#300-499 pages

[hondana]

#15 The Wedding Party - Lin Xinwu | China | historical fiction | 399 pages

On a December morning in 1982, the courtyard of a Beijing siheyuan—a lively quadrangle of homes—begins to stir. Auntie Xue’s son Jiyue is getting married today, and she is determined to make the day a triumph. Despite Jiyue’s woeful ignorance in matters of the heart—and the body. Despite a chef in training tasked with the onerous responsibility of preparing the banquet. With a cross-generational multitude of guests, from anxious family members to a fretful bridal party—not to mention exasperating friends, interfering neighbors, and wedding crashers—what will the day ahead bring?

Set at a pivotal point after the turmoil of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Liu Xinwu’s tale weaves together a rich tapestry of characters, intertwined lives, and stories within stories. The Wedding Party is a touching, hilarious portrait of life in this singular city, all packed into a Beijing courtyard on a single day that manages to be both perfectly normal and utterly extraordinary at the same time.

from: Goodreads

#liu xinwu #asia #china #historical fiction #300-499 pages #not read #poc

[trivalentlinks]

Saw (and reblogged) a Benfords Law post going around asking people to vote the first digit of the current number of votes, which is cool! There's something deterministic about it, though (explanation below cut).

So let's do a more chaotic (less predictable) version and see if it still works:

Please vote the first digit of the number of notes on the post directly above this one on your dash.

So if the previous post has 213 notes, vote 2. If there is no previous post or it has no notes, use the post below. If that also has no notes or would take too much scrolling, vote None.

Then please reblog so more people can see this and we can try to get a better distribution!

Explanation:

For the version where you vote the first digit of the number of votes on the current poll, it's deterministic (up to human/computer error) because:

Based on the total number of votes at the end, say N, you can predict (without Benford's Law) how many votes each digit should have, assuming everyone votes correctly, because you know how many numbers less than N have each digit as their first digit.

For example, when I voted and reblogged there were roughly 28000 votes, and the numbers for digits 3-9 were the same, which could have been predicted from the fact that the number of numbers <28000 that start with a 3 is the same as the number of them that start with a 4, etc: they are all 1,111:

For 3 it's 1000 (for numbers 3000-3999) + 100 (for numbers 300-399) + 10 (for numbers 30-39) + 1 (for the number 3), so 1111.

Same for those that start with 4: 1000 (for numbers 4000-4999) + 100 (for numbers 400-499) + 10 (for numbers 40-49) + 1 (for the number 3), so 1111.

The number for 1 would be the same 1,111 as above except with an extra 10,000 for numbers 10,000-20,000, so total 11,111.

And for 2 would be 81,111, for the same 1111 as before but plus 80,000 for 20,000-28,000 (where 28,000 is the total number of votes).

There would be some error due to people voting incorrectly, or timing issues (someone voting before seeing the page update from the previous person's vote), but the distribution would be mostly predictable.

(Though this is not exactly the right distribution, because in the poll they all basically had 6% and the calculation says it should be 4%; I wonder if a nontrivial number of people are accidentally clicking last digit instead?)

#benford's law #math #mathblr #tumblr polls #statistics #distributions #benfords law #benford

[bookwyrminspiration]

@pippinpaddleopsicopolis09 well I can certainly try! he shows up very sporadically and more often than Gethen, so I may have missed a scene or two, but I've probably got at least 95% of them :)

Book 1: 117-121, Elwin's intro; 199-201, treating Sophie's acid burn; 221-225, splotching incident; 290 (mentioned choice of locker flavor); 295-300, starlight bottling incident; 303-309, nonspeaking, but present at 1st tribunal; 333-340; 1st allergy incident; 406-407, treating everblaze bottling burns; 451-458; treatment post kidnapping

Book 2: 38-40, quick check-up; 253-256, post legal Exile trip (with a few off-page mentions following); 291-293, 296-313, Alden's mind breaks; 356-360, quick check up; 374-378, post Bronte inflicting on her; 398-399, slight fading; 460-463, Lodestar mirror collapse; 483, off-page mentions; 523-534, post reset/attack treatment; 547-548, fixing Alden

Book 3: 141-148, skin melting; 231-233, quick check up; 427-429, post unmapped star leaps; 486-499, ability restrictor is put on; 599-600, post-Everest treatment

Book 4: 424-428, bringing sick gnome to Elwin; 550-555, check-up at Stina's house; 624-637, post Ravagog treatment

Book 5: 492-494, post ogre-attack; 576-577, post fight treatment; 649, off-page mention; 657-658, off-page mention

