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Just as I was getting ready to do a #MeetTheBookstagrammer post, I got tagged to do a round of #GetToKnowMeThroughBooks, so this is a mix of both. Showing my (sleep deprived) face is the "meet" part, because I always shy away from it 😄 ⁠ ⁠ Without further ado, here it comes:⁠ ⁠ 📚 Favourite book this year: I'm afraid I'll have to list a few, as even this was difficult enough:⁠ ⁠ Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi ⁠ The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante⁠ Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag ⁠ Ramifications by Daniel Saldaña París⁠ ⁠ 📚 Favourite Classic: ⁠ ⁠ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (probably 😅)⁠ ⁠ 📚 A book that changed my life: ⁠ ⁠ A bit of a joke question, as every book changes you one way or another, but if I'm being pressed, I'll say Martin Eden by Jack London and Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse were a massive influence when I was very young.⁠ ⁠ 📚 A book I recommend to everyone: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera⁠ ⁠ 📚 A book I didn't really like: Power by Naomi Alderman⁠ ⁠ 📚 A book I obsess over: Anything by Susan Sontag (non-fiction), and Roberto Bolaño (fiction)⁠ ⁠ 📚 Looking forward to reading: I've been wanting to read Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašic for soooo long, and because I couldn't travel this year to visit my family in the Balkans, I didn't manage to get hold of the book. But, as luck would have it, in the meantime she won a massive EU prize and her novel is getting released in English translation in 2021, so I'm super excited. ⁠ ⁠ 📚 Currently reading: What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohalia Abdulali and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo. ⁠ ⁠ Not sure if you know me any better, but it was a fun exercise. Tagging a few of you if you fancy sharing your picks. 💛⁠
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#CountYourTitlesStack // thanks @thedreamychapters for the tag✨ I only got to 6 words 🙈 However, I'm glad to have another chance to showcase some of my all-time favourite books! The Bluest Eyes is my latest addition, I just finished it yesterday and it moved me deeply. Please pick these up if you haven't do so! 😆 1 : Shelter 2 : Station Eleven 3 : The Bluest Eyes 4 : The Gift of Rain 5 : Everything I Never Told You 6 : The Perks of Being a Wallflower Tagging some lovely people but feel free to join! 💖
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❤️ #WhatILoveAboutMeTag ❤️ Hi y’all! Today, I wanted to start a tag and I’m really hoping it won’t flop because that would be awkward hahaha. I wanted to spread some positivity and self love. The books pictured here are all books that have meant something to me and that made me appreciate life more. And I want to link that to these questions I’ll answer today (that I’m really hoping some of you will want to answer too!! Obviously also if I didn’t tag you but you still want to do it :))) 💛❔ What is something you love about your personality? 💛❕I really love that I try to be very conscious of other people’s needs and feelings. The fact that I always try my best and work hard for school/university, is also something I like. 💚❔What is your favourite aspect of your appearance? 💚❕ My green eyes, for sure! I also enjoy my own clothing style hahaha. 💙❔What is something you’ve achieved in your life that you’re proud of? 💙❕I’m proud of myself for graduating high school cum laude and getting into my dream study program. I also feel really good about joining the Diversity & Inclusion platform at my university. 💜❔In what aspect of your life have you grown lately? 💜❕Recently, I’ve been stepping out of my comfort zone a lot more and I’ve done a lot of things I would’ve been too scared to do in the past. And it makes me feel really good! 🖤❔What’s a positive thing about you that you should tell yourself more? 🖤❕I am trying my best and that is enough. I do not exist for anyone but myself. I am continuously growing as a person and will always try to be better than I was yesterday. If I tagged you (or if I didn’t!) I would love for you to join in on the tag :) let’s spread some self love and appreciation! [start photo-ID: pictured is a vertical stack of three books. From left to right they are: ‘They Both Die At The End’, ‘We Are Okay’ and ‘The Dark Between Stars’. On the right side of the stack is a prop that says ‘be happy’ and a white stone with three ladybug figurines on it. The background is black. End photo-ID]
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#SixBooksSixCountries 🌍⁠ ⁠ I've been tagged by @mybookworldtour in this challenge recently, and obviously I'm more than happy to oblige. ⁠ ⁠ A caveat: these are not my favourite authors (although a couple of them definitely are); I spent way too much time trying to decide which countries and what authors to feature and I ended up picking a few by random choice. I guess, I'll have to do a few more rounds in the future 🤣⁠ ⁠ 🇨🇱 Chile: 2666 by #RobertoBolaño⁠ ⁠ 🇫🇷 France: Life A User's Manual by #GeorgesPerec⁠ ⁠ 🇮🇱 Israel: A Horse Walks Into A Bar by #DavidGrossman⁠ ⁠ 🇨🇳 China: The Chilli Bean Paste Clan by #YanGe⁠ ⁠ 🇰🇷 South Korea: The White Book by #HanKang ⁠ ⁠ 🇦🇴 Angola: A General Theory of Oblivion by #JoséEduardoAgualusa⁠ ⁠ Check out the hashtag to see inspiring posts with wonderful recommendations 💜⁠ ⁠ Happy Saturday all!⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠
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#SixBooksSixCountries 🌍 📚 I was tagged by @elishas.library , @chicostreet.read & @mybookworldtour 🇻🇳 Vietnam: The Secret of Hoa Sen by @nguyenphanquemai_ 🇲🇲 Myanmar: Burma Storybook (anthology) 🇯🇲 Jamaica: Crossfire by @staceyannchin 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇱 Chile: Madwomen by #GabrielaMistral #NobelLaureate 🏳️‍🌈 🇧🇼 Botswana: The Careless Seamstress by #TjawangwaDema 🇰🇪 Kenya: Migritude by #ShailjaPatel All read this year & all poetry books, my fave genre 💜 I’ve tagged a few people to join into this challenge! Feel free to join too if you see this. ✨ Also recommend me some poetry collections in comments!
