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[jmoonjones]

After I'd posted the ACOTAR "dresser but make it books!" drawings, someone suggested a "dresser but make it fashion!".

I tried some ideas (many unsuccessful) before I decided on a "dresser but make it shoes!" because I'm a shoe-lover in my soul.

I drew each shoe with that specific sister and her lifestyle in mind - some are inspired by real designs (eg. Uggs) and some are just made up. For example, I thought Elain would mostly prefer shoes you could walk over grass easily - such as flats, wedges, or chunky heels. Nesta is like an Ugg boot in terms of controversiality, so she got those toe-toasters. I could write an essay about the styles I chose and why, but stop myself now.

#my personal fave are Feyre's starry boots #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #acotar fanart #nesta archeron #acotar art #feyre archeron #acosf #elain archeron #archeron sisters #pro archeron sisters #archeronsistersweek2023 #boobklr #shoes #acomaf #acowar #feyre #pro feyre #pro nesta #pro elain

[the---hermit]

Hypothetically, you are only able to keep 20 of your books. Only one book per author/series. So what books are you keeping?

Thank you @fluencylevelfrench for tagging me!! This was a struggle, not because I had to pick only 20 books, but because I would have definitely picked more than one book by the same author. (most of the books I mentioned have a review on this blog if you're interested!)

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman (the pain I feel in choosing just one of his books will end me)

The Armadillo Profecy by Zerocalcare

The Humans by Matt Haig

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly

Legends And Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Complete Tales And Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Fairytales by the Grimm brothers

The Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (I still have the copy I used to study on in high school and it's filled with doodles and annotations I could never give it away)

Through The Woods by Emily Carroll

Per Curarsi Con Le Erbe by Francesco Borsetta (it's a vintage book about herbalism and how to use medical herbs, probably my biggest niche interest, I have many but this is the oldest I own at the moment)

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Cinzia by Leo Ortolani

I tag @just-a-cup-of-anxietea, @oneanxiousstudybuddy, @bennistudies, @bulletnotestudies, @upside-down-uni, @dreamofghosts whoever sees this and wants to do this!

#i was lazy and neither took pictures of some of the books nor linked the reviews #but this is exam season so i am allowed to be lazy #this tag was painful #tag #tagged #tag game #friends! #cris speaks #boobklr #booklr #books #mine #the---hermit

[books-in-a-storm]

Dave'acula

#open book #open books #funko pop #funko and books #booklr #boobklr #books #minions #october 2023 #holiday funko #halloween funko

[beingharsh]

Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki

#light from uncommon stars #ryka aoki #quotes #words #literature #boobklr

[ladyelainehilfur]

I've got a hunch that Servo was also carved into a Gold. Why else would he know how to kill a wolf with his bare hands (allegedly) and how to create a fire? He's like Darrow with all the rage Darrow represses.

#red rising #no spoilers pls #I'm just theorizing #boobklr

[readtilyoudie]

Sometimes it seems like all I ever do is lie. 

My mom thinks I’m repressing my feelings about this. I say to her, “No, Mom, I’m not. I think it’s really neat. As long as you’re happy, I’m happy.” 

Mom says, “I don’t think you’re being honest with me.” 

Then she hands me this book. She tells me she wants me to write down my feelings in this book, since, she says, I obviously don’t feel I can talk about them with her. 

She wants me to write down my feelings? Okay, I’ll write down my feelings: 

I CAN’T BELIEVE SHE’S DOING THIS TO ME! 

Like everybody doesn’t already think I’m a freak. I’m practically the biggest freak in the entire school. I mean, let’s face it: I’m five foot nine, flat-chested, and a freshman. How much more of a freak could I be? 

If people at school find out about this, I’m dead. That’s it. Dead. 

Oh, God, if you really do exist, please don’t let them find out about this. 

There are four million people in Manhattan, right? That makes about two million of them guys. So out of TWO MILLION guys, she has to go out with Mr. Gianini. She can’t go out with some guy I don’t know. She can’t go out with some guy she met at D’Agostinos or wherever. Oh, no. 

She has to go out with my Algebra teacher.

