I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s wife

Why is love intensified by absence?

Audrey Niffenegger, from ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’

The short version: Alexandra discovers a bookmobile in her town that contains everything she has ever read, from childhood books to her own diary to cereal boxes.  She forms a connection with the librarian and becomes a librarian herself, as the bookmobile disappears and randomly appears throughout her life.  She wishes to join the organization that arranged it, but they decline her offer.

What I thought:  I like the concept, and the back assured me that this was the first iteration of a much larger work, but until then, it just seemed kind of pointless.  I got really interested just before the end, and then it was done and there was nothing left for me to do except wonder where the last few minutes went and why.
Alexandra, I think, would be much more interesting of a character if she did anything.  While I’m right there with her in insisting that reading is something, and a worthy activity and an incredible experience, it is not something that’s all that interesting to watch someone else do.  Right as I was about to wonder if she would ever do anything outside of the written word, she slits her wrists and magically joins the bookmobilers, who apparently require that in order to join them the end go home we’re done.
What?  No, that’s–I refuse to believe that the only interesting thing that a human ever did was die.  No.  Decline.  That is the wrong fucking message, and Niffenegger should have known better.
Also, maybe she ought to have considered that she isn’t all that good of an artist.  It was pretty well done for an amateur, and did at least look like the work of someone who had taken an art class and understood perspective and expression.  The quality slipped a lot whenever the focus was on a character that didn’t already look like Niffenegger herself, and even then, slipped further when given a front-face view.  I’ve reviewed plenty of things that had sloppy style or unusual dialogue choices, but this is not like those things.  It’s pretty much a boring picture book that should have been interesting, with not that great art.  Sorry.
I can give you stories of voracious readers that were interesting, though.  Worry not.

Read instead: Matildaby Roald Dahl, Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Know-It-All by AJ Jacobs.

moonlitinks:

author-a-holmes:

tam-is-writing:

asher-orion-writes:

moonlitinks:

me, desperate for some writer friends/mutuals

hi everyone!

this is just a post where writers get to know writers, and hopefully through reblogs/comments we can find more people who not only read/write our genre, but just people who have similarities with us.

it’s kind of a simple “get to know me” post, and anyone can join <3

feel free to tag your mutuals and reblog !!

name:
genres you like to write in:
genres you like to read in + fav books/media:
favorite line from your current wip:

name:ave

genres you like to write in: currently writing contemporary (ya/romcom/romance, give me them ALL), but I also like to dabble in fantasy!

genres you like to read in + fav books/media: i’ll consume literally anything haha. Fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, romance, young adult, you name it. I’m awful with horror, though ;-;

percy jackson (MY CHILDHOOD), harry potter (OBVIOUSLY), Better Than the Movies, From Lukov with Love, The Love Hypothesis, These Violent Delights, the list goes on…

favorite or latest line from your current wip: [latest line, because what a mood- from Destination Seoul]Ha. Per usual, the universe hates me.

Name:Asher-Orion

Genres I like to write in: Dystopia (that’s also kind of a murder mystery), apocalyptic, fantasy, sci-fi, romance, love a good bit of romance.

Genres I like to read in: Honestly, a bit of everything! It depends on how I’m feeling, but there’s nothing I hate!

Favourite Books: The Atlas Six - Olivie Blake, really enjoying a Bioshock book atm, Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, but I don’t think I could ever read it again, big fan of The Mortal Instruments series, and that entire world-relate prequels and sequels, again, a bit of everything.

Latest line of my current WIP: “April rubs his eyes, trying to remember when he last took his medication, he’s sure it was at some point today, but it’s late, and he feels foggy.” (From Neon Glow)

name: tam!

genres you like to write in: uh, fantasy? I like scifi but I’m not very good at it. I’m chucking shit in a blender and hoping it makes a genre when I’m finished

genres you like to read in + fav books/media: sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, space westerns/operas, history/alt history, steampunk & more! Terry Pratchet, Tamora Pierce, Brian Jacques, Brandon Sanderson, asimov, Mercedes Lackey,Robert Jordan, Joy Demorra, & so so many more

favorite line from your current wip: Mal was Cayn’s brother in practically every sense of the word, despite his heritage, despite the whispers, despite, despite, despite! Cayn will do anything for his family, and burn the world. And so Cayn stood behind Maelus, eyes sparking above his trademark grin, and dared the world to comment on the revival of his brother’s clan.

