#what I’m reading

[anonniemousefics]

My favorite moment in Dracula has got to be when Renfield says he needs to tidy his room before Mina comes in, and then proceeds to turn around and eat his entire collection of spiders and flies before Dr. Seward can stop him. Gothic literature has no business being this funny.

[coffeebooksandmore]

Recent book purchases

I’m always telling myself just one just one, but lord when you’re in a great bookstore you want everything, and getting out with two feels like extreme self restraint so you’re still proud because you left with two 🙂

coffeeandbookss

[susansontag]

getting to a point in capital volume 1 where I understand what marx is saying but I’m not so sure why he thinks it’s necessary to say such and such thing, which makes me go round in a circle thinking well clearly I must have misunderstood something here. I know that the correct answer is to just carry on getting through my 10 pages each day, but I hope I don’t lose the plot somewhere entirely

[sadiemimi]

« There's terrible evil in the world. It comes from men. All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. »

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

[imsiriuslyreading]

hi hello i’ve started a lil bookish/reading update newsletter. if you wanna chat books with me you can find it here 🥹♥️

[sonofarathorns]

more reading lotr for the first time thoughts!

• you know it’s a great character when you literally just met them and you already like them, and that is how i feel about glorfindel. we already know he’s awesome from the get go, because he puts frodo on his horse and becomes a complete badass helping strider fight the black riders, and i just love tolkien elves okay??

• another book frodo appreciation bullet point!!! “by elbereth and luthien the fair, you shall have neither the ring nor me!” my guy!!! i just love book frodo so much, and this is coming from someone who has loved the movies since i was 11.

• please!!!!!!! aragorn and bilbo friendship?!?!?! this is the best thing i’ve ever read!

• elladan and elrohir mention! i know them from fics!!!

• lindir!!!! 😍😍😍

• oh man, i am loving this third person limited perspective. we only know what frodo knows, and that’s so crazy! for example, he sees aragorn and arwen talking, but that was just a fleeting moment. (i know this changes later, based on what i’ve heard about the books, but it’s still so fun to get the story just through frodo’s eyes right now, because - i don’t know if you’ve gathered this by now - i love him!

• a moment of appreciation for tolkien’s descriptions of, well, everything. right now i’m referring to the settings, specifically the depiction of the sunrise on the morning of the council of elrond, which is the chapter i am starting right now. but really, all of the descriptive language used by tolkien so far has given me exactly the vibe i wanted/expected going into reading the books.

whether it’s a cozy scene or a scene where you’re supposed to feel wary or on-edge, we get to feel that for ourselves, without being told in so many words what to feel, because we see what’s happening because it’s just so! descriptive!

and i know some people say it’s a slow read or that tolkien just goes on and on about trees, but for me, a visual reader/learner, it’s really helpful in setting the scene.

• i am having so much fun with this it’s unreal. on one hand, im mad at myself for not having read the books sooner, so i could make my own version of a character in my head etc., but on the other hand, im glad im doing it now and that i have the foresight to document my thoughts reading them for the first time.

there are so many books i would love a second chance to read for the first time, and i know lord of the rings is a big one for a lot of people. so im just savoring the experience as much as i can! 🥹

if you have any thoughts about the books, feel free to message me and we can nerd out together <333

[theworldoffostering]

This book felt so stressful to me.

[mywickedtruth]

New Year’s resolution: read only banned books. What a collection!!! Some favorites in there.

The artist is Vivienne Strauss

[nerdy-birdy-photography]

30th October 2024

Catching up with my classics

[oldcurse]

[susansontag]

when lenin was like, didn’t get to finish that bit of the pamphlet because a revolution happened! probably not going to write that bit for a while

[crimsonrainsoughtstrawberry]

ok y’all I finally ordered the svsss novels and I’m ready to have bingqiu living in my mind rent free the way wangxian and hualian do. I have watched the donghua already but I feel like it did not hit the same as the other 2 mxtx donghuas(it was the animation style I didn’t care for 🙅🏽‍♀️). So I’m glad to get into it now from the source 🫶🏽

[theworldoffostering]

I liked the concept of this book, but something about the author’s voice grated on me in places where he addressed certain topics or told stories about his kids throughout their travels. Nonetheless, it was an interesting read.

[boredmezzosoprano]

I’m reading this book called 𝙈𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙘, 𝙇𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙋𝙞𝙚𝙨 🥧 and it’s 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘰 good! Anyway as you can tell I really see Emma Watson playing the main character Daisy in a movie adaptation of it!

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

“For him, though, it was like blood, this thing that came out of him whenever he got hurt.”

— Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

[oldcurse]

Joseph Campbell spitting facts in 1952. Man goes on to say we wouldn’t have philosophy if it wasn’t for Islam. Nothing but respect for my president 🫡