This is a book blog. Dan, 38
How do people get to own secondhand bookshops. Not the big/newer quirky ones, but the little dusty ones that are piled high with books and always staffed by that same old guy who’s reading behind the desk. How do these businesses even begin, how do they survive, they feel like they were passed down by immortals and staffed by retired druids or something
Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse, for some.
The Handmaids Tale.
I was really interested in the latest ‘Tales from the Folly (Ships in the night).’ - Action at a Distance Vol 2.
Is Molly secretly shipping Peter and Nightingale? or are there other motives? Why was she using Peters laptop to write it?
When Marnie was there: When Anna was Accidentally Gay for her Grandma
My Neighbour Totoro: 1st ever Ghibli Movie
Spirited Away: 2nd 1st ever Ghibli Movie
Princess Mononoke: Scary Deer Jesus
Pom Poko: Balls
The Cat Returns: Everyone’s Unexpected Furry Awakening
From Up On Poppy Hill: You May be My Brother But I’d Totally Do You
Ponyo: The Little Mermaid But With Kindergartners
Grave of the Fireflies: Greatest Movie Ever Made That You’ll Never Watch Again
Only Yesterday: Greatest Ghibli Movie Ever Made That Barely Anyone Has Ever Watched (j/k: Best Ending Ever)
Whisper of the Heart: I Wish My Teenage Life Was This Idyllic
Kiki’s Delivery Service: Too Many Bloomer Shots
Laputa: Castle in the Sky: Falling From Terrifying Heights: The Movie
Howl’s Moving Castle: The One With The Hot Bishounen
Tale of the Princess Kaguya: Fucking Moon People
Current mood.
Basically Eloise was a pretty normal woman who spent her whole life being told that she was a sinner.
When she dies he gets sent to hell because god has the hump and sends everyone to hell anyway.
When she gets there Eloise volunteers to be a demon because you know, she must be evil, everyone in authority always said that she was.
Her first job is to go back to earth and torment some ner’do’well. She decides that she will appear in their mirror for a split second looking all gross and demonic and take it from there.
When she does she notices that they have a pup that looks very similar to one she had in her 20s (which was a very happy period in her life).
Anyway one thing leads to another and she eventually ends up dog sitting so that the owner who she was supposed to be tormenting can take their partner on a mini break.
After that she starts helping out all the sinners she’s supposed to be demoning by doing small chores etc.
Soon her boss finds out and he’s like dude, you can’t do this. But secretly he liked it so he turns a blind eye.
One day Satan is doing some random spot checks (to make sure everyone is demoning correctly) and he finds Eloise scrubbing the shower of a mortal woman who she was supposed to be teorrising for some silly reason.
Obviously he’s a bit wtf about the whole thing and suspends her on the spot saying he will deal with her later.
Later that day Eloise is called to Satan’s office for a meeting with HR.
When she gets there Eloise says that she wants to torment people but she prefers helping them instead and explains that it seems to her that most of these people haven’t really done anything wrong anyway.
Fortunately Satan has had time to get over his shock and has decided that he likes this new direction and gets the HR rep to write up a memo to all demons saying from now on they have to be helpful and not all demony.
At first it doesn’t go down too well but after a while the demons really get into it and now you have demon dog walkers, demon baby sitters etc.
Anyway the moral is you aren’t a bad person just because others/religion/social media say you are.
The end.
god my absolute favorite feeling is devouring a book, when you get so into the pages and the words that you have to stop your eyes from skipping lines and force yourself to read every word, when you’re so impatient for what happens next that you can’t sit still while reading, when you have to re read whole pages because you were too busy predicting and anticipating that you missed the actual events, when you read a part that’s too good for words and you have to close the book and scream into your pillow, that’s what reading a truly great book is about and the feeling is even better when you haven’t found a book like that in a long time and then you stumble across one and something inside of you awakens
