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I have been in a terrible reading slump and am looking for books to pull me out. Do you have any recommendations?
FRANCES HARDINGE. cool heroines, middle grade level that adults will love, cool fantasy premises, perfect balance of quality & light read. my faves are deeplight + cuckoo song.
If you don't like fantasy then my beloved herotic stories for punjabi widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. everyone should read it I'm not kidding I love it to bits.
more ideas:
beach reads!! these are all fun engaging types of books:
fantasy: a deadly education by naomi novik
thriller: the it girl by ruth ware
thriller but comedy: Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
horror: My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. the coldest girl in cooldown by Holly Black
litfic: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
romance (F/F): Hotshot byClare Lydon
romance (het): Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho (contemporary). Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore (historical). Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood (YA)
prose so good you want to eat it. (words are pretty but the book is a bit heavier to stomach! depends on your tastes)
matrix by lauren groff. into the woods by tana french. my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell. The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker.
engaging nonfiction
humble pi by matt parker. the code book by simon sigh. if you wanna go heavier, I really loved Black AF History by Michael Harriot
shorter stuff
short stories! I've loved everything I've read that was short by Tamsyn Muir, but the collection Heiresses of Rust (2016) she's featured in also has an incredible mix of short stories by various authors. the theme is lesbian fiction. another sff author I love for short stories is James Tiptree
tiny books! chaptered but on the shorter side. Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand. Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr. One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir. The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
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god i love rating classics on goodreads. this book was published in 46 BC and has been cited in philosophical/historical/religious texts for over 2000 years. entire chapters are lost to history. it has been translated dozens if not hundreds of times with each new edition representing the pinnacle of a scholar’s life’s work. i gave it 3 stars.
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EDITED TO ADD: St. Louis University posted the 2023 St. Louis Literary Award ceremony; Neil’s talk starts about 40 minutes in. (Thanks DanGuyF)
In an interview before the event [Neil] Gaiman said that when he started writing comics, he “wasn’t even in the gutter.”
He said: “I used to look up and admire the people in the gutter. The science-fiction people were in the gutter, the children’s literature people were in the gutter, too, and I was so far down, I was in the storm drain.”
Great writeup by Jane Henderson from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sharing highlights of Neil’s talk at the St. Louis Literary Award!
#neil gaiman#comics#st louis#st louis literary award#it does look like a fountain pen#writing#genre#quotes#book talk#fantasy#with love from florida#Youtube
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haymitch was entirely correct when told katniss and peeta that “nobody ever wins the games”. although he was referring to the hunger games specifically, it can still be applied to katniss at the end of mockingjay.
katniss has found a way to cope, which is by creating a little game of her own. however, due to it being a game for her to cope with the trauma, there is no guarantee of she will “win”. she can only survive it. just like haymitch said.
#the hunger games#katniss everdeen#haymitch abernathy#peeta mellark#suzanne collins#catching fire#mockingjay#book#book tumblr#book talk
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can you rec us some books with very pretty prose?
Beautiful writing style is, of course, always in the eye of the reader.
However, these are some books where I really appreciated the prose style because it was either pretty or in some way really compelling/interesting to me in some way:
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
A Portable Shelter/Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Bunny by Mona Awad
(These are all from my 'beautiful writing style' shelf on Goodreads. However, I have omitted any where I can't remember what happens in the book anymore or if I didn't love the book!)
#book recs#book talk#book#books#reading#reading lit#book list#book recommendation#book recommendations
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Hello happy pride month, here are some sweet and relatively low-stakes queer reads for you:
Cursed Cocktails by SL Rowland - a blood mage retires after decades of fighting to protect his people, and moves to a small coastal town where the heat will be good for his chronic pain. He opens a cocktail bar and maybe falls in love with his business partner.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - case worker has to investigate a group home of very powerful magical orphans. One of them is the antichrist. He tries not to lose his mind. Finds love (platonic and romantic) along the way
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree - badass orc barbarian decides to retire from her life of fighting and opens a cafe in a town where no one has heard of coffee before. Finds a family along the way.
A Rival Most Vial by RK Ashwick - two rival potion shop owners who hate everything about each other find out they have to work together on a potion for the mayor. Find out that maybe they don't hate each other that much after all. Oh and there's a found family in there somewhere.
