#on books

[bookaddict24-7]

"I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them."

―Same Sun Here by Neela Vaswani

[feral-ballad]

Sayat Nova, from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "Listen to me"

[akindplace]

Started a new book after 2+weeks without reading and I feel human again. Yeah. Yeah I stopped eating the electrical wiring from the ceiling and I came down the walls. It might happen again if after this book ends I don’t find one to fall into fast enough

[rellasnowheenim]

—Ashley Poston, from A Novel Love Story

[polarized-here]

They should make giant books, or like books that you can unfold the pages as much as you need so you can write as much as you want for your annotations because I do not. I need more space these margins are toooooo damn small and I just need more space to write my foolish thoughts

[areadersquoteslibrary]

"Reading, in an age when so many people don't read books, is a form of rebellion."

- David Gessner, 'Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis'

[kxowledge]

answering what i think was really the question i.e. literary reviews: i actually don't really read any? i subscribe to The Paris Review, which does allow me to discover new authors, but it doesn't actually include reviews. my TBR grows very organically and recs come from a variety of sources. i've actually been more conservative in selecting books i want to read lately and it helps (reasoning being: how can i make any progress if my TBR grows +50 books each year?)

tumblr and tumblr-adjacent plays a big part. many of my mutuals post great quotes from great books and if i'm intrigued, i'll check the book out. off of the top of my head, @thecrownedgoddess & @luxe-pauvre have impeccable taste. i also love the books videos by @galina (petition to bring them back!!!). as an aside, on youtube drunzo & a day of small things are also great, though i doubt i've added anything on my TBR based on their videos.

the only person whose review i read and on which basis i decide to read a book i didn't know about before is @starlorn on goodreads - why? great taste that aligns well with my own & the reviews are often compilation of quotes, which allow me to gauge the book myself

[innamorat4]

characters pining and yearning and suffering from the distance they feel from the person they desire while slowly going insane taking us through a slow burn romance until they finally admit to each other how much their bottled up feelings are killing them. and i get the frustration people feel, yeah they’re idiots for not talking about it earlier but for me this plot point that slowly culminates in characters spilling the feelings they’ve tried to hide for so long is everything. i eat this up. it will happen again and i’m not sorry in the slightest

[stargir1z]

"For Deleuze, the same assessment applies to Lacanian psychoanalysis as to the French novel, which is claustrophobic, closeted, closed-in upon itself to the point of a onanistic jubilation and neurotic self-obsession." Rosi Braidotti, Becoming Woman: Or Sexual Difference Revisited

[somerabbitholes]

hi, what did you think of in praise of good bookstores? i wanted to buy and read it, but the reviews are so mixed and i can't decide. thank you x

in all honesty, it wasn't exactly what i expected, and that did more to put me off than the book itself. i was prepared and hoping for a more bookshops (jorge carrión)-like thing on the sociology and history of the space and its function. in praise of good bookstores was that, but not enough of it in my view. it had quite a bit of interesting things to say about what makes a bookstore good, what booksellers mean and what they might do to make their store meaningful, but at times it felt more like a manual for booksellers and shops. i think i would have appreciated the book more, also, if it picked its battle and wrote either about the physical space and made a case for it, rather than shuttle between the physical space, the role of the bookseller, and their place in society. ultimately, it said a lot of things, but none of them strongly enough to stick out.

[artern]

a love letter to elements of cadence

dear elements of cadence duology,

you’re the set of two books that rekindles a sense of escapism. with faith and a set of experiences so humbling. you’re the set of two books that choose nature’s balance, and essentially, share that the universe sends us challenges they know we’re strong enough to overcome.

pretty simply, the set of two books that hold my heart.

like a lovely soul once said: from my heart, to each and every one of yours, i humbly bow.

thank you so much for being here :)

[bookaddict24-7]

“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”

―Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

[soulmaking]

[zahrareadsstuff]

All of booktwt coming together to appreciate the beauty that is the six deaths of the Saint by Alix e. Harrow is the best display of unity in the book community

Only time they've appreciated a book right tbh

I mean look at this display of writing

Gahhhhh the feels

[rellasnowheenim]

—Ashley Poston, from A Novel Love Story