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motherthemountain

#hello #sorry I left again #I haven’t been reading and have been worrying instead #trying to find funding to do a masters abroad #and now tumblr doesn’t let me write posts #I need to put tumblr in the new phone #the one who isn’t dying #but I’m emotionally attached to the dying one so you get this post in hashtags

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theres something special about small town pride events that have no corporate sponsorship beyond help from small local businesses, organized by young people because a lot of older queer people moved away but the young queers are fighting for their voice to be heard and for people to finally do something about all the bullying and harassment people are experiencing. I don't blame people for moving away but I'm glad that even those who did come back to say the things they wish people would have said when they were younger. Because no one deserves to feel alone and isolated and everyone deserves a place to belong.

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I was going to read today but a pidgeon starred at me so hard, I got creeped out and left

#this is how much control I have over my life #he was creepy though #for a second I believe a story that I created when I was young where pidgeons were spies #booklr #books

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I’m in between consuming intravenously every story from all the books in my TBR, wishlists, Goodreads shelves, saved posts,... or knocking myself out so I don’t have to think.

My brain chose both and I’ll be sending a letter to the head department.

#booklr #books

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rip Mr Collins, you would have loved Patreon

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reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution (2022) by Rebecca Kuang

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today was the day of reading small sections. finished the last bit of Persepolis (very good, would recommend if you want to start understanding issues in Iran). read like 20 pages of This is How You Lose the Time War. And ended the day reading the first half of Tolkien’s essay English and Welsh.

reading plans for next week: finish Tolkien’s book of essays (just missing the second half of the essay I’m reading and A Secret Vice), finish This Is How You Lose the Time War and read Dawn by Octavia E. Butler (so very excited, it’s my first Butler)

what are your plans for next week?

#book update #reading update #tolkien #persepolis #marjane satrapi #this is how you lose the time war #octavia e. butler #booklr #books #currently reading

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everytime Neil Gaiman is trending, I kinda worry he is dead. clearly finding out that the Queen of England died through tumblr didn’t do me well.

But no he is alive and striking, we stan

#neil gaiman #we stan Neil gaiman #need to reread good omens #booklr #books

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I have been making a post a day. yesterday tumblr said no. my deepest apologies.

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a question: do you know Djamila Ribeiro?

Recently, I had the honor to hear her speak at an event and immediately, I knew I had to pick up one of her books. She is a Black Brazilian philosopher, and her books so far touch on the subject of Black feminism.

Today I finally went to the bookstore that I wanted to get her books from (a chain in Brasil, but independent here in Portugal) and an amazing thing happened. Because the author went there to sign her books, they sold out. Then they had more request and they ordered more. They arrived this week, but they sent one book more than they should have. And that copy is now mine.

The book is Cartas Para a Minha Avó (Letters for my Grandmother) and it goes into familiar relationships and relationships between mothers and daughters. If you didn’t knew her, now you do.

#Djamila Ribeiro #black feminism #booklr #books

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I think about this every hour of every day of every month by the way

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emotionally I’m here

by Jonny Gios

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sometimes I wish I could simply post a picture of my current read with the caption “reading a very good book” and everyone would pick it up and read it. because I don’t really have the spoons to argue why you should read one of the best books I’ve read this year

Does anyone feel this way? What is the book that you thought about when you read this?

#booklr #books #currently reading #bookstagram reflection

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I’m currently reading This is How You Lose the Time War and I’m loving how much it reminds me of The Starless Sea. The story feels like a puzzle box full of magic, that each correct slide shows you something you have never seen (but remember perhaps from a dream)

#this is how you lose the time war #booklr #books #the starless sea #erin morgenstern #amal el mohtar #max gladstone

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after seeing so many people jump to threads, I feel like I want to come back here more.

No longer a fantasy reader, I’m currently reading a lot of sci-fi and nonfiction. I discovered I’m autistic since I left and that influences a lot of my reads. I’m a disabled aroace artist academic that is trying to go study abroad.

should I come back here? what would you like to see? (I have a bookstagram but I think this could be a more casual place to share about books)

#books #booklr