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Not Chanse liking a negative fan tweet about Damien’s (joking? Probably?) passive aggressive tweet about Shayne and Courtney…
Not to be one to speculate on drama but it’s feelin a little messy in the smosh world rn
#shourtney#shayne topp#courtney miller#smosh#smoshblr#shayne and courtney#chanse mccrary#damien haas#the absolute insanity the wedding photos are causing#they really got us tho#I just hope everyone gets along and is happy#twitter is insane anyways
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2023 reading list!
I read 148 books this year and managed to go to all 78 public libraries in my county network!
Hell Bent [Alex Stern: 2] - Leigh Bardugo
The Golden Enclaves [Scholomance: 3] - Naomi Novik
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi [Amina al-Sirafi: 1] - Shannon Chakraborty
The Hunger Games [The Hunger Games: 1] - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire [The Hunger Games: 2] - Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay [The Hunger Games: 3] - Suzanne Collins
Camp Zero - Michelle Min Sterling
One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Priory of the Orange Tree [The Roots of Chaos: 1] - Samantha Shannon
One for My Enemy - Olivie Blake
Atalanta - Jennifer Saint
The Sun and the Star: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure - Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro
Untethered Sky - Fonda Lee
Daughter of the Moon Goddess [Celestial Kingdom: 1] - Sue Lynn Tan
A Day of Fallen Night [The Roots of Chaos: 0] - Samantha Shannon
Heart of the Sun Warrior [Celestial Kingdom: 2] - Sue Lynn Tan
Yellowface - R. F. Kuang
Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
The Sleepless - Victor Manibo
Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
Exo [Exo: 1] - Fonda Lee
She Who Became the Sun [The Radiant Emperor: 1] - Shelley Parker-Chan
Rosewater [The Wormwood Trilogy: 1] - Tade Thompson
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Book of Night [Book of Night: 1] - Holly Black
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
The Secret Book of Flora Lea - Patti Callahan Henry
The Only Survivors - Megan Miranda
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn [The Library Trilogy: 1] - Mark Lawrence
Red Rising [Red Rising Saga: 1] - Pierce Brown
Ink Blood Sister Scribe - Emma Törzs
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Clytemnestra - Constanza Casati
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride - Roshani Choksi
Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
Salt Houses - Hala Alyan
The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O’Farrell
The Unbroken [Magic of the Lost: 1] - C. L. Clark
The Shadow of What Was Lost [The Licanius Trilogy: 1] - James Islington
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
The Last to Vanish - Megan Miranda
All the Dangerous Things - Stacy Willingham
All My Rage - Sabaa Tahir
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
River Sing Me Home - Eleanor Shearer
The Jasmine Throne [The Burning Kingdoms: 1] - Tasha Suri
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson
Spells for Forgetting - Adrienne Young
Velvet Was the Night - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
Trust - Hernán Díaz
Dust Child - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Our Hideous Progeny - C. E. McGill
Golden Son [Red Rising Saga: 2] - Pierce Brown
The Henna Artist [The Jaipur Trilogy: 1] - Alka Joshi
The Art of Prophecy [The War Arts Saga: 1] - Wesley Chu
The Attic Child - Lola Jaye
How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Whispers - Ashley Audrain
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur [The Jaipur Trilogy: 2] - Alka Joshi
The Oleander Sword [The Burning Kingdoms: 2] - Tasha Suri
Immortal Longings [Flesh & False Gods: 1] - Chloe Gong
The Sea Elephants - Shastri Akella
Morning Star [Red Rising Saga: 3] - Pierce Brown
Honor - Thrity Umrigar
The First Bright Thing - J. R. Dawson
The Genesis of Misery - Neon Yang
An Echo of Things to Come [The Licanius Trilogy: 2] - James Islington
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? - Crystal Smith Paul
Last Exit - Max Gladstone
Masters of Death - Olivie Blake
The Final Strife [The Ending Fire Trilogy: 1] - Saara El-Arifi
Peach Blossom Spring - Melissa Fu
There There - Tommy Orange
A Master of Djinn [Dead Djinn Universe: 1] - P. Djèlí Clark
The Battle Drum [The Ending Fire Trilogy: 2] - Saara El-Arifi
