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🌱current read(s): ‘our last days in barcelona’

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aug.2026

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𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆

When I look back on my rapid growth in bookstagram, I could still remember the thrill and smiles it brought me as I see the numbers adding up and growing which resulted to complacency—in the sense that I have never considered the idea that losing more than what I gain is actually possible in this game. What I am learning now is that popularity in socials, nowadays, is easy to attain but to remain relevant is a whole different level and challenge.

I am now up for this challenge—but one thing is for sure, I will always be grateful to this platform and for you guys who have been sticking around. This community will always be a place for me to voice out and be true to myself. Alongside this, it will forever be a wonderful experience for me to genuinely and deeply fall in love with reading as a habit which was tattooed on my being, by and with this community.

I am Jen, I am a #reader and a #bookstagrammer. ♡

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Here are some of the books that kept me up all night:
~~The Winners by Fredrik Backman
~~The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
~~The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
~~The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
~~The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonnasson

What are yours? Comment them and save this for future reference 🤍

#bookrecommendation #bookrecs #bookstagram #readerlife #bookish

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I’m a bookstagrammer, of course I want free books, I wanna hoard books!!! But I just feel guilty now that I have plenty in my shelf, especially the free ones sent by authors and publishers but are left unread :( coz, I really do not read that fast and I have busy moments away from my books. So i just think it should be for those who could really attend to them. (Not to mention the other books I bought that are still sitting prettily in my shelf)

I mean, I just want to be more selective of the books this time. There are still some that I am saying yes too.. but only those titles that I think I will highly be inclined to read coz I know how expensive books are these days and they all deserve to be read—but we all have different tastes in books, so I try to not just hoard them.

You can open my heart now and you will see how I am wanting to be able to read them all only if I could. So here’s my current dilemma as a bookstagram er.. what are your thoughts on this?

This is an open discussion for everyone. Feel free to share what you think about this.

#bookstagram #reader #readerlife #booklover #bookishproblems

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Hello, what’s everyone reading? Just here to check in with you guys. 😊

I would only be able to continue reading again this weekend, coz sometimes work can really ruin our reading pattern—but a good book hooks you up.

What I am liking about my current read which is “All the Light We Cannot See” are the following:

—i resonate with the engineering and science theme coz it is my profession and I am close with someone who would probably be like Werner who specializes in radios (the male protagonist)
—Marie-Laure if I am not mistaken is my first blind protagonist and her dynamics with her father has a very special spot in my heart
—the war theme has always been my interest and as someone who loved The Nightingale by @kristinhannahauthor , it’s interesting for me to have another story in the same timeline which is during the WWII.

I am more than excited to read on, and I have a good feeling that I would finish this book soon.

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#onechapteradayph #2024reads #bookstagram #booksta #bookstagramph #bookrecommendations #allaboutbooks #readersofinsta #readers #bookislove #bookaddiction #bookreco #readersofinstagram #bookishreel #books #literature

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As this year comes to end, this is me, pep talking to myself. I have only finished 48 books from my original goal of 60 books. Just 8 books more from last year where I only started in august. Obviously too much living happened! 😅 but overall, 2023 is a year to remember. and yes, of course, I will continue reading and consuming more titles.

How was this reading year for you?

Have you identified your best read of the year, drop it in the comments!🥰

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#𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 #𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒕𝒂𝒈

But first, let me thank everyone who greeted me on my birthday, today!

I am sharing the following #bookgifts which are now my superlatives as well:

▪️Most expensive book
Hardbound Grim’s Fairytales collectors edition priced at 100usd

▪️Thickest book owned
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Penguin classic clothbound edition which is 1,392 pages

▪️Oldest publication date
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde published 1908–115 years old!!

And quick trivia, Philippines as a republic is just roughly 10 years older than this book! 😱

Tagging some of you guys to share your superlatives in your shelf/collection as well! 🤍

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— ♡ a birthday book haul

have you received any special book gifts lately? i know my birthday was a month and a half ago, but i still wanted to share all the thoughtful and kind books that so many loved ones gifted me. i can’t wait to read all the books in this stack and hopefully finally complete the realm of the elderlings as a fun book project in 2024!

(also, yes i am posting my birthday book haul on jimin’s birthday… for a cute timing dot, hehehe!) ♡

🏷: #bookstagram #booksta #booksofinstagram #booksofig #bookhaul #bookstack #bookhaul #mangahaul #mangastack #robinhobb #slewfoot #ursulakleguin #eastonpress #octaviaebutler #jujutsukaisen #fallreading #bookgift

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a very ambitious october tbr, oooo scary 👻

i’ve already read two of them and i’m currently in the middle of three others, so we’re off to a good start. i have a few books on libby that i hope to get to as well, but my focus is on getting through my physical tbr.

