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juleworm · 11 months

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hello!! given that it is the first weekend in june, i'd like to go through everything that i read in the month of may and say if i would or would not recommend it and why. lets go !!

in chronological order of reading:

king of pride - ana huang: YES absolutely! god i loved this book. more specifically, yes i would recommend it if you like opposites attract in romance and dating, or if you like income gap relationships ( he's a billionaire, she's a struggling author ), and yes if you like incredibly hot and well written spicy scenes between characters. i honestly can't even think of a no unless you literally just hate spicy romance as a genre; even then i still think this book deserves a chance for your time. i absolutely adore this book.

2. den of vipers - k.a. knight: yes if you miss reading self-insert on wattpad and like pick me fmcs. the vipers themselves do have a lot of good character behind them, but as far as the fmc...i just really didn't like her. i did finish the entire book hoping that it would get better towards the end, but in my opinion the ending was one of the worse parts of the book and throughout it all it felt very predictable. would i generally recommend this? no. but it's definitely a hit or miss book. you'll either really like it, or not like it at all.

3. does it hurt? - h.d. carlton: yes yes yes yes yes. this was my favorite read of the month of may. i'd recommend it even more if you like witty and funny fmcs; it's sort of a dark romance version of grumpy x sunshine. it has a lot of spice and it's very creative if that makes sense? it's not just boring vanilla missionary, that's for sure. the mmcs character is phenomenal and both of them each have very full character arcs. but i wouldn't recommend it if mentions of incest and domestic abuse trigger you, or if body horror and gore triggers you.

4. never lie - freida mcfadden: yes if you're new to thrillers and want something easy to digest. definitely not if you're not new to thrillers and have read some absolutely breathtaking ones that kept you up at night. to me it had a rather predictable storyline, a twist that falls flat, and characters with absolutely zero depth or anywhere near a completed arc. i really did not like this book at all. also yes if you like a quick read; this didn't take me very long to get through.

5 + 6. there are no saints / there is no devil [ sinner's duet ] - sophie lark: yes if you like a "beginner" dark romance that doesn't stray too far into depravity, but still has a very dominant and demanding mmc. no if you've read things by h.d. carlton or other dark romance authors and that's your expectation level. this might come off as boring to you. however as this was a bit tame for me storyline wise, the spicy scenes were amazing and i did like that they were both artists. i feel like usually billionaires are business-oriented but it was cool to see a wealthy and famous artist. also yes if you like mentor romance dynamics.

7. iced out - veronica eden: yes if you like boys who are very clearly written by women ( in a good way! ). the mmc is perfectly balanced; he's as hot and dominant as he is cute and sweet and nice and thoughtful. he's pretty much the picturesque model citizen for what a girl typically would want in a perfectly healthy romantic relationship. there's very little drama between characters, which i personally liked. but no if parental death or familial death or grief/loss are triggers for you. for a more in-depth response, i did a spoiler free book review here!

if you do read any of these let me know! i'd love to see how our opinions differ :))

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annafromuni · 2 days

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My April Reading Summary

Overall Mood: preoccupied. With a lot of house stuff happening this month and a few out of house things too I haven’t had the peaceful space to read. It’s not that tragic though because my reading bug was feeling a little sleepy still and I didn’t want to force myself to get a few more titles down just for the sake of making up numbers – something I do not want to focus on this year so I think…

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sparkagrace · 1 year

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Hello! I've read almost 100 fics so far this year, which is incredible. I read almost the same amount of fics as last month, but they were much shorter on average.

march

200,742 words read over 28 fics (average of 7,169 words per fic, not including wips) 📉 down 26.2% from February

current total for the year: 669,087 words

a handful of fic recs

better to speak or die by @between-a-ship-and-a-hard-place stucky | E | 69k

My Heart Skips A Beat When I'm With You by @mind-empty-heart-full stucky | E | 5.4k

by my own hand by @dontcallmebree stucky | M | 1.1k

soft landing by @plincess-cho stucky | G | 1.3k

Tastes Like Spring Break by @buckybarnesdeservestobehappy stucky | E | 2.8k

A Kiss Just Waiting to Happen by @voylitscope stucky | E | 4.6k

Arctic Fervor by @smutconnoisseur bucky barnes x johnny storm | E | 2k

a couple of author recs

@buckyismybicycle recs: if you got a hunger for what you see, you'll take it eventually [stucky | 1.2k], candy, sugar, sweets — tell me everything that you need [stucky | 2.2k]

@padfoot-and-the-marauders recs: Little Giant [stucky | 11.8k], I'll Cover You (with a thousand sweet kisses) [stucky | 3k]

currently streaming some wips started this month

New Hands on Deck by @duchessonfire stucky | E | 1 of 7

a league of our own by @burnin-brighter stucky | E | 2 of ?

