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i love you secondhand books i love you paperbacks i love you public libraries i love you school libraries i love you little free libraries i love you audiobooks i love you librivox i love you libby i love you ebooks i love you pdfs i love you internet archive i love you public domain i love you free and cheap and imperfect books i love you widely accessible resources
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nonbinaryeevees · 5 months
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the problem of thor bridge
he hates this guy so much i'm crying
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iwtv2022 · 1 year
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Louis de Pointe du Lac & Lestat de Lioncourt + dancing
Bonus:
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belovedapollo · 6 months
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I redecorated my bookshelf today (not all of my books fit in there) and was thinking of putting something there to make it more cozy, the blanket is handmade by my granny and it’s one of the most precious things I own 🌞 reblog is ok, don’t repost
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lottieurl · 1 year
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sarah waters, fingersmith
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ellavere · 6 months
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thinking about how bilbo lent the mithril coat, gifted to him by thorin, to a museum back in the shire while he kept his travel cloak in a drawer at bag end
the mithril coat is a promise of wealth, of beauty, of protection. it’s a loud kind of love, and bilbo places it somewhere it will be admired publicly and maintained with care
the travel cloak is a testament of the time they spent together, side by side, not as the dwarf king and the thief, but as thorin and bilbo who had nothing but their friends and each other. it’s a quiet kind of love, and bilbo keeps it close to himself, safe and cherished in the home they never got to share
he keeps them both in places he won’t see them unless he goes looking for them, because the reminder of what he lost is as painful today as it was decades before.
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hwayjino · 11 months
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different language editions of the dispossessed by ursula k. le guin
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sketiana · 4 months
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what does ur list of must read books look like? <3
its still pretty much these same ones:
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem - my all time favourite foreign book and i dont even like scifi. its wholly nostalgic and a lonely thing to experience, red and blue sun and all of the planet a being you pray in calculus to. i couldnt recommend it enough.
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevski - or any dostoyevski book, start with white nights or even notes from the underground if you dont plan on taking on a behemoth based on just my word alone and want a sample to see wht youll be dealing with. actually read crime and punishment and then read the karamazovs and tell me which you enjoy more (the hope mid decay or the decay of hope)
100 Years Of Solitude by G G Marquez - oh brother the opening line ill never forget the feeling of reading it waybackwhen and realizing i wont put the book down till im done with it. Mastery. Magical realism taken in so subtly interwoven with the atmosphere these lot have the lungs to stomach. Its so pretty and realers to me always, critical when it should be as it needs to be but the images it forces you to lovingly imagine are seldom found in any other piece of work even in the similar vein youll never see it done this way again. It cant be done this way again.
Infinite Jest by He Sucked But What A Fun Book To Read Sadly - usamerica tw. hes so funny and a bit quotey ngl. sentences stick to the roof of your mouth and before you can taste them its too late you already memorised them. like it or not. "complex composition" and a bother to flip back and forth between three bookmarks youll have to use to read this shit comprehensively cause the footnotes are practically part of the main story just put at the end to make it direct and give the narrators three voices to lie to you in. but. for me at least. it was worth it to bother w the bs. since its onethousand pages long counting the footnotes, the deal is if you read up to the bodies and Marlon Brando bit the old man goes on about which is i think a hundred or so pages in and you Dont Like At All what you read there or dont find the body bit interesting whatsoever - put the book down. the rest is a waste of time its just not your cuppa. In this scenario id say read Forever Overhead by the same author its about four pages and youll get the point really of it all from wherever hes written anything past or present lol
Grozdanin Kikot by Hamza Humo - i think they translated it into english as 'Lovedrunk Summer' and its the most red-poetic thing ive ever read in my life. native language bias aside where the fuck am i ever meant to put any of it down. so sadly beautiful dripping in viscous phantom pain of living by a forest and on a mountain and not knowing which to look at when you wanna look into the distance and think about the cold and the far for a while. Ruined my life. If i ever reread it again im never coming back
Kameni Spavač by Mak Dizdar - This one is an actual poetry book. Also native language bias but you asked for My list. Translated into Stone Sleeper. He was the very brand of bosniak antifascist ive always known i had to be. Somet like my house is your house until you act on intended harm about it. Somet about ase ležit vojnik gorčin and skažite za vjernost moju that will never leave my head. He wrote about death as a bruise colored river and we read that in middle school and it was so over for me we were so not back
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undivineshepard · 2 months
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love ianthe cause she’s consistent, she never fails to make me go “what the fuck, ianthe” at least twice a book.
