Every time I look, this bookshelf gets more crowded. Not sure how that’s happening 🤔

The faery bookshelves have moved to the 9-cube shelf because I was running out of space. I mean, I still don’t have any more room than before, but this pleases me more.

My friend included a beautiful warm painting in bronzes and browns with her letter for my birthday.

It looks so perfect on my bookshelf. 🥹

Have you added Spells of Tarot & Tragedy to your TBR?

An urban fantasy dark romance book with spice that doesn’t overtake the plot about a young woman searching for her place in the world without her family, finding and choosing her own along the way in her friends. Intrigue, mystery, and thrill all come to bring you a book that dives in a secret underground magic world where not everyone can be trusted.

★ What is some recent bookmail you received? I recently got @illumicrate’s October box in the mail! The theme is ‘From Beyond Death’ and I am loving everything in the box—especially the teacup set and the book itself! The edges are … wow! So pretty. I’m excited to share my unboxing with you all in a few days! ★ HASHTAGS // #illumicrate #illumicrateoct2022 #rainbowshelves #shelfie #bookstagram #homelibrary #readerlife #readingnook #stencilededges #bookspines #bookaesthetic #bookshelfie https://www.instagram.com/p/ClHdhP2yaFB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🌿 Books & Plants

"El arte de subir (y bajar) la montaña" de Marcos Peña

📚 Do you DNF books, or keep reading to the end? And what point do you decide to DNF a book? Happy Thursday, Bookworms… Do you ever DNF books? I always say that I am going to, yet rarely ever do. 😅 It’s something that I’m working on though. I just always feel like if I stick with a book, it may get better. And sometimes it does. Not often, but sometimes. 😂 What about you? 📖 📚 📖 📚 📖 📚 #AlltheBooksMar23 #MyFictionalMusings #CourtofReadingMar23 #ReadingintheWeb 📖 📚 📖 📚 📖 📚 #shelfie #bookshelf #bookshelfie #bookstack #bookpile #allthebooks #bookshelves #librariesofinstagram #bookcollection #yabooks #fantasybooks #romancebooks #bookcommunity #bookstagram #books #reading #ilovebooks #bookphoto #bookobsessed #bibliophile #becauseofreading #bookdragon #booklover #currentlyreading #tbrcart #cozyreading https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIdLtLOCaF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

roadsgroup Upon the recent release of her new blockbuster movie, Mr Malcolm's List, we sat with Zawe Ashton to discuss some of her other incredible personal projects + what's exciting her about the future..⁠

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.

Babel by R F Kuang

kuangrf has done it again. Reached into my chest, ripped out my heart, and stomped on it, beating it into a pulp. And I’d let her do it again.

Babel is such a brilliant piece of work. It’s devastating, but it is also revealing. As a brown person, participating in the academic world in the United Kingdom, it has forced me to look deeper into the culture I am a part of, a culture I am promoting, and how important ot is to challenge and push boundaries. Not only of the institution I am a part of, but of my own.

This novel dismantled and reimagined the dark academia genre masterfully, and I will be forever in awe of how well crafted it all was.

I will also be incredibly grateful for the representation it offered. For me, to see Muslims represented in in genre, in this way, I can’t express how important that was.

Babel lived up to the hype, and I would recommend it to everyone.

Tired doggy in front of bookshelf

“No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.”

—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

"When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does."

September 2023 bookshelf // Instagram

Read: Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy. My book series I found as a child that I keep reading? Do you have one?