#Girl of Limberlost

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[ezura-knightshade]

One of my all time favourite trope is: Old grumpy person lives as an outcast from society (usually by choice) and they eventually become a old happy person because some obnoxiously happy child squirmed their way into the said old persons house (and heart).

Examples of this trope are: Grandfather from Heidi, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert from Anne of Green Gables (mostly Marilla), Eda Clawthorne from The Owl House, and Mother from The Girl of The Limberlost.

Now that I go over this list I see that only Eda and Grandfather fit the criteria lmao.

[theinquisitxor]

If I Could Only Keep 20 Books, Here Are The Ones I Would Pick Tag Game:

A booktuber I sometimes watch, Chandler Ainsley, did a video titled this, and it prompted me to think about what books I would pick. As someone with almost 400 books, I thought this would be a fun challenge. I'm going to try to make it into a tag game, and see how it does.

The Twenty Book Challenge:

If you could only keep 20 books (physical/ebook/audio), which would be the ones you would keep?

Rules are simple:

1 book per author. 1 book per series. Tag #twenty books challenge

Tagging (no pressure): @yourneighborhoodbibliophile @e-b-reads @the-forest-library @ninja-muse @sixofravens-reads @ofliterarynature + anyone who wants to do this!

list of books in photo below the cut:

The Children's Book by AS Byatt

If W Were Villians by ML Rio

Babel by RF Kuang

Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgen Burnett

The Return of the King by JR Tolkien

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Wintersong by SJ Jones

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Fire by Kristin Cashore

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

The Naming by Allison Croggon

Nettle & Bone by T Kingfisher

Thick as Thieves by Meghan Whalen Turner

Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Kristin Lavrensdatter, book 1 by Sigrid Undset

Heart's Blood by Juliet Mariller

[glowing-disciple]

Reading List - 2024

Currently Reading:

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit

Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie

Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD by Jonas Jonasson

Books Read:

101 Famous Poems by Various Authors

A History of Chess by Jerzy Gizycki

The Abraham Lincoln Joke Book by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

An Introduction to Linguistics by Loreto Todd

The Art of Computer Designing by Osamu Sato

The Broken Dice, and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance by Ivar Ekeland

The Cairngorms by Patrick Baker

The Codebreaker's Handbook by Herbie Brennan

The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown

The Complete Book of Kitchen Collecting by Barbera E. Mauzy

Dinosaurs, Beware! A Safety Guide by Marc Brown

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dreaming the Biosphere by Rebecca Reider

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Funny Number Tricks by Rose Wyler

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Giant Sea Creatures, Real and Fantastic by John Frederick Waters

Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis

Hiram's Red Shirt by Mabel Watts

I don't care by JoAnn Nelson

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gödel, and the History of Archetypes by Robin Robertson

Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire by Howard Pyle

Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis

Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks

Reflections on Evolution by Fredrick Sproull

Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay by Matt McGinn

Strange Creatures of the Ice and Snow by Edward F. Dolan

Time for Bed, Sleepyheads by Normand Chartier

Weird Islands by Jean de Boschère

Future Reading:

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Adventures in Cryptozoology Vol. 1 by Richard Freeman

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez

Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions by Philip S. Callahan

The Anti-Mary Exposed by Carrie Gress

The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle

The Art Nouveau Style by Stephan Tschudi Madsen

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Champions of the Rosary by Donald H. Calloway

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Evolution by Nowell Stebbing

Expressionism by Ashley Bassie

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal Johnson

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Freaks on the Fells by R. M. Ballantyne

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

Fundamentals of Character Design by Various Authors

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Humorous Ghost Stories by Various Authors

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Illuminated Manuscripts by Tamara Woronowa

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Joan Miro by Joan Miro

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

Living by the Sword by Eric Demski

The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DiLello

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Otis Spofford by Beverly Clearly

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Shining by Stephen King

The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

The River by Gary Paulsen

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman

The Third Man Factor by John Geiger

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill

The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology by Deena West Budd

The White Mountains by John Christopher

[ladytauria]

tauria!! 9, 14, 21, 74, 80, 84, 104, 122 from the book rec ask game please <33

ahhh thank you maya!

