#becky’s book club

[crosbytoews]

last year my preorder of happy place came in EARLY so now i am anxiously checking my email, waiting for a message that my copy of funny story is in

#becky’s book club #i have FOUR library books checked out right now that i should prioritize but once funny story is in i’m dropping everything now

[barbielore]

Barbie and Friends Book Club was a promotion in the late 1990's to expand the Barbie brand into children's books. They had a wide variety of different concepts, from the day to day life of Barbie, to fantasy or science fiction, to mysteries.

Many of these referenced or expanded the lore of the doll line. For example, Three Cheers for Becky expands on the story of Barbie's friend Becky, the first doll in the Barbie doll line to be portrayed as a wheelchair user, and tells a story of her coaching the cheerleading squad.

D is for Different, for example, covers the story of Barbie teaching a girl who thinks the only thing that she is good at is playing the piano.

Some of the books went to some pretty weird places though. For example, Voyage to Rados is an outright sci-fi story.

I've never read Voyage to Rados but some of the pictures make me really wonder what this story is about. I am given to understand that Barbie and co are exploring an alien planet and possibly saving the galaxy.

And naturally of course, they are doing science on board the space craft.

I'm not sure but to me this picture looks an awful lot like Barbie about to perform brain surgery on a restrained alien. I assume this isn't what's happening, but I never want to read this book because the version that exists in my head is too entertaining.

#barbie #barbie and friends #barbie and friends book club #three cheers for becky #d is for different #voyage to rados #science fiction #childrens books #picture books

[oliverrspr]

is that girl Ben kissed at the gate Rebecca Allen. I bloody hope not

#solitaire #alice oseman #ben hope hate club #ben hope #becky allen #alice oseman books #osemanverse #tori spring #solitaire book

[be-bisexual-eat-hot-chip-and-lie]

things i did not have in my 2024 bingo card

becoming a hockey person

becoming a sci-fi book enjoyer

things that happened in 2024

i became a hockey person

i am enjoying sci-fi books

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #martha wells #all systems red #the long way to a small angry planet #becky chambers #wayfarers #i am tangentially a hockeyblr bitch #hockeyblr #hockey #shoutout to goose #also i think i should tag #omgcp #omg check please #because thats why i got into hockey #book club with em

[alwayschasingrainbows]

"As for Penny Dark, the idea struck him then and there that it was time he got married."

Tangled Web by L. M. Montgomery

You know, it would have made SO MUCH MORE SENSE if Aunt Becky was a multi-millionaire (or even multi-billionaire) and was choosing a heir for her whole fortune...

But seriously...

FOR AN UGLY JUG????

#lm montgomery #tangled web book club #tangled web #i'd love to rewrite tangled web for modern era #aunt becky as a rich billionaire #And her family fighting over her fortune

[visually-corrupted]

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#ask #book #reading #top 5 #books #favourite books #anonymous #answered #becky chambers #to be taught if fortunate #malinda lo #ash #tom robbins #even cowgirls get the blues #matt ruff #set this house in order #chuck palahniuk #fight club

[mercerislandbooks]

Thoughts On Summer Reading

As someone who's on social media—specifically the book part of Instagram—a fair amount, I hear a lot about how different people read. Some read the next book they plan to read, have five more books lined up after that, and for the most part they'll get them read in that order. Others read whatever strikes their fancy whenever it strikes their fancy. I am a mood reader at heart, but one who wedges in that library book that she's had checked out for months which she DID really want to read at the time so now she better stop in the middle of her other six current reads to rush through it in time to return it tomorrow... which is exactly what I'm going to resume doing once I finish this blog post. So maybe I'm a mood reader with "obligatory books" hanging over her head. 

Part of being a mood reader is the fluctuation of what I want to read each season. For the fall, witchy books like The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Spells for Forgetting, Wild Is the Witch, and The League of Gentlewomen Witches. In the winter it was mostly science fiction by Becky Chambers. But the most talked about season in the reading community has to be summer. Summer reads, beach reads, vacation reads. Light books that you fall into and out of like a summer fling. This fits the traditional idea of summer reads that we all know and love, but the genres included in summer reading lists have expanded over the past few years. We at Island Books put together a shelf full of summer books for every reader, surrounded by sticky notes with suns and right next to our Staff Picks shelf.

