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thelivebookproject · 1 year

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January - March 2023 | Reading Wrap Up

Hello all!

Since I'm no longer reading enough to do monthly wrap ups (much to my chagrin, life continues taking over and I'm fighting from my corner), I thought I'd do a three-month one instead 😅

Code: books read in English are in black, books read in Spanish are in red and the book I read in French is in blue.

JANUARY (1)

• Loathe to Love You (The STEMinist Novellas #1-3) - Ali Hazelwood → 3.5/5

My year began pretty disappointing, with only one book (a collection of three novellas) to show for the whole of January.

The good: very fun, fast and easy to read. It was also a buddy read with a friend, so I had someone to chat with!

The bad: all three books I've read by Ali Hazelwood have been exactly the same tropes, characters, and basically plots over and over again. Which, I enjoy them, but reading three of the same thing in a row, even if they were short, was a bit too much.

FEBRUARY (2)

• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna → 4/5

• Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Sorcery of Thorns #1.5) - Margaret Rogerson → 3/5

Two very good and enjoyable books marked my February! I really enjoyed Sorcery of Thorns back when I read it in 2020 so it was nice to go back to the world for a little bit, and Sangu Mandanna's was lovely, peaceful, and a nice pick-me-up in dreary weather. I'll definitely look out for other books from the same author!

MARCH (5)

• L'Énigme de la chambre 622 - Joël Dicker → 1/0

• Los Cinco y el tesoro de la isla (Los Cinco #1) - Enid Blyton, translation by Juan Ríos de la Rosa → 3.5/5

• Otra aventura de los Cinco (Los Cinco #2) - Enid Blyton, translation by Juan Ríos de la Rosa → 3/5

• The Answer You Are Looking For Is Yes (A Witch Way Anthology #1) - Olivie Blake → 4/5

• Clara and the Devil - Olivie Blake & Little Chmura → 3.5/5

It took me THREE MONTHS to finish Joël Dicker's so I think that alone speaks for itself. I really enjoyed his Harry Quebert book when I read it back in 2016, so that's what prompted me to buy this other one, and it was just... So terrible. So, so bad. If I could rate it negative points, I would. At least I bought it second-hand in a book fair so it only cost 2€ because what a disappointment otherwise!

In happier notes, I went back to my childhood and read two Famous Five books that were around in my family's house, in their original Spanish translations. Questionable translation decisions aside (how have the times changed!), I did enjoy this little trip down nostalgia lane, which, to be entirely honest, was partly forced by my E-reader dying after seven faithful years of service... RIP.

But not all was dire, because I bought a new E-reader (an Inkbook Calypso Plus, if anyone was curious) and used it for the first time to read Olivie Blake's five romantic novellas/short story collection, which was an absolute delight. Some novellas I enjoyed more than others, but overall it was honestly really fun. While I was Olivie-ing, I also gave graphic novel Clara and the Devil (available in Webtoon, drawings by Little Chmura) a read. It was short but a bit generally unsatisfying.

And this was mostly it! On top of the Forgotten YA Gems book club over in Goodreads (wonderfully managed by Carrie), I also joined a book club in Spanish called La vuelta al mundo en 80 libros. It's managed by my good friend Cris, so if you can read in Spanish and are interested in diversifying your readings by country, do give it a try! (To be entirely honest, I haven't read anything related to any of those book clubs in 2023 yet. But hopefully soon I'll get the chance!)

How has your reading in 2023 been? Any highlights? Talk to me, since I'm barely on here and don't know what everyone is doing!

#thelivebookproject #booklr #reading wrap up #2023

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olivieblake · 1 year

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Hi Olivie! I am back with some praise for “The Lovers Grim”!!! I did read this in November but life went crazy (as it always does) so I am just now sending you my praise. (spoilers included). This is a bit long but most of its length just comes from me sending quotes I loved so hopefully if you just skim those it won’t be as long, I’m sorry :(

I keep telling people that it was a lot sexier than the preceding books in the fairytale collections so that made it super fun overall!!!

Clara and the Devil: What a fun way to start! I love stories where the devil shows up and there’s temptation so I knew I was going to love this one, and I did! I love Clara, I find her super relatable to me. I keep notes in my notes app on my phone as I read your books and I just have written “this is just sexy and everyone is horny” so many times hahah (please take that as a compliment because it is). THE ENDING TOO LIKE 🥵 MY GOD I LOVED IT. Made me want to immediately go jump the WEBTOON, which I did and am obsessed with. The female version of the devil is 🥵 and I definitely have some theories on everything. I’m really liking the bargains with the universe part, I too make bargains with the universe in the hopes it will help me. I read the new update from yesterday too and ahhh so excited to see where everything goes. THE ART OF COURSE IS BEAUTIFUL SENDING MY PRAISE TO LITTLE CHMURA.