9. your favourite book of 2020

ahh, i'm actually going to answer this for---last year, because i remember it and also bc i hit my reading goal last year!!

so my actual answer would be nona the ninth, but as i have already rec'd gideon to bean and mentioned harrow in this list, i shan't count it.

s o.

i think i'm gonna go with The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski, which is part one of a duology. the first is a retelling of cinderella, the second of sleeping beauty.

the first, to me, was much more enjoyable than the second, although i deeply enjoyed both. the first is singular pov, the second is split (i liked the LI's more!)

the book takes place on an island which is segregated into three classes / rings, each of which enjoys a vastly different quality of life than the other. the protagonist lives in the lowest class, where, if you're charged with a crime, no matter the severity, the guards can take any tribute they ask---from a few strands of hair to some blood to an eye, etc. she works with her guardian to help sneak people out of the lower ring and into the upper rings, and has always yearned for a taste of them hersellf. after spending a night in prison, she meets an outsider--the first on the island in many years--who helps her achieve just that.

also the plot twist in this book is. amazing.

14. a book that made you trip on literary acid

like. in the most positive way possible.

Harrow the Ninth.

look. i wasn't going to rec sequels. i wasn't.

but oh my god.

i walked away from this book with a headache and i said thank you ms. muir <3

(runner up answer would be the stars are legion, bc. oof. that book was a mind-fuck. again? best way possible. but also. damn.)

21. a book with a red cover

literally the first book that came to mind was Eldest, of the Inheritance Cycle.

(i was going to answer with "witches of ash & ruin by e. latimer" but my kindle cover is now blue -.- and uglier, imo. whatever.)

but, uh. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett!! i started the discworld series with the tiffany aching series, and i highly recommend <3 the nac mac feegles make me giggle so much <3

also i deeply love tiffany and all of the things that pterry conveys through her <3

74. your favourite love triangle

i didn’t forget to answer this before i clicked post wdym

this is hard!!! ngl i actively avoid love triangles in books after being so inundated with them during some of my peak reading years lmao

ahhh but

i actually didn’t mind how the love triangle was handled in the early throne of glass books!

i don’t necessarily recommend those but i was. obsessed with them for a time xD

80. a book that reminds you of a loved one

i technically answered this on bean's! that would be "a girl of the limberlost" or "the secret garden" bc they both remind me of my mom.

also almost any murder mystery will remind me of her, as those were her favorite genre.

u h m. but to name a different book; i think of my brother every time i see a riordanverse book, particularly the Percy Jackson <3 i let him borrow my copies (i've. mostly forgiven him for their now beat up / falling apart state) and watching him develop his first otp / devour them was so sweet <3

104. a fluffy, sweet read

so i didn't technically rec it on bean's list, i just mentioned it.

Legends And Lattes - Travis Baldree! cozy, slice of life fantasy with a sapphic romance. an orc retires from adventuring to open a coffee shop in a city that's never heard of coffee. (its a gnomish thing.) has a lot of dnd-like setting things and so much found family <3

also it made me hungry, so like. have ur favorite warm drink & pastries on hand when you read it bc you may also end up wanting them <3

122. your favourite winter read

hmmm.

okay so first! um. when i think winter / autumn / summer / spring read i don't necessarily think about season in the book itself, but rather like... how i feel during those seasons. so! autumnal reads i prefer spookier vibes; summer i want lighter books i don't have to focus too much on bc the heat has melted my brain; and for winter i want books that are good for spending a long time under blankets, so. chunkier the better. (i don't know what a spring read is to me.)

i am going to answer this one with two books!

the first i have not actually read -- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, which is a fucking beast of a book. i am... about 20%? through it? i think? but i had to put it down bc i couldn't give it the full attention it deserved. however, i think, due to its size, it would be a lovely book to devour over a handful of snowy days, curled up in blankets <33

the second i have read, and i actually wouldn't call this one chunky, but. i dunno. it's made for a nice evening read, i think. anyway! The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A McKilip.

[ book rec ask game ]

[celebrateeachnewday]

My 2023 Booklist

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD by Jonas Jonasson

The Keeper of The Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Light Of The Western Stars by Zane Grey

The Rustler Of Pecos County by Zane Grey

Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

[esther-dot]

What are some other examples of 'brooding dark haired hero falls for a redhead girl' that a jonsa fan might enjoy reading or watching??

You know, we really should have a list of recs, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one? I couldn’t think of anything that struck me the same way Jonsa did, but I’ll throw out a few things and keep my eyes open so we can compile a list. :)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (I didn’t remember that Margueritte had red hair but the internet says she does, so!)

