Hi!! For The Book Ask: 1 & 4?

Hi!! 👋 for the book ask: 1 & 4?

hello!

1. What’s something you read recently and enjoyed?

most recently i read yellowface by r.f. kuang and it really got me thinking about a bunch of things!! i loved the way she wrote about the publishing industry and how social media plays a big role in hype but also how deeply temporary and superficial it all is. also the entire debate on ownership — i find it all so interesting!

4. What are your top 3 comfort reads?

ooooh this is a good one.

six of crows duology by leigh bardugo. i mean do i even have to explain 🙇🏽‍♀️💗 just absolutely in love with the characters and plot i would reread it a billion times honestly.

all my rage by sabaa tahir. comforting in the sense that it’s everything i adore in a book and made me feel so seen.

mary jane by jessica anya blau. FOUND FAMILY GOODNESS!!!

tagged by @ichorai (thank u! :D)

song stuck in my head: heated by beyoncé

last song i listened to: remember by katie

top 3 foods: lasagna, channa chaat (so good!!!!!) & this one bomb salad i make

last thing i googled: ‘ser duncan the tall casting’ (i’m impatient)

dream trip: new zealand & italy!

anything i want right now: writing inspo (HELP MEEEE)

tagging: @wipsbymor @lil-stark @macabremoons & anyone else who wishes to do it!!!

Dagger with gold inlay and jade handle. India, Mughal Empire, 18th century.

i’m a bookseller so let’s analyze the books that asoiaf characters would probably be into in my expert opinion

sansa: easy answer, mass-market bodice rippers. true answer, horror. she is a vc andrews girly but she hates stephen king. also she probably read a bunch of colleen hoover at a very formative age and it fucked up her idea of healthy relationships.

jon: manga. i do not know jack or shit about manga but i do know he’d probably like that berserk one or whatever the fuck it’s called. he’s emo. nobody understands him. you get it. so on and so forth.

theon: he doesn’t read but he does go back into the kids department and stick gum in the pages of the i survived books. sometimes if he’s feeling really bold he’ll put his number in between the pages of novels that he thinks are for smart people. his concept of high lit is not very developed so it’s sort of a toss-up as to the books he does this to. they’ve found his number in the brothers karamazov and a taylor jenkins reid novel on the same day.

dany: ya dystopia. you KNOW she would have been so into the maze runner and divergent. somebody let this child have a hunger games phase dear lord.

arya: her idol growing up was junie b jones. she was obsessed with the boxcar children and when she was 7 she tried to run away but to her extreme dismay she couldn’t find a boxcar so she settled for an underpass frequented by various delinquents, vagabonds, etc. they unionized to get her back home and cat didn’t let her outside for a year. immediately after she was ungrounded she ran away again to murder pigeons en masse because she had just read wringer by jerry spinelli and took away the wrong message. now she just reads fencing instructional books. also a warrior cats kid.

AO3 IS DOWN!!!!!!!

Being a writer means being an artist. Yes, you’re not only writing stuff, you’re actually creating art. So let go of your inner critic, and realize how perfect your art is. Yes, you can always improve it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good enough in its raw form.