#Book Set

[itskeisy]

New Deluxe Hardcover Collection 📚🐦‍⬛🍃🍂

The new deluxe hardcover collection of The Hunger Games series from Scholastic UK!

This boxset will be released on October 26th in the UK

[godzilla-reads]

Got my greedy little hands on the Penguin Green Ideas box set, which comes with 20 little books from Greta Thunberg’s “No one is too small to make a difference” to Aldo Leopold’s “Think Like a Mountain”.

[beanbowlbaggins]

My Grishaverse paperback box set of Leigh Bardugo's trilogy, Shadow and Bone, and her duology, Six of Crows, from Costco has arrived! I can't wait to open it up and see the individual book covers.

[alexesguerra]

Fairy Gems Deck & Book Set Fairy Gems Deck & Book Set Contributor(s): Steiber, Ellen (Author) , Ravenscroft, Linda (Illustrator) Publisher: U.S. Games Systems, Inc. ISBN: 1646711173 Physical Info: 1.89" H x 6.46" L x 4.41" W (1.14 lbs) 204 pages Linda Ravenscroft is a British artist currently living in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Author Ellen Steiber, is born and raised in New Jersey, lived in New York City and worked in publishing for 14 years. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.

[t2316m]

Tim Drake has a hatred for Sherlock Holmes, has he ever read the books? No but his dad used to insultingly call him Sherlock as a kid when he was being too nosy or curious and now even when people say it as a compliment it just irks him

Jason being the resident classic literature nerd is dead set on at least having Tim read the books so he can either A. Actually like the books and accept that Sherlock is actually a pretty cool guy to be compared too, or B. Give actual tasteful criticism and insults based on the contents of the book

Jason could care less which happens he’s just tired of Tim ranting about his hatred for Sherlock despite not knowing a thing about Sherlock

——

Tim: Sherlock this, Sherlock that, I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing that stupid hat

Jason: The hat really isn’t even mentioned in the books, You’d know if you read them

Tim: I’m not reading them, they really can’t be that good in fact Sherlock was so bad even his literal creator wanted nothing to do with him

Jason: Your dad wanted nothing to do with you and you’re still a pretty good detective

*Cue Dick yelling at Jason cause “that wasn’t nice”

[gallimaufryish]

[paperbackparadise]

Froggin' available in the Paperback Paradise shop, also available in this set.

[egophiliac]

everyone out of the way, this is the only thing I'm going to be thinking about from now on.

(okay, there is one more thing)

[bethanydelleman]

One of the things I loved about The Wild Robot from a writing/world-building perspective was that it was clearly set in a post-apocalyptic world, but the details were very vague, and you don't even know until about an hour in:

"Beautiful shot," you think, and then it hits you that the whales are swimming over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Abandoned, crumbling satellites and a sunken city. And then when we do see the human city, they freak out at the sight of geese:

Animal-derived plague? Global warming? We don't know. We only know that something has happened. But like the general theme, whatever bad has occurred, the natural world is thriving. An unexpected positive from a history of tragedy.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael Afton knows the FNAF Mimic’s secret..

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm re-reading the Discworld series for reasons, and honestly the most relatable part of reading these as an adult is how many of the protagonists start out being tired, used to their little routine and vaguely disgruntled by the interruption of the Plot. Sam Vimes wants to lie drunk in a gutter and absolutely doesn't want to be arresting dragons. Rincewind is yanked into every situation he's ever encountered, though he'd much rather be lying in a gutter too. (Minus the alcohol. Plus regretting everything he's ever done said witnessed or even heard about fourth-hand in his whole life.) Granny Weatherwax is deeply suspicious of foreign parts and that includes the next town over; Nanny has leaned into the armor of "nothing ever happens to jolly grannies who terrorize their daughters-in-law and make Saucy Jokes"

Only the young people don't seem to have picked up on this---and that's fortunate, because someone has to run around making things happen, if only so Vimes and Granny and Rincewind have a reason to get up (complaining bitterly the whole time) and put it all to rights. Without Carrot, Margrat, Eric, etc. these characters don't have that reason; they're likely to stay in the metaphorical gutter and keep wondering where it all went wrong or why anything has to change.

............well, that's not quite true. You get the sense that Vetinari knows how much certain people hate the Plot. And as the person sitting behind the metaphorical lighting board of Ankh-Morpork, he takes no small pleasure in forcing the Plot-haters specifically to stand up, and say some lines.

[godzilla-reads]

Penguin Books Green Ideas Series

[teaboot]

When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for "having an attitude" and "acting out".

It wasn't as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.

It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on "learning bad habits from that shit you're reading".

Because I couldn't read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.

When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the "attitudes" I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I'd learned from what I'd read that my family wasn't normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.

It is insane to me that there are students right now who can't access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation's ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.

That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.

That's how you process cattle.

It's fucking disgusting.

[alexesguerra]

Divine Nature Oracle Deck & Book Set Divine Nature Oracle Deck & Book Set Contributor(s): Sullins, Angi (Author) , Spalenka, Greg (Illustrator) Publisher: U.S. Games Systems, Inc. ISBN: 1646711181 Physical Info: 1.65" H x 6.46" L x 4.49" W (0.88 lbs) 100 pages Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be? You were born golden, and the earthly experience of humanity conditions you to believe you’re made entirely of earth. But no matter how much encasing the world has put on you, nothing can change your divine nature: golden, radiant, valuable. This deck is like phoenix-fire, melting away all that does not belong to your divine nature. The 100-page book is full of feathers of insight and talons of badassery. You don’t need to rise from the fire, you ARE the fire, both divine and natural, a treasure beyond your wildest imaginings. It’s time that you spent it. Set includes 44 gold gilt-edged cards with foil accented backs, organza pouch and 100-page guidebook, packaged in a magnetic hinged, spot varnish accented box.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

James Spader as Michael Boll BAD INFLUENCE (1990) dir. Curtis Hanson