#getting it from my local bookstore

[themirokai]

My local library stays open until 9pm. 9pm!! Do you know how wonderful it is to put my kid to bed and then go over to the library where it’s quiet and serene and get to look at books and take some home?

I always try to be done by 8:45 and thank the librarians for being open late.

Idk I’m just kind of emotional about it today. I work a ton and my weekends are stupidly busy and it feels like I get about one hour of down time per day. The only things open during that one hour are the grocery store and the library. And I guess, like, bars that I don’t go to.

I’m really really grateful for the library.

[felixcosm]

tlt spoilers.

tlt is like what if you were a necromancer and living on god's swinger spaceship and one of god's besties is trying to kill you but its your turn in the kitchen (you dont know how to cook) so you put your own bone marrow in the soup (you try to water it down to hide the taste) and then feed it to everybody so that you can use the bone to attack the guy who is trying to kill you from the inside! (: the soup turns out awful. the guy doesnt even die. god takes a discreet sip of water after trying the broth (he can taste the bone marrow but he's a freak and wants to see what you're up to)

Everytime I learn something about The Locked Tomb, I am less and less surprised that the author read Homestuck.

Also I would try Harrow's (is that the character) soup. RIP to god but I'm different and I support her.

[anotherpapercut]

today I was teaching the kids about Juneteenth and it was just a couple of them so we were basically just having a conversation about the history of slavery and segregation in the united states and without really thinking about it I brought up that a common justification for the subjugation of black and indigenous people was/is that they weren't christian or weren't the right kind of christian which is true but also a very controversial thing to say where I live and I'm kind of worried I will get in trouble if one of them tells their parents about it

[mrsbeef]

I found a copy of Lois Lowry's The Giver on the sidewalk outside a subway station a couple days ago. Finished it yesterday.

H O L Y S H I T

[coquelicoq]

crying laughing @ this edition of le fantôme de l'opéra that my dad got me for christmas it's just. i don't know how to describe it. every page is a scan of a page of the 1926 edition, with like 1-2 inches of margin around it??? and the letters are so small and the scan is not of very great quality so it's kind of hard to see the words?? interspersed with scans of pictures but some of them are upside down??? there's one page where the scan didn't really work in the upper left corner so it's just totally black???

the back of the book says

Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces œuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande.

(my rough translation: This publication is in line with a policy instituted in conjunction with the BNF (National Library of France) for the conservation of important works of French literature. In service of this goal, Hachette Livre and the BNF are offering a catalogue of unavailable titles digitized by the BNF which Hachette Livre will print upon request.)

so like this is on purpose but i have so many questions. first of all why the margins. okay i guess that is my most important question. why not just make the book correspond to the size of the pages in the original? or, if the size of the book is fixed, you could at least size up the images to use as much of that wasted space as possible, no?

i want to say how ridiculous this is and how there's no market for it but there clearly is one because i asked my dad to get it for me! i'm the market!! i told him to buy this edition because it was the only french-language print edition i could find to buy in the us for less than $50 (outside of amazon because fuck amazon). but like, why is that the case? the full text of this book, in plain text which could easily and legibly be printed, is available for free on the internet. why isn't there some publisher who's just printing that out and binding it? seems easier to do than printing scans. not to mention a lot easier to read!!

(to see what i'm talking about, go to the hachette BNF webpage for this book and click on feuilleter to download a sample of the pages in PDF)

[dastardlydyke]

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[lovestory]

In both book and movie format, I truly think the ballad of songbirds and snakes is the best prequel of all time

[humanundead]

will it be a normal dead as fuck sunday night at work or will it be insane bc of labor day weekend. Remains to be seen

[readingoals]

Romance readers, I need some help.

So, I don't read a lot of romance. I don't have anything against it but it's never really been my thing. I did go through a brief patch in the mid 2010s where I was picking up some romance centric books (Carrie Hope Fletcher is the author that majorly springs to mind) and I generally don't hate romance subplots in other fiction I read. Plus I really love romcom movies.

All this to say, for various Reasons I have decided to try reading more romance this year. I've bought a couple that I saw on sale and which seemed interesting to me, but I would love to get some recs from people who know the genre better than I do. And I thought I might make a poll with the most recommended titles to decide where to start.

So, I am looking for contemporary romance recs (preferably with a cute illustrated cover but that's not a deal breaker lmao). I don't love the enemies to lovers trope but I'm willing to give it a go if it's done really well. I do not want any recs for Colleen Hoover or Ali Hazelwood. Otherwise, I am open to pretty much anything else.

If you have a suggestion for me please leave it in the replies or reblogs!

[andromedasummer]

secondhand bookshops rule so hard esp my fav one in town. there are such specific sections for everything. in the scifi shelves theyve organized things by space sci-fi, sea sci-fi, dystopia etc. there's a paranormal romance section in the romance section. they have 3 shelves longer than i am tall dedicated to the star trek novelizations organized by series and 3 under that dedicated to dragonlance books. i went to look at their craft section and they had subsections for eras and styles of embroidery. i can look for motorsport books by series or manufacturer without coming across top gear books or car manuals, which have their own sections. i can find poetry by nz poets in their own bookcase and books by māori authors all over the shop because they've been marked by a specific tag on the binding.

[curious-kitchen-witch]

In case you were wondering I am totally chill 100% of the time and definitely don't spend like a quarter of my paycheck on stuff for my craft every couple weeks

[beauzos]

i don't hold it against any customer who chooses to buy a book off of Amazon rather than B&N because of pricing or availability but you don't need to tell us that. cause we'll say it's fine 'cause of course it is, it's your money and what works best for you, but most of us are internally like (go fuck yourself) about it BHSDH

Amazon is a fucking monster in the bookselling world. they're destroying the publishing industry. most bookstores hate them ya know, so we don't really wanna hear about it is all

[m0e-ru]

got manga physical volume now I can eat. book.

[shadowtrooper1414]

@juice-boxy how dare you make me genuinely think about rereading the warrior cats books

[cryiling]

yeah no this is how I feel

HAVE PEOPLE NOT HEARD OF LIBRARIES??????? They are 100% cheaper than AMAZON

[twilitfox]

Soon I will finally have the entire TP Manga in my hands.

Soooooonnn.....