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May TBR--
Thanks to my newly minted library card, this is not all of my TBR for the month of May. Just the books I currently physically own. I’m so excited for the reads for the month of May. I get to start my Murderbot Diaries reread and I get to check out some books that have caught my eye but not held enough interest for me to actually go out and purchase them for myself.
1. Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (Library)-- This is a Murder Mystery set on an isolated island. Daisy Darker’s family has never been what one would call functional. After years of avoiding each other, the family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday at the crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. When the tide comes in, they’ll be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. Each family member arrives while harboring secrets and then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later the next family member follows. This is a retelling of sorts of the Agatha Christie story ‘And Then There Were None.’
2. Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen (Library)-- Leo Trevi has spent the last six years trying to do two things: get over the girl who broke his heart and succeed in the NHL. But, on the first day he’s called up to the show, Leo gets checked on both sides. First, by the team’s coach who has a grudge; second, by the team’s sexy, icy publicist--his former girlfriend Georgia Worthington.
3. Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Library)-- This one seems to be a Middle Grade Mystery/Fantasy novel about a place called Greenglass House. It’s a creaky smuggler’s inn that’s always quiet during the wintertime. While Milo, the innkeepers’ adopted son, planned on relaxing during his holidays, things get thrown off course by the ring of the guest bell. It rings again and again. Soon, Milo’s home is bursting with odd and secretive guests who each bring a strange story that’s connected to the old house.
4. Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo (Library)-- This one seems to be a graphic novel version of the Darkling’s history and backstory. I think it’s the only Grishaverse thing I have yet to read. I was never interested in buying it so I’m glad I finally have my library card and can read it for free.
5. Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl (Kindle)-- This is a YA Mystery following a group of friends a year after the death of their friend Jim. His girlfriend Beatrice has questions she wants answered and their meeting again gives her that chance. And then a mysterious man knocks on the door and announces the impossible: time for them has become stuck, snagged on a splinter that can only be removed if the former friends make the harshest of decisions.
6. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid (NetGalley)-- A Fantastical Dark Academia novel that looks like it will be everything fans of Dark Academia could ever want. Since childhood, Effy Sayre has been haunted by visions of the Fairy King. She’s found solace only in the pages of Angharad--author Emrys Myrddin’s beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King and then destroys him. Effy’s tattered copy is all that keeps her afloat through her stifling first term at Llyr’s prestigious architecture college. So when Myddin’s family announces a contest to design the late author’s house, Effy feels certain this is her destiny.
7. The Marriage Act by John Marrs (New Release)-- From the author who brought us the insanity that was The One, comes a new Mystery/Thriller. What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? In near-future Britain, a right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills--the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage and punishes those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives and will use every tool in its arsenal to ensure everyone will love, honor, and obey.
8. All Systems Red by Martha Wells-- I’m finally starting my reread of The Murderbot Diaries! I cannot explain my excitement. I’ll just quote the GR synopsis since there’s so much I could just burst forth with already. “In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conduction surface tests, shadowed by their Company supplied ‘droid--a self-away SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself as ‘Murderbot.’ Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.”
9. The Beauty and the Beast (Minalima edition) by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve-- I’m so excited to read this interactive, illustrated version of the original story. The epic love story follows a beautiful young girl imprisoned in the magical castle of a monstrous beast.
10. The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas-- This is a standalone romance novel that is set after The Spanish Love Deception. But I’ve been reassured that I don’t need to read that one first. In this novel, we follow aspiring romance author Rosie Graham whose life is a little up in the air following her quitting her well paying job. But through a misunderstanding Rosie and Lucas both end up staying at her friend Lina’s apartment. They end up trying to break Rosie’s writer’s block in some unexpected ways.
#to be read#tbr#tbr pile#monthly tbr#monthly to be read#may tbr#may to be read pile#may to be read#bookish#booklr#bookblr#bookstagram#books#daisy darker#rookie move#greenglass house#demon in the wood#neverworld wake#a study in drowning#the marriage act#all systems red#beauty and the beast#the American roommate experiment#the murderbot diaries
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What’s your favorite very specific book genre?
I’ll go first. Mine is “ Weird academic leaning group of friends at boarding school have to come to grips with the death of one of their own whom one of them most likely murdered.”
