book crook

forever falling in love with letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, pages, books, worlds and characters. :)

[todays-wendy]

RIP Alan Rickman

[bookcrooks]

Meanwhile, I've still got 7 huge boxes of books and DVDs to unpack.....

[the-fangirl-in-the-snogbox-deac]

My bookshelf

[bookcrooks]

Ahhhhhhhomgggggggggg Sarah J Maas q&a and signing and meeting in just 4 days. So excited. Can't believes she's coming to Melbourne!

[mehreenkasana]

Cried under a tree today. Cried for my sister who looks far more Muslim than I do; wears a hijab, carries a tasbeeh. Cried for my father who’s been spat on by white people calling him a ‘fucking Arab’ and ‘sand n*****’ and who’s been told to ‘go back to your shariah country’ on a number of occasions. Cried for young Muslims quickly stating honest apologies for a crime they never committed but are automatically connected to - in media, in literature, in funded narratives, in daily conversations. 

Cried knowing Empire decides who is mourned and who is overlooked; Empire decides human worthiness and unworthiness. Cried for refugees quietly panicking and fearing more backlash, never catching a moment to sit down and breathe in ease. Cried knowing only a very small number of people will ever realize that we flee the people you saw today. Cried also knowing we will never have the patience to understand the rage in people who commit these atrocities; cried knowing this chaos is not spontaneous but created by man-made conditions. Cried knowing people assume understanding means justifying.

Cried knowing more borders are on their way, more ‘security measures’ targeted at people who already are marginalized by the state and its paranoia. Cried reading, “I wish we were allowed to simply mourn.” It’s a tough, suffocating place to be so I cried under a tree.

[goddessartemys]

graphics: Throne of glass.

[mediamattersforamerica]

An important perspective in light of recent events.

Watch this. 

[uncreativelyinclined]

!!!!!!

[bookcrooks]

Waleed slaying this!!

[bookwild]

Warnette wedding + instagram

[bookphile]

I hate how sometimes tumblr  fandoms  sets up false expectations for a book (though this applies to TV, movies, etc) and it’s characters. I understand a lot of it is subtext, wish fulfillment, and head canons and so on, but as someone who is unfamiliar with a book (or a show, etc), I would obviously not know that it’s not completely faithful to the book. And sometimes when I read the book, I find that half of the things I’ve seen would be false or hugely exaggerated.  A lot of the times this is grossly disappointing because it’s the false details that people make up that make me want to read the novel (or watch the show) in the first place. Which ends up making the book somewhat a disappointment.

This includes: false representation (assuming certain characters are gay, of certain religion, sexuality, body type, etc because of that one hint on that one page, I don’t care if the entire fandom believes it, representation shouldn’t be a guessing game ), race bending (as much as I love poc characters when I find out they’re white in the book I get pissed, how about making graphics of poc books), white washing (even more insidious, especially when the character is clearly described as poc, overweight, non-conforming to gender etc). OOC characters - when the fandom twists the character’s personality so far they become some other character entirely (see: Loki).

[soullesstomatoes]

I got 99 problems and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child being a continuation of the story but not being easily available to all fans is every single one of them

[myheartofmusic]

This is a must watch for everyone. It’s exactly what the world needs to hear right now.

[bookcrooks]

Guys. PLEASE spread this like wild fire. I have been saying this for a long time and finally someone in the Australian media has said it. Nail on the head. And a LOT of people need to hear it. Please please please please please spread this.

[fictionink]

📚

[the-amazing-bookshelf-deactivat]

They had chalk at YallFest so you could write/draw anything on the lot or wall outside the bookstore. So of course i took this opportunity to protest decisions to be made by @maggie-stiefvater

[joyousreads]

[bookwormbabe89]

Reading is my therapy and it’s getting very expensive lol

[amandalovelace2-deactivated2021]

intro:

hey bookish bees! so, as some of you may already know, i recently deleted my old account and began anew here at @ladybookmad. as a sort of “thank you” for all the support my followers have shown me during the blog move, i decided that i’m going to host a book giveaway! :D

what will be won:

one book (preferably under $30) of the winner’s choosing.

rules:

you must be following me in order to be eligible to win.

likes/reblogs count for giveaway entries.

giveaway blogs will not be eligible to win.

the winner will be chosen by the way of a randomized online generator.

if you win, your ask box must be open and you must be willing to give me your address for shipping purposes.

in addition, if the chosen winner doesn’t respond within a 48 hour period, then a new winner will be chosen.

this giveaway is international. (if the book depository ships to your country, then you’re good to go!)

end date: november 13th (my birthday)

may the odds be ever in your favor. <3

(as always, thank you to @sixofmurkrows for the lovely giveaway banner!)

[halfpastinsomniac]

This is what is happening at University of Missouri right now. White students have been reported gathering on campus chanting “white power”, white students in pickup trucks are driving around harassing black students, there have been numerous threats on social media of a shooting on campus targeting black students. As of right now no classes have been cancelled for these students tomorrow. MU Alerts has issued a statement saying there is no immediate threat to campus. If you thought Mizzou making the news would stop at the resignation of the president and chancellor your wrong. There is so much more that has to happen at this university to make it a safe and secure environment for these students. And this isn’t just a problem here, this is a problem all across America at college campuses.

Please keep the students of Mizzou, especially the black community, in your thoughts. Please stay aware of the racism that is still alive and roaring in this country. 

If you want to keep updated here is a live audio of the police feed in the area: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/436/web

[wemakepieoutofyourbrains]

what the fuck

[tulkrm]

Allah ya7fadhoum

[fala7aqueen-deactivated20160406]

May Allah protect them from these fucking idiots.

[beautiful-bibliophile]

^^^^^^^^^