#readerly

[roseisreading]

This was a great young adult thriller that combined all of the most riveting parts of Gossip Girl and Get Out. 

The story follows Devon and Chiamaka, the two students at the top of their class (and also the only Black students) who find themselves as the target of increasingly threatening messages by an unknown entity. 

You will not know who to trust at the beginning of the story, but as the supporting cast of character’s true colors begin to show, it is clear that you, Devon, and Chiamaka are all trying to figure out who is wreaking havoc on their lives together.

A riveting read, definitely one to read if you like thrillers.

#roseisreading #Book blog #Bookblog #Booklr #Bookblr #Want to read #reading #books #books and libraries #To read #To be read #tbr #Goodreads #Review #Reviewer #The story graph #Readerly #Bibliophile #Book nerd #Booknerd #Book lover #Booklover #Book worm #Bookworm #Dark academia #Light academia #literature #book review #bookish #bookstagram

[soultiascriptorium]

GETTING TO KNOW THIS BOOK WITCH

Why did you start this Tumblr? I wanted to have a open-ended platform for the love I have for reading as well as my love for planners.

What are some fun and unique things you can bring to bookblr? I'm a mom so I'll have a variety of books I read from Children's picture books to Young adults. I also keep a reading planner/journal.

What are you most excited about in this new blog? It is my small corner of the world where I can talk about the books I love and share my planner experience.

Why do you love reading? I love reading because it gives me a space to escape when I can't physically

What book series got you into reading? The Daughters of the Moon By Lynne Ewing, Blue Bloods By Melissa de La Cruz, & Vampire Academy By Richelle Mead

What questions would you ask your favorite booktubers? Are you a Reading journaler? What is your setup up? Do you annotate your book?

What challenges do you think starting a bookblr will be the hardest to overcome? No not really I pretty much know how I want it to look and show my stuff in one place.

When did you start reading? I started living in a library during my 6 th grade summer since the library was in front of the apartment I was living in.

Where do you read? Anywhere I can plug in my headphone with a book or ereader in hand I will enter to the world of the book.

What kind of books do you like to read? Middle Grade, Young Adult, New Adult, Adult, fantasy, Science Fiction, magical realm, romance, historical fiction, sewing book and cookbook.

(sometimes done) What does your book collection look like? Very small because I mainly borrow books from the library, but my children’s library is full of books we are always collecting them.

Do you journal what you read? I do post reviews out using Readerly and sometimes StoryGraph.

Do you write directly on the page? No, because I borrow library books.

Do you annotate all your books? No, but this is my goal this fall.

Why do you annotate? I love bringing the stories I read to my heart.

What tabs do you use? Yes, Book Darts since they are reusable.

What pens do you use? Fountain Pens, Pencils, & Highlighters

What notebook do you use? Bujo discs for now until I found the perfect one.

What are you’re go to spreads? Calendar spread, reading dashboard, blank pages for Readathon and book clubs.

#books and reading #currently reading #reading life #readingblr #book tag #reading tag #scripting #commonplace book #artofannotating #reading journal #annotation tag #annotated books #bookstagram #booktwt #storygraph #reading tracker #reading report #readerly #bookly #booklover #bookblr

[thekittyburger]

Just found out Readerly is closing :(

#readerly #kitty screams

[dropkickpress]

I log books on Readerly, where my handle is superwhalen, so join me there if you're looking for recommendations. Here are some of my recent mini-reviews which they call Gists.

#books #book reviews #readerly #cozy mystery #fantasy #science fiction

[airic-fenn]

🍂 I’m going to @storyboundfest ! This will be the first con I’ve participated in, both as an author and an artist, and I couldnt be more excited 😁 For those who havent heard of it, Storybound Fest is an indie author convention taking place for the time in KCMO from July 21-22nd 2023! It’ll be an event for indie authors and readers to connect, and its hosted by the wonderful people @nerdybookbox . If youre an self-pubbed author or published by a small press, they’re still selling tickets, so if this is a thing you’re interested in, head on over and sign up! And if youre an author or a reader and you plan on going, let me me know because I’d love to connect! 🍂 • • • • • • • • #storyboundfest #storyboundfest2023 #indiebooks #indieauthors #queerbookstagram #bookstagram #bookconvention #queerauthors #readerly #goodreads #bookrecommendations #queerauthor #authorsofinstagram #independentauthor #readersofinstagram (at Kansas City, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChMxEKKLAF9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#storyboundfest #storyboundfest2023 #indiebooks #indieauthors #queerbookstagram #bookstagram #bookconvention #queerauthors #readerly #goodreads #bookrecommendations #queerauthor #authorsofinstagram #independentauthor #readersofinstagram

[uzumaki-rebellion]

Fanfic Writers...

So earlier I was reading a thread about Fanfic writers abandoning their fics, or deleting their accounts when they were no longer interested in writing anymore, because they felt the need to move on to other things (other types of writing, or life is lifing, etc), and I have to say this...don't delete your fics.

You never know wo needs to read that story (completed or not) years from now after you have forgotten/abandoned them.