Your BIGGEST fan... by @kahey2804 and @smutconnoisseur tj hammond x frank adler | E | ?

recently completed wips

motivation by @gfawkesphoenixchokingonashes stucky | E | 31.3k

be kind, rewind older fics or rereads

In which Bucky loses his careful poise, and lets the metal arm do what it will by aingeal stucky | E | 5.6k

All In White by reservoirgays stucky | E | 4.6k

the texting romcom of two very confused nonagenarians by StuckySituation stucky | T | 11.3k

That Same Slow Dance by @hollybennett123 stucky | E | 6k

#monthly fic recap #fic list #fic rec #author rec #steve x bucky #i didn't list wips from last month #but i am still reading and loving them

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bibliophilecats · 3 months

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Read this month: January 2024

I struggled a little with finding something I liked to read and ended up dnf'ing several books (luckily, all from the library - libraries are great!). But a reread of Discworld helped.

H. Fawcett: All the wandering light

T. Pratchett: Carpe jugulum (reread)

S. Fry: Heroes (audiobook)

L. Jackson Braun: The cat who robbed a bank (ebook)

#helen reads 2024 #read this month #reading recap #monthly recap #booklr

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waitingforthesunrise · 6 months

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October reading recap!! 1. Eleanor Oliphaunt is Perfectly Fine. 3.75/5. well-written novel following Eleanor as she struggles to make peace with a traumatic childhood and challenging relationship. 2. Brief Intervals Of Horrible Sanity. 3/5. School teacher attempts to lead a class in an experimental progressive school. Funny, but unfortunately unsatisfying. 3. No Parking At The End Times. 3/5. Abigail struggles to come to terms with her parents religious convictions and brother's rebellion.Interesting plot, but not followed through.

4. The Memory of Animals. 4.5/5. Easily one of the best dystopian novels l've read. It follows Neffy, a young marine biologist taking part in a vaccine trial during the deadliest pandemic the world has ever encountered.

5.Nimona. 4/5. Humorous graphic novel with surprisingly deep musings on government, relationships, and politics.

6. Butts: a Backstory. 4.80/5. Easily the best non-fiction I've read this year! An amusing examination on society's attitudes towards butts, and how it connects to feminism, racial politics, consumerism, and the human brain.

7. East of Eden by John Steinbeck. 5/5. Breathtaking and intense story inspired by the garden of Eden. 8. (not pictured) This Is How You Lose The Time War. 4.90/5. Intensely well-written sci-fi time traveling queer romance, told in the form of letters. I layed on the floor and sobbed after 😭

9. (not pictured) Generosities by Luci Shaw. 4/5. Beautiful poetry in the tone of Mary Oliver with a more pronounced Christian basis.

10. (not pictured) confessions of an alleged good girl. 4/5. A HAPPY QUEER CHRISTIAN SIDE CHARACTER HELLO?? amazing discussion of sex ed in the Christian church and the failings/successes. Highly reccomend!!

HAPPY READING!!!

#ari reads #monthly reading #reading recaps #books recs

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gellavonhamster · 2 months

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monthly media recap: february 2024

(better late than never)

read:

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - very sweet and moving, I cried a little in the end, also very different from what I usually read, so that was a nice change of scenery. Once again thanks to the friend who gave it to me, wouldn't have picked it up otherwise.

The Master of Ballantrae + short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson - good ol' family tragedy. I was a bit underwhelmed by the ending, but overall enjoyed the story. Didn't enjoy the short stories in this collection as much, but I liked how the three of them (The Pavilion on the Links, Thrawn Janet, and Markheim) were so different - a good way to represent the author's range.

King Artus - a 13th century Hebrew version of Arthuriana (Arthur's conception + beginning of the Lancelot episode involving Astolat). Very interesting for the way it swaps the Christian context for the Jewish one (e.g., the Grail becomes a charity bowl for distributing food).

