I want to be reading

stuff about my favorite books and book related inquires

[silmaspens]

Don’t mind me I’ve just been playing fast and loose with family trees :)

[incorrect-lotr-trash]

Gandalf: I’m a nice person. I only threw a hobbit in a trash can once. Aragorn: Please tell me you didn’t actually throw a hobbit in a trash can. Gandalf: I did. Aragorn: Was it Pippin? Gandalf: It was Pippin.

[unnamedelement]

Part 3: This Elf and This Dwarf *Might* Be Gay

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Let’s sail into the West together—no homo! (LesbiReal, tho, they are—in the most conservative interpretation of the facts—at least enjoying a QPR or an exceptionally romantic friendship.)

they’re in love, your honor

[woolsheepy]

[eldamaranquendi]

Lord of the Rings by https://www.instagram.com/willdreamflyer/

Tatiana Kholopenko

[theradioghost]

my favorite genre is “kitchen sink” tbqh. yes i want your metaphysical space opera Gothic haunted house horror-comedy. yes i want your medieval road trip heist mystery. give me time traveling werewolves and noir detective robots teaming up to fight alien supervillains. i want this sundae with every topping in the shop

[headspace-hotel]

This post expresses my desires. Give Me The Weird

[ninja-muse]

Something More Than Night by Ian Tregillis - pitch-perfect noir mystery set in dystopian Heaven, also there are time slips

Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin - super Jewish historical fiction featuring the Spanish Inquisition, star-crossed lovers, and Caribbean piracy, as narrated by an African Grey parrot

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin - New York City becomes self-aware and embodied in the minds of select, random people, is instantly attacked by Lovecraftian entity, starts with battle against tentacle monster that’s won with an umbrella and an antique taxi to give you some idea.

Eifelheim by Michael Flynn - alien first contact in medieval Germany, features quantum drives, the synchronicity of medieval philosophy and scientific knowledge, a battle against the town down the mountain, and the Black Death

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire - found family, telepathy, time travel, alchemy, deconstruction of portal fantasies, ancient Greek ideas about math, music, and the nature of the universe, and also a spin on Frankenstein

His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik - alternate Regency England where they have a dragon air force (but so does Napoleon). Continue the series to get international travel and the dragons unionizing to get their “human” rights.

Among Others by Jo Walton - epistolary boarding school coming of age novel that doubles as a classic SF rec list and also there are fairies and the MC can do magic

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson - science fiction with super-advanced nanotech where everyone lives in gated community-countries based on Aesthetic™ and also there’s an orphan girl who gets a talking book (made by Neo-Victorians) that changes her life

Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica - new adult portal fantasy about a nature photographer, with coming-of-age vibes, magic, a water world where almost everyone lives on tall ships, and ecological themes

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - mystery novel set in a 1980s with rampant literary fandom, cloned dodos, an apparent national dislike of toast, featuring a detective who’s tasked with rescuing Jane Eyre from a terrorist who wants to erase it from history, and that’s only skimming the surface of the weirdness

[headspace-hotel]

These sound great

[quicksandblock]

I literally cannot recommend the Temeraire series enough. do you love dragons? do you hate colonialism? PLEASE read Temeraire

[iwantyoutostony]

haven't thought you would like the first one, but there's the second part of Denis Gordeev's 'the witcher'

[doriangraysuggests]

[merle-casts-zone-of-truth]

Wilde we know you’re gay but please

[exhaled-spirals]

“When I was nine years old, the world, too, was nine years old. At least, there was no difference between us, no opposition, no distance. We just tumbled around from sunrise to sunset, earth and body as alike as two pennies. And there was never a harsh word between us, for the simple reason that there were no words at all between us; we never uttered a word to each other, the world and I. Our relationship was beyond language—and thus also beyond time. We were one big space (which was, of course, a very small space).”

— Inger Christensen, The Condition of Secrecy

[eye-may]

a quick-ish drawing, born of this quote from the two towers:

“Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger. Frodo’s face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiseling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: “I love him. He’s like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no.”

To save the inevitable confusion: these obviously aren’t the movie characters. I draw Frodo with light hair and Sam with dark hair. That’s just my interpretation of how they’re described in the books.

[catchymemes]

[imalreadydashingthroughtheno]

[missjukebox8bit]

Most corporate social media accounts use memes to try and appear hip with the kids so they’ll buy their product but the Sparknotes twitter account is clearly just run by a literature geek who was told they could make memes about old books and is having the time of their life doing just that

[novelnotice]

I would like to materialize into a Jane Austen novel.

[novelnotice]

Authors really saw Mr. Darcy and were like 'yes, the women want a bad boy who is rich, unkind, and emotionally distant.'

Like no. Mr. Darcy is socially awkward sasquatch who loves his feisty Elizabeth with all his heart. That's what women want.

[webcomicname]

[novelnotice]

The best thing about the 2005 Pride and Prejudice is they decided that no one has a molecule of social skills.

Mr. Darcy? Awkward, wants to crawl into a hole.

Elizabeth? Awkward, wants a book.

Mr. Bingley? Just wants a conversation to work.

No one knows how to function in social places and it's so relatable and so nice to watch real people.