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I guess it's time to start moving some content from twt over here! For those who don't know me, I'm a public librarian with a special interest in polar and nautical history, and I love nothing more than connecting readers with good books. I've managed to convert some friends to my way of thinking, and one of them coined the phrase "sad boat books" to describe the types of books that I'm always reading and recommending. Here is my first list of sad boat books-- I can personally vouch for all of them!
New to sad boat? Start here to see if it’s for you!
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton
The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger
Terra Nova, A GREAT first expedition!
The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
A First Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston
Robert Falcon Scott Journals- Captain Scott’s Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott
“I Love Ernest Shackleton” starter pack
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Shackleton’s Boat Journey by Frank Worsley
The Endurance by Caroline Alexander
“I Hate Ernest Shackleton” starter pack
The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis
Polar Castaways by Richard McElrea and David Harrowfield
Roald Roald Roald!
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen Bown
The South Pole by Roald Amundsen
The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford*
*DISCLAIMER: this guy hates Captain Scott and gets most of the Scott details wrong, read for Roald only!
The Franklin Expedition
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger
Erebus by Michael Palin
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Expedition edited by Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney, and Mary Williamson
Non-polar sad boats
The Bounty by Caroline Alexander
Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Sometimes a sad balloon can be a sad boat
The Expedition by Bea Uusma
The Ice Balloon by Alec Wilkinson
Karluk/Wrangel Island, the expeditions of my heart
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy
The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven
The Karluk’s Last Voyage by Robert A. Bartlett
The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor’s Memoir of Arctic Disaster by William Laird McKinlay
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven
Miscellaneous sad boat books that are well worth your time
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance by Mensun Bound
In The Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
If you read and enjoy any of these, please let me know!
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A piece for "Down By the Rice Fields" by seafoamist 🫶🫶
#kagakuro#kagami x kuroko#the basketball which kuroko plays#kuroko's basketball#kuroko no basquet#kuroko no basket#fanart#knb fanart#read this
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I didn't expect the suckerpunch to the emotional gut, but here I am wheezing and gasping for air after reading what Mackenzi Lee is putting down here.
She gets it.
The Skywalkers are wildfires, their passions scorching the dirt as soon as they're given a spark.
How different this galaxy would be if the Skywalkers didn't care so much.
The Skywalkers could level planets with their obstinacy. Though, Padmé was like that, too.
From There Is Always Another by Mackenzi Lee, From A Certain Point Of View: The Empire Strikes Back
#anakin skywalker#star wars#padme amidala#do yourself a favor#read this#from a certain point of view#mackenzi lee#all the feels#well technically Padmé is a Skywalker so...
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Small little zombie boys fanfic Owo
You were hiding from screw in the food court during a game of hide and seek, you know Bo ran off in the westward side and ribs hid in the vents while soda was in the other side of the food court who was trying to use the broken soda machine, you heard the rusty doors open doors open, it looks like ribs was found as he walks in next to screw, you dig closer under the order desk, while soda scurried like a cat under a table “round you!” Screw runs to soda and helps him up as they leave the room, not catching your scent. Around an hour later, you hear the zombos trying to find you outside the food court, they sounded worried, anything could have happened while they were busy finding bo! A rouge zombie, or any other monsters, suddenly bo takes a sniff of the air, your scent! He rushes over to where he scented you and peered over the counter, staring into your eyes, he then calls the other zombies over and they help you get out from under the counter, while you and the others walk back to the base, Bo scolding you, screw and soda checking you for injuries, while ribs is in your face, when you get back, your forced into a cuddle pile
Don’t make fun of me this is my first fanfic
THIS IS SO CUTE OH MY GOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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list of books
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3665-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline
https://davidgraeber.org/books/bullshit-jobs/
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215462/dark-money-by-jane-mayer/
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091
https://www.emilyhund.com/
https://www.emilylynnpaulson.com/books
https://emilycontois.com/dinersdudesdiets/
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?content=reviews&isbn=9780674241213
https://brownstargirl.org/the-future-is-disabled/
https://beltpublishing.com/products/radical-suburbs
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28433484.html
https://www.juliberwald.com/life-on-the-rocks/
https://beltpublishing.com/products/rethinking-fandom-how-to-beat-the-sports-industrial-complex-at-its-own-game
https://firestorm.coop/products/18989-laziness-does-not-exist.html
https://www.harvard.com/book/cultish/
https://americanexception.com/book/
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I just finished reading Matt Hongoltz-Hetling's incredible book A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear, which deftly and hilariously dismantles the very idea of Libertarianism by chronicling the disastrous events of the Free Town Project — a New Hampshire town taken over by Libertarians in an effort to create their political utopia and instead created a total shit-show that led to, among other things, "New Hampshire's first modern credible account of a wild bear attacking a human in living memory."
