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📚 2-2-2 TAG 📚

Thank you @bookshelvesandtealeaves for tagging me in this challenge a while ago!

Sorry for the almost-radio-silence over the last week, but I've been enjoying time in Disneyland, Paris and now at the beach 😊 Now that we're settled here for the next few days, I'm going to try to be back on here for a bit!

(This said - my girlfriend and I are currently sharing my phone because hers decided to fully stop working the first night here at the seaside, so I'm still going to be very on and off)

Anyway, back to the stack:

Two books I want to read:
🤍 All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
💙 Forging Silver Into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer

Two books I bought/got recently:
🤍 This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
💙 Zhara by S. Jae-Jones (just started the audiobook of this!)

Two books I can't stop thinking about:
🤍 The Poet Empress by Shen Tao (OF COURSE!!)
💙 Faebound by Saara el-Arifi

I'm tagging a few friends to join the fun, but no pressure as always!

❓️ What's a book you'd use to answer any of these prompts? Or what have you been up to over the past week?

P. S. Scroll to the next pics for a glimpse into the past few days of holidays ☀️

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12 books recommended by 12 friends - with a picture of the eight that are now on my shelves. Of the twelve books, I had four on my shelves already and sourced a further four through eBay and Vinted.
The final four, not pictured here, are books I got in ebook or audiobook format, with a mixture of KU and BorrowBox loans, as well as audible purchases.

A Spell for Change by Nicole Jarvis
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
This Savage Song by VE Schwab
The Seawomen by Chloe Timms
Problematic Summer Romance, Mate, and Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Kath

Not pictured:
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
You Watched in Silence by H. Lee Justine
Spellbound by Allie Therin
The Lies of Mortals by Malaria Weber

I can report that I've absolutely loved both titles I've read so far (The Nightingale and Spellbound), and am looking forward to all the other picks!

#12booksrecommendedby12friends #bookishflatlay #recommendedbooks #scottishbookstagram #alihazelwood #afterlightbooks

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📚 The ARC challenge & Flatlay Friday 📚

First of all - look at me ACTUALLY managing to post a flatlay on a Friday! Woohoo!! It features books that I read as ARCs and then got beautiful shelf trophies of.

I saw @bookish.girl82 do this recently and thought it was such a fun idea, so I had to give it a go as well! My journey with ARC reading started in January 2024 and I've been loving every moment of it (even when I accidentally overrun my TBR with deadlines 🫣).

📖 The first ARC I was approved for was @d.hawkinsauthor's Not In The Plan - such a fun read! Three books later, and I'm about to read her fourth romance next week 😍

📖 The last ARC I was approved for (a couple of days ago) was Kate Dylan's Before We Collide, sequel to Until We Shatter. I'm curious to see how the story will continue!

📖 The last ARC I read was The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst. I loved returning to that enchanting, cozy world ✨️

📖 The next ARC I'm planning to read is Alchemy and A Cup of Tea by Rebecca Thorne, the (I think??) final chapter of the Tea and Tomes saga.

📖 The most surprising approval was The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri, because it was the first time I was accepted for an ARC of one of my overall favourite authors and it took me so by surprise 🥰

📖 The most exciting approvals... that one's hard, as there's been so many! Two that stand out in my mind have been The Lotus Empire (again) and Drown Me With Dreams by Gabi Burton - my two most anticipated releases of 2024. There's been lots of super exciting ones, though!!

I'm tagging a few ARC-reading friends to join the fun, but no pressure, as always. And please consider yourselves tagged if you aren't but like to have a go!

❓️ What was the very first ARC you received? If you don't read ARCs, what is your next read?

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🏳️‍🌈📚 Queer recs from booksta friends 📚🏳️‍🌈

Check out this list of awesome queer books recommended by friends here on Booksta! It includes a variety of genres (with a prevalence of romance and fantasy) and queer rep, as well as both YA and adult titles 💜

Thank you to all the wonderful people who participated in this post! And an extra thanks to those who had to resubmit to help me avoid duplicate recs 👀 You can find all the books that got nominated more than once on the cover slide of this post!

