bibliophile

Currently Reading: The Lies of Locke Lamora

[literaria-journal]

I started picking up the books I'll read from January onwards...I haven't done a book haul like this in months!

[oxymoron0-o]

Funny, how some people take an age to warm, and others simply walk into every room as if it’s home.

—The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

[readallnightsleepallday]

Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

[scrollsandyarns]

“Take your echoes and pretend they are a voice.”

— V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[lunaathorne]

books read in 2020: we are okay by nina lacour (★★★★☆)

i wish her everything good. a friendly cab driver and short lines through security. a flight with no turbulence and an empty seat next to her. a beautiful christmas. i wish her more happiness than can fit in a person. i wish her the kind of happiness that spills over.

[the-fan-dome]

“Fear motivates, more than love or ambition or joy. Fear is more powerful than anything else in the world. I have spent so long yearning for things—for love, for acceptance—that I do not really need. I need nothing except the submission that comes with fear. I do not know why it took me so long to learn this”

— Marie Lu, The Rose Society

[a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit]

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind? She has learned to step between the thorny weeds, but there are some cuts that cannot be avoided—a memory, a photograph, a name.”

— The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab

[whilereadingandwalking]

Lakeside days are the best days. 🍓

[modern-fairy]

Fall reading 🍁

[paperbackbones]

“Let all become mid-ocean. Let me become the flood.”

— Ninth House, @lbardugo

[upongoblinhill]

Cover and interior illustrations for Diana Wynne Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle. Available as prints on INPRNT

[vicisse]

alternate book covers — ninth house, leigh bardugo

“Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.”

[mtjester]

“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certain does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The keener and the clearer the reason, the better fantasy will make it.”

— JRR Tolkien, Tree and Leaf

[andiwouldbeking]

If the sun burned out tomorrow, your flame would light the world.

The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon

[deanthomaas-blog]

WE ARE OKAY, nina lacour

something inside me is cracking open, the light coming through so bright it hurts, and the rest of me is still here, wounded, even though i know it’s all for the best.

[eliamatrell]

“Dealing with ghosts was like riding the subway: Do not make eye contact. Do not smile. Do not engage. Otherwise, you never know what might follow you home.”

— LEIGH BARDUGO, from ‘Ninth House’.

[oblivion-books]

“But would it have mattered if she’d been someone else? If she’d been a social butterfly, they would have said she liked to drink away her pain. If she’d been a straight-A student, they would have said she’d been eaten alive by her perfectionism. There were always excuses for why girls died.”

ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ     ― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House