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yes…… :|

is this about the candy corn

glad you reblogged because i didnt see this before!

aw yay :-) i think i already todl u but thanks sm for ur recs im gonna buy the lush one asap 

i didnt know about this!! i really like the actresses playing merricat and constance & seb is gonna be really great :o aaahhh

2. What’s the worst book you’ve ever read, and why?

the red badge of courage.  i was FORCED to read it for my summer reading in 7th grade and it was literally the most miserable slog i have ever undertaken.  just so fucking tedious.  i wouldn’t have read past the first sentence if my school hadn’t required it.  it’s not even that long but it felt like moby fucking dick, god in heaven, what a terrible experience

3. A book you found overhyped, and why

artemis fowl.  it was like, fine, holly was a cool character, i enjoyed the book ok, but like, idk.  i felt like i heard all these raving reviews about it and i read it and it came out like, during the time that harry potter was still coming out and we also got eragon and the bartimaeus books (the first one of which was fucking phenomenal can i just say, absolutely hilarious) and i just felt like artemis fowl was kinda hopping on this trend of semi-urban ya/teen fantasy novels with the Spunky Protagonist(TM) and like it was just very meh to me at the time

20. The coolest bookshop you’ve ever been to

kramerbooks in dupont circle in dc.  it’s a gay bookshop in The DC Gayborhood(TM) and there’s a cafe and a bar in it and it’s just fab.  it’s a nice place to go and hang out and browse and get some coffee.  dupont was getting kinda overrun with str8 tourist residents around the time i left for college so idk what the neighborhood is like now but when i was in hs it was nice.

24. The book that you got into because of the movie/TV series/etc, and the relative merits of each version

sense & sensibility.  i’m not into regency romance novels as a general rule (i read pride & prejudice -- for a high school english class, to be fair -- and didn’t like it) but i do really like regency romance movies.  idk what it is, i don’t have a beef with wordy prose, my favorite novel is lotr for god’s sake, but something about that genre just doesn’t grab me.  

but i watched the ang lee sense & sensibility movie and i just fucking loved it and i wanted more so i read the novel and it was basically several hundred pages of the movie instead of 100-some minutes of film and it was great.  the movie is such a faithful adaptation; i liked the novel because i could just think about the movie the whole time i was reading it and i adored the movie so it just kinda made the book more fun for me.  

How does one even live without Indian food

for merricat and constance - a playlist for the main characters of we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson, requested by @koolaidofthecosmos

black pear tree - the mountain goats & kaki king  //  grand prize winners - liz pappademas & the level  //  civilian - wye oak  //  running up that hill (a deal with god) - kate bush  //  o superman (for massenet) - laurie anderson  //  we insist - zoe keating  //  apres moi - regina spektor  //  rocks and water - deb talan  //  february relaxing her fingers after a long winter’s grip - jason webley