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Artist Lucia Heffernan

when you decide to clean up your bookshelf and make it pretty and then you realize all the random crap you’ve collected over the years fits perfectly with the different books so you start arranging in near the books and it actually looks good 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

If yall can’t tell I redid my bookshelf today (debating putting up some pjo posters next to it) I used a bunch of random souvenirs and crap I found laying around. I’m looking for more stuff but for now it looks great (in my humble opinion)

the Percy Jackson section looks great and Aru shah has a little marble jewelry box I got from the Taj Mahal when I visited next to it

#ali rambles #Cleaning #reorganization #bookd #bookshelf #decoration #pjo #tpq

Me: I do not understand the hunger games and I will never like them or katniss

Also me: Will be supportive of my sister reading and loving the hunger games. But I'm cringing inside.

#anti hunger games #anti the hunger games #anti katniss #Maybe I just don't like ya and dystopia novels #But yeah I don't get the hype of hunger games or katniss #Overrated #Overrated fandom #bookd #Movies #my thoughts

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The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson

Hodgson is one of the authors that inspired H.P. Lovecraft's works. I love the type of horror in Lovecraft's stories, but I don't necesarry love Lovecraft. His stuff is really hit of miss for me, and I have been let down by quite a few of his works. So anytime I hear about something that might play around with a similar type of horror I am really curious to read it. I had never read anything by Hodgson, and I didn't know much about it, but I was fully sold by the very premises of this short novel. Pirates, ghosts, and the light horror of the early 1900s, is the perfect combo for me. Plus, if you know anything about me, I adore stories that take place in closed spaces where characters are trapped. Whether that is an island, an unreachable house, or a ship in the middle of the ocean, like in this case I just love this type of setting.

The story takes place on a "unlucky" ship, things seem to go on well at the very beginning of the trip, but slowly some sailors start to figure out that there are weird things happening, expecially at night. The chapters are short, and each one of them has at least one major event in it, so that you find yourself glued to the pages. I loved the way these weird events get bigger and bigger and add up to one another until the very end. It's a very simple story, don't expect anything too complicated, but I feel like it works perfectly because of that. It's a really good ghost story, and I loved the setting on a ship. At the beginning it was a bit hard to keep up with all the very specific words linked to the ship itself, because I am quite ignorant on the matter and I knew only the vary basis. After I got the hang of the vocabulary I had no issues. I must say it actually motiveted me to look for more supernatural stories set on ships, I really enjoyed it. It's not a scary story, although it's really interesting to see the terror slowly but surely plague the minds of the sailors. I definetly look forward to reading more stuff by Hosgson.