I loved this line from the story “I’d asked him to meet me on the beach in the middle of the night, which were terms the devil readily agreed to. He was very agreeable that way, which I hated, but which I also understood. He was reliably available for my sins.”

Both the “Apple’s a bit much don’t you think” and Devil’s food cake made me laugh hahahaha. I also really liked the line “There is more to being good than simply abstaining from vice.”

Once it Happens: OLIVIE THIS STORY!!! It’s truly a story I always dreamed of wanting and just didn’t know existed so I’m super thankful you wrote it. I also did cry as well as feel a whole range of emotions (which as an emotionally repressed person is some of the highest praise I can give you). I’m a lover of the idea of being in someone’s orbit/fate drawing people together/invisible string/soulmates so this story was exactly what I needed. I consider this (and La Petite Mort obviously which I actually reread in December as a pick me up with the audiobook-also fantastic-and loved it even more the second time around.Thanks for that book❤️) my two matches made in heaven. This story actually explains why I ship certain ships, like nicolibby for example, just because I find this type of dynamic to be a super strong and important connection so it makes it hard to fathom them being with other people (for me specifically). Even the bit where “Once it happens, it can't unhappen. It can't be undone.” made me think of “we met, so now we can’t detach” type thing. Most of my favorite ships have this type of dynamic so it made me love this story even more. This story is one I still think about 24/7 and it just made me think a lot/it said so much in so little and left such an impact on me. I think I tabbed every paragraph in this one like I loved it and could probably just sit here and write down every one and tell you all my thoughts etc but that would waste so much of your time so I shall refrain. Just know “I LOVE THIS STORY SO FUCKING MUCH” was written in my notes on this one about 100 times. Enjoy a few of my random rambles:

All the different times they could meet/that it happens and THE ICE CREAM SHOP BEING A COMMON THEME.

“They are children together, opening gifts. They are teenagers, discovering life. They are adults, and sad ones, and when he tilts her chin up for a kiss she breathes something into his mouth he's certain is one word: Finally. He will marry her within a year.” THIS MADE ME CRY

“They live separately and their lives never cross. His children will have her smile and her sense of humor, and neither of them will ever know it.” THEY STILL HAVE THE THREADS OF EACH OTHER IN LIVES THEY DON’T KNOW EACH OTHER (this also made me cry)

The ice cream shop closing 😭😭😭 and then figuring out they grew up in the same town and they think about how they could have met a thousand different ways and didn’t, it’s funny how they came so close and she says she’s glad it finally

THE ENDING PARAGRAPH I’M CRYING AGAIN

Literally thank you for this story and thank you for just writing all my favorite stories and books, much love❤️❤️❤️

Captain McIver’s Ship of Souls: This one was so funny and I loved seeing Arno just be confused about humans haha but I was so intrigued. My personal favorite thing was that the finfolk crave blood and the multiple blood sucking scenes, I don’t know what that says about me but hey it WORKS for me and made me just so very happy to see. THANK YOU QUEEN. The twist in this one was also super good, I didn’t see it coming. I have decided that Eilif from the TA6 universe is one of Arno’s cousins (it is canon in my heart and that is all that matters <3) Here’s some moments I absolutely loved.

“Captain,” comes the voice of Eli's first mate. He's the one who was last to jump on Eli's orders, Arno notes, and dislikes him slightly, though without any particular reason.” We love when a love interest hates a person for just not respecting their love interest!!! ONE OF MY FAVS

To Make a Man: So interesting!!! I was trying to guess what type of creatures they both were the whole time and the stakes were super high so it was so hard to put down. Marcelo has some great lines like ugh THIS MAN he was down so bad. The angst in this is god tier. I just love that they each brought a little bit of peace to each other for a time, and in my head they can find their way back together in however many years.

