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wild-awake · 2 years

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“You don't stop fighting a war just because you're losing battles. You change tactics.” —Excerpt from The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2) by S.A. Chakraborty Kingdom of Copper is probably one of my favorite reads this year. The storytelling is so much better from the first book, primarily because the world has been laid out. While the first book was world-building and characterization, this second book is full of power play, politics, and questions on morality. It sometimes reminded me of Game of Thrones. There is also a character who is painted to be the savior but I only see them as a tyrant in the making. When I finished this book, I kept thinking what rating to give and if there is anything I didn’t like to make me deduct points. Tbh, I can’t think of any flaws for it, that’s how much I loved it. — #kingdomofcopper #daevabadtrilogy #cityofbrass #empireofgold #bookreview — • • • • • • • #bookstagram #bookstagramph #bookstagramphilippines #bookstagrammer #booksph #bookworm #bookwormph #bookstagramlife #bookishflatlay #booksofinstagram #bookstagramfeature #readersofinstagram #bookporn #readsandwanders #like4like #bookphotography #vscoreads #goodreads #epicreads #bibliophile (at Alam na this Kabahan ka na) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfiYDwiLRG-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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topherpikebooks · 1 year

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No need to pack your bags. #amazonkindle #amediting #authorvisit #beachreads #bookaddicted #bookaddiction #bookishfeature #bookishgirl #bookishlove #bookishpost #bookishthings #booklover #bookwormlife #bookwormph #bookworms #bookwormsunite #creativewriting #currentlyreading #indiepublishing #read #readbooks #readers #readersgonnaread #readersofinstagram #reading #readingbooks #readingcorner https://www.instagram.com/p/CofMwxFuBGj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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gltwrites · 3 years

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Of unease, bizarre feeling of distance from reality, and questions in limbo — or how "The Memory Police" made me feel

I was swayed a bit for a moment as I scrolled the heaps of mixed reviews on "The Memory Police"—some good, some bad, some eh. But I prevailed lol.

This is the best book I've read this year so far.

[There will be spoilers below!]

Set in a small, dystopian island under the totalitarian memory police, a novelist, her editor, and a former ferryman deal with the epidemic of forgetting and loss as their sense of the world gets thinner, brought by the sporadic disappearances. These disappearances come with a freebie: a person's five senses and emotional attachments about what was lost gradually disappear too.

When the unnamed book author woke up one day and the novels had disappeared, her recollection about them were also gone that she couldn't bring herself to hold a pen and write as much as she used to.

And in this island, those who remember are hunted down by the memory police.

I finished the book with whys and hows still hanging in the air, but it was such a can't-slam-the-brake-pedal ride. I got more engrossed in the story as more items and what were considered fundamental human needs cease to exist, and the titular authorities become tyrannical.

As the disappearances sped up, I felt a cloud of unease and obscurity thickening and miscellany holes burgeoning in my soul—which was why I couldn't stop until I get the answers.

It was easy to distinguish Yoko Ogawa's novel as an allegory of how people deal with loss and make the most of what remained. "The Memory Police" was delivered gently and uncomplicated, but with the apparent eerie calm that both intrigued and creeped me out.

It may have ended with a cliffhanger, but it suited the book's enigmatic nature best—or in simpler terms, some things are probably better left as they are, whether the novelist was left to rot in the basement and the people who remember left the dying island for good.

#bookph #books #bookworm #bookwormph #booksph #bibliophileph #the memory police #Yoko Ogawa #book review #filipino writers

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successunion · 3 years

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✅ FULL VIDEO ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL. 🔴 CHANNEL NAME- SUCCESS UNION 🔴 Playlist- THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A FUCK ✅ FOLLOW FOR MORE! #booktubers #indianreaders #bookworm #bookwormlife #bookwormforlife #bookwormph #bookwormproblems #bookworms #bookwormsofinstagram #bookwormsfeature #readers #readersofinstagram #readersofig #readersofinsta #readerslife #bookblogger #bookbloggers #bookbloggersofinstagram #bookbloggerlife #bookbloggersofig #bookish #bookishfeatures #bookishlove #bookishpost #bookishlife #bookishfeature #bookishallure #bookishplay (at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ4x9tjHclA/?igshid=zqfl9rx5vqx4

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allysterreads · 5 years

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"Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time." - Legend, Marie Lu 🌾 🌾 🌾 Book tag time 🔽 #rainbowbookcovers // thank you @breatheandreadx • red book: Insignia • yellow book: Pretty Little Liars • green book: The Return of the King • blue book: Vortex • pink book: Dead is the new black 🌾 🌾 🌾 Happy Thursday💕 #bookaholic #bookshelf #bookphotography #bookstagram #bookobsessed #bookish #booklover #booksbooksbooks #bookishlife #bookwormph #bookstagrammer #booknerd #booklove https://www.instagram.com/p/Btj8ckFnV63/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p3h4v0rcciyl

#rainbowbookcovers #bookaholic #bookshelf #bookphotography #bookstagram #bookobsessed #bookish #booklover #booksbooksbooks #bookishlife #bookwormph #bookstagrammer #booknerd #booklove

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thannxx · 5 years

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BOOKSHELF REORGANIZATION.

