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valiantarcher · 26 days

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@novelmonger, I had a false start for the oldest book with The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (struggled through the first 35 or so pages and then found out it was abridged and gave it up), but settled on The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (the copy I was reading was published in 1917). It was, uh, an interesting ride. Sometimes it was a fairy story, sometimes it seemed like pictures of Christian truths, sometimes it was a natural history reader, sometimes it was about logic, sometimes it seemed to be supporting evolutionary theory and sometimes pointing out the holes in it, and then sometimes it hits you upside the head with the views of the time and place it was written.

For the newest book, Jack le téméraire: Dans les griffes du jarden maléfique by Ben Hatke was published in 2019 (the original work in English was published in 2016). I used my French dictionary frequently and backchecked most pages against the English after I'd worked through the French, but it was a fun challenge. I particularly enjoyed seeing how the text was translated and there are a few more significant changes that I'm rather curious about (the addition of a subtitle for one!).

#Thank you!#novelmonger #Book List 2024

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jenni3penny · 2 months

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FEBRUARY 2024: READING LIST

Lavender House, Lev AC Rosen: 4.50/5.0 Fiction & LGBTQIA+, 274pgs

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done, 3.75/5.0, Schechter & Powell: Graphic Novel & Biographical, 224pgs

Heartstopper: Vol. 2, Alice Oseman: 3.50/5.0, Graphic Novel & LGBTQIA+, 320pgs

Moloka'i, Alan Brennert: 3.75/5.0, Fiction & Historical, 416pgs

Vanessa and Her Sister, Priya Parmar: 4.50/5.0, Fiction & Biographical, 384pgs

Wit, Margaret Edson: 3.75/5.0, Play & Literary, 85pgs

Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell, Bell & Marler: 4.25/5.0, Autobiographical & Literary, 593pgs

Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher: 4.0/5.0, Fiction & Fantasy, 243pgs

The Sisters’ Arts, Diane Filby Gillespie: 4.0/5.0, Biographical & Literary, 376pgs

Snapshots of Bloomsbury, Maggie Humm: 4.25/5.0, Biographical & Literary, 240pgs

There Is Always Universe, Tiffany Aurora: 3.0/5.0, Poetry & Literary, 102pgs

Blue Horses, Mary Oliver: 3.50/5.0, Poetry & Literary, 96pgs

The Cassandra, Sharma Shields: 3.75/5.0, Fiction & Historical, 304pgs

Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss: 3.50/5.0, Fiction & Historical, 152pgs

Canto for a Gypsy, Martin Cruz Smith: 3.25/5.0, Fiction & Thriller, 176pgs

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MOST ENTERTAINING: Vanessa and Her Sister & Lavender House

LEAST ENTERTAINING: Canto for a Gypsy & There Is Always Universe

PAGES PER FEBRUARY: 3,985 (+94)

PAGES YTD: 7,876

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artists-ally · 2 months

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2024 Book List!

Not that anyone will care about this but I wanted to do it and have fun!! Here is a list of the books I have read so far this year and some of my thoughts!

1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

This was my favorite book of the Hunger Games trilogy. I haven’t read A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes but I do have it. I started the Hunger Games to cope with the fact that I didn’t have the next book for Throne of Glass, but I still loved it I cant wait to watch the movies!!

2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

I still to this day have no idea what this ending was and I didn’t like the book enough to try and figure it out. It was alright, didn’t love the ending, and Katiness honestly pissed me off.

3. Heartless by Elsie Silver

Oh my GOD I LOVE THIS BOOK. This is the second book in the Chestnut Springs Series (Flawless, Heartless, Powerless, Reckless, Hopeless) Cade is the standard I have for men now. He is him. I want a grumpy, mid thirties, cowboy to tell me everything’s gonna be okay. Cade and Willa are my lord and saviors.

4. Powerless by Elsie Silver

This is the third book in the Chestnut Springs Series (Flawless, Heartless, Powerless, Reckless, Hopeless) and it was some of the best character development I’ve ever read about. It was fanfuckingtastic. So good, so we’ll thought out and so god damn smutty. Jasper is so 🤭🤭🤭 with his 6’4 tattooed ass.

5. Reckless by Elsie Silver

Theo. Silva. Is. Him. Bullriders are hot. Convince me otherwise. You cannot. Again, some amazing fucking character development form the FMC (Winter Hamilton). I love love love this book. My heart was so happy in the end.

6. Credence by Penelope Douglas

What the actual fuck did I just read. So…. She goes to love with her dads step brother and his two sons in the remote mountains of Colorado. And they get snowed in for the winter. And she’s the only women around. For five months. I’m gonna let y’all figure out the rest. But it has good moments? I think? It was so weird and I’m mad at myself for thinking some of it was hot. It’s fiction, it’s not real. (I’m delusional).