The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo by "Uriah Derick D'Arcy" - considered, among other things, the first Black vampire story and the first vampire story by an American author. I kind of struggled through it due to style but the context and references (long live footnotes) made it worth the trouble. Can't say I enjoyed it much as a story, but it broadened my horizon.

+ currently reading The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Volume 2 of W.I.T.C.H. comics (what? I never learned how it ended as a kid)

watched:

Poor Things (2023) - weird (compliment), beautiful, disgusting, absurd, and funny. Honestly don't know if I liked it, but it was though-provoking, that's for sure.

Šķelšanās (The Split, 2023) - a four-episode Latvian documentary, mostly on the divide between ethnically Latvian and Russian people in Latvia (and among ethnically Russian people in Latvia) in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but also about other things. I. Don't know if it makes sense to describe it broadly here, I barely have any followers familiar with the context. But I'd say that, despite a lot of moments that made me physically cringe (god, that last episode about social media campaigns against adopting the Istanbul Convention and spreading misinformation about sex education at schools made my skin crawl. Btw, the Convention was adopted, these assholes can choke), it made me weirdly hopeful. Dialogue is possible, united society is possible. This has been my opinion too, and the older I get, the more I realize that people on all sides who try to tell you it's not are just after their own profit and success.

#talk talk talk #monthly media recap #reading one piece made me unlearn how to watch movies bc first i spent evenings reading when i would normally put a movie on #and now i just have too many art/fic/theories to see/read/look for/try to write or make so there's no time for movies again #and it's always been harder for me to make myself watch something than to make myself read something anyway

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fairyinpages · 2 months

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★ — february wrap up

february was a very lightweight month, freaking thanks. things were falling back into place and it finally feels like my year has started. everything is official now. i've read very easy and fast paced books and started a book club with friends. it was very good.

books read: 3 — total pages: 962

the princess diaries by meg cabot — 3.5 stars

princess in the spotlight by meg cabot — 2 stars

this heart of mine by c. c. hunter — 4 stars

moodboards will be coming soon, stay tuned.

and welcome march. let it bring more happy endings. ♡

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luminouscrow · 2 months

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february reading recap 🌞🌊🐚

salt river road by molly schmidt ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

all boys aren’t blue by george m. johnson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

an abundance of katherines by john green ⭐️⭐️⭐️

before the coffee gets cold by toshikazu kawaguchi ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

detransition, baby by torrey peters ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

radiance by alyson noël (re read) 🩷

divergent by veronica roth (re read) 🩷

#bookblr #book blog #books and reading #monthly recap #reading recap #book recommendations #book recs #books and libraries #reader

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brightbeautifulthings · 1 year

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January

reviews Begin Again by Emma Lord (4/5) Burn the Negative by Josh Winning (4/5) Shades of Rust and Ruin by A.G. Howard (4/5) Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider, Vol. 2: Impossible Year by Seanan McGuire (4/5) Such Pretty Flowers by K.L. Cerra (3/5) The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (3/5) Little Eve by Catriona Ward (2/5) Five Survive by Holly Jackson (2/5)

rereads The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (5/5) The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (4/5)

etcetera Readalikes: The VVitch (2015) & In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt TMST: Reading & Blogging Goals Aesthetics: The Goblins of Bellwater by Molly Ringle

#monthly reads #monthly recap #monthly wrap up #january reading #january wrap up

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accidentalspaceexplorer · 2 years

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August Monthly Recap:

I was participating in Magical Readathon this month, which definitely galvanized my reading at the beginning of the month! Less so towards the end once I had completed what I wanted to complete, but I still read 22 books in August, making it my best reading month of the year! I also read so many 5-star books this month: Reel, The Invisible Kingdom, The Fifth Elephant, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words, and The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes.

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahami: 4.5/5

Truth or Beard by Penny Reid: 3.25/5

Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford: 2/5

The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi: 2/5

Activation Degradation by Marina Lostetter: 4.75/5

The City Inside by Samit Basu: 2/5, dnf

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery: 5/5, reread

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers: 4.5/5

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann: 3/5

The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett: 5/5

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 2 by Kamome Shirahami: 4.75/5

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 3 by Kamome Shirahami: 4.75/5

