#tbh these are some of the more mild items listed lol

[worldwide-coalesce]

Lyn: "Hm Soda? I've never heard of that drink before. I guess I'll have an Amrita Soda, and why not some of those Beads of Motivation, I know of a few people who might need some." Lyn said pulling out her money pouch.

“Hm. Ok. Just be careful with those beads. Dina made those and who knows what he did…”

OBTAINED: Amrita Soda

A bubbly, sugary golden drink hailing from a land known as Loka. Nice and cool, and produces a faint yellow glow.Effect: Minor wounds heal up almost instantly and pain becomes much more tolerable. Consumer will find themselves growing more hungry than usual though thanks to the boost in metabolism. Lasts six hours.

OBTAINED: Beads of Motivation

A beaded bracelet, with each bead being filled with a beautiful, sparkling green fluid. Gives off a faint glow.Effect: Wearer feels a rush of motivation to do things. May induce mania if worn for more than a half hour at a time.

#shops and stalls ;; renewed resolutions #Do you hear the fire burn? [Jehoel] #verse: No Heroes for a Seraph #tbh these are some of the more mild items listed lol #mark-lyn-and-friends

[wishingstardust]

A Random Book Tag

Thanks @symonereads for tagging me! :D

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?  

Possibly Misty of Chincoteague? A vintage hardcover with mild bunny damage from my first time leaving Ollie in my dad’s care sadly

2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?

I’m actually between books right now because I finished one this morning-- Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody-- so I’ll also name The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt because that took up like all of my weekend. Next I’m gonna read the books about the new American Girl, Nanea, who’s coming out next week! (Amazon shipped my copies before the doll’s set to come out, which is confusing but fantastic!) 3. Which book does everyone like and you hated?

I’m not sure? Honestly I tend to not be very critical, so usually it’s more me being disappointed than me outright hating anything.

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?

Probably half my TBR list tbh. Mostly stuff that’s old enough not to be an exciting new release but too new to be any kind of classic.

5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”

Nothing intentionally? I’m hoping to tackle some of the typical doorstopper-types sprinkled into lighter reading over the years.

6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?

Lately I’ve been listening almost entirely to audiobooks, which means this isn’t a problem hahah. I rarely intentionally look to the end though.

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?

I’m sure they’re very meaningful to the people in them, so I definitely wouldn’t call them a waste, though it’s only occasionally that they’re legitimately interesting/fun to read.

8. Which book character would you switch places with?

Oh gosh. Someone completely safe with like no actual responsibilities? Lol. 9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?

I can’t think of anything nostalgic right now, but when I listen to audiobooks they can get really tied up in what I was doing while listening (which is anything from playing a new stupidly addicting game on my iphone to traveling somewhere exciting). Also certain books feel like high school both because they’re YA and because I read them multiple times when I was in high school (Catcher in the Rye, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Looking for Alaska all definitely come to mind). 10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.

I think generally the book is more interesting than the acquisition method. I do have a book given to my great grandmother for Christmas in the late 1800s, though, which was then given to me by my aunt. I couldn’t say what the book is and I’d be afraid to read it since it’s so old and fragile, but it’s a really cool thing to have.

11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?

Usually I either buy the book as a gift or it’s not something special and more “oh hey I read this and don’t want to keep it forever do you want it next?”. Though I do quite enjoy giving signed books (today I got to give my childhood best friend a copy of The Bad Beginning I got signed for her at bookcon and it’s so great!).

12. Which book has been with you to the most places?

Really I’m not sure, but shoutout to my stupid past self for bringing my fat copy of Wordsworth’s works all the way across the pond and back earlier this year and only managing to read like three of his poems whilst in the UK.

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?

Give me a few more years. Lol. (I wouldn’t say I hated anything, but I definitely got very little out of The Odyssey and I’m sure if I sat down with it again it would be a lot more meaningful. Also a lot of stuff from 10th grade English-- world lit, and I had so little scaffolding from world history that a lot of meaning was lost on me. American lit was a lot easier for me to see in any sort of context, since my American history is a lot better than my world history!)

14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?

Nothing really strange. A bookmark or two (one had a bunny on it and some cute pun about reading; I still have it somewhere) and probably some library receipts.

15. Used or brand new?

It depends, though aesthetically I generally like new or like-new books best.

16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?

Well that’s very specific. Why does this have to be an either/or thing? Clearly he’s doing something right, anyway.

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?

Not that I can think of off the top of my head. Sometimes they’re just about as good, occasionally enhancing something that couldn’t be enhanced in book form, and that’s the best you can hope for really when the book started off good.

18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?

I think I’ve blocked all these from memory lol.

19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question? Not really? I’m not too much of a food person. Like all I eat is pizza and chocolate.

20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?

I give more advice than I get when it comes to books, but I should definitely read things @queerpunklily says I should read a lot sooner than I do. Also generally most of my favorite authors, when they have something nice to say about someone else’s book. tagging: @septemberninth92 @bluesargenvt @the-forest-library idk I always forget someone!