Whoever Said A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Clearly never read a book.

[ekaterinkanm]

Bookworm’s favourite thing #28666034

When your lovely books arrive and all you wanna do is dancing, screaming, smiling because you’re crazy book maniac

[blackthornkisses]

Reading a book whose pages, words and notes are familiar to you is so comforting. I’m telling you, there’s nothing better than opening an old favorite book of yours before going to bed and going through your favorite pages, suddenly being back at the place that you longed for after a long hard day in the real world.

[books-read-in-nooks]

Me: “I’m not going to spend money! I’m going to read a book I already own!”

The books I already own:

[theincorrectbookquotes]

I feel personally attacked

[roszy]

Everyone: What do you want for your birthday?

Me: Books!

Everyone: Is there one you want in particular?

Me, unravelling a ten mile list of books I want to read: There’s a few

[etudique]

My tragic ass falling for any YA male character with a sharp jawline and a tragic backstory:

Bonus points if they have raven black hair and/or piercing blue eyes

[librarian-of-orynth]

some of you haven’t been so wrecked by a book that it’s all you can think about for days and days and your book hangover feels unending and it shows

[librarian-of-orynth]

Some of you haven’t stayed up reading until 4 am because you literally couldn’t put down your book until it was finished even though you needed to be up early the next day and it shows

[sixmonthsandgone]

“Why do you read so much?”

[redyoshi241]

I absolutely love the fact that Mr Darcy is one of the most adored literary romantic heroes because like…he’s a human disaster? He literally developed a crush on Elizabeth, decided to deny his feelings, then realised his feelings were too strong to be repressed in the span of a few chapters while Elizabeth thought he hated her. He claims he doesn’t know how to talk to women yet comes out with beautiful lines such as ‘dearest, loveliest Elizabeth’. I just adore that he’s renowned for his genuine love and appreciation for Elizabeth even though he was terrible at dealing with his feelings.

[nightbleeder]

The Inspiration for A Discovery of Witches:

”At the signing, Harkness said that she was inspired to write ADOW while on vacation. She went to the airport shop and was greeted with a wall of paranormal fiction. (I’m thinking it was Twilight, since this was 2008.) So she starts making fun of it because her daughter(s) read the books, and she started asking questions like, “But how do vampires make money? And how do they stay out of history? And how is it that no one notices a werewolf/vampire/witch is their neighbor?” So she attacked it like a research project and started writing all these notes, until suddenly she had 180+ pages of explanations.

Matthew Roydon, for example, ended up in her notes. He existed, and he presented a problem for her when she was researching for her dissertation (I believe it was her dissertation). He popped up among some research she was doing on the School of Night. When she tried to figure out who he was, she couldn’t. He’s just a man without history who seemed to always be around luminaries. She never forgot that. So, she joked out loud that vampires in history would be like Matthew Roydon. There, but no one knows anything about them. 

And thus began the trilogy.”

-Jules, 2012

[fuckyeahmatthewanddiana]

👏🏼💗💯

[bookofmirth]

I feel like those seagulls in Finding Nemo but instead of “mine?!”, whenever I hear about a book, I go “ReAD?! read?!!! REAd?!!”

[theyretheirthere]

[kristensnotebook]

“And one day the girl with the books became the woman writing them.”

— Kristen Costello

[bookmarkdance]

I actually have no problem rereading a book just for one scene

[dynamicsymmetry]

Good stuff.

[eerian-sadow]

This. This is good fiction writing advice. I really appreciate how it was formatted as “this is a common problem, here is a solution to try in your own work” and not “oh god, don’t do that!” without any extra help. And I extra appreciated the “don’t rely on adverbs” bit, because they do have their place but they aren’t the only way actions can be emphasized.

[keplercryptids]

I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”

[keplercryptids]

him: you split up all the song of ice and fire books

me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

him: [self-destructs]

[operativesurprise]

You’re a monster

[thetumblrofrassilon]

As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?

[keplercryptids]

it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.

my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.

[your-eyes-can-be-so-cruell]

Matthew in season 2: But, as my father used to say…

Philippe: Quit telling everyone I’m dead!

Matthew: Sometimes I can still hear his voice