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Happy Groundhog Day! I hope you're not repeating it over and over...
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl & The Echo Room by Parker Peevyhouse
WHY:
YA science fiction
Morally ambiguous characters
Stuck in a time loop
#groundhog day#neverworld wake#marisha pessl#the echo room#parker peevyhouse#ya science fiction#young adult fiction#science fiction#time loop#readalikes
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“We are all anthologies. We are each thousands of pages long, filled with fairy tales and poetry, mysteries and tragedy, forgotten stories in the back no one will ever read.”
— Marisha Pessl, Neverworld Wake
#marisha pessl#neverworld wake#book quotes#books#quotes#life quotes#life#people#books and libraries#book quotations#quoteoftheday#readers of tumblr#booklr#literature#snufflemuffin
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currently going insane over the fact that there seems to be little to absolutely no fandom for Neverworld Wake (amazing book by Marisha Pessl please go read it you Will Not be disappointed).
like what am i supposed to do now huh
#ive been gone a bit but ive come back with an Obsession#might just have to kick start this little fandom myself oh god-#neverworld wake#marisha pessl#books
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the biggest mistake my brain made while i was in a process of reading the neverworld wake was drawing an analogy between jim and james potter because my boy WOULD NEVER
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have been doing mini’s femslashfeb prompts for 2024… smiling ! i haven’t posted anything for them because all ive been doing is messy sketches to get the day by day prompts but it’s honestly been really fun… and also helpful to my art process. and i get to revisit a lot of my fav ships from over the years !! so a double win !
#most of the reason it’s been just sketches is because i have an insane piece for a secret Santa (valentines edition)#that im working on for a friend atm#im hoppinggggg to have that done today tho ! And then maybe I can do more actual finished pieces for fsf#so far ive done my ocs for day 1#crier and ayla criers war (book) for day 2#sakiko and uika (and the rest of ave mujica) for day 3#and today is 4… idk torn between neverworld wake and watt… so many doomed ass ships#sorry so ramblyyy … need to get back in the tumblr grove#evie rambles#evie.txt
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INTRODUCTION POST*.✧
HELLO THERE EVERYONE!! ^_^
I'm Cosmicx, but I also go by Cos or Kyu! Any name you call me is fine.
Though I am cis, I use any pronouns. My sexuality is unlabeled, but I am also polyam.
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★ I am a minor, and I'm just trying to have fun drawing and posting here. I like interacting with fans and friends, but do please remember that I am not only a person on the internet, but a person irl. So do know that I have boundaries and am capable of human feelings and emotions.
★ I have an art style crisis a lot and will constantly change my art style, so please bare with me.
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» I pretty much post and make sans au content, even sans OCs. I myself am a sanscest shipper and a multishipper, so if youre not a big fan of that, you don't have to interact with me!
» I REALLY love Errorink. They are my faves and I love them so much :(
» I love ships like Errorink, Destructivedeath(reaper x geno), Sci x Fell, Dream x Swap, Kustard, Dudebruh/Crepic, Swap x Outer(pls hear me out on them), Crossmare, Kross, etc!
» I have a huge liking for Swap and Nightmare.
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« I will say that I *am* autistic, and do need tone tags because sometimes I can't tell someone's tone in text. Tone tags are things such as /j(joking), /hj(half joking), /nf (not forcing), /p(platonic), etc! It'd really help if you could use them.
« There will be times when I take jokes too seriously, overreact, am being sensitive, send paragraphs if I'm being a nerd, etc., so forgive me if it annoys you 💔
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× Not only will I post art/shit post art and doodles here, but I'll probably have rambles and rants about random things. They could be ships, headcanons, scenarios, even normal or odd things. I like to talk and let what I think. Like earlier, I am a HUGE nerd.
× Also if anybody has read Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl PLEASE TALK TO ME I'M BEGGING. I need to nerd out about it with people.
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DNI
Basic DNI List
• Racists, homophobes, transphobes, any of that sort
• OC x Canon haters along with Sona x Canon haters (what's wrong with people having fun..)
• Proshippers, darkshippers, whatever label they go by. I don't want any of those interacting with me whatsoever. Proship/darkship neutral. I don't want them interacting with me either. I don't tolerate nor do I like it or the people who are these. I do not wish to start drama, do not interact with me whatsoever.
