#bookses

[march-for-no-reason]

Ahhhhhh!!!!! The physical book is here!!!! :') Edit: The satisfying feel of a new book. The smell of a new book...E-books just can’t compare. My heart is swelling with...Things and Stuff.... I think I’m gonna cry....

[ohthecalamity]

there is one heartwrenching, soul-eating book I desperately love. it's about sports, and rape culture. Complex relationships, addiction, loneliness, suicide. The horrors of a small town struggling to stay afloat. I have read it so many times. It still makes me sob til I choke.

i was scrolling through the tag, and lo and behold:

"au where [literally none of the plot happened] [they all are fine] [the relationships aren't complicated] [nobody is their actual characters] [the town isn't struggling] [they have money] [everyone is happy]"

??????????

[miloe]

Quote of the day

“‘I’m sorry, but I abstain from blending in. There are too many perks to being a wallflower.’“

--from Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

[miloe]

Quote of the day

“It’s one of the secrets of strength: We’re so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in service to ourselves.”

--from Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

[callie-quite-contrary]

~pokes Goodreads~ You know, there have got to be more Regency-set novels that aren’t romances than just Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Why can’t I find them? I’m usually much better at ferretting out My Kind Of Stuff than this...

[callie-quite-contrary]

I found The Watchmaker of Filigree Street at the library entirely unexpectedly and spent the afternoon curled up on the couch reading it from cover to cover and drinking tea, and it was a lovely way to start the break. And also a very good book. I liked the world of The Midnight Queen, but the paint-by-numbers heteromance was uncomfortable-making and the big dramatic event was deeply confusing. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street had excellent worldbuilding of the more mundane sort and neither of those issues. Also, there was a clockwork octopus, and Gilbert and Sullivan (both the persons and the works). Good book indeed.

[callie-quite-contrary]

I’ve been trying to read The Red Queen for completion’s sake in the past few days, but it’s all clunk and infodumping and there’s no damn’ reason for it to be as long as it is. I think I’ll read the last two chapters and be done with it.

[callie-quite-contrary]

I have not been talking about Stuff Wot I Have Watched lately because of being busy and running out of home internet before the end of the month (I must do something about that now that I’m nearly at the end of my contract). But wow, Please Like Me is being all kinds of amazing this season, and it had a high bar to clear. Hannah Gadsby especially is making me cry. Also, I finally got my hands on Season 4 of Episodes and it was a delight. I’m currently waiting for the next episode of Doctor Who to see whether this two-parter sticks the landing (the first episode was amazingly good, but given the territory, it needs to stick the landing) and what they’re going to do with this particular Clara mirror/monster...

Also, Osgood is forever brilliant, and I loved seeing Kate get to do stuff.

I also appear to have got sucked into watching the final season of Downton Abbey, mostly by Laura Carmichael’s exceptionally pretty face, hair and clothing. I have to say, though, it’s an exceptional show that can make an extended car race sequence in which someone burns to death while trapped under a flipped car tedious. Especially when just two episodes previously it got great shock value and a modicum of actual on-screen drama* out of a staid Earl unexpectedly standing up and vomiting huge quantities of blood over his family and Neville Chamberlain at the dinner table**...

Book-wise, I’m still being haunted by The Lie Tree and waiting for some other library holds to come in. I think I need to see whether I can get my hands on some other Frances Hardinge books that way, though. And Zeroes. And Illuminae. And The Natural Way of Things, which has been all over my Twitter feed for a month and gave me cold chills when I just read the blurb in the bookshop...

Thank goodness teaching’s over? :)

*Downton Abbey does not believe in having anything so vulgar as actual stuff happening on screen. Stuff*** happens off-screen, and then there are scenes where people sit in different settings and talk about it and its social ramifications. :)

**His ulcer burst. It was a thing.

***Except for Earls vomiting blood, of course.