I decided to do something productive on the third day of my Christmas break. It has been two years since I last cleaned and organized my shelves. It was not because I didn’t have the time. I just lost the excitement because of D.

Here’s a little background story.

I started reading and collecting books in 2012. Prior to that, I was an ultimate “book nerd hater.” My friends and I insulted book nerds. We condemned books and reading. We thought reading was for nerds, one thing we didn’t want to be called, and it was nothing but boring.

I grew up surrounded by books. I know, I know, ironic, isn’t it? My parents made sure my siblings and I grew up bookworms like they did. I learned how to read at the age of five and if I remember it correctly, when I was kid, I couldn’t sleep without reading a book or two. I don’t know what happened when I reached fifth grade. Perhaps because technology and social networking sites have become rampant that reading books became the bottom of my priority list.

Then one day, a miracle happened.

Summer of 2012, we just got back from La Union where we had a mini reunion during the Holy Week. One of my cousins asked if she could use my PC because she needed to download something for her project (she was an IT student, she’s a graduate now) and then we found out that our router was having a malfunction.

My dad promised that he would have it fixed right away, knowing us who can’t survive one day without Facebook.

It took PLDT two weeks to respond. By then we were more than bored. I was already cursing PLDT because my cousins were leaving the next day and there was no internet and I was dying of boredom. So my cousins tagged me along as they went to check on books at the local bookstore. They’re avid readers, you see. I was very excited not because we were going to the bookstore but because it was located in SM and strolling around the mall was a breather.

I didn’t end up strolling.

I ended up reading a book instead. It was Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate. My cousins read books for almost two hours and because they asked me to wait for them which definitely bore me the heck out of me, I had to grab a book and check it out as well.

That started my journey with books.

I then realized the book I was reading was part of a series and it wasn’t the first book. I searched the shelf and saw Torment, which had a similar cover, and thought of buying it as soon as possible. I asked my dad a day after if I could buy it and he happily said yes.

There you have it. I bought Torment by Lauren Kate. I was rather stoked to start reading when I got home. I even grabbed a pencil to mark the words I didn’t understand and even underline my favorite lines. My mom saw me and told me about her bookworm habits when she was a teenager. She said I inherited that habit from her. She used to read anything and marked everything she didn’t understand. That was how it enhanced her vocabulary and now she’s an English teacher.

It’s funny because Torment isn’t the first book either. It’s Fallen. I discovered it only when I was already halfway through the book. After Torment I went back to the bookstore for Fallen. Unfortunately, Fallen wasn’t available at the bookstore yet. So I had to wait. But since I had nothing else to do and I thought I enjoyed reading, I bought Vampire Academy instead.

From then on, I spend my summers reading books. Actually, not only summers. I buy books every time I have free time even on school days. I even got scolded by my teacher in high school because I was reading instead of doing our thesis.

Who would have thought that a book nerd hater like me would end up as one?

I now own approximately three hundred Young Adult fiction books. Yup, I’m one of those lucky kiddos whose parents support them when it comes to buying books. I also ran my own bookstagram in 2015 which inspired me to read and collect more.

My books became my life. I almost lost them all when I joined a Born Again Christian organization in college. The previous church leaders took the Bible too literally they made us think my books, which consisted mostly of angel-demon-witchcraft-stories, “are a doorway of the ‘enemy.’” [Yes, those were their exact words.] Funny that I almost believed them and was on the verge of burning my books. Thankfully I didn’t. It turned out those church leaders were actually inhumane, hiding behind the facade of the church.

MY FIRST EVER SHELF WAS ACTUALLY A LADDER which the interior designer painted black to go with my room’s theme. I kept bugging my dad to buy me new shelves as my collection grew. When we finally had the time, he asked his client to make me two huge shelves.

I gradually and painstakingly collected hardbacks. Back then, buying books was only for reading. But as my pile of books grew bigger, my desire to start a collection only intensified. My dad was actually the one who suggested I collect hardbacks instead. They’re quite expensive though so I’m planning to replace all my paperbacks when I’m already a lawyer.

