#a curious beginning

[abookishshade]

If only his voice had not been quite so gentle; if only he had comprehended me just a little less. I would never have voiced my doubts. It is easy to stiffen one’s upper lip and carry on when you dare not share your cowardice for fear of being misunderstood. But it is a difficult thing to heft one’s burden alone when there is someone willing to share it.

- from A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

[im-a-mess-that-works]

I can’t decide what book to read next so I’d love some recommendations! Thanks in advance!

[the-veronica-speedwell-blog]

vsm moodboard eleven - veronica

“A lady scientist," he said in a tone of wonderment. "What will they think of next?"

- a curious beginning

[bookcoversonly]

Title: A Curious Beginning | Author: Deanna Raybourn | Publisher: Berkley (2016)

[butchjesus]

alright friends. you have to rename yourself using the NATO phonetic alphabet. which one are you choosing?

[brittanybwrites]

All day, all I read was A Curious Beginning, and I gave it a three-star. It was alright, nothing to run home and tell Grandmama about, tbh. It was slow and I felt myself going to sleep three times while reading this.

[anwhitebooks]

A Curious Beginning: A romantic mystery

Spoiler-Free Review If you’re looking a romantic mystery with witty and clever characters who defy social norms, then you’ll like A Curious Beginning. What’s A Curious Beginning about? London, 1887. After a close call with an intruder, Veronica Speedwell is deposited with a curmudgeonly but handsome fellow scientist for safekeeping, where she must unravel the secrets of her lineage and find…

[angelcake10023]

Baby-Monkey Power Madness ✨

Being a single parent is hard lmaooo

[cockroachesunite]

a ghost story

[meirimerens]

curious and curiouser

[overflowingshelf]

January 2023 Reading Recap

New on the blog - my January reading recap! See what 5 books I read to kick off 2023.

Goodbye and good riddance to January!  2023 got off to a bit of a rocky start for me. I had a lot of travel and then got COVID for the second time in 4 months, which took me down for a week at the WORST possible time. So thank god that January is in the rearview window. I am happy I managed to finish 5 books given everything that was going on. I also was a major mood reader and was reading at…

[puppyeared]

GUH

@chipper-smol

[drizzledrawings]

They are his dads ok

[definitelynotshouting]

You have synesthesia?? How does that work for you? Is this how you manage to use the word “meat” in a way that makes me go “holy shit that’s good and cool i need to read that sentence four more times” instead of “ew”?????

I do!!! Letters, numbers, and words all have colours and sometimes visual textures for me-- and while numbers and letters on their own are generally only a single colour (7 is a bright, grassy green!!! while "K" is a pale peachy pink, for example :] ), when i put them into words they often take on entirely new colours, some of which even bleed into each other like watercolour paints. Ironically, its why i use the UK spelling of "colour" in the first place-- the "u" turns what looks like a dull, desaturated blue into a smeared blue-and-purple that i find really pretty to look at :]] so when i say i like to paint with words, i kinda mean that literally 😂😂😂😂😂

But yeah, i'd imagine thats why my writing is Like That™ to some degree-- a lot of what im doing behind the scenes involves matching the colours and visual textures of a given word with all of the others in order to evoke a particular vibe or image in my writing. There are a lot of layers to how i write, but this is probably the one that takes both the most time AND is the one i happen to talk about the least WKDJWKSJEJ

[agentc0rn]

I was meant to protect and nurture life, not destroy it.

[upsidedownsmore]

Huh

Interesting

I was watching Kengineer's 3rd solo playthrough episode last night when this quote from the Lotus popped up during the Once Awake quest, and it got me thinking about 1999.

1999 is when the Infestation pretty much shows up for the first time (at least as far as we know), which places the Radiation Wars after 1999 (of course).

...but how long after?

Now idk how old this Lotus quote is and whether it's in the devs' minds at all, but imagine that the Radiation Wars are directly after 1999, sparked by this recent apocolyptic infestation spreading all of a sudden.

Imagine the 1999 quest ends with nuclear armageddon, perhaps even on New Year's. We make that final New Year's kiss (or not), knowing that the people here are doomed to die (though they were probably doomed to die to the helminth strain inside them at some point anyways).

I imagine in this scenario that for the sake of replayable 1999 gameplay (and maybe even the opportunity to change romance routes) that this time fragment of 1999 we find ourselves in repeats indefinitely, always ending in the beginning of the Radiation Wars.

would be pretty funny i think