#2024 reads

[smokefalls]

Everybody needs someone who sees in them the divine when they are struggling to make it out of their lowest point.

Shayla Lawson, "On Dancer (Bloomington, Indiana)" from How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

#Shayla Lawson #How to Live Free in a Dangerous World #quote #nonfiction #memoir #2024 reads

[heavenlyyshecomes]

I do not see how my oppressor could sit in judgment on my response to his oppressive actions against me. He is in no position to render an impartial judgment or to accuse me of air piracy and hijacking when he has hijacked my home and hijacked me and my people out of our land. If the enemy defines morality and legality in his own terms and decides to apply his ethical and legal

doctrines against me because he has the power as well as the means of communications to justify his inhumanity, I am under no moral obligation to listen, let alone obey his dictates. Indeed, I am under a moral obligation to resist and to fight to death the enemy's moral corruption. My deed cannot be evaluated without examining the underlying causes. The revolutionary deed I carried out on August 29, 1969 was an assertion of my spurned humanity, a declaration of the humanity of Palestinians. It was an act of protest against the West for its pro-Zionist (therefore anti-Palestinian) posture. The list of the sins of the West is overwhelming.

—Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary ed. George Hajjar

#august incident refers to her hijacking #leila khaled #my people shall live #My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary #george hajjar #palestine #mine #words #2024 reads

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 024

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

“Some nights, when he’s walking past her door, he has to whisper to himself: ‘Keep going.’”

#books #2024 reads #bride #ali hazelwood #booklr #lit edit

[thegirlivealwaysbeen]

THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt

#kaela's 2024 reads #2024 reads #the secret history #tsh #the secret history aesthetic #tsh aesthetic #tsh donna tartt #richard papen #henry winter #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #camilla macaulay #bookblr #booklr #book aesthetic #litedit #lit edit

[caffeinatedcatlover]

Books read in 2024 (some for fun and some for uni)

In Q1 I read 13 books, a total of 6903 pages

#caffeinatedcatlover #journal #journaling #notebooks #hobonichi #hobonichi weeks #reading journal #book journal #2024 reads #reading challenge

[the-forest-library]

January 2024 Reads

The Gentlemen's Gambit - Evie Dunmore

A Lady Guide's to Mischief and Mayhem - Manda Collins

The Ladies Rewrite the Rules - Suzanne Allain

One Night in Hartswood - Emma Denny

The Breakup Tour - Emily Wibberley

Places We've Never Been - Kasie West

Most Ardently - Gabe Cole Novoa

Okay, Cupid - Mason Deaver

Love, Me - Jessica Saunders

Dungeons and Drama - Kristy Boyce

Seven Percent of Ro Devereux - Ellen O'Clover

Eight Dates and Nights - Betsy Aldredge

Rules for Being a Girl - Candace Bushnell, Katie Cotungo

The Christmas Wish - Lindsey Kelk

After the Forest - Kell Woods

All the Hidden Paths - For Meadows

Shady Hollow - Juneau Black

Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers

The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis

The Chalice of the Gods - Rick Riordan

The Marvelous Magic of Miss Mabel - Natasha Lowe

Elf Dog and Owl Head - M.T. Anderson

Winter - Kelsey E. Gross

The Bookstore Cat - Cylin Busby

The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

Brain on Fire - Susannah Cahalan

A Book of Days - Patti Smith

Karma - Boy George

I Hate Everyone, Except You - Clinton Kelly

The Life Brief - Bonnie Wan

The Stress Prescription - Elissa Epel

Infectious Generosity - Chris J. Anderson

Break the Cycle - Mariel Buque

Eve - Cat Bohannon

House Love - Patric Richardson

Pests - Bethany Brookshire

Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek - Thea Glassman

But Have You Read the Book? - Kristen Lopez

The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie - Tanya Lee Stone

Normal is Just a Setting on the Dryer - Adair Lara

Men to Avoid in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni

Friends to Keep in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni

Parenting Advice to Ignore in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: 

Messy memoirs, healing from generational trauma, and recovery from burnout - these are a few of my favorite things.

Goodreads Goal: 43/200

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads | 

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads | 2024 Reads

#2024 reads #book reviews #book recommendations #books #booklr #bookish #reading #bibliophile

[bookaddict24-7]

Beautiful Upcoming Books By Black Authors!

Ours by Phillip B. Williams

When I Think of You by Myah Ariel

The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona Williams

Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen

Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver

Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

Not About A Boy by Myah Hollis

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Brooklyn by Tracy Brown

In the Shadow of the Fall by Tobi Ogundiran

Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson

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What other beautiful upcoming books by Black authors are you looking forward to in 2024? Which ones are your favourite?

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Happy reading!

