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thelonelybrilliance · 8 days

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Fortnight ft. Post Malone = Daniel Deronda, George Eliot

The Tortured Poets Department = Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys = Emily's Quest, L.M. Montgomery

Down Bad = Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

So Long London = Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

But Daddy I Love Him = Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

Fresh Out the Slammer = Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano

Florida!!! = Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

Guilty as Sin = Crush, Richard Siken

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? = "Fan-Fiction," Tavi Gevinson

I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) = Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, Nancy Schoenberger and Sam Kashner

loml = Averno, Louise Glück

I Can Do It with a Broken Heart = Tracy Flick Can't Win, Tom Perrotta

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived = "Good Country People," Flannery O'Connor

The Alchemy = Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Clara Bow = The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher

TTPD booklist! Connections and vibes, nothing set in stone. Credit for #4 to @itspileofgoodthings and for #14 to @thisisctrying

#Ttpd #taylor swift #books #Book recs #the tortured poets department

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romanticise-a-quiet-life · 1 year

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#daisy jones and the six #graham dunne #karen karen #daisy jones icons #daisy x billy #taylor jenkins reid #graham x karen #book review #book rec list #books & libraries

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n0brainjustvibes · 8 months

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here's another one. they're all depressed teenagers too but that's less crucial to why I'd recommend them based on character type

it's a little unfair to group Taylor with Miles and Kaladin because there is a very distinct difference in how they treat their armies, but I think in the context of Taylor's motivation it still works.

#miles vorkosigan #kaladin stormblessed #taylor hebert #stormlight archive #worm #vorkosigan saga #book recs #seriously if you're into any of these give the others a shot

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bbyannabeth · 1 year

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the seven husbands of evelyn hugo

People think that intimacy is about sex.

But intimacy is about truth.

When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is "You're safe with me"–that's intimacy.

#im on an evelyncelia breakdown again bc of maroon #book rec #im BEGGING y’all to read this book #it’s so fucking good .#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #tshoeh #evelyn hugo #celia st james #evelyncelia #taylor jenkins reid #tjr

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girlwithinfiction · 1 year

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✨BOOK COUPLES AS TAYLOR SWIFT SONGS (PART 2)✨

🎶 Delicate - Nova & Adrian from Renegades by Marissa Meyer

🎶 State of Grace (Taylor's Version) - Ronan & Adam from The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

🎶 This Love (Taylor's Version) - Annabeth & Percy from Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

🎶 peace - Katniss & Peeta from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

🎶 I Did Something Bad - Jude & Cardan from The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

🎶 cowboy like me - Nina & Matthias from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

ig: girlwithinfiction

#book blog #book recommendations #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #book recs #bookish #books #taylor swift #taylornation #percabeth #nova artino #adrian everhart #katniss and peeta #ronan and adam #nina and matthias #jude and cardan

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amy3435 · 2 years

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#better than the movies #lynn painter #romcom #love actually #10 things i hate about you #how to lose a guy in 10 days #bridget jones diary #sweet home alabama #book recs #annotated books #romance #fuctional men #i love him so much #ugly truth #taylor swift #selena gomez #playlists #art

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pj0sten · 2 years

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Alex “my reputation's never been worse, so, you must like me for me” Blackwood and Molly “I hate accidents, except when we went from friends to this” Parker

#she gets the girl #molly parker #alex blackwood #they're in love your honor #books #lesbians #lesbian book #sapphic #taylor swift #reputation album #delicate #lover album #paper rings #song recs #song lyrics #book reccs #book recommendations #book recs 2022

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girljeremystrong · 2 years

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COMING OF AGE

YOUNG MUNGO by Douglas Stuart

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars (Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic) and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Yet against all odds, they become best friends. (TW abuse)

LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB by Malinda Lo

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.

RAINBOW MILK by Paul Mendez

At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community and his depressed hometown in the industrial Black Country. But once he arrives he finds himself at a loss for a new center of gravity.

