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Due to nearly daily power outages and dropping out of college, I've had a lot more free time this year, so I decided I'd read more this year, and here's a list of the things I read either partly or to completion (I'm including ttrpg sourcebooks, comics, and fanfics cause I feel like it)
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
The Fifth Science by Exurb1a
Horus Rising by Dan Abnett
False Gods by Graham McNeill
Galaxy in Flames by Ben Counter
Flight of the Eisenstein by James Swallow
Descent of Angels by Mitchel Scanlon
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson
The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C Yee
The Shadow of Kyoshi by F.C Yee
The Dawn of Yangchen by F.C Yee
The Legacy of Yangchn by F.C Yee
A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Dreadnought by April Daniels
Sovereign by April Daniels
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean
The Corpus Hermeticum
RWBY: Scars by Doneesses
The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
The Prague Cemetery by Eco Umber
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
The Bible Repairman by Tim Powers
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany
Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany
Welcome to the NHK by Tasuhiko Takimoto
What If? by Randall Munroe
TTRPGs I read books for:
Eclipse Phase
Exalted (2e and 3e)
Lancer
Nobilis (2e and 3e)
Numenera
Ponyfinder
Unknown Armies (1e, 2e, and 3e)
World of Darkness (Old and Chronicles)
Continuum, Roleplaying in the Yet
Broken Worlds
Comics and Manga I read this year:
A Study Emerald by Rafael Scavone, Rafael Albuquerque, and Dave Stewart
Alters by Paul Jenkins and Leila Leiz
All the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra comics
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Giant Days by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, Max Sarin, and Julia Madrigal
The Unbelievable Gwenpool by Christopher Hastings, Gurihiru, Danilo Beyruth, Iren Strychalski, Myisha Haynes, and Alti Firmansyah
Gwenpool Strikes Back by Leah Williams and David Baldeon
I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young
Irredeemable by Mark Waid, Peter Krause, Diego Barreto, and Eduardo Barreto
Jem and the Holograms by Kelly Thompson, Sophie Campbell, Emma Vieceli, and Corin Howell
Judas by Jeff Loveness and Jakub Rebelka
Kill 6 Billion Demons by Tom Bloom
Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
The Woods by James Tynion V and Michael Dialynas
The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jaime McKelvie
Batman: Whatever Happened to the Craped Crusader by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert
Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms by Crystal Fraiser and Val Wise
Okko by Hub
Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Inside Mari Shuzo Oshimi
#books#manga#comics#thought I read more manga this year#guess I was wrong#this list was honestly longer than I expected#but the comic and manga list was also shorter than I thought#I'm currently reading the Legacy of Yangchen and so far its been a faster read than most of the other books I read the last few months#should finish it in like five days at my current rate#I remember when I could read hundreds of pages in a day#my school library gave me a little certificate in year 9 because I'd taken out the most books that year#now I consider reading 50 pages in one day unusually quick
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ithillyienseowyn reading list: re-read-a-thon edition
Again, this is just for me to pre-plan this isn't the official layout for my reading in the new year just a list of what I plan on reading/re-reading just so I have a visual to keep track of, it will be under my new re-read tag, anything under a series or trilogy will be titled in bold with the singular books listed beside the aforementioned title.
Red White and Royal Blue
I'll Give You the Sun
The Duff
Beach Read
Book Lovers
The Hating Game
Grishaverse: The Lives of Saints, The Language of Thorns, Six of Crows, King of Scars
The Wrath and the Dawn: Wrath and the Dawn, Rose and the Dagger
Cruel Beauty: Cruel Beauty, Crimson Bound
The Secret Circle: The Initiation, The Captive Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, The Power
Simon vs: Simon vs the Homo sapiens Agenda, Leah on the Offbeat
THUGverse: The Hate U Give, Concrete Rose
Alex Stern: Ninth House, Hell Bent
Off Campus/Briar U: The Deal, The Mistake, The Score, The Goal, The Chase, The Risk, The Play, The Dare
All For the Game: The Foxhole Court, The Raven King, The King's Men
Anna, Lola and Isla: Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, Isla and the Happily Ever After
The Kiss Quotient: The Kiss Quotient, The Bride Test, The Heart Principle
The Witcher: The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, Tower of the Swallow, Lady of the Lake, Season of Storms
ACOTAR: A Court of Thorns and Roses, A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Wings and Ruin, A Court of Silver Flames
To All the Boys: To All the Boys I've Loved Before, PS, I Still Love You, Always and Forever Lara Jean
