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halloween-sweets · 8 months

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coffeebooksandmore · 8 months

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I’m making it a habit to write in my journal everyday again. It helps so much even if I only write one sentence.

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#journaling #journals #coffee #books #reading #reader #poetry #mary Oliver #journal #life #currently reading #booksbooksbooks #writer #life habits #habits #sunlight #summertime #summer reading

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mysharona1987 · 11 months

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By Tom Gauld

#summer #summer reading #books #books & libraries #booklr

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studyseedlings · 9 months

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best part of summer

#summer reading #studyblr #mine #books #books and coffee #mountains

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darkparisian · 7 months

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Shakespeare & Company, Vienna

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ijustkindalikebooks · 10 months

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“Reading brings us unknown friends.” ― Honore de Balzac.

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huariqueje · 11 months

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Untitled , The Paris Review - Janet Fish , 2014.

American, b. 1938-

Pastel on paper, 24 3/4 x 23 In. 62.87 x 58.42 cm.

#Janet Fish #american artist #still life #The Paris Review #reading art #summer reading

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alynnl · 8 months

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I reread Terry Pratchett's Nation this year and I always enjoy it every read.

It takes its themes seriously but also has the lighter moments needed to give a breather in its overall heavy narrative.

What I appreciate the most about it is how human all the characters read to me. And how their beliefs aren't dismissed even when the truth comes out. There is no wrong answer when it comes to faith vs. science, both are given equal credit since they're part of that human experience.

I also see a theme carried on in Nation that I've seen in other Prachett books such as Good Omens and Small Gods.

"Here and now, we are alive." and variations thereof.

In the case of Nation, instead of going to the perfect world, Mau decides he will remain in this one and try to do his part to make it a better one.

It will probably never be completely perfect, but in many small ways we can make life brighter and more worth living.

By connecting with others and finding common ground, we can become more than the sum of our parts.

That's the message I took away from this reread.

And also this is my informal recommendation to read Terry Pratchett's Nation if you haven't yet, or reread it if it's been a while.

I think it's one of his best standalone novels, and it has a message that speaks to all ages.

#Lynn reads #Terry Pratchett's Nation #rearead 2023 #Summer reading #One of my favorites to this day #I will get a hardcover sometime #My paperback is starting to show signs of use #Ah ha...#bookblr #novel reading

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librarianproblems · 9 months

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After a huge summer reading event

#librarian problems #libraries #librarians #library life #librarian #booklr #summer reading

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bellasbookclub · 10 months

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Reccer Spotlight: G!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Mexican Gothic

Jamaica Inn

The Monstrumologist

A River Enchanted

The Importance of Being Earnest

G tried to think of genre-ly diverse recs and they came out Oops, All Gothic (ok, except for the last two.) Full text available in their tab of the Bella’s Book Club Summer Reading ‘23 Reclist!

more info on BBC Summer Reading 2023

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#reccer spotlight #summer reading #summer reading challenge #booklr #book recs #book club #bella's book club #perfume: the story of a murderer #das parfum #mexican gothic #jamaica inn #the monstrumologist #a river enchanted #the importance of being earnest

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punkpandapatrixk · 9 months

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☆°・. Hustlin’ a la Goddess .・°☆ | Punk Girl Culture

A while back on Pinterest I saw a really cool quote like this: ‘I hustle like a man because I was raised not to depend on one.’ I understood what it’s trying to say and where it’s coming from; and above all, it really is an empowering idea considering how many women in this world are totally loser-like because their willpower is weak HA But the thing about that quote is…

It got me reminiscing about how I used to be a terrible, terrible workaholic caused by a toxic childhood that had been the complete opposite of that. In my past reality, I hustled like a man exactly because I had been groomed to depend on one. KABOOM!

In a toxic household was a psychopath that worked devilishly hard at having little girls believe that a woman is inherently—by nature—dependent on men. That our survival is at the mercy of men’s charity. Thus a woman must seek to marry a rich man if she wishes to live a happy life. Mind you, this wasn’t a simple case of a shallow Boomer who had grown up in a different era; this really was a psychopath who delighted in creating false realities for little girls to grow up and become absolute losers, in the hope that they never would surpass—never would become better than her.

I was only seven when I began to give that narrative a fuckton of thought. I loathed the idea that a woman is this kind of a helpless creature only because she was born with a vagina; that a woman would never survive without a man’s protection or provision; that a woman’s highest priority in life is to be attractive enough (whatever that means) to seduce a rich man so he wants to marry her. I LOATHED IT. I fucking despised it. What an insult to Love!

At any rate, by age seven, I had come to notice the bullshit that was often spewed by that psychopath. I refused to accept that degrading idea so I began to think and behave differently. I thought to myself one afternoon in the shower:

‘So a marriage is only necessary because of the money, right? But that’s an old people thing. This is a different era—I will make my own money when I grow up. So then, that means I don’t need to get married. I won’t allow myself to become dependent on a man. I don’t want it.’

And so it was that I grew up to become a hustler more resilient than most men because I wanted to rebel against the grooming of the psychopath. It was like a weird coping mechanism or overcompensation or something—not sure which term is more correct LMAO I grew up wanting to be seen as tough and not needing a man’s gentlemanly assistance. I hated being helped by men like, what, you think I can’t help myself? I was always able to help myself.

