#book post

[macaulaytwins]

Richard Papen winter

#space heaters: real or fake? #tsh #the secret history #richard papen #henry winter #donna tartt #dark academia #winter #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #book post #literature #books #richard x henry #my beloved

[mangotalkies]

organised all my books today - a day well spent

#booklr #book blog #books #bookworm #bookshelf #books and reading #books and literature #studyblr #light academia #dark academia #reading #book aesthetic #books books books #bookstagram #bookshelves #book photography #book post #books & libraries #books aesthetic #book organization

[chickren]

the thing you need to understand about brienne and jaime’s white sword tower scene is that it’s their first date

loras is their waiter

#jaime x brienne #asoiaf #this is about asoiaf #i’m talking about the books #book post #about the books #which are printed or audio objects #and were never filmed #so nothing on film applies #or should be mentioned to me at any time for any reason

[voidstilesplease]

this is a reminder that damen requested this song to be played in a banquet while never taking his eyes off of laurent because these are the words he wanted to but couldn't say

damen is just a lovesick fool like the rest of us

#captive prince #prince's gambit #lamen #books #bookish #book quotes #book post

[peppermintquartz]

Publicity Thing for my novel

i wrote a book once and self published it. It's called The Kaedin Secret and looks like this. it is a fantasy with a romance and attempted murder, with some guys in a uni and a secret (several, actually)

i'm writing its sequel (in fits and spurts - my brain is not cooperating properly) and i'm really needing the motivation to keep at it.

it would be very encouraging for you - any of you, all of you - to buy it either as a paperback or on Kindle and give it a try.

it's $9.99 now instead of the original price of $16.

if you like it, drop me a good amazon review. if you don't like it, please donate to your local library or to someone you think may like stuff like that.

thanks.

yours sincerely,

AK

(someone who is very tired of having to do stuff not related to writing my book)

#book post #book promotion #idk man #if only i can tag some authors #but i don't wanna spam the tags #help a bitch out #i'm so tired of not writing my story #bookblr #writeblr #writing #author struggles

[lambergeier]

2023 bookpost 🥳🥳🥳

43 books read this year! about 2/3rds of last year's number, but i fell off pace in summer and for the last two months and never actually have a target or care about my pace anyways, so 43 is a good solid number imho. as last year, full list with light commentary below, recs are bolded:

JANUARY

Neuromancer by William Gibson

The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation by Miriam Pawel (i am punished for my desire to learn more about the two governors brown's effects on the state of california with: family hagiography. should have known tbh)

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman (SOOOOOO GOOD. apocalyptic/religious horror in 1350's france during the black plauge. for fans of the terror, and fans of people who are in love but for whom the love won't alwayshelp!)

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (hilary ilu u were one of the greatest novelists of the past hundred years it was an honor to be alive at the same time as you. this could have been 200 pages shorter. ilu tho)

Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Seamas O’Reilly (short, sweet childhood memoir of the irish writer/comedian who, famously, tweeted that story about meeting the president of ireland on ketamine.)

FEBRUARY

Either/Or by Elif Bautman (girls can i tell you. i didn't realize this was a sequel until like 100 pages into the book. that was on me.)

Two Doctors Gorski by Isaac Fellman (ah mr fellman. lol)

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (really cool piece of fiction, first half told from the collective viewpoint of a group of regulars at a public swimming pool, second half about the one specific swimmer who's losing her independence to dementia. short, packs a punch)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (UNDEFEATED!)