“Lina, Lina, Lina. You are the softness of your skin, the sharpness of your mind. You are the knife-edge of your humor, which doesn't look like humor at first because, on you, joy looks like suspicion. You are the distance you so meticulously keep between us. You are the door, the latch, the key I understand now that I am an invasion; even with my best intentions, you can only trust me the way you'd trust a flood. There's no choosing which parts of me you accept or which parts of you I want. We seep in through each other's cracks, all or nothing” I LOVED THIS LIKE MY GOD I LOVED IT SO MUCH

“He would have traded euphoria just to keep her, to make her the subject of his tedium. To live a colorless life in the shade of her bones, in the sound of her breath, knowing and eternally recounting the monotony of her details until he grinds himself down to nothing, never learning or experiencing another beautiful thing.” STOPPPP SO GOOD

“Someday, she thought, she would remember this for all that it was, and for all that it wasn't. She would resurrect this very moment into countless perpetuity and embrace the searing pain of it; suffer the boundless joy. Because it had been real. Every moment of it. Every blessed thread.” PAIN

Kill the Bachelor: Another dream I didn’t think to have but like two contestants on the Bachelor ditching him and falling in love??? Amazing. The TV script set up was so cool too it really made me feel like I was just watching episodes of the bachelor. All the satire in this was A+. This one also had me laughing a bunch. Anway, men suck and women are always better (but Josh’s crush on Lauren was cute too)

YAY woman in STEM!!!

“Do you ever feel like you're in this crowd of people and nobody really sees you? Like, you're there, but nobody gets you, you know what I mean?" Yes all the time

KARA (sympathetically)

“A sad day for all Bachelor fans indeed, Craig."

CRAIG (nodding)

"Sure is, Kara! And now, Andrew with the weather."

That made me laugh out loud

I’ll be sending my praise for YES super soon (hopefully soon at least lol I have condense my thoughts/praise to make it not a novel like I LOVED that book and CecilyPorter have joined the crowd of my beloved ships-they are up there with nicolibby, mayracal, and aldoregan for me and by now I’m sure you know how much I love those other 3-so yeah that probably says everything you need to know but I can’t wait to express more of my love of them to you later haha). I’m currently reading “Grow Your Own Optimist!” and loving it so far!

-Amanda

hahaha never apologize! I'm so happy you enjoyed the stories and I'm never mad about getting to know which quotes you liked. I agree, "once it happens" is one of my favorite stories. I feel like that one might be the olivie brand in brief summation? just... about love and life and time and fate and also blowjobs and ice cream. anyway

OH I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT CLARA POSTING AGAIN. I can't wait for you guys to see the end of this season. I mean obviously you know by now I'm obsessed with chmura's art but also I'm pretty proud of how the story ends, because I never intended to keep writing in this universe and wasn't sure I could do a sequel that felt the same way, but I think (fingers crossed) I managed it. I'm really excited to show you the finished product!

#the lovers grim #clara and the devil #filling the bucket

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littlechmura · 4 years

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The Clara and the Devil Episode 1 is OUT NOW https://bit.ly/2MI2vWn

#olivie blake writes #little chmura draws #clara and the devil #dark acadamia aesthetic #webcomic #featured

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xxadamdriverswifexx · 6 years

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I commissioned the lovely @littlechmura to draw how Kylo and Rey look after the tryst, just before they go back to being the Commander of the First Order and member of the Resistance respectively. She did not disappoint. This is so amazing! 😍💚 Note: Little Chmura doesn't watermark her art, but I do with all the work I commission from various artists. One of the art I've commissioned was used by someone else for her own fic, so I hope you understand. Please do not repost without credit. 💚

#reylo #reylo fan art #reylo trash #kylo ren #kylo redemption #kylo rey #kylo ren x rey #kylo x rey #ben solo #save ben solo #star wars #star wars the last jedi #star wars tlj #adam driver #adam x daisy #daisy ridley #little chmura #reblog or like #please do not repost

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karmadash-is-shippingtrash · 5 years

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Local cat says read this book!

(since @littlechmura‘s art is - feature in this book and she adores Misty I decided this picture is totally the best one to promote the books)

Ok so, it’s taken me a few days to pull together my thoughts on reading Masters Of Death (mostly because I read on my uni commutes on the train and I easily distract myself so I often have to re-read a paragraph 😂) by the very wonderful @olivieblake. So here’s my little (and spoiler free) review as possible under the cut.

Ok so to start, the majority of books I read are totally YA romance because I’m a simple bitch and I’m looking for simple entertainment at the expense of myself usually judging them very hard afterward (I’m looking at you Twilight, Hunger Games, HP and Vampire Diaries) it I read novel adaptions of movies/games I play so picking up Masters Of Death was a very new experience of me choosing to read a book out of my comfort zone.

To start, I love the whole cast, my personal favourite is Isis (often referring to her in my head as a queen, I just love her), I’m positive if I met her we’d be best friends and causing trouble at any given moment, I loved Cal (and not just because Chmura drew him incredibly attractive) but because I found him to be quite normal compared to everybody else, he’s defiantly the type id rely on. The cast as a whole were all so unique and I’m really glad that Olivie writes such dynamic personalities that doesn’t fall into the trap of a character becoming a bore. Each character brings something new and important to the story to constantly keep you waiting for what’ll happen next, and for any new appearances (just when you think you’ve met everybody, another is just around the corner).

