Tag: books

forestlover:

keyholeslumber:

modestinferno:

circumlocute:

Books that people read romantically but shouldn’t because they’re missing the point:

  1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

That’s your opinion.

there’s nothing romantic about a pedophile rapist, the senseless murder-suicide of teenagers because families can’t get their shit together or the hypocrisy of the roaring 20s

FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT

I’d like to add Wuthering Heights, because that is incredibly fucked up if you read it through a romantic lens.

Libraries are safe but also exciting. Libraries are where nerds like me go to refuel. They are safe-havens where the polluted noise of the outside world, with all the bullies and bro-dudes and anti-feminist rhetoric, is shut out. Libraries have zero tolerance for bullshit. Their walls protect us and keep us safe from all the bastards that have never read a book for fun.

Juliet Takes A Breath by Gabby Rivera (via stefunny)

Hi! So I just finished reading Not Your Villain and I am so, so excited for book 3. Is there a set release date yet? I need to know when to start stalking my library / Amazon! 😊

authorcblee:

Hello! Thank you so much for sending me a message! I’m very excited that you’re excited. There is not a set release date yet but I will definitely post about it as soon as I know!

In the meantime, did you know there’s 10k of deleted and extended scenes available for Not Your Villain that you can download? Check it out! 🙂

Happy birthday to me!

The Upside of Unrequited and Leah on the Offbeat were presents from @lefaym. Carry On, Autoboyography and The Edge of the Abyss were from mum (bought by me as second hand and remainders). And the last eight Classic Library books were my present to myself. Low res picks because my laptop has died against and the tablet has a terrible camera.

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

shiraglassman:

Happy New Year from the stars of The Olive Conspiracy and the other Mangoverse books! If you’ve ever wanted to read fairy-tale adventures with ladies in love and Jewish characters–including the dragon–they would love to have you come and visit. It’s only $4! Pdf link in case you prefer that to Kindle.

Art by theloserfish. Reblog to wish your friends a sweet new year as well!

L’shana Tova!!!!

Sorcery of Thorns

marrogerson:

rj-anderson:

marrogerson:

Hello all—

I’m now able to share that my second book is titled Sorcery of Thorns. It’s set to be published in May 2019, and is another YA fantasy unrelated to An Enchantment of Ravens. (For those of you who thought Enchantment was too short, you may be pleased to hear that Sorcery is substantially longer.)

While Sorcery’s premise isn’t technically a secret—there will be a preview in Enchantment’s paperback when it comes out later this month—I’m a little shy about revealing more before the official announcement. For now, the main character is a 6′3 battle librarian named Elisabeth Scrivener, and it’s about magical libraries that contain sentient grimoires who occasionally turn into monsters (which is why battle librarians exist in this setting). Here’s an excerpt:

These weren’t ordinary books the Great Library kept. They whispered on the shelves and shuddered beneath iron chains. Some spat ink and threw tantrums; others sang to themselves in high, clear notes on windless nights, when starlight streamed through the library’s barred windows like shafts of mercury. Others still were so dangerous they had to be stored in the underground vault, packed in salt.

I can’t put to words how excited I am about this book. If you happen to be an Instagram type, there’s a photo of my excited flesh visage holding the title here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnR0oS3FzVN/

Well, this sounds straight up fantastic and I want to read it yesterday. (Also mentally fan-casting Gwendoline Christie as Elisabeth until further notice.)

That makes me so happy—I modeled Elisabeth’s height after Gwendoline Christie’s, because I love her more than life itself.

Unfortunately I can’t give Sorcery to you yesterday, but if you happen to want it on, say, Friday…

Tor Publishing Issues a 4-Month E-Book Embargo on Libraries, Cites Retail Sale Concerns

jabberwockypie:

abraxis-and-anceline:

libraryadvocates:

Several library organizations and advocacy groups, including the American Library Association and ReadersFirst, have come out against Tor’s embargo. In a phone interview with io9, ALA president Loida Garcia Febo expressed her concerns that it could mean more trouble for libraries and their relationships with publishers, taking into account how hard they had to fight to get e-book access in the first place. She also said how unfortunate it is that the embargo is targeting sci-fi and fantasy readers, given how dedicated and passionate they are about the written word.

Tor. Y’all are a bunch of idiots. Don’t do this. If I can’t get your books at the library, the I just… won’t read them at all. Unless it’s an author I already follow. I only buy books if I know I’m going to love them, which means that I have to have already read them before, or be very familiar with the author. There are TWO authors I will buy without reading first. TWO. That’s not two authors published by Tor, that’s two total.

I don’t actually know anyone, at all, that buys books without having read them first or without having read a enough books by the author to take a chance. Don’t be stupid. This will hurt your sales way more than libraries would.

Also, congrats! You just guaranteed jump in the number of people pirating your books! Way to go, that’s totally what you were aiming for, right?

That was MY first thought upon reading this.

Authors urge readers to use the library rather than pirate books if they can’t afford to buy them.

If they’re not available at the library … what’s the logic here? Does Tor REALLY think people will just go “Ah, yes, I didn’t buy these books before because the library had them. Now that’s not an option, so I’ll definitely buy them.”?

People who were going to buy the books ANYWAY will just buy them the same as before.

People who wanted them from the library will either a) not read them or b) pirate them.  Or c) just decide to wait the four months and be Really Annoyed about it.

Regardless, it’s not going to generate more sales, and it’s going to hurt authors.

It’s going to hurt libraries. If people can’t get books they want from the library because the library can’t afford the license for the book, patrons will use their libraries less, because they’ll feel like they can’t rely on their libraires to have new books or books they want to read. At a time when libraires are getting their funding slashed everywhere, when people are raising ridiculous alternatives like Amazon taking over from libraries, this will do nothing but hurt.

Tor needs to look at things like the Baen Free Library and realise that restricting access is not going to drive up sales, it’s going to drive people away. Whereas making books available in as many mediums as possible, for affordable prices, will increase visibility and profits. I can’t tell you how many new books/authors I’ve found through libraries over my lifetime, but it’s been hundreds, and the ones I really love? I BUY. And without libraries, I wouldn’t have known they existed.

Tor Publishing Issues a 4-Month E-Book Embargo on Libraries, Cites Retail Sale Concerns

tricksyixi:i will absolutely take them off your hands if you turn out not to like them, i been meaning to get hardcopies forever. I am in the states tho

I will say that you probably wont like one of the main characters until halfway through the second book. It’s on purpose, and it’s necessary, but I would give it at least that long before you decide the series isn’t for you 🙂

Great, I’ll keep your name handy, then. I’ve got a bunch of other books to read first, though, so it won’t be very soon that I know whether I’m keeping them or not.

I certainly plan to read both books through before deciding. I rarely pay more than $5 for a second hand book, but I did this time, and I want my money’s worth, even if I decide they’re not for me. 🙂

[Copies of Captive Prince and Prince’s Gambit from the Captive Prince Trilogy]
So, my curiosity got the better of me. I saw these first in the Smith Family store, then a week later in my local second-hand bookstore, Elizabeth’s (someone either read fast or quickly realised their mistake and traded them in, is my guess), where they’ve been for at least three weeks. So, I gave in. Slave!fic isn’t usually my thing, but people won’t shut up about this series, and though there’s a lot more queer fiction than there used to be, beggars can’t, and all that. If it’s not to my taste, I’m sure there’ll be someone out there willing to take them off my hands. $8AUD each, which isn’t the cheapest, but a lot cheaper than if I wanted to buy new.