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gabbagabbadoo · 1 year

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Books Read in 2022

I set a goal at the beginning of the year to read more books this year than I did last year.... which was 9 (lol) so, here they are:

(I also read more books cover to cover in a day or 2 than I ever have, and that is marked by *)

All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Clap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami, Sonali Deraniyagala ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

What's Mine and Yours, Naima Coster ⭐️/5

They Went Left, Monica Hesse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Panic, Lauren Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Orphan Collector, Ellen Marie Wiseman ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover ⭐️⭐️/5

House Rules, Jodi Picoult ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The First to Die at the End, Adam Silvera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

I Must Betray You, Ruta Sepetys ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Four Souls, Louise Erdrich ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris ⭐️⭐️/5

Four Three Two One, Courtney Stevens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

We Are Lost and Found, Helene Dunbar ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

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therapybooks · 11 months

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Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave

I read a lot of grief memoirs after my mother’s death in 2011. This one stands out to me still because of its simplicity and power. Sonali Deraniyagala was vacationing with her husband, her two young sons, and her parents in Sri Lanka in 2004, when a tsunami appeared out of nowhere and sent them running for their lives. She was separated from her family in the wave and saved herself by grabbing…

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#book #Book Club #death #Deraniyagala #grief #Memoir #Sonali Deraniyagala #therapist #trauma #tsunami #Wave

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notetaeker · 1 year

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READING UPDATE TAG Tagged by @heliops thank u lovely for the tag leave it to me to only get to it with only 1 month left of the year but it's worth a shot!

list of books i want to read/finish reading before the new year !

-Rapunzel's revenge by shannon hale - (inspired by that one graphic novel fairy tale re-telling @the---hermit was reading) I've just finished 2 depressing memoirs so i need something fun and whimsical 🤕

books i’ve read so far this year: (and ratings cuz why not) -I capture the castle - dodie smith 4.5/5 -life of pi- yann martel 1/5 -born a crime - trevor noah 5/5 -wave - sonali deraniyagala 4/5 -house of many ways - diane wynne jones 5/5 -roll of thunder, hear my cry - mildred taylor 5/5 -to kill a mockingbird - 4.5/5

im tagging: @caramelcuppaccino, @featheredstudies, @cheshire-castle-library, @gabiestudies @yughostlavia and anyone else tbh. tho i am aware its december salkdfj

#omg i remember reading portrait of dorian gray in high school #and little women !!! i used to read as a kid :') such nostalgic books for me #lol im curious how far u have read now that its december #well there's still a month left i guess #tagged

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awfulatoll · 10 months

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so far this july:

louise glück - descending figure the stone sky - nk jemisin wave - sonali deraniyagala jane eyre - charlotte brontë wide sargasso sea - jean rhys

#doing a rachel cusk buddy read rn and it's making me miss being in a lit program #didn't love the broken earth trilogy as much as i wanted to but otherwise pretty much all home runs this month so far

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socalnovelist · 1 year

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Review of the Novel, “Wave” by Sonali Deraniyagala

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala Reviewed by Lydia Nolan ©January 8, 2023 This novel is a true story, it is a devastatingly heart wrenching journey of loss and love beyond our wildest imagination. It is hard to believe people in other places from our own lives might be suffering so severely to where their therapist even encourages them to write a true narrative about it, publish it, and see its…

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lemntri · 3 years

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In case people don't know who sonali deraniyagala is

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lesbooblur · 5 years

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this book im reading resonates w me on a level i cant explain i finished three chapters of this book and felt like i had just finished crying i cant explain how much this book means to me

#i literally dont know why i connect with this book so much but i do #wave by sonali deraniyagala #literature

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araekniarchive · 3 years

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too much, and not enough

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

Fall Out Boy, Novocaine

Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami

Jill Alexander Essbaum, Heaven

Robin Hobb, Assassin’s Quest

Donna Lynn Hope, Willow

#webs #web weaving #theme: wherever i go there i am #theme: anguish #theme: apathy #mine #requests #this one is for the ask: 'feeling too much and emotionally numb at the same time'#james baldwin #mary lawson #robin hobb #fall out boy #sonali deraniyagala #jill alexander essbaum #donna lynn hope #outing myself as a huge robin hobb fangirl

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thediverismylove · 3 years

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read in july 2021

priestdaddy by patricia lockwood

real life by brandon taylor

the book of longings by sue monk kidd

you exist too much by zaina arafat

french exit by patrick dewitt

anti-diet by christy harrison

wave by sonali deraniyagala

the final girl support group by grady hendrix

if i had your face by frances cha

yolk by mary hk choi

fruit of the drunken tree by ingrid rojas contreras

he started it by samantha downing

the divines by ellie eaton

of women and salt by gabriela garcia

nothing to see here by kevin wilson

the farm by joanne ramos

evvie drake starts over by linda holmes

#read in 2021

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skbooklist · 5 years

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Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala

Thank you to Sonali Deraniyagala for sharing: “The outlandish truth of me.”