The story was something original to me, though the concept itself may have been explored times before this telling of the story couples with the abundance of wonderful characters really makes everything enjoyable from start to finish, even when Olivie throws a curveball to the assumptions I made while reading. (Of which I can’t say for those that want to ready but, whoa)

Chmura’s drawings of the characters that are scattered through the book are amazing to me, I tend to never have a clear picture of a character in my head (though it doesn’t stop me seeing some adaptions cast a complete opposite to what I expected) so I often find when a book has pictures of the people so much easier for me to picture the scenes taking place with he people looking as they are. (Once again, Cal is too attractive, halp)

All in all, if your a fan of supernatural mystery novels, I defiantly recommend Masters Of Death.

I am very much looking forward to Lovely Tangled Vices over the weeks leading to my Christmas break (provided the typical Welsh weather is kind to me and isn’t raining because I’m always worried the books in my bag will get ruined)

#book rec #RIP my laptop is so slow this took me like half an hour to post

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alexandrao · 7 years

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Check out this drawing! It was commissioned by lewandallons-y, and drawn by Little Chmura. I am using it for my most recent story called The Piano Bar. Check it out here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12593888/1/The-Piano-Bar

#Dramione Draco Hermione HarryPotter

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olivieblake · 2 years

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Hi! How did you make cover for nightmares and nocturnes & ride or die? All your covers are amazing, but these really caught my eyes (and the stories dried up my tear ducts, thank you very much). Did you use vector art for that?

P. S. - I still haven’t read My Mechanical Romance, but I can’t wait to read it. And the cover for that book is also amazing. P. P. S.- I never got the opportunity to say this, but congratulations on your success. I love all your stories and that collaboration with Little Chmura (Clara and the Devil) is something I’ve recommended to all of my friends.

hi! this is in my faq although the short answer is, as ever, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I use adobe programs, mostly indesign and illustrator and I do use some vector art from adobe stock (you can see that in the ride or die cover specifically, I definitely didn’t draw those eyes!)

thank you so much for reading all my stories!! and appreciating all the art. I definitely got very lucky with my cover art all around, and of course I was kissed by fate the day @littlechmura found me. I can’t wait for you guys to see everything to come in Clara!!!

#frequently asked questions #my mechanical romance #that cover is by jacqueline li @jacqlnli on socials #clara and the devil

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littlechmura · 4 years

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while I enjoy drawing, animation is just MmMMm i love

Animated Clara from Clara and the Devil, written by @olivieblake illustrated by @littlechmura

#clara and the devil #webtoon #webtoon canvas #illustration #animation #olivie blake writes #little chmura draws #featured

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littlechmura · 4 years

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“I could feel myself unraveling, and it was strange and new and yet somehow familiar, perhaps because the devil himself had told me that the tension, the struggle before a climax, was pain.”

from Clara and the Devil, written by @olivieblake illustrated by @littlechmura

read chapter 3 here (link)

#clara and the devil #dark acadamia aesthetic #graphic novel #webtoon #webtoon canvas #olivie blake writes #little chmura draws #featured

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littlechmura · 4 years

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"I’d asked him to meet me on the beach in the middle of the night, which were terms the devil readily agreed to. He was agreeable that way, making himself available for my sins."

- from Episode 4, Clara and the Devil - written by @olivieblake illustrated by @littlechmura

is up now! https://bit.ly/31jM37h

#dark acadamia aesthetic #clara and the devil #webtoon #graphic nocel #olivie blake writes #little chmura draws #catd #featured

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littlechmura · 4 years

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I can't wait for you all to read Clara and the Devil, episode 2 (Written by @olivieblake, illustrated by yours truly)

LET ME KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS https://bit.ly/30LcB1b

#dark acadamia aesthetic #webtoon #webcomic #art #little chmura draws #olivie blake writes #featured

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littlechmura · 4 years

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Hello, this is Nick. Letting you know the first chapter of Clara and the Devil will be out tomorrow.

#clara and the devil #olivie blake writes #little chmura draws #dark acadamia aesthetic #art #webtoon #little chmura #featured

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littlechmura · 4 years

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STEP INTO a Friday moooood 💃 ok I'll see myself out. What are your plans for this evening? I'll probably play Heroes of the Storm with my gal pals, a very serious game of strategic nature. At least as respectable as chess, if I can say so myself 🧐

#clara and the devil #catd #webtoon #webtoon canvas #illustration #animation #olivie blake writes #little chmura draws #featured

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littlechmura · 4 years

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