#Crossings Book Club

[crossingscon]

It's Crossings Book Club day! Join us at 8pm EST for our discussion of Stealing the Elf-King's Roses.

Find a link to our virtual book club meeting space on our website (under the Community tab), as well as info on how to register for CrossingsCon 2025, taking place August 15-17 in Philadelphia!

[waitineedaname]

AU where Binghe starts spending more time with Liu Mingyan and SQQ is really excited (and a little sad) Binghe is getting closer to the Best Wife! But really she blackmailed him into joining her literature club after she accidentally found his self-insert rpf fanfic. The only thing she’s admiring here is his prose and imagination.

OH GOD HIS SELF-INSERT RPF....... at first he doesn't want to be there, but then he finds the rpf the others have been writing and he's offended bc it's out of character and Obviously he knows Shizun best!!! he knows how to characterize him, he knows what he would like the most!!! he's the authority here! and LMY is just like okay yes tell me more (taking notes while he goes off on Shizun characterization)

also Binghe probably would have good prose tbh, he's Qing Jing's best student after all! they're the peak dedicated to the arts! being a good writer is just him honoring his shizun of course

[elibeeline]

what hobbies are actually screen-free tho

[sharkneto]

Reading Lonesome Dove is such a funny experience, because it's this 900 page cowboy epic that's Pulitzer Prize winning and apparently universally adored and I'd never fucking heard of it before

[phagodyke]

had an awesome day but also so sad... went to a bangin ramen place then saw a really good but heartwrenching stage play in my old city w my roomie n then straight to the gym from the train station bc its my mates last day in the uk so we wanted to get in one final climb together I'm gonna miss him sm..... many tears have been shed this afternoon/evening fr!! 💔💔💔💔

[smonkledonkle]

First of all, I think Spink is such a fantastic name, and I will not be hearing bad of my boy Spinrek Kester.

Second of all, WHY'D THEY DO HIM DIRTY LIKE THAT?? NO ONE WARNED ME-

My boy... spink...

Third of all, I'm like 5 chapters into the second book (Forest Mage) and I am in so much pain reading this someone tell me it gets better. Robin Hobb is good at what she does but damn I am SO uncomfortable rn. ITS INFESTING MY DREAMS,, THERES NO ESCAPE.

Tell me it gets better this hurts.

[spurgie-cousin]

man apologies to anyone who came to watch Tim's engagement video, i had no idea that literally 99% of a video titled TIMOTHY'S ENGAGEMENT was going to be random preachers yelling and Jill giving us the VonTrapp family history lmao.

The video Timothy had on his own YouTube is so much nicer and ok, I honestly completely buy into the Jill Hates Heidi conspiracy so much because when Jill made videos like that for her daughters, their engagements were the main event. Tim literally got 2 minutes in an hour and 20 minute video like wtf

[clonerightsagenda]

My dad read Percy Jackson and Bartimaeus and Leviathan and Hunger Games alongside us so it's a shame my brother and I didn't read Animorphs as children because he would've read that too and I think it would've been an interesting shared touchstone to have as a family. Not necessarily a good one but an interesting one

[crossingscon]

Announcing our next TWO picks for CrossingsCon Book Club! Our March read will be This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. The book club meeting will be a week later than usual, on April 6 at 8 EST, to avoid any Easter weekend conflicts. Then on April 26, we're continuing the Queen's Thief series with The King of Attolia! Thanks for joining us, and happy reading!

[ashleybenlove]

In Mary Anne and the Library Mystery, Mary Anne encounters a list of books people are trying to ban, which includes Bridge to Terabithia, a book she loved.

Mary Anne's a big fucking crier. I bet she cried reading that book.

[artemismatchalatte]

On another note, I forgot my university has a discord. I just rejoined it with my new account so maybe I'll make some new school friends. :)

[fungi-maestro]

Here's a list of Question appearances up until about 2014 (when this website stopped being updated)

[ofliterarynature]

This feels like an incredible reach but I’ve been dying for a halfway coherent way to rec this for ages, so - if you’ve read The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina and want a large cast of characters and more absolutely wild shit like plants growing from peoples bodies, mythic figures lurking around the edges of stories, people sprouting grasshoppers, and magic houses appearing from nowhere (or perhaps growing legs. Or maybe a volcano in Central Park instead) - you should read My Volcano. It’s literary, it’s speculative, it’s folklore, it’s climate fiction; the vibes are a little different but please read it and come yell at me.

Maybe you can explain the lemons.

[bisexualchrissycunningham]

Kiki and Marina planning a dreamy book club meeting 😍🥹

Kiki and Marina planning a dreamy book club meeting and not inviting me 🥺😭

[veinsfullofstars]

Best friends book club!

(ID: Animal Crossing fanart of Marina & Coco sitting on a cute couch discussing the books they’re reading, a cup of tea set for each of them on the armrests. END ID.)

One day, I went into Marina’s house and found Coco hanging out there, just reading a book on her couch. The next day, I found her and three other villagers all sitting in different chairs in different spots across the island, all reading books and wearing the same reading glasses. Coincidence? Or secret underground book club? I’ve decided on the latter. Sounds neat - wish they’d invite me.

Started 08/05/20, finished on 08/09/20, updated for color correction 11/02/24. NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 08/07/23.

[sarcasmic-skies]

literally what the FUCK!!!! is going on w my insomnia recently. like it’s always been bad but it hasn’t been this bad this often in a long time. as of this moment, saturday, 4:24 am cst, i’ve been awake for 44.5 hours straight & counting. the week before last i was up for 71 consecutive hours. when i finally fell asleep after running on 90 min of sleep for those 3 fuckin days, i woke up three hrs later!! what the FUCK!!!! chronic insomnia can suck my dick and balls and thank me for it i am so over it. and YES i see the fucking irony that it rears its ugly head after i read/annotated fight club over n over for 10 hrs straight on thurs. it’ll be very haha laugh funny once my body knocks this shit off. fuckin hell. (i will update)