One Man’s Terrorist: a Political History of the IRA by Peter Finn

Nightcrawlers by Leila Mottley (love to see local 22yos succeed wildly. does NOT mean this book was good god bless)

MARCH

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy (to be clear, if you are not a cormac mccarthy fan, these books will not make you his fan. they are very much about this man's incredible hopelessness regarding a world that has invented and used the atomic bomb. what can be redeemed, etc etc. i loved them, despite a major part of the plot being consensual sibling incest, they were beautiful and phenomenal, they were not light reading)

APRIL

A Smile in his Lifetime by Joseph Hansen

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (cannot recommend the audiobook highly enough. emma read the paper copy to catch up to where i was in the audiobook so we could listen together on a car trip, and she agreesTM that the audiobook is the way to go)

MAY

Barbarian Days by William Finnegan

The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Dianna Wynne Jones

JUNE

We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole (really really really cool nonfiction about ireland since the 1950s, part autobiography, more parts cultural history of a very quickly changing nation. fascinating to read this within 12 months of finn's one man's terrorist, which was a very leftist history of the IRA, and keefe's say nothing, which was an only very slightly leftist history of the IRA that was most interested in like, how compelling the history is (not a drag on it). o'toole not as big on the IRA as the other two! understandable!)

JULY

The Binding by Bridget Collins

The War That Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander (for all fans of the history of the story of the illiad!!! short and passionate!)

Flux by Jinwoo Chong (solid new debut scifi - who thought it could still happen!)

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy

The Witch King by Martha Wells (this book sucked ass!!! have mentioned this several times already this year!!!)

An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O'Brien (some things about this book were fun, many were infuriating, absolute worst had to be the insistence that in the future: therapy would solve even more problems that it does today :))

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (see my beautiful wife's post on the subject)

Stay True by Hua Hsu (beautiful, deserves the pulitzer, not 100% my thing but still very good)

AUGUST

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (the voice was hard to get used to for the first 50 pages, but i ended up really liking this tbh. i've never read copperfield, so not sure if that improved the experience)

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

The Boys by Katie Hafner (a mistake to read this, but at least the twist was funny! there wasn't anything else in the book, but only a partial waste of time at the end)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (finally read this, which has truly polarized my extended social circle, but i ended up liking it. i didn't always get what it was doing 100% of the time, and didn't so much feel compelled to find out, but i tore through it and will always be a sucker for a story about that doesn't fix you but does keep you alive. can see both sides of this debate)

American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal (we have to kill every sackler. solid history of the epidemic. EVERY sackler.)

SEPTEMBER

The Season by Kristen Richardson (half-baked history of the debutante social ritual. but, not like there's many other histories of the subject!)

All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (funny, contained extensive dirtbag lesbian behaviors, but lacked some heft at the end)

In Memoriam by Alice Winn (do you s2b2? do you want some solid, tome-like origfic? do you want all of those things and also siegfried sassoon rpf? well great news!)

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller (pleaseeeeeee tell me if you have read this or do read this it was SOOOOOO GOOD and i had NEVER heard of this guy before!!! fantastically written prose, everything builds with infinite dread to a single horrible punchline, i am still wowed thinking about it)

The Trees by Percival Everett (haha hey wanna get fucked up. dark dark dark comedy)

OCTOBER

Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale (really enjoyable if slightly overlong romance novel that i got off a rec list for historical romances with disabled love interests. does a really good interesting job of giving the love interest full breadth and agency despite severe processing impairment following a stroke)

Mobility by Linda Kiesling

The Rachel Incident by Rachel O’Donahughe

NOVEMBER

NO BOOK NOVEMBER MFS

DECEMBER

Not Even the Dead by Juan Gómez Bárcena (would also like to know if anyone else has read this so we can try and figure out what the fuck was going on right at the end!! also the fact that this is primarily about mexican history, written by a spaniard, with the specter of the US very prominent in the book is like. hm i would love to be able to read some mexican press reviews of this lol)

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey (picked this up following the opioid book, which discussed but didn't go deep on how the country's reaction to the opioid epidemic was so vastly different from the crack epidemic. put a lot of stuff into context lmao.)