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holy shit one of my favourite writers and good friends just put a book up for presale without telling anyone
if you like books about early 2000s queer longing for your best friend then a+e is available to make you feel seen in a way that your high school self never thought would happen
i have no idea what this next book in the set is about but i pre-ordered my copy from bed after seeing the notification on my phone when i woke up, it's gonna break me in the best way
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You can't buy a class, Carlos
#charles lecrelc#charles leclerc#scuderia ferrari#ferrari#charles marc hervè perceval leclerc#formula one#lord perceval#monaco#prince of monaco#f1#cl 16#cl16#16#charles lechair#sharl leclerc#charles monaco#charles marc hervé perceval leclerc#carlos sainz#read this
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Nome Fanzine | Judi (1987), Humberto Garcia (1980), Ellen L Kobrin & Lydia Moon (1981)
--keep reading for poems in plain text--
McCoy
by Judi
When you came to me that night so very long ago,
I sensed a puzzlement,
A need to know and understand…
Interpret your own upwelling rush of
--Dare I say it--feeling.
So I became your translator, Spock,
Your standard giver and the measure
against which you
Calibrated your thoughts and--there,
I said it again-- Feelings.
You placed me in the role of lowest
common denominator.
I was the pit of emotional,
wallowing humanity;
You were the cleanly slicing pendulum,
Oftimes drawing blood with your
steely sharp logic,
Cutting out the dross,
occasionally sparking pure metal.
You read my face and eyes,
Storing information away
For that longed-for instant,
Hoped-for opportunity of a
dream-come-true day,
When you could love Jim,
Somewhere other than in the black
crypt of your soul.
And that moment came,
No fixed date or time,
It was a knowing, an awareness of a passion
unchanged, unchained,
Sought and claimed in the fullness of your time.
The ransom of your love set you free,
But locked me in a cell of desolation,
No longer sought, no longer read…
No longer valued--
So I said
The price of your desire--McCoy forsaken.
But chance encounter and predestination,
The needs of the many enmeshed with deadly radiation,
I was there and so were you,
You gave all you had to give and
I received all that I could hold,
To keep safe and warm,
Until called forth to-- Remember.
No Vulcan ritual can exorcise these
tangled thoughts,
Yours and mine,
Of warmth and tender consolation
mingled with
Precisely logical explanations;
Knowing this about ourselves,
We can reach, love, heal and--no longer fearing--
meld.
You can say you love me,
Not with voice or face or gesture,
But eyes can speak,
Minds can smile,
Spirits can be held
in loving arms
Bestowing completion
to our lives-
And I know I am cherished and
no longer forsaken.
-- -- --
Lament of the Other
by Lydia Moon
"Physician, heal thyself," the maxim goes.
More truth has ne'er been said. No other soul
Can e'er relieve me of the pain that grows
As all the years demand their rightful toll.
My friends believe they understand my heart.
They pass the gruff exterior, and see
That neath the face I show, there is a part
Too vulnerable ever to set free.
But even they can never know the full
Extent of this great loneliness I bear.
The times when I would welcome Lethe's pull.
To give surcease from pain no one can share.
