#want to read

[adharagranley-writer]

the urge to read everything

#every damn book #reader #reading #I want to read everything #books #bookblr #bookstagram #writing #bookworm #writer #want to read #tbr #i want to read every book in the world

[bookcub]

24 in 2024

so three people have tagged me in this meme soooooo this is for @sixofravens-reads @asexualbookbird and @dustjacketmusings

hopefully this year i wont lose this list as i seem to do every other there

1. the fifth season by nk jemisin

2. the phoenix king by aparna verma

3. the darkening by sunya mara

4. godly heathens by h.e. edgmon

5. burn for me by ilona andrews

6. a power unbound by freya marske

7. emily wilde's map of the otherlands by heather fawcett

8. godkiller by hannah kaner

9. a study in drowning by ava reid

10. a spear cuts through water by simon jimenez

11. mickey chambers shakes it up by charish reid

12. oathbound by tracy deonn

13. a sorceress comes to call by t kingfisher

14. long live evil by sarah rees brennan

15. the ashfire king by chelsea abdullah

16. faebound by saara el-arifi

17. atana and the firebird by vivian zhou

18. gods of jade and shadow by silvia morena-garcia

19. a song of salvation by alechia dow

20. ink blood sister scribe by emma torzs

21. warrior girl unearthed by angeline boulley

22. dragonfall by l r lam

23. bitter medicine by mia tsai

24. before i let go by kennedy ryan

tagging anyone who wants to do this!!

#24 in 2024 #tbr #want to read

[rockislandadultreads]

Disability Pride Month: Genre Fiction Recommendations

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt...natural, and that's putting it lightly. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero she was "wrong". But she lived. Then came the car accident years later that disabled her even further. Yet instead of viewing her strange body the way the world views it, as freakish, unnatural, even the work of the devil, AO embraces all that she is: A woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations. And then one day she goes to her local market and everything goes wrong.

Once on the run, she meets a Fulani herdsman named DNA and the race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria begins. In a world where all things are streamed, everyone is watching the "reckoning of the murderess and the terrorist" and the "saga of the wicked woman and mad man" unfold. This fast-paced, relentless journey of tribe, destiny, body, and the wonderland of technology revels in the fact that the future sometimes isn't so predictable. Expect the unaccepted.

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

It's 1942 and Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York's best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn't expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian's very particular art of investigation.

Three years later, Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball following a big, boozy Halloween party at her home—her body slumped in the same chair where her steel magnate husband shot himself the year before. With rumors flying that Abigail was bumped off by the vengeful spirit of her husband (who else could have gotten inside the locked room?), the family has tasked the detectives with finding answers where the police have failed.

But that's easier said than done in a case that involves messages from the dead, a seductive spiritualist, and Becca Collins—the beautiful daughter of the deceased, who Will quickly starts falling for. When Will and Becca's relationship dances beyond the professional, Will finds herself in dangerous territory, and discovers she may have become the murderer's next target.

This is the first volume of the “Pentecost and Parker” series.

Borderline by Mishell Baker

A year ago, Millie lost her legs and her filmmaking career in a failed suicide attempt. Just when she’s sure the credits have rolled on her life story, she gets a second chance with the Arcadia Project: a secret organization that polices the traffic to and from a parallel reality filled with creatures straight out of myth and fairy tales.

For her first assignment, Millie is tasked with tracking down a missing movie star who also happens to be a nobleman of the Seelie Court. To find him, she’ll have to smooth-talk Hollywood power players and uncover the surreal and sometimes terrifying truth behind the glamour of Tinseltown. But stronger forces than just her inner demons are sabotaging her progress, and if she fails to unravel the conspiracy behind the noble’s disappearance, not only will she be out on the streets, but the shattering of a centuries-old peace could spark an all-out war between worlds.

No pressure.

This is the first volume of the “Arcadia Project” series.

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.

It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position...

Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the other things he's making her feel. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...

This is the first volume of the “Kiss Quotient” series.

#disability pride month #disabilities #Genre Fiction #fiction #Library Books #Book Recommendations #book recs #Reading Recs #reading recommendations #TBR pile #tbr #tbrpile #to read #Want To Read #Booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

[gothic4under4lord]

Don’t know if anyone will respond but I’m looking for a wattpad fanfic that’s about jhope from Bts, would appreciate it if anyone knew what the title was❤️

From what I can remember about the story is

Jhope and the reader (she has a crush on him) are child good friends but haven’t spoken for a long time but then she becomes the choreographer for Bts and helps them with dances, but then Bts goes on tore and she goes with them but she and jhope share a bunk thing in the bus. Then the next day she over hears him talking to another member about how humiliating it was and she gets pissed but after a few chapters they make up. Also further into the story the reader breaks her leg and then jhope gets her fired and she goes to work and another company with nct ( i think)

But the fanfic was unfinished and the last chapter was smut of the reader and jhope

#jhope #bts #jhope x reader #jhope smut #help finding a fic #want to read #bts army #rm #jimin #jin #kim taehyung #yoongi #jungkook #army #wattpad

[whumpinggrounds]

I have been thinking and yknow what I would love to see? Especially on whumblr?

