At the Library

I'm Maren. I read books. Welcome to my blog.

[the-forest-library]

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

[mal-studyblr]

hey quick PSA but “reading before bed to wind down” only works if you’re normal about books btw. if you aren’t you are going to end up awake at 2:52am after finishing the whole book just trust me on this one

[vancruejovi]

[mckitterick]

[bookocreativity]

Girls who love their nose buried in a book

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[guardianspirits13]

It’s the aspirational, to peer, to mentor transition. Characters that I once would have seen as cool badasses I realize now are just traumatized children. It’s a whole different perspective looking back on these characters as an adult, but now I wish I was in their world not to fight alongside them, but to give them a hug and a safe place to be vulnerable.

[funnytwittertweets]

[thenightgaunt]

I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.

They thought it was a sci-fi game but they also thought the monsters were going to be zombies.

Over a period of 2 hours they then proceeded to make EVERY Aliens movie cliche "mistake" known to man. Because at the time they all made sense.

The characters in a story don't know they're in a story or what kind of story it is.

They might think their in a romcom instead of a slasher movie. And if you're not in a slasher movie, why the fuck would you search through every closet in your house just because a cup mysteriously fell off a table in the dining room?

[elainiisms]

i just have to post these here bc i think about this DAILY

[likeawildflower]

[words-and-coffee]

Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē

[libraryspectre]

I'm 1/5 of the way through The Goblin Emperor and absolutely nothing is happening. I love it I hope the entire book is like this

[bathroom-spiders]

My very comprehensive review of The Goblin Emperor

[miseria-fortes-viros]

it’s so funny to me that cabeswater and lindenmere and ronan and the lace are like. siblings

[servantleverslutdrop]

Massive underrated SOC moment is when Jesper gets up in Van Eck's face, as he rants about what an "imbecile" Wylan is, and just says, "I'll read to him." Because it was always that simple. ALL THE PAIN AND ABUSE, AND IT 👏 WAS 👏 ALWAYS 👏 JUST 👏 THAT 👏 SIMPLE 👏

[catbishonen]

looking at this while sobbing over Greywaren chapter 49

fatal hit

[unganseylike]

what would they even do if glendower was alive tho would he just be like another member of the gangsey do they report this to the proper authorities like what was the practical plan for this

[unganseylike]

*movie trailer voice* “hes survived the british and getting buried underground for a 500 years. but now glendower must survive….high school”

[anthrpophagi]

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