#on books

[bookaddict24-7]

I tried to be funny on Tik tok 😂

[akindplace]

I’ll be waiting on the ceiling until it arrives just like that scene from the grudge

the thing about wanting a physical book so badly when it hasn’t really been released in your country so you have to order it internationally and pray it eventually gets here is that until the book finally arrives i will be climbing on the walls chewing lamp wiring. what do you mean my book will either be here by tomorrow or next month. what is this deadline. I’ve had to cancel two orders because they just would not send the fucking book after two months. internationally ordering things because they just don’t have it in your country is so frustrating

just. give. me. the book

[feral-ballad]

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

[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

[kxowledge]

[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'

[softboiledteacozy]

At this rate, it's going to take me longer to buy all the Discworld books than it took Pterry to write em. I first bought TCoM when I was still in highschool and getting books in English was A Big Deal here. Then I got ER and TLF on my post highschool Europe trip, in a library at Cambridge, iirc.

Fast forward 12 years after that, when I got GP, followed by this year's three acquisitions.

Still, there's something charming about getting to have so many different editions, so I'll take it

[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

[catmint1]

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World

[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

[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

[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.

[rellasnowheenim]

—Ashley Poston, from A Novel Love Story