part 370 fresh flowers on a side table in the morning

[aphanon_meme]

Um, 2020 was a year that happened. 2021 is a new year that will happen! With flowers! And side tables! And mornings! And I didn't want to make some sort of 20s-themed name because look what happened in 2020, look what happened.

Enjoy part 370!

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Re: itt: books

[(Anonymous)]

I'm looking for a new book to start this weekend. Not sure what I want to read right now.

I... have a bad habit of buying tons of books, then never reading them. So I've been doing periodic book unhauls since the pandemic started. It's nerve-wracking and a bit freeing all at the same time. I haven't actually uh, gotten rid of the books--they're all stacked in sealed boxes while I try to find somewhere that's taking donations. And honestly sometimes I want to rip open the boxes and take books back. I have a very "collector" brain and it definitely contributed to book hoarding!

Getting an e-reader definitely helped because I can go okay okay, get rid of The Joy Luck Club that you've had for 10 years but haven't read, because you can just check it out on the e-reader and if you REALLY like it, you can find a cheap used copy for sure later on.

/sa

[(Anonymous)]

Also I used to go to library book sales and thrift stores and get so SO MANY BOOKS, simply because they were 25 cents or $1 each or sometimes even less. I liked the idea of having sections in my bookshelves--oh here's my historical fiction medieval section, here's my historical fiction tudor section, here's my English history section,here's my highly specific "books about ladies-in-waiting and women adjacent to famous historical figures" section, here's my giant pile of Red Riding Hood adaptations, etc--but the pandemic has actually helped me rewrite my priorities regarding books. The priority is now books that I have read and LOVED, books within very specific niches (like Romanov history) and books that are rare, not in the library system, and don't have an e-book version that I can pickup. These go in my "READ BEFORE X DATE" pile, and if I don't read them, out they go.

Re: itt: books

[zeetee]

Oof, same, I’m pretty picky but I still wind up with tons of books after library sales... The past few sales pre-covid I brought my rolling backpack to haul them home!

(Seeing your other comment... AnastasiaFic!anon? That you? ‘o’a)

Re: itt: books

[(Anonymous)]

Pre-covid library sales are a weakness! Somehow any pickiness about books goes out the window when they're so cheap.

(I miss them. But I wonder, when they open again, how I will approach them!)

And omg same! I would bring one of those rolly shopping carts you use to bring in groceries from your car.

(Seeing your other comment... AnastasiaFic!anon? That you? ‘o’a)

IT....IS..... ;adfs; ;;;; /twilight zone music

not to be weird but ngl I think about a comment you made on one of my wips whenever I'm working & editing.

It's now an expanded meta-ish novel with the Anastasia POV being an interlude in between the story of a protagonist who is playing Anastasia in the 2000s play, before the final 2 Romanov bodies were discovered!

Re: itt: books

[zeetee]

Last time the local library decided to forego individual pricing save for the rare books, and just went "ehh, pay whatever you like for all of it" and I was like THIS IS A DANGEROUS THING TO SAY TO AN ADDICT....

(With more solid goals in mind, perhaps? ;3;)

OHO I still got those sleuthing skills! sdcjk that's really flattering, oh wow... what did I say? 'o'

That sounds really cool, anon! I think about the scenes you posted now and again, especially the bitter little line from Anastasia mentioning "a song about December"

Re: itt: books

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my gosh that sounds like a dream!! A dangerous dream for sure.

(Yeah!!)

I... MAY HAVE... bookmarked it, because I bookmarked any comments I got because they were so nice: https://aphanon-meme.dreamwidth.org/89779.html?thread=884723379#cmt884723379

;;sd thank you, that is really nice to hear. The meme's the only place I ever posted snippets of it, so I like to think back to what people have said, it gives me motivation.

Re: itt: books

[zeetee]

Very dangerous, I think I lugged home fortysomething books last time :’D

Aww anon! I’m really flattered I made an impact like that! Also thank you for the link, it means I get to read it again for the first time in years! Still so good, though I feel guilty that I now have Once Upon A December stuck in my head, ahah, sorry, Anastasia ;3;

When it’s finished, you’ll let us know where we can read it, right?? OuO