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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Raven | graphic novel review | The Book Spooktacular





Hello, book spooks! 
Today I'll be reviewing Raven a graphic novel about a Teen Titan character. She seems like a fitting character for celebrating October.





It's a video. I had edited it with my earbuds and only realized how quiet it is. I'm sorry about that and my sputtering around for words. I'm trying to work on speaking more clearly, and apparently, I need to be louder for the video too. So yeah, I'm definitely taking notes for improvement. XD










Have you read any good graphic novels? 






Don't forget to visit Ink Castles October 18th, this Friday. Skye has a Lockwood and Co. post planned!

Monday, October 14, 2019

The Autumn List | Book Spooktacular Link Up

Hello, book spooks! Welcome to the first day of Book Spooktacular!




Skye from Ink Castles and I are collaborating to bring you autumn content, bookish and otherwise. Here's the schedule.





Today, we offer you a link up about your favorite autumn things. It'll be open until October 31st. The rules are simple: make your own post with your answers to the questions and sign the link with the url to your post so we can call read it and love it!







The Autumn List

1) movie with all the autumn vibes 

2) song that you associate with autumn

3) book with ghosts

4) scariest movie you've seen

5) the best autumn quote

6) book cover with all the autumn vibes

7) your favorite candy of the season

8) movie or book with themes on death and rebirth

9) YouTube channel you associate with autumn

10) your favorite fall beverage



Have an awesome day!


Friday, October 11, 2019

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman | a tribute

Yes, weird things are happening on this blog [look, we're all mad here. get with it or get out . . . while you still can]. Since I don't see a need to review a book that's been published for some time and written by a well-known author, I thought I'd give you a sort of aesthetic/tribute.

Whatever this is, it's something you make up as you go along because that's what I'm doing.
[all quotes are from the book, obviously]

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman


Sporadic and excitement among everyday static. Includes travel, art, inspiration, uniqueness, and one-of-a kind


rushing about for ordinary things | in ordinary ways | shoved along the fast crowd | fast as the London tube | ordinary mistakes | London keeps moving | until a door tumbles open 


"It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect."




"London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay."


A rainy day in London, a beauty to lay eyes on. NYCTOPHILIA: (n.) love of darkness or night. finding relaxation or comfort in darkness.


"but no one lived in the City now. It was a cold and cheerless place of offices, of people who worked in the day and went home to somewhere else at night."


Jewel Toned Walls, green door



black, door, and dimensions image


ordinary life's overwhelming | if London Above's too much | try London Below | it's a scream
and always eat your breakfast | it makes impossible things more digestible


"As a child, Richard had had nightmares in which he simply wasn't there, in which, no matter how much noise he made, no matter what he did, nobody ever noticed him at all. He began to feel like that now, as people pushed in front of him."


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"His feet hurt, and his eyes stung, and he knew that soon enough he would wake up from today and a proper Monday, a sensible Monday, a decent, honest Monday would begin."

"His life so far, he decided, had prepared him perfectly for a job in Securities, for shopping at the supermarket, for watching football on the telly at the weekends, for turning on a heater if he got cold. It had magnificently failed to prepare him for a life as an un-person on the roofs and in the sewers of London, for a life in the cold and the wet and the dark."




"It was then that Richard began to laugh; he couldn't help himself. There was hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast. His laughter echoed down the tunnels."


(Open RP I'm girl) I sit on my mat and hug a plushie. I hated going out to the surface. People were scary out there. But i needed supplies After the apocalypse, everything had changed. At least that's what people said. I didn't really know. I stick a disc into a screen and sit back to watch. I loved my artifacts. I jump, hearing a clatter.


times and spaces in mixed places | mind the rats of the underworld | the forgotten and lost | collected together | Welcome to the Floating Market


Disasters STALKER apocalyptic train sci-fi wallpaper background



"'Lovely fresh dreams. First-class nightmares. We got 'em. Get yer lovely nightmares here.'"

"A man in armour beat a small drum, and chanted as he did so, 'Lost Property. Roll up, roll up, and see for yourself. Lost property. None of your found muck here. Everything guaranteed properly lost.'"




"Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gilding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth . . ."

"It felt not so much as if the lights were being turned down, but as if the darkness were being turned up. Richard blinked, and opened his eyes on nothing -- nothing but darkness, complete and utter."

"'What's happening?' whispered Richard.
"'Darkness is happening.'"


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The Doors of Death remain firmly closed.



each tube station a world to itself | where are you going | don't get lost | Croup and Vandemar on your heels | prowling close | what's this about angels? | find the key | death too close | don't get lost 


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They wore black suits, which were slightly greasy, slightly frayed, and even Richard, who counted himself among the sartorially dyslexic, felt there was something odd about the cut of the coats."

"It was too consistent, too steady and inexorable a walk to be considered as a stroll: Death walks like Mr Vandemar."


