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Hi friends! Happy #stacksaturday with just a dark stack for those October vibes.

What's everyone up to today? It's the big Iowa vs. Ohio State game, but alas, I'm going to miss it to go to @boozybookfest ! They're billing it as an adult scholastic book fair, which... sold. No questions. 🤭 I've got the game set to tape, but I know I won't be able to avoid spoilers because smart phones. I O W A. In case anyone is new here or has forgot. 🤭

Has anyone read anything from this stack? I managed my Ninth House reread, and I read Tapestry of Fate this summer. The rest are fall hopefuls. So 🤞. Although I'm already way behind my Howling Dark buddy read...

Had one crisp day, and immediately, my mood screamed Sleep Token. This song was on repeat in my brain last night.

Oh and I did one photo sans blur... but I think I like the blur way better when theres so much in the background. What say you?

Just tagging for a moody, dark colored stack. No rules, just vibes.

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Hi friends! Happy Wednesday. I was trying to pick a post for today and decided to do a carryover from the dogstagram world and do a #waterfallwednesday 🤭 I suppose it could be a #whiteoutwednesday as well since it's a white stack. Also, since it wasn't much of a waterfall this summer. 😭

But I don't have much else for a caption and @shona_reads_in_devon says I need to stfu about the weather soooo...

We could do an AMA? Ask me anything?

Or tell me about a book that has you excited lately? Whether it's an upcoming release? Something you just read? Something on your fall tbr you're excited to get to?

Oh or tell me the best waterfall you've ever seen? For me, it was definitely the waterfalls of Iceland.

Tagging for a white stack. Bonus points for hauling it to a waterfall.

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❤️ PEOPLE WHO MAKE ME LOVE BOOKSTAGRAM ❤️

Q: Who makes you love bookstagram? Or, who would you follow here based on the books I associate with them? 🫶

I just felt like spreading some love today 🌸 Going to have to do a Part II at some point as I ran out of slides!! You are all fabulous 💃 If you’re not following these accounts already, get on it! 🫵 I have overlapping tastes with all of them! 🤩

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❤️ Nicole - @fictionfungiflora
❤️ Rachel - @the.bookofthewitch
❤️ Minna - @minnas.bookshelf
❤️ Abi - @mood.reading.goblin
❤️ Justine - @stormbornarchive
❤️ Alyssa - @book.explorer
❤️ Cătălina - @catethereader
❤️ Laz - @thathonestbookreviewer
❤️ Abbie - @abbiesbookworld
❤️ Katie - @jaybirbtodd
❤️ Mihaela - @missmidnightreads
❤️ Camrie - @fantasy.dweller
❤️ Mai - @bookish_mai
❤️ Fi - @youcancallmefidoesbooks
❤️ Tara - @tarasbookhub
❤️ Robin - @literaryrobin
❤️ Cass - @the_midwest_library
❤️ Shona - @shona_reads_in_devon
❤️ Theresa - @wordswithsips

#fantasybookstagram #fantasybookstagrammer #scifibookstagram #sffbooks #bookishaccount

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Hi friends! Happy August! And August, for me, means vacation! 🥳🥳 I'm leaving today for 12 days, so I will be on here much more sporadically between being off my phone and crap reception. I apologize to all my reelationships, but I have got to escape the heat.

An August stack to celebrate. Always fun trying to find 2 U's.

If you could vacation in any book series, where would you go? I think i would lose my mind to get to explore Buckkeep or Winterfell. But I'd also love to go riding in Rohan or sailing with Amina Al-Sarafi.

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✨ Priorities ✨
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These three will constitute the center of my reading life for the foreseeable future. That is assuming I can resist my own reading habits, a dubious proposition at best. I have never been a monogamous reader. I inevitably find myself oscillating between multiple books at once, devouring shorter novels over the course of a weekend, only to derail whatever carefully constructed reading plan I had the moment another irresistible work wanders into my field of vision. An occupational hazard of being a book lover I suppose.
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There are a number of prior commitments still demanding completion. I have several Shakespeare plays I intend to finish this month, roughly two hundred pages remaining in Infinite Jest, an upcoming book club at the local indie bookstore, and more than a few titles from the recently announced longlist of that particularly distinguished literary prize that I hope to read sooner rather than later. In other words, it is the perennial dilemma of the serious reader, an ever-expanding library and a decidedly finite amount of time. To read voraciously is also to cultivate a perpetual dissatisfaction with these limits.
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What excites me most is returning to Elkins’ world of Samuel Emmer. Weak in Comparison to Dreams was one of my favorite novels I read last year. Elkins strikes me as one of the few contemporary American novelists genuinely invested in extending and experimenting with the formal possibilities of the novel.
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Waiting alongside is The Rouse by China Miéville, a novel already spoken of in almost mythical terms. A purported maximalist behemoth, encyclopedic, geographically and historically expansive, sprawling over the course of twelve hundred pages.
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Exciting months lie ahead. If there is any enduring remedy for the anxieties of modern life, I continue to suspect it is to disappear into impossibly large books. I’m convinced that the maximalist novel is one of the last places where complexity is not merely tolerated but celebrated, a refusal to reduce the world to something simpler than it is.

