#booktalk with red

[jonsaremembers]

I think a lot about living a creative life and I think one of the biggest things you have to do is consume other creations (read EVERYTHING that catches your fancy, watch whatever you want, take in all the kinds of music, look at art)

and I love the emergence of web weaving as an art form on Tumblr and generally, using different forms of media to play off each other, to amplify and augment the message (like how someone described Taylor Swift's 5 stages of grief playlists linking her previous songs to new lyrics on TTPD)

and people have been doing this for ages - Tolkien is an obvious example, I also think Lucy Maud Montgomery is a good example because her (educated) characters are constantly quoting obscure texts I've never heard of that she was treating as common knowledge, but also obviously Shakespeare was adapting older tales and giving them his own spin, etc etc

and I haven't even mentioned how web weaving itself is a reference to the Odyssey

Basically nothing exists in a vacuum and we are all pointing at each other going SAME HAT! SAME FEELING! SAME VIBE!

and web weaving is maybe the meaning of life????

edit: forgot to make the point I started the post to make, which is that AhHa by Nate Ruess is fucking brilliant

[kittymaine]

Issue three of Juni Ba's The Boy Wonder! In this issue, Damian teams up with Red Robin, also known as Tim Drake.

I don't want to spoil this series since it's so new and very good so far. So, just a brief overview. After the events of the second issue, Bruce orders Tim to act as Damians chaperone. Damian has determined a likely hiding place for the demon. He wants to sneak in, but Tim convinces him to instead attend a gala being held in the same building.

Damian quickly sees through the glossy exteriors of the disgustingly rich and famous who are in attendance. Tim seems to fit in so well with them, Damian assumes him to be as corrupt and selfish as everyone else at the party. He was taught from a young age to question people who always seemed to have too much.

Damian decides to do things his own way, sneaking away from the party and traveling through the vents to try and find where the demon is hiding. And... You'll have to buy the book to find out what happens next! :)

But here are some complimentary Damians because he's so cute.

[keplercryptids]

i mostly read books from the library, and i mostly use my library for ebooks and audiobooks, because with the libby app, the sheer convenience cannot be beat. but recently I've been checking out 1-2 physical books every couple weeks and it's been a goddamn delight! love borrowing a physical book. pages fun to turn. a tactile wonder. it'll probably never be my #1 method of reading, just bc of the aforementioned convenience, but i am having a great time with my little weekly book stack.

[novellabooks]

Book Review for Red Winter Trilogy by Annette Marie

The Red Winter trilogy is written by Annette Marie. if you like Inuyasha or Kamisama Kiss this is definitely a book for you. This is a story involves Japanese Mythology with slow burn romance mixed in.

The story is about a girl named Emi, and she was chosen to be a vessel for a goddess, but when she saves a kitsune name Shiro who ends up in her debt her world turns upside down. Her and Shiro go on an adventure for to search for answers.

I honestly love these books. I love the way this author wrote this book. There is so much character development that goes on, and the relationship between the characters is amazing as well. I will say these books really did make me cry in some areas, I definitely had to put it down a couple of times just to collect myself. Also, the art in these book is beautifully done throughout. It really gives a nice visual to the books. There is definitely more I could say about these books, but if I say too much more, I’ll probably end up spoiling things on accident and I definitely don’t want to do that for people who are interested in reading these books.

[lbbutch]

i'm so in love with the brazilian cover of One last stop by Casey McQuiston. look at them🥺

cover by Isadora Zeferino

[imobsessedsblog]

Hi! I used to be a Harry Styles account (still love him to death) but I wanted to do something different! I really love reading and i’m infatuated with books. If you have any suggestions or asks feel free to message me or send a message through the ask box! I added just a few of my favorite books/series in the tags if you’re interested!

Have a good day lovies🐠

here is a list of books i’ve read so far in 2021:

• Everything, Everything (reread this one, forever a good one) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Red, White, and Royal Blue ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• They Both Die At the End ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Josh and Hazels Guide to Not Dating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• The Hating Game ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Duplicity (harry styles fan fiction on wattpad lmao, so good, i highly suggest) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (reread this one too, Harry Potter will forever have a special place in my heart) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• We Were Liars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• I Need You to Hate Me ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• It Only Happens In the Movies ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• What If It’s Us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Boyfriend Material ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Ugly Love ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• The Sun Is Also A Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️

(as you can tell i really like the books i’ve read so far this year😁)

[sunaskorpio]

Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, vol. 2 (The Crab-Flower Club)

[rillyroo]

Kings cage is a wild ride...

