smitty reads

*this is my bookish side blog* currently reading: The Eyes Are The Best Part [main blog: captainsara]

[tereceratops]

Some The Devils stickers I made for whatsapp.

[samirant]

“You’re a vampire,” snapped Brother Diaz. “Of course you hate the church.”

“On the contrary, I’m a great admirer of the tenets of your religion. I merely find it a shame that ‘the saved’ are, as a rule, so little like their savior.”

The Devils, Joe Abercrombie

[to-theverge]

-> 📖 and now, back to you by bk borison

[smittyreads]

I met my reading goal (barely) of 50 books this year. While I didn't surpass last year's total or have as many top reads as I normally do, I still had a few standout reads. 📚

🥇The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon

🥈Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Honorable Mentions:

🎖Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

🎖The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas

[razreads]

A home can only exist in a moment. Something both found and made. Always temporary, in the grand scheme of things, but vital all the same.

Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

[ourwishesonstars]

Just finished to be taught if fortunate and I think Becky Chambers holds too much power, but like, in a good way

[mediacircuspod]

Thank you Andy Weir for giving me a crybaby hero. Ryland Grace saves the whole world and he cries while he does it, like, all the time. I love him. Feel your emotions babe, literally everything that’s happening to you is so so traumatic.

[animezinglife]

Istvhan: I have to be more careful. I'm such an idiot. I'm a huge guy and I never want a woman to feel intimidated by that or like she doesn't have power in this situation. Or any situation. Why am I even thinking about that situation?! Clara: [bludgeons bandits over the head and manhandles him into a wall] Istvhan:

[awhekate]

(puts all the Saint of Steel's paladins in my pocket and rattles them around)

just finished all four currently existing Saint of Steel books and I keep thinking about all these guys

[9fruit]

Started using phone time to read library ebooks instead of scrolling and it’s made me back into the crazy voracious reader I was at age 12. i’ve been averaging a book a day this week. everyone delete your social media and get your ass on libby

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can be trusted in bookstores and libraries and you should take me to those locations

[carys-the-ninth]

"Was this book good or was I deeply 19 when I read it:" an investigative journalism series

[sandumilfshous]

ive read the first 6 murderbot books in the last three days is this accurate

[myth-myth-yeth]

I’m only two books into T. Kingfisher’s Saint of Steel series and I think the Temple of the White Rat might be my favorite fictional religious order ever.

Their mandate seems to be just “do good,” lowercase g.

Feed the hungry. Tend the sick. House the homeless.

Temple lawyers to help with civil and criminal problems.

[smokefalls]

I thought of how the world can be anything and how sad it is that it’s this.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

[raptorific]

Suzanne Collins really has the protocol down. On average twice a decade she writes a press release that's like "in one year there will be a new book and in two years there will be a movie based on said book. Here is the one philosopher I'll be referencing, and here is what upset me this time on the news enough to write another book. Enjoy!" and then she collects her millions, drops another banger, and doesn't go on twitter ever

[lilithsaur]

The Emily Wilde series by @heather_fawcett is such a charming series! I loved it so much! I specially liked Emily's love for shadow, her dog😭❤️❤️ Wendell's wedding present had me shedding real tears!! Anyways, I wanted to do art for them before I go back into my crate :)