Lemme give you an example.

Years ago, after the new Star Trek reboot came out in 2009 I was busy working a difficult job and struggling to write anything and just make a living. I'd always been a Star Trek fan since I was little. LIke seriously, I had a Klingon language handbook in highschool, I own a Star Trek cocktail dress, a messenger, bag, and a tiny replica of the Enterprise (that used to light up). I hadn't read or written fanifics in years, so I was out of touch with the fandom. When the reboot movie came out, I loved it, but I had hit a rough patch in a long term relationship, a lot of my friends were moving away to different cities and countries, and I was feeling depressed and not really finding much happiness.

About six years after the first reboot movie came out, I tried to find and old livejournal account I had that I used to write Blade, X Files, Star Trek, & other fics with. Perusing fandoms I dipped back into looking at new Star Trek content on other fanfiction websites and stumbled across some great new Star Trek fics that were amazing (My thing was the Spock/Uhura pairing). Baybee, when I tell you those stories from various writers lifted my spirits and gave me something to look forward to at the end of a hard day or week of draining work! I laughed, cried, fell in love, felt enraged, surprised, and so many emotions reading made up stories from strangers all over the world. A lot of these fics had been abandoned or the writers had left the fandom and weren't writing anymore by the time I found them...but I still had their stories. One particular writer had a 4 book Star Trek series that was better than the studio sanctioned movie book adapatations I bought at SF/F conventions or online. Just A+ writing and wordbuilding.

Reading those fics bolstered my confidence (and dopamine) to go back to living life again as best I could, and also writing my own fanfics again. I took time to write this particular writer to tell her thank you. I never heard from her (didn't expect to), but I was grateful to be able to read their work over and over again when I was feeling low, or needed to revisit old familiar friends.

All this to say, pleadingly so, don't delete your stories. Someone years from now, someone like me, may find your work and latch onto it as their lifeline to keep on getting up in the morning...have something to come home to. Or need that story you made up on the fly to give them a new way of looking at the world that will help them cope and keeping trying to make it out here.

Your stories are needed, your unique voices are needed on here, even if you no longer write anything for fandoms.

Le Fin.

#Writerly Things #Readerly Things #Don't Delete Your Work #You might save a life

[lastparty]

"discovered"

#read this instead of doing my assignment it quite neatly skewers through many of my thoughts on 'dark academia' and tsh as its urtext #great book but at what cost......... i also did NOT realise that achilles come down was absorbed into this section of tiktok #well can we get it out #(dark academia: bookshiness readerly self-fashioning and the digital afterlife of donna tartt’s the secret history)

[ninsiana0]

I dislike posting on TikTok, because of voice dysphoria & the effort of having to film, but my book reviews do so much better there. So. Much. Better.

Alternatively, I love posting on Tumblr, even though I hardly get any interactions, because seven months later a random book review will take off & get a flurry of folks excited about my favorite authors.

#just internet things #book reviewer #book reviews #book recs #book recommendations #too many social media sites #just reader things #readerly things

[davinciae]

btw for my bookish beloved besties i found this book tracking site storylace yesterday which uses quests in addition to your regular reading challenges. it’s in open beta still and has quite a few glitches but it looks like it could grow into something fun

#mills talks #txted #you can import goodreads/storygraph data but storygraph imports seem to be failing pretty consistently :/ #i did send a long feedback message to them yesterday #it's a cute concept and i'm rooting for them to succeed i don't want them to have to close like readerly did :( #they've got like a fanart thing for books as well but i haven't explored it yet. they're pretty strictly anti-ai art

[cbuck215]

Readerly Exploration 3

Readerly Exploration 3 - Week 8 - 10/9/23

Fisher, et. al. (2020), Chapter 2, “Whole-Class Reading Instruction: High-Level Support for Learning”

Sipe (2002), “Talking Back & Talking Over: Young Children’s Expressive Engagement During Read Aloud Storybooks” (CANVAS)

The big takeaway that the first reading wanted to get across was that while independent reading is important, whole-group reading is also incredibly important because it is the time to teach new concepts and skills and gives way to teaching basic reading routines so that independent reading can then happen.

The big takeaway from the second reading is about expressive engagement and how important it is for students to interact with books in ways that give them multiple avenues to digest the story, such as inserting themselves into the story, creatively acting it out, correcting the books characters, making noises along with the text or pictures and more.

A nugget I liked was the responses children give for expressive engagement are often what teachers may perceive as off task instead of understanding and engaging with the content of the book. The fact that children are making motions or are asking questions or are yelling out in reaction to the story shows that they are comprehending and engaging and teachers may shut that down, not recognizing its actually good for the students.

