#I'm currently reading never let me go by kazuo ishiguro

[unseemingowl]

"About the Blogger" Meme

@all-inmoderation tagged me. I haven't done one of these in ages, so this was fun. Thank you .D

Star Sign(s): Libra (don't ask me about rising and all that stuff, I know nothing about Astrology)

Favorite Holidays: Christmas, I love the cosiness.

Last Meal: Fries from the new kebab place around the corner. Had a craving, but they were sadly a bit underwhelming. Nothing more disappointing food item than underwhelming fries.

Current Favorite Musician: Been listening to a lot of Alabama Shakes this weekend. The intro to Sound and Color is just sooo fucking good.

Last Music Listened To: The spotify playlist called Indie Rock Club, which turned out to be all of the music I listened to in my late teens and early twenties. Ripped me right back to that time. Wild.

Last Movie Watched: Wow, Piggy was the last movie I watched, I really need to have a new years resolution to watch more movies. Piggy is fucking excellent though. Loved it, loved it, loved it. Go watch it.

Last TV Show Watched: I'm in the middle of rewatching Babylon Berlin in order to watch season 4 and 5. All doom and glitter and the party and depravity that never ends, and Charlotte and Gereon are such engaging and complicated lead characters. Still love it.

Also watching season 2 of World on Fire, which is a fine show, though not nearly as good. But it does have Jonah Hauer King in it though, and I am a simple woman, let me watch that man having an existential crisis and I'm THERE. He looks SO handsome when he doesn't know what's going on, lol.

Last Book/Fic Finished: I've been struck hard by project moving, so I've mostly been listening to Agatha Christie audiobooks. The last time I moved, I moved into a single room, and by the time I moved was living in the apartment by myself along with all the new stuff I've acquired. It's been hellish. So cosy mysteries it is.

Last Book/Fic Abandoned: I was reading a biography on Robert the Bruce that I abandoned once project moving started up and I stopped having the bandwidth for anything too complicated.

Currently Reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, excellent so far, which is not surprising, since I've loved all of his books that I've read.

Last Thing Researched for Art/Writing/Hyperfixation: Waltzing in the 19th century.

Favorite Online Fandom Memory: The buck wild hour long quarantine era chats with the Nabrina crowd in the discord.

Favorite Old Fandom You Wish Would Drag You Back In/Have A Resurgence: CAOS I guess? The Nabrina fandom is still one of the least toxic ones I've ever been in, at least the little corner that I was in.

I'm counting on a Batcat fandom resurgence once the next Battinson movie comes out in like 500 years (sob!)

Favorite Thing You Enjoy That Never Had an Active or Big "Fandom" but You Wish It Did: Oh so many things. Fandom culture is brutal these days because people are moving on so fast. Like the Little Mermaid came out this spring and it seems mostly dead already. Or perhaps people are just in other places that tumblr?

Tempting Project You're Trying to Rein In/Don't Have Time For: Everything? Lol. Between trying to paint my new flat and christmas and some family stuff going on it feels like I don't have time for anything at all right now. Including the self-indulgent smut fic that I'm writing for the Little Mermaid at the moment. But that smut fic is my happy place at the moment, so I must persist!

tagging @robertdeniroimdb @bugsysiegels @raxiesrot @gothamsgaygirlgang @imaginejolls @deadgirlsupremacy @sweet-reverie along with anyone else who'd like to have a go

#I desperately need to be more settled in this apartment #or you know just get more comfortable with the mess #so that I can get back to the fun stuff in life

[dutifullylazybread]

People You'd Like to Get to Know Better

tagged by @lemonsrosesandlavender!! 8D Ahh! This was so fun! Thank you for tagging me!

*Fave Ships*

For current fic writing projects/hyper-fixations - Rolan x Tav (BG3), Gale x Tav (BG3), and, I'm not going to lie, Cal x Tav too.

Aziraphale x Crowley (Good Omens) - The ending of season two wrecked me body and soul, but I'm holding out for season three!

Nyssa x Chandra from Magic: The Gathering - They were a cannon pairing, but that was retconned... I still ship them to the ends of the earth.

Isobel x Dame Aylin - They're just so perfect.

