pickI just finished the last book in the Shades of Magic series and I swear to god I'm not ok. It was 3 books of fighting pirates and vanquishing dark magic and feeling all the feelings and I think I might never get over it. In the best way possible, these books messed me up.
I haven't been able to focus on anything I'm trying to read for weeks, but I was killing time yesterday when I stumbled into a book shop and happened upon this. I started reading and suddenly I was 60 pages in and couldn't stop. This book has magic, pirates, hidden worlds and secret pasts. It's just the sort of adventure book I loved as a kid and as an adult reconnecting with this sort of story was a delight. #timetobuythesequel
I saw this movie yesterday and I've had this song on constant replay since.
2 things that I've been thinking about:
1) The library scene is even more amazing in the live action version, if that's possible. And
2) "melancholy guy with a sad backstory who's not conventionally attractive but has a huge library" became my type when I watched the '91 movie as a kid. This movie just made it that much worse. #danstevens #idied ?
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
For the (lucky number) 14th time, I'm going back to the beginning.
I'm off work and it's storming outside so guess where I'm spending the afternoon?
That's right, right here on my couch with a blanket and this book. ⛈🌫📚👍🏻
#rainydaysarereadingdays #notleavingmyhouse
My boss' boss' boss (the big boss) saw me with my book during my lunch break yesterday and asked me what I was reading. It took everything I had in me to just say the name of this book and not gush about how good it is. No one told me not geeking out at inappropriate moments would be the hardest part of pretending to be an adult.
I watched the new Sherlock episode tonight, and it's made me want to read the Doyle stories to remember a time when Holmes actually solved cases. #imbitter 😑
We can all agree that 2016 was a monstrosity of epic proportions, but I'm pleased to say that at least one good thing came out of it. For the first time, I actually kept up my New Years resolution and read 52 books in 2016, 1 per week. It doesn't seem like many, but between near-constant working and major distractions (I'm looking at you, Netflix) it was definitely a tough commitment to keep. Here's to more books in 2017! 📚🎉😄
I swear I spend more time sitting on the floor trying to choose what to read next than I spend actually reading whatever I eventually choose 🙄
It's not Christmas till I've snuck down to my room to avoid my relatives and read a quick chapter
After seeing Lauren Duca's interview with Tucker Carlson, my teen sister and I shared mutual pissed-offedness, as you do. (Her avatar is Harry Styles, but she regularly discusses politics, history, and social issues, because #girlscandoboth )
This book is great, but it's pretty fucked up that the things Friedan called out as being regressive in the 1960s are things I was taught in the conservative religious south in the 1990s-2000s 😑
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: "I want something more than my husband and my children and my home."
For a book written before my parents were born, this still feels incredibly relevant, considering the alarming frequency with which people assume I must be terribly unhappy about being single and that my big life goal must be to snag a man and start popping out babies. #nope
I didn't mean to buy any books today, but I work next door to a bookstore, and the weather is stormy, and I was drinking coffee, and I have a general lack self control, so here we are. #womanwriters #feminism
I've been dying to buy a subscription to a book of the month club but there are so many out there I'm not sure where to start. Does anyone have any favorite book subscription services they'd recommend?
After spending the past few days at my retail job working nonstop for the holiday shoppers, I've finally got a full day off of work and I'm devoting it all to finishing this book
I first read this as a freshman in college and spent most of the book totally confused. I just finished rereading and while I can appreciate more of it, I still don't get a whole lot. The cover art, though, is great.
I posted a selfie on Facebook and used the hashtag #imwithher. Now I've got some hard choices of my own to make, like whether I should block, unfriend, or just unfollow the angry relatives sending me hate in my dm's. What would Hillary do? 🤔
I have to be at work in 7 hours but I'm just about halfway through and I don't want to stop 😩
so-soI appreciate the fact that the author addressed some real human emotions and showed that no family could possibly be as goody-goody as the Marches were in Little Women (even as a kid I found them insufferably sweet), but I really seriously disliked the main character. It's a well written and researched piece, (& many a great character is unlikable and still great) but I gotta say I spent the last half of it counting down the pages to the end 😁
I had time to kill in a random town today so I wandered into the library. They didn't have the book I'm reading but I started this and I'm hooked
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago."
