#best books 2020

[hsmagazine254]

Judgement Day: Deeds That Light the Way By Dr.Omar Suleiman

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[simply-sithel]

Started a little over half a year ago, I have finally completed my first “books in books” project! There’s elation, there’s pride, and there’s a sense of relief in the project turning out pretty much how I’d hoped it would from the start. Although instead of just one series tucked into a book, I’ve two! 

This six (seven?) book set features two series by @argyleheir, both canon divergent from the Dracula 2020 Netflix series (which itself is already a canon divergent off of Dracula). Be warned, they are both very explicate.

A Gentleman Vampire’s Dossier [AO3] is the 4 book series- each book exactly 5k- done in black with spattered edges, hand sewn headbands, home made cover paper, and home marbled end pagers. It was done first, completed in... December?

House of Dracula (Fearful Symmetry AU) [AO3] is the 2 book series- both ~13k- done in red suede on bible paper with home marbled end pages. It was completed early April.

The enclosing book was painstakingly cut throughout April to early May (worked on during HavenCon!), covered in leather with cranberry alcohol ink staining the edges. I’ll have a post later bemoaning the process in greater detail. 

#it'll hurt a bit to mail it out when I return home but it's the right thing to do #the joy is in the work the vanity is in coveting the piece #bible paper minis are the best! that 5k print on plain is about the same size as the 13k print on thin! #I learned so much through all this- not just the evolution of the minis but insight into how to cut cubbies better #yes they are legible! #dracula 2020 #dracula #am not really a Jonathan/Dracula fan but was initially drawn in by the precise word counts of aGVD (& stayed for the fun depiction of Drac) #bookbinding #little books #book arts #books in books #fic binding #ficbinding #fan binding #fanbinding #dracula/jonathan #little book

[cottoncandywhispers]

#summer 2020! #books #tumblr quality #☆ my tumblr quality era ☆ #quality blog #save quality #mine #the summer i turned pretty #jenny han #colorful #i know this pics arent the best quality but yk theyre cute

[navramanan]

I was at my peak when i would go to the local book store, browse through the books, read their backs and buy the one that appealed the most to me only to years later discover what significance they have for literature

#the boy in the striped pyjamas - how to kill a mockingbird - station eleven - and the mountains echoed #all of them bangers all of them (except the first one) picked up by teenage me from the book store and read in german #i mean ok obviously it's no coincidence they were selling best sellers obv i'm not big brain smart for picking them #but it was cool none the less to discover what significance those books had later on #after only picking them up bc the back side summary appealed to me. not knowing anything else about those titles #for instance station eleven gained prominense (again) in 2020/21 during the pandemic and i was like oh cool i read it idk 4 years ago #or when how to kill a mockingbird was being talked about bc (a) us (state) wanted to ban in as school lecture #when i was thinking oh i read this years ago i didnt know it was an important book in america #or when i liked and the mountains echoed so much that i got a thousand splendid suns & my german teacher told me she had liked the book #when i was thinking omg i read it as well and liked it!!!! #idk these were all things that made me feel really nice i look back at them fondly #nesi rants

[thebest-medicine]

Listen. I have always been a dino kid at heart. I fucking love dinosaurs.

> so I was listening to a dino podcast and they interviewed the author of some dinosaur shapeshifter series.

> I’m like. This sounds ridiculous but I need to see if it’s on my library app.

> got the audiobook which is read by Kirt Graves who does a bunch of excellent MM romance audiobook readings

> just listened to the entire first book of the 5 book series and I honestly fucking loved it. It was like listening to a fanfiction trope romance novel but also with dinosaur animorphs.

> fucking in love with the main two characters.. went onto ao3 and there’s only 1 fic for the entire series / fandom

> I’m about to make it my problem to make more works for this because jesussususjs is the switch / teasing energy strong with these boys

> the series is called RELIC by Maz Maddox and the first book is called Smash & Grab

> for more good dinosaur related recommendations hit me up 😝

#I have books podcasts shows so many things. I also have over 900 hours in both Jurassic world evolution 1 and 2 lol. #me about to overload the fucking ao3 situation to be disproportionately fluffy tickle fics #oh nooooooooooooooo 🙈 #COME READ THIS BOOK AND SHIP SIMON AND DALTON WITH ME #PALEONTOLOGIST X VELOCIRAPTOR MAN it’s true love bitches #they have scientific accuracy (to the best of our knowledge 2020s) #they have flirting #they have fanfic tropes #they have gay sex #they have dinosaurs #they have silly gay road trips #me putting this in front of all of your eyes because I need to talk to someone abo it it #it’s so good and so silly and like. honestly. lit. #personal #Dino kid #recommendations #relic #relic series #relic maz Maddox #smash and grab #oh also it has SO MANY POP CULTURE REFERENCES like damn lol

[hanginghope]

i finished the first draft of my poetry book tonight! i’m still not 100% on the ordering of the poems, punctuation throughout, and if it feels truly done, but i think it’s ready for another set of eyes. if anyone would be interested in reading it and offering thoughts, edits, and or critiques send me a dm!