HISTORICAL FICTION

THE GREAT BELIEVERS by Rebecca Makkai

In 1985, Yale Tishman is about to pull off an amazing coup. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. The AIDS crisis and how it affects a group of Chicago friends and the survivors who meet decades later in Paris.

STILL LIFE by Sarah Winman

A sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a richly drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms. A group of english outcasts used to meeting in a London pub end up in Florence.

SWIMMING IN THE DARK by Tomasz Jedrowski

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide.

A TIP FOR THE HANGMAN by Alison Epstein

Christopher Marlowe, brilliant aspiring playwright, is pulled into the duplicitous world of international espionage on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. A many-layered historical thriller combining state secrets, intrigue, and romance.

TELL THE WOLVES I’M HOME by Carol Rifka Brunt

A moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them.

CONTEMPORARY FICTION

THE GOLDEN SEASON by Madeline Kay Sneed

A love letter to the places we call home and asks how we grapple with a complicated love for people and places that might not love us back—at least, not for who we really are.

JUST BY LOOKING AT HIM by Ryan O’Connell

A darkly witty and touching novel following a gay TV writer with cerebral palsy as he fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world.

REAL LIFE by Brandon Taylor

Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses.

SKYE FALLING by Mia McKenzie

Told in a fresh, lively voice, this novel is a relentlessly clever, deeply moving portrait of a woman and the relationships she thought she could live without.

FUTURE FEELING by Joss Lake

An embittered Trans dog walker obsessed with social media inadvertently puts a curse a young man—and must adventure into mysterious dimension in order to save him—in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming novel about illusion, magic, technology, kinship, and the future.

GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER by Bernardine Evaristo

Follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.

MEMORIAL by Bryan Washington

Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston, and they've been together for a few years -- good years -- but now they're not sure why they're still a couple.

THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS by Laurie Frankel

Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.

ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong

a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born.

DETRANSITION, BABY by Torrey Peters

A whipsmart novel about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.

EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD by Emily Austin

Gilda, a twenty-something lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.

SHORT STORIES

FILTHY ANIMALS by Brandon Taylor

It’s a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.

THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES by Deesha Philyaw

Explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good.

NON FICTION (MEMOIRS)

IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado

About the complexities of abuse in same-sex relationships. (TW abuse)

ALL BOYS AREN’T BLUE by George M. JohnsoN

Weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.

THRILLERS & MYSTERIES

WHERE THE TRUTH LIES by Anna Bailey

When a teenaged girl disappears from an insular small town, all of the community’s most devastating secrets come to light in this stunningly atmospheric and slow-burning suspense novel.

BATH HAUS by P.J. Vernon

Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving partner. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through the entrance he goes, and it's a line crossed.

DEAD DEAD GIRLS by Nekesa Afia

Set in 1920s Harlem featuring Louise Lloyd, a young black woman caught up in a series of murders way too close to home.

#THESE ARE ALL REALLY REALLY GOOD BOOKS #would love for you to read them and then come screaming at me #books #book recs #book recommendations #bookblr #lgbt #young mungo #last night at the telegraph club #in the dream house #brandon taylor #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #ocean vuong #swimming in the dark #the great believers

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murasaki-cha · 5 months

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Hehe I drew the grumpy villain and his sunshine assistant💕

#I was not listening to Daylights by Taylor Swift while drawing this what gave you that impression???#assistant to the villain #attv #attv fanart #trystan maverine #evie sage #evie x trystan #hannah nicole maehrer #book rec #book recommendations #romance books #romantasy #bookblr

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belpheg0r-luna · 5 months

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If anyone has any recommendations for any books, shows, movies, comics, manga, fanfics, podcasts, concept albums, LITERALLY ANY SORT OF MEDIA thats like cowboy like me by Taylor swift, please give them to me!

#cowboy like me #Taylor swift #evermore #taylor swift evermore #taylor nation #book reccs #movie recc #show recommendations #comic recommendations #manga reccs #fanfic rec #podcast recommendations #album recs

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princessofmanyfaces · 1 year

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

A 5 star read for me | I usually don't stray from my comfort genre, fantasy, and when I do it's never a 5 star read. UNTIL NOW! I honestly don't have any words to describe how it felt reading this book, it was just....perfect.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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inspirinq · 11 months

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Hi Readers!!

