#BOOKBLR

[xiranjayzhao]

U know ur on the right track when ur book gets called "woke garbage" 😭🙏

[altirn]

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: coffeeyre

[andrewminyardslawyer]

I'm super curious so:

It was 2015 for me!

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

any romance novel recs?

I'm too drunk to write this well or with any elaboration so here so here are just all my favorite romance novels

You Made A Fool of Death With Your Beauty (Akwaeke Emezi)

A Lady For a Duke (Alexis Hall)

The Bride Test (Helen Hoang)

Love, Hate & Clickbait (Liz Bowery)

The Heart Principle (Helen Hoang)

Happy Medium (Sarah Adler)

Funny Story (Emily Henry)

Adam and Evie's Matchmaking Tour (Nora Nguyen)

Don't Want You Like A Best Friend (Emma R. Alban)

[4theitgirls]

february 2025 book journal

books read:

1. ‘the perfect girl’ by gilly macmillan

rating: 3.7 ⭐️

2. ‘we used to live here’ by marcus kliewer

rating: 4.79 ⭐️

3. ‘no exit’ by taylor adams

rating: 5 ⭐️

4. ‘first lie wins’ by ashley elston

rating: 3.85 ⭐️

5. ‘the wife upstairs’ by freida mcfadden

rating: 3.95 ⭐️

6. ‘the eye collector’ by sebastian fitzek

rating: 4 ⭐️

7. ‘the crash’ by freida mcfadden

rating: 4.39 ⭐️

8. ‘the troop’ by nick cutter

rating: IDK I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS

9. ‘the night she disappeared’ by lisa jewell

rating: 4.89 ⭐️

[shoulda-been-a-redhead]

btw this is what i think the mental archives in Violet's mind look like. (more or less.... this is what AI could do with the clunkiness of my description of what i see in my head every time violet describes the streams of power).

(i couldn’t choose a favorite bc none of them are exact, but if y’all have one please reblog and tell me which is closest to your vision!)

[marinscos]

The Demon of Beausoleil x Severance AU

I was recently reminded I can draw whatever I want for any reason I want

[wisteriagroves]

always

you've carved a place in my heart

a place in my heart that I have no desire of replacing with anyone else

[prophetic-memory]

Tsutomu Nihei, Blame! Master Edition, Volume 1

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Metafiction

Metafiction - a self-conscious literary style in which the narrator or characters are aware that they are part of a work of fiction.

Often most closely associated with postmodern prose, it involves a departure from standard narrative conventions, in which a self-aware narrator infuses their perspective into the text to create a fictional work that comments on fiction.

This kind of fictional writing can appear in novels, short stories, plays, video games, film, and television.

Characteristics of Metafiction

Breaking the fourth wall: Breaking this boundary between writer and reader blurs the lines between real life and fiction. Metafiction often directly addresses the reader, openly questioning the narrator’s own story.

Self-reflexive: Authors use self-reflexivity, or self-consciousness, to reflect on their own artistic processes, drawing the audience’s attention away from the story and allowing them to question the content of the text itself.

Experimental: Metafiction is often experimental in nature, fusing a number of different techniques together to create an unconventional narrative. Metafiction can also experiment with the role of the narrator and their relationship to the fictional characters in the story.

The main purpose of metafiction is to highlight the dichotomy between the real world and the fictional world of a novel.

Metafiction can be used to parody literary genre conventions, subvert expectations, reveal truths, or offer a view of the human condition.

Often used in postmodernist fiction to comment on the world that our character inhabits, metafiction helps give a work of text more significance by providing an outward, exploratory look of a self-contained world.

Examples of Metafiction in Literature

The Canterbury Tales (1387): Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic anthology of interconnected stories that parody the conventional elements of fiction. Chaucer blends linguistic styles and rhetorical devices to craft a collection of stories within the overall story, regularly breaking the fourth wall to address the audience directly and apologize for any offense the narrative may cause.

Don Quixote (1605): Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote is essentially a book about books. In the prologue, Cervantes breaks the fourth wall by commenting on his process of writing the book, in which he urges the reader to make up their own mind about the written text. The ensuing novel discusses the adventures of the protagonist, Don Quixote, who has gone mad from reading too many chivalric romance stories.

Giles Goat-Boy (1966): John Barth’s fourth novel is a prime example of the metafiction characteristic of postmodernism, featuring several fictional disclaimers in the beginning and end, arguing that the book was not written by the author and was instead given to the author on a tape or written by a computer.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969): Written by John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a historiographic metafiction novel about a love story between a gentleman and a governess in the Victorian era. The book features a narrator who becomes part of the story and offers several different ways to end the story.

Slaughterhouse Five (1969): In Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut includes his own voice as a character in this non-linear narrative. The main character has been “unstuck in time,” oscillating between the present and the past with no control over his movement, emphasizing the senseless nature of war.

Gravity’s Rainbow (1973): This story by Thomas Pynchon is the poster child of postmodern literature, using a complex, fragmented structure to cover various subjects such as culture, science, social science, profanity, and literary propriety. In this particular narrative, Pynchon questions history and how it gets created, and also how it affects both society and the individual.

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[sumire-no-nikki]

Had an amazing cup of coffee here. It was a Columbia Pink Bourbon roast and it tasted like honey. I started reading Butter by Asako Yuzuki, the book I got from Book Off the day before. A few pages in, I looked up from my book and found that all three of the baristas in the cafe also had their noses in books. And there’s something oddly comforting about reading in the same room with strangers, don’t you think?

[cherryfairy35]

“When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.”

― Kim Sowol

[sammibellarts]

I’m out here just missing the fox prince 😭❤️

[altirn]