#hollis talks books

[tackysapphic]

listen all the women in tlt are my soggy little skringlys or whatever the fuck you people are saying. EXCEPT Camilla. I have a crush on her. If she was real I’d be dead in the floor swooning. Gideon I am holding like an injured puppy.

[bubblesandpages]

It needed to be made.

[vryfmi]

soft worldbuilding in L&Co is so special to me especially how telling talents are:

Sight is associated with with people who look after others, who are always at the look out for danger, the ones who constantly see death and are tied to it no matter what (kipps (with talent and then with goggles), lockwood, skull (in life))

Listening is the warning sign, the haunting before haunting ever began, it gets into one's head and makes you trapped in there with voices of times long passed (lucy, kat)

Touch, in the world where one touch kills, is the most high risk, a conscious decision to put yourself into one's shoes and feel what they felt, ache with empathy all alone in a world of constant pain (lucy)

and having a bit of every talent makes one less vulnerable to psychic effects, but that means that you are fully submerged into haunting, into the past, once you are confronted by it, and in this profession it's constantly there and around you (george, holly, flo)

[luzisahomosexual]

we need more Five Survive content in this world so I’m here to provide some shitty character boards for the 5 that survive…didn’t wanna add Oliver

Redford Kenny:

Arthur Gotti:

Mandy Lavoy:

Simon Jinans Yoo:

Reyna Flores-Serrano:

P.S. if anyone knows good accounts for five survive & agggtm content pls lmk…my obsession has returned

[alphacrone]

Lockwood & Co. - What Could Have Been (Season 2)

[redrobin-detective]

Skull and Co

Ok so the writing hasn't been going so great (upset stomach + laptop acting on the fritz) but it gave me time to bat around with a new l&co au where Skull and Lockwood's situations are reversed.

Lucy runs away to London and joins an eccentric agency run by a teenage boy who only goes by Skull. He was a talented orphan boy apprenticed by a well known if eccentric spirit researcher and agency leader, Edmund Bickerstaff, who died suddenly a few months ago. Skull chose to continue the agency on his own, hiring George and later Lucy. Lucy and Skull have a caustic but playful banter between them. She is intrigued by this mysterious boy who owns this whole agency not mention the master he still looks up to even in death.

While digging through the basement - looking for supplies bc Skull and George together are a messy, disaster duo - Lucy finds a Source jar in the basement containing a chatty, affable Skull who calls himself Lockwood. He's a boy from the Victorian era who could see spirits clearly back in the day. His parents, also researchers, dedicated time to understanding their child's abilities. They died a few years before Lockwood himself did under mysterious circumstances. Lockwood has intermittent memories of his life and none of his death. Skull is annoyed Lucy dug that old thing up, stupid skull was always making pleading faces at him but Skull can't Listen worth a damn.

The series would follow the agency as they grow as people. Lucy learns more about the wickedness that happened under Dr. Bickerstaff and how Skull had often been forced to particpate. Skull will be coming to terms with his mentor's abusive behavior and realize that he genuinely does want to be a better person. They're also trying to solve the mystery of Lockwood's death which ends up spiraling into the mystery of the problem itself.

[aqua-phantasy]

Finished agggtm today! Will start ggbb soon too!

Really excited for the show too!

[angeliicheartt]

y’all i’m literally writing a 8-9 page analysis of the psychology of the cruel prince

[artemesianerdmom]

My writers, can we please

please

please

PLEASE

please

stop it with the repeatedly stating what color the main character’s/love interest’s hair is?!?!

[frankiesweird]

i love a good girls guide to murder and i’ve always thought i’m similar to pip physically and the fact we both like true crime. I always said “when am i gonna find my ravi?” but bro! I think i found him. Like he’s literally ravi in real life, like description and everything (obviously minus the dead brother and whatever)

[tinynavajoreads]

Okay, full honesty. I have not been able to stay invested in The City of Brass, which won my what to read next book poll a month or so back. I tried, I did try, but it just didn't keep me hooked. So, I set it aside for now and that seemed to have help still because I have read 5 other books since then. And they were good! And I enjoyed them!

Recently Finished: Book of Night by Holly Black, Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy, and The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett

Book of Night by Holly Black - 3.5 stars, interesting premise about shadows and magic and how it's all hidden behind old money. But the shadows were the most interesting thing. Not my absolute favourite, but glad to have read it.

Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy - 3.75 stars, the first book was better, the ending didn't feel fully supported by what came before it. Granted, I may need to reread to see if I can spot clues about the ending. The lyrical writing still saved it though, I love how New Orleans is described and just how Sister Holiday talks. Curious if there will be a third book.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett - 3.75 stars, this gave me The Library Book by Susan Orlean vibes. And it did kind of give me a small collecting bug for certain books. Or at least find ways to find certain copies of books I love. Very interesting look into the world of antique/secondhand books and those who steal from that world.

Recently Finished: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum and Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum - 5 stars, I fully fully loved this book! A slice of life in a neighborhood bookstore and how the bookstore affects not only our main character, Yeongju, and her customers and employees. It put more fuel on the small fire I have at the back of my mind about someday owning a bookshop. We shall see how that turns out though.

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett - 3.5 stars, only my second Terry Pratchett, but I can definitely see why so many people love his books. It did have Macbeth vibes and I love the witches so much! I do need to read more of their books and learn more about their stories.

Have you read any of these? What did you think of them if you have?

[tackysapphic]

thinking about the priory prequel since I just finished reading it last night and god damn dude. It was so fucking good. Much better pacing than priory in my opinion, like nothing felt out of place. All the characters were incredible. Like I loved priory and I’m gonna reread it now but I feel like samantha Shannon really improved here man idk. Good book. Good fucking book. Give me a pair of 50 something year old strong willed lesbians who have been in love for 30 years and I will eat that shit up every single time

[bubblesandpages]

Nicasia wants to be a girlboss so bad, but much like her only friend she is too cringe fail to manage it.

[starlightparks]

have requested the cruel prince audiobook at my library and its available tomorrow! i know basically nothing about the books but im optimistic about it

if nothing else i like listening to audiobooks while i play viddy games so at least ill have company

[leulah]

spiraling on twitter about suzanne collins’ apparent disinterest in peeta and his background

[archerons-arrow]

me, out here realizing people who hate Jude and Cardan are reading books set *checks notes* in the kingdom and courts they rule over and are angry at their inclusion in any story set in Elfhame and are comparing their fans to acotar: the fuck you say?