#it’s a collection of 130 something poems #most shorter than a page #called a blossoming of the heart and mind #the poems range from march 2020-present #and are all in some way personal #the book is mostly for me-i’m having a friend bind it #but i want it to be its best when it’s bound

[e-b-reads]

Books of the month: March + April 2023

Failed to do any post like this for March, so now I am catching up all at once! For new followers/those who do not know, I am both a part-time PhD student and work at a summer camp (which is a retreat center in the off-season, but summer is the really busy time of year). Anyway, between the end of the semester and getting prepped for camp, the busy season has started earlier for me than usual. Doesn't mean I'm not reading! Just means I'm posting less about it. Here's books I read in March and April that I would recommend:

The Amulet of Samarkand (Jonathan Stroud): Had one of those impulses to use inter-library loan and reread a series I last read sometime in middle or high school. This time it's the Bartimaeus triology. (I also reread The Golem's Eye in the past two months; waiting on the third.) Anyway, I remember the books as engaging and funny, which they are; this time around I'm spending more time thinking about all the political and ethical questions raised by this fantasy society that's like our world except magicians rule everything. (i.e. I'm spending more time admiring Stroud's worldbuilding.) A series worth reading/rereading!

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 (C.J. Box, Ed.): These were fun and fascinating, sometimes at the same time and sometimes by turns. When busy, it can be nice to have some short stories to dip into, and I always like mysteries. I especially spent time considering what exactly makes a "mystery" - some of these are more whodunnits (occasionally with a twist), others are mysterious but the reader knows what happened, others have crime and/or action but no one's solving anything. All good in different ways!

A Free Man of Color or One Extra Corpse (Barbara Hambly): Right, so I have already written about my love of the Benjamin January mystery series at least in passing. A Free Man of Color is the first in that series: 1830s New Orleans, very focused on the slave/free colored (the term at the time) community, murder mystery. I keep hesitating to recommend the series outright because it is 19 books long and, at this point, full of my blorbos, so I'm not sure I'm totally objective about it. However! One Extra Corpse is the second in a new historical murder mystery series by the same author, this one set in inter-war Hollywood but with a transplanted English protagonist. Reading this one, full of likeable characters but not the ones I feel unreasonably affectionate about, I realized: actually, I do think that Hambly's attention to historical detail, flawed but human characters, sense of humor, detail-driven mystery plots, etc., make for good books. So I do recommend either of these mystery series to anyone who likes that kind of thing! They are not flawless, but they are lots of fun.

#books of the month #book recs #the amulet of samarkand #the golem's eye #jonathan stroud #the best american mystery stories 2020 #c. j. box #a free man of color #one extra corpse #barbara hambly #benjamin january #if you do read the ben jan series and enjoy it feel free to talk to me about it #i like it maybe an unreasonable amount

[shitty-check-please-aus]

do you ever hear a take so rancid that you desperately hope that the person who said that has changed their mind entirely

#I'm listening to this Sarah Vowell book #and she calls people who register on election day 'lazy idiots' #and like I don't think I was a lazy idiot when I stood in line literally fearing for my life in March 2020 to vote in the primary #when you couldn't register to vote online in Illinois without a driver's license #and I didn't have a car to go to my local election office #and I didn't have the time to go stand in line for a thousand years at the DMV to get a fresh DL #I don't think I was a lazy idiot to research my option and decide that same-day registration would be my best option #she also called registering to vote 'filling out a card with your address on it' #so I'm gonna guess in the past 20 years shit's probably gotten more complicated #I had to provide like 2-3 documents to prove that I had moved in with my aunt

[lucaplushie]

tbh some people are really into making everything in their fnaf universe 100% lore accurate, which is totally fine! i respect the never ending grind! not me though stay safe out there yall. (<- insane about the secret good fnaf that lives in his head)

#its just so. theres so many things i hate about the lore #too many i would say. #not to mention the books DEAR GOD THE FUCKING BOOKS #theyre like unbearable reads because the characters have sooo little personality #also because theyre not written the best imo #i only ready them because i was so crazy about fnaf in 2020 #i recently reread the graphic novels and i was like this is written like ass #ermmmm what the shit you guys #i just kind of atp have my own little version of fnaf #where its less horror (stilll horror but i dont lean into that angle too much) and more just Really Fucking Sad. #luca speaks

[hedonicghost]

Holy shit is that John Cheese from hit book series John Dies at the End??? Woah that's so cool...

This is a redraw! Feel free to look at the others: 2021 // 2020 // 2019 // 2018 // 2017 // 2016 (first)

#john cheese #john dies at the end #jdate #tbifos #this book is full of spiders #wthdijr #what the hell did i just read #if this book exists you're in the wrong universe #itbeyitwu #yeas i'm using that tag for hashtag exposure you never know #🔪 #nice #anyway! i still think the 2019 one is the best but like #this one is at least better than 2021/2020's #bc we still. REALLY dislike those two lmfao #scars

[hsmagazine254]

Let Go of the Guilt: The Power of Du'a

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[genderisadrunkcat]

My newest rant about fetch phillips:

I love how well issues in the book tie back to modern day. Like in Dead Man in a Ditch, when Rick Tippity is reconvicted and found guilty of killing Niles 1, and because of that trial the mayor was using fear to place restrictions on ‘magic practice and old world craft’. Governments using fear to get policies they want passed is something that happens lots, and even the thing that the mayor restricted, trying to bring back the past, was because it was unpredictable so it scared the government. I see ties to things like (I live in the US so I’m gonna talk about US things) the trans policies being carried out, roe v wade being overturned, things the government is scared of or makes them uncomfortable gets shut down and restricted, just like old world magic. It also means that it will be harder to figure out how to make magic come back, and that’s both a good and bad thing. There’s arguments to be had about moving on to new ways of innovation, like the Niles company, and arguments about trying to bring back the past.

#also the name Rick tippity is the best #it’s so fun to say #this is such a good book #I just checked and it was published in 2020 so it makes a lot of sense that I’m seeing connections #fetch phillips #dead man in a ditch

[eatsowhat]

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[alexturner2005]

so jealous of the people seeing cage the elephant followed by arctic monkeys on the same stage tonight

#what a lineup #cage is SO fun live #if i had remembered at least a few weeks ago that i have flight credit i might’ve made the trip to vegas 😫 #or la #it would be an impulsive use of my flight credit..but i do kinda wish i had done it #but i didn’t think about it 😭 #i had booked a flight in march 2020 to visit my best friend #and then covid hit #and then eventually she moved back here anyway and now she doesn’t talk to me anyway 🙃 #so now i’ve just got an unused flight

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

if EEAO wins the SAG, that makes it more likely they will have a parasite year. parasite won only the SAG and the WGA before winning the oscar. but parasite did not win the critics choice (that went to the overrated once upon a time in hollywood, which also won the GG for comedy). and last year’s coda won the SAG, the PGA, and the WGA, while missing out on the golden globe, which went to the mainstream frontrunner (power of the dog)……….and a spielberg film (west side story). that makes banshees look like the mainstream frontrunner (being that they won the GG alongside a spielberg film; albiet, WSS won in the category banshees won in this year, and POTD won in the category the fabelmans did. the drama category is often where the traditional frontrunner wins)……except power of the dog also won the critics choice award.

since the oscars started awarding the underdog (2016 - present), the winner of best picture at the critics choice awards only went on to win best picture at the oscars twice, 2018’s not quite underdog the shape of water and the pandemic year 2021’s nomadland. in neither year was there a real competition for best picture

#shape of water in 2018 led the pack for nominations at the oscars with a near historic 13 #nomadland also got a formidable 6 nominations #other BP underdogs received less #though parasite did lead the nominations race in 2020 it was nominated for just 4 #green book received 5 #coda received 3 #however moonlight got 8 nominations #and moonlight was a24. however moonlight is broadly considered one of the best films of this century #so

[mrcowboydeanwinchester]

bad boys and after school special dean is good kid from percy jackson and the lightning thief the musical (pjatlttm) you cannot tell me i'm wrong -💀

i have not listened to pjatlttm (what an insane abbreviation gosh) but i'm inclined to agree anyway because young dean is just so applicable to every kid with issues moment

#i read the books in 2020 and they were soooooo good and so fun and just god you have to love them truly #i read them on the beach it was perhaps the best part of my life ever #mr skull tag 💀 #ola answers