Bibliohoe

Everything bookish

[dr-i-have-beards]

“I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.”

— Kurt Vonnegut quoted in Suzanne McConnell, Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (via m-l-rio)

[myjetpack]

‘Obsolete scientific theories that would make good heavy metal band names’ (plus some preparatory doodles). From my new book, Department of Mind-Blowing Theories.

[neil-gaiman]

Do you think you could read some of your stories on video? I think it would be nice esp. To know what words you'd choose to emphasize and such

Absolutely! And there are a LOT of stories by me on video out there...

(And a lot of audiobooks and audio stories.)

Neil Gaiman | Cool Stuff | Video Clips

“Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit…” “There is no one who loves pain itself, who s

[myjetpack]

for yesterday’s @guardian review

[tackled]

[nightofthecreeps]

I asked my lawyer if I could make that joke and he said, “let me call another lawyer”, and that lawyer said yes. 

JOHN MULANEY SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 02/29/2020

[left-handlibrary]

Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee Browne (2020)⁣ ⁣ This book was beautiful and unassuming. Easy to read, but sentences often caught me off guard, both in their originality and their use of the natural world.⁣ ⁣ “she had green eyes that grew up your neck and became a flower on your face before you could stop them near your chin”⁣ ⁣ I’m still collecting my thoughts, but I feel if I don’t say something now, I’ll lose my grasp of the novel. That is not to say it’s not memorable, but the more I think about it, the more scattered my thoughts become. It is about love, about human connection, about life – the good, the bad, the sad. Yes, it’s largely about female friendship, but it’s important to mention that it is also about romantic love between women. It felt like a gift that it did not shy away from that, nor from sex between women. ⁣ ⁣ There is some happiness in these pages, some sadness too. Water is a motif throughout the book, bodies of water give the chapters their titles. The water here is both familiar and unknowable as Hetty is to protagonist Ness (and to the reader), always slipping between the hands before you can truly grasp her. This one felt a little bit (just a little) like Attraction by Ruby Porter. Perhaps it’s the novel’s connection to water shining through, but I think also the gentle-ness of the writing, the way she describes melancholy and place and how we fit ourselves into both; how life changes whether or not we want it to.⁣

[bookbae1229]

Beautiful review

[the-memedaddy]

Meirl

[elvencantation]

“They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.”

— Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

[alwaysreadingg]

love a good used book☺️📚 (I know some of you are going to get mad at me fire highlighting and writing in my books but these were for history coursework don’t worry😂)

[bookbae1229]

I love buying used books with post it’s and highlighting done in them. It signifies something the previous reader thought was important or significant. It’s like a secret message.

[megatrip]

[yesterdaysprint]

The Decatur Herald, Illinois, September 16, 1929

[aseaofquotes]

– L.M. Montgomery

[bookbae1229]

“Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.”

Amazing story that takes you into the world of 1900s Japan and Korea. Definitely recommend for anyone who loves to read history.

[freckles-and-books]

“Native hygiene was far better than Spanish hygiene. When the Spaniards first arrived in Mexico, natives baring incense burners were assigned to accompany them wherever they went. The Spaniards thought it was a mark of divine honor. We know from native sources that they found the newcomers’ smell unbearable.”

— Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

[bookbae1229]

[julienbakerfavormp3-deactivated]

Women was regarded as a creature whose boundaries are unstable, whose power to control them is inadequate. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she perforates, she disintegrates. Think of the female life cycle with its bloods, its penetrations, its pregnancies, its changes of shape. Think of the monsters of Greek myth, who are mostly women with deranged boundaries, like Skylla, Medusa, the Sirens, the Harpies, the Amazons, the Sphinx. Self-control is a virtue—physical, mental and moral—which, in the view of the ancients, women categorically do not possess. In order to achieve form or consistency, the female must submit herself to the regulation and articulation of the male.

—Anne Carson, from “Contempts: A Study of Profit and Nonprofit in Homer, Moravia and Godard”

[bookbae1229]

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Amazing read!