Last summer, all I read was romance. Intense feelings crammed into a book I could read in a day. The happy ending, the guarantee of peace and satisfaction. I picked up several fantasy books and put them down again immediately—any effort to learn about a made-up world felt like too much. This summer, rather than a specific genre, I've been catching up on my backlog. I finished the Anne of Green Gables series for the first time and found it delightful. I listened to The City of Brass and all of its sequels while traveling. I read the first two books of The Borrowers, finished the Seafire trilogy, and sped through books two and three of The Thursday Murder Club. I finally pulled out my two-year-old copy of Red, White & Royal Blue and devoured it in twenty-four hours (just in time for the release of the movie on August 11).  Although it's a completely different path than I took last summer, it's been so fun to discover these books for the first time and then discuss them with everyone who already loves them. I look forward to seeing where my mood reading takes me next summer.

Things that make a good summer read (one list does not fit all):

Not too heavy (physically); needs to be light enough to bring on vacation

Not too heavy (content-wise); needs to be light enough to read on a beach

Characters that draw you in

A plot that grips you

Romance

Intense action

...And the list goes on and on.

Bonus points for reading a book that's set on a beach...on a beach. The perfect summer read is so varied from person to person that the most important criteria is to pick up a book that interests you. I look forward to hearing about what you loved as we talk books over the counter.

—Becca

#island books #becca oman #summer reading #thursday murder club #red white and royal blue #becky chambers #anne of green gables #tbr #spells for forgetting #city of brass #the borrowers #wild is the witch #league of gentlewomen witches #very secret society of irregular witches

[felfiramoondesigns]

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Campaign ends on April 24th at 7pm BST.

These designs are inspired by Six Of Crows, Shadow and Bone, Priory of the Orange Tree, Sabriel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and Percy Jackson. All pins will be pretty little at 28mm!

KS is all or nothing platform, so you can pledge now and only pay if the Kickstarter is successful on April 24th 🎉 the more people back for the pins they want, the faster we can unlock what’s left 💪

#book merch #six of crows #shadow and bone #the old kingdom #the long way to a small angry planet #the priory of the orange tree #percy jackson #enamel pin #bookish #the dregs #the crow club #becky chambers #samantha shannon #roots of chaos #pjo fanart

[atendencytotangle]

Top Ten Books I Read in 2022 (In No Particular Order)

Every year I start this blog post thinking that I’m getting to it late only to realize that the previous year, I wrote it even later. Maybe one of these years I’ll get to it in January, or, I don’t know, maybe I’ll even get it prepped in December, but for now, I’ll be satisfied with mid-February. The year’s still young enough. I had a fun time with my reading this year. I read a lot more…

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#A Prayer for the Crown-Shy #Alice Oseman #Alyc Helms #Becky Chambers #favorite books #Heartstopper #M.A. Carrick #Marie Brennan #Monk & Robot #Nettle & Bone #reading #Richard Osman #Rook and Rose #Seanan McGuire #She Who Became the Sun #Shelley Parker-Chan #T. Kingfisher #The Liar&039;s Knot #The Thursday Murder Club #TJ Klune #Under the Whispering Door #Wayward Children #Wendy #Where the Drowned Girls Go

[crosbytoews]

we are GRINDING right now

#becky’s book club

[comicbookclub]

Mark Millar Has A Plan To Save Comics, Becky Cloonan And Tula Lotay Team Up, Oni Press Is Born Driven | Comic Book Club News For August 30, 2023

Mark Millar has a plan to save comics. Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay are teaming up for a new erotic folk horror nightmare from DSTLRY. And Wendell Scott gets a cartoon biography from Oni Press. All on today's Comic Book Club News.

