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disregardcanon · 3 months

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just finished reading america's first civil war: the mormon rebellion 1847-1848 and HOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYY has my understanding of 1800s america been shifting recently

#book log #reading log

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literatureaesthetic · 5 months

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books books books 😵‍💫

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aubryjoi · 3 months

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I made a kitty-themed book tracker & coloring page! 🐱📚

Downloads available now! 💜

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heavenlyyshecomes · 1 year

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For a whole month, a blank space ran where my newspaper column should have been. My phone stayed off, and I refused to see anyone. Let me vanish from the world. Only when it got dark enough for the trees to melt into the gloom would I return home, stumbling alone into the lift. Sometimes there’d be a few letters waiting for me, sometimes nothing at all. I’d sit by the window staring into the empty air all night, slipping into sleep at dawn. I never dreamed.

—Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China tr. Jeremy Tiang

#she's just like me fr ..#yan ge #strange beasts of china #jeremy tiang #chinese literature #book log #words #mine #solitude

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ofliterarynature · 4 months

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Happy New Year tumblr! It's that time again, so I ask you - how many of the books that I read in 2023 have you also read?

#bec posts #list challenge #listchallenge #books #booklr #bookblr #book log

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belovedapollo · 1 month

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a little something on the dining table with ofc the most fitting book on top 🗡️ reblog is ok, don’t repost, use

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livinginsideabookshelf · 1 year

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

~ If you enjoy my content, I have now opened up tips on my account! Anything is appreciated, but there's no pressure! ~

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northfaceho · 5 months

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Incredibly baller accidental achievement: finished my page of reading log in my bullet journal on the same day that I finished the bujo 😎😎😎

#bujo #mine #bullet journal #reading log #book log

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opheliadae · 2 years

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some of my fav quotes from “alone with you in the ether”

#book quotes #alone with you in the ether #olivie blake #dark academia vibes #dark academia #current reads #bookblr #x #classic academia #book log

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saintmaudes · 2 years

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“I have nowhere else to go,” the fairy said.

“The Wood welcomes you, as it welcomes all the lost,” Silver said. “It may not treat you kindly; it is the Wood. It may not keep you safe; it is the Wood. It will not last forever, but it will last long enough; and the trees grow, and the seasons change, and the wild things come and go, as do the monsters.”

— Emily Tesh, Drowned Country

#emily tesh #drowned country #silver in the wood #the woods are lovely dark and deep #w #upl #book log

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pigeonmoony · 2 months

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˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ Book Log #2 ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗

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Title: Trials of Apollo; The Hidden Oracle

Author: Rick Riordan

Pages: 279

Time Spent: Jan 31 - Feb 7

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Rating: 4/5

Medium: Audiobook

Review: I started this when it first came out then never finished it so here i am back in my pjo hyperfix. I love the slow humanization of Apollo's personality. His progression is so good ty Rick. This is also my first full audiobook listen and I really enjoyed it. It's perfect for when I'm at work.

#pigeons book club #book log #book #reading log #rick riordan #trials of apollo #apollo #greek mythology #percy jackson #pjo #hidden oracle #audiobook #pigeon's book club #pigeon's book log

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literatureaesthetic · 4 months

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another day, another mediocre moshfegh novel🥴 i should just accept the fact that she isn't an author for me, but i so desperately want to love her work :( anyway, full review here

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lilylizard · 4 months

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books I've finished in 2024:

Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

Severance by Ling Ma

The Old Place by Bobby Finger

The Murder of Roger Akroyd by Agatha Christie

#book log #booklog #lilypost #personal #books I've finished in 2024

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heavenlyyshecomes · 4 months

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2024 TBR 🫡🔖

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ofliterarynature · 21 days

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FEBRUARY 2024 WRAP UP

[loved liked ok nope dnf (reread) book club*]

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years • The Memory Librarian • Pixels of You* • Arch-Enemies • Moby Dyke • Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures • A Sinister Revenge • Lud in the Mist • Crying in H Mart • Something Close to Magic • Hula • (Renegades) • The Divorce Colony • Foundryside • Earthlings • A Far Wilder Magic

total: 13 books (12 audiobook, 1 print)

Not as many books this month! And not just because February has fewer days, I was really in a funk this month and struggling to pay attention to my audiobooks (and enjoy them). You wouldn't think there's such a thing as too many books, but I think the overtime hours at work are hitting their peak mental health destruction. Here's to hoping things improve in March!

