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giovanni's room - james baldwin (☆☆☆☆)
let the light pour in: morning poems - lemn sissay (☆☆☆½)
the anthropocene reviewed - john green (☆☆☆☆☆)
lessons in chemistry - bonnie garmus (☆☆☆)
wearing my mother's heart - sophia thakur (☆☆☆)
othello - william shakespeare (☆☆☆)
tiny beautiful things - cheryl strayed (☆☆☆☆½)
the death of ivan ilych - leo tolstoy (☆☆☆)
how not to be a boy - robert webb (☆☆☆☆)
the fellowship of the ring - j.r.r. tolkien (☆☆☆☆½)
the satsuma complex - bob mortimer (☆☆☆)
the two towers - j.r.r. tolkien (☆☆☆☆☆)
sapiens: a brief history of humankind - yuval noah harari (☆☆☆)
the return of the king - j.r.r. tolkien (☆☆☆☆☆)
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It was starting to sink in that for the rest of my life, the people I met, the people I became close to—there would always be a chance that they saw me as a payout.
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books read in 2024: hell bent by leigh bardugo
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"daniel arlington's soul is rightfully claimed by this place. he is one of us and must serve his eternity here."
"i'm willing," said darlington.
"for fuck's sake, at least try to negotiate."
#books read in 2024#alex stern#hell bent#leigh bardugo#darlington#darlingstern#i hate to make the quote anything other than an alex quote but i absolutely love turner in this part#turner living his worst life for a while just to save darlington and then darlington is like 'nvm guys! i'm fine here!'#i'd be exasperated too tbh
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Happy Last 🐸 Day of February 🥳
This month I read 17 books, bringing my yearly total to 31 books so far! My Top 3 Books were hard to choose because I had so many 5-star reads this month, but I did indeed choose three which are starred below in the official list:
⭐️ Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land by N. Scott Momaday
🎨 The Art of Faery by David Riché
🧧 Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham
🧡 Blood Orange by Yaffa As
🔭 Saga Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
🍄 The Mushroom Garden by Adam Oehlers
⭐️ Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
🍃 Leaf Litter by Jarod K. Anderson
🏔️ Think Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold
⭐️ What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
🌏 All Art is Ecological by Timothy Morton
🎲 The Last Session Vol. 1: Roll for Initiative by Jasmine Walls, Dozerdraws, and Micha Myers
🧚 The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley
🐸 Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
💤 The Gargoyle by Garry Kilworth and Dan Williams
☀️ Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest by Phoebe Wahl
💟 The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems by N. Scott Momaday
#godzilla reads#February reading wrapup#reading wrap up#books read in 2024#reading#booklist#book blog#books#booklr#bookworm#bookish#bibliophile
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books read in 2024
⋆ ⭒˚.⋆ january ⋆.˚⭒ ⋆
one dark window (the shepherd king #1) by rachel gillig
the murder on the links (hercule poirot #2) by agatha christie
pageboy by elliot page
house of sky and breath (crescent city #2) by sarah j. maas
rogue protocol (the murderbot diaries #3) by martha wells
cult classic by sloane crosley
malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid
the beauty of your face by sahar mustafah
exit strategy (the murderbot diaries #4) by martha wells
animal farm by george orwell
everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily austin
carrie soto is back by taylor jenkins reid
a court this cruel & lovely (kingdom of lies #1) by stacia stark
the rules do not apply by ariel levy
poirot investigates (hercule poirot #3) by agatha christie
yellowface by rebecca f kuang
every heart a doorway (wayward children #1) by seanan mcguire
house of flame and shadow (crescent city #3) by sarah j. maas
read: 18
* · ✦ · * february * · ✦ · *
beautyland by marie-helene bertino
bride by ali hazelwood
network effect (the murderbot diaries #5) by martha wells
fugitive telemetry (the murderbot diaries #6) by martha wells
faebound (faebound #1) by saara el-arifi
the raven boys (the raven cycle #1) by maggie stiefvater **
read: 6
.✦.· *. march .*· .✦.
interesting facts about space by emily austin
penance by eliza clark
the book that no one wanted to read by richard ayoade
pride and prejudice by jane austen
unlikeable female characters: the women pop culture wants you to hate by anna bogutskaya
the shame by makenna goodman
greta & valdin by rebecca k. reilly
read: 6
reading goal: 28/100
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Books Read in 2024
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
When the whole world hurts, you bite it. Don't you?