-  The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1) by Meg Cabot

#book quote #the princess diaries #meg cabot #mia thermopolis #ya romance #contemporary fiction #quote #quotes #booklr #boobklr

[jeanvanjer]

Finished The Legend of Lyon Redmond. Cried again. Julie Anne Long really does “slow burn with great sex close to 20% of the book left and I’ll make you cry a bit” really well. The three I’ve read from Pennyroyal seem enough for now.

Without bothering with the others I can confidently say What I Did For A Duke is probably the best in the series. A Notorious Countess Confesses was good but could’ve been great. And Lyon Redmond was good as well.

If anyone has read this series lemme know if I should read the others.

Now, onto some light reading.

Kresley Coles Immortals After Dark.

#reading romance #romance novel blogging #historical romance #boobklr #books #reading #Julie Anne Long

[a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit]

Book Review: Hide by Kiersten White

As somebody who spent her teenage summers working as a ride operator, it didn't take much to imagine the horrors that could take place during a Hide and Seek competition that was set in an abandoned, dilapidated amusement park. Who would want to be locked inside a place with rusted clown heads or staticky carousel music, anyway? No thanks, on my end. Talk about creepy! Then throw in a $50,000 prize up for grabs, a cast of fourteen competitors with haunting or tragic pasts, a Hunger Games-style daily elimination, deadly disappearances, and a sinister something that's lurking in the woods, and you're about ready to jump out of your own skin the moment you pass through the gates of The Amazement Park. Without a doubt this is one of those constantly-looking-over-your-shoulder, jolting-every-time-a-branch-snaps, stuck-in-a-maze-with-only-one-way-out kind of books. It's atmospheric. It's deadly quiet. Wrongness growls from the woods they're hiding in, secrets howl from beneath the leafy soil they're running on back to camp, sending chills down your spine. It's menacing and gritty. In other words, it causes the erratic climbing pulse you seek from any good horror suspense novel. Even though the protagonist is Mack, a twenty-something whose ability to hide well saved her life as a child, the story is told in an omniscient style that vaults between the different characters in a rapid, windy, rollercoaster-like fashion. While that does help to preserve and maintain the suspense, I believe it would have been more effective if there weren't so many characters to start. Fourteen felt like too many. Ten would have been preferable. Seven or eight better still. I found it hard to fully connect with the competitors, even the last remaining ones, because I didn't get as much time devoted to their backstories or development as I would've liked. I think the losses would've hit with more emotional gravity if I'd had more time with the characters. That said, it wasn't difficult to become attached to Mack and Ava. They were my favorite of the bunch because of their tragic backgrounds and survivalist skills. Ava, in particular, with her leg injury and strategic thinking, gave off some serious Kaz Brekker vibes. I will also say the ending felt a little abrupt, but I think that had more to do with me wanting more than needing more, if that makes sense. It could've been eerier as well but I liked it overall. Gave me the horror suspense fix I needed. Extending my gratitude to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC in exchange for my review.

3/5 stars

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#ashlee bree's book reviews #hide #kiersten white #arcs #horror #mystery/thriller #suspense #recs: ashlee approved! #read december 2021 #coming may 2022 #boobklr #book reviews

[questwithambition]

Book recs?

So this took a while to get to because I have A LOT of books to recommend (see other recommendations here and here) - but I'll go over them and split this up by genres beneath the cut:

Fantasy

My favourite genre! Really got into this last year so have many to recommend, trying to show a few different styles here:

Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson

This is a great entry to fantasy genre imo: it’s a stand-alone and relatively short (for the genre), it has a fantastic magic system (based on breaths, used to see colour and sound, and animate objects), and characters that have a fantastic arc (we follow two very different sisters who love each other very much, and they have wonderful wonderful character arcs with growth and fallings and all that).

The Mask of Mirrors, M.A. Carrick

A delightful combination of a Venetian inspired setting, lots of political and morally grey characters, and a couple of styles of magic. I’m currently reading the second one and I am always so excited to turn the page. I’m also constantly in two mind about some of the characters because they all contain multitudes. It’s great. (If you enjoyed Six of Crows this is a books I’d recommend - similar vibes but written for an older audience)

The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

A different setting to your more traditional fantasy, based off of India, with a whole load of queer characters thrown in to make it better. A more nuanced magic system, and a plot with many many threads, which all grow to become a book that I read in one or two sittings. The second instalment is one of my most awaited books of this year.