The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold: 4.75/5

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson: 5/5

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery: 5/5, reread

The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke: 5/5

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian: 5/5

Reel by Kennedy Ryan: 5/5

Heart’s Blood by Juliet Marillier: 4.75/5

Knot of Shadows by Lois McMaster Bujold: 4.75/5

The Unbroken by C. L. Clark: 2.5/5, dnf

Captive Prince by C. S. Pacat: 3.5/5

And now for my goals below the cut:

22 in 2022: 10

Read 100 books: 122

Read 40% AOC: 35.5% as of Heart’s Blood

Completing Series: 21 caught up/completed vs. 15 started

Translated Works: 5

Books in Spanish: 0

Numbered TBR: 11

Discworld: 2

Books by an Indigenous Author: 2

Physical TBR: 12

Storygraph Recs: 3

And for Magical Readathon, I completed the Craftsmage calling, several extra classes, and 6 quests!

#monthly recap #august 2022 #book review #I'm doing well on a lot of my goals #but not my 22 in 2022 #but boy I read a lot of awesome books

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annafromuni · 1 month

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My March Reading Summary

Overall Mood: not good. My reading has been lacklustre to say the least – not in the titles themselves, but in my ability to actually read them. I have had to return some big name books simply because I either couldn’t get into them or I just didn’t have the time to read them. I’ve unofficially called a clean slate on my reading so hopefully in April I will have the peace of mind to get back into…

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sparkagrace · 1 year

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Hello! This month had a lot more longer reads and some wips that completed (which then fall into this month's stats). I don't feel like I particularly read as much as in January but apparently the stats say otherwise!

february

272,119 words over 30 fics (average of 9,071 words per fic, not including any wips) 📈 38.7% from January

current total for the year: 468,345 words

a handful of fic recs

Another Song, Another Spring by @somanywords stucky | T | 47k

Journeys End in Lovers Meeting by @trenchcoatsandtimetravel stucky | G | 3.4k

i was never cool (and all i wanted was just to have you) by @dreamsinthewitchouse stucky | E | 2.4k

You Know We're The Same Kind by @bittersweet-in-boston stucky | E | 11k

Hot n' Cold by @fandomfluffandfuck stucky | E | 4.6k

Tell Me I'm Your National Anthem by @cable-knit-sweater stucky | T | 4k

spoil me by @buckyismybicycle bucky x torres | E | 4.4k

a couple of author recs

@voylitscope recs: I'm Gonna Keep You Weak in the Knees (Try to Unlock Your Heart) [bucky/nat/steve | 4.3k], We Were Strangers for Far Too Long [stucky | 5.3k]

@smutconnoisseur recs: Ink'd Red [stucky | 3k], Jailhouse Rock [stucky | 1.9k]

currently streaming some wips i've started this month

better to speak or die by @between-a-ship-and-a-hard-place stucky | M | 7 of 13

How to (Try to) Lose a Guy in 10 Days by @rohruh stucky | E | 2 of 10

recently completed wips

Atoms by @andrea1717, art by @kahey2804 stucky | E | 49k

then a small thing happened by @beaarthurpendragon stucky | E | 5.9k (epilogue)

be kind, rewind older fics or rereads

The Size of Perfection by @phoenike stucky | E | 31k

Thaw by @superstringtheory stucky | T | 3.4k

Summer's in the Air by @emchant3d stucky | E | 3.6k

#monthly fic recap #fic list #fic rec #author rec #steve x bucky #some instant favorites on this list #this is super enjoyable and fun to do #i wish i could include everything i read but it'd just be way too long #and you'd know far too much about me

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postitsandpens · 1 year

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Read in December 2022

108) The Hollow Heart by Marie Rutkoski ★★★☆☆ 109) Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur Golden ★★★☆☆ 110) The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle ★★★☆☆ 111) The Message in the Hollow Oak by Carolyn Keene ★★☆☆☆ 112) The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow ★★★★☆ 113) The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune ★★★★☆ 114) Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass ★★★☆☆ 115) Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi ★★★★★ 116) Unthinkable by Nancy Werlin - DNF 117) My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick ★★★★☆ 118) Opal by Maggie Stiefvater ★★★★☆

#reading recap #monthly recap #my reading #p&pposts

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pom-ari · 1 year

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February reading re-cap.

Reading goal for 2023: 52 books

Ive read 12/52!

