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constantly in need of matcha, books, and more free time…
✯ cr(s): the trial
✯ 2026 book count: 18

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A few days ago @penguinclassicsindia @penguinindia asked the question "Why is it important to read classics today?"
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That reminded me of Penguin's 100 Must Read Classics list that I made when I saw @marginsandmuse list!

I am guilty(?) because I have more books than I have read... But the comfort of knowing that at least I have them around is super awesome. I don't have all..but I have many...
Everytime I look at the list I get so tempted by thinking of all the experience that awaits me!! Awaits US!! 💖🔮🎀

So I can't really answer the question why is it important to read Classics today...but I KNOW FOR A FACT that if we do not read it... WE WILL BE MISSING OUT ON THINGS THAT COULD HAVE ELEVATED US...THAT COULD HAVE CHANGED US ORGANICALLY... THAT COULD HAVE PUSHED OUR INTELLECTUAL ABILITY BEYOND OUR ESTIMATION... 🔮✨

NOT READ CLASSICS...huge huge huge lossssss!!!

And I AM SAYING IT ..someone who hasn't even read a 'good number' of classics YET! SO YES...

WE MUST! MUST! MUST!! READ. THEM. PERIOD.

Ps: i was too lazy, so I just added the pictures of my journal itself 😭 All 100 must read classics!!

[Penguin 100 must read classics, penguin classics,
The Odyssey, Madame Bovary, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Master and Margarita, Fathers and Sons, Dead Souls, The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Don Quixote, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Trial, The Castle, Metamorphosis, The Stranger, The Plague, Nausea, No Exit, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, Beloved, Song of Solomon, Invisible Man, Native Son, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men aesthetic book post, bookishpost, pinteresty, dark academia, books, classic readers, bookishvibes, bookstagram, classicbookstagram]
#penguinclassics #ᴠɪʀᴀʟᴘᴏsᴛ #literature #bookinfluencer #fypシ❤️

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some cosy little green books that I loved last year 💚

💌 what is your favourite green book?

Fantasy January Tag 🗡️

thanks to @s0phsreads and @readingwithcal for the tag 🥰

🌌Night sky - a world you want to live in
The Magic Faraway Tree (bringing it back to a childhood classic)

⚔️Swords - a mc you’d choose to fight beside you
Vin (Mistborn) she can do all the fighting for me

🥀Rose - a gothic fantasy you couldn’t put down
I haven’t read a gothic fantasy 🫣 but my favourite gothic novel is the Picture of Dorian Gray if that counts 😅

🐉Beast - a mythical creature you’d love at your side
Pegasus (I blame Barbie Magic of Pegasus for this)

💫Star - a book with a unique magic system
The Way of Kings (I only know a sliver of the magic system thus far and already it’s so interesting)

🧚Fairy - a favourite book with fae
The Cruel Prince

🕯️Candle - a cosy fantasy that felt comfy
Emily Wildes Encyclopedia of Faeries

#fantasyjanuary #greenbooks #bookstagramaesthetics #booksandmatcha #booktag

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WHERE I BUY MY BOOKS
*places to buy books if you don’t want to support Amazon*
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I often get asked where I buy my books, I really try to avoid Amazon when I can(I’m not perfect!), as it’s well known the damage they do to small and independent book stores as well as on authors and publishers by creating a near monopoly and selling books at such low prices. I have a few go to online book sellers/ resellers, as well as local stores and of course borrowing from the library. My favorite source has to be @blackwellbooks with their reasonable prices and free international shipping, but I also adore @pangobooks for their used books and @bookshop_org for their new release books. I also always get asked where I buy my @nyrbooks and I recommend buying them directly from the source on their website, watching for their yearly 40% off sales you won’t find on Amazon. Lastly I always rec the @libby.app that I place on my kindle (I know I still have an old kindle @kobobooks plz sponsor me😅) but Libby allows you to borrow books from your local library rather than purchase through Amazon.
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Where do you buy your books when you’re trying to avoid Amazon?

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book review: After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell
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page count: 384 pages
genre: literary fiction, generational tale, historical fiction (contemporary?)
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A multigenerational tale about Alice, her mother and her grandmother - with a scattered timeline touching on her grandmother’s young adulthood, her mother’s university years and Alice before and after she ends up in a coma after a tragic accident that occurs after she witnesses an act she cannot bare.
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This is my third Maggie O’Farrell, after I simply loved Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, but this one is a different feel, less historical and slightly more modern and Maggie’s debut novel, I really didn’t know what to expect. Well, I simply adored it, possibly even more than her other work. Maggie never disappoints. The scattered timeline took a minute to get adjusted to, but after that I was simply addicted to Maggie’s emotional telling of these three women. Maggie writes in a way that fully engulfs you into the emotions of the story, her characters are complex, but strong and compelling women, her words flow beautifully. I truly believe I’ll love everything she writes, but this story really stuck with me. It felt life affirming, touching on so many things but not in a scattered way but a way that felt like living. It spoke of love, lack of love, motherhood, complex mothers, sisterhood, trauma, passion, humor, and death. It’s a wildly impressive novel, a book I think deserves more hype and praise in this online community.
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5/5

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