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bookshelfmonkey · 8 months

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July reading wrap-up

The Icebound Land- John Flanagan- 5/7/23- 8/10 This was better than I remember it being, but I still feel like it kind of missed the mark as a middle grade/young YA book.

Persephone Station- Stina Leicht- 7/7/23- 8/10 A fun and pretty original sci-fi.

When Women Were Dragons- Kelly Barnhill- 8/7/23- 9/10 This was hauntingly beautiful and a really interesting and complex reflection on how misogyny affects our society. I also loved that the dragons were cool in their own right, not just as a metaphor.

The Unbroken- C.L. Clark- 9/7/23- 9/10 This book surprised me in a lot of ways, and was generally a really exciting and well-written fantasy.

Her Majesty's Royal Coven- Juno Dawson- 10/7/23- 9/10 I didn't see any part of this book coming, but it was so good and I loved every piece of it. I also liked how it completely dismantled transphobic ideologies.

Magnus Chase & the Ship of the Dead- Rick Riordan- 13/7/23- 10/10 This is the superior Riordanverse series. I loved the characters so much.

The Memory of Souls- Jenn Lyons- 19/7/23- 8/10 Finally a book in this series was fast-paced enough to hold my attention. The characters developed in really interesting ways and I'm interested to see what happens with the plot in future books.

Love After Love- Ingrid Persaud- 19/7/23- 8/10 This book was not what I expected it to be. It broke my heart into thousands of tiny pieces.

The Other Wind- Ursula K. Le Guin- 20/7/23- 6/10

Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf- 21/7/23- 7/10 Worked well as an audiobook.

A Time of Blood- John Gwynne- 23/7/23- 8/10

How To Twist A Dragon's Tale- Cressida Cowell- 23/7/23- 10/10 Truly a classic. I forgot how this book ended, and I loved rereading the whole thing.

Sea of Souls- N. C. Srimgeour- 25/7/23- 6/10 Nothing new.

Oakleaf Bearers- John Flanagan- 27/7/23- 10/10 This book is my favourite in the series for a reason. John Flanagan has given me ridiculously high standards for battle scenes in fantasy.

Petty Treasons- Victoria Goddard- 29/7/23- 8/10 A nice way to flesh out the series, but did't do much by itself.

Ulysseys- James Joyce- 31/7/23- 3/10 It tried something new, but it was also very boring.

The Hidden Oracle- Rick Riordan- 31/7/23- 7/10 A decent story, but I really hate Apollo's narrative voice.

A Hero's Guide To Deadly Dragons- Cressida Cowell- 31/7/23- 10/10 A great adventure. I loved the setting of the library and the discussions around censorship.

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evenstarfalls · 1 year

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Finished my goodreads challenge for the year and there's no way I could put together a top 10 bc I read a lot of good books so I'll just do a recap/roundup I guess!!

Kind of started off the year with a reading slump, something I'm hoping to change in 2023. Didn't get through a book til March, when I discovered VE Schwab through Vicious and blazed through her adult books. Was a wild few weeks. I also read Cinder's Adventure in March, which was a wild ride let me tell you.

In April I read the last Wings of FIrst book, flames of hope. I also watched Netflix Heartstopper, which is not a novel, but I immediately read the graphic novel, watched it a few more times for good measure, and then read all her books. Loveless was actually a reread, but I did enjoy them.

That also kinda kicked me into an agressively looking for queer books to read phase. Made me realize how badly I needed them, I guess. Cinderella Is Dead, Evelyn Hugo, Cemetery Boys, all of Casey McQuiston's books, and a handful of others were read in May and June and July. Also read the first two ember in the ashes and continued my Schwab marathon with Gallant, Monsters of Verity, and the first cassidy blake and everyday angel.

This was also the year I reread Percy Jackson, which was a lot of fun. Got through the whole first series and half of HoO over the summer. I still need to finish that, actually. I also reread Renegades, and Vicious and Vengeful in June. (2nd of 3 times reading Vicious!) It has been an exceptionally reready year.

This summer my local bookstore had a summer reading challenge. There were like 25 books to read and I got through about half of them; fewer than I'd been shooting for, but still good all things considered. Most of them were lame. some were books I've already mentioned that were coincidentally on the list. Best book I got out of that? The Count of Monte Cristo. I read it in August, and it was definitely my longest book of the year.

This fall I also fell into a reading slump, busy with school. I read the next two cassidy blake books, Cursed released and I got to meet Marissa Meyer (!!!), I read Schwab's ExtraOrdinary and hated the art, Ninth House, but wasn't that many by my standards. Sad times. College is unfortunate like that sometimes.

Just this month I've been able to get back into reading more. I reread Six of Crows, read Children of Blood and Bone and the rest of Everyday Angel, They Both Die at the End, The Girl from the Sea, and yes. These Violent Delights (the gay one). Jumped in at the last minute as one of my top books of the year. I am thinking about it right now and I don't think I'll stop anytime soon.

Tonight I finished reading Vicious for the third time. I liked it that much. Definitely my top book of the year, and the only one I feel like I can definitively rank...it gets messy after #1. My sister bought me a signed copy for my birthday, and I can't wait to finally get it in my clutches next year.

And next year? I'm hoping to finish my read/reread of the Riordanverse (I've never actually read the last 3 or 4), reread Crooked Kingdom and Vengeful, and maybe some Marie Lu, read The Archived (I've been avoiding it because idw be through with schwab), Warcross, Children of Virtue and Vengence, and the last two ember in the ashes books. Also planning to get through a bunch of other books that I own but haven't read because reasons and reading slumps. Excited for Hell Bent, The Stolen Heir, Stars and Smoke, With a Little Luck and, of course, Threads of Power. I miss my babies and I want the book title.

