#book diary

[whispers-inthelibrary]

my weekend with edith wharton 🖤

I hope for anyone who is reading this, that I wish july is a beautiful month for you.

[whatcannotbesaid-shallbewept]

Cold Comfort Farm is one of the funniest and best satirical novels ever written, and it's quietly female-gazey in a way I adore. The constant references to the Brontes and Austen are part of that.

Speaking of the Brontes: there's this scene where the sensible protagonist is trapped in a conversation with this guy that is writing a book about how Branwell secretly wrote all the Bronte novels, and his sisters were talentless drunkards. And he goes on for pages and pages about his Conspiracy theory and how Wuthering Heights must have been written by a man, while she has to smile and nod for politeness sake. And it is both:

1. Extremely accurate and funny, a great satire of some of the most annoying guys to ever live, and

2. One of the most infuriating things I've ever read!

Stella Gibbons was such an intelligent and talented woman.

Fun fact: when this book was released people said it must have been written by a man (Evelyn Waugh) and not her, because it was too good. Even though Stella literally makes fun of that type of guy in the book!!! Ridiculous!

[collaged-chapters]

The Exorcism of Faeries: a dark academia romance- J.L. Vampa

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

“You bind books when you’re upset?”

🫠 he has my artistic heart ♥️

Came for the faeries… stayed for Sonder…

And this book also made me reconsider the importance of cups 🙂‍↕️

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[betweenspinesandsunbeams]

I first read The Bad Beginning back in middle school, looking for something to fill the Harry Potter-shaped space between releases. I enjoyed it then, and rereading it now, I found myself thinking the same thing I did as a kid: why is no one listening to these children?

At the time, that felt normal. In so many books (and real life) from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, adults didn’t listen to children, didn’t believe them, didn’t intervene. That was just how stories worked. Coming back to it as an adult, though, that indifference feels much heavier.

What surprised me most this time was realizing how little time actually passes in this book. Everything happens over the span of two or three weeks, maybe a month at most. In that short time, the Baudelaires lose both parents, their home, and everything they own in a fire. They’re moved into a house that’s barely suitable for anyone, much less three grieving children, and placed in the care of a relative they’ve never met.

A relative who turns out to be controlling, abusive, heavy-drinking, and never home, while scheming to marry a fourteen-year-old girl for her dead parents’ fortune.

Reading it now, I couldn’t stop wondering how no one looked into Count Olaf before leaving three minor children in his care. No background check. No questions. Nothing. How did he even become a Count?

As unsettling as that is, I think rereading this helped me understand why this series mattered to me as a kid. It taught me early that children often have to be smart, observant, and resourceful when adults fail them. Violet and Klaus weren’t just clever characters. They were a kind of quiet instruction.

I didn’t notice that then. I do now.

Left open with coffee cooling, the timeline still unsettling, and the cat unimpressed. 📖☕🐈

[bl-mitchum]

Sometimes, I get the urge to start a book club. Then, I remember that involves… regularly meeting with people… to talk… and socialize. And I think— actually, maybe I’ll just keep a little diary about the books I read instead lol

[happypengirl]

Nicky found Franklin’s diary book in Franklin’s room. For @kissorkill17

Telling the truth in years ago.

1: His little brother name was Theodore Peterson called Ted or Theo.

2: Halloween masks called space, skeleton, ninja and witch.

Space = Leslie

Skeleton = The Mayor

Ninja = Gerda

Witch = Abanate

3: Bullies did for Ted fell in the hole and I failed my protect.

4: Ted died in station of weather and meteorology, but my parents are missing and I and my little sister Lisa alone.

5: I’m going to my revenge for bullies.

[swanmittens]

૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა 🦢🎀🍒🥣

. ྀི ⊹ “We never joke about bunnies, Bunny.”

⁺ ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ -Bunny by Mona Awad ⋆୨୧˚ ⋆

(My most favorite book ever)