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🅱️aba, here to empathise, support and engage. 🅰️ lover of books. 🅱️adass comics
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Have you ever met up with another bookstagrammer?
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if not, I highly recommend it. None of this shrinking violet stuff. It’s always a joy I can promise you, and I’ve met up with countless bookstagrammers. Some are tagged on my first pic.
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The very lovely Sabiha @literarylawgirl was in London on Friday so I met her in Bloomsbury for lunch and a literary stroll. Bloomsbury was my old stomping ground from 2016-2022 so it was good to be back.
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We’ve been connected through Instagram since 2019, but not met before. Sabiha is of course, delightful, so we chatted on and ranged the subjects far and wide, before taking an amble to see Virginia Woolf’s bust on its plinth in Tavistock Square and returning via @juddbooks and @skoobbookslondon - @gaysthewordbookshop was sadly closed for maintenance.
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I’d forgotten that there were so many blue plaques (where famous people had lived) nearby. We went past Jerome K Jerome, Comrade Lenin, and Percy and Mary Shelley in less than a minute.
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We also exchanged book gifts. Sabiha had thoughtfully bought me a @vintagebooks edition of Thoreau’s Walden, and a @canongatebooks John Muir book, My First Summer in the Sierra, with an introduction by @robgmacfarlane . I’ve long been fascinated by John Muir but I’ve never read any of his books, so this was an inspired choice.
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Scroll through to see pics of the Muir and Thoreau, Sabiha and me, Virginia W, covers from the books in today’s stack (books I’ve been reading, talking about or buying) and some other assorted London pictures.
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And finally, spot anything interesting in today’s stack?
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#literarylondon #tavistocksquare #virginiawoolf #bloomsbury #juddbooks #skoobbooks #gaystheword #johnmuir #robertmacfarlane #henrydavidthoreau #walden

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🌲Hi Friends! ❄️ Happy Friday!🌲

——> ❓What are your feelings surrounding eggnog?

Do you enjoy it, and if so, do you go full out and make it from scratch with raw eggs or is store bought sufficient?