The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samatha Shannon

Because what good is a fantasy recommendation list without a book with dragons? Another book with fantastic world-building, where you get to visit many places and learn about different cultures and customs, where a few threads and characters combine to create a wonderful plot, and some wonderful LGBTQ+ representation in there. And dragons. (It took my. While to get into this one - I was in a bit of a reading slump - but please do continue with it, it’s amazing).

Assassin’s Apprentice, Robin Hobb

Do you like having far too many emotions about characters? Do you like getting all the feels? Do you like hurt/comfort? Then do I have a book for you. A classic in the fantasy genre, but for a reason: it explores characters in such depth and such a way that I’ve rarely read about before. I personally tend more towards books that have a nice combination of plot and character development, and also slightly less “characters are having a hard time” books, but I am so glad I was encouraged to pick this (and the sequels up). They just get you.

(Also shoutout to Mistborn and Stormlight Archive, both by Brandon Sanderson, for being my current favourites. I routinely think about these - I went in with high expectations and they blew them away)

YA

A lot of adults tend to critique this genre and to that I say stop being stuck up pricks. Of course it may not appeal to you as much, you’re not the target audience. That doesn’t mean other people of all ages can enjoy it. So with that said:

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

A popular one around here, but it was my favourite book for many years (before I hopped onto the fantasy wagon). I have reread it recently and it holds up well too! A combination of heist action, characters being badass in many ways (through magic, knives or just smart), some great characters and character arcs, and a plot that had me unable to put the book down for a while. Also a delightful selection of morally grey characters to choose from.

The Throne of Glass series, Sarah J Mass

Look, I was prejudiced against this before I picked it up, I’m not one for romance, even less YA romance. But turns out (and this becomes especially true past the first couple of books) that this series is a lot more fantasy related than anything else. Yes, these books are easy to read but ngl I did get hit with the emotions multiple times, especially as characters deal with trauma (and *it takes them more than a chapter to get over it*), deal with different kinds of adversity and learn how to be better people. Also love the appreciation for the arts this story shows.

Percy Jackson / Heroes of Olympus / Trials of Apollo series, Rick Riordan

Yes I know this is more middle grade than YA but I think they absolutely deserve a mention, I’ve been making my way though them again and it’s such a delight. Sometimes you just need to read some good Rick Riordan content and maybe you’ll feel better.

Other Fiction

A lot of these tread the line between multiple genres so they’re just going here

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

Some would say this is fantasy, to which I would reply the fantastical element isn’t the point of the book? This one stays with you for a while afterwards, as you tilt your head a bit reading it, falling a bit in love with the main character as you wrap your head around the setting. Very short (just about 150 pages ish?), very enthralling, very likely to make you miss your tube stop.

She who became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

Lies somewhere in the historical fantasy realm, but what makes this story is the characters and their journeys. The main character makes you feel all sort of conflicting things, you feel many high and lows, and you get to discover this harsh world where you’re not quite sure what will happen next. I’m rubbish at summaries, but please do look this ones up - set in the 1300s in China, with some enthralling LGBTQ+ characters.

Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn

I didn’t know how to summarise this so taking from StoryGraph: “Nevin Nollop left the islanders of Nollop with the treasured legacy of his pangram the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. But as the letters begin to crumble on the monumental inscription, the island's council forbids the use of the lost letters and silence threatens Ella and her family.” Another one sitting read, that has you hanging onto every word (and letter!), with such an original idea that is beautifully executed. Another great one to pick up if you’re in a reading slump.

The Night Circus / The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern

Both of these are excellent, and very similar in certain ways: a focus on the atmosphere of the book, with characters discovering more and more of a fantastical world, but with human emotions. I don’t know how to summarise it, but in both cases I wanted to stumble into the different worlds. These aren’t for everyone, but I would recommend trying them because the writing is outstanding, as you follow the thread leading you through this magical world.