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❔Bookish Questions ❔ Thank you for tagging me to answer these questions @theliteraryhours! I’ll tag some other people who might want to do this. (also: the last question contains spoilers for The Priory of the Orange Tree!) ❔Do you choose a book to start the year with ahead of time? ❕I don’t pick a book ahead of time, but I do often read my books in the order in which I bought them. So I’ll just continue with that list when the next year starts, but I won’t be picking a special book for the occasion. ❔ What’s your favourite form of self care? ❕ I actually don’t do any active self care, which I know is really bad. I just don’t allow myself the time to do anything and then I end up scrolling through Instagram for hours on end. I’m definitely trying to improve this, so if you have any easy self care tips, I’d love to hear them!! ❔Do you prefer coffee or tea? ❕Coffee all the way! I really don’t like tea and I would never actually drink it because I enjoy it. I love coffee though, especially some good iced coffee. ❔Do you have a dedicated reading spot in your house? ❕Definitely! I have a comfy chair I always sit in while reading. If it’s late and I’m tired, I also like to read in my bed. ❔Who is your favourite book couple? ❕ Ead Duryan and Sabran the Ninth from The Priory of the Orange Tree :) QOTD: what are your favourite forms of self care? [start photo-ID: in the bottom left corner, an open book is pictured. The book is being closed, so there’s a couple of blurry pages that are moving. On the right side of the book a fossilised ammonite is pictured. Above the book, a shell is visible. The background is black. End photo-ID.]
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⚠️TW: sexual assault ⚠️ Harnessing power from pain is not an easy feat. Chanel Miller, victim of the Stanford University sexual assault case encapsulates her painful experience in this heart-rending memoir, inspiring change and touching lives across the globe. Chanel was 22 when she was raped behind a dumpster on Stanford University’s campus, kickstarting a long and gruelling journey of healing, writing, and navigating through California’s court system, striding towards the summit where justice is promised. Because of this KNOW MY NAME was born. An autobiography significant in its powerful proclamation of Chanel’s identity after years of being known by the public as Emily Doe: a name assigned to the unconscious, drunk, half-naked victim. The book’s dualistic nature zooms in to how the assault has not only affected Chanel, but also the people around her; and zooms out to a wider context, giving insightful social commentary about necessary changes that need to occur on a systemic and institutional level. While reading, I’ve envisioned signs of hope existing amidst the mess—balls of tangled hopes and dreams resting in the middle of a lighthouse, a beautiful tree, two bicycles. Chanel allows us personal glimpses of the aftermath of the assault and does so delicately. Her crazy outbursts, nightmares, paranoia, shame, inability to focus…broken pieces were laid out before us, brutal and bare. Her family, boyfriend, and those around her are dragged into this mess, her life irrevocably changed due to one stranger’s act of selfishness. Then, it skillfully weaves in the various sacrifices sexual assault demands of its victims, walking us through the flawed court system that was designed to fail the most vulnerable. It is in writing that Chanel has found her voice and owned her story. Knowing this is not only comforting for me but also wildly effective in getting me on my feet, up and ready to be prolific. In Chanel’s little musings of writing in her own bedroom, I saw myself too—23 years old, small, and unemployed— but with a big, big knowing that I will be, and am still fighting. Thank you @amewreads @aqilahreads @e.laibrary for buddy reading with me 🌟
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Tagged by @shereadsox to post 6 books I wanna read soon! So here’s my stack~⁣ ⁣ from left to right we have Modesty by Hafsa Lodi, A Lover’s Discourse by Xiaolu Guo, Saltwater Spirits by Syahidah Ismail, Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, and Parade Hantu Siang Bolong by Titah Aw!! ⁣ ⁣ Hopefully I’ll manage to read them all by the end of the year 🤓 ⁣ Tagging some of you if you’d like to post your stack, too! 🥰 ⁣ #ModestyAFashionParadox #HafsaLodi #ALoversDiscourse #XiaoluGuo #SaltwaterSpirits #SyahidahIsmail #PleaseLookAfterMom #KyungSookShin #TheColorPurple #AliceWalker #ParadeHantuSiangBolong #TitahAw