Chidi Anagonye x Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

*Last Film*

I honestly put on a lot of really bad horror films/ghost shows when I write/work remotely, and I don't really pay full attention to them, so it's a bit tough me to nail this one down. I also don't really count these as being "watched," since I was only half paying attention.

The last film I saw (and paid attention to) was either Oppenheimer or Wolfwalkers.

*Last Song*

To the Ends of the Earth by Lord Huron

*Currently Reading*

A... a lot... I have a really bad habit of either reading 1-2 books at a time, or reading somewhere around seven. I'm dealing with the latter at the moment, so I'll narrow it down to what I'm actively working through--I'm reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Lost Gods by Brom, One Piece (vol. 3), and I'm re-reading the Twilight Princess manga.

*Craving*

A breakfast burrito--there's a really good chain in my state, and my partner and I drove over yesterday only to learn it was closed.

And seafood rice. After writing about it, all I want to do is eat it.

Thanks again for the tag! Passing it on to @queeronaquest, @graysparrowao3, @waterdeeply, @freesidexjunkie (Only if you want to! :D )

#darcy replies #darcy rambles

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

books i read in february!

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

this was FANTASTIC!! really lived up to my expectations. i finished it on the bus and i had to chew the inside of my mouth to stop myself from crying. i'm definitely going to continue seeking out Ishiguro's books and i'm sure i'm going to enjoy them too!

Indelicacy - Amina Cain

didn't enjoy this much at all. it was just really... vague? i don't know how else to put it. i understand characters and plot points being vague at the start of a story, but with this book i made the mistake of thinking the characters would develop more depth/we would find out why they act the way they do/literally any aspect of the book would become more detailed as the book continued, but this just didn't happen. i found the protagonist not at all interesting or compelling - you really don't find out much more about her by the end of the book than you know from the first three pages (or even just from the blurb). a nothingburger, really. felt like a real waste of time.

The Premonition - Banana Yoshimoto

this was fantastic! really unexpectedly and quietly beautiful. i can't quite sum it up, it's kind of unlike anything i've ever read. really good tho ❤️

Lord Jim at Home - Dinah Brooke

this was good but for completely the opposite reasons as The Premonition. a visceral and disturbing dissection of privilege in post-war britain, darkly funny at times and horrific at others. the protagonist was incredibly complex, not so much an actor in his own life as a stick floating down a river, until the fatal moment when he does act almost without realising. that moment really creeps up on you, even though you know something is coming due to the masterful build-up of suspense and the creeping feeling of dread. feels incredibly modern, both in narrative style and content, even though it was first released in the 70s.

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currently reading: at the start and now at the end of february i was and am still very caught up in the Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer. i'm now about 150 pages from the end of the last book, Perhaps the Stars, and honestly i don't know what i'm going to use to fill the hole it will leave in my mind. i'm obsessed guys please read them and be obsessed with me 🥺

on my radar for march: i swear in front of all these witnesses - this will be the month i start Moby Dick. speaking it into existence. hold me to this promise guys please. i will probably also read something short in between these two really long ones - possibly The Wall by Marlen Haushofer or Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga. i've been really craving a trashy detective novel but i don't have any of those so i'm feeding that craving by watching Midsomer Murders

#YES i'm still doing book reviews even though approximately nobody cares ❤️ deal with it #pinkie reads #🧃

[dark-honeyed-dreams]

An Eccentric Bibliophile's (Yet Incomplete) Guide to Dark Academia Reading, Because Who Needs Sunlight Anyway?

Lo and behold, the inevitable moment has arrived. You find yourself engrossed in Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History' for the umpteenth occasion (it never loses its luster, does it?), and you've diligently explored the whole dark academia canon. Or have you really? I've made this post to collect the lesser-known tomes (because, you see, I'm well-acquainted with the exquisite agony of the quest). So, without further ado, let the revelry commence! Disclaimer: the current version of the list has the links that lead to Goodreads. Also, the current version of the list seriously lacks books written by non-white authors. I hope that we'll collectively gain a cultural momentum and make this list better in this sense. I, personally, would love a recommendation!

