#lost for words

[rinskuli]

So happy! Shaking! Happy crying! Just saw these two little guys in Käärijä's story!

[anhonest-puck]

i don’t know why i haven’t watched dps sooner, but jesus christ all yall that were saying that it was life changing were absolutely not kidding. genuinely such a beautiful and real movie.

[hagenwo43]

Cute!

From Kym Illman’s latest YouTube video - https://youtu.be/zSXQHSgmCfM?si=ycMgaO_GCQ0OI-su

[ashertickler]

asher I love you but how dare you call me out like 6 times in that sleep aid audio within the span of 3 mins 😀

like wdym "you're really hard on yourself", "you're someone with a really deep well of feelings inside, even though the feelings run deep they live deep too", "you set a lot of expectations on yourself", "you have an incredible kindness for other people but struggle to show yourself that same kindness"

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP

(when I said I kin babe... fucking meant it 🧍‍♀️)

[pedrism]

excuse me? i pray this dusty yute never wins another race

[sweetl4cy]

blondie is tryna kills us fr

[inbetweenimperfectmusings]

It is looking out the window

That I come to the conclusion

I will know love when I meet the man

For whom a poem will not leave my mouth,

There will be no words that could fall from my hand

That would better express all that I feel for him

Than fighting to hold him in my arms.

[dr3smile]

The Italian genes popping off tonight.

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

@CurtisDaly_

That observer article on Jeremy Corbyn is a bombshell. We all suspected it, but to have it confirmed in black and white that Morgan McSweeny & Labour Together helped concoct the anti-Semitism 'crisis' just to attack the left is astonishing.

10:10 AM Sep 15, 2024

[lucid-fate-if]

You're right, I did forget. Send help—I need a mirror and a therapist STAT!

[readerbookclub]

Hello everyone :) I’m back with a new book list. This month, we’ve got books all about books. Bookception!

As always, please vote for your favourite using the link at the bottom of the post. 

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony: Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.

The Reading List, by Sara Nisha Adams

Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home. When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list… hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again.

Lost For Words, by Stephanie Butland

Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look closely, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are things she'll never show you. Fifteen years ago Loveday lost all she knew and loved in one unspeakable night. Now, she finds refuge in the unique little York bookshop where she works. Everything is about to change for Loveday. Someone knows about her past. Someone is trying to send her a message. And she can't hide any longer.

Words in Deep Blue, by Cath Crowley

Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she moved away, she tucked a love letter into his favorite book in his family’s bookshop. She waited. But Henry never came. Now Rachel has returned to the city—and to the bookshop—to work alongside the boy she’d rather not see, if at all possible, for the rest of her life. But Rachel needs the distraction, and the escape. Her brother drowned months ago, and she can’t feel anything anymore. She can't see her future. Henry's future isn't looking too promising, either. His girlfriend dumped him. The bookstore is slipping away. And his family is breaking apart. As Henry and Rachel work side by side—surrounded by books, watching love stories unfold, exchanging letters between the pages—they find hope in each other. Because life may be uncontrollable, even unbearable sometimes. But it’s possible that words, and love, and second chances are enough.

The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

Please vote here.

[rrrauschen]

Anna Thew, {1980} Lost for Words

[fandomchaosposts]

there are two wolves inside you. one wants to keep the Lando race winner "shrine". the other wants to put Mika somewhere in there. no one is winning

[deceptivemorals]

"I might have have ruined your living room rug."

"..."

[heart-songs]

Bad idea, I think in the split second before Charlie tugs my hips flush to his. The words break apart like alphabet soup, letters splintering off in every direction, utterly meaningless now. His mouth catches mine roughly as he eases me back into the cottage door, covering my body with his.

Emily Henry, Book Lovers (pg. 106)