#This keeps happening every week Jonny sims do you hate me

[fallen-and-holy]

Oh??? My god???? Ohmy God???? Oh my god??????..?? Hwat the fuck????

[galpalkirk]

for book ask, 10, 11 and 25 pls

10. the worst book you have ever read?

worst book EVER? so sorry about how i’m gonna dodge the very first question in the ask game but every time i do ask games it’s the same thing and i never learn. i have such a hard time picking a definite favorite or worst thing tbh and in this case especially i don’t know that i can choose anything because usually if a book is THAT bad i just stop reading it one or two chapters in and then it feels unfair to have a burning hatred towards it because it’s not like i read the entire thing or like it was in my life long enough.

if you instead ask me about a book i finished recently but hated i would have more options because at least i’m qualified to have an opinion and also burn with anger. to me those are family business by jonny sims (so sorry jonny but please stop disguising your anthologies as novels) and swimming in the dark by tomasz jedrowski (it was so fucking boring and stupid)

11. the best book you have ever read?

oh you chose my two nemesis questions. best book i have ever read. anything that touched me to the point where i in the moment went ”this is the best book ever” however i once said that about a book that i one week later realized i only really related hard to with a specific sentence and that i couldn’t even remember the rest of the book because it genuinely wasn’t even that good. i was just going through it.

one book that will always ALWAYS be a favorite of mine though is jane eyre. formative.

other favorites include:

- any book by jane austen, she is so funny and she is my only hoe. i will argue that Emma is her best written novel but Pride & Prejudice is the best story

- torka aldrig tårar utan handskar (don’t ever wipe tears without gloves) by jonas gardell. though I’ve mainly watched the mini series a million times (a masterpiece) and only read the books once but they definitely held up in quality

- the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson, i was literally going insane you can check my liveblog in my ”#hill house” tag to confirm that, the screaming cat image was my entire mood throughout

- beartown by fredrik backman and it should’ve stayed a stand alone novel because while the sequel works the third book did not and it is so so sad because beartown was so fucking good

25. a book that had you bawling your eyes out?

honestly I don’t know that any book has had me bawling my eyes out because 1) i just don’t cry very frequently in general and before i turned 16 i could’ve counted the times i’d cried in my life on one hand (non-injury related and non-being-a-baby related) and 2) crying would just make it difficult to keep reading innit 3) maybe i just don’t read enough sad stuff??? or i think of it more as reflective sadness than emotionally breaking down about it sadness

something that DID have me bawling my eyes out was the don’t ever wipe tears without gloves mini series (this is what happened to me at 16 when the floodgates opened and i actually started crying to things) and i suppose i might’ve cried to the books then as well but not enough to be comparable to the mini series which i will always remember because i rewatched it 3 times in 2 days over a weekend and had never cried that much in my life