Dark Academia Canon

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The volumes that are often bestowed with the dubious honor of canonical status, or, simply put, the ones that are most recommended dark academia reads.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Atlas by Olivie Blake

Alex Stern series by Leigh Bardugo

Lesser-Known Dark Academia Titles

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Intellect reigns supreme, arts and philosophy hold us captive, and we can't forget our undying affection for those delightfully lifeless languages. Oh, and let's not overlook the timeless charm of tweed. Simply put, less known but not less great titles that have all the canonical elements of dark academia. I've also added a few words about those that I love most.

The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte: a 15th-century painting has the key to a Renaissance murder, and the question Quis Necavit Equitem is answered by a modern-day art expert

Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies: a defrocked monk, some scholars of a university lovingly called "Spook" and a girl named Maria Magdalena Theotoky try to find out what to do with the vast estate of the recently deceased millionaire and art collector Francis Cornish

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas: a selective admission process gets Ines in an experimental liberal arts school called Catherine House. The alumni of this school became, at their own time, prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices and even presidents. But how exactly did that happen?

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee: no such thing as witchcraft exists in the world. That's probably not the case for Felicity, who is still trying to find out who killed five Dalloway students (supposedly, witches). Enter Ellis Haley, a young prodigy and a literary darling, who writes books about murders by re-enacting said murders...

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Dark Academia Vibes

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These books might as well be the quintessential dark academia reads, but the only element that isn't bedecked in romanticism is higher education itself. Murders continue to unfold in the most peculiar manner, occult knowledge flourishes, and suddenly, the folks with a smidge of Latin under their belts are the life of the scholarly soirée. Simply put, a book that a dark academic might read and love if they are not that fond of remembering their own school days.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Magus by John Fowles

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness

All's Well by Mona Awad

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

Hare House by Sally Hinchcliffe

Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson

Piranesi by Susanne Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanne Clarke

The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross

Alchemical Journeys series by Seanan McGuire

The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters

Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French

Please, by all means, feel at liberty to append additional entries to the inventory - or, simply put, feel free to add to this list.

#dark academia #books & libraries #dark #bookblr #book recommendations #light academia #dark academism #dark academic aesthetic

[moving-mountains5]

Tagged by @moments-in-0blivion , thank you! 🖤

Last song: avec moi - Chibi Ichigo

Favorite color: blue or green

Last movie/show: nyad

Next on my watchlist: past lives, i´m on my oscar strak

Last book: never let me go by kazuo ishiguro

Last game: pokemon go. Lol

Sweet/savory/spicy: Spicy and no i can´t handle it

Relationship status: 😬

Last thing I searched online: album of the year

Current obsession: nothing :(

Greatest flaw: being born

Fic i'm currently reading: naah not into that. I read the architects drama tho does that count

I tag: @goddessofthebees @emmelyy @wrong-ntentions @trustyoureyes @boosdoener

[bloodyknucklesforme]

Speaking of books, I've been having a book reading slump for a year I think..

Any recommendations? I'd love to hear them

I have also been in a large reading slump unfortunately but some of my favorites are:

Never Let Me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Any short story by Brandon Taylor ( haven't gotten to his novels yet)

Anything Nabokov

Ottessa Moshfegh particuarlly Eileen or My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Tove Ditlesven's Cophenhagen Trilogy

Anything by Zadie Smith

Anything by Sally Rooney

I read a lot of UK and Irish lit if you could tell

Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

American Pyscho (unironically) by Bret Easton Ellis (it's disgusting and vile but also really funny. Patrick Bateman is so pathetic and cringy.)

I'm also currently reading a bunch of books. I have a bad habit of picking something up reading 20-45% and then putting it down for soemthing else. My goal is to finish my 3 big books this year:

A Clash of Kings by George R.R.Martin

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara (I'm like 200 pages in and it's more disturbing than A Little Life but also better than it entirely.)

#answered asks

[mareenavee]

And if you don't mind--what you like to read!

Hello again <3

I love to read! I read all the time! My Goodreads would say otherwise LOL one, because I forget to update it, and second because I've been reading a lot of fanfic or friends' original writing the last couple years.

My favorite genre is fantasy, so lots of my favorite books will fall into that category, though some are sci fi and technically contemporary.

My top favorite books for now, as this will change from time to time:

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (the whole series really but this one is my favorite of them.) Uprooted by Naomi Novik (and Spinning Silver is an extremely close second! As are her books in the Deadly Education series, omg. But this one gets the mention.) The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

And honestly so, so many more it's definitely difficult to narrow it down. But hell yes I'd pick up any of these and binge read them right now, having read many of them multiple times.

