Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy is a delight! Fresh, innovative magic and the best sort of slow-burn romance

What’s better than reading with one cuddly cat? Two cuddly cats!

I think the most radical thing the hunger games does is tell young people that the most revolutionary thing you can do is have unconditional love for humanity. Katniss throughout the entire series is guided by a deep sense of compassion for the people around her. It is what causes her to volunteer, to bury rue, to mercy kill cato, its why she tries to save peeta, why finnick telling her to remember who the real enemy is works, and even though her compassion for the larger world falters when peeta is kidnapped, it comes back when she visits hospitals and asks for mercy for other victors and ultimately, it is love and belief in a better humanity that makes her kill coin. Through it all, she maintains an unfaltering belief in the fundemental goodness of humanity, which is diametrically opposed to dr gaul's and snow's worldview. Peeta is even more unwaveringly compassionate

So the series tells young people that the most revolutionary thing you can be is compassionate. Let compassion drive your politics. Let yourself believe in the fundemental goodness of people. And i think that's deeply important in a world that touts the superiority of pure reason or logic, to allow yourself to be guided by something as emotional as compassion. Katniss everdeen tells us that your politics should be rooted in compassion in a world that thinks detatchment or cynicism is intelligence and i think thats v cool

'The Girl who fell beneath the sea' by Axi Oh

Time for a good grooming.

I started my first big embroidery/quilt project.

This is going to turn into a cushion with the embroidery at its center and appliqued EPP hexies around it.

Pattern for the embroidery is by @reverdelarose

They think this is comfortable.

i think something that elevates the hunger games franchise is not just the quality of writing but the integrity of it. tbosas isn’t just a cash-grab by suzanne collins in the age of sequels and reboots (though i won’t pretend that didn’t play a part), it’s a character study of the main antagonist with a different structure than the main trilogy. and importantly, it doesn’t just re-hash the same old themes and beats the main trilogy had, it expands on not just the world of the hunger games but the themes as well, it actually has something new to say about the trilogy’s themes about class, capitalism, power, and control, in a way that couldn’t be explored with the main story because the protagonist of that story simply did not have access to the world that’s being explored in tbosas.

i understand the people who call for books/movies to be made about haymitch, finnick, johanna, different years of the games — we love those characters and want to see more of them! i’d kill for a novella on finnick’s days mentoring tributes, or katniss’s parents falling in love. but at the end of the day we probably wouldn’t be very satisfied with those stories being fleshed out if they had absolutely nothing new to say about the world, they’d be enjoyable, but not as interesting and engaging as tbosas has been.

Happy Sunrise on the Reaping release date, may the odds be ever in our favor and may this book be as good as the others 🙏

I'll be waiting for the French edition that'll go with those babies to buy it, but I really wanna read it NOW so I will

Mycroft likes to climb. A lot.

i so deeply understand the reasoning of every comment

I hate the way most sprayed edges just look cheap to me these days. It's supposed to be special and beautiful, but it doesn't do it for me.

If you go in a bookshop in Germany every YA and New Adult Book looks the same. All have sprayed edges and the same style cover.

And the sprayed edges are so boring. No creativity and not done for any deeper design decision.

Finally there is sunshine on the balcony again.

Krobus is enjoying the new waterfalls...