• Like the above, people who support/like incest, non-con, dubcon, lolicon, etc. Shit's gross.
• Dreammare shippers(it doesn't matter which au or anything. I don't wanna hear it.), fontcest shippers
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° I like to roleplay. A lot. It's fun.
° I will admit, I am cringe...! But as long as I'm having fun.
° To anyone interested in my OCs and are curious about shipping them with your OC or sona, I do not mind it at all in any way unless it is deemed problematic to me. Have fun with them man, ship my sans with yours or your ocs, ship yourself with my sanses, I don't care!! I do the same anyways
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That pretty much concludes this! I'll add anything else if I need to... If you wanna know more about me, just ask and I'll answer(though if it's a little too personal I'm not answering LOL). Hope we can be friends if anyone wants to be!
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hello!! this is perexcri because tumblr is dumb and doesn't let sideblogs send asks :) anyway!! for the book asks: 32, 38, 103, 129, and also 71!! i need some good lgtbq+ book recs and am always open to suggestions :] 💜💜💜
hello hello!!!! :)
32: your favorite nonfiction novel
i don’t read much nonfiction, but of what i’ve read, Know My Name by Chanel Miller stands out from the rest. not only was it really emotionally impactful, but also really informative about the criminal justice system (and its many failures to protect victims of sa). very very heavy though, and look into trigger warnings going into it!
38: your favorite series
this is a very hard question. i can’t… i can’t narrow it down. i’ll share a few.
Inkheart: a childhood favorite that i still revisit often. characters come out of books. it’s magical :)
Six of Crows: this duology is so popular for a reason. they’re just amazing. amazing plot, characters that will stick with you forever, and every romance is perfect (there is a queer relationship in here!). there is scheming, heists, magic, found family, revenge.
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad): i’ve only read two of these so far, but they’re detective books! they really pull you in and make you feel disoriented in the best way. they just totally transport you somewhere else.
The Foxhole Court (All for the Game): it feels insane and ridiculous to include this book on this list, but this book series was all i thought about for a week as i read them, and i still think about them all the time, three years later??? they’re ridiculous, it’s about a made up sport and the mafia, it’s so outside of what i usually read, and yet i was captivated. and i’m not alone, there’s like a very small dedicated following to the series, it’s like a little cult classic. it’s self-published so they’re not extremely polished, but it’s not too bad at all. i got them all as ebooks for like $5, but i loved them so much, i bought them all in print too. a bunch of crazy stuff happens, definitely check tw if needed! there’s also an extreeeeeemely slow burn queer romance in here, but like, it’s slooow.
103: a book that deals with heavy topics
Neverworld Wake is one of my favorites. it’s kind of like dealing with grief in a limbo time loop.
Sadie was a devastating book, about big sister’s love for her little sister, and made me sob. check out trigger warnings as needed!
also, i don’t own this one, but My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell. this book isn’t for everyone, but it’s an exploration of csa and grooming from a teacher, with flashes forward to the narrator’s experience confronting what she thought to know to be true about that relationship within a 2017 context when that teacher has been accused of abuse. check out trigger warnings as needed.
129: a book with beautiful prose
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. beautiful but definitely check out trigger warnings!
71: your favorite LGBTQ+ fiction
i’m going to give you lots of recs bc it seems like you want a lot, and i have read a lot :)
In Other Lands: one of my favorite books of all time. silly YA fantasy, bi mc, amazing characters that stick with you.
Red, White & Royal Blue: goofy little son of the president x prince of england romance
Autoboyography: kinda insta-lovey, but explores a lot of IH and religious homophobia (love interest is mormon)
Charm Offensive: it’s like the BACHELOR, but he’s ANXIOUS, and he doesn’t fall for any of the CONTESTANTS, but rather a GUY CREW MEMBER with DEPRESSION. 5/5, amazing.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe: a classic!!! a couple teens figuring things out.
A Dowry of Blood: not my favorite, but it’s Dracula and his brides, it’s queer and poly.
Song of Achilles: a classic!!!! the fall of troy and everything that came before that.
