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ninja-muse · 2 years

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So back in July I got an ask about possibly doing another book challenge, and the idea’s been on the back burner for me ever since. Last night I was inspired! So now I present to you …

The Not Your Classics Challenge!

As usual for a book/photo challenge, the goal is to post once for each prompt, and ideally put up one post a day. As is usual for one of my challenges, there are twists!

Do not post about the book of the day (but by all means post about Pride and Prejudice for day 29 if you want to).

You can absolutely use the themes of the books as a starting board, or just the title, or whatever else works for you. Heck, if you want to feature other Austen novels for Day 1, go ahead.

Discussion posts, read-alikes, ask and tag memes, etc. are all encouraged.

Not every book featured needs to be a classic. Use whatever books you want to!

Ideally this is a November challenge (hence the 30, instead of 31), but I’m aware that life is a thing so if you want to start at a different time, need to take longer to finish, etc., go for it! The full list of prompts is below the cut.

Reach out if you have any questions! I shall do my best to answer them. Go forth and be creative!

Hashtag is #notyourclassics. Tag so I can reblog!

Pride and Prejudice

Great Expectations

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Three Musketeers

Midnight’s Children

To the Lighthouse

The Catcher in the Rye

A Single Man

The Color Purple

No Longer Human

The Call of the Wild

The Great Gatsby

Roots

1984

Wuthering Heights

Little Women

War and Peace

Things Fall Apart

The Grapes of Wrath

The Lord of the Flies

Dracula

Catch-22

Brave New World

Beloved

The Scarlet Letter

Invisible Man

I Am a Cat

The Price of Salt

The Joy Luck Club

Passing

#books #booklr #bookblr #book challenges #photo challenges #reviving booklr #notyourclassics

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bookcub · 1 year

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Book Discussion

here is another question brought to you from my grad school assignments: which books you read as a child had the biggest effect on how you understood your identity and others in the world, like gender, race, and sexuality? beauty queens by libba bray was the first that came to my mind, a fantasticly clever and funny read that addresses numerous social issues and critiques capitalism as well.

#book discussion #booklr #reviving booklr

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bookns · 1 year

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Crisis time

I am in the mood to read a good fantasy however we have some contenders (please tell me all your opinions)

- for my book club we are reading Game of Thrones

- a new novel Jasmine zumideh needs a win (by Susan Azim Boyer) (it’s historical fiction and so far pretty good)

- I’m THINKING about reading more Shadowhunter Chronicles (either Chain of Iron OR Clockwork Princess) (I’ve read Clockwork Princess before)

- Reread Six of Crows/Siege and storm in honor of season 2

- Reread the entire Percy Jackson universe in preparation of The sun and the Star

- reading Lockwood and Co (cause I liked the show so far)

PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK

Crisis hour

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readingbooksinisrael · 11 months

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Mid-Year Book Freakout 2023

1. Best book you've read so far this year

Well, I reread Spinning Silver/Naomi Novik again… But besides rereads I really loved two non-fiction books: Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood/Nathan Hale. It’s a graphic novel with the characters being represented as animals, so I was really nervous at first that it would make light of something tragic but it didn’t at all, and I think the illustrations emphasized the horrificness while still being appropriate for its intended audience (4th graders). (It also finally convinced me to pick up Maus.)

The other was The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos/Judy Batalion, which was an extensive following of a number of women resistance fighters in the ghettos, which is a subject that I hardly know about.

2. Best sequel you've read so far this year

It absolutely has to be Ribsy/Beverly Cleary, the last in the Henry Huggins series. I was nervous because it follows Ribsy the dog rather than Henry the human, but it was great. I liked the look at all the different families (except one) and Ribsy’s perspective. It nearly made me cry even/exactly when the good things were happening.

Also, special mention to The Chalet School in Exile/Elinor M. Brent-Dyer for acknowledging the murder of Jews by regular citizens back in the first year of WW2 when that’s something plenty of people refuse to admit to this day. (Though maybe it was easier then when it was an enemy country.)

3. New release you haven't read yet

All of them lol. I’ll choose six notables (one for each month):

The Dos and Donuts of Love/Adiba Jaigirdar--I loved Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating so much! I’m so excited about this I’m nervous

The Luis Ortega Survival Club/Sonora Reyes--I love a story about messed up experiences in high school

The Home for Wayward Girls/Marcia Bradley--See above

The Mimicking of Known Successes/Malka Ann Older--I heard it described as a Sherlock Holmes type mystery in space, and I’ve really wanted to read something by this author for a long time but this was the first book that really caught my eye

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride/Roshani Chokshi--It is my favorite sub-genre (fairy tale retelling) of a fairy tale that I find really interesting (Bluebeard) by an author I already know I enjoy

Sorry, Bro/Taleen Voskuni--Jews often feel that they have a lot of common with Armenians (for good reasons) so I’m really interested to read this story of someone claiming both her culture and her sexuality (even my mom was interested and she tries to not be homophobic but she winces at bi characters)

4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year

Delicate Condition/Danielle Valentine. This absolutely sounds like a book that is going to make me cry.