Book 6: 335-353, post Mercadir spar; 766, 769, off page mentions

Book 7: 110-135, 140-150, 169-220, 234-235, 239-242, 246-247, 252-253, 256-264, 268-271, 282-301, 313-320, 338-346, 379-387, 390-391, 403-404, 410-412, 416, 419, 422, 427-431 (assorted healing center scenes); 486-488, 491-493 house check up; 690-692, healing center check up

Book 8: 472-482, 491, 494, post Loamnore + ability reset; 508-511, 516-517, post reset check up; 586-593 post London trip (non speaking except for 589); 768-774, post Loamnore-fight

Book 8.5: 541-601, Keefe wakes and moves to Elwin's house; 650-657, experimenting w/ stopping Keefe's ability; 671-678, experimenting again; 686-689, Dex call

Book 9: 13-20, Elwin v Ro post Keefe leaving

I hope this is helpful--and if anyone knows ones I missed, feel free to tell me :)

#kotlc #elwin heslege #there of course may be some non-speaking mentions around the page ranges i've included #i've just judged what seems like he's more /there/ #but it's my judgement and you may disagree in which case. those are just general areas! #i spend my time wisely *thumbs up* #man now i'm wondering how much info i could add to the wiki #i haven't looked at it in a while...but there are so many posts on my blog with info the wiki doesn't have... #long post

[bashsbooks]

for bonus points, tell me what book it was!

#books #long books #book polls #polls #bookblr #honestly i don't read a lot of books over 600 pages... my longest book cover to cover is probably the priory of the orange tree #although one day i hope my answer will be les mis i keep trying to read it #this poll was actually prompted by my partner tho who just finished worm #which according to wikipedia is one of the longest novels?? like its in the 10 ten list #it's listed as 6680 pages on the storygraph #wtf tbh

[panvani]

Storygraph's categorization of book lengths (<300 pages, 300-499, 500+) strikes me as kind of odd. Book length doesn't factor into my selection process at all, but the <300 books make up the vast majority of what I've read just because that seems like the length most books happen to be?

#logxx #200 pages seems to be a more sensible cutoff point I think most books I own are between 200 and 300 pages

[thoughtfulfangirling]

I didn't expect to read more this year than I did last, but so far, I'm way ahead of schedule for reading more books than I did last year. Granted though, I know I've had some shorter books. I've done mroe nonfiction this year, and those tend to seem to run 300 or less pages.

Let's see some actual stats hmm.

2021: 62 books read, 34% books were <300 pages, 56% 300-499 pages, and 10% 500+ pages read

2022: 60 boos read (so far): 33% <300 pages, 57% 300-499 pages, 10% 500+ pages.

Huh, very similar stats. Okay yeah, just reading a fair amount more this year. I'm pleased.

I really liked the 'let people choose books for me to read' thing I did this year. It was nice to try some stuff I normally wouldn't touch. I'm wondering if maybe next year I might once again steal ideas off Doc and see if there are any people who would actually like to pitch me books and I can make every so many books be one of those reads (unless I have a theme for a month like spooks for October). Just wondering if anyone would actually send me stuff XD

#tf reads #books #2021 reads #2022 reads #2023 reads #la de da #just musings #tfgoc

[libertyreads]

Mid-Year Check In--

My reading so far this year:

I’ve read a total of 87 distinct works. 26 of those are comics. 2 are graphic novels. 18 are novellas or short stories. 41 are full length novels.

I’ve read mostly books that are fewer than 300 pages while the second highest amount is books between 300 and 499 pages. The books I’ve read the fewest of are over 500 pages.

I have read exclusively fiction. Hi, have we met? Of course I have.

My most read genres are comics, YA (which I would argue is an age range and not a genre, Storygraph), romance, fantasy, and science fiction.

I read mostly print books and a much smaller portion digitally.

My most read authors this year are James S.A. Corey and the authors of the Lumberjanes comic series.

I’ve given out more 4 stars than any other rating. But next up is 3 stars. Sadly, I’ve read zero 5 stars. But I’m not surprised since that is reserved for new favorite books of all time.

So, how am I doing with my reading goals for 2022?

Goal #1 was to read between 52 and 104 books in 2022. If we don’t count comic books then I’m doing pretty well. I’ve read 26 comic books so far this year out of 87 total works read. So, subtracting those I’ve read 61 books so far this year...Yeah, okay I might be screwed if I don’t slow down my reading a bit. I want to try to tackle harder reads or bigger books in the back half of the year so I can enjoy what I’m reading without stressing about goals or whatever is making me act like a mad person.

Goal #2 was to use Storygraph and I’m doing really well on that front. The only trouble I’ve found so far is that it sometimes doesn’t have books that I’m reading if they aren’t well known. I’m talking short stories that only have 7 or 8 ratings on GoodReads. So, I don’t exactly blame Storygraph, but it does make it a little annoying sometimes.

