#averno a new school

[thelonelybrilliance]

2023 Reads: thelonelybrilliance

Final count 72! I set a goal of 52 originally but raised the bar when I realized that would only bring me into early November.

Decided it would be fun to share some stats and recommendations along with the full list.

First, ten recommendations:

The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner (best completed series)

Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write (best new poetry read)

Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything (best memoir)

E.B. White, Here Is New York (best short read)

Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist (best journals)

Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family (best children's lit)

Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout (best poetry memoir)

George Eliot, Middlemarch (best classic)

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (best food writing)

Red Rising series by Pierce Brown (best sci-fi/ongoing series + best audio drama (Red Rising (Book 1))

Of my 72 reads, 31 were rereads, 41 new . Four were audiobooks, the rest print (primarily e-books). My longest read was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. My shortest read (I think? A lot of poetry collections are short) was the longform essay, Here Is New York by E.B. White. I read the most books in December (15) and the least in June (2). 50 authors were women, 21 were men, and one poetry collection was multi-author. My most-read authors were as follows:

Megan Whalen Turner (7 books)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (6 books)

Louise Glück (5 books)

Elizabeth Wein (5 books)

Jane Austen (3 books)

Pierce Brown (3 books)

Full list organized by month under the cut!

Favorites: Bold | Rereads: Underline

Fiction: Blue | Non-Fiction: Red | Poetry: Purple | Audiobook: *

JANUARY

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

2. Annie Chagnot & Emi Ikkanda (eds.), How Lovely the Ruins

3. Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

FEBRUARY

4. Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

5. Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

6. Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

MARCH

7. Rita Dove, Playlist for the Apocalypse

8. Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

9. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

APRIL

10. Megan Whalen Turner, Moira's Pen

11. Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

12. Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

13. Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

MAY

14. Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

15. Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

16. Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

17. Elizabeth Wein, A Coalition of Lions

18. Elizabeth Wein, Sunbird

19. Elizabeth Wein, The Lion Hunter

JUNE

20. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

21. bell hooks, Applachian Elegy

JULY

22. Michael Gibney, Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line*

23. C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

24. Elizabeth Wein, The Empty Kingdom

25. Dorothy Dunnett, Spring of the Ram

26. Michael Bazzett, You Must Remember This

27. Lisa Ampelman, Romances

28. Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

29. Natalie Diaz, Post-Colonial Love Poem

AUGUST

30. Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

31. Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

32. Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

33. Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

34. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

35. Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

SEPTEMBER

36. Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write

37. E.B. White, Here Is New York

38. Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything

39. P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

40. Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

41. Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase*

42. Tobias Wolff, Old School

OCTOBER

43. Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance*

44. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

45. R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

46. Louise Glück, Vita Nova

47. L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

48. L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

49. L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

50. Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind

NOVEMBER

51. Ron Rash, Poems

52. Louise Glück, Meadowlands

53. Tom Perrotta, Election

54. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

55. Louise Glück, Averno

56. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

57. Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

DECEMBER

58. Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

59. Pierce Brown, Red Rising*

60. Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

61. Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

62. Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

63. Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family

64. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

65. George Eliot, Middlemarch

66. Louise Glück, Ararat

67. Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

68. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

69. Kate Baer, And Yet

70. Marguerite de Angeli, The Lion in the Box

71. Pierce Brown, Golden Son

72. Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

#booklist #my reading #my booklist #2023 booklist #2023 reads #my reads #2023 wrapped #bookblr #book recs

[tolerateit]

Hi bestie! I slept for 12 hours and feel like a new person. I am gonna get things done today and perhaps my sleep cycle will be improved (I woke up at 5:45am a time I have gone to bed at 3 times in the last week). Do you have any fun plans for your school break? Also on my journey to read again, what are your top books of the year and also in general? I love you 💙

Oh that is fantastic, I love this for you!! I also had the greatest nap ever in a long while aksksks feeling very bejeweled rn! The plan is to make it to 2024 without falling sick 😭 and catch up on my tbr!! Im so here for your reading journey, manifesting a lot of wonderful reads for both of us in the coming weeks!! I truly enjoyed panenka, elena knows, tomorrow x3 this year! Siren queen, the impossible us and half a soul were pleasant surprises too! In general, i adore Averno, the housekeeper and the professor, crying in h mart!!!

#you ask for the tab* #💙 anon

[charlesleclerctv]

I'm great, happy that the weekend is here! I'm kind of entering the stress of the soon end of the school year so there's that... But I'm probably going to buy some new books tomorrow so I can't wait!

i'm happy that the weekend is here too bc football and f1 but NOT happy i gotta get up before 6am on tomorrow and sunday 😭 tell me which books you buy! recently read the stranger by camus and averno by glück and adored them <3

#💌

[elliotofmakinstuff]

these trees can swallow you whole

roots grow through bones and eat them

tall mountains of this valley rise higher and higher

leaving you in a deep crater filling with dirt

sky that was once bright blue now a deep dark brown of the earth

honey brown eyes now smooth stones of amber

brain once full of thoughts and dreams now a thick bed of moss

and the roots grow through bones leaving nothing behind

one thing remains

the heart

it joins that of the forest and you beat as one

#writing #poetry #averno dead poets society #forest #trees #bone swamp #decomposition #averno township #averno a new school #live from averno #camp averno 2021 #averno winter solstice #averno ans #camp averno #averno town #avernotown #averno #under averno #cabin solis #cabin noctis #cabin terra #stancabinterraforclearskin #department of unknown existence #department of higher power #department of hidden sequences #department of higher powers #department of cults and mysteries #department of creation and destruction #department of dead languages

[emma-averno-ans]

this is how i see all of dlh and you can’t change my mind

nobody:

not a single soul:

DLH kids finishing their presentation on Greek philosophers: In conclusion, we should cancel all of them for being pretentious and sexist, but especially Aristotle. Diogenes can stay because if he were alive today he would say ACAB and gender doesn’t exist. Also I’m well aware that I didn’t discuss Democritus. I left him out because he was a time traveler. Any questions?

the other departments: ...

the professors: ...this is a science class....why are you even here?