#the only good indians#stephen graham jones#bookedit#literature#horror#horrorlit#lit edit#lit aesthetic#my edit#books read in 2024
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books read in 2024
1 - ruthless vows (rebecca ross): jan 2 - 5
2 - atonement (ian mcewan): jan 1 - 7
3 - the stolen heir (holly black): jan 9 - 11
4 - clockwork angel (cassandra clare): jan 12 - 15
5 - archer’s voice (mia sheridan): jan 15 - 23
6 - the flatshare (beth o’leary): jan 28 - 30 / (reread)
7 - check, please! book 1: #hockey (ngozi ukazu): jan 31
8 - check, please! book 2: sticks and scones (ngozi ukazu): feb 1 - 2
9 - indigo eyes (maeve hazel): feb 1 - 6
10 - book lovers (emily henry): feb 7 - 11 / (reread)
11 - a cuban girl’s guide to tea and tomorrow (laura taylor namey): feb 12 - 15
12 - the wake-up call (beth o’leary): feb 12 - 17
13 - eleanor oliphant is completely fine (gail honeyman): feb 19 - 28
14 - the seven year slip (ashley poston): feb 28 - mar 3
15 - the road trip (beth o’leary): mar 3 - 6
16 - the youthful you who was so beautiful (jiu yue xi): mar 6 - 11 / (reread)
17 - i hope this doesn’t find you (ann liang): mar 14 - 16
18 - the great divorce (c.s. lewis): mar 29 - 31
19 - the foxhole court (nora sakavic): apr 3 - 5 / (reread)
20 - the raven king (nora sakavic): apr 5 - 7 / (reread)
21 - the king’s men (nora sakavic): apr 7 - 11 / (reread)
22 - tweet cute (emma lord): mar 22 - apr 12
23 - society of the snow: the definitive account of the world’s greatest survival story (pablo vierci): apr 12 - 13
24 - the switch (beth o’leary): apr 16 - 18
25 - pride and prejudice (jane austen): apr 11 - 23 / (reread) (audiobook)
26 - the sunshine court (nora sakavic): apr 18 - 26
27 - longbourn (jo baker): apr 23 - 27
28 - society of the snow: the definitive account of the world’s greatest survival story (pablo vierci): apr 21 - 28 / (reread)
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For Reasons not specified I found myself at a bus stop in Richmond at like 1:30am in mid February which was a pretty good place to finish The Left Hand of Darkness.
I found this book very slow to get through, not in an unenjoyable way, but it just felt like I had to take my time with it, reading a bit of it at a time. I enjoyed the world it set up, and I enjoyed Genly's movement through it, and how he analysed the people he found himself with. I also enjoyed Estraven's point of view chapters where you could kind of make sense of Genly in the context of the world as well.
Obviously the high point of the book is Genly and Estraven's walk through the ice together. It really developed their characters and their relationship and this sense of sadness in the looking back from Genly. It was very tender, their interactions together.
I'm still kind of getting used to reading science fiction, I struggly sometimes to fully embrace the world to begin with, but I think I will be reading more of Ursula Le Guin
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Books read in 2024: Jingo by Terry Pratchett
Rating: 3.5/5
The City Watch books of the Discworld in general tackle different kinds of prejudice and this entry is no different. The main plot of this book involves the investigation of the attempt murder of a Klatchian prince. This starts a war between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch. There is clever commentary about how people see others from a country that is seemingly very different from one's own and why wars happen. At first I was a bit worried about Pratchett writing about Klatchians, that are basically Arabs, but the author addressed the topics carefully as far as I noticed.
“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
As usual, I missed some of the references that I then looked up on wiki.
This book made me finally love Sam Vimes. I already liked him well enough before, but now I get the hype. I really liked that Lord Vetinari appeared quite a bit in this book and his interactions with Nobby and Colon were hilarious. A lot of the Watch members got a bit of time dedicated to them, which pleases me. I liked having a little peek into Carrot and Angua's relationship, especially.
Overall, Jingo is not a favourite book in the series to me, but it was pretty good and I will probably reread it in the future.
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Books read in 2024: Devolution by Max Brooks
Rating: 4/5
I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone even remotely interested in bigfoot. It has a slow start, but the character growth is amazing, the format it's written in is fun, and if we're being honest, the last few chapters were so thrilling that I started work late to try and finish them. Would watch a movie of this one just to get to watch the final scene playout.
