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[waricwillow]

Hey you, yeah you, stop scrolling!!! Are you looking for a book community. We got you covered!! The Lounge is an 18+ server created for adults who LOVE to read, hang out, meet new people, create new friendships, find new books, and just be who they are within a safe space.

We have a variety of topics to discuss with like minded people ranging from many genres of books, book news, book activities, music, movies, and tv to more in depth topics such as parenting, traveling, and cooking.

We also have some niche topics such as ghost hunting and true-crime junkie discussions. So even if your tastes aren't 'main stream' we gladly welcome you with open arms.

We want to start introducing events such as book of the month, movie time, monthly voice chats, game nights, and more. However, we need our numbers and interest in these events to grow.

We would love for you to come check us out and give us a chance to be your online stomping ground.

A note from the staff:

This server is a welcoming place, but there are boundaries that staff have set that a member should NOT cross:

* If you would not do it in public, don't do it online

* Trigger warnings are used for the most egregious of topics

* Personal phobias are not the responsibility of the server

* Misunderstanding should be clarified to avoid conflict

We will see you in The Lounge!!

#booklovers #bibliophile #bookaddict #bookworm #booklr #books #bookish #community #discord

[waricwillow]

Hey you, yeah you, stop scrolling looking for a book community. We got you covered!! The Lounge is an 18+ server created for adults who LOVE to read, to hang out, meet new people, create new friendships, find new books and just be who they are within a safe space.

We have a variety of topics to discuss with like minded people ranging from many genres of books, book news, book activities, music, movies, and tv to more in depth topics such as parenting, traveling, and cooking.

We also have some niche topics such as ghost hunting and true-crime junkie discussions. So even if your tastes aren't 'main stream' we gladly welcome you with open arms.

We are wanting to start introducing events such as book of the month, movie time, monthly voice chats, game nights and more, however we need our numbers and interest in these events to grow.

We would love for you to come check us out and give us a chance to be your online stomping ground.

A note from the Staff:

This server is a welcoming place but there are boundaries that staff have set that a member should NOT cross:

- if you wouldn't do it in public don't do it online

- trigger warnings are used for the most egregious of topics

- personal phobias are not the responsibility of the server

- misunderstanding should be clarified to avoid conflict

We will see you in The Lounge!!

#books #book worms #bookish #bookworm #booklr #book discord #discord #community #book review #bookblr #bibliophile

[waricwillow]

"Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."

― Neil Gaiman

#Quote of the Week #Quotes #Quotation #on books #on reading #Features #read #reader #reading #Neil Gaiman #books #booklr #bookish #bookworm #bookaholic #book blogger #book blog #bibliophile #bibliomania #bookblr #readers of tumblr

[waricwillow]

Gonna need to add some of these to my tbr on goodreads.

The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

#dark academia #dark academia books #dark academia aesthetic #chaotic academia #books and literature #books #book recs #book recommendations

[waricwillow]

One of my Current Reads....

2024 reads / storygraph

A Tempest of Tea

first in a YA fantasy duology

follows a young immigrant woman in a fantasy Victorian city who runs a tearoom that doubles as an illegal bloodhouse for vampires at night

when their business is threatened, she gets a chance to save it by teaming up with her best friend, a rich girl with a talent for forgery, a vampire artist, and a mysterious city guard to do a heist to infiltrate high society and collect a logbook that may reveal the extent of the corruption in the city

fantasy city with a masked ruler, arthurian elements, themes of colonialism

#a tempest of tea #ya books #can have sonfusinh moments #halfway through #book worms #booklr #bookworm #bookish #books

[waricwillow]

How did they get parole...😳

On 17 December, 1968, 20-year-old Barbara Mackle was at a Decatur, Georgia, hotel with her mother, Jane. She had been suffering from influenza, as was most pupils from the Emory University. Her mother had picked her up and taken her to a hotel to get over the sickness.

During the evening, Gary Stephen Krist knocked on the hotel door, claiming that Barbara’s boyfriend had been in a road traffic accident. As the women let him him, Krist and his accomplice, Ruth Eisemann-Schier, dragged the two women to the ground and placed a chloroform-soaked rag over their faces.

The duo then bound and gagged Jane before bundling Barbara into their car. They drove Barbara to a remote area in Gwinnett County where there was a pre-dug trench. Inside the trench was a fibreglass-reinforced box fitted with an air pump, a lamp and water and food laced with sedatives. Barbara was forced into the box.

Gary and Ruth demanded a $500,000 ransom from Barbara’s father, who was a wealthy land developer. The ransom drop was arranged, however two policemen driving by spooked the duo, leading them to flee on foot. When their car was searched, the found a photograph of Barbara inside the box, holding a sign which read “Kidnapped.” A second ransom drop was arranged and Ruth called the police, giving directions to where they could find Barbara. After spending three days trapped underground, Barbara was rescued.

Both Gary and Ruth were soon apprehended, with Ruth being the first women to appear on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted. Ruth was paroled after four years while Gary was paroled after ten years.

#Barbara Mackle #true crime #crime junkie

[waricwillow]

Always Darling 😏

#witch #witchblr #witchcore #dark humor #spooky #memes #meme #humor

[waricwillow]

I greatly agree...being normal gets you nowhere... embrace the odd within...

#Normal Gets You NoWhere #oddities #oddwithin