Poldark #7-12: The Angry Tide, The Stranger From the Sea, The Miller's Dance, The Loving Cup, The Twisted Sword, Bella Poldark
Lord of the Rings: The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings
Bridgerton/Smythe Smith Quartet: The Viscount Who Loved Me, An Offer From A Gentleman, To Sir Phillip, With Love, When He Was Wicked, It's In His Kiss, On the Way to the Wedding, The Sum of All Kisses, The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy
One of Us: One of Us Is Lying, One of Us Is Next, One of Us Is Back
Sweet Magnolias: Stealing Home, A Slice of Heaven, Feels Like Family
The Hunger Games: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay
The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Winter, Fairest, {Heartless}
Bloodlines: Bloodlines, The Golden Lily, The Indigo Spell, The Fiery Heart, Silver Shadows, The Ruby Circle
Throne of Glass: Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn, Kingdom of Ash
The Raven Cycle: The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, The Raven King
Shades of Magic: A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light
Heartstopper: Heartstopper Volume 1, Heartstopper Volume 2, Heartstopper Volume 3, Heartstopper Volume 4, Heartstopper Volume 5
Shadowhunter Chronicles: Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, Clockwork Princess, Chain of Gold, Chain of Iron, Chain of Thorns, City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, City of Heavenly Fire, Lady Midnight, Lord of Shadows, Queen of Air and Darkness
Addicted/Calloway Sisters/Like Us: Addicted To You, Ricochet, Addicted For Now, Kiss the Sky, Hothouse Flower, Thrive, Addicted After All, Fuel the Fire, Long Way Down, Some Kind of Perfect, Tangled Like Us, Sinful Like Us, Charming Like Us, Wild Like Us, Fearless Like Us, Infamous Like Us, Misfits Like Us, Unlucky Like Us
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reading the silmarillion like christ melkor needs some therapy
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Tag game
Tagged by @frostysfrenzy
Rules: Tag nine people you want to know better and answer the questions
Three ships: Okay well these are from the shows that are coming back so - GSR (Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle) from CSI; 00Vesper (James Bond and Vesper Lynd) from James Bond; Mike Banning x Leah Banning from the Fallen series
Last song: Lots of Fun by TryHardNinja
Last movie: I think it was Angel has Fallen?
Currently watching: CSI
Currently reading: The Silmarillion
Currently craving: Peace of mind...
Tag 9 people: @leftperfectionmoon @hlabounty96 @chickadee-djarin @forauldlangsynee @bishops-severed-torso @davesdude80 @rodrigo-di-posa @mcliancraft @arthurmahgoodboah (nobody has to do it if they don't want to)
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My tags:
narnia: Anything involving The Chronicles of Narnia
Book tags:
reading fairy tales again: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
aslan you’re bigger: Prince Caspian
into light: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
night under narnia: The Silver Chair
narnia and the north! hurrah!: The Horse and His Boy
founded in song: The Magician’s Nephew
chapter one: The Last Battle
Character tags:
high king over all the rest: Peter Pevensie
tender hearted big sis: Susan Pevensie
the traitor who mended: Edmund Pevensie
dear darling heart-daughter of aslan: Lucy Pevensie
the king’s man: Eustace Scrubb
dying of thirst: Jill Pole
the most unfortunate boy: Shasta/Cor
true as steel: Aravis
the magician’s nephew no longer: Digory Kirke
game if you are: Polly Plummer
Other:
long and happy was their reign: Golden Age
once there were four children: The four Pevensies together
a narnian look about them: The Friends of Narnia as a unit
the narnian air: Things that remind me of Narnia’s world
no such thing as starch or flannel or elastic: clothes that look Narnian
jack: C.S. Lewis himself
leah’s artbreeder narnia project 2k22: project I did depicting Narnia characters using Artbreeder
till we have faces: What it says on the tin
tolkien legendarium: The works of J.R.R. Tolkien
there and back again: The Hobbit
i will not say the day is done: The Lord of the Rings
aurë entuluva!: The Silmarillion
in our madness: The Fëanorians
the sundering doom: The Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth
tollers: J.R.R. Tolkien himself
leah’s silm artbreeder project 2k22: Project I did depicting First Age characters using Arbreeder, ultimately culminating in the lineage of Elrond
only Thou art holy: Catch all for matters of Christian faith
bible humans: the real people of Scripture
theodicy: the problem of suffering
the unquenchable fire: Christian history. Protestantism. Generations of the faithful. More of a vibe than anything else.
sunday school kid: Christian culture
Jesus laughed: Christian humor
glory to God in the highest: angels that evoke God’s glory
all truth is God’s truth: Intersection of science and faith
literature makes us more human: literature, books, reading, esp. the classics
a beautiful wild creature with its leg in a trap gnawing it off to be free: tragedy and its importance
to tote the weary load: Gone with the Wind
unquiet souls: the Bronte sisters
russia where are you flying to?: Russian lit, culture, etc.