Dernaiyagala lost her husband, two young sons, and parents in the 2004 tsunami when vacationing in Sri Lanka. She survived by clinging onto a branch.

Life goes on (she is now married to Fiona Shaw), but her return to life is cruel, long, gradual, and ongoing.

No one ever recovers from death, not even survivors.

#nonfiction #Wave #Sonali Deraniyagala #memoir #grief #death

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desbianherstory · 5 years

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Sonali Deraniyagala with her wife, Fiona Shaw.

Fiona met Sonali in 2014 after reading Sonali’s acclaimed grief memoir, Wave. They married in 2018.

Fiona said: “We spent half an hour chatting. When I left I thought, ‘I have just met life’. Very quickly I thought, I just want to live with this person — and it’s been one of the most marvellous things to happen but it was also highly unlikely. Thankfully, she thought the same and it’s been a beautiful thing to happen at this stage of my life.”

#sri lankan wlw #Sonali Deraniyagala #fiona shaw

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daily-volcanology · 3 years

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tsunami movies are currently available from euro-ethnic studios because producers, et al. aren't actually feeling the effects. any s. asian studio would feel that trauma more personally and immediately.

there are many firsthand accounts that have been popularized in the form of books such as Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave, which could have been adapted for film. besides, hollywood makes movies about disasters shortly after the fact anyway, such as United 93 coming out only 5 years after 9/11 or Patriot Day 3 years after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

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yourdailyqueer · 5 years

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Sonali Deraniyagala

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: Born 1964

Ethnicity: Sri Lankan

Occupation: Writer, economist

Note 1: Was involved in 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami where she lost her husband, two children and her parents. Her 2013 memoir, Wave, recounts her experiences in the tsunami and the progression of her grief in the ensuing years. This book is currently used as a prose passage in the education system for English Literature in Sri Lanka.

Note 2: Married to Fiona Shaw

#Sonali Deraniyagala #bisexuality #wlw #female #bisexual #1964 #asian #Sri Lankan #poc #writer #economist #scientist #popular #popular post

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writcraft · 4 years

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Tag Meme

Tagged by darling @shiftylinguini and unlike the top ten characters meme which I am STILL thinking about, I decided to do this right away.

Top 4 ships atm:

I’m deep in my Harry Potter feels at the minute so all my top ships are from HP.

Severus Snape/Harry Potter

Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

James Potter/Sirius Black

Minerva McGonagall. I don’t have a specific ship that’s a fave but she is my favourite starting point for femslash. I ship her particularly with older women of the Potterverse, such as Poppy Pomfrey, Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank, Madam Rosmerta, Pomona Sprout, Madam Hooch etc.

Last song:

Black & Gold - Sam Sparro

Last movie:

I haven’t watched a film in a little while, the last thing I watched was the Cheer docuseries on Netflix.

Reading:

I’ve been catching up on HP Kinkfest and HP Goldenage fests and have a couple of friends fics I want to read when I’ve finished my fest reading. In terms of non fic and excluding reading related to my new job and thesis, I’ve been reading ‘Wave’ by Sonali Deraniyagala and lots of poetry.

Current food craving:

I’m pretty much just craving coffee right now. A constant mood until around midday.

I’ll tag @gracerene09 @dictacontrion @candybarrnerd @shoulderpadfoot and @ruinsplume if you care to do this and haven’t already.

#meme #tag things #about me

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commanderlexas · 4 years

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🌺💘🌷 get to know your mutuals! when you get this, it means someone wants to know more about you, so list 5 things about yourself you want your followers to know. they can be as simple as your age or as complex as your deepest fear, as long as it’s something you’re comfortable with sharing. when you’re done, send this to 10 people you want to get to know better! 🌷💘🌺

Hey, this has been sitting in my inbox for weeks! Thanks for the ask and sorry for the late response ❤️

I guess I’ll take this as an opportunity to give yall an update on my life.

1. I thought the restrictions due to corona would make my trip to a beautiful greek island not so enjoyable, but I had such a good time. I actually got to explore more of the nature by hiking.