WAIT AT SOME POINT THIS YEAR I REREAD RUMO AND HIS MIRACULOUS ADVENTURES BY WALTER MOERS. I DON'T KNOW WHEN. DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN. BUT I DID REREAD IT. 44 BOOKS. shout out to mr. moers for writing some extremely fucking creepy books for teenagers <3

okay i was gonna do more about like general trends and vibes of this year's books, also about the four books i am still reading rn lol, but i have been typing for soooooooooooo long so i'm just gonna reblog with more thots in the morning. stay prepared everyone

#book post

[sublecturas]

“La rebelión permanente: las revoluciones sociales en América Latina”, de Fernando Mires

#argentina #lectores #book #books #men reading #currently reading #reading in public #bookporn #subte #buenos aires #books books and books #more books #more books please #bookpic #book post #bookphoto #book photo #books with me #book tok #booktok #book toker #booktoker #livros

[margojacksonpotter]

Best example of foreshadowing I have ever seen: Coriolanus Snow predicting that his tendency to hyperfixate on things will one day be his downfall.

#coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #book post

[rainreads]

#book quotes #book post #bookstagram #bookblr #book memes #literature memes

[hatefulvirago]

What is Up with book girlies going ‘the worst part of the Book was when teenagers violently murdered puppies’ when the entire rest of the book exists. The human trafficking and using Human beings as product. It’s not about vegetarianism it’s about how capital reduces us to beasts it’s about how the system can give us everything we could ever want we only have to look past the atrocities. It’s about jasmine reaching for her baby only to have him denied by someone who sees her as a means to his own happiness.

#tender is the flesh #It’s about killing others for our own desires!!! consuming them so they are no more than a commodity!!!!!! #book post

[macaulaytwins]

#never stood a chance 😔 #dorian gray #the picture of dorian gray #tpodg #oscar wilde #basil hallward #classics #classic literature #dark academia #dark academia meme #literature #books #book post

[queenlua]

i'm finally getting around to typing up book posts again

here's a sad memoir + two very funny quick lil YA reads

#book post

[missathlete31]

Okay side note from the Twisters Excitement-

Reading this book and I can so see Glen Powell as Hugh and Monica Barbaro as Kate (even if they don't exactly fit the character description- the personalities are perfect!)! Bonus of Lewis Pullman as Cameron.

Somebody make this happen PLEASE!!!! (Before I start thinking about writing this into the Top Gun Universe and then give up like always)

#glen powell #monica barbaro #lewis pullman #last love note #emma grey #somebody turn this into a movie #book post #books of tumblr

[voidstilesplease]

#feels like an attack #capri reread #the summer palace #captive prince #lamen #books #book post #favorite books

[betterbooksandthings]

"The book has seen immediate success in 2023, debuting as a number one New York Times bestselling novel. Readers love the irreverent fantasy world and the witty characters trying to make a living in a villain’s evil lair. Sure, the villain equips the lair with a top-notch break room, HR, and healthcare, but there are still the trappings of a villain’s daily activities, reminding employees they work for a bad guy. If you, too, can’t get enough of this world, read on for eight funny, romantic, and fantastical books like Assistant to the Villain!

The following books like Assistant to the Villain give readers who are eagerly awaiting book two something to read in the meantime. They are a combination of fantasy romance books that have a dash of action, romance, and comedy to keep any Hannah Nicole Maehrer fan happy. I am head over heels for the odd little subgenre myself, so I guarantee these books like Assistant to the Villain will hit the spot."

#8 WICKEDLY FUNNY BOOKS LIKE ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN #Assistant to the Villain #Hannah Nicole Maehrer #BITTER MEDICINE BY MIA TSAI #THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON BY KIMBERLY LEMMING #ELF DEFENCE BY LISA HENRY #SARAH HONEY #A RIVAL MOST VIAL BY R. K. ASHWICK #HUMAN ENOUGH BY E.S. YU #ALK BETWEEN WORLDS BY SAMARA BREGER #HEROINE COMPLEX BY SARAH KUHN #FROM THE DARK WE CAME BY J. EMERY #book recomendation #book post #book list #fantasy books #fantasy romance books #romantasy books

[appleinducedsleep]

Random Word BPC | January 2023

12. Stomach

#books #booklr #random word bpc #the wonder #emma donoghue #book photography #book photos #book post #bookworm #booklovers #my books