1,859 Pages read

Ascendant - Craig Alanson ★★☆☆☆

My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry - Fredrick Backman ★★★★☆

The Kiss Curse - Erin Sterling ★★★☆☆

Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree ★★★★★

Blades of Secret - Tricia Levenseller ★★★★☆

Twilight New Moon Graphic Novel - Stephanie Meyer & Kim Young ★★★★☆

#booknerd #booklover #booklr #bookworm #reading #monthly recap #goodreads #craig alanson #fredrick backman #the kiss curse #legends and lattes #tricia levenseller #twilight #stephanie meyer #the twilight saga #booktok

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gellavonhamster · 1 year

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monthly media recap: january 2023

(taking a page from @robertcapajpg‘s book)

read:

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling) - a 1996 anthology of short stories based on fairy tales. Many works seemed to me lacking something (and many I didn't like at all), but there were also several stories I really enjoyed, especially towards the end. Favourites include: The Fox Wife by Ellen Steiber, The Traveler and the Tale by Jane Yolen, The Printer's Daughter by Delia Sherman, The Emperor Who Had Never Seen a Dragon by John Brunner, Roach in Loafers by Roberta Lannes (yep, the last one is Puss-in-Boots but with a cockroach, and in modern-day New York)

Issues 4-6 of the Hellebore zine - I am honestly planning to order and read all currently existing issues over the course of this year, because the articles are really interesting - folk horror, archaeology, history, literature, and the intersection of all of these - and the art is beautiful. Also, I didn’t even pay for the first issue in the end, because I ordered it in October and by the very late December I was sure it got lost in the post, so I wrote to the store for a refund, and then the package came after all, I wrote to the store again asking how to return the money back to them, and they said that since the delivery took so long, I could keep it... if it was a clever plan to acquire another regular reader, then it totally worked, haha

The Stolen Heir by Holly Black - good! As always, love how Black paints the faerie world in all its whimsy and violence. I posted some of my thoughts on this book here.

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo - I liked Ninth House, but I kinda forgot it existed and also forgot approximately 2/3 of the plot, so I certainly didn't expect to enjoy the sequel as much as I did! It's been a while since I stayed up late reading like that. I am once again pretty indifferent towards the main pairing, but friendships and teamwork and characters seeing and accepting each other's vulnerabilities and past sins really moved me. Also, loved the helpful ghosts and unexpected [other mythical creatures, spoiler]

+ I am also still making my way through Lancelot-Grail/the Vulgate Cycle; in January I read Part II and III of Lancelot, as well as The History of the Holy Grail (this one I mostly just skimmed through, quite frankly, sometimes skipping a page or two where someone’s just, like, praying or preaching for a very long time. I am probably not very smart and definitely not religious enough for this)

watched:

The Musketeers (s1-3, 2014–2016) - well, you know, what with me obnoxiously reblogging gifs of it, lol. First things first, this is not an accurate adaptation of Dumas's novel, it's a very ahistorical procedural/western combo set in the 17th century France, and it fucking rules. I mean, swashbuckling adventures, the Power of Friendship™, women in stays and corsets, men in those puffy pirate shirts sluttily undone. Catering to my tastes personally. Season 3 was not as good as the first two, but what you're gonna do

Glass Onion (2022) - I think I enjoyed Knives Out more, but this one also was a lot of fun! Guessed some plot twists, but some were a total surprise to me. Love how the pandemic was integrated into the plot and characterization (e.g., a mesh mask says it all)

El vampiro (1957) - a Mexican horror film about a family targeted by a vampire that covets their estate. Very obviously influenced by the 1931 Dracula and weirdly cute in the way old horror often is (must be the toy bats on strings, though here could also be the romance).

The Field Guide to Evil (2018) - a horror anthology based on myth and folklore from around the world. The first two stories set a strong beginning, but then most of them (except the second-to-last, though the last one also is worth mentioning for being perfectly stylized after the classic silent films alone) fail to do something truly interesting with what they’re based on, in my opinion.

#talk talk talk #monthly media recap #3/4 of this post is copied from my twitter threads and i apologize to those of you who have already read this

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fairyinpages · 3 months

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★ — january wrap up

january was a very overwhelming month, things just kept being thrown at me and i honestly did not have the time to even breathe properly. this month was not easy on me, so to say i'm proud to have finished three books is an understatement.

books read: 3 — total pages: 1.350

happy place by emily henry — 5 stars

birthday girl by penelope douglas — 3 stars

pride and prejudice by jane austen — 5 stars

and here's for february — let it bring more readings. ✨

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