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🐢🐦 #NatureTitleStack 🐦🐢 A couple of days ago the lovely Nadine (@nadines.noctuary) tagged me in the #NatureTitleStack she created, where you picture a stack with books whose titles are connected to nature. (I’ll tag some people!) As I was looking through my shelves for books I could use, I noticed I had quite a few books with animals in the title. I chose these three, because they have ‘bird’ and ‘turtle’ in the title and I happened to have both turtle and bird figurines. I read ‘Turtles All The Way Down’ not that long after it came out. At the time I had just gotten out of my John Green phase and I definitely didn’t enjoy this book as much as his other novels, even though I can see how it was objectively a pretty good book. The OCD representation was really good though, and I enjoyed that. I’m also glad to see it discussed in kind of a mainstream media book because I feel like people throw ‘OCD’ around at everything, which bothers me. I hope this book helps people realise that OCD isn’t just fun and “OoOoH i LiKe My DeSk tO bE TiDy i’M sO OcD!!!!” Every time someone says something like that, it just invalidates someone’s experience with actual OCD. This turned into a rant, oops. I read ‘All The Birds In The Sky’ somewhat recently and really liked it at first. Now that I look back on it, I feel like it really overused the “I’m not like other girls” prompt and I’m not a huge fan of that. It was a really original book though and very unlike anything I’d read before. For my 5th year in high school, we did a project that focussed on Black Americans and we had to read a book for it. I picked ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ because I’d heard of the title before and felt like this was a good excuse for me to read it. I didn’t like it at first, because it was a tad slow, but towards the end it really grew on me. QOTD: are you able to only sleep a couple of hours and function normally the next day? AOTD: I’m very glad to say that I am hahahah. In high school, I always had to get up at 6am, and I was never in bed by 10. I really got used to sleeping 6 hours a night and can easily do that for an entire week. Photo-ID and tags will be in the comments!
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i was tagged by @amewreads to do the #alphabetflatlay challenge and i choose the letter T! 🥰 it was harder than i thought HAHAHAHA so i just went with the majority that was in my TBR pile :") ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 1. this song will save your life - leila sales⁣ 🎧⁣ 2. the twelve days of dash & lily by rachel cohn & david levithan⁣ ❄️⁣ 3. turtles all the way down by john green⁣ 🐢⁣ 4. the forty rules of love by elif shafak⁣ 💚⁣ 5. tin man by sarah winman⁣ 🙇‍♂️⁣ 6. the girl on the train by paula hawkins ⁣🚇⁣ ⁣⁣ anyways some random drawings & scribbles of my favourite quotes from the classics 💚 i am still super obsessed with pan macmillan's book cover designs when they reissue some classic titles to celebrate their 70 years of publication a few years ago. they are SO pretty!!!! 🥺😍⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ its been so long but yessss i was also inspired by @amewreads to open up my my procreate even just for awhile 😭😭😭 its nothing compared to hers omggggzz pls yalllll should go check out her latest post & hopefully more of her #alphabetflatlay to come! 😍 thank you for the tag once again! ✨ ⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ #leilasales #rachelcohn #davidlevithan #johngreen #elifshafak #sarahwinman #paulahawkins #bookishpost #bookquote #booklover #bookstore #bookstagram #bookworm #bookshelf #reading #bookaddict #bookaholic #happyreader #bookclub #booklovers #bookoftheday #bookish #booklove #bookstorelover #reading #readingtime #book #books #bookrecommendations #bookish #bookstagram #bookishlove ⁣⁣
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#pinkstackforbreastcancer 👏🏽 EVERYONE 👏🏽 CHECK 👏🏽 YOUR 👏🏽 BREASTS 👏🏽 Approximately 20,168 Australians will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020, an average of 55 people every day.  October is dedicated to Australia’s Breast Cancer Awareness month 🌸 We need to be aware of our breast health and that means checking our breasts and noticing changes - swipe to see how you can do this. If you notice anything unusual, tell someone and visit your nurse or doctor for a check up. I would love you all to participate and share awareness. Tag @lola.and.puki with your stack and tag #pinkbooks4boobs as she will be donating $1 per stack ($50 max) to @nbcfaus - the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Thank you to the amazing @larnsbookshelf, @bookswithjaim and @read.with.lexi for tagging me to participate in something so important 💝💖
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Thank you @mirandacactusreads for tagging me to share my #lastnownextreads ! 🤩 Last: Bunny—Mona Awad Now: How to Pronounce Knife—Souvankham Thammavongsa ( I’ve technically just finished this but her prose and ideas are so memorable that I’m still counting it ) Next: The City We Became— N.K. Jemisin It’s that time of the month where I need to plow through my library books before they need to be returned. They’re all longer reads so wish me luck! I’ve also tagged a few friends to share what you’re reading at the moment because I’m genuinely curious! #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookworm #booksofinstagram #bookcommunity #bookishcommunity #bookpic #bookpics #amreading #readersofinstagram #readmorebooks #booksarelife #lastnownext #lastnownextreads
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