#Upcoming books #Black Authors #Black History Month #2024 reads #tbr #to-read #beautiful covers #book covers #Features #on books #on reading #book list #booklr #books and reading #books #bookish #bookworm #bookaholic #book blogger #book blog #book tumblr #bibliophile #Ishi Robinson #Tobi Ogundiran #Tracy Brown #Hanif Abdurraqib #Joseph Earl Thomas #Myah Hollis #Chukwuebuka Ibeh #Diane Oliver

[sometimesiwastetimehere]

#ann patchett #the dutch house #books read #2024 reads

[smokefalls]

In the culture we live in, intimacies are abundant but intimacy is scarce. Sex, social contact, information. It’s easy for us to get what we want, but not want what we need—to be close to each other. It’s not excitement we need, but the nearness of it.

Shayla Lawson, "On Intimacy (Kyoto, Japan)" from How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

#Shayla Lawson #How to Live Free in a Dangerous World #quote #nonfiction #memoir #2024 reads

[heavenlyyshecomes]

On the crest of a hill, the third voice enters: a voice that demonstrates, with elegant precision, the primacy of speech over writing. Johann Drake is trying to swallow a Bible. Take it, and eat it up. Eating a book is a nonliterate response to text. Ingested and digested, the words become part of the speaker, who is then endowed with the spirit of prophecy. The image echoes the sacrament of communion, in which participants ingest the body of Christ, the Word made flesh. The vision of eating a book evokes a transcendent relationship with language, in which one is not a speaker but an instrument. The words of the Book flow from one’s mouth. Pure praise, pure expression, like lark song. As the old hymn puts it, “How can I keep from singing?”

—Sofia Samatar, The White Mosque: A Memoir

#sofia samatar #the white mosque #2024 reads #reading through the silk road #words #mine #appetites

[apocketfullofpoesis]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

#writers on tumblr #ocean vuong #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #for you page #foryou #explore page #for you #dark academia #light academia #foryoupage #literature #currently reading #current read #2024 reads

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 030

The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

“Armageddon was a fire in the harbor, a box delivered on a cold day. It wasn't one great tragedy, but ten million tiny ones, and everyone faced theirs alone.”

#books #2024 reads #the warm hands of ghosts #katherine arden #booklr #lit edit

[thegirlivealwaysbeen]

DIVINE RIVALS by Rebecca Ross

#kaela's 2024 reads #divine rivals #divine rivals rebecca ross #letters of enchantment #roman kitt #iris winnow #ruthless vows #rebecca ross #divine rivals aesthetic #letters of enchantment aesthetic #book aesthetic #2024 reads #bookblr #booklr #lit aesthetic

[caffeinatedcatlover]

The first row is completed! At this rate I’ll fill out both pages. I don’t really have a reading goal, but it’s nice to have an overview of all the books I’ve read so far.

#caffeinatedcatlover #journal #journaling #notebooks #hobonichi #hobonichi weeks #book journal #reading journal #books #reading #2024 reads #book cover #iron flame #throne of glass #kindle #dark academia

[the-forest-library]

February 2024 Reads

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands - Heather Fawcett

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins

Mislaid in Parts Half Known - Seanan McGuire

Love at 350 - Lisa Peers

I Hope this Email Doesn't Find You - Ann Liang

The Lily of Legate Hill - Mimi Matthews

Set the Record Straight - Hannah Bonam-Young

At Her Service - Amy Spaulding

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend - Emma R. Alban

My Fair Brady - Brian D. Kennedy

Simon Sort of Says - Erin Bow

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears - Tehlor Kay Mejia

A Knot in the Grain - Robin McKinley

Freshman Year - Sarah Mai

When I Was Your Age - Kenan Thompson

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt - Madeline Pendleton

White Supremacy is All Around - Akilah Cadet

Sex with a Brain Injury - Annie Liontas

All the Women in My Brain - Betty Gilpin

One in a Millennial - Kate Kennedy

I'll Be Just Five More Minutes - Emily Farris

Outofshapeworthlessloser - Gracie Gold

The Woman in Me - Britney Spears

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

The Liars' Club - Mary Karr

Secure Love - Julie Menanno

The 5 Resets - Aditi Nerukar

Tiny Traumas - Meg Arrow

A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home - Melissa Dilkes Pateras

Gut Renovation - Roshini Raj

Veg-table - Nik Sharma

Soup Club - Caroline Wright

Soup Season - Shelly Westerhausen Worcel

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: 

Emily Wilde II didn't disappoint, but Mislaid in Parts Half Known did. I was really hoping we'd be immersed in a world of dinosaurs similar to Across the Green Grass Fields, but we spent such little time there.

The non-fiction reads this month really outshone the fiction reads. I especially enjoyed Betty Gilpin's All the Women in My Brain. It was weird and wonderful.

Goodreads Goal: 76/200

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads | 

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads | 2024 Reads

#2024 reads #book reviews #book recommendations #books #booklr #bookish #reading #bibliophile