[amberly-fierro]

random chb headcannons i have, pt 1:

this once, will painted nico’s cabin bright yellow as a prank and then hid in percy’s cabin to be safe from nico

whenever nico is angry at will, he calls him by his full name “william andrew solace”

this became a joke in cabin seven and now every kid of apollo call their cabin counselor by his full name

after the battle with gaea, percy and piper helped hazel get over her seasickness and taught her how to surf

percy and piper have matching shirts that say “thats my bitch” and “im that bitch”

frank zhang is a swiftie

jason and annabeth often pull all nighters just to discuss novels together

piper once caught jason and annabeth in one of their all-nighters session and now piper is officially part of the 3am booktalks club

malcolm pace also joined that club

nico also joined that club and forced will to join too

will invited the entire apollo and athena cabin

now 3/4 kids from chb are part of the 3am booktalks club

reyna is a dog person. when she visited chb once, she found mrs o’leary sitting all alone in a corner (percy was not there atm). now reyna is the official mom of mrs o’leary.

piper loves girl in red

thalia discovered piper listening to girl in red. now the two of them have girl in red vibe sessions.

thalia’s goth, nico’s emo, percy’s both

[sharhzad-and-khalid]

I find it hilarious when authors make a certain character the villain and do everything in their power to make the readers hate the character but majority of the readers continue to root for the character

[linnimellom]

New passion..

Yes.. I’ve finished “Six of Crows” and “Crooked kingdom” by Leigh Bardugo. I loved it and wonder about reading the other books she wrote about the Grisha verse..

BUT that have to wait, there is now a new obsession in progress… thanks to V. E. Schwab … I started to read “A darker shade of magic”, finished that one pretty fast, and have almost read all of “A gathering of shadows”.. and “A…

[jonsaremembers]

RED was it you who recommended me 'to say nothing of the dog' ???? i think it was (if not then you should read it) but i just finished it and that was THE FUNNIEST BOOK duuuude i loved it 😭

It was meeee and you were already reading it lmao it's THE BESTTTTTT!! So glad you enjoyed!!

The prequel (Domesday Book) is VERY different in tone (less funny, more sad), but still good!

[kittymaine]

It's finally here!!! Death in the Family: Robin Lives written by J.M. DeMatteis, art by Rick Leonardi.

This issue starts with the joker being murdered and then works backward. All we know when it starts is that the Joker has been shot and that Batman was there when it happened. Then, the story rewinds back to an undisclosed amount of time before the joker is shot to show us how we ended up there.

We go on to learn about how Jason miraculously survived what happened in Ethiopia, but he is not coping. He's angry and lashes out at everyone. Bruce is trying to be understanding and offer his support, but Jason partially blames him for what happened and isn't willing to talk to him.

Besides, Bruce may be doing a better job of hiding his inner turmoil about what happened to Jason, but in truth he's not doing much better. He's questioning his previous stance that all criminals are redeemable and, at one point, seems ready to let the joker drown. But, Superman sweeps in to save him at the last second.

At the end of the first issue, Jason sneaks out of the manor after getting into a big fight with Bruce. He fights the Scarecrow alone and gets hit with fear toxin. Jason then experiences a horror nightmare about the joker and his bio mom. He's rescued by Batman, who beats Scarecrow so badly he has to be stopped by the police. Bruce gathers Jason in his arms, and we end on a single manly Batman tear.

So far, I'm really enjoying this title. This is the Batman I miss, a weirdo whose heart is in the right place but who is fundamentally a flawed person. I'm anxiously looking forward to the next issue! Definitely pick it up if you have a chance.

[le-claire-de-lune]

Picked All Systems Red by Martha Wells for the science fiction & dystopia week of my genre class

My booktalk is just gonna be like do you like books about cyborgs who just wants the freedom to watch trashy tv and be left mostly alone but here they are with these humans they’ve got to keep alive and it’s very awkward for everyone

[livcosmos]

AGAIN BUT BETTER booktalk

THIS WAS SOOOOOOO AMAZING!!!!!!!! This book was all I ever wanted/needed and more I love it with all my hearth and it is by far my favourite book! If you haven’t read it yet plese do!!!

First of all I want to say that I am incredebly proud of Christine, I have been watching her videos for years and I watched her write this book in her writing videos and reading it now I feel like a proud mum! I expected it to be good but I never imagined that it would be THAT GOOD, I want to thank her for giving me this story, it means so much to me and I am more than thankfull.

I wanted to read this book the second it came out but I couldn’t because I had so much to do for school at that time and than other thins came around I wanted to read it when I was completly realxed, when I could enjoy to the fullest. And now I know that I didn’t got to read it than becau I was meant to read it NOW. Back when it was released, I hadn’t been to Rome and Paris yet and now that I have I related even more to the book because I also viseted all the places they went to. I think the universe just wanted me to read it now because now I needed it the most. I think that was a smooth introducton, I am now going more into deatal because there is so so much I want to say, I took so many notes while reading because I didn’t wanted to forget anything. I wasn’t sure and I still am if I realy want to post this because this book means so much to me and I don’t want to ruin anything by laying all my thoughts into a text but I just watched the q & a she posted about the book and I mean she would never read this but say she would somehow I want her to know that she has done so much for me with this book!