2. After graduation, I’ve finally had the time and energy to go back to reading books! Some of the books I’ve read this summer are the third book of the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante, Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala and The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. If you like fantasy novels, dragons and the gays then I totally recommend the latter one!

3. I haven’t watched many tv shows this summer, which is very unlike me. But I’m currently watching the second season of The umbrella academy. I’m open to recommendations if there’s any new shows worth watching out there!

4. A couple weeks ago, I watched a great conversation between some Afro-greeks on youtube. They talked about how they feel about the BLM movement and about their own experiences as black people in a predominantly “white” country. I highly recommend you, especially the european peeps, to watch it, here’s a link. There’s english subtitles because they speak in Greek, you might have to turn on the subs yourself!

5. Still waiting to see if I’m getting a job at the company that I had an interview with at the end of June. The waiting is so frustrating because I still don’t know when I’ll be back to Stockholm. I like having at least an idea about my schedule, and not having one rn makes me feel a little uneasy. But it’s okay. Anyways that’s it from me. Hope all is well with everyone!!! X.

#asks #alexandriacarey

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ackb · 4 years

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I love books and have always loved books and reading, but I’ve never been a great reader. Especially since becoming a parent, reading puts me to sleep. To be fair, I’m liable to fall asleep anytime I’m still for more than five minutes. But I digress...

This time last year a good friend posted the list of books she read in 2018 and noted how helpful it was to have “want to read” lists in goodreads. I thought to myself that maybe this year was the year to start really reading again. So I made myself a goodreads list (based on a bunch of “Best of” lists and lists of books I wanted to read to the kids) and I was off to the races.

It was a successful (and delightful) experiment.

I read 41 books this year just for me. I read 30 books with/to the kids. Early in the fall I made a personal goal to read a bunch of graphic novels and ended up reading 28. (Goodreads says I read 101 books, but no matter how I count them, I never count more than 99, so I don’t know how they’re getting to that number). Anyway, that’s a hell of a lot of books.

I find it hard to judge books sometimes as “best of” because reading is so personal. I know even very good friends who love books I’m just not fond of and vice versa. But there are a few books that really stuck with me this year that I find extraordinary for one reason or another. These are the ones I included in my “Best of” list in my bullet journal above. They are:

Exit West, Mohsin Hamid — I was mesmerized by this somewhat difficult but absolutely stunning book about the magic, horror, and trauma of forced immigration.

Pet, Akwaeke Emezi — Can you write a horror fairy tale for children about secrets and abuse set in an alternate universe utopia? Akwaeke Emezi can and did. I’ve never read anything like it. Just spectacular.

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt — in a lot of ways this book is very typical American fiction, but I found it incredibly immersive. I read it in the spring and I still find myself thinking about it often.

Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala — Sometimes we use words like “heartbreaking” to describe difficult or sad things. This true story goes way beyond the limits of the word. This is Deraniyagala’s memoir of the instantaneous loss of her two sons, her husband and her parents in the 2004 tsunami. It’s a truly beautiful, haunting book.

A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park — I’ve always loved children’s literature and there are so many excellent books out there, but every once in a while you come across a story that is so beautifully crafted that it sticks with you forever. That’s how A Single Shard felt. I adored it.

Red, White, and Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston — If books were judged solely on how they made you feel, this wins the blue ribbon for sure. Smart, hilarious, timely, fun—this book is everything and I can’t wait to reread it.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottleib — Gottleib has a very funny, authentic voice, and it made reading this book like talking to a best friend.

The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin — The whole Broken Earth trilogy is an outstanding accomplishment. It’s brilliantly plotted, with complex, intricate characters I grew to adore, set in a world both familiar and totally alien.

The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú — It sucks to think you’re doing something helpful only to find out you’re complicit in great evil. As I, and—honestly—most of us white Americans, come to grips with the world and our place in it, the struggles of soul that Cantú explores resonate deeply. Can we be redeemed? Maybe not. A hard, provocative book.

There were lots of other amazing books I didn't draw. Like Bloodlust & Bonnets and The Calculating Stars and After the Flood and Children of Blood and Bone and Sing, Unburied, Sing and The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics and NeuroTribes and So You Want to Talk About Race and Educated.

I can't wait to see what I get to read next year!!

#reading challenge 2019 #books #Exit West #Pet #The Goldfinch #Wave #A Single Shard #red white and royal blue #Maybe you should talk to someone #The Fifth season #broken earth #the line becomes a river

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