Don't get me wrong, I love the dreamy fairytale-ness of the Ghibli movie version of Howl's Moving Castle, but the book. The book. Sophie, first off, being so incredibly set on being the boring un-gifted un-adventuresome eldest daughter (as is right and fitting for an eldest daughter to be) that she doesn't notice she's working magic, like, constantly? And when a witch shows up like "hey girlie you are fully working SO much magic that I'm feeling threatened, so like I'm gonna put you in the old lady dimension ciao," she's like well. That was weird. Anyway I guess I better go find something to do as an old lady. And she reasons that this famously evil sorcerer who eats young girls' hearts is probably safe for her now cause like. She's old. What's he gonna do to me. And proceeds to bully her way into becoming his cleaning lady. And Howl, known flaky whimsical fuckboy extraordinaire, is like sure okay I guess that works for me. And just as well because it turns out he's also a fucking bottom who kinda digs this strong stubborn lady who's steamrolled her way into his life, kinda weird that she's disguised as an old woman but w/e he's not gonna question her life choices and like it's not actually a problem for him, and by the time Sophie's figured out that oh crap oh shit she's actually kinda into this flighty asshole, what am I gonna do, he'd never return my feelings in a hundred years, Howl's basically accepted that they're mostly married. And also how can you top "my extremely powerful and slightly fey wizard is just a Welsh grad student who wandered into a portal one day" for a character concept. You can't. It's the perfect book really
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๐ข๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ, ๐ฆ.๐ฅ. ๐ซ๐ข๐จ
โ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ต๐ณ๐บ, ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ถ๐ฎ.โ
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public libraries are so sick. there are five books I want to read and they're all relatively new so they're only available in hardback which is so expensive but it just cost me $0 to place holds on them. five books for zero dollars. it requires nothing but clicking a button and then going to the library to pick them up when they're ready. zero dollars. that's crazy
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I gotta say that if I knew nothing about Judy Blume and i saw a picture of her Iโd probably assume she was a young adult novelist named Judy Blume
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you bottle Miette??
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if i was a knight in medieval times i would be the guy who dies a gruesome probably accidental death that ruins the whole tourney for everyone
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obsessed with how different the first boxcar children book is from the rest of the series. like i haven't read any of them in ages but iirc it was like
boxcar children book 1: they are living in a boxcar
boxcar children books 2-160: they are solving mysteries
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โkill them with kindnessโ WRONG. GET RECLAIMED BY THE EARTH๐ฑ๐บ๐ท๐น๐ฒโ๏ธ๐๐ผ๐ณ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ท๐น๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ธ๐ผ๐ฒโ๏ธ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐๐ฑ๐บ๐ท๐น๐๐ฒโ๏ธ๐๐ผ๐ณ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ท๐น๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฟ๐ชป๐ฒ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ธ๐ผ๐ฒโ๏ธ๐ป๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐ฑ๐บ๐ท๐น๐ฒโ๏ธ๐๐ผ๐ณ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ท๐น๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ธ๐๐ชป๐พ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ผ๐ฒโ๏ธ๐ป๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐๐ฑ๐บ๐ท๐น๐ฒโ๏ธ๐๐ผ๐ณ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ท๐น๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ธ๐ผ๐ฒโ๏ธ๐ป๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐ชป๐๐ฑ๐บ๐ท๐น๐ฒโ๏ธ๐๐ผ๐ณ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ท๐น๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ธ๐ชป๐ผ๐ฒโ๏ธ๐ป๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐ฑ๐บ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ท๐น๐ฒโ๏ธ๐๐ผ๐๐ณ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ท๐น๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ธ๐ชป๐ผ๐ฒโ๏ธ๐ป๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐ฑ๐๐บ๐ท๐น๐ฒโ๏ธ๐๐๐ผ๐ณ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ท๐น๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ธ๐ผ๐ฒโ๏ธ๐ป๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐๐ฑ๐บ๐ท๐น๐ฒโ๏ธ๐๐ผ๐ณ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ท๐น๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ธ๐ชป๐ผ๐ฒโ๏ธ๐ป๐ฟ๐๐ณ๐๐ฑ๐บ๐ท๐น๐ฒโ๏ธ๐๐ผ๐ณ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ท๐น๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐บ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ธ๐ผ๐ฒโ๏ธ๐ป๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐ฑ๐ป๐ณ๐๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐๐บ๐ธ๐น๐ณ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ชป
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What books have you done this to?
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Saint Paul Public Library, I am begging you to make this real
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Currently reading: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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