Chapter 1:
The first thing I noticed here was how much this first chapter reminds
me of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. You have a really similar
style and I'm not complaining at all!
I also really appreciated how you used dashes instead of commas, most
people choose to be boring.
I loved the personification and the attention to detail, the way you write
things really makes me feel as if | am there myself.
Final Impression:
I was really hooked on reading this story and youdefinitely did not disappoint! I love your books so, so much and Ihonestly couldn't find much to nitpick at. I hoped this helped at least a tiny bit <3
Read THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh if you love messy bisexuals, magical schools, demon hunters, incredibly specific specialties, beautiful tattoos, containing multitudes, centuries of tradition, pastoral settings, class dynamics, tragic backstories, hot butches on bikes, and a gin & tonic.
Read WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by T. Kingfisher if you love a missing persons case, helping an old friend, the color mauve, SCIENCE!, abandoned mines, definitely not being claustrophobic, mysterious lights, boredom & terror, the whole & fragments, trauma narratives, skeletons, pronouns & dogs.
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Q: Would you recommend this book to a friend and why?
A: (Written in pencil by a child) no. it is my favourite and i dont want anyone else to have it.
Explanation added below photo:
Book review by my 6 year old (based on misunderstanding the availability of multiple copies?!)
Picture of a chalkboard in front of a bookshelf on which is written in colourful lettering:
Book Lover Confession #1
That awkward moment when I arrived at the party and realised B.Y.O.B did not mean Bring Your Own Book.
Today I get to start a book I have waited for a long time - A Goblin's Plight by Hannah Steenbock and I couldn't be happier! :D
Go follow her
@Firlefanz and support her work so she could become a full time author and write more goblin stories for all of us! <3
And to those not into goblins and found family - how about dragons, wolf shifters, well written romance, scifi, and a dedicated indie who deserves so much love? (:
Text above what I assume is a painted picture of Jane Austen..
Jane Austen's works are timeless classics because she knew the real
horrors in life are having to listen to men who think they're better than
you and receiving unannounced visitors.
"When we repeatedly retrieve information, our brains form durable memory schemata and neural manifolds. These structures are indispensable for intuitive reasoning, error-checking and smooth skill execution. But if we default to “just Google it,” those processes so fundamental for innovation and critical thinking may never fully develop, particularly in the smartphone generation."
@gerrymcgovern The Shallows by Nicholas Carr is a great introduction to how neuroplasticity of the brain changes with internet use, to make people shallower thinkers and more forgetful.
That was well known scientifically long before #ai became common use. So now imagine the same thing, ten fold.
My latest read: "Fleet of Knives" by Gareth L. Powell - See my Goodreads review for details but if you enjoyed "Embers of War" and like yourself some full-blown space opera action and adventure, this one's definitely worth a look!
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Two paintings of women in nice dresses reading books.
Caption: My favourite category of painting is “portrait of an introvert who snuck out of the party she was forced to attend to go read in a quiet room somewhere” also known as me every holiday season.
Nature's Ghosts is out in paperback! Sophie Yeo combines journalistic flair and nature writing to examine the intriguing lessons the past holds for conservation today.
Read MODEL HOME by Rivers Solomon if you love quintessential queer black literature, haunted houses, fractured families, sprawling suburbs, loving cups of tea, gut-punching prose, late night sanctuary diners, Jenny Holzer's Abuse of Power, Mothers, dissociating, running away & the unexplainable.
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British novel: let's go to a party and find a wife.
German novel: let's go to the wilderness and find ourselves. Russian novel: let's go to the depths of despair and then find out there is an even deeper level of despair we didn't know about and go there.
Two panel meme of a cartoon man reading a book and then looking throughly confused.
Caption: When you realize you've been reading with your eyes but not your brain for the last 3 pages.
I'm happy to say that it's the best of the books so far, especially since I very, VERY nearly gave up in Robing Hobb completely after the last book in the first trilogy.
I won't spil anything but I will ask, is it bad that I hope all the dragons die? 😜
Six panel meme of wholesomeness...
1. Bob Ross, be kind to yourself
2. Mr. Rogers, be kind to others
3. Steve Erwin, be kind to animals
4. David Attenborough, be kind to earth
5. Weird Al, be kind of weird
6. LeVar Burton, read a book
Picture of Dune by Frank Herbert.
Front view caption: You assholes didn’t tell me this is like a book book.
Side view caption: Hope you like words bitch
Four panel meme of Ron from the Parks and Rec tv-show.
1: Metaphors? I hate metaphors!
2: That's why my favourite book is Moby Dick
3: No froo-froo symbolism
4: Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal