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Fantastic Alphabets
Encyclopaedia of Ornament
Bookking International, Paris 1995,91 pages, paperback, 30 x 21 cm, ISBN  978-2877142816
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Pattern collections of hundred alphabets since the Renaissance till the nineteenth century
23/07/22
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dreamofghosts · 1 year
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2022 reading summary
Books read: 150/100 Pages read: 43,366/40,000 Challenges completed: 9
Since just posting a long list of books seemed kind of pointless, I narrowed it down to ten reading suggestions of books I read this year, in alphabetical order of author:
Travis Baldree: Legends & Lattes (2022) No high stakes, but lots of cinnamon buns made by the most adorable baker ever.
Leigh Bardugo: Rule of Wolves (2021) I have to put Nikolai on this list somewhere, so here he is. I love him.
Susanna Clarke: Piranesi (2020) A very unusually designed plot that slowly weaves together page for page and makes you think about what constitutes reality.
Benjamin Dean: The King is Dead (2022) A darker take on royal romance with blackmailing and misplaced trust.
Tatsuya Endo: Spy x Family (since 2019) A manga series that's also been adapted for the screen with funny character dynamics and a very big and lovable dog.
A.L. Graziadei: Icebreaker (2022) A rivals-to-lovers story set in the world of ice hockey which I would recommend for people who love winter sports (like me).
Fran Hart: The Other Ones (2022) A very autumnal read with pumpkin carving, ghosts, and a sweet lovestory.
Freya Marske: A Marvellous Light (2021) An intriguing magical system woven into historical England, with a duo that has to solve a mystery.
M.L. Rio: If We Were Villains (2017) Considering how much I love Shakespeare and murder mysteries, I should've read this a lot sooner.
Maggie Stiefvater: Greywaren (Part 3 of The Dreamer Trilogy, 2022) You'll need to know the other books for this, but I had to include this as a very well done conclusion of the trilogy.
It's been a great reading year for me and I hope to continue like this in 2023! I still have a long TBR to go :')
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aloysiavirgata · 8 months
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What are your favourite books or books you’ve read recently that you’d recommend?
Oh gosh, favorite books! Always a struggle, anon. The list is ever changing but there are some that remain on the list. I feel like I could maaaaaybe limit myself to a top 25? Sigh. Let’s say….top 12? Idk, a dozen feels nice. (This is KILLING me.)
In alphabetical order:
American Gods
A Prayer For Owen Meany
Blood Meridian
Lonesome Dove
I, Elizabeth
Neverwhere
Piranesi
Pride and Prejudice
Silence of the Lambs
The Alienist
The Library At Mount Char
We Have Always Lived In The Castle
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Top 10 Current Favourite Books Tag
I was tagged by @smalltownfae (I know you tagged my personal blog but I since this is - partly - about rote, I'm answering with this one! 😘)
How it works: If the books are part of the same series it counts as just as one place. It can be an entire series for all I care. You can actually make a top 10 or put the books in alphabetical order. Maximum of 5 honorable mentions allowed at the end.
♥ The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
my #1 place is the only one I’m 100% sure of so here’s the rest of my top 10 in alphabetical order:
♥ His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
♥ Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
♥ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
♥ The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
♥ The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
♥ The Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin (I liked the rest of the Inheritance trilogy but this one is on another level in my heart)
♥ The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
♥ The Queen’s Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
♥ The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
Honorable mentions: The Broken Earth by N. K. Jemisin, Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett, The Changeling Sea by Patricia McKillip, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Tagging: anyone who sees this, I’d love to see which books my fellow Robin Hobb fans love! :)
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zebydeb · 3 months
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2023 was a wonderful reading year for me, after a long period of burnout. Here are my highlights, all very warmly recommnded.
Index, A History of the, by Dennis Duncan: Fun take on book history. Takes you into all sorts of topics like alphabetical order in different cultures, and how people used books when they were scrolls. Also the tricky time when books had indexes but not page numbers!
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke: Small but perfectly formed fantasy. Brought back to me the childhood feeling of reading stories where another world is hidden just out of sight.
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers: The love story of a community, as people face change and children grow up, and re-examine their way of life. Beautiful. Can be read as a stand-alone.
The End of Everything by Katie Mack: To explain all the ways the universe might end, this takes you through lots of astrophysical concepts. Accessible to readers as scientifically illiterate as me. I still can’t cope with Boltzmann brains, though.
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake: The weird world of fungi, plant roots and soil. Eye-opening!
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders: A moving story of loss and regret, set in a cemetery. I just wished for an author’s note with info about the memoirs from which he drew quotations.
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan: I’m only 1/3 through but it is very long, so safe to say this is really good! Super readable and de-centring Europe makes for an illuminating perspective on world history.
And a shout out for Everything You Need to Know about the Menopause (But Were Afraid to Ask) by Kate Muir. Not exactly a fun read, but a really valuable book.
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rachelkolar · 1 year
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2022 wasn't as killer a year for books as 2021, but I don't know how it could be; 2021 was my introduction to Clive Barker, Livia Llewellyn, and especially the Kushiel books, which made me wail "Where have you been?!" like Molly Grue. I still had no trouble putting together my top ten first-time reads and a couple of honorable mentions. There are so many good books, y’all!
Alphabetical by author:
Watership Down by Richard Adams, read by Peter Capaldi. This was technically a reread, but it didn't click for me at all when I read it in eighth grade. Boy howdy, it clicked this time. It's a classic for a reason, and Capaldi nails the narration.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. This is the only time I ever finished a book, flipped back to the beginning, and immediately read it again. I was crying at the end without quite knowing why. Just gorgeous and moving and wonderful.
Die by Kieron Gillen. Basically a hard R graphic novel of the 80s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon with some fascinating meditation on TTRPGS in general. It disappears up its own butt a bit, but it's still terrific.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. This is everything I wanted AI: Artificial Intelligence to be.
Curse of Dracula by Kathryn Ann Kingsley. This is sort of the catch-all for my discovering Kingsley this year; I read *eight* of her books. She's my exact horror romance sweet spot for when I want a bit of creepiness and a lot of swoon. Sometimes you just want Phantom of the Opera where Eric gets the girl, okay? (Although that's more Impossible Julian Strande than Dracula, but how am I supposed to say no to well-done vampire smut?)
Boys Life by Robert McCammon. I did a trivia special about the Stoker Awards in October, so I read a *lot* of Stoker winners this year, and this was the best. Bradbury-like dark fantasy dripping with nostalgia. I cried twice. (CW: a dog and a child die)
The Call by Peadar O'Guilin. I freaking loved this book. Body horror plus the Wild Hunt? Yes please! Also, while this is coming from someone whose only physical disability is terrible eyesight, Nessa is possibly the best disabled character I've ever read. She has polio, and the book is crystal clear on two points: this *doesn't* mean the Wild Hunt is going to kill her immediately, but it's *horrible* for her chances. We never get any "if she works hard, then by cracky, she may as well not be disabled at all!", but it's always clear that she has a chance and anyone who says otherwise can kiss off.
Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat. When I was on a heavy Thrawn kick last winter, I asked r/romancebooks to recommend a book with a Thrawn-like love interest, and some saint mentioned this. Laurent isn't quite Thrawn–imagine Thrawn's angry teenage brother–but whew, he's close enough. The whole trilogy is good, but the power dynamics are so delicious in the third one that it wins the day. (CW: the first book has noncon, and there's repeated mention of childhood sexual abuse, although none on screen. The villain is into that sort of thing.)
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse. Black Sun was one of my favorite reads of 2020, and this is a worthy sequel. It even made me like Naranpa!
The Hidden Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. Just…gorgeous. I loved this one.
Honorable mentions: Starless by Jacqueline Carey (speaking of great disabled characters), Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser (the true story of Little House on the Prairie), NPCs by Drew Hayes (just a blast), Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne (a fun, spicy modernization that had me laughing out loud), and Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare (a gory romp that dares to ask: what if there were a clown in a cornfield?).
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smalltownfae · 1 year
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Top 10 Current Favourite Books Tag
This is my attempt to know the books everyone considers the best of the best so I made it a tag. You don't need to do it if you are tagged if you don't want to, of course. I just thought it would be a fun way to be harsh about the best of the best.
How it works: If the books are part of the same series it counts as just as one place. It can be an entire series for all I care. You can actually make a top 10 or if you are too indicisive (like myself) put the books in alphabetical order. Maximum of 5 honorable mentions allowed at the end.
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler (because it's my favourite so a stand in for my love of the author's books)
Farseer trilogy + Tawny Man trilogy + The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb (I don't love every book in the series and, especially after the reread, I can't in good conscious put Liveship Traders books and last trilogy books here)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hogfather + Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (because it's my favourite so a stand in for my love of the author's books)
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The First Law trilogy + Best Served Cold + The Age of Madness trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip (the first one I read from her and still my favourite so it's representing my love for other books by the author)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (representing my love for a lot of this author's works, but this is still my favourite)
Honorable mentions: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson; Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura; The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw; The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
Tagging: @whatevsbla @song-of-amethyst @xserpx @random-jot @beeblackburn @monpetitrenard @electropeach @alloysius-g @garnetrena @vydumaj
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bulbasaurbutch · 1 year
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I posted 15,885 times in 2022
That's 5,422 more posts than 2021!
12 posts created (0%)
15,873 posts reblogged (100%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
@strawberrygirlprincess
@eggpuffs
@imessedup-bettertryitagain
@happyheidi
@ariabauer
I tagged 393 of my posts in 2022
#cr spoilers - 44 posts
#lmao - 7 posts
#toh spoilers - 5 posts
#booksread - 3 posts
#flashing gif warning - 3 posts
#theyyyy - 3 posts
#bless these weird girls - 2 posts
#toh - 2 posts
#hmmm - 2 posts
#😭 - 2 posts
Longest Tag: 139 characters
#the worst thing about my work is seeing peoples spends on average being around 30 pound and knowing thats more money than you make in 3 hrs
My Top Posts in 2022:
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Pike 'level 20 cleric powerhouse who saved the world and travelled through the divine gates and met gods' Trickfoot describing herself as 'a baker!' Has the same energy as Izumi 'brilliant alchemist who singlehandly terrorised the Brigs soldiers for months, killed a full grown bear with her bare hands, taught Ed and Al to fight and travelled through The Gate to meet God/the Truth' Curtis describing herself as 'a housewife!'. Send post
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“Reader, I ran the fuck away.””
Books Read in 2022: A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik 
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'Letters' getting all mixed up and weird... call that Alphabet Soup
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My #1 post of 2022
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“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
Books Read in 2022: Piranesi, Susanna Clarke 
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sixofravens-reads · 2 years
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2021 Reading Wrap-up
2021 was actually a pretty good year reading-wise! In total I read 115 books, completed my goal of reading the books that had been on my tbr the longest, and a last-minute goal of reading all my TBR comics and manga!!
With that said, here are my top books of 2021. There's a lot of them, but this was a really crappy year and the least I can do is celebrate the good reads that got me through it.
