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macrolit · 3 months

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#reading #tbr #challenge #bingo #literature #read #classic lit #reading bingo #2024 #enjoy!

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godzilla-reads · 4 months

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My Year of Gothic Reading 2024

Rules: For each month in 2024 you have to pick either a book, poem, or short story to read that carries gothic themes or aesthetic. Here's a list of suggested reading, but feel free to read something else or add others onto this list!

Books

"Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James

"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

"The Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe

"The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux

"Dracula" by Bram Stoker

"The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole

"The Monk" by Matthew Lewis

"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

"Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Short Stories

"The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen

"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Hr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson

"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Sandman" by E.T.A. Hoffman

"The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling

"The Vampyre" by John William Polidori

"The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier

"The Cats of Ulthar" by H.P. Lovecraft

Poems

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

"The cold earth slept below" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The Lady of Shalott" by Lord Alfred Tennyson

"My own Beloved, who has lifted me" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"What Would I Give?" by Christina Rossetti

"Time to Come" by Walt Whitman

"Love and Death" by Lord Byron

"Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson

"La Belle Dame sans Merci" by John Keats

"The End" by D.H. Lawrence

"Hymn to the Night" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The Possessed" by Charles Baudelaire

#godzilla reads #my year of gothic reading #gothic lit #gothic literature #reading challenge #reading #book blog #bookish #classic lit

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alienejj · 1 month

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ramadan prep 8/mar/24

My tongue is divided into two into heavy accent bits of confusion into miracles and accidents saying things that hurt the heart drowning in a language that lives, jumps, translates. ― from My Tongue is Divided into Two by Quique Aviles

i did indeed use a pink prayer rug for my background (someone in the community gave it away and we took it) and those two perfume roll-ons i got from Morocco last summer where we stayed with our extended family.

pls forgive my terrible arabic handwriting pls

doing so much (mentally) better today.

finally found use for a notebook ive been too afraid to use!! i've had it for around four years and each time i tried to use it id mess up the first page then leave it alone. but this time i have a plan, ill be using it to record all the dua's and beneficial words i want to learn, sort of like a common place book.

looking for dark academia/bookblr/studyblr accounts run by muslims to follow pls interact if you'd like us to follow each other xx

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nerdy-cake · 7 months

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JOMP October book photo challenge | Day 4: One word title

Beloved by Tony Morrison is a book about a haunting that deals with a lot of trauma...worth a read, but not an easy one

#books #jompbpc #just one more page #booklr #reading #booklover #classic #toni morrison #bookish #book photo challenge #book photography #reading life #my stuff

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apollon-emos · 7 months

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hello i'm asking the hivemind for opinions on translations of The Metamorphoses. which one should i aim to get for my first reading?

#ovidposting #ovid's metamorphoses #classics #for context: my academic focus is epic over the ages and im looking for a challenging/rewarding read but i am not a latinist #so a nice critical edition is cool too

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alderwoodbooks · 4 months

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Currently Reading: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

oh my god. I'm 60 pages in so far and I'm already just absolutely falling in love with this book. I read The Secret History by Tartt earlier in the year and it quickly became one of my favorite reads of the year, it felt like a text I could sink my teeth into and just get lost in. The Goldfinch feels similar. I love how Tartt is able to build suspense so easily in her work, and her writing style is so up my alley.

like that highlighted passage?? her use of words to really drive home just how wet and damp and gross the rain is and how its soaking through everything is just so good, I could talk about it for days, and the line "Of course the texture of that morning is clearer than the present..."

Excuse me??? the TEXTURE?? what the hell is she on about? I don't know but it makes sense in my brain and I'm obsessed with it and I love it. This book is so fun to annotate and dive into and get lost in, and is such a good brain break from a lot of the nonfiction I've been reading (and am still continuing to read!! Don't you dare stop thinking and talking about Palestine!! I sure as hell haven't!!!)

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duskofastraeus · 4 months

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The 2024 dostoyevsky-official challenge:

January: ‘I Loved You – And Maybe Love…’ by Alexander Pushkin

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xoceansx · 1 year

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"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

— George Eliot, Middlemarch [1871]

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the---hermit · 4 months

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24 books in 2024

New year new attempt at this challenge I have never managed to finish. I am a mood reader so planning my reading ahead is always a failure. But I want to use this yearly tradition as a way to motivate myself with my goal of conquering my physcial tbr. So I will only include books I already own and that I want to finally read. Some I chose because they are quite new, some because they have been on my tbr for ages, and with some I just randomly picked while looking at my shelves.

