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Opening and Closing Lines
I love how the opening lines are all similar—something sensory and bleak—and the closing lines are so different.
WDS, I hope you don’t mind me replying to this publicly. I hate the “fan mail” interface. I actually re-read Fire just this week so this is a timely question! The first time around, I liked Graceling and Katsa better, but this time I too found myself identifying with Fire. Someone on goodreads said that Graceling is a young adult novel while Fire is more of an adult novel, and I think that’s true. Fire is about Fire finding her place as an adult, not an adolescent. So maybe I just identify with her because I’m older.
On the other hand, maybe I just identify with Fire more because I can’t kill people with my bare hands like Katsa. Fire’s problems are problems a lot of women have, just in a fantasy context. How to deal with dudes who just want you for your body/sexuality/appearance, whether or not to have children, how not to repeat your parents’ mistakes. Everyone wants something from her, and she has to decide how much she actually wants to give them. I think a lot of people can relate to that.
I think Cashore was trying to say something with Fire about women, but I could just be reading too much into it. If nothing else I think it was deliberate that Fire is such a different person from Katsa. Fire is much more traditionally feminine, for one thing. Maybe Cashore was trying to say that you don’t have to be physically strong, that it’s okay to like babies and flowers and beautiful things. But again I could be reading too much into it.
ANYWAY CAN WE TALK ABOUT BITTERBLUE NOW. Because that book was amazing. Literally when I finished it I went right back to the beginning and started re-reading. I hardly ever do that. It was painful to read, but so good.
(My goodreads reviews are here: Fire and Bitterblue)
The CatCase is a multi-functional bookshelf and cat climbing tower
I approve.
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oh my god
this is the most perfect piece of furniture ever designed
WANT! Perfect for the front hall.
NOTEMILY LOOK AT THIS
I AM LOOKING AND THIS IS INDEED THE MOST PERFECT PIECE OF FURNITURE EVER DESIGNED
111/365 (by j-hobbs)
More Hunger Games! Errr, spoilers probably!
This was for my Digital Illustration final. We had to choose a book and create illustrations for it in the spirit of the Picture Book Report. Tried some different things here!
oh my god this is amazing
79/365 (by j-hobbs)
And it certainly doesn’t help that the goblins decide to show up, too, and then they work with the wargs to SET GANDALF’S TREE ON FIRE. Even if this book isn’t written in a style that’s very conducive to a thriller (or at least what one would expect), I still found myself pretty excited about all of this. Look, the goblins MAKE UP A SONG ON THE SPOT ABOUT ROASTING OUR HEROES ALIVE WHILE THEY ARE STUCK IN A TREE. This is nightmare fuel!!! The very definition of it! Could you imagine facing death and your adversary creates a well-rhyming, improvised song on the spot? It would be so unsettling that you would BEG FOR A SWIFT DEATH.
With him, he brings four more dwarves, including the majestically-named Thorin Oakenshield, whose very name makes me feel like my entire existence is inferior to his. I mean, if I was a character in a fantasy novel and was introduced as “Ser Mark Oshiro, Lord of the Internet, from the Shire of Potato Tot, Heir to the Bicycle Throne,” I’m pretty sure you’d all laugh at me. Though now I have an image in my head of a field of tater tots, and that’s pretty goddamn awesome. Could you imagine? You’d just waltz out into a field and pluck a basket of tater tots from some sort of bush. Or, hell, maybe it’s a tree and you just shake the tree and gather them all in some sort of blanket or tarpaulin to harvest for that day’s meals.
Oh. Right. The Hobbit.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by Neil Huber.
My life = complete.
We answered the question of whether it was a knitting or biplane lesson he was late for in 1911.
The purpose of books is to tell a good story.
That’s it.
These are pretty adorable posters honestly. Poor Dumbledore.
And then we come upon Snape casting a spell on Harry. Again, I fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. I completely glossed over Hermione running over Quirrell, and put not a moment of thought into this. Even beyond that, think about what a huge risk Hermione takes to save her new friend. They’ve been friends for like…two months. And she is already setting a professor’s cloak on fire. This book should be re-named Hermione Granger and the Beginning of My Quest To Constantly Save My Friends With Little Credit.
- Mark Re-Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’: Chapter 11
I thought Alice was bad.
(Cut for spoilers, which no1curr, but cut for yelling, and trigger warning, assault and general vileness and inchoate incoherence. THIS IS NOT META I AM JUST THROWING WORDS IN LIEU OF THROWING PHYSICAL THINGS.)
WHAT
THE
F U C K
Yeah I was vaguely interested in these books until I read this post. What.
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