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4x4 Book Tag🫶🏻🍂✨ thank you so much for the tag @comereadwith_e ❤️ 4 Books on my TBR: 📖Gentle Things - Danielle Giles 📖Seek the Traitor’s Son - Veronica Roth 📖On the Calculation of Vol 1 - Solvej Balle 📖The Silent Appeal - Janice Hallett 4 Books I bought recently: 📖Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - V. E. Schwab 📖Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie 📖It’s Not What You Think - Clare Mackintosh 📖The Lighthouse Witches - C. J. Cooke 4 Books I rated 4 stars: 📖Murder At Mt. Fuji - Shizuko Natsuki 📖The Safekeep - Yael Van Der Wouden 📖The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell 📖Yesteryear - Caro Claire Burke 4 Books I can’t stop thinking about: 📖Circe - Madeline Miller 📖Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins 📖Babylonia - Costanza Casati 📖The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker Tagging a few bookish pals but of course no pressure🫶🏻✨ 💭Tell me a book you can’t stop thinking about🫶🏻📖✨
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WOMEN IN TRANSLATION. . . featuring, my favorite women in translation: SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR clarice lispector MAGDA SZABO nawal el saadawi ANNIE ERNAUX elena ferrante NATALIA GINZBURG claudia piñeiro OLGA TOKARCZUK jacqueline harpman MARLEN HAUSHOFER mieko kawakami EVA BALTASAR . . . . Spot any favorites?
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Thank you so much to @conversationswithkara for tagging me in this! 🤍 Please go check out her post too because her picks are incredible. and yes, I own some of them too so I wanted to switch things up a little and share a different set of recommendations. I also couldn’t resist including a couple of queer women writers because, well... of course I couldn’t. 🌈 There are so many more women in translation I wanted to include, so this definitely won’t be my last post for Women in Translation Month. I’ve tagged a few friends too because I can’t wait to see your picks. 🤍 Here’s to reading women from all over the world. 🌍
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Just a cute little used book haul to start off your Friday morning 🍓 . . What should I read first??
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WHY THE NEAPOLITAN QUARTET IS ABSOLUTE MAGIC . . Oh my, where to even begin. There is a level of magic in these books by Elena Ferrante, something that’s hard to put your finger on, but after you finish reading it lingers in your mind. I’ve never felt so captivated by a set of books, a cast of characters. Upon finishing the series, I wanted to try to dissect the secret sauce, what makes this series of books so impactful. This is my attempt to do that. . . . . . . . . . . . . . PS: my bookish hot take is forever : if you don’t like the Neapolitan Quartet you have bad taste
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ᯓ★ Summer tag Thank you @readby.meg for tagging me and creating this wonderful tag!! It was so fun to think of books that matched the prompts and I challenged myself to only choose from my shelves. They’re all books I’ve read except The Age of Innocence With the tenperatures absolutely skyrocketing this week in England, it definitely feels fitting to post a summer tag but it’s also making me wish that the summer was over already 😩 anything over 25° is just unbearable. Still, the hot weather & thinking about these prompts has made me want to read some summery books now I tagged a few friends too 🫶✨ [#summertag #summerreading #summerbooks #booktag #readingtag ]
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💚🪴✨ SOME BOOK BESTIE & FAVOURITE ACCOUNT LOOOOVE✨🪴💚 🌿 I thought about time I shared the love of some fav accounts on bookstagram 🫶🏻 This community is the best, all books, reading and no toxic content 🫶🏻 🌿 Get to know these accounts for an even more positive booksta experience!! . . . . #ukbookstagram #bookcontent #bookcontentcreator #bookish #bookishvibes
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the last 5 books tag 💌 @what__v__reads tagged me a while ago on this challenge; I always love these, they make me realize how my reading taste is evolving over time. It’s been so fun discovering new genres and opening myself up to different literary adventures. 🥰 Have you read any of these or are you planning to ? Tagging anyone who wants to join in. 🫶🏻
