#adultbooklr

[lissreads]

It's always nice when you can pinpoint the moment it happens

#e. m. forster #where angels fear to tread #quote #adultbooklr #reading #booklr #for me it was 10 in the morning

[oldsolidbooks]

Old Solid Book Asks 📚

🐓 A book that can open a reader's eyes, wake their mind

🫖 A book that is comfortable, safe, home

🪐 A book you keep coming back to, after some time

🎠 A whimsical read, strangely sweet

🌂 A book that makes you feel understood, even more so than you understanding it

🛶 A book that is good company when no one else is there

🪅 A book that came as a complete surprise to you

🐿 A series you'd like to have more and more and more of

👒 A book that you like, but not for the reason most people do

📖 A book you'd always recommend, regardless of the other's usual taste

#booklr #books #adultbooklr #litblr #bookblr #literature #ask games

[oldshrewsburyian]

All the Lives We Never Lived, Anuradha Roy

[Text ID: In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small-town India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought of as British. This unconcern for accuracy annoyed my scholarly father even in circumstances as dire as losing his wife to another man.]

#adultbooklr #currently reading #all the lives we never lived #anuradha roy #book quotes #that is an opening #first lines #queue

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || January || 7 || Award Winning

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #book photo challenge #bookshelf #bookshelves #shelfie #book spines #agustina bazterrica #leerreadinglire #booklr #bookblr #adultbooklr

[teabooksandsweets]

Indirectly tagged, meaning I wanted to list my nine favourite books, and likewise tagging everyone who'd like to. 📚

(No definite order except for the first three; also change sometimes a little.)

#literature #booklr #adultbooklr #books #tag game #personal

[myriad-rainbows]

Brother William: [attempts to explain something using an analogy that gets more convoluted the more he tries to clarify it]

Adso: I understand less and less.

William: So do I. I'm not good at speaking in parables. Forget the story of the river.

This is such a mood.

#laugh tag #the name of the rose #tnotr #umberto eco #adultbooklr

[smalltownfae]

Since it’s pride month I decided to draw only LGBT+ characters and read only LGBT+ books. I have a big list of those so the ones I pick up will depend on my mood, but I am excited.

Let me know what are your favourite LGBT+ books and if there is any character you are interested in seeing, please.

#booklr #lgbt+ books #adultbooklr

[bettygemma]

In no order, here are my reading highlights for 2023

Best literary page turner (LPT)

This is a tie between 'I have some questions for you' by Rebecca Makkai and 'Birnam Wood' by Eleanor Catton. Both about moral quandaries of some sort, both really well written and extremely readable.

Best fantasy

'Babel' by R. F. Kuang. After I finished Babel I had to stare into the void for a little while to recover. One of the questions the book asks is, is it actually possible for those with power to be truly friends to those without power, and it answers pretty firmly in the negative. Which I remember being sad and sceptical about when I first read the book in August but now, on this side of the Voice to Parliament Referendum, it feels extremely prescient (*laughs bitterly*).

Best Australian fiction

'Love and Virtue' by Diana Reid. Also best campus novel of the year (I read lot of them in 2023 coincidentally!) I was devastated to end this book, not only because parts of this novel are set in my home town #representation but more importantly its genuinely brilliant and empathetic and recognisable. Also has multiple moral quandaries.

Best retelling

'Home Fire' by Kamila Shamsie which is a retelling of Antigone. I knew nothing about Antigone going in so found it super intense and surprising. Just like 'Love and Virtue ' I could have spent a hundred more pages with these characters.

Best Lenten read

'Passage' by Connie Willis. Willis is now probably my second favourite writer after Dorothy Sayers, and this book is up there as one of her greats, along with 'Doomsday Book' and 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'. A book to read to when death is near and you are in need of hope.

Best memoir

'Educated' by Tara Westover. Also wins the prize for being the book that made me the most thankful for my parents and for them sending me to a normal public school (honourable mention for this prize goes to 'I'm glad my mom died' by Jennette McCurdy').