The Divorce Colony (4.5 stars) - genuinely can't believe this was my 3rd nonfic of the year already! I picked a print copy of this up at a library sale in December after hearing about divorce colonies in the early 20th century on a recent episode of the 99% Invisible podcast. Turns out this book was actually about the beginning of the moment that took place in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in the 1800's. Western states had shorter residency periods and less strict divorce laws, so women (and the occasional man) would travel west and live there for several months in order to obtain a divorce. This book tracks the movement through the stories of 4 of the more infamous cases to make the papers, and does an incredible job of weaving in the surrounding political and religious discussions. Would recommend, and has a great cover to boot!

Renegades (3 stars) - a reread, and for some reason it was torture. I originally read this back in 2018 and loved it, and wanted to tackle it again and actually finish the rest of the series. But I kept getting worked up and frustrated this time around! It kept trying to take itself seriously while also being very YA and kind of superhero-camp, and I was absolutely overthinking it lol. I found the strength to press on into book two, Archenemies (3.5 stars). I liked it a bit more! Something about it being new, the story being a bit more settled and maybe getting a better grasp on its message/politics, the characters growing more, me figuring out that I shouldn't listen to the audiobook for more than an hour or so at a time, lmao. Not great, but fun, and possibly worth reading? I'll keep y'all updated when I finish book 3.

Hula (5 stars) - incredible. Part generational family story, part history, part discussion of what it means to be Hawaiian, culturally and legally. Not always the easiest of reads, but it was so so worth it. It was also doing something very interesting with parts of the narration voiced by a collective "we" (culture/community?) that I would love to get a look at in print. Highly recommend, I'll definitely be getting myself a copy.

Something Close to Magic (4.5 stars) - an absolute delight! The Gail Carson Levine comp on this one is not entirely unearned, anyone who's a fan of fairy tale type fantasies will enjoy this, I had a great time! Very interestingly, it has characters who are in their mid to late teens, but is written in a way where they're still allowed to be young, to the point I'm surprised it didn't get shoehorned into MG instead of YA. If the author writes any more of these I'd be happy to read them.

Crying in H Mart (3.5 stars) - nonfic number 4! I'm sure everyone's heard of this one by now, which is why I finally picked it up. It's fine (which is why it got an extra .5 star), but on the scale of take it or leave it, I'd leave it. It just wasn't for me and I kind of wish I'd dnf'd it. A great cover though.

Lud-in-the-Mist (3.5 stars) - this one seems to be considered a sort of early precursor to fantasy and fairy tale type stories from the early 20th century, and I was eager to try it! While I definitely don't think it would feel out of place amongst it's more recent fellows (think the Last Unicorn, Robin McKinley, DWJ, etc), I absolutely could not get into it. Probably the chief recipient of "my brain doesn't want to cooperate, sorry," so maybe I'll give it another shot someday.

A Sinister Revenge (4 stars) - enjoyable as always! Not to hide this deep in my reviews or anything, but have the Emily Wilde people tried Veronica Speedwell yet?

Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures (3 stars) - This one's been sitting unread on my shelf for a while, and since I was on a bit of a Maggie Stiefvater run, I figured it was perfect! Well. Unless you are like 7, this was so bad. Not good. Having previously read and not liked a book by Maggie's co-author Jackson Pearce, I think it would not be unreasonable for me to assume she did most of the writing while Maggie did the illustrations - if the audiobook had been any longer than 4 hours I'd have absolutely DNF'd it, and I have no intention of continuing the series.

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in the Country (4.5 stars) - part of me was wondering what I was doing trying this lol, not being someone who drinks or goes to bars, OR, as previously mentioned, is not the biggest fan of memoirs. It was not, as I hoped, also part research project, but it is a travelogue, and as a consequence has a strong narrative thread. It also has a lot of discussions about issues in the LGBTQ+ community, and overall I really liked it once I figured out what it was doing!

Pixels of You (3.5 stars) - a very short sapphic rivals-to friends-to lovers graphic novel about a human-form AI and a human with an android eye competing for a photography internship at an art gallery. The creators clearly put SO much thought into their characters and worldbuilding, but sadly there is nowhere near enough length here to do it all justice, and a number of elements felt very odd or under explored. The relationship parts are great! I just think this needed to be twice as long to really given everything its due, or maybe explored in prose instead.