So lets start from the beginning... I related so much with Shane trough the entire book, it was like reading my own thoughts, I have never ever related to a character more than her. She said this I would say and did things I would do not to start with her thoughts I don’t now it sounds silly but as Christine said in the q & a video I felt like I was the character in the book and it was both scary and nice, well more nice than scary because I could watch Shane grow and come out of her comfort zone and do all this thins showing me that it is possible and it makes me want to do thins too. It was just ahhhhh so so good and sooo beautiful!!! Words and in genral this text don’t do justice to what I feel and what I felt about this story. 

Especially in the beginning when Shane started doing those little thins like asking that stranger to take a picture, I was so proud of her for having the courage to do it because I often don’t and I was so proud of her every time she did those little things not to mention the big ones like finally talking to Pilot about her feelings.

There were so many paralles to my own life in this book that yet again made me think even more that this book is for me and not only the fact that I related so much to Shane and the Rome and Paris things it was just everything! 

One of the things I loved most about it were all the refrences about books, music, movies, Tv shows, youtube... all the references, they made me so happy, everytime I understood a refrence I was totaly freaking out with excitement! Especially the one with her Professor’s name, Blackstairs like I died it was the best thing!

And the jokes god the jokes I was laughing out loud so many times! I can’t say it often enough, it was just perfect everything I wanted in one book!

Obviosly I loved that most of the book took place in London cause I love London and it is a place very close to my heart but the traveling they did, GOD I looooovvvveeeee traveling so much and when they were just like spontanusly deciding to go somewhere it made me not only happy but I want that too I want to just say that I want to go to that or that place and just do it! And the photos they took and the fun they had like I was genunly crying seeing them having so much fun, there is such a beautiful exciting and lovely experence to go travel with your friends and take fotos and have fun! Those times are the ones I love looking back at. When I think about the happyest moments in my life I imediatly think about the times I was traveling, disovering a new citiy taking fotos and evrything.... SOOOO GOOOOODD 

I loved Babe and I loved that they were such good friends and I loved that she was so passionat about Disney and that her dream job was to work at Disney World like how often do you see that!!! That is so incredebly cool!

In generall I really loved the whole group and how they spend time together! Shawednsday was the best thing! And I got so sad thowords the end of their semester when they didn’t had that much time to spend together where they kind of drifted away, the saddest part was when she sepend the spring brake alone that was hearthbreaking ( I am so glad she got the chance to do everything again and make it right)!  Ah and I loved how Atticus and Sahra started reading the books Shane recomended that was so sweet! I would have loved tho to see a little more of Atticus and Sahra, Atticus seamed such an interesting character and I loved how he was the who tried to help Shane after what happened with her parents.

Pilot, lets talk about Pilot, the minute we met him I got all giddy, I like him, I love his name and I love that he writes music! I enjoyed his conversations with Shane so much, their deep talks and I loved him in Paris take two so so much and at the very end in Edinburgh like that was the sweetest thing ever but I have to say tho he was so frustrating sometimes! Like jkfgfkjhgkh it was sooo clear that he had fealings for Shane and I understand that it was complicated with Amy and I get that sometimes you don’t realy now what you want but bjhdsbchsd and than when the time travel happend I understood that he didn’t know what to do and that he wanted to go back and that all was scary but it was so frustrating!!! The way he acted and how he freakt out like plese Pilot you have got a second chance here to make things right plese take it is so special plese don’t ruin it! I was more than happy when he finally understood that. I was so happy for them but I must say while in Paris take two I was a little suspicios I knew something had to go wrong and when the thing with Amy came out I was soooooo disapointed in him I was so mad at him! But he managed to get me because let’s be honest here I couldn’t be mad at him and he is so cute and he did all those cute things! I loved how he treied to help her when they where having dinner with Shanes parents I wanted to hug him so bad for that!

Speaking of Amy I do feel sorry for her but I don’t know she should have let Pilot go when he asked her to before he went to London. And she had no right to read Shane’s notebook but again it is undersandeble that she did and I was mad. For a second tho when I read that scene, before Shane released that she was reading her notenook I was like awww Amy is a reader too she likes reading, well that thought flew away quiclly... 

Ok lets come to the red haied woman, I don’t want to say that I knew that something was up with her but when she apeared at the Starbucks I just knew that she would do something I want to quoute myself here, I took this note when I got to that scene: “ SCREEEEEMMMMMIIIINNNNNG the red haired women has done something! Fairy??? Wizard? Witch??? Holy crap!” I also just want to point out that I somehow imagined her looking like Cassandra Clare I don’t know why but to me this woman was Cassie!