Goal #3 was about reviewing books and book buying. The goal was to review new to me books only and to post them here as well as GoodReads and Storygraph which I’m doing so far. But the second part of this is just a solid fail on my part. I kind of forgot it was a thing. I wanted to only buy new to me books if they were a continuation of a series I’m reading or if they were part of projects I’m working on. I can aim to do better with that in the rest of the year. You know, once my birthday passes.

Goal #4 was to make reading fun again. I made this goal because I was constantly stressed about reading and wanting to read as much as possible so I could have “Content” (BLAH) for my blog or my IG. And I feel like I have been doing that, but I’m still reading at a pace that would match last year. I’m just reading shorter things and more fun things. So, if I could dial that back while still reading things I think I’ll enjoy then I could say I’ve achieved this goal.

#midyear check in #midyear #goal check in #bookish #booklr #bookstagram #books read in 2022 #books #bookblr #new year resolutions #kinda #reading goals

[hedghost]

OOOOO tell me about your story graph stats.

I’m on 13 books

4,130 pages

75% medium pace

77% 300-499 pages

85% fiction

here’s mine :) i read a lot of short books lol

[wednesday5econlive]

How I couldn't get tickets to see Taylor Swift this year

Gayathri Yedavilli

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Wednesday 5PM

Despite staying up late catching up on studying the night before, I was wide awake by 9AM on November 15, 2022. I quickly grabbed a plate of eggs and pancakes, and sat down with my laptop open to the Ticketmaster website – the Taylor Swift presale tickets went on sale in a few minutes. I had my presale code ready to go since I knew that it would be difficult to get these tickets due to the high demand (as Taylor Swift had not gone on tour since 2018), however nothing could have prepared me for this ticketing experience. As Ticketmaster was the primary seller for “face-value” tickets for this tour (& many others), Ticketmaster was flooded with users waiting in queue for the limited tickets. One of the most popular tweets I saw that day was:

Even though this was clearly an exaggeration, that’s what it felt like. Despite Ticketmaster postponing the west coast ticket sales, I never got past the queue. Even if I did make it to the page where I could purchase tickets, I would not have been able to afford the ticket prices. 

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world entered a phase of lockdown in which strict CDC regulations canceled almost all in-person events, including concerts. So revenue for ticketing companies reached an all time low and barely any profits were being made during 2020 and 2021. Everyone, myself included, was completely deprived of live events, gatherings, and social interaction with others and so when health regulations loosened and live shows began, people jumped on this opportunity. As a result, there was a large increase in demand for concerts, and therefore the e-ticketing market saw an increase in demand.

As a result of this increase in demand, scalpers began to resell their face-value tickets (ranging from $49-$499) for thousands of dollars. For example, let’s say that two friends, Jill and Joe, were trying to purchase tickets for Taylor Swift’s concert. Jill and Joe had a monthly disposable income of $3,000 and $3,500, respectively, and the price of a resale floor ticket was $2,432. Jill preferred a floor ticket over a ticket for Section 100, and she preferred a Section 100 ticket over Section 300. On the other hand, Joe preferred Section 300 to Section 100, and a floor ticket over a Section 300 ticket. Therefore, for Jill: Floor ticket ≻ Section 100 ticket ≻ Section 300 ticket, and for Joe: Floor ticket ≻ Section 300 ticket ≻ Section 100 ticket. Therefore, both friends have rational preferences (as their preferences are both complete and transitive). Since both Jill and Joe are able to afford the floor ticket price with their income and they unanimously prefer floor tickets over the terrace and section 100 tickets, the two friends should purchase floor tickets to the concert. If the floor tickets cost over $4,000 each, neither Jill nor Joe would have been able to afford the floor tickets.

sample concert seating chart for reference

But, Ticketmaster wasn’t the only firm seeing an increase in demand. The ticketing industry has the market structure of an oligopoly, in which there are a few firms and identical products. When Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation in 2010, the company’s sales boomed. Ticketmaster controlled almost 80% of the market for tickets to major concerts. Ever since then, Ticketmaster has continued to have the largest market share compared to any other company in the ticketing industry, such as AXS, SeatGeek, or StubHub.

Despite the pandemic halting almost all of the traffic on ticketing platforms in 2020, Ticketmaster has managed to maintain the largest share of the e-ticketing market in today’s world, with control over about 70% of the e-ticketing market. In the future, the closer Ticketmaster gets to approaching control over a 100% of the market and dominating the market as the industry leader, Ticketmaster will start displaying more characteristics of a monopoly.

Knowing this, we can conclude that Ticketmaster will have the power to set prices for tickets based on demand for each concert. In fact, they have already introduced and implemented a platinum pricing feature where the prices of concert tickets increase based on the demand for the tickets. This just made it more difficult for me to get tickets to any other artists (like SZA), let alone just Taylor Swift.