Top 21 Books of 2021
(in alphabetical order)
A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers
Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers
To be Taught if Fortunate - Becky Chambers
The Scapegracers - Hannah Abigail Clarke
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
A Winter’s Promise - Christelle Dabos
The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey
A Spindle Splintered - Alix E. Harrow
The Ones We’re Meant to Find - Joan He
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape - Jenna Miscavige Hill with Lisa Pulitzer
The Absolute Book - Elizabeth Knox
The Fall of the Kings - Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman
Spindle’s End - Robin McKinley
The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern
Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower - Tamsyn Muir
Witchmark - C. L. Polk
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, vol 10 - edited by Jonathan Strahan
The Past is Red - Catherynne M. Valente
the Southern Reach trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer (technically 3 books but shhh)
The Chosen and the Beautiful - Nghi Vo
Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
Honorable Mentions
(because I couldn’t make up my mind lol)
Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
50 Plants that Changed the Course of History - Bill Laws
Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
All the Murmuring Bones - A. G. Slatter
House of Hollow - Krystal Sutherland
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spokenitalics · 2 years
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top 10 books read in 2021 (in alphabetical order)
cain by josé saramago: THEE angry atheist revenge fantasy, and one of the very stories that have something interesting to say about revenge;
detransition, baby by torrey peters: the chaotic, messy, delightfully queer story of three women (trans and cis) brought together by an unexpected pregnancy. unapologetically overindulgent at times, and i can't help but love it for that.
harrow the ninth by tamsyn muir: fun, sharp, devastating. immersive in a way only a story written in second person can, good in a way very few stories written in second person are;
holy the firm by annie dillard: the lyrical ruminations of a woman who lives in a wooden room with a cat, a spider, and an enormous window. the kind of story that changes how you see the little things in life (and the big ones too);
i viceré by federico de roberto: aka the greatest italian novel (manzoni who?) -- the tale of an ancient island, a newborn nation, and a social class kept alive by its own degeneracy, told through the vicissitudes of a deeply messed up family;
lucifer by mike carey, peter gross, ryan kelly & dean ormston: the lightbringer wages war against the tyranny of predestination and makes friends along the way. a perfect companion to gaiman's sandman;
piranesi by susanna clarke: a deeply humanistic modern take of plato's allegory of the cave, exploring the notions on identity and happiness (sort of?). not every story needs a likable protagonist, but you'll find it really hard not to fall in love with this one;
promethea by alan moore & j. h. williams III: two of the greatest names in comic books deliver a philosophy lesson that barely bothers to masquerade as a comic book, preferring by far to be the perfect introduction to occultism;
the carnivorous lamb by augustín gómez-arcos: gay incest will deliver us from dictatorship (but also trap us in our parents' reflections?). equal parts enthralling and uncomfortable;
the end of everything (astrophysically speaking) by katie mack: like hozier sang, there will be darkness again -- mack explains all the ways that could happen, with a great balance of humor and existential dread.
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bayofbalar · 2 years
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Owned TBR-list of Doom
Or; I own too many books and I have too little time to get to them all.
I want to say that I’ll entirely pull my reads this year off my own shelves, but it’s rather unlikely to actually happen. Mood reader and all that.
Shamelessly stealing @lettersfromthelighthouse ‘s formatting - bold is started, strikethrough is finished. Imagine that the titles are italicised; tumblr refuses to copy formatting done in another file. I hope I shall keep updating this post, but I am notoriously forgetful, so there’s that.
Sorted into categories, but no alphabetical order under the cut:
Non-fiction, historic:
The Illustrated Red Baron, Peter Kilduff
Crossroads, Reizen door de Middeleeuwen, David Abulafia (red.)
