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therefugeofbooks · 2 years
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working on my reading journal 🍃
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readingoals · 3 months
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2024 reading journal (post 1)
This will be my third year keeping a reading journal but the previous two years managed to fit in the one book, so I had to set up a whole new notebook. I'm intending on the new book also holding multiple years so these are the pages at the front of the book that I'll reference over multiple years.
These include lists of all the fiction and nonfiction on my shelves that i've not read yet, my Agatha Christie tracker and a new page to help me track some series/other authors I'm reading through.
I had too many pictures so the next post will have all my 2024 specific pages lmao
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wantmangojuice · 4 months
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The Disabled Tyrant's Pet Palm Fish - finished
I started this as a joke! WTH I didn't expect it to be so delightful!!
Premise: MC transmigrates into a webnovel... as a fish! He gets various missions from a system which he has to fulfill (while being a fish!); meanwhile he becomes the pet of the webnovel's OG protagonist tyrant mute prince (who's actually a sweetheart) who turns out to be the best pet owner ever and whose devotion to his pet fish is kind of insane. They fall in love! Shenanigans ensue!
Have you ever wanted to see a "face-slapping novel" wherein the literal face-slapping is performed via flailing fish-tail? Yes? Of course you do. It's epic.
How did this premise work so well. How.
The very definition of "comfort novel". So comfy.
Still kinda feel bad for Chu Yanyu tho, ooof. Wish he could've had a slightly better ending than what he got.
Considering that for a significant amount of the novel, one is mute and the other is a fish, I thought they manage to communicate pretty well?? All things considered, I mean.
I like that the reveal of Li Yu being the fishy comes at around the 50% mark and not later on; I was afraid that that misunderstanding would get drawn out more, but it's not. (Also, I really don't blame Li Yu for being reluctant to reveal "I'm actually your pet fish btw" because come on, it's bonkers.)
Li Yu is pretty smart in some ways and an utter buffoon in others I adore him.
The way he's convinced that he's doing a good job hiding his secret fishy identity; meanwhile ML's quietly like, 'You know I've figured out that you're a fish 20 chapters ago, right?' and helping him keep his fishy secret in the background.
Jing-wang!!!! You're so cute and sweet. You & Li Yu handled that surprise!4 kids like a champ.
That said, there's a part of me that wishes that ML's mutism didn't get cured by the end, because getting cured of your disability seems to be a lot more common than not in danmei. So far I've only had two mains who don't get "healed" at the end: TYQHM's Yu She's mental illness is managed but certainly not cured. And RGASHR's Gu Heyan gets his right hand permanently injured in the later chapters; he switches to using his left hand for swordsmanship, but his archery takes a severe (and likely unrecoverable) hit.
You've heard of "two-person love triangle", now get ready for "two-person love quadrangle".
Fish fam!!!!!!
Looking forward to the official release (next year!) so that I can read this all over again.
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Okay I saw someone on Instagram do a wrapped bookshelf where they wrapped 12 books they owned and hadn't read and I wanted to try it (except I'm usually so busy over the summer I don't have time to read so I'm only doing 10). I enlisted my younger sibling that likes to read to do it with me so we each picked out books (I actually had a hard time so I've got a few surprise recommendations coming to me too) and had the other wrap them so we didn't know which book was which month and since I finally finished Jane Eyre it's time to open my January book!
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Also for suspense here's a picture of my reading journal spread too I'm very excited about this.
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So January is Sarah Penner's The Lost Apothecary! This is actually a book I received for Christmas and I'm very excited to read it! There's just under a week left in the month but I've been reading a lot since my girlfriend is in Europe until February 1st so I've had a lot of time to myself when she's busy or asleep, so I think I can do it.
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greelin · 6 months
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equipping these not for strategic reasons. but gay ones
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jazzyslibrary · 1 year
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warriors: the new prophecy #4: starlight
date started: 05/02/2023 | date finished: 26/02/2023
i love how mothwing is basically still an apprentice because she hadn’t finished her training before mudfur died, but also she’s riverclan’s only medicine cat. she’s stuck in-between being an apprentice and an experienced medicine cat. the other medicine cats can’t really argue with her decisions, like to swim across the lake to go to the gathering island. she seems so lively and fun and kinda childish but no one can question her. i like it a lot.
they have hinted at the idea that tallstar would appoint onewhisker to succeed him when he dies by having him tend to tallstar all the time and mudclaw be argumentative with thunderclan which is contradictory to the behaviour of the rest of windclan. i do like that tallstar values friendship over uhh “strong leadership”, although i am not sure if strong leadership is exactly what mudclaw has but whatever. i’m glad that tallstar appointed onewhisker, and i also like that onewhisker is close to tallstar.