7. Where Broken Wings Fly by J. Rose

This book was outstanding. Fantastic character development and a really good portrayal of PTSD. It’s about a mom and her daughter who escape an arrange, abusive marriage and flee from Mexico to a remote mountain Villingen in England. The cliffhanger at the end made me want to absolutely tear down my house brick for brick to find the answers but I supposed buying the second book will do. It was so good, super smutty, absolutely beautiful.

8. How Does It Feel? By Jeneane O’Riley

What. The. Fuck. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. I AM SO NOT OKAY????? Those last two chapters had some Fourth Wing level plot twists that I had no hope of predicting. I am in shambles rn. Absolutely distressed over this fucking god damn mother fucking book. It’s about a biologist who falls through a faerie portal, onto the crowded prince. They think she’s an assassin sent to kill him, and he puts her through a lot of torture to prove her innocence. NOTHING. AND. I. MEAN. NOTHING. will prepare you for this ending.

9. Hopeless by Elsie Silver

AMAZING. 11/10 Elsie silver kills it ever time. This story is about Beau and Bailey. Arranged fake marriage, enemies to friends to lovers. He’s a medically retired special ops military guy and she’s got the worst last name in town. So cute. So sweet. So spicy. Beau Eaton is the standard I have for men now. He’s everything I need. Love love LOVE

10). One Dark Window by Rachel Ginning

My favorite book of the year. Hands down. I cannot stress how much I LOVED. THIS. FUCKING. BOOK. The main character Elspyth has been infected as a child and now harbors raw, unfiltered magic. It is a crime to use magic without the use of the Providence Cards. There are twelve Cards and they all give you separate abilities (strength, speed, beauty, to control others minds, influence emotions and so on). She had the ability to absorb the magic from these cards and now has one of them living inside her head. She teams up with a band of rebels to reunite the Cards in the deck to lift a deadly mist from their town. It’s insanity. It’s so crazy good idk how NO ONE HAS SAID ANYTHING I HAVE NEVER ONCE SEEN THIS BOOK ON BOOKTOK OR IG AND ITS CONCERNING. easily the best world building I’ve ever read. I finished the book last night and the second one will be here today 😭😭

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why-the-heck-not · 7 days

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the saturday-sunday night diabolical "life is falling apart"- to do list followed by a mad scramble

#in the middle of said mad scramble bc ohmygod I have 30+ things on that to do list that I'd like to get done by Tuesday at the very VERY #latest so like eeee it's a uhh something something #my sunday's have been starting on saturday evenings lately time's getting more condensed !! yikes #no one ask me when I'm planning on sleeping if I'm here drinking coffee at 1:30am I don't know I'll cross that bridge when I get to it #studyblr #bookblr #booklr #aesthetic #books #study #reading #read #book #studyspo #april 2024 #2024

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catilinas · 4 months

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Hello! I apologize if im bothering, and wish you all the best in upcoming year! I wanted to ask, do you perhaps have some suggestions for modern plays ( written in last 20 or so years) inspired by greek tragedies (either serving as motifs or beibg retellings), particularly Oresteia? I am asking because I see lots and lits of literary retellings, but with few exceptions, rarely dramas. Thank you anyway, sorry for bothering, and have great holidays!

hi!!! i can think of a few but but because i'm more of a roman epic person the list is mostly plays i've actually seen. i think literary retellings are probably easier to find people talking about online because like. they aren't performed and so there's not the access barrier of needing to Go And See The Performance. and then also there are plays where you then can't get hold of the script! i'm also assuming you're interested in plays that aren't just translations / close adaptations of tragedies, because those are a lot easier to find and also like. more common?

here are some plays that i have either read or seen that fit your criteria and also fuck immensely:

the burial at thebes: a version of sophocles' antigone - seamus heaney

antigone the musical - marina mccready (does cool things w genre; version of antigone that has made me feel the most genuine sympathy for creon)

the cure at troy: a version of sophocles' philoctetes - seamus heaney (this isn't quite within the last 20 years but you may be interested anyway!)

phaedra's love - sarah kane (also a bit older but it's sooo good. although it is maybe more senecan tragedy than greek tragedy?)

phaedra - simon stone (based on euripides' hippolytus but also the plays by seneca and racine. but also it isn't any of them. but also it IS)

oresteia - robert icke (maybe my favourite play of all time ever) (robert icke has also done a version of oedipus but it was in dutch and i don't think it's possible to get the script?)

girl on an altar - marina carr (inspired by the oresteia but. not. also very cool in that it incorporates a Lot of iphigenia at aulis and yet iphigenia never appears. and then the whole play is about her)

also! if you aren't aware of the archive of performances of greek and roman drama productions database you might also want to rummage around in there! like i am Aware of things like a recent musical version of medea / iphigenia in splott but they are almost certainly in that extremely filterable database :D

also also clutuals pspspspsps if you have any particularly cool additions to this list. hi. hello.