The wild and wonderful Sam @i.dont.give.a.fantasy.funk tagged me to do a Green and White Stack so that’s what we’ve got here! Tagging a few of you to join in, if you so desire, no pressure at all! Of course if you’re not tagged and you feel like taking part please feel free!

~~~> I can enjoy small amounts of store bought egg nog with cinnamon … occasionally, like at Christmas and New Year’s!

I hope this last week of the year is treating you well and you’re taking care of yourself and those you love.

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#RFKuang #FantasyBooks #FantasyBookstagram #FantasyReads #BookCommunity #BooksBooksBooks #BookLover #BookishLove #BookAesthetic #Babel #WinterAesthetic #ReadingAddict #ReadingAddict #BookAddiction #BookPic #ReadingTime #BookStack
#BookStackChallenge #GreenAndWhite #ThePoppyWar

How do you feel about eggnog?

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#coffeeandcurrentlyreading

Omg this book, I’m not even 150 pages in and I’m fuming. I’ve already ranted to my partner about June and I’m sure he’ll be the victim of more before the book is done. I can’t stop thinking about this book! I understand the hype and I’m not even finished yet.

Also completely unrelated, the tone of this pic is a lot darker but I actually really liked it, what do we think? Most of my feed is quite bright comparatively?

Hope your weeks are going well and that your current reads are great, I’ll tag some of you to share your #CoffeeandCurrentlyReading posts.

#bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramfavorites #readmorebooks #paperbacksandcoffee #welshbookstagrammers #welshbookstagram #yellowface #rebeccafkuang #rfkuang #infuriatingprotagonists #coffeeandbooks #reader #readoftenreaddiversely #literaryfiction #contemporaryfiction

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Time for another #meetthebookstagrammer - it’s a while since I last did one.
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Q. Who are you?
A. I’m Andy, I’m 56, I live in the south of England, and I’m married with two amazing grown-up daughters.
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Q. Do you work?
A. Yes I do, full time, for the National Trust. A wonderful charity, and my favourite employer out of the 17 or 18 I’ve had during my working life. It also has many scores of secondhand bookshops!
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Q. When did you start your Instagram account?
A. Back in December 2016, in a very small way. I was inspired to start my bookstagram account by my friend, the wonderful Baba @tundextra
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Q. What do you like best about bookstagram?
A. The book chat, the book recommendations and just seeing pics of what everyone is reading, their home libraries and the bookshops they visit. It lifts my heart.
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Q. What’s your approach to bookstagram?
A. I post once a day, every day. I’m never quite sure what I’m going to say until I start typing. Except at weekends, when I usually ask what everyone is reading, and I also do a ten question Sunday Lit Quiz. Out of 2700+ posts less than five didn’t have books in them, and maybe another five were not taken by me.
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Q. How much time do you spend on instagram?
A. Deep breath. Around two hours a day, in which time I draft my posts and reels, post stories, view and respond to the posts on my feed, answer all my DMs, and respond to comments on my posts.
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Q. Is @places_and_books your only account?
A. No, three friends and I have a reposts account @bookstagramgold and I also have a small photography account @andys.other.account and a smaller account @mybookcatalogue which I use to remember which books I own. Oh and I have a book based blog - link in bio - which I use for booklists, and general bookish mulling.
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Q. Other than books?
A. I played a lot of football in my younger days, but now I love hillwalking, tennis, dogwalking (Ted - a small dog with a big personality) and gardening - any excuse to be outside.
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📸This is me in the pic with my ten favourite books.

Do have a go whether I tagged you or not 😀

#bookstagramchallenge #bookstachallenge #bookishguy
#bookstagramandme #myfavouritebooks

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This is a disturbing cover by #stephengervais for a novella by #ThomasLigotti
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This short story is something of a rarity. He doesn’t have much early fiction in print. This appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction Stories (April 1990), not too long after his first book, but before #Grimscribe
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#Ligotti is very underrated for horror fiction, but I definitely recommend him
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Music by #tool
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#horrorfiction #darkart #terror #horror #horrorwriter #nightmares #horrorstories #thelastfeastofharlequin #hplovecraft #hrgiger #tbt #junjiito #throwbackthursday #throwdownthursday #bookstagram #readmorebooks #songsofadeaddreamer #pessimism #nihilism #nightmarefuel #nightmarefactory

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I’m catching up on posts after Christmas so here’s my ‘Match the ornament to the book’ post! Thanks @autumnalfantasy for the tag, apologies for the delay!

I wanted to read this as soon as I received it… So, I did. What a perfect festive read😍 I’ve been super stumped about which book to match with which ornament, and wanted to get this one posted whilst it was still Christmas time so I settled on one of my glass ornaments from the tree (not the easiest to photograph mind you😅). The rocking horse was a gift from my mum. I always loved glass ornaments, my favourite being a glass ballerina. One year, mum got me my own glass ornament, the rocking horse pictured above. I’ll treasure it always, both the horse and ballerina sit in pride of place on my tree today. Also, don’t judge my fake tree😂🎄

I’ve tagged a few other people that might like to have a go but it is a busy time of year so no dramas if you don’t get to it🥳

#matchyourornamenttoyourbooks #bookish #bookstagram #bookpeople #fyp

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Scavenger Hunt Success. My favorite way to find new high fantasy books is going to the library and following these clues:

- battered paperback or badly taped hardcover
- horse or sword on the cover
- authors name typed nearly as big as the title

I've found so many random high fantasies that hit this way, but I recently realized very few I picked up were by women authors.

I scoured the shelves for a book that had these clues and a new-to-me female name.

GREEN RIDER by Kristen Britain was the first I found. And after I finish THE EMPEROR'S BLADE by Brian Staveley, I'm excited to give her characters all of my high fantasy attention.

Do you have any high fantasy by women author recs?

If you're interested in trying out my scavenger hunt, I'd love to see what you find! #highfantasyhunt

(Tagging a few friends I think would love this hunting challenge.)

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If you like horror and Junji Ito give a chance to Orochi ! Classic horror manga stories !! #manga #horror #collector #greekcollector #library #bookstagram #thriller #japan #classic #nerd #comics #blackandwhite

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@idwpublishing TMNT vol.7 ! Look at that cover !! The quality of those books is over the top !!

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TMNT idw collection v.6 #tmnt #idwcomics #turtles #ninja #comicsgreece #pizza #nerd #deluxe #library #collector #greekcollector #raphael #teenage #mutant #bookstagram #instacomics

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We continue with the second volume of @idwpublishing TMNT vol 2. #tmnt #idwcomics #turtles #ninja #comicsgreece #pizza #nerd #deluxe #library #collector #greekcollector #raphael #teenage #mutant #bookstagram #instacomics

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Thank you to the wonderful @chapter_maggot for tagging me in this fun challenge! 😊💖

Here goes:

📙Why did you start Bookstagram?
Erm, I guess it was because I'm opinionated? 🤣

Before this, I don't really talk about the books I read. I usually just read comments and reviews about them on Goodreads, YouTube comments, blogs etc. But I myself have never really wrote reviews or comments, so I don't get to express how much I love (or hate, if it comes to that) a book that I've just read. I tended to just think my thoughts in my head and read what others say. And it can be quite frustrating (because I'm opinionated 😅) to keep it all inside (I seldom post on Goodreads as I have this weird preconception that Goodreads reviews have to be lengthy and professional).

📙When did you start Bookstagram?
25th October 2020

📙What inspired your username?
Erm... Eevee? Because Eevee accompanies me when I'm reading on bed 😄🧡

📙First review you ever posted?
The Sixth Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (it was the book I've just finished at that time and it's also part of one of my all-time favourite series)

📙Favourite thing about Bookstagram?
Getting to know all of you amazing people from all over the world! ❤️ And reading all your passionate opinions on all kinds of books you have read 😁

📙Bookstagram made me buy?
That I could think of:
-Circe
-The Song of Archilles,
-A Gentleman in Moscow,
-A Man Called Ove
-The Way of Kings and Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson

Unfortunately I couldn't get past the first few pages of Circe and The Song of Archilles, and they're no longer with me 🙈🙈

📙Next buy?
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

📙Bookstagram aesthetic?
Random 😅

📙Recent favourites?
The Robot series by Isaac Asimov (the novels, I haven't gotten to the short stories). And special mention to The Lord of the Rings, which I read not too recently but I'd almost always include it when asked about favourites 🙊🙊

Ok, enough self-indulgent ramblings.

✨Random QOTD: What's for dinner?

I've tagged a few of you for fun, it's ok if you've already done this or are not interested 😊💜

#bookstagramchallenge #bookstagram #sayhello #happysunday

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