Fictional man: *destroys my heart*
Me: thank you.
Fictional man: ...
Me: ...
Fictional man: ...
Me: Do it again.
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Books I've read so far this month:
The Moon and More - Sarah Dessen (5 hours)
This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen (3 hours, 40 minutes)
Just Listen - Sarah Dessen (4 hours)
Spells for Lost Things - Jenna E. Welch (4 hours 40 minutes)
Saint Anything - Sarah Dessen (4 hours, 40 minutes)
Love and First Sight - Josh Sundquist (2 hours, 40 minutes)
Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen (2 hours, 40 minutes)
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton (4 hours, 10 minutes)
If These Wings Could Fly - Kyrie McCauley (5 hours)
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson (4 hours, 40 minutes)
Cinder - Marissa Meyer (4 hours)
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If she thought of her love as a commodity and were to, say, eat it, it would fill 4,745 cherry pies. If she were to preserve it, she would need 23,725 glass jars and labels and a basement spanning the length of Pinnacle Lane. If she were to drink it, she'd drown.
— Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
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books that feel like nostalgia
you know those books you read that, instead of feeling like you're discovering something brand-new, they almost remind you of something you already know? like you already read it in another life? here are some books that gave me that feeling of returning home.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
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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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What are some of your favorite books?
Sorry for taking so long to answer this when I asked for Qs on my birthday I really did expect something easier to answer
Anyway top books are the raven cycle and I've greatly enjoyed anything else of Stiefvater's I've read (except shiver), almost anything written by v e Schwab (notable exception is this savage song, I didn't even read the sequel) the night circus and the starless sea, the six of Crows duology, king killer chronicles (which sucks bc the third book is definitely never coming out) especially the slow regard of silent things, and I don't care what people say about how cringe it is the all for the game series is so important to me
I also love anything I've read by Diana Wynne Jones although I haven't read even a fraction of her writings - like uh eight or nine books I think? I have a few more I haven't read yet I'll hopefully get to soon but like I think she wrote like 30 or 40 books. Ella enchanted and the brothers lionheart are a couple of my childhood favs. The strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender is a book I read in like early hs that I thought I might've overhyped in my head but then I reread it a couple of years ago and it's SO GOOD. I listened to the entire murderbot diaries a few months ago, fucking delightful. The lies of locke lamora is so good. Spinning silver and uprooted are PEAK. I haven't finished the sequels yet but the fifth season is so fucking good if you've been afraid it's overrated it really is not. The Carls duology by hank green is also really good
Special mention to never contented things which is one of the books that affected me the most ever but I've never managed to reread and I honestly can't recommend it easy bc it's pretty dark but if you look up the trigger warnings and want to give it a short go ahead
For classics, pride and prejudice and emma are easily my favs. I love Emily Dickinson's poetry so much I dedicated my book to her (link in bio if you want to check it out 👀👀)
I have another ask waiting for me asking for my fav comics so I'll put that aside for now
I also really like listening to celebrity autobiographies and there's some rly mediocre ones but there's also ones I can't recommend enough. Obviously we've all heard of I'm glad my mom died, I think it was my top read of 2022 don't quote me on that tho I have shitty memory. Born with teeth by kate mulgrew is something truly special, I don't have the words honestly. Where am I now by mara wilson made me cry in public. I don't really read much nonfiction that isn't autobiographies (I'm working on it but it doesn't grab my attention as easily) but denial by deborah lipstadt is really good, I liveblogged reading that a few years ago
Obviously I've read and loved so many more books but I think this is so long as is! Yeah it's a hectic mix of many genres (fantasy scifi contemp romance poetry autobiographies adventure) and target age groups (all ages and ya and na and adult), but every single one of these is a genuine rec that I love. Thank you so much for asking!!
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got tagged by @juntateshima
Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag ten friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.
the Harry Potter series
the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas
the Blood & Ash series + prequel series Flesh & Fire by Jennifer L Armentrout
the A Court Of... series by Sarah J Maas
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
My True Love Gave to Me (anthology, edited by Stephanie Perkins)
I'm tagging: @remusreads @wilwheaton (because honestly let's try!) @eldcrwand @ewatson @magicfolk @umfleur @regulusblackss @books-and-cookies @booksanerd
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i think if you wanted to write an "evil" galahad the way to do it would be nathaniel sorrows from the strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender. he should be raised from birth to believe he'll become a saint one day and be so devout that the mere vibe of him causes people to course correct their whole lives just from saying hi to him on the street. he should develop a psychosexual obsession with what he believes to be an angel until it drives him to madness and violence. he should get hit by a truck and die and never have his body identified.
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December 2023 Reading Log
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr by Crystal Smith Paul
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
Lightlark by Alex Aster
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
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Read any good books recently?
There's this lovely book I've been reading, it's called 'The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender' and it's amazing.
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reccing my favorite book of all time: the strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender!
Oh damn I remember this book. I mean, I never read it but it was on my list for a while and then I kind of just lost track of it. I've always loved this cover
send me book recs !!!
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atmospheric books to read this winter
for when you want books with those frosty, slightly unhinged vibes~
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton
The Snow Song by Sally Gardner
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
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🧺go on a picnic - you seem like a reader (any book requests?)
im definitely a reader, i read all the time. rn im reading my school books, but my top 3 recommendations atm are:
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (fantasy/fiction)
When a Monster Calls (fiction)
Salt to the Sea (historical fiction)
want to submit your own ask? >>> Summer Celebration
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“To many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale.” - The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, Lesley Walton
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12 Bookish Questions Challenge
🦇 QOTD: Answer any of the prompts below!
💜 Thank you Audrielle for tagging me in this challenge! This took me a hot minute (my memory is useless) but here we go! Feel free to answer any of these prompts in the comments; I want to hear all about the books and authors who had an impact on you as a reader!
🤍Childhood Favorites
- The Boxcar Children Series
- Daughters of the Moon Series
- The Uglies Series
💐Books That Launched Me Into Adult Fantasy
(I'm not sure a book "launched" me into adult fantasy, since I always read above my age level growing up. Here are a few YA books I consider a great transition from "childhood" to "adult.")
- The Lunar Chronicles
- The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
- Red Queen
💌Books I Always Recommend
- The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
- The Wrath & the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
- Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev
- Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
- The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
✨Books That Shocked Me
- The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M Masood
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
🪩Books I Recently Read and Enjoyed
- Jana Goes Wild by Farah Heron
- Advika and the Hollywood Wives by Kirthana Ramisetti
- Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success by Jessica Parra
🤍Favorite Characters
- Eris Shindanai (Gearbreakers)
- Shahrzad (The Wrath & the Dawn)
- Wren (Girls of Paper & Fire)
💐Books That Changed the Way I Think
- I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
- All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
💌Authors I’ve Read More Than 10 books
- Jill Mansell
- Tess Gerritsen
- Marissa Meyer
- Sarah J Maas
- VE Schwab
✨Authors I’d Grant Immorality To
- Rainbow Rowell
- Renee Ahdieh
- Claudia Gray
- Sabaa Tahir
- Sara Desai
- Tahereh Mafi
- VE Schwab
- Sonali Dev
🪩Books I Reread Often
- The Lunar Chronicles
- ACOTAR
- Rebel of the Sands
🤍Favorite Fantasy Series
- Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
- Girls of Paper & Fire by Natasha Ngan
💐Books That Deserve More Attention
- The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan
- Eve of Man by Giovanna and Tom Fletcher
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
- Girls of Paper & Fire by Natasha Ngan
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