#these are my people #i will not be taking criticism #why are we like this #averno #avernotown #averno a new school #averno ans #ans dlh #a new school #a new school dlh

[the-cryptid-documents]

Something's wrong.

I know I'm supposed to be celebrating with the others, god knows we deserve it after... all of that...

but something still isn't right.

The creatures or cryptids or what ever they are called aren't following their normal patterns and everything is just off.

I don't know why.

I don't know.

I don't know.

#averno #averno ans #avernotown #averno a new school #cryptids

[corvus-averno]

Time for an intro? Sounds like it!

Has been posted on the grams already on @corvus.averno.ans!

(also hello @avernotown how ya doing on this wonderful night? 👉👉)

#camp averno #averno #averno a new school #camp averno a new school #camp averno ans

[callmescribs]

page...? of what..?

it a page of a notebook, writen in sloppy handwriting, rushed but relaxed at the same time. the pen doesnt seem to have been pushed down very hard, ulike some of the other notes found simular to this one.

"averno is pretty cool! the school, the people in my department, the cryptid hunts, its better than anything else. but... i cant help but to wonder about the shack. i know it and its duplicate are gone but, could there now be something new that takes its place? a cave? a house? a pillow case? i cant help the urge that tells me to look but i know better, i may never come back. even so, what do i have left to loose, my sanity thats dwindling away after... the incident? no, my friends, family, even, here in this school, in these ever changing tunnels. so for now, these thoughts stay here, in this book, on this page, never to be seen by anyone but myself unless i cant undo what was done, ultimately showing this off for the entirety of the DUE to see..."

the page is ripped after that, clear that whoever wrote it also wrote the notes on a very mysterious student in the department of unconfirmed existence, and its clear they didnt want this, or any of their notes from what we call the scattered notebook, to be found. we can only assume this was ripped forcefully out of it, but some speculate that it wasnt ripped from the notebook by its author. that begs the question, if not the author of the notes, then who ripped it out and why?

#averno #averno ans #averno a new school #due #department of unconfirmed existence #averno au #self insert? #cryptidcore #chaoscore #camp averno #notes #story #storytelling #expanding a universe #mystery #author #cryptic

[elissa-averno-ans]

welcome to averno home <3

#averno aesthetic #avernotown #averno a new school #averno #averno ans #avernotown content #welcome home #welcome to averno #cottagecore #farmcore #goblincore #hobbit #cottage witch #dirtcore #overgrown aesthetic

[keytheaverno-ans-student]

I’m ready to come home, are you?

#averno #avernotown #a new school #averno a new school #im so excited #department of lost histories #department of creation and destruction #this photo isnt mine i found it on pinterest

[unofficialdueblog]

meet by the ponds at midnight, there shall be much puddle eating

can i bring koolaid powder to flavor the puddles please?

#due #averno #koolaid #cryptidcore #weirdcore #gremlincore #goblincore #swampcore #corvidcore #strange #a new school #department of unconfirmed existence

[phthaloblue-png]

i made an Averno uQuiz ! choose various pieces of media i didn't expect to become obsessed with and i'll guess your (main) department

#honestly don't think this is very accurate #but let's try anyways #avernotown #averno town #averno township #a new school #ans #due #ddl #dhs #dcm #dcd #dhp #averno universe #uquiz #dlh

[elliotofmakinstuff]

A stair in the woods

overgrown with moss and ferns

strange lights blink softly in the damp air

something moves in the trees around it, watching

waiting

the three eyed deer steps into the clearing

the third eye trained on the staircase

waiting

then a child crashes through the underbrush

dirt on face and stick in hand

the deer lops off into the wood, startled

they climb onto the first step

waiting

a shadow materializes at the top of the stair

tall, thin, vaguely human-like

it reaches down with it’s long arms and lifts the child onto its back

the child laughs as the shadow swiftly carries it though the forest

#shadow mother piggy back ride #averno #avernotownship #live from averno #averno virginia #averno a new school #camp averno 2021 #averno ans #averno township #the wild ones #cabin terra

[emma-averno-ans]

Tell Me About EVERYONE at A New School

I wanna see the DLH kids with dyslexia listen to Macbeth and the Iliad instead of reading it.

I wanna see the DCD kids giving warnings to the other students when they blow stuff up so they can get out of earshot or put on noise cancelling headphones and avoid being triggered by the sound.

I wanna see the deaf DDL kid who learns the signed form of dreamspeak when they get to Averno.

I wanna see the DUE kids with autism who have the most encyclopedic knowledge of cryptids, but are the only ones in the whole department with any sort of schedule.

I wanna see students who experience ANS differently, but are still HOME.

(feel free to add more)

#averno #a new school #averno a new school #averno ans #department of lost histories #department of creation and destruction #department of dead languages #department of unconfirmed existence #mental health #mental health awareness #disability #disability awareness #avernotown #averno township