@readsby.rachel tagged me in #whatthisweek so here we go!

r e a d i n g: what moves the dead / it’s lonely at the centre of the earth / might start from bad to cursed, but we’ll see

l i s t e n i n g: animal farm on audio (libby) / spooky lofi beats

w a t c h i n g: scary movies, duh. not sure what’s on the queue for this week, but i’m kinda in the mood for a friday the 13th marathon bc this friday is the 13th lol

l o o k i n g forward to: coworker’s halloween party on friday and metal show on saturday

tagging a few. hope everyone has a great week 🫶🏽

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Ⓣⓗⓔ Ⓢⓤⓝⓢⓗⓘⓝⓔ Ⓣⓐⓖ
thanks @__miwaku_ for tagging me!

𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙩
if this means watching it, it would definitely be sunset. For me the idea of endings is a relief because it’s a reminder that whatever I am dealing with will eventually end no matter how bad or good it is.. sunsets I would say grounds me in a positive way.

𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙪𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙤
My answer to this is the song that came first to mind and it would really giveaway the generation that I ain’t in. Lol. But also is that I am an old soul, older than my age—Dancing Queen. 😅

𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨
6:30 of Lessons in Chemistry always pops up to mind, Kitay of TPW series and Rudy of The Book Thief :)

𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩
I would say Sunja of Pachinko in the sense of being a fighter in life. Personally, I believe that I can create lemonades from whatever lemons life would throw my way. Despite the reality of Pachinko’s first line, life goes on and I would go along with it.

𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛
Save and read as early as you can. 💪🏽

𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮
Now that I am asked, it seems that I have been reading dark and depressing and sad themed books 😅 but I am a totally happy person. ✌🏽

𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡
Smiling and same goes for what I think make other people beautiful 😍

And swipe for how my bookish heart is this week!!!😂😂

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#latetotheparty 🪩 #booktag

I am guilty both as a reader and in real life! Haha, but I make sure to enliven the party, tho I’m late 🥳🤩

These are some of the books that I consider myself super late in consuming, and I also indicated their respective pub dates for you to see how much 😅

🪩 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is a debut novel of Gail Honeyman with more than a million ratings in goodreads that average to 4.24✨

🪩 Before the Coffee Gets Cold #2 that I have been procrastinating to read inspite loving the first one because I feel like I can finish it quickly ✌🏽

🪩 Beartown by Fredrik Backman that now has a screen adaptation and @keliterate ‘s top read!! Needless to say but I would anyway, I really have to read soon!

🪩 Educated, a highly rated memoir in goodreads which is always in the list of recommended memoirs. Goodreads rating, 4.47✨

🪩 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous that’s recommended to me by @serinereads , rated 4.05✨ in goodreads.

🪩 Little Women that others probably have read in school—me not. And with multiple screen adaptations already which I always skip because I wanted to read the book first.

🪩 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, would be my first of him. I have been meaning to read this since last year but I’m intimidated by its thickness!

But I will def join these parties soon! And expect me to be loud on them coz these are my highly anticipated books as well for this year ✨

Thanks @anvitascorner for this very fun tag! And in case you guys see this post, consider yourself tagged 👍🏽

Save this post if you wanna join the book parties with me! Dm me if you wanna buddy read also 🩵

Q: which of these titles do you like the most and that I should read in September?

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I missed posting my #bookstacks so here is one! Checkout the books I read last quarter 2 of this year!✨

Reading has brought me to various places, made me knew characters that I never thought I’d like or dislike, and stirred my emotions. Here’s a quick run through of them in my Q2 reads:

♣ favorite character - Rudy from the Book Thief, he is the boyfriend both platonic and romantic that I never had. 🤪

♣ a book place I wanna live in - Arguelles Mansion in the 1950s in the Maps of Camarines, I am curious with the simplicity of hacienda life and solve the house maze/map for Assumpta. The engineer in me is voicing out her authority.

♣ loathed character - Eleanor of the bunnies! Lol. She makes me cringe 🤪

♣ best read - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. It was pure gold from its relevant characters, moral and theme.

♣ made you cry - Sad Girl Novel by @pipfink , Pachinko, the Vanishing half and the Book thief!! So maybe I am just a cry baby with the shallowest tear ducts!

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Checkout the last slide for my ratings and the next one for the book genres!

Q: which book is your favorite from this stack? 🩵

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