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hornyforpoetry · 10 months

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Summer Reading Challange

Hello, Tumblr followers, casual watchers, first-timers, and anonymous visitors. I created this blog to share my passions with other academics. As a workaholic master's student, Tumblr is my little oasis of peace.

Since summer vacation just started and I, due to school and work, haven't been able to read as much as I would have liked, I decided to start a summer reading challenge, from July 1 to September 30. The goal is to read as many books as I can. I will occasionally post reviews of the books I will read.

If you want, you can leave recommendations, leave your own opinions or share your own summer challenge and progress. The first version of my list includes 30 titles, I will add more later if something seems interesting to me.

Summer Reading Challenge List:

The Goldfinch // Donna Tartt

The Master and Margarita // Mikhail Bulgakov

Dead Souls // Nikolai Gogol

The Red Room // August Strindberg

The Gothic Rooms // August Strindberg

War and Peace // Lev Tolstoi

The Demons // Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Sound and The Fury // William Faulker

The Trilogy of New York // Paul Auster

Too Loud a Solitude // Bohumil Hrabal

Lullaby // Chuck Palahniuk

1984 // George Orwell

The Winter of Our Discontent // John Steinbeck

The Human Body // Paolo Giordano

Maybe Tomorrow I Will Stay // Lorenzo Marone

Travels in the Americas // Albert Camus

Exile and the Kingdom // Albert Camus

Lotte in Weimar // Thomas Mann

Death in Venice // Thomas Mann

The Flowers of Buffoonery // Osamu Dazai

Lord of the Flies // William Golding

A Clockwork Orange // Anthony Burgess

Spring Snow // Yukio Mishima

Runway Horses // Yukio Mishima

The Temple of Down // Yukio Mishima

The Decay of the Angel // Yukio Mishima

The Metamorphosis and other stories // Franz Kafka

Towards Beauty // David Foenkinos

Oriental Tales // Marguerite Yourcenar

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina // Andreï Makine

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polyglot-path · 2 years

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I read 20 pages after one week of Spanish (and Understood it!)

minNo, this is not clickbait, and yes it might sound like it is, but first I want to clarfy that I speak portuguese and therefore I understand the majority of spoken words in Spanish (because both languages share 80% of common vocabulary)

This was my first week of my 90-Day-Spanish-Challenge, which is exactly as it sounds like: I’m spending 3 months focusing most of my time on spanish learning

What I Did:

the first thing I did was to start watching content in Spanish, I got a Disney+ subscription and started to do watch Violetta and Soy Luna (mostly because of nostalgia, but I was obsessed with those shows and therefore I knew the general plot of both of them)

I think I watched around 5 episodes of them combined

I also Went through 150 pages of Practice Makes Perfect, that being 10 chapters that focused on: Subject pronouns, the present tense, Gustar, ser, and estar, The preterit tense, progressive tenses and The imperfect tense.

As of today (saturday-6:30pm) I read the first chapter of Percy Jackson y El Ladrón Del Rayo, that’s 18 pages long, and listened to the audiobook (first time just listening and second time reading and listening), and I understood most of it, the especially after listening and reading together.

The Stats:

made by Polylogger:

Time today(May 7th): 2h20min

Daily Average(from May 1st to May 7th):1h8min

Total time: 8h

Listening: 3h6min

Grammar: 3h

Reading:1h22min

Mixed:32min

I also might start Spanish lessons at the place I work at which is going to rapidly improve my speaking skills

also follow me on Polylogger at AliPoly or Instagram at ali_learns_languages

#spanish #spanish language #learning spanish #langblr #studyblr #spanish langblr #90 day challange #polyglot #multilingual #multilingualism #polyglot-path #percy jackson #el ladron del rayo #los dioses del olimpo #libros

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french-done-fast · 1 year

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DAY THREE

Learned some…. Troubling duolingo statistics and almost finished unit 5. Entered Sapphire league and reached #1. I am not terribly invested in the league stuff, I’ve seen the posts, I know the end of it (the final league) is just a bunch of people being needlessly sweaty and reaching 20k exp per week.