Five Miles High & Forty Below, Bill Williams
Vergeten volkeren, Philip Matyszak
The Discovery of Middle Earth, Graham Robb
Nobel Streven, Frits van Oostrom
The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey
The Histories, Herodotus
Where Poppies Blow, John Lewis-Stempel
Een paleis voor de doden, Herman Clerinx
The Edge of the World, Michael Pye
The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
Danubia, Simon Winder
De uitvinding van de natuur, Andrea Wulf
Vriend Over Vijand, Peter van Damme
Non-fiction, historic equine:
Dressage, Sylvia Loch
The Royal Horse of Europe, Sylvia Loch
The Warhorse 1250-1600, Ann Hyland
The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, John Clark
The Horse in the Ancient World, Ann Hyland
The Horse in the Middle Ages, Ann Hyland
The Medieval Warhorse, From Byzantium to the Crusades, Ann Hyland
Non-fiction, equine training manuals:
True Horsemanship Through Feel, Bill Dorrance & Leslie Desmond
Grondwerk met paarden, Inge Teblick
Pferde Gymnastizieren mit dem Clicker, Viviane Theby
Gymnasium of the Horse, Steinbrecht
Basic Training of the Young Horse, Ingrid & Reiner Klimke
The Scales of Training Workbook, Claire Lilley
Non-fiction, miscellaneous:
Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith
Dier, bovendier, Frank Westerman
The Old Ways, A Journey On Foot, Robert Macfarlane
Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake
The Travels, Marco Polo
J.R.R. Tolkien Artist & Illustrator, Hammond & Scull
Zout, Vet, Zuur, Hitte, Samin Nosrat
Fiction, ‘classics’:
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Don Quixote, Cervantes
The Master & Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Maurice, E.M. Forster
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Metamorphosen, Ovidius
Fiction, ‘classic sci-fi’:
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Great Science-Fiction, H.G. Wells
Treasure Island, R.L. Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, R.L. Stevenson
Het geheimzinnige eiland, Jules Verne
Michael Strogoff, Jules Verne
Fiction, fantasy:
The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison
Het helse paradijs, Thea Beckmann
Kinderen van moeder aarde, Thea Beckmann
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James
Beren and Luthien, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fall of Gondolin, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch
The Story of Kullervo, J.R.R. Tolkien
Fiction, sci-fi:
Hyperion, Dan Simmons
The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey
Fiction, historic:
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
Butcher’s Crossing, Jon Williams
The Last English King, Julian Rathbone
Parade’s End, Ford Maddox Ford
Heer Belisarius, Robert Graves
De naam van de roos, Umberto Eco
Fiction, anthologies:
Trigger Warning, Neil Gaiman
The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson, W.H. Hodgson
The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft
Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
Tales Before Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson (ed.)
Fiction, Poetry:
Shelley, Shelley (too lazy to check for the editor, it’s not on the cover)
The War Poems of Wilfred Owen, Wilfred Owen
Fiction, Miscellaneous:
Overstory, Richard Powers
Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson
How to be Both, Ali Smith
De Hills, Matias Faldbraken
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3. what were your top five books of the year? (Counting this as books I read for the first time this year)
Tough one!!!
1. the Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson - and I am counting these as one because they’re all so amazing. I could write a whole post about them, filled mainly with lots of disconnected expressions of love and awe. Maybe not the best as an introduction to fantasy, but once you’ve read a couple of books in that genre, I would tell you to race for these. The characters, the plot, the world building, so detailed yet realistic and doesn’t bog you down, and I’m very very attached to all the characters.
2. The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green. His fiction books are not my cup of tea, but this man can write in such beautiful ways. Combining reviews of the human world with memoirs and thoughts, these essays made me race for a pencil to underline and write in the book, which I usually never do. Would recommend to anyone
3. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn. The first book I read this year, and one that I finished in a single sitting. Would really recommend this book to anyone in a funk, it’s very fast paced, an original concept told though letters (about not being able to use the alphabet letters)
4. A life on our planet, David Attenborough. You can read more of my thoughts here, but I’ve never read something that faced the truth of climate change brutally yet still proved there is hope. Read in about a day!
5. The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon ( @sshannonauthor here!). My first fantasy book, and the one that sent me down this wonderful path. Another book I could talk for ages about, but it’s a beautiful, adventurous story, with themes of acceptance, growth, love. Wonderful world building, some of my favourite characters, a plot that twists and connects in the most delightful way, and dragons. What more do you need?