Poldark

(I stopped watching because I did not like some of the developments but I really enjoyed the first season)

Pretty Woman

The Outlaw King

The Last Kingdom (this is tricky, Uhtred has different love interests throughout. He and Mildrith had a few nice moments but the vibes you want are more those of his relationship with Aethelflaed *SPOILER* no happy ending there either *SPOILER*)

The rest of these have redheaded heroines but the love interests aren’t exactly broody

A Girl of the Limberlost

Anne of Green Gables

Spiderman

Enchanted

The Time Traveler’s Wife

Moulin Rouge

Easy A

The Little Mermaid

Lisa Kleypas historical romance novels (haven’t read these, but several came up when I was googling: Devil in Winter, Someone to Watch Over Me, Tempt Me at Twilight)

I haven't read this, but I definitely enjoyed the Jonsa vibes of  this clip from Under the Oak Tree that @winter-love reblogged

@tell-me-this-isnt-jonsa posted about a book series by Cat Bruno called Pathway of the Chosen and there are some interesting parallels (link)

I’m gonna tag a few people in case they have suggestions because I really can’t believe I don’t have any really solid recs! 😬 No worries if y’all can’t think of anything either. @sibyldisobedience @tubbylita @fromtheboundlesssea @literally-defective @melodyherwholelifelong

[frances-baby-houseman]

When I was little I just LOVED books about little girl adventurers. I didn't like fantasy or horses or magic or anything like that, I just liked girls living their normal life and having little every day adventures. A few of my favorites:

Little House (obviously)

A Girl of the Limberlost (if you like makeover scenes and food descriptions, this is the book for you!)

Anne of Green Gables and all associated works

Betsy-Tacy (and Tib! all the way through Betsy and Joe getting married.)

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

Just as Long as We're Together/Here's to You Rachel Robinson (I think about Rachel wanting designer jeans at least once a week.)

Are You There God (obviously a ton of Judy Blume)

Ballet Shoes

Caddie Woodlawn

The Alice books (remember when Lester told her to give Patrick boxer shorts and chocolate covered potato chips as a gift? This remains an ideal present for a boy to me.)

So so many more (including obvious ones like BSC and American Girls). Alice also loves books about ordinary girls-- Junie B, Dory Fantasmagory, Ivy and Bean. I hope she will love some of the ones I loved, too!

[fictionadventurer]

Books I Should Have Loved But Hated

Girl of the Limberlost

The Enchanted April

Books I Should Have Hated But Loved

Julius Caesar

Daisy Miller

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Frank, I just wanted to say, your responses have brought joy to my days recently, and I wanted to wish you a very happy new year!

Also, I was curious: do you have any books you like or would recommend? Bonus points if they’re fiction, and double-bonus if they’re from other countries and I can learn about new literature from them!

Thanks for the kind words!

As for my book list, it's mostly science fiction and fantasy, with several nonfiction and some litfic. (There are a few exceptions -- I don't really like books about the environment in general, for instance, though I'll read some because they're great examples of the genre.) But I do have a list of favorite books from other countries (in roughly the order I read them) so maybe that could be a good way to answer the question?

There are some works on that list that I love and some that I really hate, so I try to have them in my mind whenever I make a selection, but it might not be a "top-notch book recommendation list" because of that.

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(In the below, all titles are available online through Google Books and are also hyperlinked to the authors' Google Books page -- for instance, you could click on the "A" symbol in my list below and then click the "About" link in the "Overview" section of that book.)

Anthea Conway - Travelling through Time (a short story anthology from the early 1970s which I read for the first time this year and really liked; she has a few other stories you might enjoy)

The Garden of Earthly Delights / The Fatalist Romances / The Merry Widow

Toni Morrison - Beloved (this is a book I loved as a teenager and reread recently -- it is definitely not the kind of book you can read in a few hours)

Ursula K. Le Guin - Always Coming Home / The Lathe of Heaven / The Word for World is Forest / The Dispossessed / The Left Hand of Darkness (you might want to consider which is more available -- it's not "all available through Google Books")

John Barth - Go Tell It on the Mountain / One Night Stand / The Sot-Weed Factor / Let Me Hear You Scream / The Sot-Weed Factor Reprise

Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises (I'm not sure how good this book is but it's been on my to-read list forever, and I've had this on my mind recently so I'm saying it's on the list anyway)

Stephen King - Carrie (the 1990 movie is very good, but it's a different book, and some of it was deleted from the movie)

T.H. White - The Once and Future King

Terry Pratchett - Good Omens / Hogfather / Small Gods / Reaper Man / Thud! (the order in which I read these is not particularly relevant, I just felt like including them; I don't think they're particularly good, they're just some of Pratchett's less widely-known, more fun works)

Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Miyamoto Barnabas - A Girl From the Other Side / A Short Hike Into the West / The World of Ice Cream / A Boy With Blue Hair / A Girl and Her Boy / A Humble Boy With Blue Hair (you might want to consider the order in which you read these -- for instance, the last one is good, but if you want to avoid spoilers for A Humble Boy with Blue Hair, skip to A Boy and His World on the list and read A Boy With Blue Hair second)

H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds / The Time Machine / When The Sleeper Wakes / The Island of Dr Moreau / The Invisible Man / The War of the Worlds - The Very Short Introduction to Stephen King

L.M. Montgomery - Corduroy / Bread and Butter / A Girl of the Limberlost / A Princess of Egypt / Emily of New Moon / Anne of Green Gables / Emily and Anne at Home / Anne of Avonlea/ Anne's House (I'm actually more of a fan of Anne of Avonle

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

Audrey Hepburn and her first husband Mel Ferrer's publicity photographs for Ondine, which opened at the 46th Street Theatre on February 18, 1954.