i just bought tallstar’s revenge today (17/02/2023) and i know that onewhisker will be in that book so i’ll have to read that soon!
firestar is once again being told by a good friend of his, while dying, who he should appoint as deputy. and why are they always so wrong about the choices? tallstar and whitestorm are both smart kitties.
i didn’t like that tallstar commented on brambleclaw being a good potential deputy. i just think brackenfur makes more sense. graystripe already offloaded his responsibilities as deputy onto brackenfur earlier in this series (which is kinda sad because he also neglected his responsibilities as brackenfur’s mentor in the first arc). just because brambleclaw is the main character in this arc doesn’t mean he needs to be deputy! not that i remembered this, but i saw a post yesterday discussing how brambleclaw was appointed as firestar’s deputy right after he hesitated to stop hawkfrost from murdering firestar. like how does that make sense. firestar is like “well you almost let me be killed, but you didn’t. and for that, i will reward you by giving you responsibility for our clan!”. we will have to see how much that frustrates me in the next two books.
ugh and further along brambleclaw is literally saying to himself that he deserves to be deputy! i don’t think that’s ever been how it works. like you don’t become deputy after filling out your good boy points. i mean, he hasn’t even had an apprentice yet, which is one of the rules about becoming deputy. why is he so entitled! and i think that we are supposed to interpret firestar as being unreasonable. i mean, maybe he should appoint a new deputy. but it certainly shouldn’t be brambleclaw. ridiculous!!
and the next chapter, brambleclaw loses his temper at mousefur and brackenfur diffuses the situation and brambleclaw even says to himself that brackenfur deserves to be deputy over him, and other warriors too! but he blames it on his heritage rather than the fact that he’s inexperienced and entitled. firestar obviously trusts him if he gave him his warrior name, let him lead the way to their new territory, has him next to him and onewhisker while their mutual friend speaks his last words. grrr gimme back leafpaw and squirrelflight povs please!!
firestar asked brambleclaw to do an “apprentice task”, which was collecting moss for bedding. i don’t really like that tasks that help the clan have some sort of respectability tier list to them. like caring for the elders shouldn’t be a shameful task given to naughty apprentices. but brambleclaw is very upset that he’s given such a task, because he’s suuuuuch a respectable warrioooor. meanwhile we swap to leafpaw’s perspective and she mentally praises him for taking on that responsibility because she thinks he’s doing it to be helpful. if brambleclaw really cared about helping the clan, he wouldn’t care that he has to do tasks he doesn’t like. i don’t think brackenfur would be such a sourpuss about it, i think he would take on any responsibility. maybe that makes him boring with no personality, but i don’t mind a background character having no controversial thoughts. hating on brambleclaw can be fun!
i know brambleclaw has been hated on a lot from the fandom, but mostly after omen of the stars, and because he is a terrible partner to squirrelflight. i honestly think he was nice enough in the first three books of the new prophecy! i didn’t care too much for the development of his relationship with squirrelflight, but it was okay! i mean to be honest, so far, none of the romances i have read about have been interesting at all. maybe it’s because they’re cats? but i doubt it, i think that a lot of the characters just are underdeveloped. so the characters i care about are ones that i have nostalgia for and also ones that are discussed on tumblr and people have headcannons that make me think of the characters in a different way.
anyway i hate spottedleaf blah blah blah. i can’t wait for her to tell leafpool to be with crowfeather because starclan needs “the three” to be born and then shame leafpool for doing the very thing she told her to do!! i hate how much leafpool idolises spottedleaf, like i hate her for the whole firestar creeping thing, but u know, honestly that’s not as bad as how awful she’s going to be to leafpool. i wish yellowfang could have been her starclan “mentor” or “guide”. but then again, they did make yellowfang say the most foolish thing ever while she was in starclan (the thing about ashfur’s only fault being that he loved too much) so maybe it’s better that she isn’t in leafpool’s dreams too much. but yellowfang broke the same rule that leafpool did, so maybe (if someone who actually cares would write it) she would have been sympathetic to leafpool rather than shame her. spottedleaf just has no actual connection to leafpool apart from the fact that she creeps on firestar, which makes it so weird that she comes to leafpool in her dreams. if it was yellowfang, it would be because she saw firestar as a second son, and she cares about cinderpelt’s apprentice because she also took on a motherly role with cinderpelt. i just!!! wish that was the case.
