#reading threads

[heatedrivalryy]

okay let’s do it 🫡 burn bright reading thread starts NOW

[sgtpepperoni94]

Sunrise on the Reaping reading thread

Spoilers undercut

18/3

18:28 - Haymitch's girlfriend being called Lenore and a part of the Covey

18:35 - Astrid March... Katniss and Prim's mom?

18:50 - End of chapter one...

21:51 - I miss Effie. Drucilla can eat mahogany.

19/3

19:26 - Wiress my love! Mags my love!

22:09 - just realising that Katniss, Lucy Grey and Haymitch have had one of the Career Districts as the main in game antagonist. Nice touch Suzanne.

20/3

18:16 - Finding out who Ampert's dad is....

18:36 - "I don't drink"... Jesus wept

18:37 - Nice to know Edgar Allen Poe is a popular author in District 12.

18:41 - Suzanne looked at the Snow simps and went hold my beer

18:51 - Lucy Gray's ghost better smack Snow over the head.

18:56 - So I finished chapter 9

21/3

19:02 - oh my god this is sick

20:00 - Haymitch getting a one because he has spent the whole book just pissing everyone off is lowkey the funniest thing to come out of this series.

22/3

12:28 - Went food shopping but a lot went down. Effie my love, I have missed you. I can never hate you Caesar Flickerman. Your ponage of Discrict 1 is brilliant. And that phone call with Lenore. I know it's coming but I am in fear.

12:42 - it is making me want to reread Catching Fire though.

15:40 - fuck Wyatt is out before it's even begun

16:01 - oh lulu...

16:42 -

23/3

I have listened to some but nothing major standing out other than the absolute shock that the games are still going

24/3

God these deaths are brutal as hell, even more than the main series.

Oh my fucking god... 😭😭😭

LUCY GREY'S BEEN SEEN (on TV but it counts)

Good the gaslighting the absolute gaslighting

25/3

Burdock... Bow... Singer...

Well... I knew that was coming but that was just cruel

Haymitch has snapped.

Lucy Gray has a grave... does it have her body though

And I am done... the goose eggs...

[lestatetlouis]

useful links for my twitter reading threads!

book 1: interview with the vampire

book 2: the vampire lestat (up to part iv: chapter three)

[sgtpepperoni94]

Temptation of the Force reading thread (may be spoilers ahead)

I finished Defy the Storm so guess what's next:

I can only apologise in advanced for the level on unhinged I am going to become (which given I have spent most of this weekend looking at Wolverine thirst edits on TikTok, might be already there).

Spoilers undercut.

Reading thread:

12/8

(09:45): 20 pages in and I am 🫠🫠🫠🫠

(15:52) - Helpful Yoda 👍

(16:27) - "will you have dinner with me tonight" elzar this is a star wars book but also 👏👏👏

(16:39) - the meditation garden scene 😭🥰 but also damn you ForFive.

13/8

(13:38): pages 182:

(13:44) - "burry says that not everything trapped under the eiram ocean stays dead" - don't say that because I will enter delulu land.

(14:05) - "to hold her hand. To... hold her. All of her." Screaming crying throwing up punch me in the face

(14:11) - "but she focused on only one" - alexa play the screaming part from all american bitch

(14:17) - "it had been hours since she heard Elzar's voice... everything she needed" - forgive me while I just lay on the ground in the foetal position.

(14:20) - page 256:

(20:12) - ghirra just trying to make the nihil look like the liberators here that just want their state to be recognised.... hmmm anyway girl bye.

(20:18) - Ro's adventure in the wilderness hmmm... anyway boy bye.

(20:26) - Yoda and Elzar's convo might be in my top 5 yoda moments and probably top five sw book moments (side note Anakin you are such a moron)

(20:31) - this running joke of Elzar asking Avar to dinner is just too adorable.

(20:52) - chapter 53... no notes just:

14/8

(09:49) - I don't care about the plot just let them be in a bed together, all happy and sleepy.

(09:58) - Elzar saying he would give his life up if it meant Avar and Burry lived. *smacks credit card down on desk* I'll take 20 please.

(10:02) - "even if it meant dying. Even if it meant losing the Force forever" - Tessa Gratton you are paying for my therapy bills.

(10:12) - "they needed each other; he felt it" - burry you absolute cinnamon roll

(10:19) - "she hoped in the future that wherever she went Elzar will follow" - 😭😭😭😭😭😭

(10:22) - I... I... There’s three more books to go.

Okay final verdict:

[alexisfromparamore]

okay i swear to god i posted something maybe two weeks ago where i said i was going to go on my goodreads want to read tab and sort by best ratings and read that book, and the book was The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. but now I can't find it and I feel like I'm losing my mind because the exact thing happened to me with Crimson Reign. So I'm going to make a new post but if one of you finds the old post I'll deadass send u a dollar

Okay so initially I started this as an ebook on December 12th but then I got about 4 chapters in and realized I would need someone to read this shit to me. So I borrowed the ebook from my library and got to listening. I like it so far.

[alexisfromparamore]

So I've been trying to read more Palestinian books recently and boy let me tell you, this middle grade time travelling urban fantasy / magical realism triology set in palestine which also approaches occupation in a very child friendly and organic way is remarkably difficult to get my hands on!! let's talk about it:

Thunderbird by Sonia Nimr first came on my radar from this tweet of Palestinian book recommendations. I did a search on my library database for my county and there was zilch. I searched the authors name, aaaaaand, Nope.

So I decided to see if I could take out an interlibrary loan from another public library in Florida. Here the thing about that: In the entire state of Florida, there is only TWO copies of the first book of this trilogy, and ZERO for the second book (The third book has not been published yet, but according to this twitter user, the book will *allegedly* come out sometime in September 2024. Twitter user did not cite proof so I am unsure if that date will be impacted by the genocide in Gaza or whatever the case may be. I have replied to this tweet asking for a source, and if I get a response, I'll post an update and link to it here. Screenshot in case tweet gets deleted).

My nature will not allow me to let petty stuff like this go, so rather than starting this book, I decided to try and figure out where I can purchase the second book, seeing as I definitely cannot borrow it from the library.

My first thought is Amazon. This isn't very pro-library and independent bookstore of me but I figured if the library doesn't have it, my indie bookstore definitely won't have it in their purchasing database (foreshadowing 😈). I figured if anyone was going to have this godforsaken book, Amazon would.

You would be wrong. Temporarily out of stock???? I want my book and I want it NOW Jeffrey!!! Put it in stock!!!!

"But Alexis! Amazon has it available as an ebook! Why don't you read it like that?" Well dear reader, two reasons:

I'm actually considering it so maybe you should mind your own fucking business (/j) and

If there's a $3.51 difference between reading this book on my water damaged, glass-screen-protector-so-cracked-I-don't-think-I-can-take-it-off-and-replace-it-even-if-I-really-really-wanted-to and holding the book physically, I want to read the book physically.

Down on my luck, I decide to ask my indie bookstore about it during book club, and long story short, she ordered books one and two and I am such a fucking moron for not asking there first.

Nonetheless, now that you, the little internet people in my phone, know my plight to read this book, you will be forced to endure my updates about it. Enjoy.

[heatedrivalryy]

kk i’m starting walmart rwrb

[heatedrivalryy]

[addicted for now] staying sober is only half the battle.