#bookish asks

If you could have any two things happen in the next book related to the story or not, what would it be?

Lol first and foremost, Lucien finding out that As has a one sided beef with him, and enjoying every minute of it.

Second, any or all scenes we've seen in past books with eluicen from their pov. It could be a flashback or them simply thinking back on it etc.

Because I still want to know what was going on through Elain's head when she took that half step at the top of the stairs. Or what was going on through Luicen's when he saw on top of the stairs.

1. What is one book you DON’T want to read this year? What’s one book on your hate list?

2. Do you have an author you wish were still alive?

3. What’s an older (more than 30 years old) book you’re looking forward to reading?

4. Are you trying to read more fiction, nonfiction, or poetry this year?

5. If you had to assign a book to a follower/mutual, who and what book?

6. If you could give a book to a parent/parent figure, what book would you give?

7. Do you plan to read politically this year? How do you plan to do this?

8. Can you read while listening to music? If you can, make a playlist of 5 songs you like to read to. If you can’t, what’s your favorite composer?

9. What book would you suggest to someone in a reading slump if they asked for a recommendation?

13. Name a book with a really bad movie/tv adaption

Spoilt for choice in this category, aren't we? God... Well, the Hobbit, of course, the Jackson Hobbit trilogy is awful. Back when I was like 16 and still liked Eragon I definitely hated the Eragon movie, that was atrocious, my friend and I spent the entire ride home complaining about it at length. The Kenneth Branagh version of Murder on the Orient Express was genuinely fucking offensive to Poirot, I remember coming out of the cinema with the friends I'd seen it with and we all just stared at each other in horror (I mean, once you've seen David Suchet is there any other Poirot possible?).

WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Jesus fucking Christ lock her away for that.

Hii, thanks for the ask🥰

🐜 Favorite book series?

Has to be the locked tomb series by tamsyn muir and the legendborn cycle by tracy deonn, love them both🫶 and I‘m waiting on the final books for both of these and it‘s agony!!!

🦑What’s a genre you don’t read often?

Definitely horror, I‘m also not a big fan of thrillers either so I usually avoid these. I don‘t like romance that much either but I have enjoyed a few, if they‘re queer🙂‍↕️

4 or 8

hi there! thanks for the ask! referencing this post.

4. what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

i always zip right over to the sci-fi section first, if the have it pulled out and separate. i will peruse a combo spec fic area, but i prefer when sci-fi stands alone (i don't like wading through epics or romantasy). then usually horror, and if it's a little shop i'll wander through lit fic, because sometimes weird shit winds up there too.

8. what's the first book you remember reading by yourself?

Hi!

I finished Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens a few days ago and that was 5 stars. Definitely one of his best.

I also gave 5 stars to Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, which I just read for the first time (I know I'm kind of late to the party haha). And it surprised me! I've had a lot of issues with fantasy dark academia books lately because I feel like it just uses the aesthetics instead of engaging in the themes. So that's what I expected from Ninth House, but I was completely wrong. And I was quite happy to be wrong!

Fave book you’ve read this year? Or top 3 books in keeping with the format

Oh gosh. I've read so many of them but uhh... In no particular order:

Perfectly Petite Shorts by MJ May

2. The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch

3. The Haunting Between Us by Paul Michael Winters (This one was by far the biggest surprise in how much I enjoyed it.)