I'm currently reading The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by SA Chakraborty! Loving it so far, and has the potential to be a favorite. Her work in general is a treasure.

I will need a whole post to do fic recs, so I'll save that idea for later. (: But needless to say, most of what I read are TES fics, generally Skyrim related, but others as well. A few in other fandoms, like Zelda, Stardew or other things, but definitely more TES than anything. I love the world, love the way people bring their OCs and NPCs to live and will continue shuffling around in the tag for some time. (:

Thank you for asking!

#AskMareena #on reading

[leonardslee]

Tagged by @pleasureprose . Thank you!

9 people you’d like to know better!

last song: My husband has the radio on so I'm currently hearing America by Razorlight. Listening to a bunch of Passenger and George Ezra recently and similar people with guitars

currently watching: Nothing really, I don't watch much television. I prefer to dick around on the internet

currently reading: Just started The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox, not sure what I think of it yet. Just finished The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. I enjoyed it very much! I think I'd always dismissed it previously because of the title but it's very good. Most recent book I can't stop thinking about is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

current obsession: Don't really have one. =/ Art in general I guess, mainly digital art at the moment, and my own novel that I'm trying desperately to finish and hopefully get out there in the world. I was doing really well with that until I got derailled by some personal stuff. Need to get back to it.

tagging some people from my activity feed, no pressure: @jo-unsolved @alittleworldlywise @marchtwenty @chimericaloutlier @igothurtdoingsafetydance @the-reading-lemon @purplehost

#tag game

[the-penguinspy]

get to know me!

tagged by @birgittesilverbae

Three ships: ava/beatrice (warrior nun), stephcass (dc batman), bechloe (pitch perfect)

First ever ship: my god. i think it was misaki/usui (kaichou wa maid-sama!)

Last song: change the locks - King Princess

Last movie: the bourne identity

Currently reading: the bourne identity by robert ludlum, new spring by robert jordan, never let me go by kazuo ishiguro

Currently consuming: beer

Currently craving: pelmini from that one really sketchy (?!?!) russian restaurant in [redacted city] that i'm pretty sure is a front for something 😭 the food is hella good though so i'll take the risk

tagging @layalu @thats-a-weird-warning-sign @softpluto @gohandinhand @whatwordsmiss n anyone who wants to do it :)

#penguin honks #forgot that this was sittin in my drafts whoops #been obsessed with bourne lately. and also matt damon

[mr-craig]

Found this mid-year book questionnaire on the youtubes, and felt like playing along... but didn't want to make a video. So here ya go. Play along if you feel like it.

1. Best book you’ve read so far this year. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

2. Best sequel you've read so far this year. Not counting Discworld books, Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin.

3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to. I don't really keep up with new releases. Honestly I'm a bit suspicious of most of the current 'trendy' books.

4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year. Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, the official biography by Rob Wilkins.

5. Biggest disappointment. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day was wonderful and broke my heart, so I had high hopes for this... and I hated it. It didn't operate like good literary fiction or good sci-fi. However I try to make sense of it, nothing adds up. Hated it hated it hated it.

6. Biggest surprise. Probably just how much I hated Never Let Me Go.

7. Favourite new author. (Debut or new to you.) New to me: Connie Willis. I read To Say Nothing of the Dog early in the year, and a collection of her award-winning short stories more recently. I'm very eager to read more — though the length of most of her novels is a bit daunting, and one of them is a time travel novel about the Black Death, so... it might take me a while to feel brave enough to read more of her work.

8. Newest fictional crush. Several of the Wayfarer crew in The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. I didn't find the plot very engaging so overall I didn't LOVE the book, but the characters were super cute and endearing.

9. Newest favourite character. Probably Tiffany Aching from The Wee Free Men. I'm excited to read the following books in her series.

10. Book that made you cry. At the risk of being repetitive, The Wee Free Men and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett. Also Tehanu and Tales from Earthsea by Le Guin.

11. Book that made you happy. Look it's all Pratchett, okay? Now I've caught the Pratchett bug, that's the main thing that excites me right now.

12. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received) Either the Folio Society edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, or the box set of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Alan Lee artwork.

