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vampacidic · 2 years

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hi glad to see my post resonated with you hehehsb im always up for some classic lit recs

OHHHH RECS i have quite a few.... im big on classic horror so mary shelley's frankenstein is something i quite enjoyed..... it's an early example of body horror actually which explains why i like it so much 💀 do have to warn you about the orientalism in it though. not in an enstars orientalism way more of a 'islam oppresses women' orientalism way. it's largely skippable but it kinda comes outta left field and makes me kinda giggle. it's a very interesting way of showing the european woman's fear of the patriarchy though.... nooo don't do the patriarchy like that!!! do it in the european way because then it's good!!!!

anyway. obligatory phantom of the opera recommendation. orientalism is also present. now it's in a 'the east is full of riches and strange mechanisms and i want money' way. fun read though i enjoy it a lot. i'm very normal about it.

the metamorphosis is also something i am Normal about (lie) im rereading it right now but i just really adore it. something about it makes me just go full autism brain throttle on it. love the othering of humanity. tbh most classics i enjoy feature the conundrum of what makes a human a human and what makes them not... love me some moral quandaries. anyway

animal farm is a complete genre shift but i remember enjoying it. i read it 2 years ago so i need to reread it but it's a pretty short read and is enjoyable. start of my communism interest. the end fucks with you a bit but i do love the slow descent into like Oh shit this is worse than what we had! good times

on a completely different note one of my biggest pet peeves is when people online read classic lit under today's standards/vocab. not to sound like a boomer but like language fucking changes dude no shit this book written 100 years ago hates minorities IT WAS EUROPE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. not to say classic lit has to be western european just that a good chunk of it is. anyway i just saw a tiktok once that was like 'and then there were none uses bigoted language' like no fucking shit it does most classics hate at least ONE minority, if not multiple. and that's not to say you shouldn't be warned about it (in fact i encourage it because it can slip under the radar sometimes). it was that the message the tiktok had was 'it has bigoted language so you shouldn't read any of christie's works because it means you support bigotry' like. yes i agree the fact it had a racial slur in the title was Bad. i think we can all agree that that's bad. but i don't think that means we should throw the whole book out let alone the whole person? yes know your history recognize bigotry etc etc but if you never ACTUALLY see bigotry at play in a safe community you can and will fall prone to propaganda! idk i think it's insane what people will say online. also christie is literally dead she does not get any money if you buy her books 💀

#i went insane in the last paragraph im sorry. it's late #ask #do i have a tag for you. would you like one #i have a headache i need to go to bed

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the---hermit · 2 years

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end of the year reading tag

@bulletnotestudies created this end of the year reading tag, and I thought it was super nice so, hi, hello I am doing this to pass some time

Did you reach your reading goal for the year (if you had one)?

I did! I had a goal of reading 50 books, and I read over 100 books, which is crazy for me. I had never read this much in a year, and I am a pretty slow reader, so I have no idea how I managed.

What are your top 3 books you read this year?

I am working on a pretty long post on some of the best books I read this year, which I will post in a few days. But generally 3 of my favourites were: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly and Art matters by Neil Gaiman. I don't know if these are actually my top 3 books, but stay tuned for that post.

What's a book that you didn't expect to enjoy quite so much going in?

The Shining by Stephen King. I had very low expectations, because I thought it was a over-hyped book. I ended up loving it so much, I got into the story very quickly, and it kept my attention high until the very end.

Were there any books that didn't live up to your expectations?

Many actually, The Midnight LIbrary by Matt Haig is probably on the top of the list. It wasn't a bad book, but since it was very hyped, and most importantly Matt Haig is the author of one of my all time favourite books, I was expecting a life changing novel. As I said in my review, my expectations way were too high for it. I also read two books by Wulf Dorn, a psychological thriller author, who I used to love, and both books let me down pretty badly. (The books are Gli Eredi and Follia Profonda. these are the Italian titles, cause I cannot find the English translations).

Did you reread any old faves? If so, which one was your favourite?

I did! This year I have actually re read 3 of my all time favourite novels: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, The Humans by Matt Haig, and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. I cannot choose between these, because as I said these are, and will always be, my favourite novels.

Did you dnf any books?

I DNFed so many books. I haven't given up on all of them, mostly I have realized that I have started reading them in a bad moment, and I will get back to them in the future. One of them is Memoirs of Hadrian by M. Yourcenar, it put me in a reading slump, and I am so sad about it. I really want to read this book, and enjoy it, but it's very dense, and I started reading it while studying for exams, so not the smartes choice.