The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - Brandon Sanderson
The Will of the Many [Hierarchy: 1] - James Islington
Independence - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Bone Ships [The Tide Child Trilogy: 1] - RJ Barker
Tread of Angels - Rebecca Roanhorse
City of Last Chances - Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Blacktongue Thief [Blacktongue: 1] - Christopher Buehlman
The Fifth Season [The Broken Earth: 1] - N. K. Jemisin
Forged by Blood [Tainted Blood Duology: 1] - Ehigbor Okosun
Even Though I Knew the End - C. L. Polk
The Bone Shard Daughter [The Drowning Empire: 1] - Andrea Stewart
Empire of Sand [The Books of Ambha: 1] - Tasha Suri
A Memory Called Empire [Teixcalaan: 1] - Arkady Martine
The Way of Kings [The Stormlight Archive: 1] - Brandon Sanderson
He Who Drowned the World [The Radiant Emperor: 2] - Shelley Parker-Chan
Empire of Exiles [Books of the Usurper: 1] - Erin M. Evans
Call of the Bone Ships [The Tide Child Trilogy: 2] - RJ Barker
Ashes of the Sun [Burningblade & Silvereye: 1] - Django Wexler
Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo
The Ninth Rain [The Winnowing Flame Trilogy: 1] - Jen Williams
Foundryside [The Founders Trilogy: 1] - Robert Jackson Bennett
The Surviving Sky [The Rages Trilogy: 1] - Kritika H. Rao
The Light of All That Falls [The Licanius Trilogy: 3] - James Islington
Threads That Bind [Threads That Bind: 1] - Kika Hatzopoulou
The Sword Defiant [Lands of the Firstborn: 1] - Gareth Hanrahan
The City We Became [The Great Cities: 1] - N. K. Jemisin
The Chalice of the Gods [Percy Jackson and the Olympians: 6] - Rick Riordan
The Tiger and the Wolf [Echoes of the Fall: 1] - Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Justice of Kings [Empire of the Wolf: 1] - Richard Swan
The Fragile Threads of Power [Threads of Power: 1] - V. E. Schwab
The Deep Sky - Yume Kitasei
City of Stairs [Divine Cities: 1] - Robert Jackson Bennett
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Brandon Sanderson
Words of Radiance [The Stormlight Archive: 2] - Brandon Sanderson
Foul Heart Huntsman [Foul Lady Fortune: 2] - Chloe Gong
The Water Outlaws - S. L. Huang
Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta
A Desolation Called Peace [Teixcalaan: 2] - Arkady Martine
The Celebrants - Steven Rowley
Translation State - Ann Leckie
Godkiller [Godkiller: 1] - Hannah Kaner
The Art of Destiny [The Wat Arts Saga: 2] - Wesley Chu
The Mimicking of Known Successes [Mossa & Pleiti: 1] - Malka Older
Shorefall [The Founders Trilogy: 2] - Robert Jackson Bennett
Catfish Rolling - Clara Kumagai
Red Sister [The Book of the Ancestor: 1] - Mark Lawrence
Empire of Silence [The Sun Eater: 1] - Christopher Ruocchio
Sisters of the Lost Nation - Nick Medina
Dead Country [The Craft Wars: 1] - Max Gladstone
The Bone Shard Emperor [The Drowning Empire: 2] - Andrea Stewart
The Bear and the Serpent [Echoes of the Fall: 2] - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ancillary Justice [Imperial Radch: 1] - Ann Leckie
Six Crimson Cranes [Six Crimson Cranes: 1] - Elizabeth Lim
A River Enchanted [Elements of Cadence: 1] - Rebecca Ross
Realm of Ash [The Books of Ambha: 2] - Tasha Suri
The Obelisk Gate [The Broken Earth: 2] - N. K. Jemisin
The World We Make [The Great Cities: 2] - N. K. Jemisin
The Stardust Thief [The Sandsea Trilogy: 1] - Chelsea Abdullah
All the Missing Girls - Megan Miranda
The Mountains Sing - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Silver Nitrate - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
None of This Is True - Lisa Jewell
City of Blades [Divine Cities: 2] - Robert Jackson Bennett
The Bone Ship’s Wake [The Tide Child Trilogy: 3] - RJ Barker
Locklands [The Founders Trilogy: 3] - Robert Jackson Bennett
Oathbringer [The Stormlight Archive: 3] - Brandon Sanderson
The Judas Blossom [The Nightingale and the Falcon: 1] - Stephen Aryan
The Faithless [Magic of the Lost: 2] - C. L. Clark
One Word Kill [Impossible Times: 1] - Mark Lawrence
#2023 reads#book recs#book recommendations#reading list#book rec#2023#seriously y’all get a library card#it is so much cheaper than bookstores#also can you tell I’m unemployed by the amount of reading
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September reading list!
I read my first book of 1000+ pages last month, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson.
The Bone Ships by RJ Barker, Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett, and A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine were my favorites this month.
