Books And Reading - Blog Posts
Hi I'm Stella, I really just created this account to see other's beautiful postings and writings, but I really really love writing stories and if you have no idea what to write, I can maaaybe give you some advice about writing and what to write...? Gods, I'm so nervous because I never wrote anything like this and stuff but feel free to talk to me
I swear I don't lack skills to communicate, I'm simply too tired to engage..
โDonna Tartt, The Secret History
"People. People. Endless noise. And I am so tired. And I would like to sleep under trees; red ones, blue ones, swirling passionate ones"
โย Alfred Stieglitz,ย My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like the thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in street battles. An oppressive, hot wind blew from the southeast, carrying with it the putrefying stench of decay. And outside the city walls, Death itself waitedโ in the persons of Titus, son of Vespasian, and sixty thousand legionnaires, who were anxious to gut the City of God.
โFrancine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion series).
@southfarthing you are absolutely correct and you should say it louder
I'm imagining if tolkien lived now and publishers were asking him if he had enough followers on twitter and if he could film videos to market his found family elfcore magic cottagevibes worldbuilding fantasy book on tiktok. i think he would run them over with his car actually
Iโll go ahead and check it out :)
The Outcasts
The Outcasts is a superhero series I'm writing featuring black superheroes! It will be comprised of six novellas and the seventh installment will be a full-length novella. Each novella tells the story of a different hero and they all come together at the end! I'm also planning a bunch of additional content such as fictional history books and science books!
I'm going to be doing a lore series to promote the book I already have out, so I hope you're ready!
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/smogg-jr-moon/1145216378?ean=9798881157883
does anyone have any recs to read when I'm in my hunger games era and I need similar stuff?
Both books are amazing but start with Fahrenheit is a bit shorter. It is also an easy read, plus a fascinating concept!
just borrowed The Odyssey, there is a person to blame
moodboard for a story im writing
HOW TO READ : HOUSE OF LEAVES
A small advice post on how to read House of Leaves, a notoriously confusing book.
01 , 100% read the introduction.
Going into the book, for some reason I got the impression that the introduction is just a foreword by the writer, talking about "blah blah the book was fun to write." However, the introduction is VERY crucial. This technically isn't a spoiler since it's the very beginning of the book.
02 , Lose the impression that Mark Danielewski wrote the book.
Yes, obviously he did write it, but to avoid confusion the reader should disregard that. In your mind, pretend that the key author is Zampano, and the annotations are from a version Johnny Truant stumbled upon. It sounds simple, but it avoids a hell of a lot of confusion.
03 , You're supposed to be confused.
Yeah. It's an intentionally extremely confusing book, so that only certain parts make sense later on. Many people read it multiple times over, so just trust through until the end.
04 , Read all the annotations.
Though they may seem incredibly long-winded and mean absolutely nothing, a lot of them are extremely key. Some people choose to avoid them and only read Zampano's works (which is fine too!), but for the best understanding I'd read the notes. Generally, don't bother with small citations to news articles. However, it is worth checking the annotations every time. For example, in chapter one there is a reference to Dante's Inferno written in Italian. There is a translation in the annotations!
05 , Most of the difficult layouts have small keys.
As the book progresses, the layout becomes increasingly confusing. If something is impossible to read, you're probably not supposed to read it. For many of the layouts that wind around the page, there will be small arrows guiding you. Just trust that the author will not make it impossible.
06 , Only pick up the book when expecting a long session.
House of Leaves is VERY much not just a "quick read." You wanna sit down for a hell of a long time for it and to make sense of it all.
07 , Again, read everything except from when told to check the endnotes.
Although, you can probably skip that 3 pages of names.
08 , You're supposed to feel anxious.
The writer is exceptional in this genre and creating emotion. When paragraphs are long-winded, it's intentional to make you feel as though it draws on in a ramble. When the statements are quick, you're supposed to be a little dazed. You might find yourself feeling lost with the annotations, but that's pretty much the point.
And most of all - enjoy!
It's very much a "push through" book, but don't read it if you find yourself absolutely bored to death. If you hate long books, House of Leaves might not be your cup of tea. I personally loved it, and so do many others.
I just finished reading the book 'This book kills' and i'm not okay
So nobody will see this but I have to talk about it. Am I the only one that hates it when friends (in books etc.) don't accept boundaries?
