#I also would love an adaptation of Klune’s Under the Whispering Door

[ladyannelister]

Since we will soon be getting film adaptations of Red, White and Royal Blue and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, I hope there will eventually be adaptations made for these excellent queer YA novels as well!! 🤞🏳️‍🌈

For The House in the Cerulean Sea in particular, I need the adaptation to be animated! Now that we have films like Nimona on Netflix, I am hopeful that a similar animated adaptation can be made for TJ Klune’s novel. *speaking this into existence*

[artfulacrostic]

book ask 5 and 11?

ooooo good ones anon.

5. What genre did you read the most of?

definitely fantasy. i made my way through a bunch of discworld books during the summer, which was wonderful (and i highly rec any of sir terry pratchett's books but especially the night watch ones). i also did a nice re-read of tamora pierce's song of the lioness and protector of the small books. i'm a sucker for those two series out of all the tortall books, they're just too good. and the first book of protector of the small is out as a graphic novel now, and i read that, which was AWESOME. and a lotttt of other miscellaneous fantasy reads! one of my faves was under the whispering door, by tj klune, the author of the house in the cerulean sea, and it had me WRECKED (in a good way). and i'm about to start the sequel to priory of the orange tree and am thrilled! we'll see if i finish before the new year though. in 2024 fantasy def won in terms of quantity lol

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

mmmmMMMM probably the wild robot, by peter brown. it came out in 2016, and was recently adapted into an animated film. i hadn't been able to get my hands on a copy at my work (a library) because it's so insanely popular with the middle grade audience, but i finally managed to corral a copy for one day and read it in one fell swoop. it's a lovely story about perseverance and discovering and understanding of self that i bet makes the protagonist, a robot who crashes onto an isolated island, feel relatable to a lot of kids. i also think the way it doesn't condescend to them about nature and the circle of life probably has a kind of subconscious appeal, because many books would bend the laws of nature in order to make sure that none of the animal characters die and "traumatize" the young audience. it presents those topics really mindfully and realistically, and even adds a sense of humor, but doesn't make it feel taboo, which i would argue it shouldn't, because that is how nature actually works. stylistically, it def appeals more to a middle grade audience than an adult one, but i really enjoyed it anyway and can definitely see why it's so popular. the movie was great too but kind of re-cushioned the circle-of-life stuff again which i found to be my only disappointment. it was beautiful though, and if you've read the book and liked it i definitely do recommend it!!!

thanks for the ask anon!!! 🥰

[deuterosapiens]

Started reading TJ Klune's Under the Whispering Door because I very much am not quite ready for Ravensong. Roughly a third in and I'm very fond of the pacing here. So far, it's charmingly taking its time.

You know that gorgeous moment in Sandman, where Dream and Death are just sort of talking? Where Death reminds him that they don't really exist for themselves, but for us? Beautiful writing on Neil Gaiman's part, and I loved how Netflix's series translated that to television.

Not important, spotlight is on Klune here. So far I cannot help but think of The Sound of Her Wings while reading this. This is not a bad thing. There's an incredible amount of finesse and poise, decorum and delicacy one should have in narrative works centered on Death, what it means and how dying reminds us of how to live.

Wallace is a prick, but that's sort of necessary to make a book like this work. There's whimsy, but I feel very much like this book is coming from the right place.

I plan to have this book wrapped-up neatly before the week's end, but I'm also expecting to feel feelings and we know how that goes for me.

For no real reason I've already decided that Tony Todd would be a fun Nelson, even if he does not fit the character description, like at all.

I also cannot get Dishwalla's Counting Blue Cars out of my head. It seems a bit on-the-nose here, but I can definitely see it making its way onto the soundtrack of a decent adaptation.