It hit me today just how much the ads destroy the experience. Half the ads aren’t even actual ads from people paying duolingo- they’re ads for super duolingo. It feels like Spotify advertising Spotify premium constantly. “We don’t have enough ads to fill all these slots, so we will make some to perpetuate the problem”

Ah well, just complaining. The challenge continues!

Unit 5 / 197

SEE YOU TOMORROW

#duolingo #challange #french langblr #studyblr #language learning

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the---hermit · 1 year

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Family Business by Jonathan Sims

Jonny is the only author besided Neil Gaiman I buy books without knowing anything about them. I trust him with my whole heart, his type of horror is exactly what I love, and to be honest I'd even buy his grocerie's list if he published it. Of course as soon as I heard this book was coming out I was super excited, and I did not care to research the topics, so I started reading without any base knowledge of the story which is something that has become rarer and rarer for me. This novel is a very simple supernatural themed horror. It deals with grief, death, and what is left of us after we die. The themes were a strong point of this book in my opinion, and I really liked how they played a role in the novel. We follow a main character who has recently lost her best friend of a lifetime, and is still processing her loss. She gets a new job working in a cleaning company that cleans after recently deceased people, and her new coworkers are also dealing with grief of their own for the loss of a bother. During jobs the main character will start seeing weird things that might be supernatural or might be linked to her recent loss. Another thing I really appreciate about Jonny's stories is the casual representation of queer people. Being queer is never the central focus, but he just reminds the readers that queer people do exist and we are everywhere. It's something I particularly appreciate, because casual representation is so important for people outside of the comunity as well. In these particular story we have both bisexual representation, which always makes me very happy because it's not that common, and there's also trans fem representation, which is delightful great to see. She ended up being one of my favourite characters of the book. With this being said I really like Jonny's stories, they feel clean, because this man manages to perfectly pull the strings of everything and have nice endings that just make sense. As I said I loved the themes and I would definitely recommend this novel, it's a lovely light horror with interesting themes to it. Jonny's writing is always worth it in my experiece.

I read this novel for the studyblr w/knives horror reading challenge for the sulernatural prompt, and for the autumn challange for the anticipated release prompt (alongside another book cause I couldn't pick juat one).

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spine-lizard-studies · 3 years

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Zoomester Studyblr Challenge

Day 18- Tag someone who’s blog you constantly check.

I usually reblog what I see on my dash but I occasionally check @tiredbiostudent and @chaandajaan's blogs!

Day 19- Tell us about your online experience (is it sometimes overwhelming? Do you feel like its a great way to get in touch with people? What’s something that you love seeing on here?)

I don't have a very big online presence and I find it hard to keep up conversations with people I meet on here but I do wish I could be part of a studyblr community and make friends, especially with other stemblrs! I also want to post original content more but there's only so much to take photos of when I'm at home all the time :(

Fun fact: I took this photo at 7 am and went right back to sleep

#yeah I skipped like 15 days but it's fine #zoomester studyblr challenge #studyblr #engineering studyblr #stemblr #dark academia #light academia #dark academia studyblr #heyojyo #studyblr challange

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studypsychwithmusicon · 3 years

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2/12/2020 Day 1: The Winter Studying Challenge

Starting already a day late, but I want to give this a try

~ 1st December - Do you like winter?

Normally it’s my favourite season, going back to uni, always being busy, studying at the library, seeing friends, parties, drinks and stuff, ice skating too! This year I have to say it feels like I can’t wait for it to end, sorry not sorry

~ 2nd December - What is your favourite thing about winter?