The Memory Librarian (3.5 stars) - to start, I know nothing about the musical album this is related to, so I don't know how much that might have affected my reading. Overall I wasn't super impressed - when I discovered that the first story was cowritten by Alaya Dawn Johnson - no shade to her - I almost dropped it then, I just really didn't like her writing style in the one book I've read. But I stuck through it. Of the five stories, only one really stuck in my mind - Nevermind, cowritten by Danny Lore, which I could have read an entire novel about. I wish I could recommend it on its own, but overall I just don't quite understand the world Monae has created.

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years (3.5 stars) - I probably should say more about the book, it was fine, I was surprised to find that it's set in relatively current day, I found myself a lot more interested in the second narrative about the house's history, which did make me cry a bit. Mostly though, I really just want to let you know how MUCH of a non-entity the djinn was in this story, I have no idea why it was there and why it was included in the title of the book. All the author had to do was make the house a little more sentient and haunted and it would be fine, idk. Read it if you want, but it's not one I would rec.

DNF'S

Foundryside - I was so ready. I had the first two audiobooks checked out, I had the third one on hold. I started this but oh, the writing. bleh. I was looking thought reviews and someone referred to it as something like "21st century internet speak." In a high fantasy novel. I noped out at just 10%.

Earthlings - I've considered the author's other book before but haven't read it, but thought maybe a sci-fic book would work better for me? The beginning was odd but not uninteresting, and I might have continued if it had stayed that way. But then the main character was in school(?) and her teacher started getting handsy after class and I wasn't invested enough to stick it out.

A Far Wilder Magic - the success of Something Close to Magic made me a little too hopeful I think, bc while I'm still a little leery around YA, I know people have liked this. And it sounded interesting, truly, and I love the cover. But first it was the religion stuff. And I didn't really like the characters. Then it's like, oh, this is the same plot as The Scorpio Races, but nowhere near it's quality in any shape or form. I decided to stop while I was ahead, before I started to actually dislike it. (anyway here's your PSA to go read The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater, I recommend doing it in October if you can).

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salvadorbonaparte · 4 months

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2023 in Books

I didn't have a lot of time/energy for leisure reading but here are the books I finished this year

The First Man in Rome - Colleen McCullough - I listened to the audiobook because it was narrated by David Ogden Stiers but the book is really good and now I kinda want to read the whole series (but unfortunately the others aren't narrated by him)

Minificciones - Erica Engeler (eds.) - A collection of very short stories from Latin America which I read in an attempt to get back into reading and improve my Spanish, some of the stories were really good and I'd love to read more Latin American lit next year

Dead Collections - Isaac Fellman - A book that sounds like a fake book someone would make up on tumblr but it's real and I loved it, I bought it in Gay's The Word in London, it's about a trans Jewish vampire archivist who falls in love with the widow of a television writer/producer and they figure out they were in the same fan community in the 90s and vampirism is treated as a chronic illness

Abaddon's Gate - James S.A. Corey - I am still making my way through the Expanse series one audiobook at a time and I liked this one but I kinda miss some of the characters from the second book

11/22/63 - Stephen King - I really loved this one, I listened to the audiobook because it was narrated by David Nathan, I already find the whole JFK assassination thing interesting so this was great because it's part sci-fi and part historical novel but it's also silly in a very Stephen King way (crossover with It, you can only time travel through a diner in Maine), the time travel rules were cool, the ending was silly but I'm used to that from him and it actually worked for me, I kept repeating phrases from the book for days after reading it and binge watched the series too

Poems on the Underground - Benson et al. (eds.) - Found a used copy in a charity shop and you know I love poetry and the London Underground

If I Understood You, Would I have This Look On My Face - Alan Alda - The third Alan Alda book I read, honestly he makes me believe improv theatre can save the world, would recommend this to anyone who wants to be a better communicator

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir - Very different from what I expected but I liked it and will read the other ones too

Nutcracker and Mouse King - E.T.A Hoffman - the audiobook was free and I enjoy the ballet based on it so why not, right

#books #booklr #bookblr #2023 in books #book log

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