Kathrine's Book Blog

I just really love books | 19 years old | Currently reading: Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susannah Clarke | Most of my posts are queue posts

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9/3/19

The weather has been awful lately but the sun finally came out today – I couldn’t resist taking a few photos of my bookshelf 📚

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my bookstagram: paperbackbones

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This is Henry Montague and he is NOT thinking about Percy. I read The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and I loved it 😊 It was so funny! I also have some drawings of Percy ready which I will post later~

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“I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.”

— Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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do u ever buy new books and say fuck it to your whole TBR pile…

currently reading: To Kill A Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

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Amy Santiago, the cutest nerd.

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the two main dark academia aesthetics

The Secret History: set features, eyes the color of dead souls, bad decisions, pills scattered on oak wood desks, being booksmart but not streetsmart, candles melting wax atop a piano, wine bottles knocked over on the floor, Persian rugs with speckles of blood, a friend barging in at odd hours of the night, shattered antique mirrors, walks around the lake on a rainy day, studying Greek in the library at 3 am., long dark scarves, being a normally contained person until one night you go crazy and have a bacchanal, jewel tones, tea in small china cups, playing a Chopin nocturne lazily in the morning, tweed, switching from speaking English to Greek or Latin randomly, deserted snowy streets, watching a sunrise while eating maraschino cherries, indigo skies, speaking in such a pretentious way that no one even understands you, cigarettes still burning in ashtrays, obsession over studies

Kill Your Darlings: being a good person but getting corrupted, setting fire to the city, stealing from a library, whiskey breath, kissing anyone you see, eyes like flames, mentally troubled, taking psychedelics, poetry after adventures, going crazy one night and stabbing someone, not caring, or pretending not to care, dressing in clothes that were once nice but now are frayed, crooked glasses, sex with whomever you please, laying in a bathtub for no reason, loud music, getting what you want at all costs, falling asleep on the streets, muted colors, having much too strong opinions, obsession over death

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Neverending TBRs 📚📚📚

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Well look! It’s my reading pile for February!

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Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien. ♡

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W I T C H L A N D S

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Birb Things

Birbber on Etsy

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I think one of my favorite aspects of the Six of Crows duology is the fact that Kaz and Inej do not end up together.

And that’s not because I don’t ship them.

It’s because Inej, unlike so many YA heroines, isn’t what “heals” Kaz. Her love doesn’t magically fix him or make him a better person. He wants to change for her– he wants to get over his phobia of human touch. He wants her to love him. But it isn’t some overnight happening. He doesn’t suddenly overcome his affliction because of his love for her.

In the end, Kaz is still morally ambiguous, sometimes outright corrupt, and still has severe PTSD trauma.

And while Inej might love Kaz despite those things, she is not willing to lower her worth to accept them in a relationship. “I will have you without your armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”

That was one of the most powerful YA heroine lines to her love interest that I’ve ever read. So many fictional girls (and real girls, for that matter) stay in the hopes of fixing a man, of healing his brokenness. Inej wants to heal him, but she understands that she cannot. Only Kaz can heal himself. Only he can want it enough to change. And it won’t be some overnight affair. Wanting to change and actually changing are two entirely different things. Kaz will have to go through agonizing changes if he ever wants to grow.

So far, he has accepted that he is the “demon of the barrel”. He still wants to burn the world down. He is still angry and hurting. He talks about wondering why over the years, with every violent turn his life takes, why his phobia has only gotten worse. It’s because he’s let himself rot in it. He’s stripped any and all goodness in the world down to the barest threads.

That’s why he is not ready for Inej. Inej, who might have her own issues and flaws, but who still has hope for a better world. Who is still willing to fight for it.

It’s not Kaz’s inability to touch her that she wants him to work on. It’s his mindset. His finality in the evil in his heart and his acceptance of it. He will never get over his phobia until he can understand goodness, the goodness of touch, the goodness of man.

And Inej will not accept him while he still holds on to that armor of hatred. And I think that is beautiful. It is healthy. It shows a level of self-respect that is often sadly absent from our fiction today.

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sometimes i wish i could waterspray my brain, like no. bad brain, no more self deprecating thoughts

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A Thanksgiving gift from me to you. Of the many things I’m thankful for, I’m so grateful to have discovered @rainbowrowell’s Carry On and this amazing community. I hope you enjoy this series. It feels a bit personal for me, as there’s a bit of me in every expression on the page. So consider yourself seduced. ;)

Title: “Cross Every Line”

Description: The final scene of Chapter 64 from Carry On, in which Baz resists Simon - to no avail.

About the Art: I tried to use the sentence “I’d cross every line for him” as inspiration for this series. Throughout the comic, you’ll notice Baz’s inner monologue slicing through the panels as a means to demonstrate the power of Baz’s feelings for Simon against Baz’s facade. Hence, his thoughts cross lines all over the place. The panels themselves eventually succumb to this motif, with his memories of the night before cutting in so dramatically, they take up the bulk of the spread. The final spread pushes this theme to a resolution as Simon and Baz’s embrace is splayed across two panels, ending with both of them sharing the final panel together - and unlike all the other monologue boxes, which cut into the panels, Baz’s declaration of love is smack in the panel beside them.

I made sure to chronicle this process, so I hope to have that to share with you guys next week. Also, I know there are asks waiting in my inbox - I promise to get to them soon. :)

In the meantime, Happy Thanksgiving, American friends. And happy November to the rest of you.

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Go figure this image would be shared nearly 1400 times before I realize I posted a slightly unfinished panel! aaweiofjaoweifhagfjskl!! 

This is the fixed version. (Simon’s collar was slightly “under-done” in the 4th spread and missing the green stripe. But not anymore!)

OMG, I’m so thrilled and humbled by everyone’s response to this series. Thank you guys so much. I am dancing. <3