Wolfsong: it’s a whole series about gay werewolves. what more can you ask for??
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue: not my favorite, but fun. an adventure!!!
Every Heart a Doorway: first in a series of novellas, so much great rep. people find doors to other worlds that they slip into, but the story picks up once they’re back and homesick.
I’ll Give You the Sun: one of those like… early queer books that i read before i knew i was queer, but it made me feel so much at the time. permanently imprinted in my brain.
Fence: there are graphic novels, and then a couple novels. it’s fencing at a boarding school, and everyone is so so so gay. the novels are hilarious too, written by the same author as In Other Lands.
some books that i don’t own and didn’t love, but were pretty good: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales (explores biphobia and attachment styles, which was really interesting!), History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera (oh my GOD this book made me sob, it’s so much heavy grief), She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (fake dating), Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen (wlw but a lot of IH and religious homophobia)
i’ve read more that were just so-so, and have a ton of unread queer books, so if you want more ideas, let me know! i have a lot more i can give you, just without my personal stamp of approval :)
book rec asks here!
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About me.
If you’re reading this, I’m Spirit Of Moonbeams. Call me Spirit or Moonbeam.
Identity stuff:
Pronouns: Fluid, but primarily they/them. I also will not kill you for using she/her
Sexuality: Lesbian.
Gender: Fluid.
Kintype: Werewolf.
Theriotype: Arctic wolf.
Beliefs: spiritual but not religious. Ex-catholic, so please don’t preach to me :)
Fandoms I’m in:
The Magnus Archives
My Little Pony
Wings Of Fire
Heathers
Marble Hornets
Things I like but don’t really interact in any fandom for:
The Barbie Movie
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Neverworld Wake
The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Warrior Cats
Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham
Yellowjackets
Vocaloid
I… don’t really know what to put here. I really like eating crystallised ginger. It’s my favourite food, but condensed milk straight out of the tin is a close second.
Thanks for reading this far!
Basic DNI criteria, just don’t be an asshole to other people and you should be right.
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Book Review #64 of 2023--
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl. Rating: 2 stars.
Read from May 24th to 25th.
I struggle to find a way to discuss this novel. The premise is that following a car accident, five friends are stuck in a form of purgatory until they can make a choice. Only one person can survive and make it back to reality while the other four must die. And it must be a unanimous decision. But in order to get to that decision truths must come out and the group must face the reality that they’re all responsible in one way or another for a trauma in their shared past. But the premise is the strongest part of the whole novel which made this one of my most disappointing read in 2023.
I found the writing to be really stilted. A lot of it was overwrought and hard to press through. It felt like the author was trying way too hard to make this a story with A Message. It also didn’t help that the pacing was so off. The author would tell, not show a lot of things and suddenly months have passed in the course of 3 or 4 pages. Then other moments would take chapters. It was frustrating to read. We also had moments where the author would use mental illness in a way that’s just unnecessary and unacceptable. Examples include moments when the narrator suggests someone has schizophrenia because they can do voice acting, or when the narrator jokes that someone has multiple personality disorder. The book came in 2018 which means there’s no excuse.
I liked the way the mystery was uncovered. I didn't like the answer to the mystery as a whole, but I loved seeing the characters in this purgatory of sorts and finding ways to investigate. I also enjoyed the variety in these characters. They were all unique and different and it was fun to see how those different personalities both worked together and broke down the longer they stayed in this purgatory of sorts.
#book review#Neverworld wake#Marsha Pessl#Young Adult Lit#Young Adult#YA#book reviews#booklr#bookblr#bookstagram#bookish#books#books read in 2023#2023 reading challenge#goodreads challenge#goodreads#book
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Mid-year 2022 Five-Star Books!