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Someone You Won’t Talk About - 7.11.23 📚

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ladystardust-thinks · 7 months

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I saw you love Daisy Jones and Taylor Swift and I've just gotta ask you: have you heard of Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins? It's a fictional biography/oral history ala Daisy Jones abt the 1st woman president and her secret sapphic relationship/bearded marriage with her mlm best friend and has massive Taylor Swift vibes (especially anti hero, last great American dynasty, gold rush, I Did Something Bad, and champagne problems) It also ft. An entirely queer main cast and really fleshed out characters!

i haven't but that sounds very interesting i would have to check it out! tysm for telling me about it. I love the sapphic woman/mlm best friend fake marriage so so much (i joke abt marrying my best friend for shits and giggles all the time 😭.) But again thank you for informing me abt it, I'm also glad about the oral history part because it's way easier for my brain to understand without getting bored.

#burn the house down #daisy jones and the six #djats #taylor swift #book talk #book tumblr #book recs

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itsbooktimepeople · 1 year

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Strange the Dreamer

★★★★☆

In middle school, I remember reading and really liking Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone series. That, and a friend's recommendation, inspired me to pick up Strange the Dreamer, and I'm so glad I did.

What is this book about? It's so creative and wonderful that it's hard to describe, but in short: Lazlo is an orphan obsessed with the lost city of Weep. Sarai is a half-goddess who lives in a giant floating citadel above the city. Lazlo accompanies other experts to Weep in order to help discover the secret of the citadel, and discovers the twisted history of the old murdered gods of Weep.

If that summary doesn't sound enticing, don't worry, because it doesn't do the book justice at all. On a more fundamental level, Strange the Dreamer is about love, both the power it gives us and has over us. It's about prejudice. It's about judging people for their parents' mistakes, and it's about what makes a hero or a villain.. (Let me just say, the themes in this book were presented excellently.)

So, as always, I will start with the things I liked.

High on the list is characterization, because holy smokes, Taylor knows how to write a protagonist. The scene where Lazlo first came to the library almost made me cry because it reminded me so much of why I fell in love with stories in the first place. He's a very genuine character, and something that really struck me was what a good person he is. I mean, lots of books have "good person" main characters, but we were never told that Lazlo is good. It's shown through his actions, and that makes all the difference. He's always willing to lend a helping hand, but he also knows when to back off, and understands that people have to star in their own stories.

And our other protagonist, Sarai, was also great. Her gift of entering and altering other people's dreams is explored deeply, and so is her relationship with Minya, who manipulated her into using her powers to bring nightmares to the citizens of Weep. A lot of Sarai's perspective dwells on her guilt and turmoil and longing to be considered a normal girl, but it never feels repetitive or annoying. When Sarai is sad, so is the reader, and when she's happy the reader rejoices.

Speaking of which, the romance also deserves a shout out. I'm not usually a fan of lovey-dovey books, but Sarai and Lazlo were so sweet together that I couldn't help but enjoy this one. They tell each other their deepest secrets and support each other's most difficult decisions. Maybe it's just me, but I also loved how slow they took their relationship. And, I think my favorite part was that, even though Sarai was raised to despise humans and Lazlo was told horrendous stories about the blue gods of Weep, they came to understand each other's people as well as love each other. And the ending completely broke my heart, but anyway

However, as wonderful as the characterization is, it pales in comparison to my favorite aspect of Strange the Dreamer, which is the sheer creativity. I think Laini Taylor must be a genius or something. I don't want to spoil the story, but let's just say the dilemma Weep is facing, the creatures that used to live there, the fact that everyone in the book has two hearts (one that pumps blood and one that pumps spirit), the tattoos the women of Weep receive, and of course the writing style... Reading this book really does feel like stepping into a dream.

To anyone who loves fantasy, I completely recommend Strange the Dreamer. I can't wait to read the sequel!