Bi by Julia Shaw

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2 by Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli

Dubliners by James Joyce

Different Seasons by Stephen King

Sandman Overture by Neil Gaiman

Iliad by Homer

A Day Of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Resurgir curated by Lorenzo Incarbone

Selve Oscure curated by La Bottega Dei Traduttori

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Babel by R.F. Kuang

L'Etranger by Albert Camus

La Strega E Il Capitano by Leonardo Sciascia

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

Il Libro Della Mitologia

I Pirati by Peter Lehr

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

The King In Yellow by Robert William Chambers

Mindhunter by John Douglas

Il manuale Dell'inquisitore

Migrazione E Intolleranze by Umberto Eco

The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco

Nel Buio Della Casa by Fiore Manni and Michele Monteleone

Edit: I just realized that this year marks 10 years from when I first read the lord of the rings. Ever since then I wanted to reread it, attepted that even, but never really reread it cover to cover. So I decided that during the year I am giving myself the option of wither finishing this list or to skip 3 books of this list to instead reread my beloved lotr.

#this tbr is chaos #we have fiction non fiction philosophy historical sources horror classics #i should finally be in the mood for some of these #as i am posting it i actually just finished the first but i will cross it out later #24 books in 2024 #book #bookblr #booklr #tbr #reading challenge #mine #the---hermit

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wayward-wren · 6 days

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Losing my MIND over this part from the Crusade novelization.

#wren rambles #classic doctor who #ian chesterton #barbara wright #me and WHO #i remember nothing of the original serial but i KNOW it wasnt as heavy on the ian/barbara content #and i am NOT COMPLAINING about the changes made for the novelization #GOSH.#doctor who bring back chivalrous male companions challenge #i greatly miss the Ian-Steven-Ben-Jamie genre of companion #i know the doctor often fills that role now #but MAN #the 60s era male companions are built different #'Ian had not failed her. she had needed him and he had come for her'#like GOSH..#yearning hours #the way i literally kicked my feet and squealed when i read this bit

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perregrinstudiessometimes · 1 year

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23 Books for 2023: A Reading Challenge

#reading challenge #booklr #bookblr #books #book #read #reading #reader #fiction #nonfiction #tbr #trope #memoir #author #genre #self help #opinion #classic literature #5 star read

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sofipitch · 2 months

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I will say, I don't understand the compulsion to claim anytime a writer used to write fanfic that they repurposed their fanfic. Like read like 3 things by the same author and you'll realize authors have their things, characters and plotlines they like, words or metaphors they prefer. It can often be an intimate experience where you start to get the sense of what is haunting that author. Yes their works may look similar but they are in fact written by the same person, enjoy getting to know them. And furthermore I hate the culture of artists having to pretend art doesn't inspire other art without fearing accusations of plagiarism

#also it means that authors like stephanie meyer and poppy z brite claim to have never read anne rice #and i a) just don't believe that and b) if they were influenced it would be so interesting to ask what they liked #vs maybe what they wanted to challenge/do differently #but you can't have those convos about inspiration bc of litigiousness #i mean look up most contemporary authors and they'll mostly list classics authors as their inspiration #i always wondered how much is due to not wanting to be accused of copying if they admit inspiration by a contemporary #i'm not saying it can't be genuine that they love dickens but it really just rarely is someone more recent

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nerdy-cake · 3 months

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JOMP book photo challenge | January 24 - open books

#jompbpc #just one more page #books #booklr #booklover #book nerd #bookworm #bookblr #book photography #book photo challenge #bookish #tea #lolita #classic #reader #reading #my stuff

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leer-reading-lire · 6 months

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || November || 3 || Older than me

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #book photo challenge #booklr #leerreadinglire #book photography #books and reading #emilia pardo bazán #classic books #spanish literature #cranford collection

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diversebookscorner · 1 month

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Welcome to Diverse Books Corner!

We're a community of readers committed to embracing a wide range of perspectives. Each of us brings unique experiences, and by actively seeking out books from various backgrounds, we can deepen our understanding of the challenges faced by marginalized groups. It's our shared responsibility as a community to engage in mindful, inclusive reading habits every day, not just on special occasions.

That's why we're here – to help you discover diverse voices and stories. In essence, we'll be curating a newsletter featuring;

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Spotlighting indie authors

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If you're interested in expanding your bookshelf with diverse titles, we invite you to join our community by following our page and subscribing to our newsletter. Together, let's celebrate diversity within the book community by uplifting and showcasing diverse authors.

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