Reading Through Life

Avid reader, writer, and gamer. I tend to blog about whatever's occupying my headspace at the moment. I also still have no clue what I'm doing here. 

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[perpetuallyreading]

It's here! (Had to tape the side since it got a little damaged in the mail, but whatever. I'M SO READY.)

[torteen]

The Windwitch cover (and excerpt 💙💙💙) are here!

[perpetuallyreading]

Eeek so awesome!

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Normally I avoid spoilers like the plague, but I've been trolling the A Court of Mist and Fury tag for like a half hour and I do not regret that decision one bit. It makes me VERY glad I requested that book from the library.

[perpetuallyreading]

Sooooo I'm actually satisfied with this week's Game of Thrones? Shocker.

[books-and-cookies]

When I look at all the books I own, I realize that their value lies not in the money they cost, but in the feelings that they gave me, in the memories they left, in the good times I had while reading them, in the changes that they have caused in me. And I realize that they’re priceless.

[vigilantejustice]

y’all……. the simpsons predicted a donald trump presidency back in 1999

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[maggie-stiefvater-deactivated20]

[perpetuallyreading]

Pre-ordered The Raven King MONTHS ago, and now Amazon is telling me it’s out of stock. WTF AMAZON. What’s the point of pre-ordering if it’s going to be “out of stock” on release day?

Anyone else having this problem? To say I’m disappointed is a MASSIVE understatement. 

[fragments-shored]

The exact same email was waiting in my inbox this morning. I am crushed. About to call every bookstore within 20 miles of me to see if anyone has it in stock or can order it for me. I don’t want to reward Amazon’s bad behavior!

[fragments-shored]

A happy resolution: indie bookstore in the neighborhood doesn’t have a copy of TRK in stock, but can place an expedited order and have it for me tomorrow. Amazon order: CANCELLED.

Hope you’re able to land a copy too, @perpetuallyreading!

[perpetuallyreading]

Glad you're able to snag a copy! Sadly my closest indie is about an hour away, but it looks like my local Barnes and Noble has it in stock. Crossing my fingers!

[perpetuallyreading]

Pre-ordered The Raven King MONTHS ago, and now Amazon is telling me it’s out of stock. WTF AMAZON. What’s the point of pre-ordering if it’s going to be “out of stock” on release day?

Anyone else having this problem? To say I’m disappointed is a MASSIVE understatement. 

[jimmyoffthehook-deactivated2017]

[theclearlydope]

BRB.. my planet needs me. 

[maggie-stiefvater-deactivated20]

the raven king countdown → day two

favorite character ronan lynch 

Just lie, I told myself. Say anyone but Ronan. They’re all going to expect you to say Ronan. You want to be predictable? Craft an elegant lie! 

But I couldn’t. 

My real favorite in this series is the dynamic — the spaces between all of the characters — but if I have to choose, it’s Ronan. I’m sure the internet believes that he’s my favorite because he is the most like me (which, yes, fine, everyone likes stories about themselves), or because he is the “coolest” (I’m so pleased that a sullen gay boy who loves small animals and wants to live on a rural farm forever is the current cultural standard for cool). But really, he would have always been my favorite because he is the oldest. Not age-wise — he’s the second youngest, actually, of the group — but storywise. 

When I began writing these books as a teen, the story was Ronan’s story alone. There was no Gansey, no Adam, no Blue. No Welsh kings. There was the farm, the dreaming father, the dreamed mother, the dreaming son. What was the world to you if you were an impossible thing? What did you do with society if society didn’t know what to do with you? It was only after multiple scrambling iterations over nearly a decade that the rest of the Raven Cycle’s sprawling appeared, subsuming Ronan’s plotline. 

But even now — he’s still the heart. Ronan’s magic is still the oldest and most unchanging. During the writing of the current version of the Raven Cycle, every piece of magic in the series still turned its face to the rules of his magic for its marching orders. It will be weird to say goodbye to him at the end of this. 

(Lover tells me, “oh, please, I still have to live with Ronan everyday.”)

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

WHEN A BOOK DOESN’T LIVE UP TO THE HYPE

It’s just like:

[boneseasonofglasss]

When you promise yourself that you’re gonna stop buying so many books but then you buy more anyway:

[perpetuallyreading]

I am in one hell of a slump right now. The last 3 books I've picked up are so MEH, and I don't know if it's me or the book or what.

Send help.

[tastefullyoffensive]

Get your sh*t together. (poster by mistafrieds)