[lucie-fir]

I've read 44 books this year, which sounds like a lot (because it is) but simultaneously not enough because I've (conservatively) read about 4,000,000 words on AO3

The internet says there are approx 300 words per page in a print novel, my tracker says I tend to read books in the 300-499 page range

So I've read an additional 26(?) books in fic?????

#did i do that math right? #help i can't do math I'm gay #so that's 70 books? if ive read a lil less hermione shenanigans i could say ive read 70 books???? #im still gonna say i read 70 books probably

[hondana]

#20 The Subversive - Jose Rizal | Philippines | literary fiction, political | 324 pages

José Rizal has a good claim to being the first Asian nationalist. An extremely talented Malay born a hundred years ago in a small town near Manila, educated partly in the Philippines and partly in Europe, Rizal inspired the Filipinos by his writing and example to make the first nationalist revolution in Asia in 1896. Today the Philippines revere Rizal as their national hero, and they regard his two books, The Lost Eden (Noli Me Tangere) and The Subversive (El Filibusterismo) as the gospel of their nationalism.

The Subversive, first published in 1891, is strikingly timely today. New nations emerging in Africa and Asia are once again in conflict with their former colonial masters, as were the Filipinos with their Spanish rulers in Rizal's day. The Subversive poses questions about colonialism which are still being asked today: does a civilizing mission justify subjection of a people? Should a colony aim at assimilation or independence? If independence, should it be by peaceful evolution or force of arms?

Despite the seriousness of its theme, however, The Subversive is more than a political novel. It is a romantic, witty, satirical portrait of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines at the end of the nineteenth century, written in the tradition of the great adventure romances. The translation by Leon Ma. Guerrero, Philippine ambassador to the Court of St. James, conveys the immediacy of the original, and makes this important work available to a new generation of readers. His translation of The Lost Eden is also available in the Norton Library.

from: Amazon

#jose rizal #asia #philippines #literary fiction #politics #300-499 pages #not read

[grindbar]

drink & kink

For those particularly daring or wanting to try something wild, our ‘Drink & Kink’ challenge is the game to play. In this game the bartender will make you a mystery shot to drink. However the mystery of the liquor inside the drink is not the focus of this game. It is the drug that spikes the drink.

Every D&K shot is spiked with a mystery drug that when consumed with the drink, will create a temporary kinky change to the drinker. These changes will be emotional or perception based and are only temporary, effects usually lasting from a few minutes up to an hour. Once they fade away there is no lingering side effect or harm to the drinker.

Once you have been served your shot you will take the drink and do a /random roll. Once you have your random roll number you will then proceed to the page linked below to reveal what effect your PYP shot drug gives. You are then free to roleplay out your character under these effects and have fun with it! CLICK THE READ MORE FOR THE KINK & DRINK EFFECTS SHEET

000-099 The Nudist - You feel a sudden urge to strip out of your clothing completely and try to urge others to do the same!

100-199 The Dirty Talker - Every time you speak your words come out really dirty and raunchy no matter what you have to say.

200-299 The Auralist - Any time you hear the word "grind" or "Rusty Nut" you feel an orgasmic sensation take over you. The words turn you on for some reason!

300-399 The Praised - Whenever someone compliments you or praises you, you feel extremely turned on and horny by it.

400-499 The Degraded - You find yourself getting really turned on by having someone insulting or humiliating you.

500-599 The Pet - You have a great use to be treated as someone's pet and are extremely turned on by it. Head pats make you horny.

600-699 The Roleplayer - You get turned on to the idea of roleplay sexy roles/scenes with someone. (Maid/Master, Chirurgeon/Patient, etc)

700-799 The Exhibitionist - The idea of having sex in front of everyone and in public is super arousing to you and makes you extremely horny to do.

800-899 The Voyeurist - Seeing and watching other people having sex around you makes you incredibly horny. You get turned on just by watching!

900-999 The Fellatio Enthusiast - The idea of giving or receiving oral sex is extremely arousing and sexually satisfying to you.

#grind-games

[booksociety]

As you may have noticed, at the beginning of this year the Book Society network took a small break. We are now slowly coming back starting with our first event of 2021! Before introducing it, we would like to inform you about a few minor changes to the layout our events. Firstly, there will no longer be a book of the month, but of course that you're still more than welcome to buddy-read any book you choose. Secondly, our events will now be running for two months instead of just one. We hope that this will allow more people to participate and finish their books, especially during busier times of the year. Thank you for your understanding and for your kind support!

And now, without further ado we present our March and April reading event! This time, the members have chosen Author Debuts as our theme. Come and join us by reading the first-ever book published by any author of your choice. This event is open to everyone, not just our members.

