pickAnother #classicread to have on my checklist, glad I finally got around to this one. Always felt like I was missing out on something and now I‘ve seen the mountain top and I‘ve gotta say it was quite grand. I hope that after I loan this out to a cousin of mine I‘ll get the chance to revisit it again.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #5starreview #loaner
The hard truth, but something everyone needs to hear and understand sometimes. #hardtruth
Even when you‘re at the bottom of it all you gotta have some semblance of pride and I understand this wholeheartedly. #fittingquote #blackpride
pickThis one has been LONG AWAITED for my “to read” list and I am so satisfied that I‘ve gotten around to finally reading it. So much angst and longing in this one to fulfill my heart several times over while I endure this pandemic in solitude. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#enemiestolovers #mmromance #ww2romance #highlyrecommended #5starreview
pickAbsolutely astounding, following Tommy Zane and Matt Gardner around during their time growing up together while also discovering themselves and the love that they have for each other while in a devout Catholic household and in decades against homosexual men. Their fights and struggles for the Santellis as time continues makes you feel like you‘re right there with the family the whole time. Highly recommend! 👌🤩#mmromance #highlyrecommended #5star
pickDefinitely a read that you should revisit when you get older so you can fully appreciate its worth, I got this one in the form of an #audiobook narrated by James Franco. Emanates the MC‘s kinda tiredness with life and problems well, sure was a bit hard to get through the first minutes but once you get the rock rolling it‘s all downhill from there. #4starreview #futurerevisit
pickI got this as an #audiobook on sale at Audible along with a bunch of others (I‘m slowly accruing a shit ton of #audiobooks) I gotta tell you that I feel like this could definitely give some good perspective on #immigrationpolitics so if you‘ve got that one reeeeeally conservative relative always talking about “THEY TOOK ‘ER JERBS!” Let them hear this. #highlysuggest #loanoutlist #suggestionlist
“Hella. Hella. One day, when you‘re happy, try to forgive me.”
She moved away. “Ah. I don‘t k ow anything about happiness anymore. I don‘t know anything about forgiveness. But if women are supposed to be led by men and there aren‘t any men to lead them, what happens then? What happens then?”
#favoritequote
“Somebody,” said Jacques, “your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour—and in the oddest places!—for lack of it.”
#favoritequote
He gave me a look full of certain despair which I had not, till that moment, known was in him. It frightened me. “It‘s not,” he said, “what it is to me. It‘s what it is to you. And to her. And to that poor boy, yonder, who doesn‘t know that when he looks at you the way he does, he is simply putting his head in the lion‘s mouth. Are you going to treat them as you‘ve treated me”
#favoritequote
“Man cannot help but strive, and although I know that some quests are hopeless I do wish to capture a small flame from the past and kindle a light for us in our present.”
Armin Truchsess von Kardenberg to Mark Driscoll
#secretnotes #loveletters
pickFor such a short book this book felt like what it was like for Alice to be going down the rabbit hole with all of its art plus being tearful and full of generational violence, kudos to its author and illustrator I hope to read this book again sometime in the near future. #5starreview #highlyrecommend #slightspoilers
Looks like his mom tries her best to avoid the abuse she grew up with but can‘t help doing her own version of it.
He had fallen in love with her long blonde hair, it‘s so cute yet I know he‘s gonna catch shit from everyone JUST because he‘s a boy liking a “girly thing” 😠
pickThe last time I was so enamored with a book was with #TheHungerGames in junior high, it took me a whole day to read one of the books in the series. Definitely didn‘t do that with this one since it‘s harder to do things as an adult but it came pretty close, I feel like this really has sparked that old joy of reading I had as a kid. Can‘t wait to finally finish this series after all these years! #5starreview #highlyrecommended
Damn, and Darren‘s friends with this dude! #foreshadowing #futureantagonist #friendstorivals #callingit
It‘s been FOREVER since I‘ve read any of these books (I didn‘t start from the beginning like I should have when I was a kid) so I finally picked this read up and I have to say I think this is the first time in a while that I‘ve read a book when it was so easy to breeze through and become encapsulated by, I‘m looking forward to reading this series again! #reread #childhoodnostalgia #cirquedufreak
“Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn‘t matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.”
