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drowninginabactatank · 2 months

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TFW you finish reading Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir:

#harrow the ninth #tlt #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir #bookblr #bookworm #bookish 📚#reading #mine #about mx #tw blood #tw head trauma #Loki.speaks #notes:800

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tygerland · 8 months

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#book community #book lover #📚#bookblr #home library #bookish #alternative #bohemian #aesthetic #cozy #bookworm #vibes #📚 📚

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moonsoakedpages · 17 hours

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‧𓍢ִ໋☕ ׂ 𓈒 ⋆ ۪ 🧸📖✨₊˚ 🦢・₊✧⋆⭒˚｡⋆⠀

Nature and Books

#source: pinterest #📚#books #studyblr #cozy #booklr #nature #cozycore #naturecore #bookblr #bookish #study aesthetic #my best friends #cozy vibes #book aesthetic #book tumblr #dark academia studyblr

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rogue-indshadows · 1 month

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Book recommendations 😇💖✨

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sophiaalessandrini · 10 months

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꧁𝕃𝕖𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝔸𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕖𝕒, Series꧂

🏹Cupid’s Arrow ♥ 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔 1

🏹ℂ𝕦𝕡𝕚𝕕'𝕤 ℂ𝕦𝕣𝕤𝕖 ♥ 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔 2 is out

⬇️ https://amzn.to/2Hu41HH

⬇️ https://tinyurl.com/CupidsCurseamazon

🏹Epic Romantasy

♡Coming of age

🏹Vampires & werewolves

♡Exotic Locations

Could you save the world with the help of Cupids Arrow? What about the side effects? What could go wrong if a two-hundred year old Strzyga is heels over you? Right?

Comparable:::

Throne of Glass, Shadow and bone or Vampire Academy. If you liked Shannara Chronicles, the mysticism of Dan Brown stories, the literary legend of Faust with an Urban Twilight feeling. This book is for you.

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the-portrait-of-seraph · 2 years

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June's Review...

I completely forgot about this, please forgive me

Lolita: Nabokov, Vladmir

A great book in the way it's written! I greatly admire Nabokov's style and prose and I think it's pretty hardcore that he translated his own book (Lolita) into Russian. But does that make it Russian or European literature???

Humbert is the only unreliable narrator I don't like, I wonder why. Maybe it's because he was pining after a freaking twelve year-old? I know that this books gets a lot of hate for its depiction of pedophilia, but Nabokov had stated that this book was written for the opposite intention, to show the disgusting nature of pedophilia and even had specific instructions for the book's cover, which many did not listen to-

It's an interesting book to say the least, the characters, the plot, and even the setting really plays into Nabokov's masterpiece.

The Grapes of Wrath: Steinbeck, John

Ugh, I love this book!!!! The Grapes of Wrath is oftentimes considered Steinbeck's greatest work (I can refute that lol) and for good reason. The story is about the Joad family, who travel to California in hopes of a better life, but when they get there, life isn't all that it seems, and Tom Joad finds himself caught up in a worker's revolt.

Honestly, the stars of the show were the Ruthie and Willie interactions. They're so cute haha, especially when they see a flushing toilet and thought they broke it-

Rose of Sharon,,, she's so lovely. I felt so bad for her and her baby, and she was so excited too.

Connie really just left her because the responsibility was too much? Ran away and began studying hard to become the president of the U.S. huh?

There's a lot to unpack, but I am such a horrible explainer. It's not only the Joads, but the Reverend and the revolt also have so much more depth and allegory in them.

The Idiot: Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Myshkin,,,, I loveeee youuuuuu. No but seriously, I loved Myshkin throughout this whole book, he was the light in the dark dingy world of 19th century Russia. Truly a holy fool.

There was so much happening in this story??? The Rogozhin/Nastasya/Myshkin drama, the Aglaya/Myshkin development, the Rogozhin/Myshkin rivalry???? How Myshkin vehemently denounces Catholicism? The Rogozhin/Nastasya escape? Nastasya's death??? It will be hard to keep up with, but I promise you, the Idiot is so good.

Man, I love Nastasya Fillipovna. Fuck Trotsky though, he literally molested Nastasya throughout her time as his ward, that's not cool. And how Nastasya just burns a hundred thousand roubles, has two men wrapped around her finger, and ends up with neither of them? Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss!!!

Sonya and Raskolnikov wanted to be everything that Nastasya and Myshkin were/j (Take a shot everytime Hyeji says Nastasya). Myshkin had pure intentions and saw the good in Nastasya/wanted to help her, and Nastasya absolutely lost it fr.

First Love: Turgenev, Ivan

I liked this one! First Love tells the story of Vladmir Petrovich and his love for his next door neighbor, Zinaida. However, Zinaida is aware of her good looks (as she should!!!) and has a lot of men vying for her hand, Petrovich being only one of them. She goes on to play her suitors against each other, while Petrovich is not aware of his real rival (spoiler, it's his dad).

Turgenev describes love as a summer torrent that changes a person once it's over, and he was damn right. As much as I wanted to root for Petrovich, I was also hoping for some sort of tragedy to act as character development.

It's very short, so you could read it in one sitting! I highly recommend it, if you like the feeling of hand sanitizer on half-healed cuts.

Poems of James Joyce and the Exiles

Okayyy, I see you Joyce!!!! I've only really considered James Joyce as an author, so reading his love poetry and only play really paints him in a new light!

Ugh, his poetry describes everything that I've ever felt about every person I've loved. I don't know if it's a lot, but I'm digressing. And his play??? Gorgeous, but sort of messed up? You have Robert and Bertha, the unmarried couple with their son Archie; they return from Rome to Ireland, to run into Richard, Bertha's ex and Beatrice, Robert's ex. Harmful hijinks ensue. I know that this play wasn't as successful as his other works, but I really liked it.

