#annhilation

[areaxborne]

Celestial Whales by Cristian Alberto Vasquez

[areaxborne]

Andrew Del Valle gahhhhhhhhhhh BORNE AND MORD

[areaxborne]

Carolane Bruneau - because this reminded me a bit of the scene in Borne where rachel and Borne had to hide

[thebeedleboat]

I was fully on board with the whole 'tunnel is a tower' thing in Annihilation but as soon as she was wondering what lay at the base of the tower, she lost me.

I don't know why that was the unreasonable part, but I was all 'tower, but underground - lighthouse, but inverted. A different perspective but 100% a valid one' and the book is just like 'nope! enter at the top at ground level and travel down to the base'. The tower isn't upside down?! Absolute madness.

[junegoose]

I finally found it!! It took me five local bookstores to finally find one that had it in stock, but Annihilation is officially next on the TBR

[blueandyellow-7]

If you're thinking about watching annihilation, don't. It starts so good and then decides to just waste all your damn time. Like this is the first movie I watched that was so bad it made me mad asf DONT WATCH IT!!

[magpiesbones]

like it’s SO funny also as a purposeful inversion of the typical action genre all male cast like all the characters are women and they’re killing each other with guns and the pov character has a fridged spouse who was the life of the party to her taciturn coldness before Coming Back Wrong. Its extremely 2014 but it does genuinely amuse me.

[dinosaurana]

One of the cooler things that’s happened recently in my life is a re-discovery of a love of books. I’ve been collecting and hoarding, sure. And I was reading the occasional book out of it. But lately!

It started with The Haar by David Sodergreen. I picked this up to help shipping with my phone case (unfortunately an incorrect size), but I decided “Hey why not read this first instead of adding it to The Stack?”

And what I was greeted with might be one of my favorite cosmic horror tales I’ve read, along with arguably one of my favorite romance stories I’ve ever read. A full review is due later, but I gotta say it’s a breath of fresh air.

A week passed, a birthday happened and I scored a new stack of books. But before I put them on the shelf, I was going to actually read them. That night, I had to wait for some laundry for work and cracked the smallest among them, and was hooked. The Rats by James Herbert made me genuinely afraid of rats* in a way I never understood before. Visceral, violent, and leaves no one safe. And despite being a novel from 1974, actually had a full on gay character in it. He got eaten by rats, but so did a rather large amount of people that London society had chosen to leave in the gutters proverbially speaking. Worth the read if you get the chance.

*Note: I’m

Annihilation was a book on my radar long before I grabbed this horde. Ever since I saw the movie, I had been meaning to get my hands on a copy of it. And what I found was a weird and yet wonderful journey into the bizarre, the self and more. Surprisingly different from the movie in a lot of ways, and yet not so much in others. Not necessarily incongruously either, like one happened after the other. But the way scene was given in this one is going to influence me for a good bit

And I’m already on the next one! Like I haven’t been this engrossed into reading since I was a kid going to the library every Monday and just devouring novels whole. Like if you had that passion, it’s still there! You just have to uncover it from the distractions and delve in headfirst.