#booksimreading

[persephones-fruit]

Maybe matriarchal societies are so difficult for Western male anthropologists to recognize because they expect a culture where men are suffering under the high heels of women - a reverse reflection of the long-standing male oppression of women in Western cultures. Instead, observing a society where most of the men are lounging about relaxed and happy, they conclude they've found yet another patriarchy, thereby missing the point entirely.

Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha, Sex at Dawn

[starlightbooktales]

★ - Do you prefer a happy or more tragic ending? hello friends, Depends on the genre for me. I prefer a nice good combination of both if it’s a fantasy book. I just really like endings that make me sob you know? ♡ my weekend reading plans to finish strange was a fail. I blame all the migraines I had. ★ current reads:. ♡ Ship of Magic ♡ Malibu Rising ♡ Strange the Dreamer ♡ Scarlet ♡ UnWholly ★ challenges:. ♡ #tumblesoverbooks - signed books ♡ #allthebooksmarch21 - cozies reading spot ♡ #springflingreads - smut sunday ♡ #teastainedgrimoire - books with castle ★ hashtags:. #lainitaylor #strangethedreamer #museofnightmares #bluebooks #tbr #booksimreading #currentlyreading #bookstagrammer #readersofinsta #readingcommunity #booknerds #bookstagram #bookcommunity #readers  #bookphotos #bookphotography #literature #bookworm #booksbooksandmorebooks #booksofinstagram #booklove #lazlostrange #yabooks #yafantasy (at Boise, Idaho) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMIS7DRgcgD/?igshid=jga2t6wougxc

[so-rainripples]

Compared with such complexities, cats are truly simple. If we want to eat, we eat; if we want to sleep, we sleep; when we are angry, we are angry utterly; when we cry, we cry with all the desperation of extreme grief

I am a Cat, Natsume Soseki

[serataino]

When you buy a book you've read 17 times because Michael B. Jordan is on the cover. #priorities #michaelbjordan #fahrenheit451 #raybradbury #booksimreading #whatimreading #tbrlist #readersofinstagram #bookstagram #sciencefiction #hbo #hbofahrenheit451 #whatimreading

[persephones-fruit]

Hope,’ he said. ‘Damn thing never leaves you alone.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 

[persephones-fruit]

But then suppose you stepped into one of those rooms,’ he said, ‘and discovered another room within it. And inside that room, another room still. Rooms within rooms within rooms. Isn’t that how it might be, trying to learn Josie’s heart? No matter how long you wandered through those rooms, wouldn’t there always be others you’d not yet entered?

Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 

[persephones-fruit]

There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 

[persephones-fruit]

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game