✧ how to participate:

optional: reblog this post; check out our network and members

read (or reread) a book of your choice that fits this month’s theme

share what book you’ve chosen, thoughts, reactions, and/or creations

use the tag #booksocietynet in your posts, and include “@booksociety ’s Author Debuts Event: [insert book title here]” in the description of your creations

the event starts on March 15 and ends on April 31

✧ reading recommendations (under the cut):

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson (young adult, fantasy, romance; 300 pages; tw: violence, death)

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #1) by Roseanne A. Brown (young adult, fantasy, romance; 480 pages; tw: anxiety attacks, death, animal death, discrimination)

A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum (adult, literary fiction; 339 pages; tw: domestic abuse, misogyny)

Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (adult, contemporary, romance, retellings; 351 pages; tw: islamophobia, racism, death of a parent, alcoholism)

Blood Heir (Blood Heir Trilogy #1) by Amélie Wen Zhao (young adult, fantasy, retelling; 464 pages; tw: violence, death, blood/gore, mentions of off-page emotional manipulation, indentured labour)

Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women #1) by Evie Dunmore (adult, historical romance; 345 pages; tw: misogyny, miscarriage)

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (young adult, fantasy, lgbt+; 352 pages; tw: transphobia, blood, death, racism)

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer (young adult, fantasy, scifi, retelling; 400 pages; tw: abuse, terminal illness, death, ableism)

Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians #1) by Kevin Kwan (adult, contemporary, romance; 403 pages; tw: animal cruelty)

Crier's War (Crier's War #1) by Nina Varela (young adult, fantasy, lgbt+; 464 pages; tw: death, violence, grief, mental illness)

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (young adult, contemporary, romance; 306 pages; tw: chronic illness, confinement, death)

Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid (adult, romance, contemporary; 321 pages; tw: death, grief, car accident)

Graceling (The Graceling Realm #1) by Kristin Cashore (young adult, fantasy; 471 pages; tw: death, gore, violence)

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (adult, romance, contemporary, lgbt+; 352 pages; tw: self harm, mental illness, panick attacks, racism, homophobia)

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang (adult, historical fiction, lgbt+; 288 pages; tw: transphobia, racism)

Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha #1) by Tomi Adeyemi (young adult, fantasy; 544 pages; tw: death, violence, torture, blood, genocide, colourism)

Legendborn (Legendborn #1) by Tracy Deonn (young adult, fantasy, lgbt+, retelling; 501 pages; tw: loss of a parent, grief, mentions of slavery, generational trauma)

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (young adult, contemporary, lgbt+; 293 pages; tw: homophobia, suicide, death, self harm)

Red Rising (Red Rising Saga #1) by Pierce Brown (adult, sci-fi, dystopia; 382 pages; tw: colourism, gore, violence, death, slavery, body horror)

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (new adult, romance, contemporary, lgbt+; 421 pages; tw: homophobia, drug use mention, panic attacks)

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (classics, historical fiction, romance; 409 pages; tw: grief, misogyny)

Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove #1) by Shelby Mahurin (young/new adult, fantasy, romance; 513 pages; tw: death, religious bigotry, misogyny, physical abuse, violence)

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood #1) by Becky Albertalli (young adult, romance, contemporary, lgbt+; 303 pages; tw: forced outing, homophobia, bullying)

Solitaire (Solitaire #1) by Alice Oseman (young adult, romance, contemporary, lgbt+; 392 pages; tw: mental illness, suicidal thoughts, self harm, suicide attempt, eating disorder, homophobia)

Starstruck (Starstruck #1) by S.E. Anderson (sci-fi, new adult; 495 pages)

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (adult, contemporary; 310 pages; tw: racism, police brutality, body shaming)

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (adult, mystery, thriller; 342 pages; tw: fat shaming, violence, death, suicide, murder)

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (young adult, fabulism, mental health; 480 pages; tw: suicide, death of a parent, grief, mental illness)

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1) by S.A. Chakraborty (adult, fantasy; 533 pages; tw: violence, blood, gore, slavery, xenophobia)

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo (adult, historical fiction, paranromal, romance; 390 pages; tw: death, death of a parent, addiction, misogyny)

The Gilded Ones (Deathless #1) by Namina Forna (young adult, fantasy; 432 pages; tw: violence, torture, death, misogyny, abuse, body horror, confinement)

The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni #1) by Helene Wecker (adult, historical, fantasy; 486 pages; tw: violence, rape)

The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give #1) by Angie Thomas (young adult, contemporary; 444 pages; tw: police brutality, racism, death, violence, addiction)

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (adult, contemporary, romance; 387 pages; tw: body shaming)

The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (young adult, contemporary, romance, lgbt+; 400 pages; tw: homophobia, lesbophobia, racism, bullying)