The Bone Ships [The Tide Child Trilogy: 1] - RJ Barker
Tread of Angels - Rebecca Roanhorse
City of Last Chances - Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Blacktongue Thief [Blacktongue: 1] - Christopher Buehlman
The Fifth Season [The Broken Earth: 1] - N. K. Jemisin
Forged by Blood [Tainted Blood Duology: 1] - Ehigbor Okosun
Even Though I Knew the End - C. L. Polk
The Bone Shard Daughter [The Drowning Empire: 1] - Andrea Stewart
Empire of Sand [The Books of Ambha: 1] - Tasha Suri
A Memory Called Empire [Teixcalaan: 1] - Arkady Martine
The Way of Kings [The Stormlight Archive: 1] - Brandon Sanderson
He Who Drowned the World [The Radiant Emperor: 2] - Shelley Parker-Chan
Empire of Exiles [Books of the Usurper: 1] - Erin M. Evans
Call of the Bone Ships [The Tide Child Trilogy: 2] - RJ Barker
Ashes of the Sun [Burningblade & Silvereye: 1] - Django Wexler
Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo
The Ninth Rain [The Winnowing Flame Trilogy: 1] - Jen Williams
Foundryside [The Founders Trilogy: 1] - Robert Jackson Bennett
The Surviving Sky [The Rages Trilogy: 1] - Kritika H. Rao
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Here’s my August reading list, which I think is a pretty good pace without overdoing it. I also visited 8 new libraries!
Last Exit by Max Gladstone was definitely my favorite book this month
How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Whispers - Ashley Audrain
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur [The Jaipur Trilogy: 2] - Alka Joshi
The Oleander Sword [The Burning Kingdoms: 2] - Tasha Suri
Immortal Longings [Flesh & False Gods: 1] - Chloe Gong
The Sea Elephants - Shastri Akella
Morning Star [Red Rising Saga: 3] - Pierce Brown
Honor - Thrity Umrigar
The First Bright Thing - J. R. Dawson
The Genesis of Misery - Neon Yang
An Echo of Things to Come [The Licanius Trilogy: 2] - James Islington
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? - Crystal Smith Paul
Last Exit - Max Gladstone
Masters of Death - Olivie Blake
The Final Strife [The Ending Fire Trilogy: 1] - Saara El-Arifi
Peach Blossom Spring - Melissa Fu
There There - Tommy Orange
A Master of Djinn [Dead Djinn Universe: 1] - P. Djèlí Clark
The Battle Drum [The Ending Fire Trilogy: 2] - Saara El-Arifi
The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - Brandon Sanderson
The Will of the Many [Hierarchy: 1] - James Islington
Independence - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#reading list#book rec#book recommendations#august reads#I say good pace but by that I mean I am unemployed and do nothing else#yes I need a job#but who wants to work when you can just read instead#(I also cannot drive)#(I convince other people to take me to visit libraries)#am I failing as an adult? perhaps
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Picked up my reading pace in July, and even made it to ten new libraries I hadn’t been to before (I’m up to 36 total since I started keeping track two years ago). Some of my favorite books this month were Remarkably Bright Creatures, Dust Child, The Shadow of What Was Lost, and The Art of Prophecy
The Unbroken [Magic of the Lost: 1] - C. L. Clark
The Shadow of What Was Lost [The Licanius Trilogy: 1] - James Islington
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
The Last to Vanish - Megan Miranda
All the Dangerous Things - Stacy Willingham
All My Rage - Sabaa Tahir
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
River Sing Me Home - Eleanor Shearer
The Jasmine Throne [The Burning Kingdoms: 1] - Tasha Suri
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson
Spells for Forgetting - Adrienne Young
Velvet Was the Night - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
Trust - Hernán Díaz
Dust Child - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Our Hideous Progeny - C. E. McGill
Golden Son [Red Rising Saga: 2] - Pierce Brown
The Henna Artist [The Jaipur Trilogy: 1] - Alka Joshi
The Art of Prophecy [The War Arts Saga: 1] - Wesley Chu
The Attic Child - Lola Jaye
#book rec#book recommendations#reading list#i need to slow down#I’m gonna run out of books at this pace#seriously my house is covered in stacks of library books
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Here’s my reading list for the first six months of 2023 (from 14 new libraries!)
