#what I’m reading

[jennamacaroni]

A woman who didn't need you to make sense, or fit into a box, or fill a category in her head.  A woman who let you be creative and ambitious and practical and a little bit careless and wildly optimistic about unrealistic things without ever pointing out the contradiction in all of this, because she, too, was a messy combination of incongruent elements that didn't logically fit.

Lauren McBrayer, “Like a House on Fire”

[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

[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

[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

[iirulancorrino]

oof.

[white-elorda-photography]

30th October 2024

Catching up with my classics

[coffeebooksandmore]

I’m learning how to not ruin my own day. I missed the sunset because the sadness took over, and I couldn’t move. I missed the moonrise. Stuck. I stand in the wildflowers and apologize to you for hating myself so much. Too long I have believed in the beauty of pain. I see myself paralyzed and scream at my body. Please move! I desperately want life to be easier. So I take myself out in the sun and sit on the ground under the deep blue sky and listen. Just listen.

All I want now is to catch the colors of the sky, melting into one another.

IG: coffeeandbookss

[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 🫶🏽

[jennamacaroni]

My pal A. A. Gill once suggested that the older he gets, and the more he travels, the less he knows.  And I know what he means now.  Seeing the planet as I'm seeing it, you are constantly reminded of what you don't know–how much more there is to see and learn, how damn big and mysterious this world is.

Anthony Bourdain, “The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones”

[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

[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

[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.

[cottagegorevampy]

♡ ⟡˙⋆pluto always knows when i need him for a read⋆˙⟡ ♡

[oldcurse]