The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient #1) by Helen Hoang (adult, contemporary, romance; 323 pages; tw: ableism, cancer, sexual assault, sexism)

The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard #1) by Scott Lynch (adult, fantasy; 499 pages; tw: violence, death)

The Near Witch (The Near Witch #1) by V.E. Schwab (young adult, fantasy, romance; 354 pages; tw: self harm, kidnapping, animal death, abuse, death of a parent)

The Orchard by David Hopen (adult, dark academia; 480 pages; tw: death, addiction, grief, animal cruelty)

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (young adult, poetry, contemporary; 368 pages; tw: emotional abuse, child abuse, misogyny, body shaming)

The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1) by R. F. Kuang (adult, historical & high fantasy; 531 pages; tw: death, gore, violence, colourism)

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (adult, mythology, romance, lgbt+; 352 pages; tw: death, violence, grief, blood, rape, gore)

The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen #1) by Roshani Chokshi (young adult, fantasy, romance; 342 pages)

The Trouble with Hating You by Sajni Patel (adult, romance, contemporary; 336 pages; tw: emotional abuse, sexual assault, child abuse, death, grief)

These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1) by Chloe Gong (young adult, historical, retellings; 449 pages; tw: violence, blood, gore, death, body horror, self harm)

We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya #1) by Hafsah Faizal (young adult, fantasy, romance; 472 pages; tw: death, torture, emotional abuse, child abuse, misogyny)

Where Dreams Descend (Kingdom of Cards #1) by Janella Angeles (young adult, fantasy, romance; 464 pages; tw: misogyny, toxic relationship, violence)

Wings of Ebony (Wings of Ebony #1) by J. Elle (young adult, fantasy, scifi; 368 pages; tw: racism, violence, death of a parent, grief, addiction)

Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez (young adult, magical realism, 384 pages; tw: violence, gore, death, torture)

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (young adult, contemporary, romance, lgbt+; 336 pages; tw: homophobia, panick attacks, racism, chronic illness, bullying)

#booksocietynet #*event #march and april 2021 event

[kantrips]

2021 Reading Log

In 2021 I read 71 books, beating my reading goal of 50! I was in two book clubs last year. For 2022 I’m dropping to one – I found the reading manageable but not the meetings.

I mainly read books that were slow paced, 300-499 pages long and reflective, emotional and dark. My top three genres were Classics, Literary and Historical.

Full list under the cut. Please recommend me things at will! For 2022 I want to read more poetry and am aiming to hit at least 70 books again.

The Overtstory – Richard Powers

The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller

Homesick for Another World – Ottessa Moshfegh

The American Fiancée - Éric Dupont

The Silent Companions – Laura Purcell

The New Wilderness – Diane Cook

The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark

Emma – Jane Austen (comfort reread)

The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien (comfort reread)

The History of Bees – Maja Lunde

The Two Towers – J.R.R Tolkien (comfort reread)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation – Otessa Moshfegh (reread for book club)

The Return of the King – J.R.R Tolkien (comfort reread)

Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell (a new favourite!)

Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid (a new favourite!)

The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

The New Me – Halle Butler

The Radium Girls – Kate Moore

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (reread for book club)

The Dutch House – Ann Patchett (a new favourite!)

Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (a new favourite!)

The Cost of Living – Deborah Levy

Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier (comfort reread)

Eggshell Skull – Bri Lee

Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (comfort reread)

Burial Rites – Hannah Kent (reread for book club)

Beauty – Bri Lee

The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker

The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen (a new favourite!)

The Turn of the Key – Ruth Ware

The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan (reread for book club)

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

In a Dark, Dark Wood – Ruth Ware

The Bass Rock – Evie Wyld

Starve Acre – Andrew Michael Hurley

The Labyrinth – Amanda Lohrey

The Winter People – Jennifer McMahon (contains offensive racial stereotyping)

Beautiful World, Where Are You – Sally Rooney

Useless Magic – Florence Welch

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

High Fidelity – Nick Hornby

A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories – Elizabeth Harrower

Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

The Last Time I Lied – Riley Sager

The Museum of Modern Love – Heather Rose

The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Mercies: A Novel – Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Guest List – Lucy Foley

Life Before Man – Margaret Atwood

Unsheltered – Clare Moleta

The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall – Kazuo Ishiguro

Mr Salary – Sally Rooney

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World – Kai Cheng Thom

The Yellow Wall-Paper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Exciting Times – Naoise Dolan

Persuasion – Jane Austen (comfort reread)

The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware

The Harp in the South – Ruth Park

Upstream: Selected Essays – Mary Oliver

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

Little Eve – Catriona Ward

Collected Stories – John Cheever

Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley (a new favourite!)

Lady Oracle – Margaret Atwood (a new favourite!)