*sigh*
Captain Wentworth's letter gets me every time ?
I ordered this a few weeks ago (after seeing great reviews from other Litsy users) and promptly forgot about it. When I got home today it was like a special little surprise from past me to present me. Thanks, past me. You're the best.
I'm stuck waiting around for a while this afternoon but it's finally starting to feel like fall so it's coffee, windows down, and Jane Austen to fill up the time
pickJoyce Carol Oates always impresses me with characters that are so well-rounded it seems like they might walk out of the text at any moment and be living breathing humans. The book follows a family over a period of years surrounding an unexpected and tragic event. Oates shows each characters' reaction to the tragedy and how the sum of their responses permanently alters the family dynamic. Oates knows how people work. This book is incredible.
pickJoyce Carol Oates always impresses me with characters that are so well-rounded it seems like they might walk out of the text at any moment and be living breathing humans. The book follows a family over a period of years surrounding an unexpected and tragic event. Oates shows each characters' reaction to the tragedy and how the sum of their responses permanently alters the family dynamic. Oates knows how people work. This book is incredible.
I'm not sure how it happened, but somehow I went through high school and college (as an English major, no less) never having read this book. Maybe it was the amount of hype around the story that kept me from it, because I was sure it couldn't live up to it, or maybe I was just being contrary by refusing to read something so often recommended, but I am now converted. This is a masterpiece. I cried like a baby throughout, for so many reasons 💔
My semi-annual #librarybooksale day one haul. Going back tomorrow for fresh finds 📚#itsthemostwonderfultimeoftheyear
Took 4 days off work and all I've done is read #bookvacation #killingit (If only the characters in this novel would also start killing it so I could finish Dracula and move on! I refuse to bail, but oh my god the plot is d r a g g i n g...😲)
I have to work in the morning but I accidentally started a book and can't stop. Send help 😬
I need a job that lets me work with literature all day, everyday. I've got a BA in English and I work in retail 😭 Y'all are all bookish people...Tell me how to make this happen 🙏🏻
so-soThis is one of those books I can appreciate, but can't bring myself to enjoy. The direct, clear prose is obviously well-written, and I liked reading a story told from a point of view that's not white and European (I tend to read lots of white dudes), but I just couldn't connect. I wanted to love it, but it didn't do anything for me 😐
I bought this book months ago at a library book sale on a whim, having never heard of the title or author, because I liked the cover art. I'm about a quarter of the way through it and apparently my book buying instincts are good, because I'm loving it 😊
I bought this book months ago at a library book sale on a whim, having never heard of the title or author, because I liked the cover art. I'm about a quarter of the way through it and apparently my book buying instincts are good, because I'm loving it 😊
pick"We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path that will take us to the stars..."
This book, while at moments dense with math and the sort of science-y figures I spent my school years avoiding, is a beautiful and inspiring work touching on education, physics, space travel, cosmology, and, ultimately, pondering the most basic questions which humans have spent all of recorded history asking: Who are we? Why are we here? and Where are we going?
It's only the introduction and Gaiman is already making me feel like he's been reading my mind. His discussion of trigger warnings and their place in fiction is spot on. 💚
The piles of books above my bed are getting dangerously high. One of these nights I'm going to get pinned under the weight of falling books and be crushed by my unread volumes. 'Death by book.' A cause of death I could live with.
pickMcKinley takes one of the most graphic Fairytales I know and focuses on the young heroine's journey towards self-acceptance and empowerment after a horrific rape. Some fantasy ignores the human in favor of the fantastical, but Deerskin addresses deeply human issues in a magical world. Splendid.
My local goodwill sells used books 8 for $1 so I stocked up for next month's reading ❤️