Tagging some Mutuals, but consider this an open tag!

@sylhorn@queen-kass-the-writer@authorminamoroz@faelanvance@jezifster@josephinegerardywriter@jezifster@athenswrites@afoolandathief

Name: Arista Holmes aka Ari

Genres you like to write in: Fantasy and Science Fiction, but I’m predominantly settled into fantasy writing right now, of all kinds. Urban, Portal, Epic, Romantic, etc.

Genres you like to read in + fav books/media: Speculative Fiction. Fantasy of all types, Science Fiction of all types, Time Travel fiction. I also like the occasional classic such as Pride and Prejudice, or Wuthering Heights. I also like childrens books, Beatrix Potter, Artemis Fowl, Watership Down. Basically, if it’s a good story, I’ll read it. My favourite book ever is Wuthering Heights, but my favourite Genre is Epic Fantasy (Series).

Favorite line from your current wip:

His feet didn’t move from her side, and when she glanced up, his hand was held out to her. Patiently waiting for her to notice.

And wasn’t that just a metaphor for their entire relationship.

@author-a-holmes I think I’ve said this to so many people today haha, but I will literally take any fantasy recs <3

OKAY BUT I HAVE NOT SEEN A TIME TRAVEL FICTION. ONLY IN MOVIES because I heard that nobody does them right, so you’ll have to introduce me to some that you’ll like! Classics will always have our hearts.

THE LAST LINE. THAT HIT ME TOO HARD.

I’m very much a fan of (what I title) old-style fantasy, so most of my rec’s are probably older books but honestly, *anything* by David and Leigh Eddings I would recommend for a fantasy buff.

Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series is good for the first 7-8 books, and after that the recaps of “what happened before” take up too much of the opening chapters for me to push through.

The Witcher books by Andrew Sapkowski are also incredible.

And, of course, anything written by Neil Gaiman is a delightful adventure.

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As for Time Travel Fiction, I’ll admit I was mostly thinking of movies when I wrote that, but there are a few books too.

The Time Travellers Wife. While this is a movie, and also, recently, a tv series (Which I can’t wait to see!) it was based on a book of the same name by Audrey Niffenegger.

The Outlander books by Diana Gabaldon is another awesome time travel book series.

Somewhere in Time (1980) with Christopher Reeve is a lovely time travel film, and was also based on a book (although I’ve admittedly, not read the book) called “Bid Time Return” by Richard Matheson. He also helped write the screenplay, and since the film’s awesome, I suspect the book is worth a go too.

My other favourite time travel story is the film “The Lake House” with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Absolutely gorgeous story, one of my fave’s.

I, admittedly, get most of my time travel fix through fanfiction, because it seems like a drastically under-written-in section of fiction. Having said that, I may or may not have a bunny in the back of my head about a time travelling scientist, and an immortal phoenix who always bumps into her when she jumps through time.

EDIT TO ADD:

Oh! Oh! A Discovery of Witches! Book trilogy, and a 3-season TV series, both are great, but the books are phenomenal. In Book Two, they travel back in time, and the whole concept is done very, very well!

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That snippet… Mwahahaa

It’s a new story bunny. Honestly, I spotted your post on a day where I’d been in a bit of a writing drought, so I threw together a 15 minute writing exercise so I had a line to share.

I posted the completed snippet if you want to see how it ends, but it’s honestly just a small piece of character interaction that has helped me get a grasp on the characters a bit more.

I’m still worldbuilding for the Chronicles of Verald, but it’s looking like a huge adventure, a world spanning continents, and on my current writing schedule I can’t start telling Nik and Mallory’s story until 2024.

I’ve got Fey Touched Trilogy,A Little Touch of Magic Anthology,A Grim Awakening, and book two of the Stolen Stories, Takeover, to write before then!

Not that I’m inundated with projects or anything…..