#happy (greek tragedy filled?) 2024 to you to :')#book list #kind of #or like. very clearly a list of Greek Tragedy Adjacent Plays That Have Been Put On In And Around London Recently #shoutout to student discounts on theatre tickets. shoutout to my student id for not expiring until late 2024 #beeps

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csuitebitches · 4 months

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2024 reading list

The $100 StartUp

The E-Myth Revisited

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Hooked

The Checklist Manifesto

The Lean Startup

Creativity Inc.

Who - smart and street

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker

The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton

Rapport: The Four Ways to Read People by Emily and Laurence Alison

Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) Third Edition: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris

Upstream: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan

The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard

The Quest by Daniel Yergin

Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky

Day of Empire by Amy Chua

India’s China Challenge by Ananth Krishnan

How to Stage a Coup – Rory Cormac – 2022

Secret History of the Five Eyes (2022) – Richard Kerbaj

Xi: A Study in Power (2022) – Kerry Brown

The India Way by S. Jaishankar

Michael Lewis: Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

David Rubenstein: How to Invest: Masters on the Craft

Elon Musk by Isaacson, Walter

The Man Who Knew - Sebastian Mallaby

Blood and Oil - Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck

Brazillionaires - Alex Cuadros

Empire Of Pain- Patrick Radden Keefe

The Match King - Frank Partnoy

McMafia - Misha Glenny

#Reading list 2024 #Books #c suite #personal growth #that girl #strong women #powerful woman #ceo aesthetic #productivity #getting your life together #balance

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the-forest-library · 4 months

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2024 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

A book with the word "leap" in the title

A bildungsroman

A book about a 24-year-old

A book about a writer

A book about K-pop

A book about pirates

A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete

A book by a blind or visually impaired author

A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author

A book by a self-published author

A book from a genre you typically avoid

A book from an animal's POV

A book originally published under a pen name

A book recommended by a bookseller

A book recommended by a librarian

A book set 24 years before you were born

A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list

A book set in space

A book set in the future

A book set in the snow

A book that came out in a year that ends with "24"

A book that centers on video games

A book that features dragons

A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours

A book that was published 24 years ago

A book that was turned into a musical

A book where someone dies in the first chapter

A book with a main character who's 42 years old

A book with a neurodivergent main character

A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary

A book with a title that is a complete sentence

A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot

A book with an unreliable narrator

A book with at least three POVs

A book with magical realism

A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person

A book written during NaNoWriMo

A cozy fantasy book

A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author

A horror book by a BIPOC author

A memoir that explores queerness

A nonfiction book about Indigenous people

A second-chance romance

An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll

An LGBTQ+ romance novel

Advanced Prompts

A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours

A book with 24 letters in the title

A collection of at least 24 poems

The 24th book of an author

A book that starts with the letter "X"

#popsugar reading challenge #popsugar reading challenge 2024 #reading challenge #books #booklr #reading #bookish #bibliophile #book prompts #book challenge #book club #literature #tbr list #nanowrimo

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bookaddict24-7 · 3 months

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Beautiful Upcoming Books By Black Authors!

Ours by Phillip B. Williams

When I Think of You by Myah Ariel

The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona Williams

Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen

Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver

Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

Not About A Boy by Myah Hollis

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Brooklyn by Tracy Brown

In the Shadow of the Fall by Tobi Ogundiran

Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson

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What other beautiful upcoming books by Black authors are you looking forward to in 2024? Which ones are your favourite?

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Happy reading!

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spacecadetstef · 5 months

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2024 Reading Challenge

It may be a smidge early but I am READY for 2024! What are you looking for to reading next? This image SHOULD be able to print on a standard size piece of paper. I’ve never made something like this before, so fingers crossed!

