#The binding

[heyyoitsbooks]

Which was worse? To feel nothing, or to grieve for something you no longer remembered? Surely when you forgot, you'd forget to be sad, or what was the point?

Bridget Collins - The Binding

[ff0und]

In general, "homoerotic toxic relationships" are divided into three types (maybe more, but these are the ones I know) and I will talk about them with examples

So, the first type is "reciprocity". The characters here traumatize each other equally, are soulmates, and mostly hate each other. Representatives of this type mostly have the same appearance characteristics as each other. And the "wife" in such a couple is the masculine one. This type has levels, from books "Dissolution" to "Vicious" (the most exemplary representative of this type) (between them you can still put "The Binding" and also "These Violent Delights" (and "If We Were Villains," maybe))

The second type is "mlm/wlw" (man leaves man/woman leaves woman). In this type, only one of the characters traumatize the other. Mostly because of a breakup (or cheating) caused either by death or circumstances that prevent the characters from being together. The one who is left usually plays the role of the "widow" (depressed and wanting her/his man/woman back). As examples, I can give the books "The World and all that it holds", "Swimming in the dark" and "The Girls"

The third type, "the highest degree", differs from the concept of the second type in that one of the partners inflicts the highest degree of trauma on the other partner - death. The hero doomed to death does not necessarily have to have done something bad to his/her partner. "Wife" in this type are female characters who are murderers. Examples of movies: "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" (also book) and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (movie only)

I don't know why you need to know this, but I just had to say it

[worthyofmygrace]

Finished reading this book yesterday and holy shit. Guys, I kid you not. I don't necessarily think it's revolutionary or peak fiction or whatever but it was NOT what I expected.

I entered on it completely blindly. I was bored during theatre class so I entered my notes app searching entertainment. The pdf was just sitting there, untouched. I said "why not" and so it began.

At first I believed it to be a found-family story about binding books, something like a Ghibli movie about appreciating the mundane of labor and artisan creation. It was not that.

The fact that I was not expecting anything that happened after mid part 1, was what pulled me in so hardly, I suppose. I NEEDED to know how things came to be. And you guys know I'm a sucker for star-crossed-lovers. I would have accepted them not ending up together, because I like that kinda shit. It was a nice surprising treat.

I don't have much more to say right now. Perhaps I will later. I just wanted y'all to know I had read this and that I loved it. 7/10 would recommend.

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

January 07, 2025 - Deals with Rough Stuff

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Hale- A Riff of Retribution (Heavy Metal Hunters) by Amir Lane

Selene- Dominion of the Fallen by Aliette de Bodard

Emmet Farmer- The Binding by Bridget Collins

Riley Sowell- Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo 

[starsstardust]

SMILE pt. 1

Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance // M. L. Wang, The Sword Of Kaigen // Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows // Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily Lily Blue // Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily Lily Blue // Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races // Bridget Collins, The Binding // Benjamin Aliré Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World // Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows // Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

[nanashi-reads23]

... somehow it went from too soon to too late, without the right moment in between.

Bridget Collins, The Binding

[apollosdrunkenmixup]

hey has anyone read ‘The Binding’ by Brigit Collins

because I picked it up randomly today

it’s now 3am and I am forcing myself to put it down (I’m about halfway through)

I plan to finish it tmmrw and I need someone to asksiisjisnhkabsh at

I am not fine

[robyn-weightman]

Who else is super excited for Bridget Collins new book - The Silence Factory - to release?! 😍

[reds-poppy]

The darkness thickened, pooling under trees and in hedges, while the moonlight bleached the stars out of the sky.

Bridget Collins, The Binding, 2019

[itsthemxze]

The Binding - Bridget Collins

[ff0und]

If you look at all the homoerotic toxic relationships between two men, you will always see a middle-class brunette "athlete", and for some reason they always do some weird things like run nакеd and covered in bl00d down the street, use a window as a toilet, or f..ск another woman completely nАкеd in the middle of the forest while drugged... does the brown hair gene affect people that way?

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[themelodyofspring]

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February 25 - Ripped my heart out