#this book is AMAZING

[demigods-posts]

did i read the chalice of the gods in its entirety the day it came out? yes.

[moonmargaritas]

I’m almost done with Moby Dick and I think I can say very confidently that this book has been WILDLY misrepresented in popular culture by people who have probably never read it. Moby Dick is first and foremost 1) Herman Melville infodumping about whales (like linguistics professor Tolkien writing LOTR just so he could pretend to translate a language he made up) and 2) a yaoi AND yuri story. Ishmael and Queequeg are yaoi, and Ahab and the whale are yuri.

[sunlaire]

Aww amundsen and cook went on a hike and they kept falling through the snow into crevasses almost dying terribly but after 8 hours slowly traversing the daunting Antarctic landscape, they make it back to camp, and amundsen is writing in his diary like "that was so much fun 😊 I can't wait to do this forever <3333 also I love cook"

[giurochedadomani]

I've just realized why I like vis so much. He's got Loki vibes. Like, this is not me comparing both characters/stories, just signaling that I do have a type with the characters that I like. He's got the sad backstory. The tendency to let his emotions get the better of him. He's playing 1454748 scams at the same time to survive and though he barely escapes death more than once, he's always got just another more lie up his sleeve. I'm also 110% rooting for him as well.

[ley-med]

Started the reread of Verne's Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, and I can't stop thinking

1. Oh my god this is indeed the epitome of science fiction what do you mean the lightbulb haven't even been patented yet when this was written

2. There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

[nonehell]

My library has this as an ebook and it’s so good! So so good!!!

[patrokleos]

I am reading The Hands of the Emperor and I am slightly feral about it.

[luckylispwasnotwastedonyou]

If Boris and Theo don't reunite and get married I might just die

[flyingsassysaddles]

how buttercup realized she was in love with Westley according to the book

[immediatebreakfast]

The total dissonance between the two main events of this entry is so funny, and brilliant. It's not even about how the story is slowly putting their pieces together as the important parts connect. It's all about how:

On one hand we have Mina being absolutely rejoiced since she finally got sister Agatha's letter, and how she already is preparing herself to go to Budapest to get to Jonathan as fast as she can. Her prose opens like a waterfall as Mina pours all of those feelings she held tight on her chest.

"I have cried over the good Sister's letter till I can feel it wet against my bosom, where it lies. It is of Jonathan, and must be next my heart, for he is in my heart."

On the other hand we have back doctor Jack Seward being so offended that Renfield doesn't acknowledge him as a superior anymore that he took a whole long paragraph to complain about it. To the point of Seward insulting Renfield while he records on his phonograph.

"but the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if men only knew!"

These two events may belong in the same novel, but they certainly are different literary genres right now.

[rrainydaydreams]

NO SPOILER DARK HEIR REVIEW

I don’t even know where to start with this. I swear to god, Pacat has outdone her/himself. THE TWISTS. THE TURNS. THE TRAGEDIES. It’s everything I hoped for and more. The way this book is written is so good, with every chapter leaving you wanting more. I couldn’t put it down and finished it the day I got it.

We learn A LOT more about different characters past, such as Violet, Will and definitely the characters from the old world. The relationships between the characters are so well written, and you can FEEL every emotion the way it’s written.

I don’t even know wha else to say but praise for the book. Can’t wait for the third one to come out, I need to know more!!

“I will always find you, try to run.”

[motsimages]

I just read in The Fabric of Civilisation (by Virginia Postrel) that in many places, throughout history, textiles were used as money, with government regulations on prices and exchanges, or standards agreed to be used.

I love it because, given how long it takes to make that standard of textile to use for money, everyone can be aware of the work behind it. This is not something we can say for our current money.

And technically, anyone could make its own money (if given the time, the materials and the tools to do it, which is not as easy as it looks but easy enough that it was more possible than printing your own bills according to the government standard).

Because the materials are limited, and the time required to grow them is what it is, the money can only grow so much and this helps regulate inflation.

I also wonder if some of the local money in some countrie is still called the same as the standard of fabric used 2000 years ago.

[rapha-reads]

"The Queen is in Queens, contemplating the stochastic processes of a trinomial tree model, on the strange warm day when everything changes. The Queen—whose real name is Padmini Prakash—doesn’t want to be working on her Computational Analysis project, which is why she happens to be daydreaming about some Lovecraft meta that she read on Tumblr, and looking outside, in the moment of the city’s rebirth. The meta wasn’t so much interesting as funny, science-side Tumblr arguing with fantasy-side over the comical notion that non-Euclidean geometry could somehow be sinister, and concluding that Lovecraft was probably just scared of math."

(From The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin)

I feel like I actually did read that meta? Like. That's an actual post somewhere around here, I'm pretty sure.

[sorchasolas]

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT DANCER IS ALIVE SEVRO IS. SEVROSHSUEEGAIAHHS

EHDAHRHFHHDSHFHHDHDHHEHEHHEHEHEHEHE

Fuck Harmony

Ion like her i knew her plan was shady

QUINN NOOOOOOOOOOOO kinda called it tho

[rabidasexualgarlicbread]

WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME ABOUT HARRIET PORBER BEFORE THIS