I STOPPED READING AND COLLECTING BOOKS IN 2016 BECAUSE OF MY EX, D. I was still an avid reader at the beginning of our relationship but he was so petty he’d get jealous of my books. Yup, pathetic, I know. He loved movies and TV shows but I preferred books. So every time he’d watch, I’d bring out a book. But he would always grab the book and set it aside, insisting I should be spending time with him and not with my book. Added is the fact that I lost interest in my fictional boyfriends because I had my own boyfriend anyway.

I tried reading again when we broke up but I just no longer had the heart to.

My interest in reading fictional books was finally rekindled last November when my friends and I went to BGC as a sidetrip during our Bar Operations. I have been to BGC numerous times already but it was the first time I’m visiting Fullybooked. Lo and behold, the sight of V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic collector’s edition welcomed me. Once again I was pulled in my own reverie at the sight of books. I was very much amazed I kept squealing! And as if it wasn’t enough, Ellie, one of my fellow bookworms, enticed me to go and buy some. “Bumili ka na, ang tagal nanaman bago tayo makakabalik because Law school.” were her exact words. Demonyo talaga HAHAHAHAHA. So I bought three: A Darker Shade of Magic, The Raven King and The Crooked Kingdom.

The sight of the books, the excitement of buying them, of holding them, it was a familiar yet unfamiliar feeling. I don’t know how else I can describe the pleasure of holding my new books. All I know is, I’m finally home.

I’ve yet to post pictures of my second shelf. Coincidentally, my ipad ran out of battery when I was about to send the pictures to post.

#book collection #bookwormph #tantan

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sapphicreader · 5 years

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Adarna House also has a stall outside the Big Bad Wolf hall. Please give them a visit. They have discounted books too! 💕 #janussilang #janussilangatangtiyanakngtabon #adarna #adarnahouse #thisisfrombbwmanila19 #iamatbbwmanila19 #bigbadwolf #bigbadwolf2019 #bigbadwolfbooks #bigbadwolfbooksph #bigbadwolfph #bookwormph #bookstagramph #bookstagrammerph #bookloverph #readerph #readingph #literatureph #igreadsph #literatureloverph #bibliophileph #bookwormph #yalovinph #booknerdph #bookaholicph #instabooksph #igreadsph https://www.instagram.com/p/BuafSGCnsKS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e3dt5m49da12

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allthingsgene · 6 years

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Day 01: August TBR :) Here are the books that I am going to try and read this month! Hopefully I’ll be able to read at least 2 from the pile :) #bgphaugustchallenge2018 . Qotd: How about you? What’s your most anticipated read this month? . #book #booksph #bookworm #bookwormph #booklr #bookstagram #bookstagramersph #bookish #booklover #bookgiveaway #bookblogger #andrewsmcmeel

#bookgiveaway #bookwormph #booklr #booksph #bookblogger #bookworm #bookstagram #book #bookstagramersph #bookish #booklover #andrewsmcmeel #bgphaugustchallenge2018

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manulovestowritee · 3 years

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Book lover . . . . . #manulovestowrite #bookstagram #bibliophile #book #books #bookish #reading #bookaholic #booknerd #igreads #booklove #bookwormph #booksforsaleph #reader #booksforsalemnl #cheapbooksph #bukumurah #booksforsale #murangbooksph #booksellerph #secondhandbooksforsaleph #bookloversmnl #forsale #bookwormmnl https://www.instagram.com/p/COdEm-anHmB/?igshid=vs3m34dqr53t

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bookreaderclub · 3 years

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My favourite quote from this book! Have you read this book? Comment your thoughts about it💬 Follow @Bookreadersclub #Bookreadersclub #onebookonequote #chaseyourdream #bookmaker #bookoflife #bookmetoday #bookmemes #bookchat #bookwormph #booksforever #bookshops #booksandbeans #quotesfortheday #bookrecommendation #bookrecommendations #quotesforyou #bookstack #quoteslover #bookmarks #bookshelves #bookwithme #bookslover #quotesaboutlife #bookstagrammer #bookaholic #bookphotography #booklove #booksofinstagram #bookstagramindia #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CJiaLRAn7QG/?igshid=1kklbsh6fn5at

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wild-awake · 2 years

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“Then again, the names we are born with can end up meaning so little. The names we give ourselves, well, perhaps that’s the truth of us.” —Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents — #roshanichokshi #thegildedwolves #thesilveredserpents — • • • • • • • #bookstagram #bookstagramph #bookstagramphilippines #bookstagrammer #booksph #bookworm #bookwormph #bookstagramlife #bookishflatlay #booksofinstagram #bookstagramfeature #readersofinstagram #bookporn #readsandwanders #like4like #bookphotography #vscoreads #goodreads #epicreads #bibliophile #lightroom (at Sa Tabing Dagat) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb1iH1brCfg/?utm_medium=tumblr

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topherpikebooks · 1 year

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Not sure where to look? #amazonkindle #beachreads #bookaddiction #bookaholics #bookinstagram #bookishcommunity #bookishlife #booklove #booklover #bookloversunite #booktok #bookwormph #bookworms #currentlyreading #epicreads #readingaddict #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #readingfestival #readingisfun #readingislife #readingismagic #readtoyourkids #romancereaders #romancereadersofinstagram #shelfies #summerreads https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXBtFGOwo1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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bookwormshearts · 3 years

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"We can’t let boys define how we feel about ourselves. You have to know who you are before you should let any boy worth anything in"-Kasie West 🌲This line tells you so much, right? We shouldn’t depend on others, you have to learn how to love yourselves first.You don’t find your worth in a guy. You find your worth within yourself and then find a guy who’s worthy of you. This book and the plot line is so relatable. 🌲This novel is hilarious, relatable, and very heartwarming. On The Fence is the story of Charlie, a girl who grew up with a single father and three brothers, Jerom, Nathan and Gage, plus Braden, their neighbor who might as well be her fourth brother for always being with them. Right from the start it’s always been Charlie, her father, her brothers and Braden. They’re a family which is very lovely. Now Charlie is sixteen and growing up surrounded by her brothers and Braden, she has somehow became “one of the boys”. Being a tomboy, it’s like she’s lost and needs someone to teach her the basics when it comes to dresses, makeup and other girly stuff. There is Braden who she's crushing on since forever. which eventually leads to realizing some hidden feelings inside her. 🌲I know this book subject matter is very common trope in romance books but it seriously gave me all the feels! It’s adorable and sweet and I just love everything EVERYTHING about it, thus 5 stars! The story runs in a good pacing, the characters are all lovely, the family dynamic is present and Charlie is the kind of character you can easily connect with. I thought it would be a short review but 😅 i couldn’t finish when I start writing. Rate:🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 #bookloversforlife #bookbloggerlife #bookishlove🧡 #bookisawesome #bookislife❤📚 #bookaholicgirl #bookwormph #bookworm🐛 #reviewbook #booknerdproblems #bookshelf #bookstagrambd #cozyreading #bookishproblems #fallreadinglist #bookstagramcommunity #kasiewest #onthefence #booksandcoffee☕️ #earphone🎧 #audiobook #romancebookstagrammer https://www.instagram.com/p/CIvQqfqA8Ok/?igshid=1jskupyjslfks

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jaowonders-blog · 4 years

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𝔸𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕝𝕕𝕖𝕣: 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕕 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕥. 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕂𝕚𝕟𝕘, 𝕊𝕝𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔹𝕖𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕤 #bookdragon #bookmoments #bookstagram #aestheticedits #aesthetic #theme #preset #bookworm #bookwormph #pinoyreads #bookish #booklove #booklover #Bookloverph #Horror #booktography #ilovereading #read #book #model #minimalism https://www.instagram.com/p/B9c2tmBph8t/?igshid=otevjs2zbuwm

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mustafaokutan · 6 years

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@t_akta #kitapokufotografcek #haftasonuu #keyif #huzurlu #aniyakala #müzik #kitap #çay #instaphoto #bugununkaresi #photograph #bookstagram #kitapokuyorum #kitapaski #kitapsevgisi #reading #okumak #okumahalleri #mutlulukla #bookaddict #bookwormph #instagram #booklovers #instalife_shot #instagoods #objektifimden #photographers #denız #gunes #fotografheryerde

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sapphicreader · 5 years

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Big Bad Wolf loots! Found most of the books I've been dying to have especially 3 LGBT books. 💓💓💓 #thisisfrombbwmanila19 #iamatbbwmanila19 #bigbadwolf #bigbadwolf2019 #bigbadwolfbooks #bigbadwolfbooksph #bigbadwolfph #books #bookwormph #bookstagram #bookstagramph #bookstagrammer #bookstagrammerph #booklover #bookloverph #reader #reading #literature #lgbt #wlw #igreads #literaturelover #bibliophile #bookworm #bookwormph #yalovin #booknerd #bookaholic #instabooks https://www.instagram.com/p/Buadq7wH4bc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12qkgnfdq1hme

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