I don’t mind being cold (I prefer it over being too hot), I also don’t mind the days being shorter bc I think sunsets are more beautiful than in summer, and I like darkness better

#winter studying challange #studyblr #uni student #uni studyspo #studyblr challange #sunset #winter #study hard #desk #tea

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bulletnotestudies · 2 years

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will i carry this out throughout the whole year? we'll see.

MY JANUARY READS i think it was a good reading month (ignoring my finals season procrastination bc rip my academic career). books i had the most fun reading are marked with a *

punk 57 - penelope douglas

running with lions - julian winters

the lottery - shirley jackson

the dangers of smoking in bed - mariana enriquez

things have gotten worse since we last spoke - eric larocca *

conventionally yours - annabeth albert

the inheritance games - jennifer lynn barnes *

the hawthorne legacy - jennifer lynn barnes

all of us villains - amanda foody, christine lynn herman

the anthropocene reviewed - john green *

overall, i'm p satisfied with what i read; for more thoughts on these books check out my reading list page (can also be found on my blog in the side bar). i read part of the anthropocene reviewed in audio form on my commute, and i loved it. i also still have a bit left of it and i'm only about a third of the way through of all of us villains, but i'm counting them for january bc the vibes feel right like that lol

#sabrinas other #sabrinas posts #books #knife gang #bookblr #putting this in the #studyblr w/knives reading challenge #tag even tho it is not a challange post. listen. i created the tag so i can have some libery lmao #january wrap up #reading #if you have any quiestions about any of these books don't hesitate to hmu :)#sabrinas reads

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tinterosa · 6 years

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Same as yesterday... no pics

but at least I got to do some journaling before I broke down crying because my grandma's state... I won't update that much because my state isn't the best... this trip is a very heavy one in every aspect and I'm hurt...

See you next week... I hope so...

#BuJo #bullet journal #bujo mine #mine #diary #tinterosa #studyblr #studyblr challange #studyblr community #aesthetics #studysthetics #studyinspo #studyspso #inspo #inspiration

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pigeonpolly · 2 years

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22.12.2021.

Good morning. Today it started very chaotically. At 7 in the morning I woke up with severe pain in my stomach and was already thinking that I needed to call an ambulance. But nothing happened, at least for now. Then I fell asleep again.

And the day when I did not get up until 9 in the morning, this is already a failure,

I do not feel very physically, I have a headache. I didn't want to write to the blog today, because the mood is to groan. But then I thought and decided that

honestly - this is when you can know and those days when I don't feel ok.

It was in palans all day today to write a theory for a diploma. But I think I will rest today. I want to go for a walk in the botanical garden in the evening, everything is covered with snow, so beautiful. We want to cook mulled wine and take it with us. (oh i feel that phrase sounds incorrect)

Yesterday I watched a very inspiring video about the fact that the world wants to see any art, and it's worth sharing it. Even if it seems to you that it is not perfect. I decided on the basis of this to participate in the challenge. I will draw every day for 10 minutes and see with you what it will lead to.

Feel free to share in the comments how your day is going. I will be interested.

#artist #bad morning #positive #study #art #challange #friends #myday #diary #studyblr

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studyingsciencesdrinkingcoffee · 2 years

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Winter Studying Challenge Days 2-4

Low and behold, the first catch-up post of this challenge!

Is anyone surprised? Because I'm not ^^

Day 2 - What is your favourite thing about winter?

Pepernoten, a type of Dutch spiced cookie, and the feeling of togetherness that just floats around everywhere.

Day 3 - What is your least favourite thing about winter?

The watery cold and rainy weather. It's all the wet and cold without the joy of crisp white snow or ice-skating on natural ice.

Day 4 - What is an unpopular opinion that you have about winter?

I don't think I have an unpopular opinion about winter, maybe that I think it only makes little sense to go to church for the midnight mass on Christmas Eve when you normally don't go to church at all during the year.

#winter studying challenge #myhoneststudyblr #silke attempts a challenge #winter #original content #silke rambles #studyblr #challange

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ohmos · 4 years

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Thursday, Sept. 10th: Are you a morning person or a night person?