The problem is… I became way too tough. Waaay too tough for one short girl. I had come to hold myself to impossible standards. I thought that if a man could manage to do this or that, I should be able to do and achieve just the same. My brain is very capable! What’s stopping me?!

The reality of the limits of my physiology (tiny!🤪) as well as my psychology as an autistic girl had not become clear to me at this point. But as the wheel of fortune would have it, at some point in Life my eyes were opened to the very idea of my girlhood and I woke up to the realisation that a woman shouldn’t have to work so hard in Life. DIVINE FEMININE, BEBEH!

One cold and rainy October evening I was lying on my bed, broke as fuck, single as a stick, hungrier and lonelier than a stray cat, feeling all defeated in Life I thought about all of this and repeated to myself quite amusingly miserably:

‘I’m a girl. I’m just a girl. And a really tiny one at that. I shouldn’t have to work so hard. I don’t wanna have to work so hard. I shouldn’t be made to work SO hard. I wanna be someone’s baby girl!’

And I cried and I cried about the fact that I had been so unkind to myself as a girl. That I had allowed society to convince me that it was okay to be so impatient with myself in the name of professionalism! And I cried and I cried because now I was realising I’m really such a soft lovely polite girl who had been forced to fight for I didn’t even know what for the longest time trying to just meet the expectations of a batshit crazy world full of terribly gaslighty psychopaths…

I cried for three days straight, no cap. My youth… My entire Life… For what… And where did that lead me? It’s given me nothing. NOTHING.

By the end of the third day, I made a resolve to treat myself more kindly, more gently because girls are meant to be held with tender care and Love♥︎For the first time in my Life I was able to wholeheartedly accept that I was a girl LMAO That sounds funny but I wasn’t struggling with gender dysphoria—no, I don’t think that ever was the case but… umm… though I always liked the fact that I was a girl, somehow, there was also a part of me that used to view myself as just-a-14-year-old-boy-who-likes-to-play-video-games. I couldn’t even comprehend why I had an appearance that would be considered attractive by men💩

At any rate, so it was that I had held myself captive to impossibly stupid standards of conducts because I wasn’t aware enough of my biology, physiology, as well as psychology as a Goddess! Thinking about it now, it’s so bizarre I lived like that and even managed to survive pushing myself so hard even on those motherfucking days of murderous cramps *wink wink* One time I shed tears feeling so sorry to my younger self because I wasn’t gentle or patient enough with her.

I think the feminine force is supposed to be the embodiment of love and comfort. I think being a girl means I am deserving of an effortless existence. Say what you want if you’re a feminazi, but I want to live enveloped in lightness and ease. I think a girl deserves to be taken care of unconditionally because she’s so complexly fragile and delicate. No, it’s not a weakness. A flower’s delicateness is not a failure. Nor is a butterfly’s fragility useless.

We, are creatures of beauty. And when I was awakened to that reality, I learnt that the first thing I needed to do was stop being an enemy to my fragile beauty. I resolved to hold my femininity in highest regard and not continue to hurt myself with unrealistic expectations based on the male standards of conduct. It had to start with myself because the brainwashed world outside of me was never going to give this to me.

‘I simply do not want to hustle like a man anymore. I don’t think it suits me at all. More important, I don’t think the way men hustle is the standard of a good character! I don’t think they know what they’re doing.’

I, am a feminine force, baby—I don’t chase; I attract. When I hustle, I’m gonna hustle a la Goddess because that’s what I AM. The feminine, the yin, the abstract, holds the magick of the creation of the Universe. Literally I can manifest all I need effortlessly by just breathing calmly and being pretty—in harmony with the melodies of the Cosmic Vibrations💗

Gosh, why didn’t I figure this out earlier?!

I think I’ve now made peace with the homme and femme within though. I think, I’ve pretty much stopped being angry about the ways I used to hustle like a man—posing numerous dangers to myself both physically and spiritually. Ecologically, bish, that wouldn’t have been sustainable in the grander scheme of things!

I still have alternating days I feel more like an homme and a femme every so often but I’ve got to say I like me best on the days I feel most indulgently girly👗On such days, I feel the world is so fine because I’m a woman👒I feel everything is just gonna fall into place eventually because my Goddess Magick is taking care of my Reality. All is well in Divine Timing, my baby girl🎀

And god forbid—I don’t need no man to give that to me either!😉

☆♪°・. ☆♪°・. ☆♪°・. ☆♪°・. ☆♪°・. ☆♪°・.

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powells · 9 months

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Slow Down, Touch Grass

#powell's books #powell's #books #slow down touch grass #Touch Grass #summer reading #book recommendations #powell's recommends #jellycat

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dduane · 8 months

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"New" here means 2019, btw: this is from a mail about some vintage New Yorker articles.

...Now wondering what Wizard's Holiday would look like re-covered as a "beach read." :)

#beach reading #summer reading #the origins of the concept

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reidiot · 10 months

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i love summer because the sluttiest thing a man can do during this season is reading partially naked by a source of water. beach, lake, pool, fountain... *dreamy sigh followed by agonized sobbing*

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coffeebooksandmore · 9 months

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My favorite summer activity

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#books #reading #read #coffee #love #summer #summer reading #books and reading #summer love #reader #photography #beautiful #favorite #life #bookstagram

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bookishfreedom · 9 months

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should be pitched as “a romance novel about writers block”

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