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🍂Match the Spine Challenge 🩻 Pride & Prejudice Style 🪶 Thank you @alexcrayonsbooks for tagging me in this match the spine book challenge (I know yours was a Red Rising edition, but I don’t own a copy of Red Rising so I kinda just did my own thing 😆). Seeing that I surprisingly don’t have very many books with multi-colored spines, my treasured copy of Pride and Prejudice was the best I could do 💁🏽‍♀️ How many in the stack do you own/have read? Tagging just a handful here, no pressure. Feel free to change it up if you want or ignore the tag completely 😂
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Thanks for tagging me @love_ofliterature in this cozy fall tag! I’ve tagged a few of you as well, but really any of you can join the fun—so if you see this post, consider yourself tagged! 🧶 sweater weather: favorite fall TV shows * Wednesday * Sherlock * The Lord of the Rings (if movies count) * Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events * Bates Motel 🎃 pumpkin spice: favorite fall drinks * Chamomile tea * Pumpkin spice latte * Chai latte * Really any tea 🫖🤷🏽‍♀️ 🌾 fall harvest: top books on your fall TBR * Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children * Dracula * Dreadful * Dragonwyck 🥧 apple pie: a cozy read * The Hobbit 🍂 autumn reads: top fall book recs * The Lord of the Rings * North and South * Far From the Madding Crowd * The Dark Tower and Other Stories by C.S. Lewis * The Hiding Place * Anything by JRR Tolkien 🧣 fall favs: favorite fall fashion staples/activities * boots (short, tall, I love them all 💁🏽‍♀️) * sweaters & vintage jackets * long socks & knit scarves * a day at the pumpkin patch * planning/making a Halloween costume * Thanksgiving dinner 🦃 🪾Do we have anything in common? What are some of your fall favorites?
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LOOK WHAT I FOUND AT THE BOOKSTORE I had to linger behind an old man hoping he didn’t snag this vintage War and Peace paperback, grabbed it the second he walked away 😂 Really excited about People From Bloomington too, I hadn’t heard of it before but the description sounded cool as I grew up not too far from there. What new book purchases are you excited to get into soon? 🏷️ #BookStack #VintagePaperbacks #CitizenSoldiers #PeopleFromBloomington #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd #WarAndPeace #ClassicReads #HistoricalFiction #LiteraryFiction #BooksOfInstagram #BookLovers #ReadingClassics #TBRStack #MustReadBooks #VintageBooks #FictionAndHistory #EpicReads #TimelessLiterature #BookAesthetic #ReadingGoals
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✨️ the vibes I bring to the function ✨️ saw a few people doing this trend and it looked so fun! 💓 this is mine, do you see anything we have in common? 👀 (not pictured are lots of other things I can't stop yapping about, but if I tried to put everything in, it would've been too messy lol) I tagged a few people but as usual if you see this and you want to do it, consider yourself tagged! 🫶🏻
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Number 99! So close to hitting my goal for the year, and excited to do it with some awesome classics! The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky is my 4th of his novels this year. Unfortunately I’d have to say I’m the most underwhelmed by this one. It has some really fun and engaging moments, and for the most part I enjoy the main character Mishkin. The concept of trying to live like Jesus in the “modern” world as a concept for a novel is a really fascinating one, it creates a lot of really interesting conundrums in the story in which I found myself being more annoyed with the “Jesus” character. And that’s where I have to ask myself, truly, if Jesus were walking around today, would I be annoyed with Him too? That underlying question probably pulled at me the most throughout the story, however I didn’t feel that there was enough story or stakes to drive the amount of conversation that occurred. This is something that up to this point the novels I’ve read of Dostoevsky’s handle really well, even in a conversation heavy, wordy piece like The Brothers Karamazov. The events that take place between conversation feel large enough to drive the conversations that occur. If I’m not mistaken, the Idiot falls somewhere in the middle of Dostoevsky’s career and I think that’s evident in the way the story is written. I’m glad I read it, but I would recommend multiple others first to someone trying to start reading Dostoevsky. What books are you diving into going into the Winter/Holiday season?
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Five top fives Thank you lovely @pavlovnart for Tagging me I had a hard time picking only five things because I love so many things. So here is an incomplete list of the things I like 🌙Songs - Mad World by Tears for Fear - Reflections by The Neighbourhood - Sailor Song by Gigi Perez - This Charming Man by The Smiths - Gone Away by Stray Kids 🌙Books - The Secret History by Donna Tartt - If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio - Bable by R.F. Kuang - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - The Perk of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 🌙Albums - Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish - Honeymoon by Lana del Rey - Love Yourself 'Answer' by BTS - The Queen is Dead by The Smiths - Closer by Joy Division 🌙Movies and TV-Shows - Dead Poet Society - Interstellar - Alien - Nana - Corpse Bride 🌙Artist - Stray Kids - Tears for Fear - The Neighbourhood - Billie Eilish - Lana del Rey
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things that have made me happy recently 🥰 thank you sweet @robynsfiction for tagging me, this made me so happy! 🤍 listing 15 things that made me happy recently: - autumn (my favourite season) is finally here 🍂 - bookstagram and all my book friends 💓 - new beginnings ✨️ - reading amazing books and finding new favourites - new Tamino music - my new job - getting flowers 💐 - my leather jacket - spending time with my friends - starting a new Uni - booking my flight for Morocco ♥️ - new Gracie music - new friends 🫶🏻 - high boots - endless cups of tea 🫖 I've tagged a few people but if you want to participate feel free to do so! this was very heartwarming to make 💓 💌 what made you happy recently?