Powered by RedCircle Mark Millar has a plan to save comics, and the comic book press isn’t having it. Meanwhile, Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay are teaming up for a new erotic folk horror nightmare from DSTLRY. And Wendell Scott gets a cartoon biography from Oni Press. All that, on today’s Comic Book Club News for August 30, 2023 SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, OR THE APP OF YOUR…

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#becky cloonan #Comic Book Club News #DSTLRY #mark millar #oni press #Tula Lotay

[comicbookclublive]

Mark Millar Has A Plan To Save Comics, Becky Cloonan And Tula Lotay Team Up, Oni Press Is Born Driven | Comic Book Club News For August 30, 2023

Mark Millar has a plan to save comics. Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay are teaming up for a new erotic folk horror nightmare from DSTLRY. And Wendell Scott gets a cartoon biography from Oni Press. All on today's Comic Book Club News.

Powered by RedCircle Mark Millar has a plan to save comics, and the comic book press isn’t having it. Meanwhile, Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay are teaming up for a new erotic folk horror nightmare from DSTLRY. And Wendell Scott gets a cartoon biography from Oni Press. All that, on today’s Comic Book Club News for August 30, 2023 SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, OR THE APP OF YOUR…

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#becky cloonan #Comic Book Club News #DSTLRY #mark millar #oni press #Tula Lotay

[intlbookclub]

Leah on the Offbeat Predictions

Aisling: I predict that the major conflict in the novel will be caused by *miscommunication*. Like the group will fracture but it’ll be because someone doesn’t know how to use their words (I’m looking at you, Leah). Also so many musical metaphors. Musical metaphors out the wazoo. Either that or one really big cheesy metaphor within a monologue that triggers my gag reflex. Thinking along the lines of “you put the killing thing right between your teeth…” but with percussion.

Larissa: So I don’t know about Ms. Aisling, but I’ve read Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and seen Love, Simon. Based on my experience with these, I predict that Leah gets a happy ending. I’m not sure if her friend is Leah’s happy ending, but she’s getting a happy ending. I think ultimately, the friend group is going to be fine and that it’s all natural growing pains. Leah will come out to her friend group and I hope she gets to do it herself and not get outed. 

I also feel like at some point in the book, there will be a show/concert/gig. Maybe Leah’s band plays at the prom. Ooohhh will there be promposals? It’s funny but other than Simon and Leah, obviously, I am having a REALLY hard time remembering any of the characters’ names. I want to refer to them but I keep thinking of the movie’s cast names whoops.

#leah on the offbeat #becky albertalli #august 2022 #booklr #predictions #leah burke #international book club

[thetiredmagician]

We love to see a man who carries your book club book for you when your bag is full of refrigerated items.

PS. We also love a man who makes you a coffee spontaneously and buys you brunch EVEN WHEN BRUNCH WAS YOUR IDEA AND YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO PAY.

#boyfriend tag #leah on the offbeat #becky albertalli #international book club

[theartofangirling]

part 2 of the 2023 version of this post: young adult books!

part 1: middle grade books | part 3: adult books

this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!

list of books under the cut ⬇️

aces wild by amanda dewitt

the chandler legacies by abdi nazemian

bruised by tanya boteju

juliet takes a breath by gabby rivera

picture us in the light by kelly loy gilbert

when we were magic by sarah gailey

iron widow by xiran jay zhao

the rise of kyoshi by f.c. yee

jane unlimited by kristin cashore

summer of salt by katrina leno

the wicker king by k. ancrum

the dead and the dark by courtney gould

wilder girls by rory power

i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston

her royal highness by rachel hawkins

tell me how you really feel by aminah mae safi

the weight of the stars by k. ancrum

you should see me in a crown by leah johnson

last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo

the grief keeper by alexandra villasante

crier's war by nina varela

how to excavate a heart by jake maia arlow

imogen, obviously by becky albertalli

in other lands by sarah rees brennan

carry on by rainbow rowell

cemetery boys by aiden thomas

felix ever after by kacen callendar

i wish you all the best by mason deaver

little thieves by margaret owen

technically you started it by lana wood johnson

the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee

the infinite noise by lauren shippen

bonds of brass by emily skrutskie

the darkness outside us by eliot schrefer

simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by becky albertalli

what if it's us by becky albertalli and adam silvera

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz

like a love story by abdi nazemian

different for boys by patrick ness

history is all you left me by adam silvera

twelfth grade night by molly horton booth, stephanie kate strohm, and jamie green