To do this activity, I read the articles first of course, before going and picking the activity. After picking the book activity, I tried researching books that had to do with reading books to a class, which was probably not the most helpful search yield. Then I thought of my young school years and remembered the iconic book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and how teachers and classmates and even my parents found interesting ways to use that story for engagement and fun activities that facilitated learning. So I looked it up and reread the story, picturing reading it to a class and how the readings’ lessons would factor into the lesson I would be doing if I used the book, and I realized it fit into a lot of what the readings were talking about so I decided that I would write about it since it can be used for and tied into both reading topics. Nothing too interesting happened with this readerly exploration, but I did get to read the book again, after literally not touching or reading it since I was taking care of my younger siblings many years ago. It was good for me to do this readerly exploration though because it did give me a sense of how books like this can help with the reading topics, as well as give me ideas for what to look for and use in the future for my classroom!

[Read a wide variety of genres and formats of texts to grow in their knowledge and experiences as a reader - Find a fictional text that communicates the same or similar big ideas of the assigned reading and choose an excerpt that represents those shared ideals]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle: I picked this book because it is easily able to be used for everything the articles talk about. It is really good for whole group reading, as it can be used for an interactive read aloud. It is also really good for dramatism, where the kids can act it out, dress up for it, and engage enthusiastically with it, its good for talking back, because it has a pattern to it, so the kids may be able to say it along with, or before the teacher, or be like “no don’t eat more! Whoa that's a lot!”, good for controlling/critiquing because the kids can criticize how much or what the caterpillar decides to eat, good for inserting since the kids can talk about how they would or would not eat something the caterpillar is, and its good for taking over because the kids can make a caterpillar, a rhyme, a costume, or anything really to go along with the book that allows for the child to take responsibility of the reading.

I can just picture reading this as a kid, as well as reading it to my future kids and students and having them engage in fun ways. The art style is truly awesome.

#education #readerly exploration

[roseisreading]

Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

I really liked this book. Klune is able to write this story of grief, friendship and growth in a way that is both light-hearted and serious. There are moments where I was laughing, and then there were others where tears started to form.

The main characters are well-developed, though I would have appreciated a little more development of a couple secondary characters. I thought that the pacing of the story was also very smooth until the last conflict. When I arrived at the last conflict, I understand why it occurred the way that it did, but one part of it made it seem like it was wrapped up nicely in order to have a specific ending.

Overall, I think that this book was a good read while the world is still grappling with so much pain. It's reflective, for sure, but there is also a thread of hope that runs through it for the reader to hold on to, even past the final page.

Content warnings: suicide, death of a parent(s), death of a child

#roseisreading #Book blog #Bookblog #Booklr #Bookblr #Want to read #reading #books #books and libraries #To read #To be read #tbr #Goodreads #Review #Reviewer #The story graph #Readerly #Bibliophile #Book nerd #Booknerd #Book lover #Booklover #Book worm #Bookworm #Dark academia #Light academia #literature #book review #bookish #bookstagram

[soultiascriptorium]

Soultia’s Rollback Thursday

Happy True Hump Day! Since Thursday is in the middle of the week with three days straight on each side I use this day to figure out how many books I’ll read this week. I also check the due date of library books to determine what book I will read next. 

Currently Reading

Recently Read

Reading Next

TBD

Book clubs, Buddy Reads, Reading Challenges & Readaton

The only Readathon I’m doing this month are Whodunnitathon which is a month long reading challenge, unexpected Readathon which date hasn’t been posted, and House Lucia Readathon which is not until the 15th & 16th.

Please comment to let me what you are currently reading, recently read and will be reading next. As well as your feel toward any books that I’m reading that you have read. Or recommend any books.

If you what to join the tag #Soultia’s Rollback Thursday and don’t forget to tag me and leave a comment so I can see what you have read.

#Soultia’s Rollback Thursday #bookstagram #readingblr #readinglife #bookreview #readerly #books #reading journal #bookly #booktwt #reading tracker #readerlyreviewer

[larkral]

My new thing is commenting on every chapter of something that was posted on AO3 between 1-6 months ago. Listen, I would fucking love if someone did this to me. But really it's because I am very good at speeding through fic because I can't get enough of the story, and what's better than thinking about something you're really enjoying as you enjoy it to make it last longer?

#Fanfic feelings #Writerly thoughts #Readerly thoughts

[agnesmontague]

ah I see. is it more accurate to say it is good plot but badly written?

thank you for telling me the name of the book!

i keep playing defense for this book bc for all its faults (that are REALLY at odds with me; the faults of this book are exactly the kind i know how to complain about) it's also artistically stumbling towards what i think has got to be an interesting climax. it's entirely possible that i'm wrong and i'm let down into my grave once again but the author does seem capable of cleverness and is good at character writing so i really want to give it a chance. i can see greatness in it, there's just also a lot of fluff and gunk

#rambles #i sound quite pompous & i apologize but sometimes a little readerly pomp is good for the soul gjdklhjdlfhd

[lunadensmidnightprowl]

*post-fic feelings up the whazoo*

#ghostbusters #just readerly things

[simplycomplicatedgirl]

you know I have no shame or fear because my dad follows me on goodreads and did make a joke about it to me

#books #romance books #alien romance #sci fi romance #kindleunlimited #goodreads #storygraph #follow me on goodreads and storygraph #and Readerly and literal #they’re all accordingtobecs