Happy reading ✌️

#bookstagram #bibliophile

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The sweltering heat of the day, compounded with our quenching afternoon rains, was all I needed to have me bundled up in bed with a cat or two and this book, The Body.

This book brings so many memories of summer days in unkempt wooded lots, and neighborhood adolescence adventure. I’ll finish this in a day or two, and jump into a rec from my pal @book.explorer “Boy’s Life”

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them-words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think.
When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”

#thebody #stephenking #summerreading

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Hi friends! Happy #stacksaturday

I really thought someone somewhere had tagged me for a black and white stack, but I can't find it now. 🤷‍♀️ ah, well, as this really didn't turn out black and white? I picked spines with a lot of color to them besides, but I do like how it turned out.

What's everyone up to? I'm being a lazy b in bed even though i had plans for this morning because last night me was much more ambitious than morning me. It's also supposed to feel like 113 today, so I should have gotten up and then taken a siesta later.

Have you read or even heard of any of these books? I adored Acacia and should do a reread to see how it holds up. But I'm working on Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, and oh man, is that book a beast.

Anyone else get a blast of nostalgia from this song?

Tagging people for black and white stacks if theyre so inclined.

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#BookMail 📦📚
Stocking up my Summer Reads ⛱️ I've been influenced big time here - super excited for Sally Rooney's Intermezzo thanks to a review by @book.explorer ✨
& The Strength Of The Few by James Islington that @booksaremyhoard did a great post about ⚡📖

Also pumped to try the first book in Andrea Stewart's new series 'The Hollow Covenant', I finished off 'The Drowning Empire' series earlier this year 🤩 and I love the font choice in her hardbacks call me crazy 🫶🏻

#JamesIslington #TheStrengthOfTheFew #SallyRooney #AndreaStewart

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#MostRecentRead Labyrinth by Kate Mosse 🌴

Needed a +500 page captivating, but not overly emotional or complicated, book to take with me on holiday last week and ohmigosh this was the perfect book ☀️🍹📖 Finished the story last night, solid ending - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hope you're vibing with whatever you're reading this week 🤗🏖️ Tagged a few peeps with good taste 😉 so you can share your most recent read ✨
#KateMosse

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The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
McNally Editions

My second foray into #mcnallyspring was this banger of a novel. This is one of those books I've had on my shelf for years, and I have to thank @thewrittenroute and @book.explorer for giving me the push to finally read this. Let me tell you, this book absolutely RIPS 🤘

In 1947, a struggling hotel full of guests suddenly disappears as the cape around it collapses, killing everyone inside. There are 16 survivors, and as the book starts we are drawn into the final week of the hotel's existence. We follow all of the people while not being sure who lives and who dies. What follows is masterfully paced novel full of humor, wit, and an ever-looming dread as crazier things keep happening at the hotel.

This novel is totally hilarious. Kennedy's sharp prose injects so much humor into this cast of zany characters. They are written SO well and the dialogue is top-notch. A few of these people are representations of the seven deadly sins, while also being a mockery of some of the most annoying people you may meet! They feel real well also being completely off the wall.

This is a book that just so totally impressed me. It really has it all: a well executed plot, a diverse cast of characters, wonderful writing, and tons of entertainment to keep the pages turning. There is even some deep philosophy and commentary on life in post-war England. To me, this is a damn near faultless book and easily one of the best of the year for me. Everyone go read this!!

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M A Y ⚡️

It’s a month book stack, so of course Yumi is doing its thing.

May has already been great! Had that show in Nashville last week. Got a Dungeon Crawler Carl book release event at my local bookstore Monday. MOST IMPORTANTLY my birthday is next week (May 13, Wednesday). That will of course come with various hangs/dinner/drinks. Also have a tattoo booked for next weekend. Just an all around good month 👌

❓Do you have any special plans this month?

Tagging some of you for a May stack if you so choose.
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