#book post

[kebbuck]

Finally got my hands on Sir Cameron!!! I’m literally so excited to read this book. Johnathan Battlepass is also excited for me to read it you can see it in his eyes.

[yourfavouritebookseller]

Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher

On the TBR

[macaulaytwins]

Richard Papen winter

[bookaddict24-7]

Weekend Getaways, Friends, and Books in the Fall 🍁🍂

[bluehaired-boy]

I have to write this rant about the Shepherd King Duology. Because I re-read it and let me tell you; it's one of the best series I've read in ages. The characters, the world building and the writing just pulls you in. I finished both the books in one sitting. All the characters are just so damn loveable with their quirks and signs. And there are a few relationship dynamics that just tug at your heart.

Elm and Elspeth's love hate relationship.

Ravyn and Elspeth's passionate relationship, such that even distance and a king cannot dull it.

Elspeth's father giving her a yarrow every nameday and during the wedding

Elm saying he's better looking than Ravyn

The nightmare constantly thinking everyone is dumb

The nightmare caring for Elspeth like his own child

The nightmare choosing Elspeth over his own descendant

The nightmare saying something and then Ravyn being like "she didn't say that"

The rhymes that are sprinkled throughout the book

The shepherd king's Revenge

Ione's gentle determination and kindness

The shepherd king's kids begging him to come spend time with them

The way the nightmare describes every single character with their respective tree oof.

And this is just off the top of my head. The world building, the Providence cards, the magic system. It was so unique. And the plot twist was literally Chekhov's gun. And the quote "He has looked pain in the eye - and refused to let it make a monster of him". Rachel gillig, the woman you are.

[mangotalkies]

organised all my books today - a day well spent

[gorybomb]

The men of Jackass were frequently, nakedly homoerotic; they were dorky, skinny, more like boys who would be bullied than the alpha males most often seen meting out punishment […] none of them leading men or heartthrobs, all of them cheerfully, grungily fatalistic. These men loved each other madly and fraternally, occasionally kissing, their desire for proximity appearing to arise from the muddling of terror and eroticism inherent in being made aware of one's mortality — what the art critic Leo Steinberg described as "the condition of being both deathbound and sexed."

- Which As You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment, Philippa Snow