Also - Insta only lets me tag 20 accounts, so the last (but not least!!) 5 accounts I couldn't tag are below:
@katreadssapphicbooks
@into_the_bookish_wild
@blossomsleafylibrary
@spellsandtomes
@aurum.reads

Oh, and since I made everyone make tough choices and only pick max. 2 titles, I thought I should make myself do that, too. I'll go with:

🏳️‍🌈 The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (sapphic epic fantasy with morally-grey, stabby heroines)
🏳️‍🌈 Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly (cooking show romance, pan & non-binary rep)

My TBR has definitely grown quite a bit thanks to all of your recs, and I hope you all find books you might love!

❓️ Has any book on here caught your eye? Or would you have others to recommend?

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SPRING IT ON DAY 29🌻

Thank you to everyone who has welcomed me so kindly here on bookstagram 🤍 I appreciate everyone, even if I didn’t mention you by name!

QOTD: Shoutout your favorite bookstagrammers and tell us what you love about them or their page 🥰 Let’s spread the love!

Thank you:
@zia_cte 🤍
@books_and_dumbbells 🤍
@bookishexpat 🤍
@bree_bookish 🤍

This is part of the #springitonchallenge hosted by @maegans_bookshelf and @bree_bookish

#bookstagram #bookstagramswitzerland #bookstagramgermany #bookblogger #fantasy
#spring #bookgram #bookchallenge #booktag

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Happy Friday all! Sooo glad it’s the end of the week! I hope everyone has a lovely weekend whether that’s going out and doing something or staying in and chilling!

In 2024 I gathered some recommendations from friends for books I already owned, that I would read that year. Suffice to say I failed as I only read 2 out of the 16, oops😅. I’ve decided to bring the leftover books into this year to read, so here’s to hoping I get round to them😂.

Books recommended (from ones I already owned):
• Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb - @bookishwondergoth
• Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey - @kirstennnb
• The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern - Zoe
• Mindwalker - Kate Dylan - Jayne
• A River Enchanted - Rebecca Ross - @athos_la_belle
• A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Rowland - @bookshopsandbaddecisions
• Promise of Blood - Brian McClellan - @narratrice_nessa
• The Ember Blade - Chris Wooding - @lindsayreadingbooks
• The Foxglove King - Hannah Whitten - @bookishexpat
• The Luminaries - Susan Dennard - @bookish_benj
• The Book That Wouldn’t Burn - Mark Lawrence - @dannybee94
• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - @steph.reads.it.all
• The Will of the Many - James Islington - @sarahandherbookshelf
• Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Brandon Sanderson - @pages_of_emma

I’m looking forward to getting stuck into these and hopefully I do better than the 2 I did read in 2024😂 Have you read any of these and if so, what did you think?
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#robinhobb #chriswooding #andyweir #rebeccaross #jamesislington #marklawrence #brandonsanderson #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #bookstagramuk #booksofig #bookrecommendations #bookworm #bookblogger #bookblog #booklover #bookish #bookstack #booknerd #bookcommunity #booktok #book #bookclub #bookaholic #bibliophile #booklife #reading #fantasybooks #fantasy #fantasyreads

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Unboxing magic! Here’s the stunning Fairyloot alternate cover and the naked hardcover of *Ghostsmith* by Nicki Pau Preto.

Although the dust jacket arrived with a bit of damage (already reached out to Fairyloot about it), I can’t deny the artwork is gorgeous. Still, I think the original cover just has my heart.

Which cover do you prefer?

#Bookstagram #Fairyloot #Ghostsmith #NickiPauPreto #BookLover

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🎅 Month in Books Challenge🎅

I previously did a #spellthemonthinbooks challenge in April but was tagged by @jess.reading.books again so here’s one for the month of December. This also doubles as a #vampirestack and #blackbookstack!

D - Destined from the House of Night series by @pccastauthor and @kcastauthor
E - Eighth Grade Bites from the Chronicles of Vladimir Todd series by Z Brewer
C - Chosen (another House of Night novel)
E - Eleventh Grade Burns (another Vladimir Todd novel)
M - Marked (another House of Night novel)
B - Betrayed (House of Night)
E - Eclipse (from the Twilight series by @stephenie_meyer_official)
R - Revealed (House of Night)

I’ve tagged a few others to participate in this challenge, but no pressure!
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#monthinbooks #spellthemonthinbookstag #bookishtag #booktag #bookstackchallenge #bookishchallenge #canadianbookstagram #bookishcanadians #canadianbibliophiles #canadianbookworm #blackbookstackchallenge #houseofnightseries #houseofnight #pccastandkristincast #pccast #kristincast #stepheniemeyer #zbrewer #thechroniclesofvladimirtodd #eighthgradebites #eleventhgradeburns #bookishpost #bookishcommunity #booksofinstagram #booklove #bookphotochallenge