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Book Review #5 of 2024--
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. Rating: 4 stars.
Read from January 20th to 25th.
My second Discworld novel is under my belt. You know, at this pace, I'm probably going to finish the Discworld about 250 years after I die. I had read Men at Arms! when I was in college and over a decade later I finally read another novel in the Discworld. I think the thing that keeps me from diving into it wholeheartedly is that there are so many starting points for it that my brain doesn't like it. I was basically given a stack of Discworld novels as a teenager and my uncle said "start anywhere." Which isn't great for someone like me. I like having an order, a plan, something that I can understand and execute. I think if I were to plan on moving forward in this world I would either continue with the City Watch series or the Industrial Revolution series. But, again, I'm not sure when I would pick up more here.
All of that being set aside, I just really enjoy Terry Pratchett. I love the absurdist nature of the Discworld but how relatable it is. This particular one came out two decades ago and there were still so many moments I could point to and see how it related to our current world. I think it's so easy to say that Pratchett understands people, humanity as a whole. Also, as someone who worked in a post office for a semester in college, I have to say that there was so much fun stuff in this one. I also loved that Moist dressed as Hermes for all of the big showy Post Master things he did. And can we talk about how Moist is the most morally grey character of all morally grey characters? Okay, maybe not all, but STILL, I love that little weirdo so much. He has such a change of heart after working in the post office and the fact that he still does con-artist things for the good of the post office and the city? Stop it. I absolutely love it. I also love Stanley who gets so obsessed with a new thing to collect once the stamps come out. The addictive part of my personality sees him and respects him for it.
There were a few things in the novel that felt a bit outdated--Miss Dearheart being a tough, not like other girls female character--but I guess it's to be expected after two decades. There were also some places the plot went that I didn't love, but the story ended in a good place overall for me. A small complaint for me is that I had to read this one in Mass Market Paperback which made the long chapters feel so, so long.
Overall, it was a fun time and I definitely think I'll want to pick up another Discworld novel at some point. Maybe not over a decade from now, but at some point. I don't feel any pressure to dive into another one in the next few months so we'll see when I feel the desire to get back into this crazy world of satire.
#book review#book reviews#booklr#bookblr#bookstagram#bookish#books#book#books read in 2024#2024 reading challenge#goodreads challenge#goodreads#Terry Pratchett#Discworld#Going Postal#moist von lipwig#adora belle dearheart#havelock vetinari#ankh morpork
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I’d learned this much playing chess: The more complicated a person’s strategy seemed, the less likely an opponent was to look for simple answers.
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❄️ January Reading Wrap Up ❄️
The first month of the year has me at 14 books, which felt like a lot to me. My Top 3 Reads are starred below:
🖤 My Gothic Heart edited by Charlie Castelletti
🦎 Dorohedoro Vol. 1 by Q Hayashida
☀️ East of the Sun & West of the Moon by Mercer Mayer
⭐️ Dragon Lore: A Treasury of 10 Dragon Tales by Emma Roberts and Tomislav Tomić
👒 My Aunt is a Monster by Reimena Yee
⚔️ The Bronze Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham
🎶 The Book of Ballads and Sagas by Charles Vess
❄️ The Ice Dragon by E. Nesbit and Carole Grey
🐣 Domnall and the Borrowed Child by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
⭐️ Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons
⭐️ Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
❄️ The Little Winter Book of Gnomes by Kirsten Sevig
🧚♀️ The Fairy Universe by Olivier Ledroit
🧚♂️ Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book by Terry Jones and Brian Froud
#godzilla reads#january wrap up#books read in 2024#book blog#reading#reading wrap up#January reading wrap up#booklr#bookworm#bookish#booklover#bibliophile
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Book 6 of 2024
Well, this was the best book I have read so far! I can totally understand why Lionsgate bought the film rights because this book just reads like a movie!
I totally want to read the next book/books in this serious. Oh, you sneaky bastard you Devroe!
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Books Read in 2024
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity by David Kirby (December 27, 2023- February 10, 2024)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Feb. 10- Feb. 20)
Complete Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm (Feb. 20- April 3)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (April 3- April 27)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (April 27-)
#books read in 2024#idk why it took me so long to get through death at seaworld#but it was a nice refresher on a topic i'm really passionate about#i'm going into soa with an open mind because it seems people either really love it or really hate it#continuous editing#madeline talks
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