#book acquired

[tofupixel]

Illustration I made for the Triangle Agency TTRPG book...!!

[biblioklept]

Simon Critchley's Mysticism (Book acquired, 17 Oct. 2024)

Simon Critchley’s Mysticism is new from NYRB. Their blurb: Why mysticism? It has been called “experience in its most intense form,” and in his new book the philosopher Simon Critchley poses a simple question to the reader: Wouldn’t you like to taste this intensity? Wouldn’t you like to be lifted up and out of yourself into a sheer feeling of aliveness, both your life and those of the creatures…

[i-like-to-look-at-your-back]

°˖✧ Hayakawa family unit ✧˖°

[piosplayhouse]

shang qinghua: if I was in charge of this world I would have shen qingqiu get fucked by luo binghe a billion bajillion times

liu mingyan, materializing out of nowhere summoned by the mention of yaoi: you and me both sister

[catboygirljoker]

i wish i had more to say about this (im still so compelled by him being opposed to self sacrifice on a pragmatic level, not necessarily because he's evil or whatever) but let's be real i wanted to post these panels because im barking

[firstfullmoon]

what do you think about han kang winning the Nobel prize?!!

hi ! from a literary/political point of view really happy about it, both in terms of what it means for a south korean writer to win the nobel and for a south korean feminist to win it in the context of the recent backlash / rise of violence against women in south korea. also I haven’t read human acts but am so curious about this book + saw someone on twitter celebrating that the nobel went to a writer whose major work asks the question “how do you live in a world where the state can just murder an unaccountable number of people and then nothing changes how can you live” and I think it’s a powerful message in the midst of what is currently happening in palestine and lebanon but also really everywhere in the world. however.....from a personal point of view I’ve only read the vegetarian which I did not like although I do think it was an issue of translation (it felt so clunky and afterwards I read several articles about deborah smith which reinforced my feelings on the matter). I want to reread the vegetarian and her other works (especially human acts) in their french translation (co-translated by a french-korean woman which gives me hope for a more faithful translation) and hopefully that will change my opinion cause it’s SUCH a shame for one bad translation to tarnish a writer’s work

[disgruntled-lifeform]

My dumb ass just had a stunning Epiphany

I can knit with store bought acrylic yarn.

[asexualbookbird]

First book purchase of the year! It WAS on my list of books I wanted, thanks for asking! I love that these are small enough that rereading What Moves the Dead isn't a huge commitment :)

[mahoushoujotechsupport]

they're so cute

[reds-skull]

I'm researching Scottish mythology for the Cyberknights AU, and I was skimming through the wiki entry for the Glenmasan manuscript (I'd tell you what it is, but I haven't actually finished reading yet), when I read this sentence

Like what are the fucking chances

[biblioklept]

Dinah Brooke's Death Games (Book acquired, 8 Aug. 2024)

I broke down and bought an inexpensive copy of Dinah Brooke’s 1976 novel Death Games from an internet vendor. I absolutely loved her 1973 novel Lord Jim at Home, which never got a U.S. release (until a year or two ago). Death Games did get a U.S. release—I guess because it involves the Vietnam War?—and was reviewed by Jane Larkin Crain in The New York Times. She wrote: Pornographic brutality…

[marthafanaamay]

New month, new blorbo:

I bought the book for the lols, but it was unironically a good read, and now I am an unironic Balan Wonderworld fan. Oh, well. I've been in stranger fandoms.

Goddamnit, why wasn't the game given a longer time to cook??? We could have had a masterpiece of a game on our hands, but alas, we live in the darkest timeline.

[moonlitkissing]

The way i would actually kill for a cuddle session with him as my weighted blanket while I'm wearing his hoodie and feel his slow breaths on my neck and play with his hair

[bobbypinsandlizards]

me (a terrifying monster beyond all comprehension) and my boyfriend (he has autism)

[demonkinguwu]

Having the power to read about other alternate universes is nice and all until you see how your life could have been, and then it's downhill from there :>

[ahagisborn]

the disrespect of barnes and noble creating an entirely separate "dark fantasy" section for Sarah j Maas and her ilk and STILL shelving Anne rice in general fiction. you mean to tell me that this sexy werewolf book that the washington post described as "unrelentingly erotic" is just casually shelved alongside like sally rooney? shameful.