In Search of Lost Time: Proust, Marcel

I didn't not enjoy this as much as I thought I would. That doesn't mean I hated it!!!! I do admire Proustian writing style, but there wasn't that sort of compelling force that wanted me to keep turning the page. It certainly was interesting, I have a love and hate relationship with this series though haha.

June was not my month, too many things to do and now its my summer break!!! Going to try and be more active here now :)

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felfiramoondesigns · 1 year

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BACK IN ST0CK ON FAIRE!! (And of course these are all available on my regular shop too 💜) For whatever reason, Faire zeroed out a bunch of my stock randomly including almost ALL these pins 😭 I probably missed sales during the winter sale becuase they were not showing!! Gutted! So if are looking to buy wholesale from me, you can contact me direct or buy through Faire 💜💜

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lmargiva · 1 year

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drowninginabactatank · 7 months

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This year I read The Sunbearer Trials and Cemetery Boys, they were both deliciously queer and vibrantly told stories! I cannot wait for more from this author because I will happily devour anything he writes!

Me with Aiden Thomas' work:

#Aiden Thomas #the sunbearer trials #cemetery boys #queer fiction #bookblr #bookworm #bookish 📚#mine #about mx #Loki.speaks #gif warning #notes:200

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noveltyreads · 1 year

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Throwback by Maurene Goo Book Review

ARC kindly provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

Ever since I read I Believe in a Thing Called Love and Somewhere Only We Know I have loved Maurene Goo's books. When I got the review copy of Throwback I knew I was in for a treat. With a pitch like "Back to the Future meets the Joy Luck Club" how could you not get excited? I was saving this book knowing this would be my next bookish obsession and I was right! I feel a book hangover coming on.

Throwback follows Samantha Kang, a seventeen year old girl who has a rocky relationship with her mother. Where Sam perceives her mom as cold, stoic and obsessed with presenting a good image, Samantha can't help but feel like they are worlds apart. When a fight leads to Sam taking a magical ride share all the way back to 1995, Sam realises that maybe her mom and her have more in common than first thought. She realises that by helping her mom win Homecoming Queen and preventing a fight afterwards between her and her grandmother she can return to her timeline and complete the mission she was brought back in time for.

Admittedly, this book took me a while to get into. I wanted it to be a little more fast paced because it did have a slow build up. The build up was necessary to develop the characters and their backstories but I was just waiting for a bit more action during the first two thirds of the book.

Action aside though, the build up was necessary because it meant we wouldn't be able to connect with Priscilla and Sam otherwise. We were meant to side with Sam of the present and see Priscilla as unreasonable but in all honesty, both characters had their flaws and none of them could be framed as bad, just misunderstood. This was the case when Sam time traveled to when her mom was a teenager where she discovered the girl behind her mom's tough exterior. Sam started understanding her and her mom started understanding her back, discussing how even though they don't understand each other all the time, they still love one another and show this in ways the other may not always understand.

It did take me a while to like Sam to be honest. She always saw her mom as unfair but in the process of showing her mom as such, she seemed that way herself. By the end though, I started to like her. I liked Priscilla, the 1995 throwback version, from the get-go. She seemed tough like her future self but I liked how the closer she and Sam got, the more those layers fell away and we got to see this girl who just wanted to fit in and live out her dreams.

And the ending? The ending made the whole book all the more worth it. I loved every bit about the ending and found it so perfect. If you are a rom-com fan, this will definitely make you swoon and happy grin like I did reading on my iPad. I'm so happy about Priscilla's ending and Sam's ending. I'm giddy just writing about it.

All in all, if you want a feel good book with the kind of 90's vibe you felt like you've been missing, definitely give this book a read. If you're in the mood for a rom-com that's more than just the girl gets the guy with a few shenanigans thrown in the mix, that discusses big themes and has lots of heart, then this one is for you.

ACTUAL RATING: 3.9 STARS

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bookwormiam · 2 years

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Me: I feel bored 😩😣 Me: *suddenly remembers* oh yeah all those books I have that I should be reading...🤔📚 Me: I'll read 'em in a bit. *Continues scrolling on Tumblr*

#me #bored #ughhh #boredom #what's up #books #bookworm #books and reading #books and libraries #message me #booknerd #bookish #bookblr #booklr #book problems #reading #chat post #😆#books 📚

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onlyfreds · 2 years

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Since reading is what I only want to basically do, here is a masterlist of everything I discuss in this blog about books! (And it would be great if you also hoped into my inbox to talk books with me 💖)

The Fault in our Stars ”review”

Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie review

Wes and Liz’s College Roadtrip Review

#book talk📚#gabriella’s book recs #bookaddict #booklr #bookworm #booklover #book blog #bookish

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sophiaalessandrini · 11 months

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🌻ᒍᑌᑎE🌻

✿ 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 &⃞ 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬

🦋⇩🦋⇩🦋⇩

https://www.sophiaalessandrini.com/recommended-books/

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fictionforthesoulbooks · 3 months

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#books and reading #bookish #books #bookworm #fictionforthesoul #reasons to read 📚

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the-portrait-of-seraph · 2 years

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This Week's Book is...

A week with Ayn Rand; very invested in this book!!!

I like Rand's writing style, it's simple, yet compelling? I think out of all the characters so far, Dominique stood out to me. Maybe it's her, maybe it's her obsession with the quarry-

The Fountainhead is an introduction to Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, something I take great interest in; I want to dive deeper into it sometime. Is Atlas Shrugged worth reading after The Fountainhead? Let me know in the comments :)

#hyeji reads 📚#english books #reading #russian literature #american literature #ayn rand #the fountainhead #philosophy #bookish #reading books

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