Honorable mentions to The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (more thoughts x); Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson (my recommendation for anyone wanting to start fantasy - it’s a stand alone, not too long and very gripping); Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (a book that makes your head tilt but in the most delightful way); Strange the Dreamer, Lani Taylor (the characters are charming, the setting a bit horrifying yet gripping, the whole is wonderful) and The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (I am constantly amazed by this authors ability to create such atmospheric books)
6. Was there anything you meant to read but never got to?
Nothing planned a while ahead, but multiple times I did the “I overestimated the amount of library books I could read and now I need to return them before I had a chance to actually read them”
8. Did you meet any of your reading goals
I did! My reading goal was 60 books and I’m currently on 72 books (and 33 586 pages according to storygraph)- hopefully getting to 73 by then end of the year. It was my best year for reading since I was 12 probably, helped by the fact that I found the fantasy genre and fell in love, and made good on my resolution to set aside time (almost) every morning to read with breakfast. Also, moved back to a flat near a big library!
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bayofbalar · 2 years
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Owned TBR of Doom
Or; I own too many books and I have too little time to get to them all.
Which is why I got rid of a lot of books that, when being honest, I wasn’t ever going to read. They include a lot of classics, but I’ve also put some classics I can’t bear to part with with my study books so at least they’re off the TBR, and I won’t include them here.
Here is the original list, for comparison.
Shamelessly stealing @lettersfromthelighthouse ‘s formatting - bold is started, strikethrough is finished. Imagine that the titles are italicised; tumblr refuses to copy formatting done in another file.
Sorted into categories, but no alphabetical order under the cut:
Non-fiction, historic:
Five Miles High & Forty Below, Bill Williams
The Discovery of Middle Earth, Graham Robb
Nobel Streven, Frits van Oostrom
The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey
Where Poppies Blow, John Lewis-Stempel
Een paleis voor de doden, Herman Clerinx
The Edge of the World, Michael Pye
The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
De uitvinding van de natuur, Andrea Wulf
Non-fiction, historic equine:
Dressage, Sylvia Loch
The Royal Horse of Europe, Sylvia Loch
The Warhorse 1250-1600, Ann Hyland
The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, John Clark
The Horse in the Ancient World, Ann Hyland
The Horse in the Middle Ages, Ann Hyland
The Medieval Warhorse, From Byzantium to the Crusades, Ann Hyland
Non-fiction, equine training manuals:
True Horsemanship Through Feel, Bill Dorrance & Leslie Desmond
Grondwerk met paarden, Inge Teblick
Pferde Gymnastizieren mit dem Clicker, Viviane Theby
Gymnasium of the Horse, Steinbrecht
Basic Training of the Young Horse, Ingrid & Reiner Klimke
The Scales of Training Workbook, Claire Lilley
H.Dv.12 German Cavalry Training Manual
Non-fiction, miscellaneous:
Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith
Dier, bovendier, Frank Westerman
The Old Ways, A Journey On Foot, Robert Macfarlane
Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake
The Travels, Marco Polo
J.R.R. Tolkien Artist & Illustrator, Hammond & Scull
Zout, Vet, Zuur, Hitte, Samin Nosrat
Fiction, ‘classics’:
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Fiction, ‘classic sci-fi’:
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Great Science-Fiction, H.G. Wells
Treasure Island, R.L. Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, R.L. Stevenson
Fiction, fantasy:
The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James
Beren and Luthien, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fall of Gondolin, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch
The Story of Kullervo, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Ninth Rain, Jen Williams
Fiction, sci-fi:
Hyperion, Dan Simmons
The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey
Fiction, historic:
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
Butcher’s Crossing, Jon Williams
The Last English King, Julian Rathbone
Heer Belisarius, Robert Graves
Fiction, anthologies:
The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson, W.H. Hodgson
The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft
Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
Tales Before Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson (ed.)
Fiction, Poetry:
The War Poems of Wilfred Owen, Wilfred Owen
Fiction, Miscellaneous:
Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson
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