On the off chance you read all this rambling, thanks bestie ily

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panhasablog · 7 years

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Reading Meme

Tagged by @theticklishpear! Thank you for the opportunity to ramble about books!

1: Which book has been on your shelves the longest?

I've got a few books I've had my whole life, so I'm not sure, but I think it's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, which if I'm remembering right my dad had in his childhood, so those are some pretty old books. (And I still haven't read Through the Looking Glass.)

More below the cut!

2: What is your current read, your last read, and the book you'll read next?

I'm currently towards the end of rereading allof the Riordanverse books (I've got like a book and a quarter left) so I'm going to count that all as one to stop this answer from being boring. Currently currently I'm about three quarters of the way through Sword of Summer and concurrently reading Riders of the Purple Sage (since I couldn't bring my Kindle to summer camp), which has turned out to be pretty boring so I probably won't finish. The last book I read before my whole Riordan sprint I think was Ella Minnow Pea or possibly If on a winter's night a traveller; I can't remember which of those I read first. (Both good books, the latter being really surreal and vaguely disturbing.) Next I'm planning to read either the Iliad or Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, which from what little I've gathered I think is either about a gay kid navigating his social life or time travel or both, and I don't want to find out which until I read the book.

3: Which book does everyone like and you hated?

I'm gonna give a two-part answer to this question: the super-popular book I thought was pretty eh is Divergent (though I did read the whole trilogy), and a book I've seen a few people go "yeah it was good!" that I couldn't stand is It's Kind of a Funny Story. (It was mostly okay but the way they treated it treated the trans girl was an absolute deal breaker.)

4: Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't?

Huckleberry Finn, honestly. I own a copy that sits on my bookshelf gathering dust to eternity.

5: Which book are you saving for "retirement"?

Is that a thing people do??

6: Last page: read it first or wait for the end?

Again: there's people who read the last page first? Why would you do that

7: Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?

I don't usually read the acknowledgements, but I definitely don't think they're a waste. I think it's important to acknowledge how many people help with the creation of a book, and when I'm really interested in a particular book or it's author, I do like reading the acknowledgements. It's sometimes interesting to get a peek into how the author thinks of help and who's given it, if that makes sense.

8: Which book character would you switch places with?

I honestly don't think I would. Most book characters have a pretty bad time of it which makes for good reading but less good experiencing.

9: Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?

The Lightning Thief reminds me of the friend who introduced me to the Percy Jackson books by talking about nothing else for several weeks after The Last Olympian came out until I figured hey I am not going to be able to communicate with one of my best friends until I read these books. I haven't spoken to that friend since we were eleven, but she made a pretty huge impact on my interests.

10: Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.

My grandparents at some point had really nice copies of a lot of classic books made, with gilded covers and leather spines and all that fanciness, and then they haven't read any of them, so I've been borrowing a few of those at a time so these beautiful, beautiful books can serve their intended purpose. Right now I've got the Iliad, a collection of Shakespeare plays, and the aforementioned copy of Huckleberry Finn that at some point I should admit I'm not gonna read and return.

For a different kind of interesting, I borrowed the first Game of Thrones book from my freshman English teacher, which was an experience when I found out how incredibly full of violence and sex and violent sex that book was.

11: Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?

I know this is a boring answer, but I can't say I have.

12: Which book has been with you to the most places?

It's gotta be The Little Prince (technically Le Petit Prince, actually), not because I've taken it on a lot of trips, but because I borrowed a copy (in French) from my French teacher to read during a trip she took me and some classmates on to France, where we went to several parts of France along the Côte d'Azure, Paris, and at in one day to Italy and Monaco, so that book has technically been to a whole heckton of places with me.

13: Any "required reading" you hated in high school that wasn't so bad ten years later?

I'm still in high school, so we'll have to see. I might like The Stranger better when I'm 25 as opposed to 15.

14: What is the strangest item you've ever found in a book?

The only thing other than bookmarks I've found in a book was a chunk of unidentified something hard and sticky, which is more gross than strange.

15: Used or brand new?

Honestly, no preference. I love the worn feeling of used books and the knowledge that the physical book itself has a story to accompany the ones the words tell, and I love the smell of a new book and the feeling of opening it for the first time and starting something entirely new. I just really love books

16: Stephen King: literary genius or opiate of the masses?

I've actually never read a Stephen King novel, so I can't really say, but I did read bits of his writing advice book, which annoyed me because he seemed very absolute that his way was the Right Way to Write and his way was very different than my way and didn't work for me and I didn't appreciate being made to feel that my way of writing was wrong (specifically, he said not to write anything down until you've thought about it a lot because writing down half-baked musings solidifies bad ideas, whereas I think by writing down every single thought that comes into my head and then reading them back and picking out the good ones)

17: Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?

As far as movies based on books, I've never seen one I liked better, but The Princess Bride was as good. If we're counting books based on movies, the Monsters vs. Aliens book was Bad

18: Conversely, what book should never have been introduced to celluloid?

I know it's been said before but do not get me started on The Lightning Thief, one of the best books I've ever read and a mediocre-at-best movie that mangled nearly everything I love about the books

19: Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?

No, because I don't really...like food? Not in an unhealthy way or anything, eating is just a thing I do because otherwise I'd die and I don't get much out of it, so descriptions of food don't do anything for me either :P

20: Who is the person whose book advice you'll always take?

As a general policy I don't have sources whose advice I'll always take regarding anything, but the closest book-wise is my English teacher from last year, who reads so much it's insane and has introduced me to a few great books I'd never have heard of, let alone read otherwise (such as If on a winter's night a traveller)

I tag: @winterspirit-13, @zeuscaboose, @guilelessbees, and whoever else wants to do this! (Especially camp friends, since I don't know which of you all like to do these kinds of things yet!)

#bloop #wow that was. a lot

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