Whoever Said A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Reading a book whose pages, words and notes are familiar to you is so comforting. I’m telling you, there’s nothing better than opening an old favorite book of yours before going to bed and going through your favorite pages, suddenly being back at the place that you longed for after a long hard day in the real world.

some of you haven’t been so wrecked by a book that it’s all you can think about for days and days and your book hangover feels unending and it shows

Some of you haven’t stayed up reading until 4 am because you literally couldn’t put down your book until it was finished even though you needed to be up early the next day and it shows

I absolutely love the fact that Mr Darcy is one of the most adored literary romantic heroes because like…he’s a human disaster? He literally developed a crush on Elizabeth, decided to deny his feelings, then realised his feelings were too strong to be repressed in the span of a few chapters while Elizabeth thought he hated her. He claims he doesn’t know how to talk to women yet comes out with beautiful lines such as ‘dearest, loveliest Elizabeth’. I just adore that he’s renowned for his genuine love and appreciation for Elizabeth even though he was terrible at dealing with his feelings.

👏🏼💗💯

I feel like those seagulls in Finding Nemo but instead of “mine?!”, whenever I hear about a book, I go “ReAD?! read?!!! REAd?!!”

I actually have no problem rereading a book just for one scene

This. This is good fiction writing advice. I really appreciate how it was formatted as “this is a common problem, here is a solution to try in your own work” and not “oh god, don’t do that!” without any extra help. And I extra appreciated the “don’t rely on adverbs” bit, because they do have their place but they aren’t the only way actions can be emphasized.

I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”

You’re a monster

As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?