I cannot heal myself, and so I keep
My true despair inside me, buried deep.
#ATTENTION ALL MCCOY ENJOYERS#SPONES ENTHUSIASTS#READ THIS#this format (splitting the pages) is probably gonna bother everyone but i need symmetry or i'll die#spones#mccoy#leonard mccoy#doctor mccoy#dr mccoy#bones#star trek#star trek the original series#tos#star trek tos#fanzines#fandom#mcspirk#spirk#space husbands#star trek movies#star trek the motion picture#star trek the wrath of khan#the wrath of khan#search for spock#fan art#poetry#fanfiction#fanfic#vintage
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BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT, I'm back with more Sad Boat Books for Sad Boat People! But first, some words.
I never dreamed that a silly little graphic I made for some friends would generate this much response on twitter and here, but I'm overjoyed that it resonated with so many of you! I read every single comment and tag, and by far my favorites are all of the people who say some variation of "I thought I was the only one who loved these books." We are NOT alone, there are literally thousands of people who reblogged or retweeted this list-- people of all ages and backgrounds and gender identities. Sad Boat isn't just for old white men! I was also delighted to hear from other librarians who are using this in displays and for reader's advisory. PLEASE go forth and do so with my blessing, nothing would make me happier! I was recently laid off from my librarian job as part of a restructuring under new management (don't worry about me, it sucks right now but I'm gonna be fine), so I would love to think that I'm still contributing to the library ecosystem while I'm out of commission. I would also love to keep making these lists (including one that deals with Sad Boat fiction and one with recommendations for other types of media), and I've never had more time to do it, so if you have suggestions, please drop them in my inbox!
Anyway, enough of that-- here are more books! I've either read all of these, or the recommendation came from someone I trust, so read with confidence!
First Hand Accounts
The Quiet Land: The Antarctic Diaries of Frank Debenham edited by June Debenham Back
The Voyage of the Discovery by Robert Falcon Scott
Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen
Endurance by F.A. Worsley
Boats boats boats!
Franklin's Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus by Alanna Mitchell and John Geiger
The Voyages of the Discovery: The Illustrated History of Scott's Ship by Ann Savours
HMS Terror: The Design, Fitting, and Voyages of a Polar Discovery Ship by Matthew Betts
The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943): Whaler, Sealer, and Polar Exploration Ship by Michael C. Tarver
You'll learn about the Ross Sea Party and you'll like it
Shackleton's Heroes by Wilson McOrist
Shackleton’s Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic by Lennard Bickel
The Ross Sea Shore Party 1914-1917 by R.W. Richards
The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis*
Polar Castaways by Richard McElrea and David Harrowfield*
*These were on my other list, but this is my graphic and I'll do what I want
Sad Airships and Planes
From Pole to Pole: Roald Amundsen's Journey in Flight by Garth James Cameron
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia by Mark Piesing
Antarctica's Lost Aviator by Jeff Maynard
Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole by Wilbur Cross
More Shackleton Content
Shackleton: A Life in Poetry by Jim Mayer
Shackleton's Last Voyage by Frank Wild
The Quest Chronicle: The Story of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition by Jan Chojecki
Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod by Beau Riffenburgh
Polar Partners
Snow Widows by Katherine MacInnes
Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women Behind the World's Most Daring Explorers by Kari Herbert
Widows of the Ice by Anne Fletcher
Sad Boat Graphic Novels
Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey by Nick Bertozzi
The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard*
How To Survive in the North by Luke Healy
*This was also on my other list, but this is my graphic and I'll do what I want
Biographies
Scott of the Antarctic by David Crane
Ice Captain: The Life of J.R. Stenhouse by Stephen Haddelsey
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler
Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie
Roald Amundsen by Tor Bomann-Larsen
Miscellaneous sad boat books that are well worth your time
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford
Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris, The First US Expedition to the North Pole by Bruce Henderson
Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy by Fergus Fleming
Pilgrims on the Ice by T.H. Baughman
The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture by Michael F. Robinson
Ghosts of Cape Sabine by Leonard F. Guttridge
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer
If you read and enjoy any of these, please let me know!