Like for example when the main person doesn't feel comfortable in a outfit and her friends wont accept that, so they force her to wear it because ,,you look hot in that" or ,,they boys will looking"
Thats just not they way I wanted to be treated by my friends.
I stayed up late reading this book. I loved the family dynamic. I'm a sucker for a good found family trope ๐ฅบ. I loved every character except for one. You'll probably feel the same way when you read the book. This book made me laugh , cry, and curse out loud a couple of times.
Warnings โ ๏ธ 600+ pages. Character death. Depression and loss of a loved one. Smut. Many characters ( there'll be moments where you go, "Wait, who is this?")
I love this series so much. Can someone recommend more dark romance books?
The way the fucking book ends read it guys read โthe fault in our starsโ by John green please but anyways formal apology donโt know what was up with me in those last few posts kinda going through it Iโm good tho I hope someone loves me like how Augustus waters loved Hazel grace Lancaster.
โIโm in love with you,I am. Iโm in love with you, and Iโm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. Iโm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that weโre all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth weโll ever have, and Iโm in love with you.โ
Oh Augustus Waters the man that you are.
I have SOOOOO many artist friends but I gotta shout out to Anna Smith (again) for doing my podcast cover arttttt
it's called 'Bookshelved.'
go listen :P
REBLOG if you have amazing talented artist friends!
THE PODCAST IS OUT
HI GUYS
So if anyone wants to listen to a podcast by two teenage girls, me (Amelie) and Evelyn, who just yap about books for an hour, we're now out on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Iheartradio, Castbox and Apple Podcasts. We'll have a new episode every fortnight.
The podcast is called Bookshelved, and our first episode is 'What's your favourite... (Book Edition!)'. You can email us at 1bookshelved.pod@gmail.com. I really hope you guys can give it a quick listen just to see if it's your jam or not :)
(P.S. Credits to Anna Smith for the cover art)
I JUST FINISHED THE WINNERS AND THERE WILL BE MINOR SPOILERS
when I say just I mean like 15 minutes agoโ There are still dry tears on my face.
The way Mr Backman spoils the book for us over and over is flawless at giving individuality to the story as a narrative, giving it its own voice, but itโs also a top notch literary device to cultivate plot twists. I was so preoccupied with him telling usโfrom the beginningโwho was going to die that the things that Bang the dog, Mumbleโs ending, and all the other little tragedies we watched happen took shocked me to my core
On the subject of the compassion and hopefulnessโ I canโt even begin to put into words how I feel about the โTime travel canโt be realโ lines and the lines written on all the different tombstones in the story, or Aliciaโs story
Cannot deal with how the story of Beartown knows itself inside and out and how it tells itself so nonchalantly, spoiling things left and right, and killing our notions of a happy ending before we even get the stupid idea to hope.
"She won't succeed." "It won't be enough." "He will be too late."
But what gets me is how the story also so obviously cares. Cares about the people, about the events that went down, and it knows that the outcome can't be changed but it wishes so damn hard it could be.
"Obviously we still hoped. Dear god, how we hoped." "The people in this town who loved him. There were so many of us."
It's not them, it's us. Almost like the town itself is telling it. Fredrik Backman I am in your walls.
ART FOR EVERY BOOK I READ THIS SUMMER PART 7: Fifteen Dogs by Andrรฉ Alexis
Bella and Athena from 15 dogs โค๏ธ
ART FOR EVERY BOOK I READ THIS SUMMER PART 6: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
What I wouldnโt give to know what Mr. Huxley was thinking when he wrote this. The book made me pretty uncomfortable (as itโs meant to, I suppose) but I LOVED this scene so I divorced it from the context a little for this comic. Words all come from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
ART FOR EVERY BOOK I READ THIS SUMMER PART 5: Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Just a quick little sketch for a book that makes me cry. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving.
ART FOR EVERY BOOK I READ THIS SUMMER PART 4: We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
ART FOR EVERY BOOK I READ THIS SUMMER PART 3: THE SECRET HISTORY BY DONNA TARTT
Life got busy and I forgot about this project but now Iโve recommitted. Soon, youโll have art for my entire 2024 summer book list!
(Guess who my favorite character was)