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it’s my birthday, and in honour of the fact that i’m turning 25, i’m gonna share some fun facts that absolutely nobody asked for but that you’re going to get anyway ✨

🎂 i got rid of my glasses. well, not permanently. i’ve got contacts. which is kinda weird bc i’m trying to reconcile what i look like now. so i occasionally look in the mirror and think, hmm, who is this serial killer looking back at me? someone call the police

🎂 i am obsessed with halloumi. like obsessed. if i’m out at a restaurant and there’s anything remotely halloumi involved in the menu, you can be sure it’s going to be ordered. i would literally sacrifice my whole entire family and maybe even the whole world just for halloumi. scratch the maybe. i would sacrifice the whole world

🎂 i get in these strange moods sometimes where i’ll become very obsessed with a random conspiracy theory and will go to town researching it. some of the prominent ones are the conspiracies into the deaths of marilyn monroe and princess diana. i’m convinced i’m some kind of detective after watching one documentary 😭

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👫🏻 couples on the cover 👫🏻

happy mid week everyone! i’ve been reading a lot and figured i needed a break before i get myself in a slump later on, so i’m gonna do the #couplesonthecover challenge! many thanks to @jbooksndreams for tagging me! 🫶🏻 these challenges/tags are always so fun to do~ do check her post out too!

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anyway, here is a #flatlay of some of the books i have that has the couple on the cover! i usually dislike people on covers but the animated ones are okay for me.

#qotd do y’all like people on book covers?

i’ve tagged a few friends for this challenge but no pressure! free for all to participate as well 😊

#bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booktag #bookchallenge #booksbooksbooks #booklover #bookaddict #romance #romancebooks #contemporaryromance #read #books

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Do you like reading nonfiction? // ¿Leéis no ficción?

(Castellano en comentarios, sorry)

Bookish questions tag!

What genre do I stay away from?
I refure to read horror for my mental sanity. I just know it'll give me nightmares forever, especially if it's the gory kind.

Worst reading habit?
I tend to start several books at the same time which means sometimes I forget about one of them. I'm also a mood reader so that doesn't help the TBR go down.

Fave books from last year?
So many wonderful reads! I'm gonna say A psalm for the wild-built by Becky Chambers, She who became the sun by @shelleyparkerchan, and The priory of the Orange Tree by @say_shannon

Do I need synopsis?
I don't usually pick up a book without reading the synopsis, but if the cover is pretty enough...

Do I read used books?
Absolutely! One of my friends' mums owns a second hand bookshop so we like to visit regularly. It's the loveliest place.

Fave classics?
The great Gatsby and The Odyssey! I used to love 20000 Leagues Under the Sea too but I haven't read that in years.

Books I always recommend?
Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers is my number one, but also The song of Achilles, All the crooked saints, Six of Crows, and The Raven Cycle series.

Books I didn't like?
I recently read a poetry and short story collection that I hated because it was both boring and openly fatphobic, so that's that.

Books I look forward to?
A prayer for the crown-shy comes out next month and I couldn't be more excited!!

Books I'm ashamed I haven't read?
Gideon the Ninth and the rest of the sapphic trifecta (The Unbroken and The Jasmine Throne).

Thanks @bookishdutch for the tag, these were so much fun! I've tagged a few people but feel free to answer these if you want to!

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English below

¿Qué tal va vuestra semana?
Hoy os traigo una foto inspirada por @booksforscee y su reto de libros con portadas bonitas #booksboughtforthecover. He etiquetado a algunas personas pero todas estáis invitadas a hacerlo ☺️. En realidad este libro lo compré hace años porque hoy en día compro poco y no tengo mucha ocasión de fijarme en las portadas, pero me sigue pareciendo muy lindo. Tampoco soy mucho de poesía, pero en su momento me gustó bastante.

¿Preferís las portadas simples o más elaboradas?❓

🍄English🍄

Hello, readers! How's your week going?
The lovely @booksforscee tagged me in her #booksboughtforthecover challenge, which is what inspired today's photo. I've tagged a few people too but feel free to participate if you want to! I'll be honest, I don't buy that many books nowadays so this one is from a few years ago, but I still think the cover is so pretty. I never got that into poetry either, but I really liked this book when I read it.

Do you prefer simple or elaborate covers? ❓

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