[offshoreoilrig]

Last night was a thousand year old scrap of linen paper painstakingly re-assembled by a team of archeologists

[oonpy]

Congratulations it’s a hi

[eebie]

STUFF AND NONSENSE!

[harrietvane]

“Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin (via jayemichaela)

[sobcat]

[ch4momile]

I've been addicted to playing papers please

[qrgirl-deactivated20220303]

anybody else having coffee rn lol...probably not. its a little underground

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

[1five1two]

Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, England.

[thegivenchythree]

Lupita Nyong'o in Chanel Couture 97th Annual Academy Awards

[exitwound]

Youre a mollusk and something potentially bad or scary gets inside you what do you do. Make a pearl around it. Okay. okay

[eatpussypraylove]

I love treating each stage of my life with care and respect even if I don’t like it at the time. So I can look back later and know I didn’t take it for granted. And refusing to be jealous of where others are at. It’s a self-respect thing

[ch4momile]

I've been eyeing some Le guin Library of America editions for a while, i really want to get the complete poetry edition at some point... & i only found out a few days ago that they're releasing earthsea editions this fall and they look sooo cool i want these badly

[ch4momile]

hi sweetieeeee. 2, 4 & 8 for the book asks!

Hiii darling!!!

2) top 5 books of all time

That's so difficult omg...!! the list is really subject to change...

the left hand of darkness

homer's iliad

sir gawain and the green knight

fellowship of the ring

the name of the rose

4) what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

I said in another ask I browse kind of everything except romance, crime & cookbooks but the truth is i most often browse the "english section" where everything is just kind of mixed together LOL!!!

8) what is the first book you remember reading yourself?

I loved kid detective novels as a young child but i vividly remember reading eragon during the fourth grade summer school program at my primary school and the fourth eragon book was the first ever book i preordered at a bookstore with my mama! Exciting!!

[ch4momile]

6+11+14 for book asks :3

6) what books have you read in the last month?

Last month i read marguerite yourcenar's Fires and seamus heaney's translation of Beowulf!

11) what non-fiction books do you like if any?

I don't read non-fiction that often! some i thought were interesting are 1. Smoke gets in your eyes & other lessons from the crematory (doughty), 2. Ghostland: an american history in haunted places (dickey), 3. Living with men (garcia)

14) do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?

Yes often :P!

[ch4momile]

4, 8, 9, 12, 20? 🤸‍♀️📖

4) what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

Literary fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, poetry, classics, history...basically everything except romance, crime & the random sections like cookbooks

8) what is the first book you remember reading yourself?

Hmmm...for childrens books it's so difficult, I remember reading lots of kid detective novels like TKKG, Fünf freunde, Tiger Team but I don't know what came first 🤔 first one where i really remember asking for something specific was when a friend in primary school recommended eragon 🙂‍↕️

9) when do you tend to read most?

During a free afternoon/evening!

12) did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

Yesss i liked Macbeth and The sorrows of young werther!

20) what are things you look for in a book?

Hmmm great prose/language, an interesting idea that's expanded upon in a unique way, complex characters...it also depends a bit on the genre, in litfic the prose matters more to me than the characters and in sci-fi/fantasy i also enjoy a grounded, well constructed world...:P

[ch4momile]

12, 19 & 21*

*secret 21st question: if you were to write a book with me as main character, what would be the genre/plot :3

12) did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

Yes, most, my favorites were Macbeth & The sorrows of young werther!

19) most disliked popular books?

R.f. kuang's novels...

21) if you were to write a book with me as main character, what would be the genre/plot

Cute illustrated children's book about the little sobcat on an adventure to get a yummy vanilla iced latte!