across a field of starlight by blue delliquanti

heartstopper by alice oseman

check, please! by ngozi ukazu

bloom by kevin panetta and savanna ganucheau

laura dean keeps breaking up with me by mariko tamaki and rosemary valero-o'connell

the princess and the grilled cheese sandwich by deya muniz

if you'll have me by eunnie

on a sunbeam by tillie walden

the girl from the sea by molly knox ostertag

always human by ari north

rust in the root by justina ireland

dread nation by justina ireland

pet by awkwaeke emezi

the darkest part of the forest by holly black

elatsoe by darcie little badger

i was born for this by alice oseman

loveless by alice oseman

i hate everyone but you by gaby dunn and allison raskin

you know me well by nina lacour and david levithan

the black flamingo by dean atta

spinning by tillie walden

dreadnought by april daniels

a lesson in vengeance by victoria lee

all the bad apples by moira fowley-doyle

clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo

summer bird blue by akemi dawn bowman

the miseducation of cameron post by emily m. danforth

we are okay by nina lacour

radio silence by alice oseman

we used to be friends by amy spalding

a neon darkness by lauren shippen

i hope you get this message by farah naz rishi

are you listening? by tillie walden

alone in space by tillie walden

all out edited by saundra mitchell

out now edited by saundra mitchell

out there edited by saundra mitchell

#lgbtq+ books #queer books #book recommendations #gay books #ya books #lgbtq+ ya books #book flow chart #part 2 of 3! #dear god this almost twice as many books as the previous flow chart. and it's JUST YA. #mp

[rentumblsstuff]

Random Hatchetfield Headcanons

The first time Alice Woodward ever smoked weed was when (after much inner turmoil) she asked Deb to shotgun it with her.

Max has two snaggletoothed incisors which is why people swear to god he has fangs.

Deb also has a snaggletooth which is what inspired the vampire part of Alice’s vampiric sapphic play. Alice also thinks it’s ironic she made a vampire character when Deb is a vegan.

Ruth as a Sophmore hit on Senior Alice a lot. Alice thought it was funny and she and Deb “adopted” her. Max and Steph also put the PANIC in bi panic for Ruth.

Max would find it weirdly hot that Grace wears bathing suits under her clothes because of the idea that he gets to see what her body looks like before even she does.

The hospital is downtown, so Becky Barnes definitely got infected in TGWDLM. Despite never wanting to do it again, Becky climbs the tree as someone calls the HFPD to save Kathy’s cat because she’s still infinitely compassionate even under Pokey’s control. Plus, Pokey knows she wants to get over the trauma associated with climbing trees, so he makes her do it to give her a big number about finally overcoming her past. She accidentally flings the cat as soon as the song starts, which is why in Show Me Your Hands, the cat dies so quickly even though it JUST got called in.

Peter infected Steph who infected Deb who infected Alice in TGWDLM. Pete and Steph would have been Sophomores and Deb and Alice were Seniors, but I always imagine Steph and Deb knowing eachother because MRFC said Steph is in the Smoke Club on Twitter at some point. Assuming Steph’s been a little punk for a while, she’s been in the smoke club since at least Sophomore year, and probably a new inductee the same year as TGWDLM (2018).

Alice and one of her parents (maybe Bill) were also raised in purity culture because we know the Woodwards and the Chastitys go to the same church. The Woodwards probably take it with a grain of salt though (Alice has expressed dislike over Grace’s prudishness)- either that or one of her parents (probably her mom) wasn’t originally from said church and also raised Alice with “this is what you’re learning here, but here’s also what I learned at my church at your age.” Bill was likely the one raised in purity culture because he does NOT LIKE DEB and thinks that if she HAS TO date a girl, she should date someone like Grace Chastity, implying she’s an exemplary teen girl. Ms. Woodward lets Deb sleep over and probably knows she smokes and likes her anyways; three points for Alice’s mom not being the puritanical one.