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Finally wrapped up East of Eden. A few people on here have mentioned it’s their favorite book, and I completely see why. East of Eden essentially follows the lives of three generations of Trask men. A father who cons his way to the top of military respectability, making a fortune he can pass down to his sons. Adam and Charles, who have a strained and strange relationship, ultimately dissolved when Adam falls for Kate. And the final generation being Aron and Cal, Adam and Kate’s twin boys. The way our families influence, instruct, and pass down struggles and quirks and patterns has always been fascinating to me. I’ve never read something that analyzes and inspects this reality quite as well as this book. Adam wrestles with the origins of his wealth, he sees himself as someone who has chosen to be an honest man and strives to be so. But in many ways, as he wrestles with being a father, he turns into mask of virtue, much like his own father wore a mask of valor and wisdom. He wrestles with Cal, his “messed up” son, but at some points is able to see him for what he is. A son obsessed with not living a lie, but unable to see his own virtue. The point of the whole story comes down the the phrase “Thou mayest”. In the sense of thou mayest overcome sin and choose to do right. Often we look at our identity as a sort of sovereign controller of our behaviors, but East of Eden show the power of identity, balanced with the reality of your choice to do the right thing, even when identity would pull you elsewhere. What’s the most thought provoking book you’ve read? Have you seen the movie adaptation of EoE with James Dean? Also pardon my going off the grid for a bit, had to travel for work and did not have the extra time!
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🍒Cherry book tag🍒 Thank you @upnw_classics for tagging me in your cherry book challenge! 🍒Books I can’t stop thinking about: There are two history books that regularly come to mind as I go about my days. One is Witchcraft, because of the human stories and the injustice within; the other is How to be a Victorian, which I think about every time I feel sorry for myself when cleaning or doing laundry. 🍒Snacks I love: Popcorn, grapes (have you tried cotton candy grapes? They’re amazing!), and strawberry pencil sweets. 🍒Anticipated reads: I have about a dozen pre orders, but an anticipated read on my shelf is Empire of the Damned. 🍒Favourite book couples: Oh the usual; Xaden and Violet, Rhys and Feyre, etc etc 🍒Popular books I couldn’t get into: I usually give the books I don’t like to charity, but I’ve kept Hard Times by Dickens- despite finding it excruciating- because it’s part of my Penguin English Library collection. #bookchallenge #bookstack #booksbooksbooks #historybooks #vampirebooks #acotar #classicbooks
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Ever run across a quote in a book that you felt was just describing you in some way? East of Eden already has me hooked, and I am 75% done with Les Mis! 🏷️ #EastOfEden #JohnSteinbeck #ClassicLiterature #LiteraryFiction #GreatQuotes #TimelessReads #BooksOfInstagram #AmericanClassics #MustReadBooks #EpicNovel #SteinbeckQuotes #BookQuotes #FictionLover #BookReview #IconicReads #ClassicNovels #ThoughtProvokingReads #BookDiscussion #BookLovers #ReadingClassics #bookphotography #bookphoto
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54321 Tag and a Random Photo Dumb 5 Favourite Books 🪽The Secret History by Donna Tartt 🕯️If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio 🪽Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote 🕯️The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 🪽Munkey Diaries by Jane Birkin 4 Books on my TBR Endless tbr, but 4 that I’m prioritising today (may change tomorrow, who knows) 🕯️Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio (Can’t wait for my pre-order to arrive, apparently it was shipped today!) 🪽The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 🕯️Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami (a reread that I’ll read every year on my birthday until I find another “birthday” book) 🪽The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake 3 Books I Recommend Some recommendations for the Autumn/Winter 2024 season: 🕯️Animal Farm by George Orwell 🪽Dead Poets Society by N. H. Kleinbaum 🕯️Chess by Stefan Zweig 2 Last 5 Star Books 🪽The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 🕯️Flush by Virginia Woolf 1 Current Read 🪽Bunny by Mona Awad Thank you @didartgetus and @novelsandcoffee_ for tagging me🤍
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The Blue Books in my shelf always have to say in volumes. I don’t really observe too many colors when it comes to books, but joining this community really made me look more and I end up stacking them color-wise.👤 Hence thought of doing this #bluebookstack challenge with #whatsthisweek too. I mean combining them will be nothing more than great. 💙🩵💙 > FAV BLUE BOOK COVER At least from this stack I loved Piranesi and Ministry of Time the most. • > AN EMOTIONAL AND AN ANTICIPATED READ We all know the Kite Runner is a devastating book, but what else can I say when we all still recommend it to everyone! And Pachinko was really one of the most gorg anticipated Asian book I’ve read. • > NEXT BLUE I’ve been gathering courage to order @jon.fosse books, for I love blank book covers first and it lures me so much, if it’s blank, coz such books have tons to feel inside them. So prolly the Septology. • >WHAT I’VE BEEN READING? Just kids by @thisispattismith and man, I must not kid, one must read at least once for you get to feel so much, the cliché boho musicians, very poetic, The Chelsea Hotel, and smith’s evolution and her Bf and her lover Robert M and what not.. I must shut up.🤐 • >WHAT I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO? I’m late to Strong Girl Nam soon, and the OST Superpower was by this Kpop band ITZY( which I don’t really know) but loved their voices, and Die with smile by @brunomars and @ladygaga damn.. amazing. And some old-new ones in between. • >WATCHING? As of nothing. I tend to write a lot in September, coz it has a perfect 30 day window of my own reasons. There’s something in the air and I love it so much, so I don’t binge anything with that idiot box and get myself a me time. But planning soon to start A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder.😊 • >LOOKING FORWARD Hhmm. Loads of things. My apartment decor is on the cards, starting a new gym soon, have to create some docs with RnD in historical fictions and I have to discuss it with some important people. And one more thing- I think, I’ll be spending the rest of my year with Dostoevsky books( I guess😌) • Okay I’ve talked enough! Hope you’ve enjoyed this blue stack books and tagging some of my fav people in here! • 💙
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