I’m a bit of both honestly, my sleep schedule isn’t ideal but I’m never awake past 1 am or before 7 am. Most of my ideas and productivity comes from mass panic at night but I’m able to comprehend better during the day.

The way brains work is curious and something I look forward to studying.

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hornyforpoetry · 10 months

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Reading journal // "Oriental Tales" // Marguerite Yourcenar

Genre: myths and legends, fairy tales

Year of publication: 1938

Read between 07/07/2023 - 09/07/2023 (European calendar)

Review: "Oriental Tales" is a collection of short stories inspired by oriental fairy tales. Yourcenar explores the beauty of the storytelling tradition of various Balkan countries and the Far East. Greece, Serbia, China, Japan, India, all are explored in turn in the form of rewritten legends.

What attracted me in the first place is the way the author adapts the language according to the story. Each prose preserves the mode of expression and the regional atmosphere from which the inspiration was taken. The delicacy of Japanese and Chinese storytelling alternates with Greek and Serbian mythology and nostalgia. At the same time, they all retain a special lyricism, specific to Yourcenar.

I'm a big fan of Far Eastern stories, so my favorites were "How Wang-Fô Was Saved" and "The Last Love of Prince Genji". The first one I interpreted as an allegory of the death of an artist. Wang-Fo is an artist who sees the world with a different eye and manages to find beauty in every thing in the world. The perspective is not shared by those around him, however, and he is accused by the Emperor of deceiving him and creating a false image of the world. As Wang-Fo finishes his last painting before his hands are cut off and his eyes burned, the room he is in floods and he is taken away in a boat by his former disciple. The image of his disappearance from the world of the living overlaps with the image of the newly finished painting.

"The Last Love of Prince Genji" is inspired by "Genji Monogatari", an 11th century Japanese novel about the love affairs of Prince Genji, a native Don Juan. The author of the original novel skips over Genji's last years after the death of his wife. But they are reimagined by Yourcenar in a delicate story about the ephemerality of all things.

Although they did not particularly appeal to me, the Greek and Serbian stories have their own special charm. In "Marko's Smile" for example, I discovered a quote that haunts me even now: "The Iliad” lacks the smile of Achilles." In "Our Lady-of-the-Swallows", Yourcenar brings an interesting view of the creation of the world, suggesting that when God created the angels, he forgot to give them all wings. The wingless angels came to earth and turned into Olympian gods and nymphs. In "The Man Who Loved the Nereids", a man looks at a mute beggar as he tells his interlocutor about how that man met the Nereids, who stole his voice. At the end, he expresses his jealousy towards the beggar because he had the chance to see the most beautiful women in the world with his own eyes.

Telling stories is a talent in itself. However, Marguerite Yourcenar managed to give them a modern, current look, while preserving their purity. This mythical world meets contemporary everyday life and creates the illusion of continuous time. Our so gray world suddenly becomes a land full of magic.

Rating: 8/10

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polyglot-path · 2 years

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90-day-spanish-challenge

The challange:

Consists about doing Spanish a little bit every day for 12 weeks. The goal being achieving the B2 level and/or possibly a higher level of proficiency

My backgroud with Spanish:

I am a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, since Portuguese and Spanish share 80% of vocabulary similarities, I am able to understand most of what is happening, but when trying to speak or read the blank spaces in my knowledge make it hard for me to output. I cannot really speak without slipping into Portuguese or funny enough, English.

How do I know if I’ve reached my goal?

I’ll be using The Council of Europe grid to define my goals

The B2 level consists of:

Listening: I can understand extended speech and lectures and follow even complex lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar. I can understand most TV news and current affairs programmes. I can understand the majority of films in standard dialect.