A Book Published in the 1800s

A Green Book

Written by a Non-binary Author

A Fruit in the Title

Read the Book Before the Movie/Show Comes Out

A Translated Book

Local Author

Travel Memoir

Written by a Filipino Author

A Book with an Ugly Cover

Non-fiction Book on a Subject you know Nothing About

Time Travel

A Book Released This Year

A Banned Book

A Book You Saw a Stranger Read

#reading challenge #2024 challenge #bucket list #reading list #books #reading #booklr #yes i know it says thesteffie #no im not fixing it #even though i should #whatever #i am thesteffie

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valiantarcher · 8 days

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Book prompts: A book with an illustrated cover; a book published more than a hundred years ago; a book with an emotion word in the title

For a book with an illustrated cover, I reread Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin. I remember enjoying this on my first read and, overall, it held up pretty well to a reread. The illustrations are still lovely, as is the writing, but I found myself wondering 'is that a moral or is the author just creating nuanced characters?' a few times. I think this'll be sticking around at least for now.

For a book published more than a hundred years ago, I read The Grey Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang. This one was originally published in 1900 and has a pretty mixed bag of folk and fairy tales, both in origin and enjoyment. But a number of the tales were new to me or were at least new variants and I think some of them would be prime candidates for the February Inklings Challenge (or I just really liked them and would be curious to see them undergo that treatment).

For a book with an emotion word in the title, I read The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. This one was simultaneously easy and hard: easy because it was the only book with an emotion in the title, but hard because it was a longer book with my own mixed emotions on it. The villain in this one is particularly despicable and there is some (somewhat) unexpected villainy on others' parts, but on the flip side there's also unexpected mercy and goodness. Not my favourite of his works by any stretch, but some good scenes for that.

#Thank you!#fictionadventurer #Book List 2024 #If anyone is curious I can provide a list of the fairy tales and a link...

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jenni3penny · 8 days

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MARCH 2024: READING LIST

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World, Fredrik Backman, 3.75/5.0, Memoir & Humor, 193pgs

Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher, 4.0/5.0, Folk Tale & Fantasy, 114pgs

Can You Ever Forgive Me: Memoirs of a Literary Forger, Lee Israel, 4.25/5.0, Literary & Humor, 129pgs

Taste: My Life Through Food, Stanley Tucci, 4.25/5.0, Biography & Cooking, 302pgs

The Little Book of Bob: Life Lessons from a Streetwise Cat, James Bowen, 3.5/5.0, Memoir & Humor, 176pgs

Arch-Conspirator, Veronica Roth, 4.0/5.0, Mythology & Literary, 112pgs

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MOST ENTERTAINING: Can You Ever Forgive Me: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

LEAST ENTERTAINING: The Little Book of Bob: Life Lessons from a Streetwise Cat

PAGES PER MARCH: 1,026 (-2,959)

PAGES YTD: 8,902

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goalsdigger · 4 months

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Postanowienia noworoczne 2024 +vision board

✨ oznaczone są dodatkowe

1. Pilnie się uczyć i zaliczyć semestr.

2. Przeczytać 24 książki i tyle samo przesłuchać. 5/24, 6/24

3. Dbać o siebie, pod każdym względem.

4. Przestać być taką płochliwą pizdą.

5. Opalić się (o ile depilacja laserowa pozwoli).

6. Wykonać minimum 1/3 rzeczy z bucket list i 2 rzeczy z większych zachcianek.

7. RZUCIĆ PAPIEROSY!

8. Nauczyć się innego sposobu radzenia sobie ze złością i chandrą niż branie opioidów.

9. Odpuścić zero-jedynkowe podejście.

RUTYNA: 1. Dalej sumiennie uczęszczać na: yogę, high heels, zajęcia lekkoatletyczne i pojawiać się w OSP.

2. Ćwiczyć angielski (fiszki wystarczą), keyboard/kalimba (20 minut dziennie wystarczy) i kaligrafię (opanowanie podstaw wystarczy).

3. Dalej wykonywać treningi (pływanie, bieganie, rower, ciężary, drążki, abs, gimnastyka, rozciąganie).

4. Dalej uczęszczać w eventach, koncertach, spektaklach, regularnie przeglądać kiwiportal i kalendarz biegowy.

5. Prowadzić sumiennie i ładnie dziennik. ✨ Czytać/słuchać/pisać po angielsku.

✨ Więcej gotować.

✨ Więcej piec.

KURSY/UPRAWNIENIA:

1. Skończyć prawko C. ✅

2. Zrobić uprawnienia na przewóz rzeczy.

3. Zrobić wkładkę na uprzywilejowane.

4. Zrobić kurs KKP. ✅

5. Zrobić kurs TCCC.

6. Zrobić kurs na ratownika wodnego.

✨ Zrobić specjalizacje z ratownictwa nurkowego.

✨ Zrobić uprawnienia spawalnicze.

✨ Zrobić kurs pierwszej pomocy przedeweteranyjnej.

✨ Zrobić kurs szybkiego czytania i zapamiętywania.

