Obviously Books

We read a little bit of everything, then we take pictures and talk about it. I have a ghost admin that blogs something once every few months. Stick around and you might see her.

[obviouslybooks]

What the fuck do you mean The Song of Achilles is 15 years old?

[dragonbadgerbooks]

Books & Cupcakes October Photo Challenge: Oct. 29 - Lots of Candy

Does anyone else remember Claudia from the Babysitter’s Club having a massive sweet tooth?

[reemillustrated]

snoopy encourages you to buy a new book!

[drchucktingle]

less than a month until LUCKY DAY is out. thank you for all the buckaroo preorders i am blown away by your support WE ARE CRASHING INTO THE MAINSTREAM FULL SPEED AHEAD. if you have not preordered yet then LETS GET TROTTIN. i cannot tell you how much this helps:

Lucky Day

“An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights."—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Master

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Persuasion (1995)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onJul 12, 2025

[obviouslybooks]

i guess you could say i was persuaded.

[cowboyhatesithere]

Enough about favorite books. What’s a book you read and absolutely hated? The book you’ve got a bone to pick with.

[logarithmicpanda]

It doesn't even look like an augmented human

[obviouslybooks]

I tried so hard to give the show a chance. Murderbot has been my whole personality since All Systems Red, so I knew I would have to see the books and show as two separate things but.. eugh °~°

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Persuasion (1995)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onJul 12, 2025

[helenvaughans]

📢📢📢

[krakenartificer]

Need to preserve @oma-goodness’s tags

#also - what good a book is going to do when you’re hungry and homeless:#let you go to another world for just a little while#give you hope#teach you new ways to cope#give you new perspectives#and that’s just fiction#non-fiction gives you resource beyond resource#which you can’t understand properly if you can’t read

There is a reason so many of us with traumatic childhoods are bookworms. Life was unbearable. Books allowed us leave our lives in a way that was safe.

I’m not saying everyone has to have the same coping mechanisms as I do. But acting like those coping mechanisms don’t matter, or haven’t saved lives? That’s not a useful position.

[obviouslybooks]

When i was hungry and homeless, I went to the gd library. It was warm (or cool) when I needed it, sometimes had snacks, and had a computer for me to fill out job applications online (which I absolutely needed literacy to complete).

[grbsng]

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

-Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

[milliexxreads]

[obviouslybooks]

Bad news guys,

I went to Book Barn today for my used books fix and I fear we lost a baddie...

[dunhilll]

[obviouslybooks]

I've been reading Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson and it's giving me hella parallels of me and my toxic relationships with Scorpio women. Also I'm 99% sure I knew the twist from 14 pages in. I will be VERY surprised if I'm wrong.

[obviouslybooks]

I've decided Ro is a leo and Ash is a scorpio

[obviouslybooks]

I've been reading Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson and it's giving me hella parallels of me and my toxic relationships with Scorpio women. Also I'm 99% sure I knew the twist from 14 pages in. I will be VERY surprised if I'm wrong.

[myjetpack]

my latest cartoon for New Scientist.

[carys-the-ninth]

The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity