Books 4 Life

Books I've read/currently reading.

[verylostpenguin]

Me buying books normally: spend! spend! spend! *throws cash in the air* yippee!

Me buying books when I have to for my education: this is robbery I am too poor for this

[bookeworm94-deactivated20200223]

No home is really complete without at least one bookshelf.

(via bookeworm94)

[bookish-nerd-girl]

(source x)

[bookwormreaders]

I'm running out of space in my bookshelves 😭

[just-shower-thoughts]

In Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry isn’t allowed to go to the quaint town of Hogsmeade because he doesn’t have a permission slip but one year later he’s forced to compete in the Triwizard Cup like “welp rules is rules, ya little bastard. Now go fight that dragon”

[your-lovers-and-drifters]

Les cousins, 1959 (dir. Claude Chabrol) 

[afoxnamedmulder]

“Which author would you want to bring into 2015″ is such a hard question to answer I mean you could watch Arthur Conan Doyle despair over everything Sherlock Holmes within the last century or you could present Douglas Adams with an iPad

[amuseoffyre]

I would quite like to unleash Dickens on the Tories.

[goldstar-goldfish-deactivated20]

imagine William Shakespeare in the age of social media. 24/7 supreme dick jokes and the world celebrates.

[hihiyas]

Victor Hugo vs Twitter’s 140 character limit

[nobodytoldthehorse]

Okay but Oscar Wilde on Instagram

[pyreo]

Give Asimov an actual real robot

[chum-personable]

Show Lovecraft a mixed-race president and watch him shit himself in fear and anger

[persephoneshadow-deactivated202]

Poor George Orwell. “I wasn’t writing a fucking instruction manual.”

[bookwormreaders]

The Blood Mirror

Brent Weeks has built an elaborate world that all centers around the magic of the spectrum of light. This is the fourth book in the Lightbringer series and WOW this one is just full of major reveals. I’ll be honest and say that the one thing that keeps me coming back to this series is Gavin. I think he is the most interesting character in the entire series. He has the role of Prism which is basically like being the Pope but with a lot more political power and I just really love reading his perspective as even he doesn’t have all the pieces. Gavin’s father, Androse is a prick. And he is not one of the perspective characters so we as readers can’t be in his head which makes it hard to know what he is really thinking. It makes it all the more interesting when he does reveal something. I really hate the main character. Kip is the bastard son of Gavin and I really just never took a liking to him. I don’t really know what it is. He develops nicely as a character but I still found myself counting the pages to the next perspective every time. This series has a lot more perspectives and characters- this world is so huge it has a freakin character list and a glossary! but these three, I think, are the ones that I think give the best spoiler-free picture of the story.

Highly recommended if you have time to read a stack of paper just shy of 10 inches high.

I skimmed though some of the characters

Mix of characters I love, and meh characters.

[firewhisky]

[kushandwizdom]

It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via kushandwizdom)

[bookwormreaders]

Darth Plagueis

Darth Plagueis by James Luceno

Arguably one of the most important Legends novels, this book provides what I consider to be key details to the Sith as they are in the Prequel era as well as Palpatine’s beginning and how he rose to power. There are some parts with Palaptine that I just found so relatable and so interesting that I am certain that if I didn’t know he was going to become the biggest bad guy in the galaxy, I probably would have been interested in seeing him succeed.

Recommended

A must for Prequel fans

[bookwormreaders]

The Guns of Empire

The fourth book in the Shadow Campaigns series, Django Wexler does a good job bringing the story one step closer to completion. If you haven’t read this series, I HIGHLY recommend it. The way I have described it to friends is like Mulan but European, with demons, and gay. That is the simplest way I can describe it.

This addition to the story, really brings the real WAR. Up until now it’s been building towards it but now is the actual war, against the actual enemy thus far. I love the characters. There are times I REALLY want to punch Marcus because he can be so dense some times, but I still like him. I love Winter and all the drama that comes from her relationships but also how she is slowly but surely coming into a leadership role. I think she is too trusting but every time I see Janus, I can never tell whose side he is on. There are times I feel like he is the good guy Winter and Marcus think he is, but there are also times I just don’t know what to think about him. It is very refreshing to have a character this far in a story and not having any idea where he stands.

HIGHLY recommended

Only fantasy series I’ve read where LGBT is very much in your face (in a good way)

Captivating characters

[bookwormreaders]

Dark Lord The Rise of Darth Vader

Been a while since I’ve made a post and I’ve finished quite a few books in that time. Just haven’t found the time/motivation to post.

Anyways, James Luceno is really one of my favorite Star Wars authors. What I loved most about it was just getting inside Vader’s head. With ROTS still a fresh wound, it’s interesting to watch as Anakin slips further away and Vader dominates. 

The second part of this story I didn’t really care for. It followed survivors of Order 66 as they come to understand what has happened to the Jedi but I just did not care enough to read a lot of it. I found myself skimming through their chapters mostly. General rule, I suppose, is when you are sharing space with Darth Vader, you need a character that really commands as much attention as the big Sith Lord. These Jedi just didn’t have it for me.

Recommended for the Vader parts.

Mostly enjoyable, other characters were average compared with Vader.

[word-stuck]

[rachel----green]

ok but why be sad when you could think about arthur weasley watching how it’s made

[lunasravenclaw]

S i l e n c e !

[poignantink]

When you rearrange all your bookshelves so that by some miracle all the books fit…and then you turn around and see the stack you forgot about.