It’s been a long week, and frankly, I didn’t know what to write about. Here, have some lovely literary memes. Because you, like I, have an inordinate affection for books.
An inordinate affection for books
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A terrific set — thanks!
Wonderful. The beef jerky meme in particular… I love that one.
It is so true! I glance at the covers on the “[Whatever] Award nominated” literature stuff and it is either stretched blobs of color (memoirs, ethnic stuff), or vines and flowers from a Victorian pattern book.
Yeah, modern covers are usually awful and worse, interchangeable.
“An inordinate affection for books”?
There’s no such thing as that. 😉
I’ve been saying that about backing up brains (and AI, for that matter) ever since I first heard it.
*Sigh* Huge piles of books . . . you know the one you want is near the bottom . . .
We will not discuss the satchel-full, plus six more that followed me home from Out West.
The Sir-Mix-A-Lot take had me rolling.
I am encouraged to see Tolkien admitting to Auden that he had no idea who any of those people were when he first met them.
That’s how it is for me. People arrive and make themselves at home in my story, and I don’t know who they are. Happens all the time.
Unfortunately, since 2016 or so my book addiction died. Murdered by modern publishing. My writing is self defense.
Still, my basement has a room that looks a lot like the one in the first picture. Smaller window, the rest is similar. ~:D
I started writing because my mother made me return all my library books and get no more out (just because we were going on vacation a full week later).
I desperately want someone to write tactically correct, sensible romance between competent people in a SF setting. But no one is doing it, so I have to pull the story out of my own head, which feels like untangling a gordian knot of yarn with the kitten still attached and attacking.
Why won’t someone else write this, so I don’t have to?
That last sentence…I feel you.
That was me with mil-sci-fi and urban fantasy. “Can we please have an upbeat and hopeful post apocalyptic novel? No? Well, darn, I might as well try.”
M.C.A. Hogarth’s Haley and Nana Series. A short story cycle opening with the justly titled “Haley’s Cozy System Armageddon”
Mind you, it’s a weird armageddon.
Sadly, the affectations of the LitRPG format make it unreadable for me, although I love the concept.
I’ve never seen it in meme format but here is my favorite “Book lovers never go to bed alone.”
A favorite song by a favorite obscure band has the following lyric:
> And she can’t live without her radio
She likes to sleep with it turned on
She says that she never sleeps alone
Same idea, and I’ve always loved it.
One of my favorite moments in the film adaptations of Lord of the Rings is when Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas are tracking Merry and Pippin, and the find where the orcs stopped for a meal. Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn shakes his head slightly and sighs: “…Hobbits.”
Which does tend to support that “everyone else thinks hobbits can do anything” meme, since Aragorn seemingly assumed they convinced their orc captors to stop for second breakfast. Or possibly elevensies.
“Revenge” – a girl after my own heart….