Reading: I can read articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints. I can understand contemporary literary prose

Speaking: I can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible. I can take an active part in discussion in familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining my views. I can present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects related to my field of interest. I can explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

Writting: I can write clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects related to my interests. I can write an essay or report, passing on information or giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view. I can write letters highlighting the personal significance of events and experiences.

Schedule:

First month: Will consist of Listening and building up vocabulary, as well as creating the habit of studying Spanish a little bit everyday.

I’ll also try to learn most of the beginner gramar

Seconf month: Will expand the first by adding listening and reading, I will be using the Percy Jackson series as a reading experiment, as well as listening to the audiobook when possible. I also have the files for the shadowhunger chronicles for reading experiment.

As well as going through most of the intermediary grammar

Third Month: Will be focused on output, spoken and written output, this month will also be the one where I’ll try to have a conversation with my friend who lived in Argentina for 10 years. If necessary, I might use Italki for further conversation practice.

Since I don’t intend on achieving C1 or C2 I don’t need to focus on advanced grammar, but I might go deeper into Intermediary Grammar if necessary

Resourses:

for listening: Youtube and Netflix

for grammar: Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish (complete)

for reading: Percy Jackson: el ladrón del rayo and Ciudad de Hueso.

for vocab: Anki cards

for speaking: HiNative, Tandem, Discord or Italki

extra: Language Learning with Netflix and Youglish will also help me with vocab

Method:

This is based on the Refold method, just in a more intensive way and more structured. I’m not using the Fluent in 3 months method because it doesn’t really fit my learning style, even though I know there are similarities between this challenge and Benny’s (like the 3 month period and the B2 level being the goal), this is focused on late output and lots of input in the beginning stages.

#spanish #language learning #learning spanish #langblr #studyblr #spanish language #spanish langblr #90 day challange #polyglot #multilingual #multilingualism #polyglot-path

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french-done-fast · 1 year

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DAY ONE.5 & TWO

Learned a little about the mini games in the leagues. Realized later yesterday I probably remember enough to test out of a few units so I did. The test out feature does not use your normal red hearts, and you seem to have unlimited attempts at it. Were I doing a proper speedrun, I would probably just spam that… until they find a way to paywall it somehow too. Seriously, the entire practice menu (save for stories) is paywalled, what the hell?

Now on unit 5 / 197

SEE YOU TOMORROW

#french #french langblr #duolingo #studyblr #challange #language learning

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the---hermit · 2 years

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The Last Seance by Agatha Christie

This book is a collection of short stories that are all linked by the theme of the supernatural. They all had gothic-ish vibes, which I personally really enjoy. I had really high hopes for this book but it was such a let down. I normally really like Christie's books, her mysteries have incredibly intellingent ideas and they usually help a lot when I am in a reading slump, this book almost put me into one, even though the vibe should have been even more of my taste. I am not going to lie to you there were a lot of skips, I just couldn't get through some stories, because they were boring as ever. There's not much else to say I am afraid. It's not a book I'd recommend, especially when this author has so many mystery novels that work so well and you could read instead of this collection of short stories. I really wanted to like this book, there were all the right premises, but apparently it did not work for me. I'd honestly be really curious to hear the opinions of other people that read this book, so let me know if you read it.

I read this for the studyblr w/ knives autumn reading challange for the prompt seasonal read or spoopy classic

#book #2022 book #bookblr #booklr #books #reading #studyblr w/knives reading challenge #autumn reading challenge 2.0 #the last seance #agatha cristie #book cover #book rec #book recommendation #book review #studyblr #mine #the---hermit

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spine-lizard-studies · 4 years

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✨Week 1 - Questions✨

25 Wed- What's your favourite study snack?

Pretty much anything? I like to snack a lot when I study... Usually some hot drink and biscuits though. I felt like having yogurt and grissini today.

#studyblr #engineering studyblr #dark academia #engineering #study aesthetic #bioengineering #biology #college #study inspo #dark acadamia aesthetic #food #2020 quarantine challenge #studyblr challange

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