Final Girls – Riley Sager (I quite disliked the previous book I read by this author but forgot and picked this up from a street library!)

The Plague – Albert Camus

And currently reading: Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo

#books #reading update #any fellow bookworms out there? #tell me what to read #especially poetry recs classic or contemporary #it's funny because I exceeded my reading goal #yet still feel like I wasn't reading much this year

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Best Email Service “GetResponse”

Nowadays everybody wants to engage the audience either in his social activities or in his business to boost his sales. Similarly, the community on the internet has a very lot of importance to get the members or the audience to make the sales faster. There are a lot of companies or the services who allows you to build your audience faster so that they can boost online sales. For this purpose the most popular email marketing service is GetResponse. In this article, I’m going to enlighten the most important features of this service.

 What is GetResponse?

GetResponse is a complete online marketing software that helps to grow your audience and boost online sales faster. It is easy-to-use platform you can transform your online marketing and bring a valuable results through this marketing service. Now the question arises what are the main features of this service? Below is the list that highlights the importance;

 A responsive template builder

Images can be drag and drop

Create the newsletter and social media post

Allows to create landing page

 Signing up to GetResponse

To sign up GetResponse is so simple. You just have to email addresses of the people those which you want to receive emails. Select that person who you want to send the emails. After these basics choose the campaigns that you want to run. Fill in the some basic informations more now from where country I am sending the mail let say U.S or U.K. Click to “Send from…” checkbox to allow the software to send the emails from a certain email service. Choose your names to send your emails and send the mails simply.

Click here to Sign with GetResponse For Free!

 Setting up a autoresponders

Follow the steps to build auto responder

From menu tabs click on email marketing

Then click on auto responder

Click on create button

Enter details for your responder

Now click pertaining detail to auto responder.

Select the other detail like time etc

Choose the template

Then publish or save it

 Creating leads in GetResponse

So simple method to create leads on this marketing service. Let’s see the methods for  leading creation.

Create sign up forms and landing pages fo your website

Create slideshows, videos and banners for social media

Create landing page for your product

Run paid ads to generate leads on Facebook and Instagram

Run the webinars to bring new leads with audience

Create gen campaign with building funnel

Get more leads by integration

 Price Range

Basic plan - $10.50 per to $450 per month for 1000 and 100000 contacts respectively.

It offer selling products online, one sale funnel, FB ads, unlimited lead funnels, unlimited automation templates and landing pages, autoresponders and email marketing.

Plus plan - $34.30 per month to $499 per month for 1000 and 100000 contacts respectively.

It offers five webinar funnels, five sales funnel, three users, contact scoring and tagging. CRM webinars of 100 attendees five workflows automation builders, and all the basic plan features.

Professional plan - $69.30 per month to $580 per month for 1000 and 100,000 contacts respectively.

If offers unlimited webinar funnels and sales funnel, five work together with users, webinars with a maximum of 300 attendees, unlimited automation builders, paid webinars, and all the plus plan features.

Enterprise plan – starts from $719 per month for 100,000 contacts and so on.

It offers email campaign consulting, webinars of maximum 500 attendees account manager, paid transactional emails, a personal IP address, and all features of a professional plan

Click here to start with GetResponse For Free!

#email marketing #getresponse

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Websites Hosting and Affiliate.

Websites Hosting and Affiliate.

1-BlueHost -:

  Over the years, https://www.bluehost.com/track/kishta47/  has grown to be one of the most popular hosting companies out there, especially for WordPress sites.

Just glancing at their homepage and all the different products that Bluehost offers tells you a lot about why it’s won so many users over. First off, Bluehost has numerous different hosting products in their portfolio – not just simple website hosting.

Second, their prices are really, really affordable. Plus, you also get a handful of bonuses thrown in for free. This makes your overall cost of launching a site much lower vs what you’d have to pay with the competition.

But let’s start at the beginning. Here are the different types of hosting that Bluehost has in store, including one that is likely going to be the pick for most users.

Let’s divide the list into a couple of categories:

1. Entry-level web hosting

This is the budget solution in Bluehost’s portfolio of web hosting. These plans are usually chosen by users who are new to the concept of owning a website and needing web hosting to make it happen.

Bluehost has two main offerings that fall under entry-level hosting:

-: Shared web hosting

:-Basic WordPress hosting

2. Managed WordPress hosting

The basic WordPress hosting plans mentioned above are just that – basic. However, Bluehost also offers a more advanced package called Managed WordPress.

Compared to the basic offering, the managed variety takes care of all the technical aspects of the hosting setup and WordPress maintenance for you.

In other words, when you’re on managed WordPress hosting, you don’t have to worry about anything related to keeping your site operational. Instead, you can just focus on creating content and promoting your site.