if i was a writer, maybe i would do a rewrite of the new prophecy and just kick stupid spottedleaf out of the story. it would probably seem that i have a bias for certain characters though. i would want bluestar and yellowfang to have more uhh “screen time”. although that would probably make it less exciting when they do finally appear. maybe just yellowfang then. although i would also like to hear from cats like whitestorm, lionheart, redtail, stonefur. if i recall, lionheart and redtail have only appeared for firestar’s leader ceremony. and stonefur, i don’t know if he ever has interactions in starclan with his mother and mosskit. i’d like to think that when mistystar finally died they had a family reunion with crookedstar, silverstream, feathertail.
back to leafpool, and the actual contents of the book. i’m happy she finally got her full name! it’s kinda weird when siblings don’t get their names at the same time. plus leafpool has been a great medicine cat even before the big journey to the lake territory. and i love how mothwing was so proud of her. actually i just quite like the medicine cat relationships. they’re all cool and i like seeing it from their perspectives, having interactions with cats from different clans without hostility is nice.
i am wondering how hawkfrost managed to get cats from shadowclan to help him, is it because he is tigerstar’s son and there is still cats in shadowclan that would follow tigerstar were he alive? but why do they care about helping mudclaw? like hawkfrost has some motivation if mudclaw told him he would make him deputy if onewhisker is overthrown. it all seems so silly, and kinda rushed too. like if we compare it to tigerstar trying to overthrow thunderclan and taking control of shadowclan and riverclan, that happened over the course of several books. perhaps hawkfrost and mudclaw overthrowing windclan could have been interesting if it wasn’t squeezed into a couple chapters.
our only hints that this could happen are that squirrelflight, leafpool, and mistyfoot are distrustful of hawkfrost. but only because he is too “ambitious”. and then the rest was mistyfoot straight up telling thunderclan what was happening. i think it could have been interesting for thunderclan and windclan to not be sort of in an alliance for once. i like that they are friendly with each other, but maybe it would have been cool to see the friendship between firestar and onewhisker tested a bit?
i was watching sunnyfall’s trip through time video about this particular book (as i have been doing after each warriors book i’ve been reading) and she brought up that this books main plot points revolve around windclan and the leader/deputy drama. i agree that we should have had some chapters written from his point of view. why does brambleclaw need to be there for tallstar’s death? we could have been seeing it from crowfeather’s point of view. there’s so many interactions with windclan that it really would have benefitted from seeing it in their perspective.
the scene with leafpool and crowfeather at the end of the book was … strange. like those two shadowclan cats, why were they running to thunderclan anyway? and they’re just mysterious unnamed cats, because the writers don’t feel like fleshing out the rest of the clans with real characters. oh and of course they brutally die by snapping their necks, which is supposed to make me feel like, oh my gosh that could have been leafpool if crowfeather didn’t help her! and the confessions of “love” like, all of the intentional romance in these books is so bad. you guys are infatuated with each other you are not in love come on now. it’s very silly.
and i guess squirrelflight and brambleclaw are officially broken up for now because he continues to trust hawkfrost. like even if mudclaw is lying about hawkfrost’s motivations to help him, how does that change the fact that he helped a cat from another clan try to overthrow their leader? what is going on inside brambleclaw’s mind here? squirrelflight is so right for giving up on him at this point. he’s being wilfully ignorant. i mean that’s not what the erins intended him to be, he apparently just trusts his brother after all this? and despite denouncing the actions of his father every chance he has had previously, he didn’t seem to have a problem chatting to him in a dream? i know he doesn’t seem awfully evil when he’s chatting away with his sons, but he also didn’t seem awfully evil, or at all to all of thunderclan when he had literally killed redtail, attempted to kill bluestar, etc. i still remember when fireheart was filling in for bluestar at a gathering and tigerstar was there as shadowclan’s leader, and fireheart decided not to warn the other clans about his actions because “maybe he has changed!”. it’s kinda annoying for characters to be uncharacteristically stupid for the sake of the plot. it takes you out of it and makes you question the authors rather than wonder the motives of the characters.
mudclaw dying to a falling tree made me wonder, how many cats have died to trees throughout the series? off the top of my head i thought of mudclaw, firestar, and longtail. luckily the wiki is extensive enough to have a complete list, which includes micah (i didn’t know of micah because i haven’t read moth flight’s vision yet), mudclaw, firestar, rainwhisker, and longtail. and briarlight was paralysed.