The time travel thing was soooo amazing and so beautifuly done I have never expected it happen but I am soooo gald it did. I loved that caffe, I imagined it looking so cool! And I love time travel, like one of the books that made me a reader was about time travel and having it in this book made it even better than it already was! I loved how she did it with the elevator and everything I got so excited when all of that happend because when I got to the part when she was interviewing for the residency I was so sad and I stared crying because I was like well this is real life you don’t get the things you want and you don’t get to be who you want to be thats the reality and I got so mad because I realised that people, including me are so dump sometimes not taking chances and say and do the things they want!!! I was so sad that she lost those years living with regrets but than the time travel happend and she got a second chance and I couldn’t have been more happy!!!! 

I loved how confident she got after the time travel, how she did everything different, that she decidet to talk to Babe about Pilot that she didn’t let herself give up un her dream about writing because of her parents and that she did such a good job at the internship I was soooo proud of her and I still am. I got scred when Pilot first wanted to go back and than when she wanted it too but I am so glad they stayed  and worked thing out, that she found the stranght to make things right again and finnaly live the life she wanted and the life desereved. I cried when her article got published and I cried in the end reading the epiloge seeing her succed as a writer and even seeing him succeeed as a musician it was the best thing! Oh but I also love that they got to keep the memories from take one!

Oh heavens when the realisation hit me that the title “Again but better” was refering to doing London again and the things with Pilot and not college in general as I thought in the beginning like wow that moment was just wow!!!!

I brought up her parents a few times now I think is time to say a word about them too so I understand that they want her to have a good future but the way they acted was so wrong I didn’t liked them at all! I loved how in take two she proved them wrong!!!!! When they had dinner in take one I was crying for Shane that was so intense I felt so incredebly sorry for her but looking back the fact that she succeded in take two made it even better! 

I already mentioned that I loved Shane and Pilot in take two well I already loved them but I mean as they got together, their little jokes and the move thing and lamppost thing that was hilarious!!! And god I loved when they filmed the youtube video together, how they sang together that was soooo cute I loved it so so much!! And his speech at the end in Edinbrough like o my god and the one in the epiloge I just couldn’t I was crying all the way!!!

I was so sad when I finished, I loved every second of it!!!! It is such a special book for me and I will treasure it forever!!! Somehow it feels good to write all of this because I am sure in a few years I am going to read it and be very glad I wrote it while the memory was fresh. Speaking of fresh, it’s been two days since I finished it and I am not ready to let it go yet, I still can’t remove the book from my nightstand nor can I start another book, it still has to sink in, I am not ready for anything new, I love it to much to let it go so soon!!!

If you made it till here thank you so much you are a hero!!!

[kimmccreight]

Get all the inside scoop on the Mystery & Thriller genre as @sarahsbookshelves and I go no holds barred in her latest podcast episode! Hear what I think the difference is between a mystery and a thriller and how much say authors really get in their titles. Link to the episode in my bio! Such a pleasure to speak again Sarah!! Repost from @sarahsbookshelves • I've got a brand new type of podcast episode for y'all today! @kimberlymccreight (one of my go-to authors for smart thrillers and author of the new book, Friends Like These) makes her second appearance on the show. The last time she was on, she talked about her 2020 release, A Good Marriage. Today, she's our resident expert on the Mysteries & Thrillers genre! She's answering the questions you submitted about this genre that always has people chattering. We also talk about Friends Like These and what inspired that story!⁠ _⁠ ⁠ We also talk about...⁠ * The difference between a mystery and a thriller.⁠ * How involved Kimberly and other authors are in determining which sub-genre their books will live in.⁠ * How involved Kimberly and other authors are in determining their books’ titles.⁠ * How Kimberly comes up with her titles and what makes a good title.⁠ *If manuscripts are ever submitted without a working tile.⁠ * How involved Kimberly and other authors are in determining their books’ jacket copy.⁠ * What makes a good twist / ending.⁠ * How Kimberly threads in her red herrings to lay the groundwork for a good twist.⁠ * How Kimberly keeps her twists fresh amid the sea of thrillers out there.⁠ * Whether Kimberly reads a lot within the thriller genre.⁠ * Where Kimberly gets her inspiration from (or, more accurately, doesn’t get her inspiration from).⁠ _⁠ ⁠ If you like the episode, I'd love it if you could subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you listen to podcasts! *⁠ #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookgram #amreading #bookworms #instabooks #instabook #booktalk #booklovers #booklover #bibliophile #biblio #bookaddict #bookaddiction #igreads #booksofinstagram #badassbookbabes #podcasts #bookpodcast #bookpodcasts #sarahsbookshelveslivepodcast #sarahsbookshelveslive #kimberlymccreight #friendslikethese⁠ (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT2HF8AL2XO/?utm_medium=tumblr