TheBooky

Devouring life one book at a time. Join me!

[beardedmrbean]

He's in charge and he can do that, the next one can change that decision, that's the rules as I understand them.

[mariagoesmed]

Mornings like this🤍 Oat-milk is officially my favorite for coffee

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

another thing about setting hamlet at christmas is that it reflects the beautiful human experience of having a long holiday stay at your parents’ house that makes you feel like you are going insane

[bibliophilecats]

Summer treat

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[leeromeestudies]

antique shop in texas ♡

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: polly.florence

[excessivebookshelf]

Macdonald Book Shop in Estes Park, Colorado

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || May 10 || This Did Things To Me: A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[godzilla-reads]

Queer Reads: After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang

[the-forest-library]

[swallowedintheircoats]

nighttime things

[crabussy]

media trope that makes me want to throw up and cry is when a character realises there's no way they're making it out of a situation in one piece. and in a single moment they accept it and turn to their distraught loved ones with The Smile. you know The Smile. sickening

[godzilla-reads]

🐦‍⬛ Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟/5

This book illuminates the lives of crows as multifaceted beings who play, care for their sick, eat, and live. In the author’s journey they bring up the ultimate question of our place in the urban-wild landscape.

When I started this book a year ago, I was initially put off by the author saying that she wrote this book more out of obligation to her publisher than her own desire to do it. At first I felt like this was a betrayal, because why should I read a book the author didn’t want to write?

But as I read it, I realized the author does have strong feelings for crows and it might’ve just been the matter of fact way she writes that put me off to reading it. I paused for a year due to the sentiment, but I came back to finish the book and found that I quite enjoyed her stories, her philosophy, and her thoughts on our place in this earth. I really loved how she brought up interconnectedness and how we’re ultimately all in this together. I’d still recommend this book if you enjoy urban nature.

[torpublishinggroup]

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher is out now featuring endpapers illustrated by the author and a foil case stamp😍

A troop of nine goblins is deep behind enemy lines. Between them and safety lies a forest full of elves, trolls, monsters, and the most terrifying of creatures…a human being.