EDITED TO ADD: OG Sad Boat Books post here!
#reader's advisory#sad boat#sad boat books#polar exploration#nautical history#read this#sad boat 2: electric boogaloo
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If I see one more person say that Danno has been cloned I AM GOING TO LOSE IT!
#THE CLONING MACHINE WAS DESTROYED LAST SEASON!#*throws the entire season 1 lore at you*#READ THIS#AND STOP TALKING ABOUT CLONING IN SEASON 2!#danno cal#danno draws#danno#riggy runkey#riggy the rabbit monkey#riggy the runkey#the shorts wars#shorts wars arg#short wars s2#short wars#youtube shorts arg#youtube shorts
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Proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life.
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
#the things they carried#tim obrien#quotes#book quotes#read this#literature#classic literature#classic novels#classic quotes#classic books#war books#war novels#american writers#life quotes#life and death
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Eight chapters and no reviews
Look at this story. This amazing story. 8 fucking chapter long and not a single review. It's full of whump, trauma, comfort, friendship and love. Yet not one review.
It's a How To Train Your Dragon fanfic where Hiccup is kidnapped by Dragon Hunters, demanding he lead them to the Hidden World . He refuses so they torture him until one of the hunters grows a set and helps him escape with some assistance from an old friend. The friend and now former Hunter take him to an island that's allied with Berk. There Hiccup is being taken care of and given a chance to recover from his captivity.
I suggest checking it out and leaving a review
#read this#httyd#writers meme#hiccup httyd#httyd 3#httyd fanfiction#httyd fandom#httyd hiccup#httyd memes#httyd franchise#httyd movies#httyd oc#httyd race to the edge#httyd rtte#httyd thw#httyd toothless#hiccup haddock#hiccup horrendous haddock iii#how to train your dragon#read this fanfic#ao3 fanfic#fanfic authors#fanfic fanart#fanfic ideas#fanfic meme#fanfic problems#fanfic prompt#fanfic request#fanfic series#fanfic readers
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Since some bitches are too lazy to read my pinned or simply refuse, let me reiterate the most important bits (but you should go back and read all of it).
I AM OWNED.
Do not send me dick pics. I will not hesitate to block you.
I’m a smart ass, especially when I’m in a bad mood. Check some asks if you don’t believe me. Ask the people I blocked if you don’t believe me.
I don’t reply to a lot of DMs, but if I consistently ignore you, it’s unlikely I’ll text you back. I probably just don’t care.
Speaking of DMs, I don’t answer to rude DMs. Degrading, maybe (it’s unlikely), but rude? Hell no. “Get on your knees, you worthless cocksucker!” Hard maybe, leaning no. “How’s your day, cumdump?” I am more likely to respond. Nuance? If I like your page, I may respond even if you’re rude.
I don’t send pics, don’t ask.
Text me with your intentions. I don’t have time for small talk. If you genuinely want a conversation? Cool. If you’re giving me a lame, “how’s the weather?” convo, I will get bored and stop responding.
What don’t I want in my DMs? Simple compliments. When you only to say “Cool blog!” Okay, please send an ask! If you want to compliment me before having a conversation, THEN DM me.
I know I usually post nudes with my posts, but this is an exception. You are paying attention because you respect me as a person and more than my tits. I am probably going to see if you’ve liked this or my pinned post before replying to your DM.
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I’ve been reading a lot of poetry lately. I’ve been needing all of the beautiful words.
1. Jessica Q. Stark -Hungry Poem with Laughter coming from an Unknown Source
2. Ada Limón- Bright Dead Things
IG: coffeeandbookss
#poems#poetry#ada limón#poetry recs#poemsaboutlove#daily poems#love#beautiful#coffee and books#books and coffee#read#reader#booksarelife#booksbooksandmorebooks#read this#spring#flowers
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