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MARCH READING RECAP. . . loved my reads this month. So many thoughts. . . LAND by Maggie O’Farrell. thank you for the gifted arc @aaknopf - releasing in June. Guys, this book. Wow. Unlike anything I’ve ever read before watching the life of a family alongside the development of the land of Ireland… it’s masterful, unique, so like Maggie’s work but also different than anything she’s written before. People are going to say it’s too slow, and yes it is a slow, heavy read, but my gosh does it pay off and it changes the way I want to read in the future. Slow and engrossed in my read- this is a book that calls for that. EAST OF EDEN by John Steinbeck. a classic for a reason, another book that begs of you to slow down and spend time in its world. Truly an epic, I fell in love with the characters and the world in which they live, the battle between good and evil, and the ending was excellent. A quick favorite, I can’t wait for more Steinbeck. ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH BY Ana Paula Maia. thanks @charcopress for the gifted copy! My first from the @thebookerprizes && I LOVED. It was quick and novella- like, but felt like a thriller I couldn’t turn away from. About men living in a prison under a psychotic man who hunts the prisoners as a game in the night time, my only complaint is I wish it were longer to dive into some of the themes I know it was hinting at. TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yang Shuang-zi. My second of the @thebookerprizes and again I was surprised by the negative reviews but it got me thinking a lot about this bookstagram space and how it seems there’s such a focus on quick reads, getting in as much as possible and if a book is deemed ‘slow’ that’s automatically a bad thing… yes, this book was slow, but it was deliberate and it made me slow down in my reading and that actually feels like a positive in my eyes. I really enjoyed being lost in the world of Taiwan of decades ago, the food and the people… and the deeper purpose with talks of love and colonization coming out in the end, really excellent book.
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The breakfast tag☕️ Breakfast is, and has been for a long time, my favorite meal of the day. I could eat my breakfast sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and a slow morning with a cup of tea and a book can set the tone for the rest of the day. However, I’m currently loving oatmeal topped with kiwi and banana and have it almost every day. 🥞Short stack - a stand alone Blue Sisters 🍳Eggs and bacon - characters to spend the day with Little Women 🧇Waffles - a plot twist I didn’t see coming Klara and the Sun ☕️Coffee - a comfort read Anna and the French Kiss (ever since I read it for the first time probably almost ten years ago) 🫐Berries - a sweet romance The Seven Year Slip 🥑Avocado toast - a hyped book on my tbr The Secret History 🍊Orange juice - an underrated favorite The Ranger’s Apprentice (I haven’t read this one in years but I wanted to include it since I adooored this book as a kid, I wanted to be a ranger too so badly, and I’d like to reread it) 🥯Bagel - side characters that need their own book The Hunger Games: Finnick (I would love a book from his POV, does anyone think we might get one?) Thank you so much @pages_amour for the tag💗 I have tagged some accounts in the post but if you see this and want to do it, consider yourself tagged! I’d love to see your posts! Q: what’s your favorite thing to have for breakfast? I hope you’re all having a wonderful day💗 #breakfasttag #booktag #onmybookshelf #onmytbr #tbr #reread #bookclubpick #booksta #litfic #literaryfiction #romancereads #youngadultfiction #fantasyreads
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ᯓ★ animal book covers I was tagged in this by @readby.meg a very long time ago! But here are my picks, it was very fun searching my shelves for animals on the covers. I think some of these covers are quite striking and these kinds of tags always make me want to read the books I found I tagged a few people 🫶 but I realise you might have already done this (ages ago lol) Which is your favourite cover? I’m very drawn to ‘Cisza nad stepem’ (the black and white one) rn [#animalbookcover #booktag #bookishtag #bookphotos #bookflatlay ]
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✨November Wrap-Up ✨ Books Read: • The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • The Dream Hotel by @lailawrites ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • Days at Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ DNFs • Youthjuice by E K Sathue • Legendborn by Tracy Deonn • Blood to Poison by Mary Watson What Else Have I Been Up To? • Me and Alex binged all of Severance while I was off work and it’s honestly one of the best tv shows I have ever watched. I can’t stop thinking about it. • Starkid announced that they would be performing The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals in London next year so Alex managed to snag us box seats 😱 I cannot wait!!! • I had to change my reading goal because there was so no way in hell I would have reached 75 books. • I published three YouTube videos and I’m having so much fun on booktube! • Depression has really been kicking my arse lately and I’ve had a couple of breakdowns which have made life, and work, and everything so much harder. But, we’ll be okay! ❔How was your November??
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