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[fictionadventurer]

For the book ask: Fairytale, or, alternately, Green

Since the "Woods" stack included a good portion of my green books, I'll show you the stack of all my fairy tale collections and retellings.

The Shadow of the Bear, Black as Night (Bethlehem Books edition), Black as Night (Chesterton Press edition), Waking Rose, Waking Rose (10th anniversary edition), The Midnight Dancers, Alex O'Donnell and the 40 Cyberthieves, and Rapunzel Let Down by Regina Doman

Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales

The Everyman's Library editions of English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

Entwined by Heather Dixon

Silver Woven in My Hair by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley

Ella Enchanted and Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

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Courtesy of @ihaveonlymydreams

when I think of people not eating good meals it destroys me and makes me want to cry like what do you mean my loved ones or even strangers starve themselves or have to eat stuff that’s not nourishing and means nothing to them emotionally? so disturbed. I am meant to be the little shop side character place people can stop in and I’ll always be in there cooking up meals and side dishes and offering little quips of advice and just being available to make sure everyone is eating well and has someplace to sit down…that would make me happiest

[itspileofgoodthings]

I love Paterson (2016) so much because at the end when the dog destroys his notebook he’s doing everything “right” in the face of the loss—not lashing out at Laura, taking time to process alone, not even being cruel to Marvin in subtle ways, just directing one restrained comment of dislike towards him��but he’s STILL sulking. In his own quiet perfectly socially acceptable way he’s throwing a huge tantrum and he doesn’t snap out of it until he talks to the other poet at the park. idk it means a lot to me.

[isfjmel-phleg]

Doc Maria Bingo:

[apesoformythoughts]

top 5 songs at the moment

Thank you for the tag, @francesderwent!

Handyman - AWOLNATION

Read My Mind - The Killers

The River - Daisy Jones & The Six

Lies For A Liar - GERD

Not Strong Enough - boygenius

I tag @thatscarletflycatcher, @nasranilady, @ihaveonlymydreams and @autumnhobbit if you’d like to partake.

[fictionadventurer]

1, 24, 25?

How many books did you read this year?

Goodreads count is 136, but a lot of those are short stories, picture books, graphic novels, very short children's books, and novellas, so the count of novel-length books is much shorter. If I define novel-length as "at least 200 pages of text", and disqualify the books I mostly read in other years and only finished this year, the count is somewhere around 56. (Though there were quite a few favorites, and some rather dense books, among the short reads. And a surprising number of books that barely missed the cutoff.)

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots. I sample lots of books, and then just don't read further, or decide I'm not interested, or meet content I find objectionable. I don't keep track of those books, though.

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

Read more physical books.

Read more of the unread books on my shelf.

Focus on the books I'm currently reading and do less browsing for new books to read.

Pick a couple of categories of books that I'm interested in for each month, pick a read that fits the category, and then read that book, instead of looking for multiple of each category and then never finishing any of them.

Read longer books.

Read more American classics.

Read more religious books.

Continue my quest to read more books from/set in real-life countries that aren't the USA or the UK.

[itspileofgoodthings]

Finished my book really fast (for me), now I remember why I hate doing that, because I kind of hate endings and they make me sad 😭

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@ihaveonlymydreams

[fictionadventurer]

For the book game: teal

The Blackout Book Club by Amy Lynn Green features this color on the cover, and it's a favorite read this year.

[itspileofgoodthings]

With your profile pic change (beautiful - as always), all I keep wanting to say is, "Courage, dear heart."

Hope your day gets better!

I always need to hear it so thank you!!!!

💚💚💚💛💛💛

[itspileofgoodthings]

but on a more serious note, I do hate when any adaptation--but especially this one!--decides to change the nature of specific uncomfortable or antagonistic character interactions to something softer or sweeter, or even just decided to give two characters that don't get along or interact much at all A Moment™. That really is not always the right call!

[isfjmel-phleg]

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis! (for the book ask!)

never heard of | never read | want to read | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

I bought this at a book sale a while back, and it's in a pile waiting for me to get to it. It seems to be the second in a series? Do I need to read the other one (which I don't have) first?

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

🍵 (for the moodboard ask!)

Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye!

[fictionadventurer]

OK in case someone hasn't already asked: Henry Tilney

The Northanger Abbey side of this universe is a very vague, not actually defined spinoff right now. It probably won't get written, but I'm still reluctant to define anything too concretely right now, just in case the Northanger side of things ever becomes relevant. So I can't really fill out the bio, but I want to talk about Henry anyway!

I was drawn to superhero Northanger because superhero Henry Tilney is an irresistibly fun concept--think of the quips! However, the more I think about it, the more I begin to think that Henry wouldn't be a superhero. He'd be a superhuman who doesn't quite believe that real superheroes exist, only to have his views changed by the optimistic idealism of superhero fan Catherine Morland.

You see, the superhumans who live in Northanger form an elite upper class who live in their own high-society neighborhood and hold themselves aloof from normal people. If they turn to superheroism, it's only to rein in one of their own gone rogue, because they can't taint their image by letting other superhumans run amuck. Henry's father very much believes that superhumans should stay separate from their lessers, so any heroic instincts Henry might have are heavily curtailed. With such a father as an example, Henry can't really believe that the superheroes in other cities are acting out of any sense of altruism--at best, they're just attention-seeking showoffs who happen to do less damage than the supervillains that they defeat. He finds Catherine's faith in them endearing, but not based in reality, and he's certain (and a little sad) that her illusions are going to shatter when she spends more time around real superhumans.

I'm thinking that if he is a superhero (because he has to meet Catherine by rescuing her), he's a very part-time one, helping out if he happens to come across a situation where he can be useful, but not making a career out of it. I haven't defined what his powers are, but I'd be tempted to include telepathy in there, just because knowing peoples' real thoughts would add to his cynicism (and give him a chance to be utterly blown away by how sincerely innocent and good Catherine is). However, telepathy doesn't lend itself well to superhero action, so he could require some other powers, depending upon the needs of the story. But, like I said, I don't have a real story built for him, so I can't nail down anything at this point. But I love Henry no matter what universe he's in.

[apesoformythoughts]

Book ask: the Oresteia by Aeschylus?

never heard of | never read | want to read | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

Would you recommend it? Sadly, I wasn’t exposed to the classics for most of my school years (until college, in fact).

[itspileofgoodthings]

shout out to the woman who said “your skirt is so CUTE!!!!” as I was heading into lunch with @ihaveonlymydreams today