#books bookish

[writtenroses1813]

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

[the-forest-library]

“You should be at the club.” No, I should be at the scholastic book fair.

[lone-nyctophile]

Poetry is what helps me remember that even in my fragments, I am whole.

- Jennifer Huang

[juliaxyn]

surviving on caffeine and novels. ...

[bookishfreedom]

on todays episode of “there aren’t enough hours in the day to read all of the books i want”

[figtreeforever]

Dostoevsky, The Idiot

Caspar David Friedrich, Gartenterrasse, 1811

(Collage: instagram @emmalinatotes)

[starryvomit]

[bookaddict24-7]

"I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them."

―Same Sun Here by Neela Vaswani

[catbrarian]

cats and libraries ۫ ꣑ৎ

[maiarosa]

[triflingthing]

Boston’s Brattle Book Shop

[aninkwellofnectar]

A reminder to please take a chance on indie authors the same way you might indie films or indie video games. A lot of us work hard to create quality stories that are too subversive or unmarketable for a mainstream audience and if you're tired of the schlock that gets turned out by the big corps your next perfect read could be being peddled by a tiny nonentity on the corner of social media sending posts out on nothing but hope and a prayer. Don't write us off.

[thvmuse]

Fictional men who have the "it's ok to murder but it's never ok to disrespect your wife" energy >>>>

[aponii1]

Books and cats.

[juliaxyn]

Life is short. Live it. Fear is natural. Face it. Memory is powerful. Use it.

[optimistic-nihilist]