A toxic relationship where nobody is ~evil~ or cruel or even has malicious intentions.

Just two people who are drawn to each other and maybe even love each other but are not getting A’s in therapy and are being unfair.

I especially would love to see it in a Whumpee/Caretaker context where whumpee is, yes, traumatized, but that leads to them treating Caretaker poorly. And Caretaker isn’t a full-on whumper, but they don’t magically always get everything just right, and some of their mistakes or loss of patience or whatever is actually damaging.

Anyone know of any writing like that?

#want to read #bad caretaker #carewhumper #whumpee turned whumper #not exactly but like #vibes

[brileigh731]

book recommendations for people who don’t like reading? i want to like reading but my parent used it as a punishment for me as a child so i’ve lost the motivation but i want to readdddd. i love the poetry i see on tiktok but i think those are more like paragraphs of mentally ill teenagers thoughts not like a whole book ykwim? i love drama but not romance drama and all the shows i watch are comedy/drama so if you have any idea pls pls let me know i will be forever grateful for you

#reading #want to read #bookblr #books

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

My 2023 TBR (5/12) 

These are all classics I have yet to read (other than Wuthering Heights- this is one of my new copies). I included this copy of Wuthering Heights because I want to reread it next year since I might be doing my master’s thesis on it.

#classic lit #tbr #tbr 2023 #the age of innocence #edith wharton #wuthering heights #emily bronte #silas marner #georgia eliot #rebecca #daphne du maurier #the country girls #edna o'brien #confessions of an english opium eater #thomas quincey #want to read #except wuthering heights I have never read the other books #books #bookblr #brit lit #american lit #wharton is from new york she's the only american I'm pretty sure #irish lit #edna o'brien is Irish

[readsomebooks]

The Struggles of Being a Book Lover

There are three books in my backpack right now. All of which I am currently reading. 'Tomie' by Junji Ito (manga), 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' by Heather Morris, and 'Doctor Sleep' by Stephen King. I'm not the type of reader who can read and understand three stories all at once, but this time around is different. I have a lot of downtime at work, which can lead me to become incredibly bored. I'll read one of those books for a period of time, get a tad bit bored, and move to the next one. However, boredom is not the only factor. I haven't read a book since 2020... I know... crazy. So maybe I'm having book withdrawals and just need alllll the books haha. I just picked up Dune. I should wait to finish the other books before I start the chunky one!

#dune #stephen king #i love books #horror #books and reading #tomie #junji ito #ito #reading #happy reading #currently reading #want to read #to read #doctor sleep #the tattooist of auschwitz #heather morris

[cicigreen03]

It’s JayTim Week!

Me: super excited to read all the new fics from my favs

My brain: you know, if you start now, you could probably get something ready before midnight.

Me: are you crazy? It’s noon!

My brain: yes, but you had an idea months ago for an identity story that you never did anything with. Why not just do it now?

Me: cause I just want to read. I want to read all the lovely new stories.

My brain:

#jason todd #tim drake #fanfic #fanfiction #jaytim #JayTim week #want to read #why is my brain such an asshole #i am miserable #i am unwell #I will stop procrastinating and write #I will get this finished if it kills me

[tinynavajoreads]

Just One More Page's March Photo Book Challenge

March 3, 2023 - Intersectional Feminism

This one has been wandering around my TBR since I heard it had a Lipsn Apache asexual main character. There are few YA books about Native Americans and there seem to be even fewer about does who are asexual, so to have one that had both in the main character seemed a good place to start.

That, and a kicking magic system. This book, will unfortunately, probably stay on my TBR for a bit longer. Or I just might change my mind for the March TBR and see where takes me instead.

Have you read Elatsoe? What did you think of it? Would you recommend me adding it to my TBR for this month?

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #elatsoe #darcie little badger #want to read #native american #lipan apache #asexual main character #asexual #young adult #ebook #library book #booklr #book talk

[ladysnowangel]

Time to read some Dorothy L. Sayers.

#want to read #Dorothy L. Sayers #library #library books #book shelf #book photography #books #booklr #photographers on tumblr #original photography

[rockislandadultreads]

Read-Alike Friday: Atalanta by Jennifer Saint

The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

Angrboda's story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found by a man who reveals himself to be Loki, and her initial distrust of him transforms into a deep and abiding love.

Their union produces three unusual children, each with a secret destiny, who Angrboda is keen to raise at the edge of the world, safely hidden from Odin's all-seeing eye. But as Angrboda slowly recovers her prophetic powers, she learns that her blissful life—and possibly all of existence—is in danger.

With help from the fierce huntress Skadi, with whom she shares a growing bond, Angrboda must choose whether she’ll accept the fate that she's foreseen for her beloved family…or rise to remake their future. From the most ancient of tales this novel forges a story of love, loss, and hope for the modern age.

Ithaca by Clarie North

Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom.

Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door.

No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus' empty throne—not yet. But everyone waits for the balance of power to tip, and Penelope knows that any choice she makes could plunge Ithaca into bloody civil war. Only through cunning, wit, and her trusted circle of maids, can she maintain the tenuous peace needed for the kingdom to survive.