the sparrow: The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
it’s hard to be the bard: Shakespeare
leah in attolia: reading the Queen’s Thief series
intertextuality: What it says on the tin
a stranger comes to town: Catch-all for storytelling, fairytales, and myth
Beautiful things:
image-bearers: Humans at their best, doing what we were made to do
how can i keep from singing: music
took up God’s house to meet him: churches, cathedrals, and cathedral-builders
the light! the light!: beautiful light
to touch the face of God: space, space travel, airplanes, often with a spiritual component
no one will ever walk the earth so close to you: my sister, siblings in general
be strong and courageous: be brave
america is great because america is good: America at its best
Other miscellanea:
endless forms most beautiful: Science and the natural world, especially biology
dinosaurs make me happy: all sorts of awesome dino buddies
fossils! dun dun dun: fossils more generally
in my soul i’m a lady knight: girls with swords
i enjoy being a girl: femininity and womanhood
unto us a child is born: All things Christmas!
He is risen yippee!: All things Easter
bear flag republic: California
chronic illness is hilarious: all things chronic-illness related, funny and dark and both and so forth
inklings challenge 2k22: posts related to my involvement in the 2022 Inklings Challenge
tay tay: Taylor Swift music
leah learns calligraphy: My calligraphy work
Organizational:
pontifications and creations: Original posts
Leah stories: My prose writing
Leah poetry: My poetry
Leah edits: Edits I’ve made
ask me hard questions: Asks, tag games, and similar
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Do you have a favorite Vala? Who/why?
Oh what a great question, thanks Leah!!
Nienna and Ulmo are my two favorites, and I’m not sure if I can entirely articulate why. I think it’s in part because they seem the most compassionate. It’s been a couple years since I last read The Silmarillion, but wasn’t there something about how Ulmo was the one who never abandoned Middle-earth during the Second Age? And I just love the image of the rivers flowing into the ocean and bringing him news of everything that happens, and then the idea of him playing music on his pipes which is so beautiful that whoever hears the song falls prey to lifelong sea-longing. He seems to personify the mystery and loneliness and loveliness, and occasionally the terror, of the sea.
And there’s something so beautiful to me about Nienna’s grieving for the marring of Arda, and that line about how “those who hearken to her learn pity and endurance in hope.” I think there's a profundity in that: hope and grief coexisting, and leading to wisdom and patience and strength. It makes me think of that verse in Romans: “Tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.”
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book wrapup 2018!
books (and plays lol) i read for the first time (favorites bolded), school assignments italicized
personal recollections of joan of arc, mark twain
saint joan, george bernard shaw
saint joan of the stockyards, bertholt brecht
antigone, jean anouilh
cat on a hot tin roof, tennessee williams
the iliad, homer
heart of darkness, joseph conrad
waiting for godot, samuel becket
wuthering heights, emily brontë
the silmarillion, j.r.r. tolkien
sula, toni morrison
our town, thornton wilder
the left hand of darkness, ursula leguin
liar, temptress, soldier, spy, karen abbott
hit lit, james w. hall
the bohemians, ben tarnoff
the once and future king, t.h. white
howl and other poems, allen ginsberg
leah on the offbeat, becky abertali (:/)
33 revolutions, canék sanchez guevarra
their finest, lissa evans
dragonwatch, brandon mull (:////)
the hour of the star, clarice lispector
slaughterhouse-five, kurt vonnegut
fangirl, rainbow rowell (://///)
how to make love to a negro without getting tired, danny laferriere
prairie fires, caroline frasier
one writer’s beginnings, eudora welty
my ántonia, willa cather
kiss of the spider woman but the play, manuel puig
i don’t really count rereads but this was an egregious year for nostalgic rereads so, in no particular order. (and also non-exhaustive.)
seven harry potters
ten percy jacksons
five fablehavens
lord of the rings trilogy/novel depending on how you count ‘em
three laura ingalls wilder books lol
that’s all the rereads i can remember. this brings my literal count of ‘books read’ up to 55 but like. the official count is still 30. still a good year for reading tho.
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New weekly feature! In which I spend the weekend doing top 10 lists :)
My first topic is top 10 books I loved in middle school. Man I was a completely different kind of reader back then! But here are 10 books I absolutely adored as a preteen in my middle school years.
1. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
To say that I was obsessed with this series would be an understatement. I used to wish these girls were real and could be my best friends irl. As soon as I finished these books, I would immediately start reading them again... it was a problem! But really, these books, especially the first 2 of the series, and the girls in them got me through some awful things in my life when i was about 13/14 years old. I will be forever grateful fr these books’ existence!
2. The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen
This book remains to this day in my top 2 favorite Sarah Dessen books. It’s the very first one of hers I ever read, and from this one I went on to read every single other one of her books! I loved the relatability of it and how easy it was to read. There was no crazy drama in this, it was just about trying to get through whatever life happens to throw your way, and figure out who you are while you’re young.
3. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
I originally read this as a class assignment in 8th grade. We were all reading it for AR points (if you are unfamiliar with AR, it’s a series of tests you have to take in middle school after reading books, and you get points depending on how tough the book was and how well you did on the test. It was a big portion of our grade!), and then we ended up putting on a play about Anne Frank’s life after we were done reading it. I became so interested in Anne Frank’s life after reading her diary that I started to read supplemental books. Like this book called “Anne and Me” which is a fictional YA book about a girl who time travels and meets Anne Frank, I read diaries from Anne’s dad, from the women who kept her family hidden for all those years, and much more.
4. The Angels Trilogy - Lurlene McDaniel
Oh man, did this trilogy open up a can of worms! After reading this series (and obsessing over it), I asked my Grammy to buy me all of the rest of Lurlene McDaniel’s books that were at her local Barnes & Noble so I could read them all. And when I read all of those, I went to the library and read all of the other ones that were there! Mind you, Lurlene’s books are not easy books to read; sure they’re pretty small, but they are about TEENAGERS WITH CANCER. TALK ABOUT SOBFEST. But I could not get enough of them! And the Angels trilogy was what started it all. Man I was obsessed! To the point where to this day, if I ever have a girl, I’m naming her Leah... which is the name of the main character in the first “Angels” book.... yeah.
5. The Lord of the Rings trilogy - JRR Tolkien
To be honest, this started with the LotR movies, which were released when I was in middle school. I didn’t even want to see the Fellowship of the Ring, but my uncle dragged me with him to see it, and then the rest is history. I bought LotR movie memorabilia, when to midnight showings of the next two movies, got a “Mrs. Bloom” purse, learned elvish, and read the LotR trilogy and The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. I learned to play the music on my violin, wrote in elvish, and made up ballet dances to the soundtrack. But I really really loved the books. They were so in-depth and had so much imagination in them. I just felt immersed in Middle Earth and forgot about the real world while I was reading them. Plus I really wanted to be an elf.
6. Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Specifically “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” which is the one with short stories like “The Speckled Band,” “The Hound of Baskervilles,” and “The Five Orange Pips.” This was another one that I read of AR testing on my own. But then I found out that my dad was a Sherlock Holmes nerd! So I wanted to be able to talk to him about it, so I started reading the Sherlock Holmes novels and the rest of the short stories. I also used to watch the 80′s movie “Young Sherlock Holmes” on repeat because I thought it was just so cool... in hindsight it’s no that great of a movie lol.
7. Dear America books
Any of them really, I wasn’t just into ones from a specific era and I didn’t really have a favorite one. But I bought like 9 of them and would re-read those over and over again. I felt like I was getting smarter when I was reading them because I was learning about so many different times in history. They were pretty educational! I learned about frostbite and slave culture in America and life on the Oregon Trail.
8. Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
I picked this book up after reading all of those Anne Frank books. I wanted to learn more about the Holocaust, but my mom didn’t want me reading anything to graphic or traumatizing. Luckily we found this middle grade/ya book which took place in the Holocaust. I absolutely loved reading it! And it was hard at that time to find any other appropriate Holocaust novels for my age, so this was a young reader’s miracle. Plus it introduced me to Lois Lowry, which in turn introduced me to The Giver!
9. The Giver - Lois Lowry
Like I said, I read this immediately after “Number the Stars” at the request of my best friend at the time. She said she thought it was super cool but she didn’t get the ending so she wanted me to read it so I cold help her figure it out. It took me a long time for my young brain to understand that book! It’s a deceptively deep book! To this day The Giver quartet remains in my top 15 favorite books of all time, I own 4 copies of the series!
10. The Tripods Trilogy - John Christopher
This trilogy had me shook was I was like 13. I remember I was like scared to read for a bit when I finished these books! I had like dreams about tripods getting me when I was reading these. It was a crazy sci-fi journey for my young self. I don’t know many other people who ave read this series, so if you have please let me know!
What books did you guys read and love when you were that age (12-14 years old)?
#book list#book blog#booklr#middle grade#young adult#ya books#middle grade books#reading#top 10 weekend#top 10 lists#young readers#novels#books#bookworm#sparky reads#book lists#top 10 books#middle grade reading#ya reading
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reading tolkien is like learning a new language
i'm fascinated and slightly (but enjoyably) overwhelmed
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tolkien fans/anyone who's read beren and lúthien (not the chapter in the silmarillion, but the book edited by christopher tolkien): please, i need help with pronouncing the following terms:
Tevildo
Tinwelint
Palisor
Artanor
Gwendeling
Unhweliantë
Egnor bo-Rimion
Guilin
Umuiyan
Oikeroi
Miaulë
Ermabwed
Elmavoitë
Nan Dumgorthin
i-Cuilwarthon
Angainu
Ausir
#leah's readings#leah reads beren and luthien#beren and luthien#beren and lúthien#tolkien#the silmarillion
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