January
- Hell Bent [Alex Stern: 2] - Leigh Bardugo
February
- The Golden Enclaves [Scholomance: 3] - Naomi Novik
March
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi [Amina al-Sirafi: 1] - Shannon Chakraborty
April
- The Hunger Games [The Hunger Games: 1] - Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire [The Hunger Games: 2] - Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay [The Hunger Games: 3] - Suzanne Collins
- Camp Zero - Michelle Min Sterling
- One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid
May
- The Priory of the Orange Tree [The Roots of Chaos: 1] - Samantha Shannon
- One for My Enemy - Olivie Blake
- Atalanta - Jennifer Saint
- The Sun and the Star: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure - Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro
- Untethered Sky - Fonda Lee
- Daughter of the Moon Goddess [Celestial Kingdom: 1] - Sue Lynn Tan
- A Day of Fallen Night [The Roots of Chaos: 0] - Samantha Shannon
- Heart of the Sun Warrior [Celestial Kingdom: 2] - Sue Lynn Tan
- Yellowface - R. F. Kuang
- Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
- The Sleepless - Victor Manibo
- Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
- Exo [Exo: 1] - Fonda Lee
- She Who Became the Sun [The Radiant Emperor: 1] - Shelley Parker-Chan
June
- Rosewater [The Wormwood Trilogy: 1] - Tade Thompson
- Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
- Book of Night [Book of Night: 1] - Holly Black
- Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
- The Secret Book of Flora Lea - Patti Callahan Henry
- The Only Survivors - Megan Miranda
- The Book That Wouldn’t Burn [The Library Trilogy: 1] - Mark Lawrence
- Red Rising [Red Rising Saga: 1] - Pierce Brown
- Ink Blood Sister Scribe - Emma Törzs
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Clytemnestra - Constanza Casati
- The Last Tale of the Flower Bride - Roshani Choksi
- Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
- Salt Houses - Hala Alyan
- The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O’Farrell
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2022 Book List
Here’s all the books I read in 2022. It’s a lot fewer than 2021, but not bad. Hopefully now that I’ve graduated college I’ll get a chance to do a bit of research and update my TBR so I can get back to reading more again. I did get to visit four new libraries this year though, so that’s fun :)
Our Violent Ends [These Violent Delights: 2] - Chloe Gong
Black Sun [Between Earth and Sky: 1] - Rebecca Roanhorse
Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Bad Beginning [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 1] - Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 2] - Lemony Snicket
The Wide Window [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 3] - Lemony Snicket
The Miserable Mill [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 4] - Lemony Snicket
The Austere Academy [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 5] - Lemony Snicket
The Ersatz Elevator [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 6] - Lemony Snicket
The Vile Village [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 7] - Lemony Snicket
The Hostile Hospital [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 8] - Lemony Snicket
The Carnivorous Carnival [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 9] - Lemony Snicket
The Slippery Slope [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 10] - Lemony Snicket
The Grim Grotto [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 11] - Lemony Snicket
The Penultimate Peril [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 12] - Lemony Snicket
The End [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 13] - Lemony Snicket
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
Turtles All the Way Down - John Green
Looking for Alaska - John Green
Paper Towns - John Green
The Unauthorized Autobiography - Lemony Snicket
This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan
Fevered Star [Between Earth and Sky: 2] - Rebecca Roanhorse
Gallant - V. E. Schwab
The Atlas Six [The Atlas Series: 1] - Olivie Blake
I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys
Elektra - Jennifer Saint
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel
The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks [Montague Siblings: 3] - Mackenzi Lee
The Invisible Library [Invisible Library: 1] - Genevieve Cogman
Last Night in Montreal - Emily St. John Mandel
The Lola Quartet - Emily St. John Mandel
Black Water Sister - Zen Cho
Lore - Alexandra Bracken
The Masked City [Invisible Library: 2] - Genevieve Cogman
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes [The Hunger Games: 0] - Suzanne Collins
The Singer’s Gun - Emily St. John Mandel
Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Forever, interrupted - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
After I Do - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Burning Page [Invisible Library: 3] - Genevieve Cogman
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - R. F. Kuang
Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Atlas Paradox [The Atlas Series: 2] - Olivie Blake
Foul Lady Fortune [Foul Lady Fortune: 1] - Chloe Gong
Alone with you in the ether - Olivie Blake
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I’m really terrible at keeping up with posting my monthly reads on here. I’ve been busy in my final semester at college so I didn’t read anything (at least, not anything fun) in September and October. In November I read the Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake.
Hoping to get back into reading more once I’ve graduated and find some time to update my TBR.
#tbr#reading list#fall reads#the atlas paradox#I’m sorry for neglecting you tumblr#I will remember to post my end of year reading list I promise
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Oops I nearly forgot my August reading list:
Babel - R.F. Kuang
Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Haven’t been reading much but I did manage to get both of these on the day they each came out from different libraries.