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timetravelingtoamess · 3 months
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Im reading the iliad for this first time and im going to die priam is out here like "who is that short, hairy man" and helens like "thats odysseus" and hes just like "damn thats right he was at my house"
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valtianan · 1 year
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“they were young and loud and triumphant, and the kings of henrietta.”
blue sargent | adam parrish | ronan lynch | gansey III | noah czerny
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mysterieuxclairdelune · 7 months
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“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day— spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free... I want, I want to think, to be omniscient.”
-Sylvia Plath written in 1949 at age 17
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dear-ao3 · 2 months
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thinking about this one authors note that i read on a fanfic awhile ago that was like "hey guys pls leave feedback i hate when people write stuff like 'the older man' or 'the englishman' or stuff like that to refer to people but idk how to not do that" like. just write their names. they're their names. no rules against using them a million times.
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why-the-heck-not · 3 months
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making a new yearly bullet journal spread is serious business (I drew 72 mini calendar grids and my hand cramped)
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therefugeofbooks · 2 years
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I've been neglecting my reading journal for the past month, but I started a spread for The Starless Sea. There are some green clouds, and I'm still deciding if I'll contour them.
I started The Starless Sea a bit hesitant, but it's been fascinating so far. I'm very interested in the mystery and all the magic although the protagonist can't say this word of this world. It made me think of The Shadow of The Wind, one of my favorite books. With all the story inside of a story, hidden libraries and even some of the writing style. Excited to keep exploring this world!
What are you guys reading this week?
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readingoals · 3 months
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2024 reading journal (part 2)
As promised, the yearly pages for my reading journal. I've put in some details about them under the cut!
My goals page - I'm aiming to read 40 books this year. I got to 37 in 2023 so 40 feels doable but still a bit of a challenge. I've got four other things to aim for during the year too and space for a fifth if I think of anything else.
Then there's my Read Christie challenge page and a bingo board created from prompts in my TBR Jar.
The next page is for the buzzword-a-thon. The challenge was only barely on my radar last year so I didn't even consider doing it. But this year I saw the announcement video and decided I might as well make a page for it even if I don't fully focus on it lmao. And beside it is the first of my pages where I can write everything I read during the year.
Then is my annual Book of the Year spread.
And finally my statistics which I've done a bit differently this year. I've spaced the graphs out a bit more because the last two years I've sort of run out of space on them. And then, beside my regular year at a glance page, I've added a monthly wrap up page to make note of how many books i read vs buy.
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wantmangojuice · 3 months
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Copper Coins - finished - 102 ch + 1 extra
Premise: Angry dragon god who got his spinal column ripped out and wants it back meets an amnesiac monk who is puzzling out a note that someone left him >!and who may or may not have something to do with the spinal column-ripping!<. Along with a ghost, a kinda-blind boy (it's complicated) and the most bullied middle-aged man ever, they try to unravel the truth behind those two events.
If there's ever a contest for most tsundere MC, Xue Xian should absolutely join. Soooo tsundere hahahahaha but I enjoyed his narration a lot. He's such an asshole, and I say that very fondly.
Jiang Shining best boy! >!I teared up a bit when he passed on ngl. Glad we got to see his reincarnation in the end. !<
That poor crow lmao he needs eyebleach so bad
MC-ML dynamic: the most tsundere tsundere to ever tsundere MC x more stoic than 10 Lan Wangjis put together ML. At first I was pretty meh on their dynamic when it was just MC bullying ML... then ML started bullying him right back and I was delighted 😁
I've seen that a common criticism for this novel is on the development of the MC-ML relationship. Personally, >!I buy Xue Xian -> XuanMin: I think there's enough hints in his narration that he's feeling fonder and fonder of the ML as time goes. OTOH, it's the XuanMin -> Xue Xian perspective of that relationship that probably ought to have been fleshed out more. Still glad they got a happy ending together though 😊 !<
This is my first Mu Su Li novel and I quite enjoyed myself. Looking forward to more :)
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positivelyadhd · 1 year
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i've said it before and i'll say it again, i cannot express how helpful keeping a list of the activities, people and things that help you feel at peace can be for your healing.
when you're feeling disjointed take the list out, how long ago since you last had a conversation with someone that makes you feel loved, did your favourite hobby, made your favourite meal or drink, visited your favourite place, watched your favourite film or listened to your favourite song? how long ago since you last did something you truly love, simply for the joy of doing it?
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yamsgarden · 5 months
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All those dandori issues are causing some real brain damage
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