#Bibliophile Problems

[too-cool-for-facebook]

Me wanting/trying to learn All the Things™️ but having literally zero hard-drive space left in my brain

[dodger-thirteen]

I hate buying a physical book for book club and discovering it's made of the paper/ink that gives me a headache, so I have to go get the ebook.

[felfiramoondesigns]

AVAILABLE THIS WEEKEND! Saturday 25th at 2PM GMT AT FELFIRAMOONDESIGNS.COM & LITPINSANDCO.COM

@litpinsandco and I will be releasing the rest of our stock from BUILD YOUR OWN BOOK STACK 2.0 KICKSTARTER! WOOO!! We ordered a lot less stock this time around so some pins are already 15 or less in stock. We won't be getting these remade EVER so once they are gone, they are GONE!

I will have the following 8 designs and Jamie at Litpins&co will have 8 more designs, exclusive to her shop!

Mine will be as follows: ASCALON (Priory of the Orange Tree)

BEXLEY & GAMIN (The Hating Game)

DEMENHUR (We Hunt the Flame)

HABITAT (The Murderbot Diaries)

KINOMOTO LIBRARY (Cardcaptor Sakura)

NEW BEIJING (The Lunar Chronicles)

SHIGURE'S HOUSE (Fruits Basket)

TYBURN'S WOOD (Get a Life, Chloe Brown)

[anne-bsd-bibliophile]

I insist on having coasters. Next to my reading chair, on my desk, in my library, etc. I remember reading in A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril that evil people do not use coasters, and it has stuck with me into adulthood:

“We observed rings on all the wooden furniture, from people refusing to use coasters. Obviously there are many villains staying in the hotel.”

“...for there was no one on the wooden bench, only a few etched rings from people wicked enough to set down glasses without using coasters.”

[baby-alia-speaks]

I love the Wheel of Time series so far, I really do, but I think I've got to take a break once I've finished The Shadow Rising. I keep zoning out and can barely even keep track of what's happening to everyone anymore. And for some reason I'm just feeling so disheartened by the fact that I'm four books in and only a little over a year has actually passed in the story. One year! And it's not like these books are Redwall-length; the short ones are like Three Musketeers length and the longer ones are between Brothers Karamazov and Les Miserables in length! And that's all well and good, I love big books, with millions of characters, but... it's taken four 600+ page books for one year to pass. ONE YEAR... in War&Peace a good 9+ years passes...in Les Mis and Count of Monte-Cristo, like 15-20 years... I guess that's the rub. Ay, it rubs me up the wrong way that a '90s fantasy flick is moving more slowly than some of the greatest classics of all time. And it wouldn't bother me so much if Jordan's writing actually measured up to those classics. He's great and all, but he's not up there with the likes of Dumas, Hugo, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Tolstoy... and yet he felt the need to take his story this slow. But also... I'm excited that I have such a long series to read? The best books always seem too short. And I do love this series. It's just... Yah. It's time for a break. I need to take a break from this series monopolizing my reading time. There's so much on the list this year... some Brian Herbert Dune fanfics, Shogun, TE Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, maybe re-reading Les Mis...

I don't even know what this post is. Tah.

[linosbonito]

i honestly shouldn't buy more books as i'm lacking space to put them but who's gonna stop me???

[lalectoracaimitena]

That Amazon wishlist just keeps growing and my bank account can't keep up. 😭

I hate being stressed because of all the books I want to read.

[nerdby]

If you support AI ANYTHING after reading about this then you are trash.

[melodysbookhaven]

“When we care about someone, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have to consider not only what they did, but also why they did it. Intent matters.”

Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

[howifeltabouthim]

'You can't get through life just from reading books . . . '

Susie Yang, from White Ivy

[itfeelstoomuch]

[c-h-stevens]

Hi. I'm the disabled trans author of this 👇

and I need at least $300 of rent money by July 5th (with an additional $200 by July 10th) to avoid eviction.

With a steady income via Patreon, my rent problem would be significantly easier to solve, or entirely solved. I could even invert some of that money back into my business and grow!

You can start reading my web novel right away for free, and also support me. You can also find a link to my Ko-fi, if you'd like to donate without compromising yourself to a monthly subscription. Tumblr always keeps me off the tags when I post more than one outside link.

Here's a post I've made with more info about my web novel (it's very gay and very long, though still at the first story arc).

If I make $500 by July 10th, via subscriptions or otherwise, I will write two bonus web novel chapters--either Patreon-exclusive ones separate from the main storyline, or two more Early Access chapters, or one of each. If you donate, you get to cast your vote. Writing is all I can offer as a show of my thanks, and lately I barely have the energy for that.

[felfiramoondesigns]

I made a shiny vdeo hehe!

LITTLE LITERARY ENAMEL PINS: SFF & YA EDITION KS is now live and running til April 24th at 7pm BST. FIND IT HERE ON KICKSTARTER We are so close to unocking the designs inspired by Priory! LETS DO THIS!! These designs are inspired by Six Of Crows, Shadow and Bone, Priory of the Orange Tree, Sabriel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and Percy Jackson. All pins will be pretty little at 28mm! (Hence the project name if you couldn't tell hehe)

KS is an all or nothing platform which means no money will be taken before the project is over and only if the funding is successful. So pledge now to help unlock the pins you really want!!

[anne-bsd-bibliophile]

I’m going to hang this sign on the door of my library, for incredibly nerdy reasons:

Most obviously, because I have a lot of books (which is why I needed to buy more shelves). 

Because this sign reminds me of the Legend of Siegfried from Norse mythology. I’ve explained below why this is so significant for me personally.

I want my library to be blue, because of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s The Blue Castle, and this sign fits with the colors I’ve picked out.

The Legend of Siegfried tells the story of how the hero Siegfried uses the magic sword and a magic ring to help him slay the dragon Fafner and take his treasure. This is the legend that inspired Wagner’s Ring cycle operas, The Hobbit by Tolkien, and my favorite anime Soukyuu no Fafner. 

In Soukyuu no Fafner, the world has been taken over by aliens called Festum and the protagonists have to pilot fighting robots called Fafners (made to look reptilian to represent the dragon Fafner from the legend) in order to protect their treasure, their home and loved ones. So while the dragon is the villain in most renditions of the legend, the Fafners in my favorite anime are a necessary evil that they need to protect their world. 

In a way, I feel like the dragon Fafner who is hoarding all my favorite books and it’s a part of who I am that I protect fiercely. And I associate the dragon from the legend with the pilots in the anime, who are the ones who give up their lives to protect their home. It seems very dramatic, but wouldn’t a lot of people rather die than give up their books? Ever since reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury I’ve thought that I would definitely be one of the people who would rather be burned with my books than live a life where everything was censored, cultures were destroyed, and free thinking was discouraged.

Also, the dragon on the sign is purple, which is the same as my favorite fighting robot from the anime. 

[unravelingthepages]

sad books are the reason i cry and the reason i read

[hoperosmerta]

July (prose that I woke up at 6 to write)

I'm  scared

"Why are you scared? don't be scared I'm  here for you"

He said, but in less than a week he fled from the scene, leaving me confused. I didn't know what to do with myself or what to do about you. another part of me was stolen from my insides, the part that gave me life. Then I lay lifeless. 

The worst part is I told him of the mess I was in. He didn't care for helping me clean up.

Now does it make sense for me to have lost my shit with him? The issue is that now i'm the villain in his side of the story. even when I almost took my own life because I was trapped in a web of isolation from the spider of your lies, false promises, and how you just left.