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No books in July… it’s been a weird summer. Looking forward to some new books coming out in august though
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Y’all know the drill by now. June reading list (I finally scored a copy of Evelyn Hugo from the library!):
The Singer’s Gun - Emily St. John Mandel
Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Forever, interrupted - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
After I Do - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Burning Page [Invisible Library: 3] - Genevieve Cogman
#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo#if we were villains#sea of tranquility#taylor jenkins reid#emily st. john mandel
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May reading list
I got to two new libraries this month but I’ve definitely slowed down in the past week or so. Normally I’d read a book a day but I only managed three of the nine I currently have in the past week and a half because I’m dealing with some issues in my life that are getting in my head and making it hard to enjoy reading as much. Hopefully I’ll feel a bit better and get back to my usual pace, but still a good month over all.
Fevered Star [Between Earth and Sky: 2] - Rebecca Roanhorse
Gallant - V. E. Schwab
The Atlas Six [The Atlas Series: 1] - Olivie Blake
I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys
Elektra - Jennifer Saint
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel
The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks [Montague Siblings: 3] - Mackenzi Lee
The Invisible Library [Invisible Library: 1] - Genevieve Cogman
Last Night in Montreal - Emily St. John Mandel
The Lola Quartet - Emily St. John Mandel
Black Water Sister - Zen Cho
Lore - Alexandra Bracken
The Masked City [Invisible Library: 2] - Genevieve Cogman
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes [The Hunger Games: 0] - Suzanne Collins
#station eleven#emily st. john mandel#fevered star#rebecca roanhorse#lore#the glass hotel#gallant#v. e. schwab#ruta sepetys#the invisible library#the atlas six#olivie blake
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April reading list!
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
Turtles All the Way Down - John Green
Looking for Alaska - John Green
Paper Towns - John Green
The Unauthorized Autobiography - Lemony Snicket
This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan
So I definitely didn’t think I’d be reading so much John Green this month, but the two libraries closest to me didn’t have anything on my TBR so I figured why not, might as well give it a try. And honestly, it’s not so bad. Some of the books I really liked. I think I’m mostly just remembering back in middle school when everyone was obsessed with The Fault in our Stars and just really didn’t get the hype. (Also- I think maybe I read Paper towns before but I just can’t remember. Like I know I watched the movie but I’m not sure if I’d read the actual book before.)
I was actually really interested to see what Looking for Alaska would be like because of how controversial it is (the library in my town didn’t have it at all - I wonder if it’s banned). It’s not that great of a story (I’m by opinion) and is very much a men writing women vibe I get from it but not super controversial really otherwise. I think people just jumped on the bandwagon to ban it rather than actually thinking about what people actually do read and what issues are important or not.
Also, Brain on Fire is the first nonfiction book on here. Wasn’t sure if I should put it because I had to read it for a neuroscience class (and I have a final exam on it this week) but I decided it’s a book, and I read it, so it goes on the list. Hopefully when I go home for summer break and have access to more libraries I’ll get through some of my TBR.
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I read these all in four days. I think I read seven in one day which is the most books I’ve ever done in that time frame, even though they are short. So here’s the March reading list.
The Bad Beginning [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 1] - Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 2] - Lemony Snicket
The Wide Window [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 3] - Lemony Snicket
The Miserable Mill [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 4] - Lemony Snicket
The Austere Academy [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 5] - Lemony Snicket
The Ersatz Elevator [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 6] - Lemony Snicket
The Vile Village [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 7] - Lemony Snicket
The Hostile Hospital [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 8] - Lemony Snicket
The Carnivorous Carnival [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 9] - Lemony Snicket
The Slippery Slope [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 10] - Lemony Snicket
The Grim Grotto [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 11] - Lemony Snicket
The Penultimate Peril [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 12] - Lemony Snicket
The End [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 13] - Lemony Snicket
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So as a person with a hundred or so scars, I’ve seen this mistake a lot in writing where characters will be described as having “thin silver lines” or something of that nature (this mostly applies to lighter skinned characters). Scars are only white/silver/light pink when they are old and well healed, and probably pretty shallow cuts to begin with. If your main guy got stabbed a month ago, he’s not gonna look like that. Scars stay red, purple, or pink for several months, or even a couple years for deeper ones. They’re noticeable. If your character’s scars are self inflicted, they may not always be parallel. They can be of varying depths and ages. If someone has scars from a couple months ago and scars from a couple years ago in the same area, they will look different. If they did not get stitches at the hospital, as is the case for a lot of people whose wounds are self inflicted, or if they’re in the apocalypse with no doctors around, etc. it will heal much more slowly and leave a wider, more oval shaped mark (you can only do so much when you’re basically taping yourself back together with bandaids). Anyway, just a little insight I thought I’d share.
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