Best feminist read

'Wifedom' by Anna Funder. Part biography of Eileen O'Shaughnessy, part novel, part memoir, this book is possibly the best investigation of the toll domestic inequality has on women I've read for a number of years. Read it if you're interested in biography and women's history and the literary canon. In one of the many passages that jumped out at me, after praising her husband for his modernity and equal mindedness, Funder writes:

"This was not enough to protect me. The patriarchy was too huge, and I was too small or stupid, or just not up for the fight. The individual man can be the loveliest, the system will still benefit him, without him having to lift a finger or a whip or change the sheets. This is the story I tell against myself. And against the system that made this self, as well as my husband's, and the system that put her into his service. Wifedom is a wicked magic trick we have learned to play on ourselves."

I mean??!?!

And finally, Book I recommended the most

'This is not a book about Benedict Cumberbatch' by Tabitha Carvon. I hyped this book to nearly every woman I know. Extremely funny if you were in Tumblr in 2012 or have ever participated in any fandom. A great companion read to 'Wifedom'. May it inspire you to find joy.

#adultbooklr #connie willis #anna funder #tabitha carvon #kamila shamsie #rebecca makkai #eleanor catton #r. f. kuang #diana reid #tara westover

[sawreadreviewed]

Plain Bad Heroines, ginger tea, and clashing patterns.

#plain bad heroines #emily m danforth #wlw lit #tomes and tea #adultbooklr #adult booklr

[katzensilber]

Currently reading

Title: Miteinander reden Language: German Notes: Fantastic book on the psychology of communication. I'm moving through it slowly, savoring the reflections it stimulates in me.

Title: Dracula Language: English Notes: I discovered the group reading challenge "Dracula Daily" only a few days into May this year, and decided to join in. It's been several years since I first read Dracula and I was definitely ready for a re-read.

Title: Le lieutenant de Kouta Language: French Notes: I started this book a few years ago, but it didn't really grab me at the time. Now I'm tackling it again and finding it much more interesting, and a faster/easier read than I remember. I'm working through it using my preferred method of intensive reading: copying it out by hand as I go, pronouncing the words aloud as I write them, and underlining the unknown words and looking them all up at the end of each page. Not everyone's cup of tea when it comes to study techniques, but it works exceptionally well for me.

Title: A Gentleman in Moscow Language: English Notes: A recommendation from my parents. Exceptionally enjoyable book, right up my alley so far. Every sentence is delicious.

#booklr #bookblr #langblr #adultbooklr #studyblr #adult studyblr #reading #mine

[lissreads]

2015 Tumblr was a magical little place for me and I loved it very much. I rarely use this anymore (remember when the morality police took over and nobody could like anything at all?), so I thought I'd jump on Threads because I heard all these good things and thought maybe it'd be something like this.

Guys, those people are boring as hell, I miss Tumblr chaos. Is the morality police still here, or am I allowed to like my stuffy old books without getting a sermon about why I should not?

#adultbooklr

[oldsolidbooks]

Lately in-active, this shall (once again) be my semi-active, more-or-less booklr. Mostly adult, some children's fiction, also non-fiction (sometimes, rarely, also YA.) Also, Other Things.

My name is Chiara, my main is @teabooksandsweets. My favourite series is The Chronicles of Narnia, my favourite trilogy is The Eliots of Damerosehay, and my favourite stand-alone is Brideshead Revisited.

Other than that, I am a Scowler & Apprentice Caretaker (if you know, you know), Stratfordian, blissfully ignorant of BookTok, and to not partake in corporate driven reading challenges.

I am also very fond of tea.

#booklr #adultbooklr #books #literature

[oldshrewsburyian]

She shrugged out of her old life, skinning herself, and slipped into the new.

A Good House for Children, Kate Collins

#a good house for children #kate collins #book quotes #adultbooklr #currently reading

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || November || 24 || Got What They Deserved

Avalanche Hôtel by Niko Tackian

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #book photo challenge #booklr #leerreadinglire #book community #bookblr #adultbooklr #books and reading #thriller #detective fiction #Avalanche Hôtel #Niko Tackian

[teabooksandsweets]

#elizabeth goudge #booklr #adultbooklr #book poll

[myriad-rainbows]

“[…] Now all those who knew something of the library’s secrets, whether rightly or through trickery, are dead. Only one person remains: yourself.”

“Do you wish to insinuate . . . you wish to insinuate . . .” the abbot said.

“Do not misunderstand me,” said William, who probably had indeed wished to insinuate.

Hey look it's that literary device tumblr loves so much

#umberto eco #the name of the rose #adultbooklr