I’m Trying To Read

Alex | any pronouns Sometimes reading, occasionally distracted, usually indecisive. Almost exclusively on mobile, so please forgive the formatting atrocities.

[sometimesreading]

I‘ve been getting some new (non-bot!) followers recently, so here‘s a short introduction so y‘all know what to expect :)

I‘m Alexandra, any pronouns, and fully an adult for several years now (if you are a minor uncomfortable with that, feel free to unfollow)

My blog runs largely on a queue, but I‘m working on being a bit more present here again :) I used to entertain ideas of posting reviews, but tbh don’t really know how to go about it

I read a bit of everything, but tend to have genre phases. At the moment, I’m reading a lot of mystery, especially golden-age mystery. I also read quite a bit of sci-fi and fantasy. YA isn’t really my thing, so it’s mostly only here on queued aesthetic posts

[nerdy-cake]

JOMP book photo challenge

June 10 - books and sunshine

[ckristen97]

A beautiful read 🖤

[gailcarriger]

In case you want to play!

[luna-azzurra]

The most interesting question you can ask about any character is not what do they want. it's what do they believe they deserve. because those two things are almost never the same and the gap between them is where your entire story lives. a person can want love completely and believe they don't deserve it and that belief will destroy every good thing that comes toward them in ways they won't even notice they're doing. write the gap. the gap is the character.

[ecologie-txt]

6.8.24 | writing is better with help

[kairosrhys]

Which one is your favourite? 😊

[gustave-moreau-paintings]

-Sappho on the Cliff-

[galina]

A sunny workspace this morning. Sitting down to do some editing after an extra long weekend spent visiting a friend who lives at the seaside— chips on the beach, moseying around vintage shops, a half pint and kissing a framed banksy at the pub, the sea was shining turquoise

[thequeerlibrarian]

Lunch break in the library - part IV: A new Kafka edition

[how-to-get-away-with-study]

Trying to finish this degree. Last exam to go next week. Wish me luck! 🍀

And of course we must always study inside bookstore-cafes ☕

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || May 18 || Book Gradient:

[bookishfreedom]

got my first round of allergy shots yesterday and rewarded myself with a trip to half price books ❤️

[fagcrisis]

im about to maul someone.

[fagcrisis]

"stories dont need conflict" girl anything can be a conflict if ur story is about chickens going on adventures the conflict is the fucking fence they gotta hop over. if ur story is about making a lovely cup of tea the conflict can be turning on the stove. like u literally cannot write a story without conflict

[fagcrisis]

ALSO i hate mfers who say this shit and then go "thats why i like ghibli movies cuz theyve got no conflict" OH YOU MEAN HOWLS MOVING CASTLE, NAUSICAA, PRINCESS MONONOKEY CASTLE IN THE SKY ETC THAT ARE ALL ABOUT THE HORRORS OF WAR

[fagcrisis]

even the ones that arent about the horrors of war. in kiki's delivery service kiki growing up and learning to trust people and accept help is the central conflict of the story!! my neighbour totoro's central conflict is how the girls are dealing with their mom being sick and the responsibility they feel this puts on them!! i could go on!!

[eeby-deeby-dark-and-creepy]

[octobaba]

tags by @toastedpopsicle

[sixappleseeds]

princeton university press is having a 50% off sale and i limited myself to just three books but the temptation to go back and browse for more is extremely strong

so i'm telling you all about it instead. it goes until june 9!

[a-ramblinrose]

It's a Happy Birthday Comic Book Haul!!! 🎁

[jessaerys]

how do i say "horror novels these days are too woke" without sounding like a right winger. what i mean is: this one is about a woman serial killer who kills Bad Men, that one is about ~anticapitalist activists~, this one is ~queer~, that one is about *spins wheel* someone dealing with the ghosts of their immigrant roots, all of them are about intergenerational traumaaaaa. okay. cool. but is it good though. is it fucking scary

[jessaerys]

something something, losing the ability to convey horror through abstraction, through metaphor, through symbolism, through allegory, through raw unexamined un-psychiatrized feeling. if the real horror is.... dun dun dun! the patriarchy then i just feel preached to. don't use fiction as a vehicle for Saying Something About Society. write with total vulnerability and then see what it says. it will be probably be far more interesting and horrifying than what if the monster was uhh my mom's abuse or whatever. this brand of new horror writers are all so terrified of actually disclosing anything about themselves. it's like if an instagram infographic performance was a mediocre contemporary novel

[some-stars]

YOU ARE MAKING THE TEXT DO THE WORK OF ANALYSIS!!!!!!!