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late valentines with my girl ottessa and the view of a rainy day 🤍 🌧

My best friends and I are going to start a book club and I'm so excited 😭 once my finals are done and they are done with their current reads we are picking what to start with first!

Anyone else have to take pictures of their bookshelf when they get new books lol I buy books quicker than I read them and if I don't take pictures I'll accidentally buy the same book twice

Geez, I have to stop falling in love with every morally grey, broody dark haired man with a dark past I read about.

hey so i just finished The Strange And Beautiful Sorrows Of Ava Lavender and.... fucking fuck. that shit hurted. it was so interesting and funny and the characters were all understandable (except one but i wont spoil) and real and then the last hundred or so pages happened. and it was still beautifully written and the characters were still so real, but now i was crying like a bitch! fuck man, it was both so amazing and so terrible and i dont know if i will ever recover, and i cannot give enough praise to the author; Leslye Walton, for this fucking that will never release its iron grip on my damn feels.

note; some things to watch out for if you think you wanna read this book, since books are not like Ao3 and don't have trigger warnings. this book discusses some heavy ass topics, part of why this shit hurted so much. that includes; rape, a LOT of death; gruesome death and less gruesome death, mentions of genocide from a Native American character, a shitload of bigotry, implied incest at one point but from people who were like in the past its really weird, bodily mutilation and grotesque violence, depression, and, though briefly, suicidal ideation. it may be a beautiful book, but it is a hard book, and i honestly am amazed i made it through, because while the author wrote this with a great deal of compassion and handled things well in my opinion, it was still excruciatingly raw and blunt and honest, and it fucking hurt, so it could absolutely, easily, be very triggering. so yah, be warned.

Gorll, I just want to read all the books in one lifetime, how can I rest in peace knowing there's too many to read and I don't have enough timeee??? This problem is really causing me depression!!

She did drawing and music and dance and acting and poetry and journaling and photography and everything else, but I'm told she wasn't very good at any of it. Just sort of a... fucked-up soul, looking for something a little bigger than she was.

— J. Sandford, Chosen Prey.

— Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code.

"the despair of an idealism that you can't attain" aaaaaaaah, i am so dead

"I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean sugary' It's dark and tormented - the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain."

- Catherine Breillat

MY ❤DREAM😻

I'll DEFINITELY FULFILL IT.

(Fighting spirit)🤞🏻

The sun’s a thief, and with his great attraction

Robs the vast sea: the moon’s an arrant thief

And her pale fire she snatches from the sun

The sea’s a thief, whose liquid surge resolves

The moon into salt tears…

~Female ravenclaw~

I just want to read and completely forget the world and my life and travel to a new one. I just want to read a book that is so well written that I can’t come out of my trance. It is the best feeling in the world.

Got a book embosser today. Had to cross off my name but I love it! All my books will be getting marked.

“There is no friend as loyal as a book”

- Ernest Hemingway

“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”

- Edgar Allan Poe

- lockscreen 🍂📜

i finally finished to read pachinko. it is a great book, not my favourite, but still good. now, i'll have more time to read my other books. yey! i plan to finish the books i'm currently reading until the end of vacation

THOUGHTS ON:

,,THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY"

Yeah, that's it.

It's very gay.

And I enjoyed it.

I need some book recomendation after TWOTQ

“Dune” Book Review

“Dune” by Frank Herbert is very much enjoying literally from the very beginning. I have soo much to say about this book. No wonder why people still call it a classic. I would say, it is in fact one of the best sci-fi book ever. 

The novel is super fast and highly paced. I never thought I would enjoy a book full of fights and adventures this much. This book hit totally different. In fact, it is also very dramatic. I felt like I was watching a soap opera TV series. In some parts I constantly had to remind myself that I was reading a sci-fi book! I loved the beginning of every chapter which contains a little extract from different writings about Mua’dib and Arrakis by Princess Irulan.

The inner thinking of the characters and what is going on in their minds in every little matter have been explained in the book and it is one of the best parts of it. I loved some of the Bene Gesserit ways very much. They really do have some productive plans which I think is very hard yet very powerful to stay calm and clean in difficult situations. We actually need to get adapted to some of those techniques. One of the great motives of the Bene Gesserit that I liked and Paul & Jessica kept adapting throughout the whole book was ‘I must not fear, Fear is the mind killer”. The mother-son relationship between Jessica and Paul is complicated yet very understanding. I liked the struggle they had together over the dune. Those parts were hard in one way and peaceful in another because they at least had each other. I also loved Paul & Chani together soo much.

Now, I shall talk about some of the characters. Paul is a great observant. He is very curious about everything. The sudden change that happened in Paul was so perfect at least in that disastrous situation.  Jessica is a great mother and protector. She tries to protect Paul from troubles and she is extra careful. There is a strong feminine pride in the reverend mother’s voice. One of her quotes was really good, like “ Humans are almost always lonely”. 

Frank Herbert was definitely a brilliant man with a good fold of knowledge. He was well informed and knows a lot. he created the whole universe fantastically. The descriptions, the rules and rituals of the fremen community is insanely good. one of the sayings of “Dune” is my absolute favorite which is “God created Arrakis to train the faithful”. 

One complain that I have about the book is, there was definitely a need of more female developed and powerful characters other than Jessica. And certainly I didn’t like some of the fremen ways of treating women. So, in a sense, “Dune” is back dated at least while mentioning the feminine situations. 

Overall, the book is crazy. The time when I was reading it, I just kept thinking about it all day and night. It is very catchy and keeps giving you glimpses of scenes even when you aren’t reading it. I loved it and can’t wait for the movie. Absolutely worth the hype.  

“And Then There Were None” Book Review

“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie is one of the best mystery books ever. The plot of the book really touched my heart. The story is short but well decorated. There is no way you can get who is the actual killer. Christie made the whole thing soo much confusing.

The story deals with 10 main characters. actually there WERE 10 characters and they happened to be murdered by someone who was among them. But none could understand particularly who was that murderer. And the murderer killed them in a very peculiar way following a rhyme named ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys’. 

You won’t actually understand how twisting and interesting is this whole story without reading it. The book has created an environment of great suspense and thriller for me. I would definitely recommend it to everyone who likes murder, crime and thriller stories.

I just finished reading the book 'This book kills' and i'm not okay

*gulps down pill 6 and 8*

Reblog with just TWO choices

Me reading books: 😍

Me buying books: 😍

Me touching books: 😍

Me seeing books: 😍

Me smelling books: 😍

Me talking about books: 😍

Books in general: 😍

I've been seeing a lot of memes about readers hoarding books and buying some more even through they don't read them, while there are others complaining how they have a huge pile of books to be read. I'm just going to say:

Hoarding books isn't a bad thing – in fact, it could be a sign of intelligence.

A writer from Medium, Michael Simmons, wrote this golden post about the habit. This is for all of you readers out there: boy, you are some smarty-pants.

Trivia Tuesday #3

Bookworm vocabulary: Abibliophobia is the fear of running out of reading material. Bibliosmia is the love of the smell of old books. Tsundoku (Japanese) means to let reading materials pile up in one's home and never read them.

Trivia Tuesday #2

After finishing a book, I kiss its front page and sob quietly. I hold it tight and cradle it like a baby. It's my farewell ritual. Afterwards, I don't know if I can find another book that can satisfy the last one I've just read.