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The Tawny Man Trilogy by Robin Hobb

fuck my friend who recommended babel by rf kuang to me im literally always going to have these 4 (yes even the blonde bitch but for different reasons) babblers in my head forever. i feel like a drowned bee floating in an above ground pool. fucked up

+ some initial sketches of me just finding their faces and notes. might do a transcript, but truly the notes are just for me

brave hobbit

2, 16 and 19 from books asks, please 🙂

2. top 5 books of all time

answered here but my runners up:

the left hand of darkness (ursula leguin)

the hunger games (suzanne collins)

invisible cities (italo calvino)

the great gatsby (f scott fitzgerald)

gifts (ursula leguin)

16. how many books have you read this year?

only 7 i got off to a slow start but then recently started commuting with audiobooks and we are SO BACK (•̀ᴗ•́)و

19. most disliked popular book

sorry…………. gideon the ninth. it’s awful

Aragorn

christmas exchange gift for @kittlesandbugs :)

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad, 2005.

Marcelo Jorge - Lemanjah is the Queen of the Sea.

Source: Ravenous Butterflies

she asked forgiveness, and i gave it. but the truth is, i'd forgiven everything she'd done, and everything she could do, long before that day. for me, that was no choice. that was falling in love.

i'm hopelessly addicted to female characters who are incapable of being loved because they'll tell anyone who gets within 10 feet of them to kill themselves i fear

No joke, go read The Open Veins of Latin America before even trying to send me a political ask. Mandatory reading.

It's a cliché that every Latin American leftist has read it and quotes it, but that's because it's written in such a clear language with undeniable strenght on its facts. It presents the history of Latin America solidly just in the first few pages, and it only gets more engrossing the more it goes on. While it is now a bit outdated in the sense that it was first published in 1971, the historical, social and political issues presented are -in an unfortunate way- still current. It is a relatively short book, passionate and in a clear, poetic language.

Sometimes it's good to return to the basics, and this is THE basic book if you want to understand the effects of imperialism in Latin America, and our struggle for freedom and identity.

Instead of losing your time with half baked twitteroid takes, go read it. Here you go, for free, in Spanish, Portuguese and English:

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/r31206.pdf

https://copyfight.noblogs.org/gallery/5220/Veias_Abertas_da_Am%C3%83%C2%A9rica_Latina(EduardoGaleano).pdf

https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf