#bookish rambles

[bookishfeylin]

Ok y'all I am back for 2 seconds and uhh. I guess SJM did another interview but am I correct in my understand that we did we get MORE confirmation that Feysand was not the original plan and that it was probably Feylin again?

[sabineemerald]

i tried reading the assassin's blade as the introduction to the throne of glass series and while i did not enjoy the slowburn, i did enjoy the character develop celaena sardothien had. a lot of the quests and challenges she went through were quite memorable. like i'd read this book ages ago (during the pandemic) and still remember the snake scene, her falling in love, taunting the dudes and them discovering she was still a kid, so on. especially with acotar 6 and 7 supposed to come out, i've considered reading through the series but i am not sure if my patience could withstand a slowburn again.

acowar is pretty slow through the middle (chapter 30 as of now) and i can see that there are somethings happening between elain and azriel. while subtle, it's clear that elain isn't taking interest in reciprocating the mating bond between lucien (at least, not yet).

[learnelle]

Today I went to the American Library of Paris to open an account, and I stumbled upon a random page in a random book and it couldn’t feel more relevant to me. I love pretty moments like this :’)

[surenseer]

finished red rising yesterday and its by far the best book ive read this year. it consumed me body and soul. i said i’d start reading babel before i picked up golden son but… i mightve failed and ended up 10 chapters into golden son already……. i love how action filled this series is and how fast paced it is. red rising was an easy 5 star rating to be honest. i hope golden son will be too because so far im loving it. shout out to my friend ale who gifted me the first book for my birthday. i will forever be grateful 🫶🏻

[bookishlyread]

In July I’m hoping to read as many mangas as I can to put a sizable dent on my unread mangas pile. These are the ones I’m hoping to read this month.

[txxnou]

recently finished reading the travelling cat chronicles by hiro arikawa and i bawled my eyes out as expected. i loved reading about satoru's friends and my favorite out of them all must be yoshimine,i loved reading the progression of their friendship and how they bonded over their school's gardening club. chikako and sugi's relationship with satoru was also very interesting. i particularly found sugi to be the most interesting because of how he felt satoru was a better person than him in a lot of ways. i don't really wanna spoil too much cause i feel like the story is better read completely blind but yeah it was a very bittersweet book. after that i read schoolgirl by osamu dazai. man for a book as short as this one,it really hits you quite hard. i think i get it now when people kept saying how dazai's works makes you have an existential crisis. so yeah i'm very satisfied with these two reads

[tanda-soal]

i rarely see malaysia mentioned in foreign books or movies or tv series, so when i do, i get pretty excited. sometimes though, those mentions are especially jarring because it teaches me something i didn't know at all about my country. i'm currently reading an illustrated memoir called the best we could do by thi bui (vietnamese-american) and she talks about how her little brother was born in a un refugee camp in malaysia in 1978. i didn't even know we had un refugee camps here...

reading is such a humbling experience and i'm constantly reminded of how little i know about my own region. on instagram, some southeast asian bookstagrammers are doing a "read asean" month so i think i'm gonna compile a huge list of these books for myself. the goal in the future is to be able to share more about southeast asian literature with everyone, because it feels like a thing not enough people know about (not even within the region itself!)

fun fact: today, august 8, is the day asean (association of southeast asian nations) was formed. no, nobody actually celebrates anything but it's the perfect day for these rambles of mine no?

[bookishfeylin]

I don't have all the words for it now but. The way booktok is so hyper-consumerist. The way the "badass feminist" protagonists are more often than not white self-inserts for the audience to project onto rather than actual characters. The same repackaged "golden" male love interest with dark hair. The obligatory racism. The way 90% of the booktok girlies are white women and the few woc are used as tokens to shield the current mess that is YA/NA books from any discussions of the rampant racism. It's all connected, it all goes back to the largely white audience, somehow, but I don't have the words for it yet.