Managed plans also give you more power under the hood 💪, which is important for sites with an established position in the market that receive more traffic.

Bluehost also has a tailor-made offering for WordPress websites running WooCommerce – for eCommerce stores. Those plans come with some WooCommerce-specific elements pre-installed (WooCommerce itself, an optimized theme, payment processing tools, security, extras).

If you’re looking for a host because you are indeed going to be launching a WooCommerce store, this is probably the solution for you.

 You can try it now for free through that link :- https://www.bluehost.com/track/kishta47/

  2-: Getresponse :-

What is Getresponse?

Getresponse is an email marketing app that allows you to:

·        create a mailing list and capture data onto it

·        send emails to the subscribers on your mailing list

·        automate your emails to subscribers via use of ‘autoresponders’

·        view and analyse statistics related to your email campaigns – open rate, click through, forwards etc.

In recent years however, Getresponse has shifted its emphasis considerably: the product now aims be more of an ‘all-in-one’ e-commerce and online marketing solution — rather than a conventional email marketing tool.

Accordingly, in addition to email marketing features, Getresponse now also provides a website builder, chat features, e-commerce features, webinar hosting, landing pages and automated sales funnels.

Getresponse pricing and plans

There are four Getresponse plans:

·        Basic — starting at $15 per month to send an unlimited number of emails to up to 1,000 subscribers

·        Plus — starting at $49 per month for up to 1,000 subscribers

·        Professional — starting at $99 per month for up to 1,000 subscribers

·        Max — negotiable.

As you add more subscribers to your list, the costs increase. At the top end of the scale, you can expect to pay $450, $499 or $580 per month to use Getresponse with a list containing 100,000 subscribers on the ‘Basic,’ ‘Plus’ and ‘Professional’ plans (respectively).

With regard to the ‘Max’ plan, exact pricing depends on requirements and list size — if you’re interested in it, you’ll need to contact Getresponse to schedule a demo, discuss your needs and negotiate pricing.

Decent discounts are available if you pay upfront for 12 or 24 months of service (18% and 30% respectively).

In addition to the paid plans, a 30-day free trial is also available, which you can access via this link.

Key differences between plans

The core features common to all Getresponse plans are as follows:

·        the ability to import and host a subscriber list

·        a range of e-newsletter templates

·        autoresponder functionality

·        landing pages

·        sales / leads funnels

·        Facebook and Google Ad

 management tools

·        a website builder tool

There are a number of differences between the ‘Basic’, ‘Plus’ and ‘Professional’ plans, but for me the key ones are below:

·        Automation builder — arguably Getresponse’s standout feature, the automation builder (which allows you to build complex autoresponder sequences based on user behaviour) is only available on the ‘Plus’ plan or higher

·        Conversion funnels — you get access to more automated sales funnels as you go up the pricing ladder.

·        Webinars — this functionality is not available at all on the ‘Basic’ plan and the number of webinar attendees is capped for the ‘Plus’, ‘Professional’ and ‘Enterprise’ plans at 100, 300 and 500 respectively.

·        Team management — you can only have one user account on the ‘Basic’ plan; by contrast you get 3 on ‘Plus’, 5 on ‘Professional’ and 10 on ‘Enterprise.

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·        E-commerce — the abandoned order recovery feature is only available on the ‘Plus’ plan or higher.

I’ll discuss all these features in more depth as I progress through the review.

How does Getresponse pricing compare to that of its competitors?

So long as you are happy to use one of the entry-level ‘Basic’ plans, the pay-per-month Getresponse plans are on the whole cheaper than those provided by many of its key competitors, particularly if you have a reasonably large number of email addresses on your database.

Getresponse’s starting price is fairly competitive — you can host a database containing up to 1,000 email addresses for $15 a month with Getresponse, compared to $29 per month on Aweber. The pricing for Mailchimp’s broadly comparable ‘Standard’ plan is $14.99 per month.

As you go up the pricing ladder, Getresponse continues to come in a bit cheaper than these products too.

Some other things to be aware of on the competitor pricing front are:

·        Some competing providers — notably Mailchimp and Aweber — offer free plans for users with a small number of records.

 Getresponse doesn’t yet offer a similar free plan.

·        Some solutions (Mailchimp again being a prime example) charge you to host both subscribed and unsubscribed contacts, which can become a significant hidden cost. Getresponse only charges you for your active subscribers.

·        If you are prepared to pay upfront for 1 or 2 years, you can avail of substantial discounts with Getresponse that other competitors don’t yet provide.

So the bottom line is that its lack of an entirely free plan aside,  https://www.getresponse.com/?ab=9tAFPnMXyT  stacks up fairly well against competitors in the pricing department.

 You can sign up for free now :-

Click here  :-  https://www.getresponse.com/?ab=9tAFPnMXyT