come up with, and that in itself is also a great analogy for the fact that this book, this story, also only comes from one brain, hers. Peace cannot and should not be dreamt up by oneself. Just as it would never be made real by only one person. It speaks to the truth of how to build peace, really. It requires more than one person, a lot, a lot of people to CHOOSE, to be willing, to come together and figure out actions to take TOGETHER to change things.

The problem with snapping fingers and fixing things is that people haven't chosen to make peace, so they themselves haven't changed, and so patterns are doomed to repeat. I guess one would have to focus on that, to dream of people wanting to make things better. But again, that would remove actual free will and the process of coming to your own conclusion that change is necessary, and that you will take steps to contribute to that change.

And Orr's like "I followed instructions." which struck me so much. This character is quite fascinating in how it's described vs. how he responds/thinks. We keep being told by other characters that he's boring, flat, miserable, pathetic, helpless, yet he's the one who actually cares, so far, about the repercussions of his dreaming. He's the one who's rightfully terrified and wants to stop it, not use it. He's the one who seems most mentally sound, in that sense??? He's not getting carried away by his power, it's more a curse to him. Being the dreamer, he knows he can't decide how to change the world, but Haber thinks he can direct it enough to get his desired result. He's also not afraid because he doesn't suffer the physical and emotional toll of being the one to make those changes.

I find it interesting that we're "supposed" to look down on Orr, but the story does the opposite, because you feel bad for him, and understand his fears (at least I do, lol??). He actually is the most anchored in reality, since he chooses to face it, and to suffer it, suffer the consequences he brings about, and live with all the realities he knows in his head. He doesn't deny them.

YES, exactly!! "Your own ideas are sane and rational, but this is my unconscious you're trying to use, not my rational mind"!! Exactly exactly. "You're trying to reach progressive, humanitarian goals with a tool that isn't suited to the job. Who has humanitarian dreams?" a killer of a sentence.

We're also dealing with a person who's being forced to dream these ideals. It's doubtful a coerced person who's terrified of their dreams would have peaceful dreams that fit what the prompter intended anyway.

Yep, he's not in control and the subconscious is full of imaginary things.

Ursula is so good at placing herself in an observer's position, while taking a stand sometimes, in a subtle yet profound way, more through what she chooses to write about, and the questions she chooses to ask, than any answers she might give through the stories. It's such a delicate skill to have, so valuable for a writer of sci-fi.

I love Star Trek, and it makes so much sense that she inspired star trek writers throughout the years. This story's questions remind me of an Orville episode about a society closer to ours who could be given the tools to achieve world peace of some kind, but it's against the federation's code to provide these to civilizations not ready yet to use them. This is a thing in Star Trek federation too, I'm pretty sure. Like in their code. I haven't watched all of star trek, lol. I think I remember it in an episode of strange new worlds, too. The idea that you can't just give people peace, they have to walk the path towards it themselves, or they won't be able to sustain it/build it (if they're given tools that are supposed to lead to peace. I'm wondering if that's the prime directive and if it is im gonna go hide somewhere in shame because the prime directive is like the most important thing and yet as a new star trek fan I feel like it's not EXPLICITLY explained enough in new shows for me to remember 😭

Edit: okay yeah it's the prime directive 😂

Mm, so it guess to go back my second point, where I ask Why Must Peace be a Utopia?? WHY MY DUDES. I wonder if the utopia is to imagine people doing the right thing. People considering others' lives and safety, people being compassionate and respectful, and able to live side by side with people they disagree with, without hurting them. People not using others for their personal gain. People not listing for power. Is that a utopia? From that angle, I admit it does feel more like one, lol. But would it be possible anyway? I think that's up to every one of us to decide and act accordingly. If you think it's not possible, you're more likely to act like a shit head cause you feel justified by defeatism.

I sure am losing my mind and trust these past years over people not giving a shit about hurting others. And I don't know how to be fine with it without giving up on the idea that we can have a better world.

#the lathe of heaven #I read books #ursula k. le guin #thoughts

[cottaegecore]

when you start reading again and it's like oh. oh . the sun actually does still shine.

#i am a worse more awful person when im not actively reading a book #can u explain why #cottagehome #cottagecore #cottage moodboard #reading #books #cottagecharm #countrycottage #tea #love #text