1. All’s Well by Mona Awad (tw for addiction, college professor puts on a production of All’s Well That Ends Well with mysterious benefactors)
2. We Hunt the Flame and its sequel We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal (Arab-inspired fantasy world)
3. The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (character-driven ballet drama)
4. House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (perfect balance of creepy and feminine)
5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (everyone already knows this one, I know, but it’s so good)
6. Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl (it’s hard to discuss this one without spoilers, so I won’t, but this author is excellent)
7. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Woman tries to uncover the truth about Vlad the Impaler)
8. The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas (I know I’m late to the party on this, but it’s so good)
9. Unlock Your Storybook Heart by Amanda Lovelace (poetry collection)
10. The Belles by Dhionelle Clayton (What if plastic surgery, but magic?)
11. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (retelling of Taming of the Shrew)
12. A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Thai-inspired retelling of Les Mis)
13. Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough et al. (retelling of Little Women)
14. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (reread, but newly rated 5 stars, Think Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, but mostly light and fluffy with a gay romance)
15. Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe (retelling of The Tempest)
16. The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal (tw for death of a minor, a group of au pairs experience Paris)
17. Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (cute lesbian romance, third in a series_
18. Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall (regency gay romance)
19. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (lesbian romance, quintessential lesbian reading)
20. Sailing by Orion’s Star by Katie Crabb (seriously so good, if you read anything on this list, read this, Les Mis meets Robin Hood set during the Golden Age of Piracy)
21. Gallant by V.E. Schwab (feels similar to Coraline, but less creepy)
22. Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (retelling of the Ramayana, featuring one of its villains)
23. Ballots and Barricades by Ronald Aminzade (academic text about class politics in France during the 1800s)
24. Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman (poetry collection)
25. The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (woman solves her father’s murder, featuring an old map)
26. Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune (think The Good Place, but gay)
27. Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake (cute lesbian romance)
28. A Bite-Sized History of France by Stephanie Henaut and Jeni Mitchell
29. King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye (retelling of Hamlet)
30. Portrait of a Thief by Grace Li (Heist with an all-Asian cast)
31. Ship of Theseus by Doug Dorst (basically an epistolary text between two college students trying to uncover the identity of an elusive author)
32. Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust (A poisonous princess learns to navigate her world)
33. Macbeth by Jo Nesbo (MAJOR tw for drug use, what if Macbeth was a cop and Hecate was a drug lord?)
34. Guardians of the Louvre by Jiro Taniguchi (translated comic about a man and his experiences in the Louvre and meeting artists)
35. Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf (Scrabble tournament but add murder)
36. Elektra by Jennifer Saint (feminist myth retelling, which is what Jennifer Saint does best)
37. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (wildly acclaimed, triple perspective story about an apothecary who helps women)
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Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
"We swear we see each other, but all we are ever able to make out is a tiny porthole view of an ocean. We think we remember the past as it was, but our memories are as fantastic and flimsy as dreams. It's so easy to hate the pretty one, worship the genius, love the rock star, trust the good girl. That's never their only story."
Year Read: 2023
Rating: 4/5
About: Beatrice has barely spoken to her friends since her high school boyfriend, Jim, committed suicide. Her first year of college passed without incident, and she receives an invitation to Wincroft, the seaside mansion where they always gathered as a group. Determined to find out what really happened that night, she decides to go. When a tragic accident leaves them snagged on a splinter of time, repeating the same day over and over again until they make an impossible decision, it gives her the opportunity to investigate his death for real and find out, once and for all, whether Jim really killed himself. Trigger warnings: character/child death, suicide, car/boating accidents, guns, severe injury, violence, alcohol/drug use, hospitals, threats, guilt.
Thoughts: It was a funny coincidence that I was reading this book on Groundhog Day and the characters are stuck in a time loop. In short, Neverworld Wake is my kind of weird. I'm having trouble even classifying the genre. It's young adult but philosophical enough to appeal to adult readers. Science fiction/fantasy but without a lot of overwhelming explanations of the world-building or time travel. Dark academia adjacent since all the characters became friends at an elite boarding school and are investigating the murder/suicide of one of their group. It's a bit of all of them done well, plus Pessl's own unique concept of the Neverworld, and as these are mostly my genres, I enjoyed it a lot.
While the book as a whole is a very different vibe, the characters as a group remind me of the ones in We Were Liars. Talented, privileged, entitled, and somehow captivating in their utter lack of regard for other humans. I think the ending would have hit harder if we'd gotten to know them a little better before they were all, you know, dead, but for the most part, Pessl does a nice job on filling in the past. I was prepared to be disappointed by the mystery of Jim's death, but there are appropriate layers to it, and the ending is quite moving overall. I hovered between three and four stars, but the end ultimately pushed it higher for me. I'm guessing it's the kind of book that rewards rereading, and I'll look forward to seeing what clues I can pick up on a second round. (Also, I lowkey want Martha's favorite book, The Dark House at Elsewhere Bend, to be a real book. Anyone on that?)