"I told you we shouldn't have done this!" "We got the information we came for didn't we? Now quit your whining and run!" -Jensen and Bella {Mallory Barlow}


"'Crows. Family corvidae. Collective noun,' intoned Mr Croup, relishing the sounds of the word: 'a murder.'"

"'What,' asked Mr Croup, 'do you want?'
"'What, asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, 'does anyone want?'
"'Dead things,' suggested Mr Vandemar, 'Extra teeth.'"


don't focus on the past


"Richard did not believe in angels. He never had believed in angels. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you, and saying your name."


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"Door folded her arms, and stood taller, putting her head back raising her pointed chin. She looked less like a ragged street-pixie; more like someone used to getting her own way."




"Door paused on the stage, wondering how to make the guards let Richard go. She went over to the microphone, went up on tiptoes, and she screamed, as loud as she possibly could, into the public-address system. She had a remarkable scream: it could, with no artificial assistance, go through your head like a new power drill with a bone-saw attachment. And amplified . . . It was simply unearthly."


[article in Lithuanian] Pomirtiniai išgyvenimai patiriami, kai sielą sudarančios kvantinės substancijos palieka organizmo nervų sistemą ir susilieja su visata. Tokią teoriją iškėlė du garsūs mokslininkai, viena iš kurių yra kvantinės fizikos ekspertas, seras Rodžeris Penrouzas (Roger Penrose), kitas – neurologas Stiuartas Hamerofas (Stuart Hameroff). Pagal šią idėją, išeitų, jog sąmonė yra smegenyse veikiančio kvantinio ...


you want to go home | do you know where home is | above or below 


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"'I'm fine,' lied Richard bravely, to no one in particular."


Bill Brandt  London, circa 1937  From The Photography of Bill Brandt


"But the most important thing for you to understand is this: all things want to open. You must feel that need, and use it."

"and, somewhere in her heart, she lets it be what it wants to be. There is a loud click, and the padlock opens."


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Gansey


"'Sorry . . . . Wrong London.'"


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hold on


Friday, October 4, 2019

Books I Know I'll Love But Haven't Read | as late as the White Rabbit

Hello, dragon nerds. This post is brought to you by my inborn tendency to be late, to everything. If I'm cursed with lateness, I might as well make it productive somehow and turn it into a blog post. Not only am I late to normal stuff, but I'm also late to new book releases and book fandoms, etc. So here are some books I want to read but haven't yet.

Also, this post is inspired by C. G. Drew's post which you should definitely read because Paper Fury will knock your socks off.


Tea?



The Lost Hero
by Rick Riordan

I've had this one on my shelf forever. It's even on the "special" shelf. But any time I finish a book, I forget to pick this one up next? 

I know everyone whines that there's less Percy in it, so I'm expecting that.
Ok, really, I just want more Nico.


Six of Crows
by Leigh Bardugo

Apparently, the cast for Six of Crows has been announced, and I'm just staring at the ceiling and twiddling the pages of The Raven Cycle my thumbs. I love the whole premise of this duology and want to consume it posthaste. But I also want to consume other books posthaste? And I can only have so many over for tea at once, ok? The March Hare doesn't have that much space.

Whenever I mention wanting to read this, my friend, Emly, gives me her angry face and nearly yells, "YES YOU DO, doofus!"

I've not read anything by Leigh Bardugo yet. And now Ninth House is out and booking itself around instagram. Dragon nerds, it looks delicious. What am I doing with my life?


Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Yet another one that my friend makes frowny faces at me for not reading it. She wants me to watch the TV adaption with her. I want to watch it too, but book first. Priorities, you know? 

my friend:


"You should see me in a crown...", sassiness from Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty (played by the handsome Andrew Scott)



Morning Star
by Pierce Brown

It took me half a millennium 6 months to read Golden Son. For some reason, I do this thing where anything that I really love, I make it last. I want to read it, but reading it makes me too nervous and excited. So then I just want to think about it. But then thinking about it makes me want to read it, and the vicious cycle continues into infinity.

So Morning Star might take me, oh, half an era to finish?


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Prose Edda

Yes, yes, this book sticks out on the list, but I love mythology and Medieval sagas, ok? I've read bits of the Prose Edda, but I want to read it in full. But again, there's only so much room at the tea table.


If We Were Villains
by M. L. Rio

I've heard so many wonderful, non-specific things about this book. I don't actually want to know the plot. All the dark academic vibes is enough to make me want to read it.

Actually, the title is enough. I would pick this up based on the title. But have I yet??


oddly enough no


All of V E Schwab's books
[minus Vicious]

I love Vicious. I want to reread it, but I also have not read and yet have been dying to read all of her other books. Vengeful of course, but also A Darker Shade of Magic. This Savage Song! City of Ghosts. The lists is unending because she's such a prolific writer. 

And I know I'll love them, but I procrastinate all the books I know I'll love. I don't know why. Maybe loving things disturbs me?


via GIPHY yes of course


We'll stop here before the list grows any longer.


What books do you want to read but just haven't yet?