✨ Dołączyć do GOPR/WOPR

WYJAZDY/WAKACJE:

Pojechać na Egodrop i inny podobny festival.

2. Wyjechać z D. na Maltę.

3. Pojechać na biwak z D. i Walterem.

✨ Zaliczyć kolejne wakacje z A. <3

✨ Wyjechać gdzieś z J.

✨ Pojechać jako wolontariusz na Woodstock.

✨ Wykupić fotoekspedycję.

✨ Zwiedzić porządnie szlak orlich gniazd (+jaskinie)

✨ Wyjechać na tematyczny obóz (taneczny/biegowy/językowy).

SPORT:

1. Wykupić sobie lekcje pływania i szlifować technikę oraz wytrzymałość. ✅

2. Ukończyć triathlon. ✅

3. Brać udział w zajęciach lekkoatletycznych lub zacząć porządne treningi biegowe (plan od pułkownika).

4. Wystartować w półmaratonie.

5. Wystartować w minimum jednym biegu OCR.

6. Wystartować w minimum 5 biegach. ✅

7. Przynajmniej raz stanąć na podium.

8. Zrobić formę życia i dodać zdjęcie before/after.

9. Zrobić formę na rower.

✨ Zrobić siłownię.

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bigcats-birds-and-books · 29 days

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Books of 2024: THE MESSAGE by K.A. Applegate, adapted by Chris Grine.

The original ANIMORPHS books were a hugely formative influence on....My Entire Life, Writerly and Otherwise, so I've been collecting the graphic novels as they come out, too!

#books #books of 2024 #animorphs #k.a. applegate #chris grine #the message #anyway i'm only actually reading book 4 for Books of 2024 lmao #but it seemed like a LOT of effort to take a picture of one (1) book #if i'll read said book in like half an hour lmao #so here they all are so far!!#they're very quick reads and i'm love illustrated body horror for children XD #i'm very overdue for my OG Series Reread #i used to do one every four years or so but stopped :(#i miss them i should try again #maybe when i unbury them from storage i'll put them at the top of the list #if i have a house someday.....

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creatingnikki · 2 months

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things I really like

breakfast buffets at hotels

nights I can see the moon from my window

spaghetti (in all sauces)

dreams that make no sense but are not scary either

book haul videos from my friend curated especially for me

chatGPT and the letters it writes to me

reading books on my laptop and other things that take me back to the 2010s

oranges oranges oranges

poems that involve food items

short stories that satisfy and don't have a super vague open-ended ending

the pearl ring I bought with my own money

when people know their big 3 placements in the astro chart

my sister in her pastel clothes

lighting candles after a long time and remembering how much I like their scent

romance books that are no trashy or smutty but more slice of life and literary fiction

befriending patience (trying)

dreamcatcher windchimes

#lists #writerscreed #poeticstories #things i like #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #orange #chatgpt #what i like #february 2024 #spilled thoughts #dark academia #desiblr #desi blog #romance books #creatingnikki #moon

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aroaessidhe · 2 months

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2024 reads / storygraph

Everything Under the Moon

Anthology of queer reimaginings of fairytales by mostly Australian authors

various genres, from contemporary to fantasy and sci-fi, mostly about older teens

mlm, sapphic, trans, nonbinary, demi, bi ace, and aromantic characters, some stories focusing on romance but many on familial relationships and siblings

#Everything Under the Moon #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #aromantic books #queer books #A really nice anthology of queer fairytales! definitely a mix of all sorts of stories.#Some were a bit forgettable (I mean I’m just not a short story person) but I really enjoyed others! I #I picked this up specifically because I heard there was an aromantic story (which I didn’t know much else about) and yeah it hit hard actua #it’s about being okay with loneliness and also centred around artists….so. it did make me cry a bit….#I liked that a lot of them focused on platonic r/ships - most on sibling actually? I appreciate that there were a couple sapphic aces too #I will say while the illustrations are really high quality (I especially liked the naturey ones) I found a lot of them depicted the chars #as very.....disnefied? idk. thin and generic. lacking 'imperfect' features like freckles even #(when they’re described as having them) With a couple exceptions for sure - but a lot of them were a bit samey #I would have loved some authors notes or a list of the stories because I didn’t recognise which all were inspired by #(though they’re on the endpapers; just not specified which) - I did find this in a GR review tho

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starrlikesbooks · 4 months

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My 24 most anticipated reads of 2024!

#I'll add aome descriptions to this post when I get a chance 😅#bookblr #booklr #book blog #book rec #ya books #book list #starrlikesbooks #new books #book recs #queer books #tbr #2024 books #new year

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