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“You’re mistaking love for perfection. Real love when it’s there? It’s just there. It’s a metal folding chair.”
— Marisha Pessl, Neverworld Wake
#marisha pessl#neverworld wake#book quotes#books#quotes#love quotes#love#true love#book quotations#books and libraries#quoteoftheday#readers of tumblr#booklr#literature#snufflemuffin
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It's hard to believe it's already June! The year has gone by and now we're in the middle of Summer! I am really looking forward to getting some reading done on holiday this year and sitting on a beach with no one bothering me. Wow that sounds good.
These are my favourite books of the year so far! Here's to many more!
1. BEST BOOK YOU’VE READ SO FAR IN 2022?
This is so hard. I have around 30 five star books so far this year, however if I had to pick one I would pick Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. The impact of this story on me was huge and made for gripping reading from beginning to end. I'd highly recommend it to everyone (just please check trigger warnings).
2. BEST SEQUEL YOU’VE READ SO FAR IN 2022?
I think for me it has to be Hollowpox. The ending of that book literally kept me up at night just thinking about Morrigan and the impact of her decision on her life. My head was just filled with what could happen next in Silverborn. I am so looking forward to the new book coming out later this year.
3. NEW RELEASE YOU HAVEN’T READ YET, BUT WANT TO?
The one book currently that I really want to read but haven't got to yet is Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata. I've enjoyed both Earthlings and Convenience Store Woman and really want to read her short story collection. I need to get that book as soon as possible!
4. MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE FOR SECOND HALF OF 2022?
Silverborn is definitely up there for me right now as I need to know what happens next to Morrigan Crow, but also I can't wait for The Golden Enclaves the third book in the Scholomance series by Naomi Novik and also The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman.
5. BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT?
As Good As Dead, the final book in the Good Girl's Guide To Murder is not for me. I really didn't vibe with that last book at all.
6. BIGGEST SURPRISE?
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl. Honestly I just wanted to listen to a book while I did the chores and organised my bookshelves and ended up hooked on it. A great storyline, fantastic twists and turns and a cast of characters that keeps you entertained from beginning to end. A fantastic book.
7. FAVOURITE NEW AUTHOR?
Terry Pratchett. At the beginning of this year I decided to just read all of his books, and I'm now up to book thirty and honestly he has made me laugh, he has made me cry and he has made me think thanks to his Discworld series, I can't wait to keep going and finish this series and to see the world in it's completion.
8. NEWEST FICTIONAL CRUSH?
Celia St James. She sounds like an absolutely beautiful woman from Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (I get Jessica Chastain vibes).
9. NEWEST FAVOURITE CHARACTER?
Sam Vimes, absolutely love that man.
10. BOOK THAT MADE YOU CRY?
Familiar Things by Hwang Sok-Yong should not be as devastating as it is, but that ending is brutal and I am yet to recover emotionally from it. Just a beautifully written book but oh, my god, the feelings tied up in that book I have.
11. BOOK THAT MADE YOU HAPPY?
You know, I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki is so good because I just felt in moments of that book so seen. I loved that book and it's definitely one of my new favourites.
12. FAVOURITE BOOK TO MOVIE ADAPTATION YOU SAW THIS YEAR?
I will make this count, but Heartstopper. Heartstopper is so good!
13. FAVOURITE REVIEW YOU’VE WRITTEN THIS YEAR?
I think maybe it has to be The Lesson In Vengeance one or the review of I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki, I'm not sure.
14. MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK YOU BOUGHT SO FAR THIS YEAR?
I got it from the library but it has to be Biophilia by Christopher Marley.
15. WHAT BOOKS DO YOU NEED TO READ BY THE END OF THE YEAR?
I do not pressure myself like this, but I have four ARCs right now which include This Vicious Grace, The House Across The Lake, The Book Of Astronomy 2023 and The Dragon's Promise and I am sure I will ask for more books too!
What would be your response to the questions? Please let me know!
Vee xo.
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