#book posts

[theres-rue-for-you]

gaston leroux being the most unserious writer moments in TPOTO:

-raoul scaling down a tree to see Christine while she’s roaming the moors at night mid breakdown

-one of the opera staff claims that christine has friends plotting against Carlotta, to which another staff member goes “christine has friends?”

-gaston describes a toad coming out of Carlotta’s mouth and then goes “lmao I’m just messing that didn’t actually happen” what a troll

-the unnamed narrator holding Richard’s hand for and I quote “a few minutes” because he saw the opera ghost and got scared

-raoul straight up crying during a performance because christine sounds nervous

[appleinducedsleep]

going-to-work starter kit

[br0jangles]

rolling around in all the good books ive gotten to read since ive started reading again (about a year and a half)

ive only got twenty 5 stars but like!!!! thats TWENTY books!! without even counting the 4+ star books

the way i wish i could read some of these for the first time again, like song of achilles? that book came to me like an angel from the heavens. a friend lent it to me unprompted, said "you would like this" so i read it without even reading the blurb on the back. the way that book had a GRIP ON ME.

and bone rites? the sad and tragic tale of a violent haunting? with lesbians? and brocon? please, please let me read it again.

[adventures-of-shannonbookworm]

SEJANUS IS A CINNAMON ROLL 

Bookstagram  Booktube

[ijustkindalikebooks]

How to Recommend a Book

Engage with the reader. Tell them why you think they’ll like a book. And never suggest just one.

When Saricks was stumped, she often led patrons into the library stacks, where book spines would spur ideas and conversation. “My colleague used to say, ‘The books know when you’re desperate''.

[considersparrows]

In his wild black gaze, the girl saw a different truth: A dead martyr was less trouble than a living Saint.

—Siege & Storm, Leigh Bardugo

[carpediemncoffee]

‘i never loved your mind’ by paul zindel is under appreciated and not known well enough