Bookish things and reviews

I like to read. I read a variety of things - sci-fi, romances, fiction, YA, fantasy, memoirs, essays, poems, fanfiction, contemporary - You name it, I'll read it! I consider myself a book dragon hoarding her piles of #mounttbr list and books in the hopes of reading it all one day. ONE DAY... This is a Side Blog; All follows will be from @pleasepleasepleaseme Besides reviewing whatever book I might be reading, you'll find other bookish things here.Nerd out with me on here!

[mariakureads]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[macrolit]

Personal library of Richard A. Macksey, retired professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University.

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Knives Out Meets The Secret Garden: Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews

I’m officially obsessed with C.G. Drews’s brand of environmental/forest horror. There’s just something intoxicating about the way she blends lush, lyrical writing with creeping dread and botanical menace. Hazelthorn feels like it’s set in the same eerie world as Don’t Let the Forest In (or maybe dreamed up by Andrew and Thomas), but it never feels like a repeat. Instead, it’s as though Drews…

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[johannathedreamer]

Some important books 🌿

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[kanerallels]

The North and South miniseries is great, it's like *devastating event* *labor law violations* *gray shot of a graveyard* *social commentary* *Richard Armitage brooding* *the main characters have yet another devastating misunderstanding and one of them stalks away with great emotion while the most amazing score plays in the background* *Brendan Coyle* *yet another devastating event*

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

re my "read books that make you feel stupid" post: reading books you don't fully understand is probably the safest way to push yourself outside your comfort zone. you don't have to embarrass yourself in front of anyone. you can do it from your cozy bed. you can easily get help from book clubs or literary analysis online. you can go as slowly as you want. there's literally no risk.

[lauralot89]

Stoker: *writes Lucy Westenra to be the perfect, innocent, unblemished lamb whose absolute purity makes her a target for pure evil, a character whom everyone else in the narrative adores*

Dracula adaptations/spinoffs/reimaginings, for some reason:

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[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

#know your fandom history

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[ceilavies]

Green Apple Books , San Francisco

[werewolf-transgenderism]

medieval pride parade!

(prints)

[queerliblib]

this is so freaking cute

have some medieval queer books to go with:

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Haigiography

Hild by Nicola Griffith

Nicked by M.T. Anderson

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some people don’t deserve fanfics, much less for free.

also even if authors didn’t tag any specific warnings but they used the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” tag, then that is your warning.

“omg you should’ve —” no one forced your entitled ass to read anything. fanfic writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. if you don’t like what you’re reading, quietly leave. ao3 is not an airport. no one cares about your departure so no need to announce it.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love ao3 exactly how it is and you don’t want it to “update” or change in any way♡