5. Biggest disappointment

Catherine, Called Birdy/Karen Cushman. This seemed like a book that would be right up my alley--historical, mg, epistolary, rebellious and funny main girl character--but it just fell flat for me in so many ways.

6. Biggest surprise

Leave It to Beaver/Beverly Cleary surprised me by actually being pretty good, which you don’t usually expect for a novelization of a tv show. It wasn’t her best work, but I do want to read the rest of the series.

And, then, one I saved for here, Top Secret/John Reynolds Gardiner. This was recommended me as a funny, gross book and it was that (admittedly, a bit light on the grossness but what was there was good), but it also very much talked about repressing creativity for bad reasons and I loved that.

7. Favorite new author (debut or new to you)

A.J. Sass. I read Ellen Outside the Lines in one night and immediately put two more of their books on my tbr.

8. Newest fictional crush/newest favorite character

Just the one? Well, Ead Duryan from Priory of the Orange Tree/Samantha Shannon is exactly the type of character I love; but have you read about the angel/Uriel Shtetler from When the Angels Left the Old Country?! It thinks in such an interesting way about things and so it changes in a very odd way. (Also, it becoming more ‘human’ doesn’t make it stop using it/its pronouns!)

9. Book that made you cry

Ribsy, I’ve mentioned, but I don’t think any other book made me cry.

10. Book that made you happy

I reread The Girl With the Silver Eyes/Willo Davis Roberts to see if it still held up after over a decade since I first read it and it absolutely did. It acknowledges that grown-ups can make mistakes while trying to help children and that children have the right to defend themselves from that as well as actually evil adults. Also, read this fanfiction of Katie as an adult.

Riding Lessons/Jane Smiley also made me happy because it didn’t attempt to pathologise a kid whom I think would be pathologised today.

Tagging @ninja-muse @bookcub @opalescentswan @books-are-portals and @gigilberry (Only if you want to, obviously.)

#reviving booklr

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misslysslyss · 6 months

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crossworlded · 1 month

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#old tumblr #2014 aesthetic #bookshelf #bedroom #roomdecor #room inspo #2014 indie #2014 revival #2014 vibes #2014core #grunge revival #i miss 2014 #tumblr aesthetic #2014 girl #books and reading #booklr #books

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kttylvrs · 2 months

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Twilight~

#twilight #booklr #studyblr #2014 revival #studyspo #reading #classic

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allybahli · 3 days

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#girlblogging #witchblr #whimsigoth #whimsical #2014 tumblr #2014 revival #poetry #goth #booklr

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ghodzfavorite · 5 months

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abnormalbubblegumman · 9 months

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Just finished Revival by Stephen King

It's pretty good, it has nice characters a great atmosphere and Stephen King somehow menaged to write a great ending here (which is a feat)

The book is also too slow for a 370 pages long book, it has too much bullshit that doesn't really matter. And the ending gave me existential dread in a time where i was already streesed.

7.5/10. Reccomend the Read.

#stephen king #revival #stephen king's revival #books #just finished this book #cosmic horror #nooooo i don't want to go to the null ants are scary why life has to be like this😭😭😭#book reading #booklr

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parkingdeck-romeo · 2 years

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pussyratpower · 10 months

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#2014 aesthetic #dark edgy #philosophy #poem #2014 tumblr #grunge tumblr #punk #cats #tumblr grunge #2014 revival #books #comic books #books & libraries #books and reading #booklr #bookstagram #book recommendations #anarchofeminism #anarchism

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bookcub · 2 years

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Book Discussion

a prompt brought to you by my new class. choose a book you loved as a child to do a close reading of a passage and explain how it relates to the rest of the book and displays the themes.

what book and scene are you choosing?

#book discussion #booklr #reviving booklr #pretty sure im gonna do princess from another planet

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nonexistsblog · 1 year

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smoking cigarettes in your back room, wanting to feel you close

#blog post #newpost #original pictures #my photos #booklr #2014 tumblr #2014 revival #soft grunge #lana del rey #grunge aesthetic #winter #dark grunge

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s1ncerelyt · 1 year

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hot girls are addicted to iced coffee

#mutuals #booklr #2014 revival

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lieblingsfags · 2 years

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im begging once again that we have a revival of booklr

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