“Somebody on the internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it‘s all been done before? Make good art.”
“I hope we can give our children a world in which they will read, and be read to, and imagine, and understand.”
Neil Gaiman
“I suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I‘m making a plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these.”
pickProbably one of the best inspirational books I‘ve read in a long while whilst stuck up at Uni, I made it so that the school library picked this up and I truly hope that many more students after me pick this quick read up in between busy classes. #5starreview #qualityread
“I believe that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike. That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, mock, sing, dramatise and deny. I do not believe that burning, murdering, exploding people, smashing their heads with rocks (to let the bad ideas out), drowning or even defeating them will work to contain ideas you do not like.”
“I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast.”
Ah, who needs a knight in shining armor? Kathleen wondered as Anpo neared her. I‘ve got one in buckskin and that‘s much better!
#quote #lesbianromance
Damn, Winston! You didn‘t have to actually tell her everything! 😱😰 #tmi
Shitty is like me during Thanksgiving dinner while my Dad and Uncle yell about politics 🤣🤣
While I‘m at it I should probably tell you guys about the books I found in the lost and found at work, lucky me right?
Bought these back in September for my birthday because you know I gotta spoil myself from time to time 😌 good thing too because I‘m starting to come down with something, going on a lovely gay romance novel romp with these that I hope starts soon! (Except for Stitches)
It‘s always so interesting so see Dream show how vulnerable he is, I‘ve seen this guy talk to gods and form impossible things but seeing him like this is still a sight to see
Lady, you gotta be joking 🙃 you sent Nuala off for 3 YEARS from her own home just to see if an old flame of yours still has a taste for you 😑🙄
Looks like Petri‘s prayers were answered! #getitgirl #proud #spoilers #spoilerwarning #sexualtension
My Lord Petri if we ALL haven‘t been there at least once, stay strong girl!
Well, looks like The Sandman ain‘t the only thing I‘m getting done in the next couple weeks 🤷♀️🤷♂️ oh, well!
Out of all the things that I‘ve read in the series so far this is probably the hardest hitter for me 😭 #rightthereinthefeels
#owowow
pickI was pretty down for this one, wasn‘t the easiest to start with but with a bit of work this one is definitely one that I‘ll revisit later!Free books 📚 are always welcome in my opinion 🤗
pickYet another great read Aleksandr Voinov and L.A. Witt, highly recommend this to anyone who digs historical military M/M romance because this duo just knows what‘s good!
#m/mromance #historicalgayromance #gayromance #HEA #enemiestolovers #WW2gayromance
Honestly though, look at that thickness!! This might just be one of the biggest books I‘ll ever read in my life 😲👍
Did a little bit of thrift shopping online and MY GOD I WAS NOT EXPECTING THEM TO BE THIS THICK. Dunno how I‘m gonna hide these in a drawer but whatever, the journey on this one is gonna be one helluva ride 🤟😎 it‘s gonna be worth it though
This is probably my favorite page of the whole book, showing that the war wasn‘t as black and white as we think today, Unionist Southerners and Secessionist Northerners did exist.
pickThis book is so enthralling and gave me a much more profound appreciation for the history of the Civil War and the events thereafter that were a direct consequence of it.
Had a decent sized book haul from the local library 📚 can‘t wait to wade through these ones!
so-soNot gonna lie, near the very beginning I was gonna quit the book just because of how I perceived Vincent as annoying but I kept going and felt compelled to keep reading about him and his doomed path. His ups and downs in both his personal and professional life. Even though I knew it was useless I found myself rooting for Vincent near the end.
