It's going down ("it" is not my tbr number)

Bookish side blog 🖤📚 30s; practicing witch; heathen; she/they. This blog established June 5th, 2014☕ This blog runs on a queue. I block empty blogs that look like bots. No minors, please.

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

A young protagonist/cast of characters does not make a book YA or MG

A young protagonist/cast of characters does not make a book YA or MG

A young protagonist/cast of characters does not make a book YA or MG

A young protagonist/cast of characters does not make a book YA or MG

A young protagonist/cast of characters does not make a book YA or MG

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

And another thing:

Genre fiction written by a woman does not make a book YA or MG

Genre fiction written by a woman does not make a book YA or MG

Genre fiction written by a woman does not make a book YA or MG

Genre fiction written by a woman does not make a book YA or MG

Genre fiction written by a woman does not make a book YA or MG

[traegorn]

This feeling never gets old

[asneakyfox]

one of my favorite bits in lord of the rings is something the movies didn't really try to do because it's entirely internal, but sam's carrying the ring and it starts trying to do its work on him, so he's having these intrusive visions of himself marching at the head of a vast and terrible army, and he just starts laughing because, me? samwise gamgee? sam gamgee the general sam gamgee the dark lord are you for real? man i just want to go home and do some gardening. and the ring gets frustrated and it starts trying to figure out other stuff that would actually tempt sam and it's finally like, okay, but hear me out: imagine if you could have...A REALLY REALLY BIG GARDEN

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || May 12 || Nature:

[goth-queen]

[frailbug]

you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way

[wonderstruck]

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

[goth-queen]

[kjscottwrites]

[yesornopolls]

Have you read any of the books 'Legends & Lattes', 'Bookshops & Bonedust', or 'Brigands & Breadknives' by Travis Baldree?

Have you read any of the books 'Legends & Lattes', 'Bookshops & Bonedust', or 'Brigands & Breadknives' by Travis Baldree?

Yes

No

Voting ended on10h

[lizziethereader]

Weekly Bookish Question #494 (May 31st - June 6th, 2026)

If you could have a special edition of one of your favorite books made, what would definitely have to be part of its design?

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

Illustrations! And at least some in color, I think.

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

I just spent like an hour searching my shelves and past book orders and stacks for Babel, only to finally realize I own physical copies of Katabasis and Yellowface, but never did manage to get Babel -_-

[bibliophilecats]

Summer treat

[effiecalvin]

My website (there's a mailing list you can add yourself to!) Book purchase links Patreon Instagram Bluesky

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

Reading a promising blurb for a book you're thinking of buying: 😃

Getting to the end of the blurb and seeing it was written by an author whose work you hated: ☹️

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

anyway in honour of this post about medieval strap-ons doing the rounds again I give you: a vow made twice

[buddieloustat]

We have lost the meaning of queerbait

[buddieloustat]

Just because what you wanted didn't happen, doesn't mean it's queerbaiting. It is now being used an excuse when the ship you want didn't get together. Queerbaiting has to do with marketing.

[shamebats]

Queerbait: A cookbook that you learned about from ads with pictures of people eating tasty looking soups and the author's social media posts about how soup lovers are going to love it, proves to have no soup recipes.

Not queerbait: A cookbook has no soup recipes. You assumed there would be some based on vibes and wishful thinking. No soups were ever advertised or promised.

Also not queerbait: A cookbook that was advertised as containing soup recipes has soup recipes but not for the types of soups you like.