13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year? I hope to finish The Lord of the Rings before the year is out. I'm 3/4 through the first book so far, though I plan to take breaks and read other books because it's a LOT to read straight through.

#reading #books #questionnaire #questions

[aviesims]

get to know me!!

thank youuu for tagging me @simblrz

last show: WandaVision

last song: bet u wanna by Sabrina Carpenter

currently watching/listening to: Westworld (i loveeee the new season!)

currently reading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

current obsession: binge-watching Modern Family (can't believe it's my first time seeing this show it's so good)

i'm tagging the people i see a lot on my dashboard but feel free to ignore if you've already done it or don't want to loves 💕

@irish-newzealand-idian-dutch @rebouks @melsie-sims @cyazurai

[theopinionoftheredheads]

You said you've been reading more, could I get some book recs? I'm almost done with my pile of "to read" books and need some more to add to it! Thanks in advance, you guys are lovely

My friend is a big fan of Sally Rooney, I still have to check her out. I am currently rereading Mindy Kaling’s first book “Is everyone hanging out without me and other concerns” and I am enjoying it even more than the first time after having seen the Office twice now.

Currently on top of my list is “Klara and the sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro because I really enjoyed “Never let me go” by him.

“The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse” by Charlie Mackesy is also a good one to get your thoughts going. I never understood why it was on the bestseller list for this long until I read it myself. It’s more a graphic novel, though and you’ll be through in 30 minutes.

If anyone has any other recommendations, feel free to share!

Red

[winter-parrot]

9 people you would like to get to know better

Tagged by @kcrabb88, thank you!!! I lost this in my drafts for 6 months but I just found it again so here we go.

3 ships: Stucky. TodoDeku. fandom loyalty demands I have a les mis ship here but i don't actually have a les mis otp? maybe enjolferre.

first ever ship: My first taste of shipping as like a concept was Drarry. My first real, actual, look-for-fics-write-fics-go-feral-over ship was Stucky.

last song: Shopper by IU. Yes, I did go down the kpop rabbit hole.

last movie: The Boy and the Heron. Before that, I think it was Across the Spiderverse?

currently reading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, and Watership Down by Richard Adams. I basically never do two books at once but I forgot Never Let Me Go was a bookclub book and I need to finish it this week, so here I am.

currently watching: Not a whole lot! I should be watching MHA, I still haven't actually watched season 6.

currently consuming: just ate some dried pineapples.

currently craving: said pineapples have left a too-sweet aftertaste, so i'm craving Liquids. I'm gonna go drink some barley tea right after this.

#about me #will not tag folks since i literally just did another one of these lol #if you wish to steal this from me you are 100% welcome to! #sylvie says

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

January Reads:

The Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa

i felt really let down by this book. the premise was fascinating but there wasn't much more to it than that - it seemed more like a writing exercise than a story. if that's your vibe then go for it, but i like a bit more satisfaction at the end of a book

Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh

this was simply fantastic. set over one week, it reads like a short nightmare. moshfegh's writing style is so viscerally uncomfortable, i absolutely love it. i get the comparisons between this book and the work of patricia highsmith, who is one of my all-time favourite authors

I Who Have Never Known Men - Jaqueline Harpman

this is an example of a story structure similar to 'the memory police' which actually works. although you don't really get any answers to the fascinating premise of the book, the growth and development of the narrator makes the ending satisfying nevertheless. really reminiscent of margaret atwood and octavia e. butler, would highly recommend

Too Like The Lightning; Seven Surrenders; The Will To Battle (first three books of the Terra Ignota quadrilogy) - Ada Palmer

i've already talked so much about how much i love these books, but let me talk about them some more. these are PROPER sci-fi, you're dropped in the deep end of this unfamiliar world and have to make sense of its political and social systems. i found the worldbuilding very well done, no big info dumps but it does also eventually explain all the elements. the world is steeped in philosophy and theology, particularly that of the eighteenth century, so if you're not interested in that then maybe it's not for you - conversely if you ARE interested in that stuff then you will EAT THIS UP like i have been lmao

there are too many aspects to the story to explain here, but the main crux is that it's set in a future Earth that has created a utopia, where nobody wants for anything, and in which all the most common causes of conflict (namely organised religion and nation states) have been eliminated - the series follows this world's descent into war. i'm currently a few chapters from the end of the third book, and i cannot wait to read the next one. i would HIGHLY recommend (although it's maybe not to everyone's tastes)