Did you read any books outside your usual preferred genre(s)?

I have, I read Defenceless by Giulia Vola. A recently self published YA romance novel, by my dear friend @occhicerchiati. I don't normally read YA, and I do not read romance at all, but I really enjoyed her book!

What was your predominant format this year?

Physical, although this was the year in which audiobooks revolutionized my life, so it's worth a mention.

What's the longest book you read this year?

I'm not sure, but probably Racisms by F. Bethencourt, a non fiction book about the history of racisim, which I had to study for my contemporary history exam. It's 667 pages long.

What are your top 3 anticipated 2022 releases?

I don't have the habit of looking for the new releases, so I have no idea what is going to be published next year.

What books from your tbr did you not get to this year, but are excited to read in 2022?

The Secret Life Of Trees by P. Wohlleben, and Pirates by Peter Lehr are on top of the list. I also plan on continuing The Witcher series and The Sandman series.

This was very fun! And it made me reflect a bit on my year of reading, which is always interesting. I tag @peregrination-studies, @contre-qui, @sage-studies and @serendistudy (no pressure of course).

#end of the year reading tag #tag #tag game #books #cris speaks #the---hermit

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ownedbybooks · 2 years

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End of Year Reading Tag 📚

I was tagged on my main account by @therefugeofbooks so I thought "what a better way to start my new bookblr blog, then through my 2021 readings?". Thanks for the tag, Caah! <3

Let's go to the questions:

did you reach your reading goal for the year (if you had one)?

No, I didn't :( But I almost reached it! My goal was to read 55 books and I finished 2021 by reading 44 books. I was happy, though, because I've read 40+ books!

what are your top 3 books you read this year?

The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller;

La vie devant soi, by Romain Gary;

Time's Divide, by Rysa Walker.

what’s a book that you didn’t expect to enjoy quite so much going in?

Proteja-me, by Mila Wander & Josy Stoque. It was clearly from the beginning that it was a more madure and erotic book. And even though i like the spicy scenes, till this book I haven't found one that had a really good plot, characters and writing. So I started reading it with precaution, knowing it was going to be hard to me to like it. But, surprisingly, IT WAS EVERYTHING I WANTED. The writing was great, the characters had depth, the plot was more than the "i want to fuck her/him", it had drama, it discussed important topics, it had emotional growth, the majority of the female characters respected each other (even though they might despise each other at some points). Great, great, great reading!

were there any books that didn’t live up to your expectations?

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. I think that great part was from the fact that I already knew major spoilers about it, because of pop culture references. But still, I was hoping I was going to enjoy the read a bit more.

did you reread any old faves? If so, which one was your favourite?

I did reread some books, but none were previously my favourites. I don't even know if I can considere one of them my favourite rereads of 2021 ahhahah Maybe Glass Sword, by @vaveyard since I decided to finish the whole series and for that I needed to reread the first 2 volumes :)

did you dnf any books?

Only the ones I couldn't finish before the new year arrived (but spoiler: i already finished one of them):

Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop, by Timothy Samara;

Broken Throne, by @vaveyard

did you read any books outside your usual preferred genre(s)?

Even though I LOVE Historical Romance movies and tv shows, I'm not very used to it as a book genre.

So, after binge watching the first whole season of Bridgerton on 2020, I decided to read the first book of the series: The Duke and I, by Julia Queen. I thought it was okay (apart from a specific scene), but still I feel I'm not 100% used to this genre.

what was your predominant format this year?

Well… e-book and digital reading. Even thought I've read a lot of physical books, e-book was 50% of my most read format.

what’s the longest book you read this year?

Horror Clássico, a 3-in-1 ebook: it has together Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula. I am now considering myself an gothic literature affectionate hahhaha

what are your top 3 anticipated 2022 releases?

I'm not much in touch with releases… So I don't know…

what books from your tbr did you not get to this year, but are excited to read in 2022?

I don't normally do TBRs, only during read-a-thons. But I'm going to answer this question based on my "Want to Read" pile from Goodreads (which for me is kinda like a TBR):

Oscar et la dame rose, by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt;

The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel (I have even already bought it!);

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins;

Clockwork Angel, by Cassandra Clare;

The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

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