#book talk#booklr#book recs#cozy fantasy#legends and lattes#travis baldree#cursed cocktails#sl rowland#the house in the cerulean sea#tj klune#a rival most vial#rk ashwick#queer#pride
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I want to go back to the years when these books were the most popular
#hush hush#the Perks of Being a Wallflower#the hunger games trilogy#divergent#john green#rainbow rowell#eleanor and park#books#book quotes#the book thief#book talk#booklr#book blog#favorite books#book reading#books to read#books & libraries#booktok#booktube#book tumblr#bookworld#the hunger games#hunger games#the divergent series#bookstore#book lovers#book community#reading challenge#book aesthetic#new books
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When he has daddy issues, is blonde, and his brother stole his girl >>>
(Grayson Fucking Hawthorne.)
#the inheritance games#delulu is the solulu#book boyfriend#grayson hawthorne#fictional men#my pookie#bookish#mystery books#romance books#booktok#book tumblr#book talk#book thoughts#book things
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I will never stop talking about how reading A Little Princess as an adult radically awakened a part of me that I thought was long dead; the unapologetic ability to play pretend and to romanticize the smallest things in my life.
It makes the most menial and boring everyday tasks into something worth doing, and frankly? It helps a lot with the executive dysfunction.
Cooking? I am a hobbit preparing a feast!
Cleaning the house? I live in a fairy cottage and I'm doing a huge spring cleaning!
Getting groceries? I am a villager getting ingredients for tonights dinner at the local marketplace!
There's always a scenario you can imagine to make things more interesting, less mundane. And thanks to rereading one of my childhood comfort books I have yet again discovered just how great the power of imagination really is, even for adults.
#talking about stuff#book talk#booklr#not me writing this while waiting at the doctor's lmao#but I stand by every word#ngl i could probably write a longer think piece on how important it is to never stop playing pretend#also could write an essay on how fuckin autistic sarah crewe is lmao
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idk if you’ve read it already but jekyll and hyde by stevenson is an absolutely unbelievable gothic classic. halfway through my reread atm and it honestly might be my favourite book :)
oooh ive never thought about reading that but ill definitely give it a try now! ive been wanting to get into gothic fiction!
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when you're in a gothic novel and the girl you have a crush on tells you that she wishes you were siblings: 😳
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anyone else have the formative childhood experience of being 11 years old and falling in love with the musical wicked so your mom buys you the book to read because the cover art is the exact same as the musical poster and you open it expecting a fun whimsical adventure with elphaba & co at magic fantasy university only to get clobbered over the head with the sex club bestiality scene 100 pages in
#book talk#wicked#nothing against the book but like. just saying. could've put a disclaimer on it somewhere
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Unhauling bad books is fairly easy but unhauling books that were kinda okay? What if I want to reread it later? What if I end up liking it more after?
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I love that everyone agrees that Gabriel and Isaac in The God Key are toxic! Compelling, but kinda messed up <3 <3 I don't know. It's coming up to 6 months since it came out, and it makes me happy haha.
Either way, I have decided that compelling, kinda toxic, angsty and co-dependent may be my favourite genre because I'm obsessed. I need more books like that to read.
E.g. I wish I could experience reading these for the first time again:
The Secret History; The Foxhole Court; Deathless; Interview With The Vampire; These Violent Delights; Summer Sons; If We Were Villains; Vicious; Dark Rise
Anyone got any book recs for me?
#books#book talk#book covers#book#reading#read#bookblr#book recs#book recommendation#book reccomendations
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Tori is cold, sad, depressed Michael is warm, angry, and filled with emotion. They balance each other out. Tori cools Michael down calms Michael allowing his anger to subside she cools him down (once again the hot and cold dynamic). Michael brings warmth and happiness into Tori's life allowing her not to be so cold and detached from everything and making her hate herself a little less. They both hate themselves which is funny because they both love each other and want to be more like each other. I think they both saved each other to be honest and they know it by the end. I hope they find a way to teach each other how to live a more balanced way after the book. I really love these two characters I just wanted to dump all these thoughts somewhere I have more but there's too many and they are hard to put down and they are just swirling around. Also yeah I just finished reading solitaire at 3am and I don't regret it <3 <3
#I love solitaire so much#this is what happens when you reread Solitaire#solitaire alice oseman#solitaire#osemanverse#alice oseman#tori x michael#tori and michael#tori spring#victoria spring#michael holden#alice oseman books#heartstopper#heartstopper fandom#books and reading#book talk#books and literature
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