Ted reads romance novels. He’s a former geek turned sleazeball- you know he reads the smuttiest novels ever and calls them “his research”. He refuses to read any book with the friends to lovers trope because it’s too upsetting to think about. (Side note Time Bastard gave us a definite date that timelines don’t branch/reset before depending on whichever theory you believe because the homeless man is in every timeline, meaning that Jenny’s death is fixed in time and never changes: October 7th 2004, so the timelines change anywhere between October 8th 2004 and 2018.)

In whatever timeline Emma finally gets to have her weed farm, she meets Paul when he tells her he was prescribed that marajamij for his anxiety and he was too scared to try Xanax. She thinks he’s kind of cute for a wet cat of a corporate slave. “Fuck the patriarchy? Yes please.” (Side note Paul seems so uptight and unfuckable like bro gotta be blank down there like a Ken doll and has no discernible kinks from what I remember while Emma is laid back and chill asf and like… normal in comparison so yeah sure Paulkins canonically fucks but does Emma enjoy it?? Like dude even Pete’s more fuckable than him come on.)

Pete and Steph don’t kiss when they admit their feelings for eachother even though one of them would die before ever getting to kiss each other because they both think it’ll only make it that much harder to go through with sacrificing the other. One of the reasons Pete also chooses to be the one to take the bullet because he doesn’t think he even COULD pull the trigger on her. Like it’d be physically impossible for him, in his mind.

TGWDLM was originally meant to be an allegory for the institution brainwashing us. Show Me Your Hands and America’s Great Again: examples of people in power working for and fulfilling the evil wishes of some almighty, otherworldly, inhuman THING (be it aliens, be it those in power). It’s clearly meant to satirize the way that power corrupts and tries to convince you its way is better. Even Hidgens, THE FUCKING TEACHER, tries to teach his student that it will be better for everyone to join in that corruption and give in to the hive mind. This reminds me of how the school system in America tries to paint our history as something glamorous; manifest destiny instead of genocide of the indigenous populations. The people in power convincing those under them that the deaths of countless lives is a good thing and it will pave the way to a better future. Cool motive, still murder. Which is why Emma “Fuck the Patriarchy” Perkins is the last one to be infected. She was incapable of being brainwashed , and even when she was the last one left, she saw that the people watching didn’t care, and the all-consuming threat of corrupted power closes in on her until the very last moment.

The Lords in Black were going to try to convince whoever sacrificed their most treasured something to do more work for them, but Grace required very little convincing. Like Wiggly spoke into her mind like “Gracy-Wace! You forgot my booky-wook! Look in it, see any thing you like? Wanna kill all the pervy-wervys?” And she’s like “holy cow I can kill all the pervy-wervys with this book?” Pete would have needed the most convincing because he’s just lost the only girl who will ever love him (in his mind) and so he’d think these things took away his one chance at true love and NEVER want to deal with them again. Even if they offered him a way to get her back, he’s too smart to know that won’t come without an even bigger price AND too paranoid to think she won’t come back wrong like Max did.

If the Green-Foster family ever did get to move to California and Lex got to be an actress, her interview attitude would be a lot like Reneé Rapp and if she ever got asked about why she’ll openly shit talk people in an interview, she’s like “I used to work retail I learned pretty fast that nothing gets done if you keep your mouth shut.”

#starkid #hatchetfield #tgwdlm #black friday musical #nightmare time #npmd #alice woodward #max jagerman #grace chasity #bill woodward #stephanie lauter #peter spankoffski #ted spankoffski #paulkins #paul matthews #emma perkins #lautski #ruth fleming #becky barnes #lex foster #jenny starkid #lords in black #wiggog y'wrath