This is the first volume in “The Songs of Penelope” series.

Phaedra by Laura Shepperson 

Phaedra has been cast to the side all her life: daughter of an adulteress, sister of a monster, and now unwilling bride to the much-older, power-hungry Theseus. Young, naïve, and idealistic, she has accepted her lot in life, resigned to existing under the sinister weight of Theseus’s control and the constant watchful eye of her handsome stepson Hippolytus.

When supposedly pious Hippolytus assaults her, Phaedra’s world is darkened in the face of untouchable, prideful power. In the face of injustice, Phaedra refuses to remain quiet any longer: such an awful truth demands to be brought to light. When Phaedra publicly accuses Hippolytus of rape, she sparks an overdue reckoning.

The men of Athens gather to determine the truth. Meanwhile, the women of the city, who have no vote, are gathering in the shadows. The women know truth is a slippery thing in the hands of men. There are two sides to every story, and theirs has gone unheard. Until now.

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind.

Alone, powerless, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets. Disguising her identity, she seizes an opportunity to learn alongside the emperor's son, mastering archery and magic, even as passion flames between her and the prince.

To save her mother, Xingyin embarks on a perilous quest, confronting legendary creatures and vicious enemies across the earth and skies. But when treachery looms and forbidden magic threatens the kingdom, she must challenge the ruthless Celestial Emperor for her dream—striking a dangerous bargain in which she is torn between losing all she loves or plunging the realm into chaos.

This is the first volume in “The Celestial Kingdom Duology” series. 

#fiction #mythology #fantasy #Retellings #Library Books #Book Recommendations #book recs #Reading Recs #reading recommendations #TBR pile #tbr #tbrpile #to read #Want To Read #Booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

[tricksterwitchkat]

Hello my lovelies!

Someone messaged me saying they found it difficult to find certain older media, particularly Manga and Anime, so I figured I’d make a post.

This is far from everything - I’m good at finding stuff - but I can always make more posts or an updated post with more stuff on it.

So!

Gundam

The Giant F - You Gundam (of multiple types) Text Collection Archive (Downloads)

Gundam Wing Anime In Japanese With Subtitles In Various Languages (Remastered, 720p) (Free Streaming)

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Anime Japanese With English Subtitles (Download)

Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon Original 90s English Dub in 1080p

This looks like a good stopping point for now, but honestly I’ve got a lot of different stuff or know where to find it. The free App RetroCrush also has free streaming of a bunch of 90s anime, and there’s a few archives of movies and OVAs I can make a separate post about if y’all are interested.

#Gundam #gundam wing #sailor moon #mobile suit gundam wing #pretty guardian sailor moon #resources #useful #movies #manga #anime #lost media #90s dub #want to read #want to watch #long post #masterpost

[sillyapollo]

I wanna read Dracula but I so God damn eepy :( I don't wanna mimimimi I wanna read for fucks sake

#want to read #soo eepy #:( #mimimimimimimi #maybe when i finish a nap

[maddiesbookshelves]

23 books in want to read in 2023

Thank you @midnightlibrarymouse for tagging me ☺️

1 - La Passeuse de Mots, A.J. Twice

2 - The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon

3 - I'm Glad my Mom Died, Jannette McCurdy

4 - Page Boy, Elliot Page

5 - Bel Ami, Maupassant

6 - 1984, George Orwell

7 - The Name of All Things, Jenn Lyons

8 - At least of of the Jules Verne I own

9 - Lore, Alexandra Bracken

10 - A Venom Dark and Sweet, Judy I. Lin

11 - Le Maître Nécromant, Carmen Messmer

12 - The Secret Sunshine Project, Benjamin Dean

13 - Les Souvenirs d'un Crabe, Alix Froger

14 - Les Orphelins du Rail, Fabien Clavel

15 - Six Crimson Cranes, Elizabeth Lim

16 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos

17 - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

18 - Alive, Chandler Baker

19 - Les Voies d'Anubis, Tim Powers

20 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins

21 - Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness

22 - Deeplight, Frances Hardinge

23 - In the Afterlight, Alexandra Bracken

Some of them are for my reading challenge, but most of them are books I've owned for a while but haven't read yet (and the last few are books I started but never finished) 🥲

I'm tagging @profiterole-reads @therefugeofbooks and @cleopatras-library 👀

Feel free to completely ignore this or make your own even if I didn't tag you!

#tbr #23 books in 2023 #books #booklr #booklr community #want to read

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

My 2023 TBR Book Shelves

I rearranged my book shelves last night so that most of my tbr is on the same two shelves.

I'm currently reading both Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin and The Grass Widow by Nanci Little.

#my bookshelf #books #bookblr #tbr shelf #want to read #I borrowed a few books from my dad too 4 are his but most of these books are mine #classic lit #brit lit #american lit #lgbt lit #feminist lit #women's lit #this is my want to read list for 2023 #the five books I just bought also will be put here somehow #summer by edith wharton is the skinny one without a title on the spine #these are not rereads- I have a few books that I might reread too