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Diane Prime

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Soft thoughts, strong feelings, too many books--just reading, if you want to stay. 📚🔮🍵🌸🫰

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1K of you found your way here and I still don’t fully get how 🥹
I started this as a quiet little corner for books, and somehow it became a space where I get to share pieces of myself too
if you’re new here—hi 💛 I’m Diane
let’s read, overthink, and romanticize life together

#1kfollowers #grateful #thankyou #bookstagram #bookish taken in Toronto, Ontario by @sidecharacterthoughts

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5 months ago

It's the year of the wasian! As a wasian it can be hard to find representation, but as we rise in numbers we continue to become more visible! Here are a few books featuring wasian main characters and a few wasian authors to look into. Did I miss anything? Who is your favorite wasian character?

#bookstagram #bookish #wasian #fiction #booklover by @sidecharacterthoughts

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5 months ago

Women in Translation Month 🌍❣️📚

A little celebration of some of the translated books by women that I’ve read and loved:

🇯🇵 Breasts and Eggs — Mieko Kawakami
🇯🇵 Convenience Store Woman — Sayaka Murata
🇰🇷 Plant Lady — Minyoung Kang
🇹🇼 Notes of a Crocodile — Qiu Miaojin
🇰🇷 Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop — Hwang Bo-reum
🇹🇼 Taiwan Travelogue — Yang Shuang-zi
🇯🇵 Strange Weather in Tokyo — Hiromi Kawakami
🇯🇵 Kitchen— Banana Yoshimoti

There’s something so special about getting to hear women’s voices from around the world. I feel incredibly lucky that, through the work of translators, we can experience these stories, cultures, and perspectives in English.

Here’s to reading more women in translation — and to the translators who make it possible. 💗💕

#WomenInTranslation #WomenInTranslationMonth #TranslatedFiction #BooksByWomen #Bookstagram taken in BOOKSTA by @sidecharacterthoughts

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2 months ago

Thanks so much to @berkleypub and @berkleyromance for the free book! 🍂🌹

Happy release day to Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair by @ashleyhblake, a writer we love around here. This one has WLW romance, small-town rumours, paranormal activity, and plenty of twists and turns.

A cozy, witchy read that absolutely understood the assignment. 💕✨

#BerkleyPartner #AshleyHerringBlake #WLW #QueerRomance #Bookstagram @netgalley taken in North Carolina by @sidecharacterthoughts

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card carrying member of the (unofficial) @hudsonwilliamsofficial book club 🪪📚

the current syllabus:
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over — Anne de Marcken
Stoner — John Williams
Sex and Rage — Eve Babitz
East of Eden — John Steinbeck
Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar
The Odyssey — Homer
Play It as It Lays — Joan Didion

is it just me or is our Huddy really hitting it with these recs?

#HudsonWilliams #Bookstagramcanada #BookRecommendations #LiteraryFiction #BookishCommunity taken in BOOKSTA by @sidecharacterthoughts

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3 days ago

Girl, you deserve a gold star!! 🌟✨

#Bookstagram #BookishGirls #BookLovers #goldstar #readinglife taken in BOOKSTA by @sidecharacterthoughts

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5 days ago

Come with me to TIFA Presents: R.F. Kuang 📚✨

Getting to hear R.F. Kuang talk about Taipei Story and meeting her at the signing has been such a lovely part of the festival so far.

The book captured so much of what I’ve felt around my Taiwanese identity and language ability as someone living in the diaspora, while beautifully exploring Taipei, grief, depression, and the complicated idea of coming home.

And yes, it was a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read for me 🇹🇼❤️

#RFKuang #TaipeiStory #TIFA #TorontoBookstagram #BookstagramCanada taken in Toronto, Ontario by @sidecharacterthoughts

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6 days ago

My NetGalley shelf lately ✨

It’s the first day of fall! 🍂📚 And I’m so ready for cozy reading days ahead. Trying to balance the TBR with the ARCs… emphasis on trying 😅

What’s on your NetGalley shelf right now?

#NetGalley #Bookstagram #BookRecommendations #CurrentlyReading #Bookish taken in BOOKSTA by @sidecharacterthoughts

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8 days ago

Seven deadly sins, but as books 🔮📚✨

Confessing my literary sins today — which one are you most guilty of?

Post inspo from @bookswith_lizzie 🫶

#bookstagram #bookrecommendations #sevensins #bookchallenge #booktag taken in BOOKSTA by @sidecharacterthoughts

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11 days ago

it’s time for a reread 📖💜

some books just call for a return visit.

#arih #sjmaas #acomaf #acotar #currentlyreading taken in BOOKSTA by @sidecharacterthoughts

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14 days ago

What’s your favourite Beatles song?

A core memory of mine is realizing, as I came into cultural consciousness, that all my favourite songs were by the Beatles. 🙈

As a lifelong fan, I’m now realizing there’s always more to uncover about the Fab Four! Here’s a list of books I keep coming back to when I need to scratch that itch, from Beatles inspired fiction to nonfiction around the band and the cultural movement. 🪲🍏📚

#TheBeatles #BeatlesBooks #BookRecommendations #Bookstagram #Bookish

FICTION
🍏 The Man Who Saw Everything — Deborah Levy
🍏 Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
🍏 Lucy in the Sky — Paige Toon
🍏 Shake It Up, Beverley — Suzan Holder
🍏 The Lonely Hearts Club — Elizabeth Eulberg
🍏 Rubber Soul — Greg Kihn
🍏 She Loves You (Yeah Yeah Yeah) — Ann Hood
🍏 Kaleidoscope Eyes — Jen Bryant

NONFICTION
🥁 A Hard Day’s Write — Steve Turner
🥁 The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story — Vivek J. Tiwary
🥁 Dreaming the Beatles — Rob Sheffield
🥁 “Love Me Do!”: The Beatles’ Progress — Michael Braun
🥁 One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time — Craig Brown
🥁 John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs — Ian Leslie
🥁 The Beatles: The Authorized Biography — Hunter Davies
🥁 The Other Fab Four — Mary McGlory taken in Abbey Road by @sidecharacterthoughts

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16 days ago

Still thinking about this one from May ❤️

It was such a privilege to see Paul McCartney’s Eye of the Storm at the AGO. As a fan, I could spend all day looking at his photos; especially knowing they capture such a pivotal moment in the Beatles’ story.

Now I want to know: who’s your favourite Beatle?🪲

#PaulMcCartney #TheBeatles #EyeOfTheStorm #AGO #Bookstagram taken in AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario by @sidecharacterthoughts

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