#reading motivation

[thatstudyblrontea]

February 12, 2024

I'm graduating in two days!! And this is how I chose to spend the afternoon, but can you blame me? Sunny winter days are the best for a bike ride and a quiet reading session in the park.

#bookblr #books #booklr #study blog #book aesthetic #currently reading #reading #reading outside #studyblr #reading motivation #uniblr #reading aesthetic #il vegliardo #Italo Svevo

[that-one-girls-blog-posts]

shoutout to the friends that don't read much themselves, but will still spend time with you at the bookstore and listen to you ramble❤️‍🩹

#aa #friendship quotes #reader #bookish #books and libraries #bookstore #booktok #bookclub #reading motivation #girlblogging

[igotworms]

I read these earlier this year and now I'm in a slump, and can't focus. I don't know how I read almost 80 books before the spring started and almost nothing since.

#booklr #bookblr #shelfie #bookshelf #books #reading #literature #novels #fiction #studyblr #reading motivation #study motivation #study inspo #bookworm #bookish #book club #reading list #readers

[psychwriter]

28/11/23

this is my first ever update post!! this is incredible exciting!!

the morning was spent reading the secret history - i’m officially half way through! at bough it’s taken me far too long to read (reading slump was a killer), i’m CAPTIVATED by it

today was all about group projects and coffee

sat for hours in a coffee shop working on and wrapping a geography project

i’ve never been more educated on the protection of countryside before

the winter months are here and the sun set speedily, leaving us to rely on fairy lights

today was lovely and (despite the chatting and much needed coffee orders) productive!

media of the day

starman - david bowie

glue song - beabadoobe

the secret history - donna tart

all the young dudes - mskingbean

thats the lot :) LOVE!

#study motivation #studyblr #studyspo #dark academia #studyinspo #academia aesthetic #the secret history #student #geography #reading motivation

[latenightsushi]

🌲 Sleigh all day 🌲

ig: @latenitesushi

#bookshelf #books #shelfie #christmas #christmas decorations #christmas aesthetic #winter #winter aesthetic #reading #reading aesthetic #booklr #bookblr #reading motivation #book aesthetic #cozycore #cozyblr #cozy #hygge #hyggeblr #latenightsushi

[lonelycatsblog]

i bought RWRB (book) and it has been sitting on my self for almost a month. if you read it could you please motivate me to read it!! i will be eternally grateful

#rwrb #rwrb book #reading #booklr #reading motivation #i am batman

[wecandoit]

#readingwithlunlun day four:

—what is your favourite genre and trope to read?

contemporary fiction :)

pages read: 80 pc: Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami, pp. 249. p.s: extremely sorry for being irregular with these posts i just felt uncomfortable posting on days that i haven't actually read anything, hope you don't mind

#readingwithlunlun #challenge #reading #reading motivation #bookblr

[thesecretstoriesofme]

💌This is a sign for you to go and read right now 💌

#Spotify #reading motivation #reading #books #book #atomic habits #self care #motivation #habit #habits #good habits #aesthetic #teenager

[xiaxialake]

January 2023 Book TBR and Ideas to Keep Myself Motivated

I've made a deal with myself.

I’ve made a deal with myself. If I read a minimum of 30 pages/day for a duration of 30 days, at the end of each month I’ll buy myself something that I won’t usually splurge on. The most important rule of the game will be that the pages read won’t be cumulated, meaning if I read 100 pages in a day, the next day I’ll still need to read a minimum of 30 pages. To show how serious I am I’ve even…

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#blog #blogpost #motivation #reading motivation

[worldcolorexplorer]

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#read more #read more sticker #book #books #bookblr #bookish #book lover #reading motivation #book sticker #book stickers #watercolor lettering #lettering #book lettering #bookish lettering #read more lettering #read more watercolor lettering

[soulessginger8u2]

This is a sign to take yourself out on a date.

#self care #self love #reading motivation #reading #booklr

[thegreenandyellownewsletter]

I wish I did this my first year of Uni. Also literally the most fun way I keep track of reading and books.!

#books #student #bullet journal #reading #student life #studying #reading motivation

[that-one-girls-blog-posts]

love love love picking up random books from the thriftstore which then turn out to be the most exquisite piece of literature you ever came across

#aa #reader #literature #poetry #dakota warren #bookish #philosophy #books and libraries #violet bent backwards over the grass #dark academia #the secret history #reading #reading motivation #litblr #literature quotes #coffee table books #sylvia plath #virgina woolf #kafka #eve babitz #book recs #kurt vonnegut

[studyestela]

「 ✦ CURRENTLY READING ✦ 」 (2/12 books read in 2024) i've placed a 2024 reading goal of 12 books this year (one per month) but january's been good to me and i already read two books so far:

1. aurora boreal by juliana anferoli — a dark-ish romance about a brothel owner (named aurora) and her newest employee. i rated this one 3/5 stars, it was way too long for its purpose, but a fun read nonetheless.

2. like me by hayley phelan —a psychological thriller about female identity in the digital age. made me never want to use instagram never again. I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN, so catchy. rated it 4/5 stars because of some plot holes.

3. a village life by louise glück — felt like reading some poetry so i picked this one. we'll see how it goes.

#currently reading #books #reading aesthetic #book tumblr #reading #reading motivation #images: own #kindle

[jadenvargen]

free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources

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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.

---NOVELS---

Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."

Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."

+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)

Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."

Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."

If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."

also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins

Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. 

---ESSAYS---

Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film

--DOCUMENTARIES--

Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.

Meeting the man

--DEBATES:--

Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )

Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )

Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)

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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.

#james baldwin #motivated by i think people here think it's harder to find resources and read than it actually is. so much stuff online! #motivation nr 2 wtf

[latenightsushi]

One week till Christmas! 🕊

ig: @latenitesushi

#christmas #christmas decorations #christmas aesthetic #bookshelf #shelfie #happy holidays #holiday season #winter #reading motivation #books #book aesthetic #cozy #cozyblr #hygge #hyggeblr #booklr #bookblr #latenightsushi