it’s gotten to the point where it’s now “what the fuck ianthe” (fondly)
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takemetobogman · 2 months
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Grishaverse men × Orange peel theory
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howlsmovinglibrary · 3 months
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Top 5 Books of 2023!
I don't know if this blog even counts as a book blog anymore, but this year I read 60 books, which is twice as many as last year (and therefore also double my 2023 Reading Goal). I'm so pleased to have overcome my three year reading slump that has plagued me since Covid, and wanted to celebrate by... yknow. Actually doing a book blog post lmao. So here are my five favourite books of 2023!
1) Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Not only was this book written Specifically For Me (faeries, rivals-to-lovers, academia), I just think it's a really good example of a cosy fantasy that is well-written and well-paced. The vibes are wholesome and fanfic-adjacent, but that doesn't mean that nothing happens. I'm not a fan of the new 'cosy' subgenre generally, but I think this book combined the right amount of comfort with action.
2) The Thousand Eyes by AK Larkwood
I read the Serpent Gates duology this year, and while the first book was good, the second book was just overwhelmingly brilliant. I loved the way this author manages time and character development - we follow all the characters for decades of their lives, so the final heroic triumphs in each of their stories just... hit different. It was such a wonderful book series, that left me feeling inspired to write.
3) The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
I love Shannon Chakraborty's writing generally, but it was really fun (after the slowburn pining of the City of Brass books) to give her a far less pious and brazen heroine that resulted in an entirely different tone of story from her previous trilogy! I loved the narration and plot of this novel, also obsessed with this pirate milf and her demon boyfriend.
4) A House With Good Bones by T Kingfisher
I love T Kingfisher but I've never been able to get all the way through one of her horror books before - idk why, I just don't tend to vibe. But this book, which leaned more towards Gothic horror, twisted to fit a modern setting, was so gripping - I read it all in one sitting. I love the funky little bug archaeologist protagonist, who's first sign that her house is haunted is the fact that there are no insects in her mother's garden.
5) You and Me On Vacation by Emily Henry
I went on a beach holiday for the first time since Covid and proceeded to devour every single fucking book Emily Henry had ever written. Although I loved all of them, You and Me On Vacation was the one written Specifically For Me, which was surprising given that the other two most popular releases by her are about books (oh well...mutual pining, my beloved).
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Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
I read all of the Tiffany Aching books for the first time this year, based on a diagnosis from a pal that Wintersmith would be 'my' Terry Pratchett book. Reader, she was right... (which says more about me as a person than I'd like).
If anyone wants to give me any recs for good books they read this year, feel free to reply to this post!
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linecoveredinjellyfish · 11 months
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i looove the murderbot diaries so fuckin much it's just an endless loop of murderbot saying "and then one of the people i was working with asked for my opinion while making eye contact with me and so my performance reliablity dropped 10% and i had to go sit in a quiet room for like 20 minutes to calm down."
just. THE character of all time.
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nonbinaryeevees · 3 months
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his last bow
guy of all time,,,,,,
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iwtv2022 · 1 year
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The Vampire Lestat vs. Pilot script
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disbestyx · 9 months
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May the power of pride be with u all this month.. also, here is a dedication to that one tiktok thing dominating my for you page... You know, aside from the SUB-sized elephant in the room..
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menoasmess · 9 months
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