Tag: books
humans: all of humanity is cruel and will never inconvenience themselves or others just to be kind or good.
also humans: [display kindness in the weirdest situations, no matter whether dangerous or completely and endearingly mundane]
Education, learned skills and books will never leave you, lose their patience or stab you behind your old high school on a blue winter night with the pencil you once lost and never found again.
Just out of curiosity what’s your favorite book? I’m looking for reading materials cuz I’ve read/re-read everything in my bookshelf and am looking for something fresh 👌
Ah… you could never get me to pick a favourite book, I believe. There are too many wonderful books in the world for that. I can recommend you a bit of what I read recently (i.e. over the past two years) as well as one of my all-time idolized authors: Walter Moers. He’s German, but the books are available in English, though I don’t know how good the translation is. Start with
The 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear or The City of Dreaming Books. Then, read everything. Do it. Honestly. Just. This author changed not my life, but something more important: They way I write.
Otherwise (and this is a wild, wild mix of genres and themes):
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (started)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (started)
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Nothing by Janne Teller
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann (short story)
Momo by Michael Ende
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
The Wave by Morton Rhue
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (just started this but loving it already)
As you can see, I’m reading a lot of classics right now, so I apologize if this is all literature you’ve read before. Maybe this was helpful? Enjoy!
books you drank up with your soul and animals you gave a home to and the plants you raised with your own fingers and rain tapping softly against your window at night will never break your heart.
40mg:
If you think about it in the shower, you’re not over it
I’m apparently not over the burning of the library at Alexandria
Is anyone truly over it?
They shouldn’t be
When books burn, our hearts do too.
Let’s be honest – the real potential of immortality having the time to read every single book you’re curious about, watch all the movies you’ve ever wanted to see and discover music you never even knew existed.
Moami 