#bookish asks

[inlovewithquotes]

If you could have any two things happen in the next book related to the story or not, what would it be?

Lol first and foremost, Lucien finding out that As has a one sided beef with him, and enjoying every minute of it.

Second, any or all scenes we've seen in past books with eluicen from their pov. It could be a flashback or them simply thinking back on it etc.

Because I still want to know what was going on through Elain's head when she took that half step at the top of the stairs. Or what was going on through Luicen's when he saw on top of the stairs.

But I think I'd kill to find out what Elain was thinking and feeling when she said "His name is Lucien."

[godzilla-reads]

Ten Bookish Asks

1. What is one book you DON’T want to read this year? What’s one book on your hate list?

2. Do you have an author you wish were still alive?

3. What’s an older (more than 30 years old) book you’re looking forward to reading?

4. Are you trying to read more fiction, nonfiction, or poetry this year?

5. If you had to assign a book to a follower/mutual, who and what book?

6. If you could give a book to a parent/parent figure, what book would you give?

7. Do you plan to read politically this year? How do you plan to do this?

8. Can you read while listening to music? If you can, make a playlist of 5 songs you like to read to. If you can’t, what’s your favorite composer?

9. What book would you suggest to someone in a reading slump if they asked for a recommendation?

10. What’s your favorite flower? Post a book cover that has the same aesthetic as your flower.

[materassassino]

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13. Name a book with a really bad movie/tv adaption

Spoilt for choice in this category, aren't we? God... Well, the Hobbit, of course, the Jackson Hobbit trilogy is awful. Back when I was like 16 and still liked Eragon I definitely hated the Eragon movie, that was atrocious, my friend and I spent the entire ride home complaining about it at length. The Kenneth Branagh version of Murder on the Orient Express was genuinely fucking offensive to Poirot, I remember coming out of the cinema with the friends I'd seen it with and we all just stared at each other in horror (I mean, once you've seen David Suchet is there any other Poirot possible?).

WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Jesus fucking Christ lock her away for that.

Bookish asks!

[moon0fairy]

🦑 + 🐜 !!

Hii, thanks for the ask🥰

🐜 Favorite book series?

Has to be the locked tomb series by tamsyn muir and the legendborn cycle by tracy deonn, love them both🫶 and I‘m waiting on the final books for both of these and it‘s agony!!!

🦑What’s a genre you don’t read often?

Definitely horror, I‘m also not a big fan of thrillers either so I usually avoid these. I don‘t like romance that much either but I have enjoyed a few, if they‘re queer🙂‍↕️

I rarely read sci-fi but I would love to get into it more

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books ask

4 or 8

hi there! thanks for the ask! referencing this post.

4. what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

i always zip right over to the sci-fi section first, if the have it pulled out and separate. i will peruse a combo spec fic area, but i prefer when sci-fi stands alone (i don't like wading through epics or romantasy). then usually horror, and if it's a little shop i'll wander through lit fic, because sometimes weird shit winds up there too.

8. what's the first book you remember reading by yourself?

wow, so i gotta preface this with: my memory is shit lol. my most vivid early book memories are Animorphs-coded, but that's just Rewired Brain talking. i do also remember sobbing over STONE FOX in third grade, by myself, in a full classroom, because we were a Bad Class and had to do way too much shit silently and separately (third grade was a fucked up year for me). i vaguely remember Beverly Cleary in third grade, too (vividly remembering asking my student teacher how to pronounce "Kleenex" and what it meant lol. but when he told me it was Kleenex i was like...jk i know what that means)

[aliteraryprincess]

Hello! Have you read any 5-star books recently? Or a book that surprised you? :)

Hi!

I finished Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens a few days ago and that was 5 stars. Definitely one of his best.

I also gave 5 stars to Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, which I just read for the first time (I know I'm kind of late to the party haha). And it surprised me! I've had a lot of issues with fantasy dark academia books lately because I feel like it just uses the aesthetics instead of engaging in the themes. So that's what I expected from Ninth House, but I was completely wrong. And I was quite happy to be wrong!

And before that I read Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor which blew me away! It was my first book by her, and I usually don't like sci-fi. But it was amazing!

[godofhonse]

Book questions 2 & 27!

2: what book are you currently reading? I'm currently reading "the house of the seven gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. House is pretty good but also kinda dense, but the writing is witty enough that it carries it. 27:If you could change one thing about mainstream literature what would you change? (i.e. more diversity, better writing, better plot etc.) Oooooo this is a hard one, I guess I would want the books that get really popular to actually be written well. cause it sucks to see people talking about a book online but when you try to read it yourself it is ... certainly something. My silly answer for this question is more dragons in every genre, we can always use more dragons.

[atevanfool]

Another for sleepover Saturday actually! 💚

Fave book you’ve read this year? Or top 3 books in keeping with the format

Oh gosh. I've read so many of them but uhh... In no particular order:

Perfectly Petite Shorts by MJ May

2. The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch

3. The Haunting Between Us by Paul Michael Winters (This one was by far the biggest surprise in how much I enjoyed it.)

(Thanks for the asks, it means a lot to me. 🥺)