love love love this thread idea, gimmick. currently reading a lot of poetry, actually.

THIS MIGHT HAVE MEANT FIRE by C.T. Salazar

“I could say surrender until it sounds like a song/or salve. I could hold your love in my mouth/and make pearls of it.”

- excerpt from "YOU CALLED ME CASTAWAY AND I CALLED YOU"

Starting to read Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman. I wish I had the book on hand to pull some quotes, because there are some really witty ones in here.

'the crying of lot 49' by thomas pynchon

i rarely read actual novels (which i want to change tbh), and the last one i DID read was janet fitch's white oleander. it was beautifully written but i unfortunately don't have the book with me to leave a quote.

recently i have also been skimming works by various poets. there's something about richard siken's texts that always feels so precise and visceral to me <3

Yesterday me friend showed me this c00l b00k called d withcer. Never heard of it b4 but i think irs a hiddrn gem. The way it read id like alice n wonderland if i was alice n if disney was c00l n not 4 babies.

Unlike lyre i bought my b00k so here r some of my favorite quotes.

"HMMMmmmm."
"Fuck."
"Destiny churns, forever pasteurizing until fate becomes smooth, like butter - but never margarine - thats the cheap stuff n jeralt aint killin bich for coin n cheap stuff."
"He grunted in response. Not moody but all cool like. Much cooler than guts from beserker. How cool is the name the white wolfy? What about butcher of blaziken??? Bad ass dide!"
"TOSS A COIN 2 UR WIT CH ER O VALLEY O PLENTTTTTTTYYYYYY"

so.... APPARENTLY watching a b00k on netflix does not count as reading the book... even tho they r the same ting?! like really? wtf. u telling me i didn't read harry potter cuz i don't wanna read 20394208 pages when i could just sit down n watch 15 hours of disney channel?

ok.

i wood like 2 cum out n apologize 2 the public n those i may hav misinformed. dis was not my intention n i meant no harm. i hope i did not delude n e 1 to read the actual b00k b cuz i hav no concrete opinion on the material... since watching it on netflex don't count.

now u 2 better leav eme tf alone before i have u looking like the last Manga Lordian.

lyre kae

thx 4 watching the disney channel . u can subscribe to oar new online platform 2 watch all the classic disney shows no 1 gifs 2 fks about for the low low price of too much a month

Halfway through The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, some favorites thus far:

“I’ve become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds of Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?”

”You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”

“What good is it to throw yourself in front of a steamroller out of moral principles and then be crushed flat like a sock emptied of its foot? Better to fade into the crowd. Better to hurl rocks than to have them hurled at you. Or better for your chances of staying alive. They knew that too well, the architects of Gilead. Their kind has always known that.”

“‘Nobody is any authority on the fucks other people give.’”

I bought a bunch of books online, included in which is Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. I've only got as far as the introductory passage, so instead of leaving a nice quote, I'll leave y'all with some screenshots of some of the wildest book formatting you'll ever see:

A big black box.
Visual descriptor of my brain trying to put words into sentences.
Tilt your head, then rotate the book.
P.
'Love's love in her blackest season'.

I've also gotten my hands on the last Robots book by Issac Asimov, and while I haven't started on that book itself, I would 10/10 recommend that entire series, it's. GOOD. Human and robot buddy cop detectives in SPACE with some pretty gay subtext what's NOT to love?

Yasss! I literally just started reading that book and I ADORE the vibe! If you're at all interested, we should read it at the same pace and do a pseudo bookclub thing... mostly because I'm horrible when it comes to just... forgetting about where I am in books and accidentally never finishing them.

and its also a big insp for a lot of the top slenderverse web series out there

so if you like the vibe of the book and like watching horror-ish first person shows/ videos

i would suggest checking either explained videos of some web series or just bingeing it yourself

if you want suggestions i can give some

cause i've been in this hell for years lul
k bye

I finished the first Dune book the other day. I'll be starting in on the second once I'm ahead on homework.