Books on my tbr for next month:

Perhaps The Stars by Ada Palmer - the fourth book in the Terra Ignota quadrilogy (surprise). i'm so excited omg

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - i read my first ishiguro last year and i've been meaning to read some of his other books. picked this one up in a charity shop and i'm really looking forward to it

Just The Plague by Ludmila Ulitskaya - i've been so fascinated by the premise of this book - a scientist working in an infectious diseases lab realises once he's on the train home that he's contaminated - since i first read the blurb. can't wait!

#idk if anyone following me here cares abt this lmao #but i've really been getting back into reading lately so i might start posting stuff like this more #look at my books boy #bookblr #pinkie reads #<- possible tag for tracking these posts? if i remember? #🧃

[mermaeids]

wonder story, dreamy baby room, day dream carnival <3

wonder story: what types of things do you like to read about?

i will read anything with that's character-driven with an engaging plot and preferably a romance side plot! i LOVE fantasy and i'm currently reading graceling and loving it. but i read never let me go by kazuo ishiguro before that and before that i read babel so i'm kind of all over the place.

dreamy baby room: the most childish part of your personality?

i'm REALLY bad at confrontation so i let people walk all over me

day dream carnival: what do you daydream about the most?  

finishing my nano wip! and also lately, the past. i miss a lot of parts of my life and people that i'll just never be with in the same way again. idk. i guess it's part of being in your early twenties and not being in school anymore.

angelic pretty questions!

#jules.txt #ask game #theresebelivet

[piratefalls]

Oh I'll take some book recs! Any genre is fine 😊

the one thing I miss about college is talking about books. getting this ask made me so happy.

SO

i'll start with my current genre of choice which is thrillers/mysteries. I just finished reading the Rizzoli & Isles series by Tess Gerritsen. if you've seen the show, know they're very very different. I also recently finished The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides and the ending very much surprised me. Ten Dead Comedians by Fred Van Lente is a funny take on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, which I also highly recommend. Final Girls by Riley Sager and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson are also A++. And finally, maybe the creepiest book I've read in the last year is UNSUB by Meg Gardiner. I made sure the security system was on every night lol.

to my other longstanding favorite genre, we have romance. I'm a big fan of Jennifer Crusie, Kasey Michaels, and Rachel Gibson because I'm a huge sucker for early 2000s mass market paperbacks. They're funny, light reads if you just need something to distract you for a while. I absolutely adore The Kiss Quotient series by Helen Hoang, excellent representation of mental health issues and neurodivergence in general. Also, did you know that Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams writes romance novels as Selena Montgomery? You should read them. My favorites are Reckless followed by Deception, and I am eagerly waiting for the third in the trilogy. For something more modern and a little steamy, The Shameless Series by Rosie Danan is super fun.

I don't generally read historical fiction, but I finally caved to peer pressure and read The Nickel Boys by Coulson Whitehead and I had to sit with that one for a minute because whew.

I went on an essay collection/memoir kick for a bit. some of my favorites were The Awkward thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell, both I Can't Date Jesus and I Don't Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux, Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh, Coming Out Like a Pornstar by Jiz Lee (editor), I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi-Jones, So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying by Bassey Ikpi, and anything by Samantha Irby.

I have to be in a mood to read some contemporary fiction, but ones that stuck with me were Do This For Me by Eliza Kennedy, The Divorce Party by Laura Dave (who is a favorite of mine), The Book of Joe and anything else by Jonathan Tropper, Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple, and A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.

for political satire, books by Christopher Buckley. that's all.

a genre I read almost exclusively for a while but I've strayed from is YA. Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro, Monday's Not Coming and Allegedly by Tiffany Jackson, Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles, Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram, Slay by Britttney Morris, Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, Beauty Queens by Libba Bray.

I haven't read a lot of sci-fi/fantasy, but for funnies I did like the Midnight, Texas series by Charlaine Harris.

and finally, books that made me cry. Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Michael Ausiello, They Both Die at the End, More Happy Than Not, and History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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#this got way longer than it needed to but I JUST LOVE BOOKS #I can make genre specific lists if anyone wants that