Books Abounding

Angelina, 28. Currently Reading: The Priory of the Orange Tree Pls send gay book rec’s Booklr for thesassisnecessary.

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[helenvaughans]

📢📢📢

[farewell-to-lorien]

Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.

Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

[bookishly-bright]

I just read the entirety of “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe in one sitting. It’s a graphic novel so it’s less words than reading a novel all at once, but I have not ever read something that i can connect so strongly to in terms of gender and gender confusion. i stopped working on the gender exploration workbook from my therapist to just read for a bit, and then just read the whole thing all at once. I think I’m just going to bring the book to my next therapy session lol

[animentality]

[darkshrimpemotions]

My favorite bookstore ever was in Salem, MA and looked like this:

Extremely fucking precarious setup. Afraid to brush against anything. But if you went to the counter and asked for something, the guy there not only somehow knew where to find it, he could yank a book out of any given teetering stack without disturbing the rest.

[vilecrocodile]

^ i went to this bookstore once in college, and then years later visited salem again and tried to find it, only to discover, in its place, a very neat and organized conventional bookstore with everything on shelves. i asked one the employees what happened that it underwent such a radical shift and they said, the mold,

[demonprincex]

Here's a bookstore I visited in New Orleans

[enki2]

[malleefies]

Missandei of Naath "Eleven years of age, yet Missandei is as clever as half the men at this table and wiser than all of them."

Below is a version w different lighting:

[meteortrails]

part of the reason I think it’s so sad that we collectively write so few stories about unrequited love is bc I feel like there’s very little public acknowledgment of how much it sucks to be the one somebody is in unrequited love with??? and not in a way of like, oh they’re crossing boundaries or putting expectations on me or whatever. becoming close friends with someone and then finding out they’re in love with you and you don’t love them back the same way is heartbreaking, bc a) someone you love is in pain and there is literally nothing you can do about it, and b) it usually means that whether you like it or not there’s going to be distance in your friendship that wasn’t there before as they try to get over you. idk man I just feel like we’ve all discussed the tragedy of loving someone who doesn’t love you back quite a lot and very rarely discuss the tragedy of finding out the way that you love someone just isn’t enough.

[sunfortune]

booktok did ruin a lot of romance novels bc of the demand for instant gratification but culturally it is kind of a slay that so many young women are just reading smut and masturbating all day #respect

[the-uncanny-dag]

[ricardianguy]

[moonachilles]

Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

[nitewrighter]

Meanwhile Emily Brönte just said “We can make each other worse.” 

[theonlycabbage]

Mary Shelley said, "I can make him

[book-daenerys-deactivated202601]

Dany looked at the horizon with despair. They had lost a third of their number, and still the waste stretched before them, bleak and red and endless. The comet mocks my hopes, she thought, lifting her eyes to where it scored the sky. Have I crossed half the world and seen the birth of dragons only to die with them in this hard hot desert? She would not believe it.

Freya Allan as 14-year-old book!Daenerys Targaryen

[charliejaneanders]

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.

Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

[catbrarian]

a solid visual representation of me in a bookstore

[macrolit]

Literary history that happened on 9 January

[wlwbookshelf]

MOBY DYKE - KRISTA BURTON

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐⭐️

The subtitle of this novel, 'An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America' really explains what this travelogue is all about.

Moby Dyke makes me, an introverted homebody, yearn to go to a lesbian bar. I literally started figuring out plans to do to the nearest one after I finished reading. I really don’t know what higher praise this book could get from me.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.