Non-fiction

The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green

So this man can use words in a way that just hits. Reviewing aspects of the Anthropocene, the geological era that we are in now, where humans have the power ti affect the whole Earth, combined with memoirs and thoughts; he manages to put words to some of my feelings. I’m planning a reread of this book very soon.

(If you’re not sure, I recommend listening to the podcast or this video, the essay about Auld Lang Syne. I love it so very much)

A Life on Our Planet, David Attenborough

Or how to feel both despair and hope at the same time, and realise that despair is easy and the way out, whereas hope is work, but it is what we need, for our sake and the futures sake. A book read in one sitting, about the state of our planet, some memoirs of the author, but also about hope for the future and how to cope. Want to put this in everyone’s hands.

Mythos, Stephen Fry

I’ve mentioned this book many times because it (and the sequels) are great. They’re my go to if I’m in a bit of a reading slump: a retelling of the Greek myths, lanced with humour and some of the author’s thoughts, making you feel as if you’re sitting around a campfire listening to a bard share a tale. They’re a delight to read.

Happy reading and thanks for the ask - I love talking about books!

#I enjoy doing this a lot #might do this every so often with the books I've read #book recommendation #book rec list #book rec #books #boobklr #bookworm #questwithambition

[ellierenae]

I want to know the number of times people have mistyped "books" as "boobs". What's the failure rate? And what's my failure rate?

I'm worried it may be... above average, let's say.

#boobklr

[ninja-muse]

Kate Quinn has done it again! Impeccably researched, impeccably told, wonderful characters, a strong central mystery and frame story, and an autistic MC to boot! Possibly the saddest and darkest of her WWII novels, though. Lots of grief and trauma, among other things.

Out March 9.

#books #booklr #boobklr #adult booklr #upcoming releases #historical fiction #wwii #kate quinn #the rose code #autism in fiction #autistic characters #book recommendations #read in 2021 #my photos #book photography

[books-in-a-storm]

December 2022 JOMPBPC: Day 9 Favorite Page Design

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #book photo challenge #booklr #boobklr #books #Tiger's Curse #Colleen Houck #december 2022

[saintmachina]

REBLOG IF YOU POST

Dark academia

Light academia

Catholic aesthetics

Baroque or Rococo

Poetry and classical literature

Runway fashion

Bookish fanart and edits

I want to follow you! I’m a dark-academia adjacent aesthetic and writing blog, let’s be friends!

#dark academia #dark aesthetic #light academia #light academia aesthetic #catholic aesthetic #baroque #rococo #classical literature #poetry #fashion #bookish #boobklr #bookstagram

[fleawithadegree]

Extremely pumped beyond belief that the ARC gods over at St. Martin’s Press/Wednesday Books and NetGalley have blessed me with an eARC of Namesake! Fable was one of my top reads this year, so I can’t wait to find out whats next for Fable, West, and the crew of the Marigold 

#fable #namesake #ya fantasy #ya #fantasy #pirates #adrienne young #romance #st martins press #wednesday books #books out in 2021 #currently reading #netgalley #book review #book addict #boobklr #fable and west #bookish #adventures on the high seas #book crush

[readtilyoudie]

The Duchess War by Courtney Milan

#book quote #the duchess war #courtney milan #brothers sinister #historical romance #quote #romance #quotes #booklr #boobklr

[aworldinpages]

The Hatton Garden Heist

The burglary took place over Easter Bank Holiday Weekend in 2015. The targeted location was an underground safe deposit facility in Hatton Garden, London. The estimated total of what was stolen was up to the value of fourteen million pound. The heist was carried out by six elderly men who were all experienced thieves. Many of the businesses in the surrounding area were closed over the weekend. It is reported that the burglars entered the premises through a lift shaft. The group of assailants then drilled through a fifty-centimetre thick wall of the vault with a Hilti DD350 industrial power drill. 

Click here to read more about one of Britain’s most infamous robberies.

#boobklr #booklr #studyblr #true crime #crime #true crime post #heist #robbery #burglary #hatton garden #hatton garden heist #infamous crime #true crime facts