TheBooky

Devouring life one book at a time. Join me!

[bookishfreedom]

green is the best color (don’t) change my mind

[godzilla-reads]

I swear I’m gonna finish an actual book club read. I swear I’m gonna stick with it. Also, Hazel will support me.

[godzilla-reads]

I read Eragon when I was in 5th grade, I think. I don’t remember much, other than I loved it. I think it’d be fun to reread the series, especially since the Murtagh book came out.

[ocean-glint]

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

[transpondster]

[kingedmundsroyalmurder]

Thesis: a big reason so many romance stories make one or both characters wealthy is that part of the fantasy is being so materially secure that you can afford for your emotional and interpersonal feelings and problems to be the most important thing in your life.

[catbrarian]

cats and libraries ۫ ꣑ৎ

[godzilla-reads]

To return to Peter S. Beagle’s writing style is an absolute gift and I cherish every moment I get to spend here.

I started reading “The Way Home”, which collects two novellas from the world of The Last Unicorn.

[godzilla-reads]

Fingers crossed I can will myself to go to an ACTUAL book club. I need to get ✨Socialized✨

💚 Herculine by Grace Byron

[sunmoonyandstars]

it's actually okay to not read for a while. it's okay to only read one or two books a month. it's okay to not have a yearly reading goal. it's okay to read books that aren't all over the internet. it's okay to get books from the library or kindle and not buy a copy after.

[proud-to-be-bookish]

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” - Franz Kafka

I only set 1 book goal for 2017 reading challenge. I did it too last year. I realize reading for me is not about quantity anymore. I look at books as my new learning resources rather than just a soon to be forgotten stories

[morphmaker]

the silmarillion bride

[aponii1]

I need more space for my books.

[the-forest-library]

“You should be at the club.” No, I should be at the scholastic book fair.

[fictionalaffection]

[quotespile]

“But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.”

— James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

[gyrovagi]

(smugly) actually all narration is unreliable because language can only ever communicate through approximation