Who's Who in the Cast

Audrey Hepburn (Ondine)

The most startlingly lovely young personality to arrive on Broadway in more than a decade is Audrey Hepburn, the young English actress whose stage debut occurred in the Anita Loos adaptation of Colette's novel Gigi only two seasons ago. In less than a week the theatre housing that play had her name in lights over the title. Between the season-long run of Gigi and its country-wide tour last year, Audrey Hepburn made her first American film, on location in Rome. Her performance as Princess Ann in Roman Holiday, co-starred with Gregory Peck, made a clean sweep of the film critics' polls at year-end: the New York Film Critics' Circle voted her the best screen actress of the year; the survey conducted by Film Daily added the accolade of "outstanding find" of 1953. With her newest film, Sabrina Fair, in which she plays a chauffeur's daughter wooed by Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, awaiting release, she was free to return to the stage. Of the many tempting offers she chose to ally herself to the role of the Rhine water sprite, Ondine. Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels twenty-four years ago, daughter of an Irish father and a Dutch mother. Her family sent her to England to study as a child. When the Nazi blitzkreig swept over Europe Audrey was only ten, and her mother took her to Holland. When that country was overrun she was forced to spend five years of bitter privation under occupation. She went to school in Arnheim and danced in benefits to raise money for the Dutch underground. At war's end she studied ballet in London at the Rambert School, and to earn her tuition took a job in the London duplication of the American musical comedy High Button Shoes. It was, she admits with the refreshing candor so characteristic of her, a chorus role, but it led to solo spots in other musicals, Sauce Tartare and Sauce Piquante, and to bits in the English films The Lavender Hill Mob, Young Wives' Tale, The Secret People, and Monte Carlo Baby. It was while on location in Monte Carlo for the latter that Colette, searching for an unknown young miss to create her Gigi on the stage, discovered Audrey Hepburn and knew at once her search was at an end.

Mel Ferrer (Hans)

It didn't take Mel Ferrer long to rise to stardom in Hollywood once the film producers decided to put him in front of a camera instead of keeping him hidden behind one. The New York-born actor, who now returns to the theatre for the first time since he acted in the dramatization of Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit in 1945 and directed José Ferrer—they are no relation—the following season in Cyrano de Bergerac, went to California soon afterwards to direct the film Girl of the Limberlost. When Louis de Rochemont made his film of Lost Bound Aries he remembered Mel Ferrer from Strange Fruit and cast him in the leading role. From there the star went on to in creasingly important roles in The Brave Bulls, Scaramouche, Rancho Notorious, Lili, the CinemaScope spectacle Knights of the Round Table, in which he appears as King Arthur, and the forthcoming Saadia. After attending Princeton, where he won the playwrights' award in his sophomore year, he went to Mexico to write a children's book, which he called Tito's Hats, brought him to the attention of the Stephen Day Press, which he served as editor for a year. Mel Ferrer thereupon moved over to Broadway. He appeared as a dancer in You Never Know and Everywhere I Roam, as an actor in Cue For Passion and Kind Lady. Essaying still another medium, he entered radio, soon was a producer-director, supervising such programs as The Hit Parade, Mr. District Attorney, Dr. I.Q., and the Jimmy Durante comedy hour. Once in Hollywood, along with Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Joseph Cotten, he founded the La Jolla Playhouse where since 1947 the quartet of actor-producers has presented an average of nine plays each summer, more than half of which Mr. Ferrer has staged.

[m0llymilli0ns]

books read in 2022:

Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison (3.5/5)

The Women of Troy, by Pat Barker (3/5)

The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan (2.5/5)

Regeneration, by Pat Barker (4.5/5)

Rosemary’s Baby, by Ira Levin (5/5)

The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler (5/5)

The Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Butler (3/5)

The Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker (3.5/5)

Bashan and I, by Thomas Mann (3.5/5)

A Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton-Porter (3/5)

The Dispossessed, by Ursula K LeGuin (4/5)

The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (4/5)

Persuasion, by Jane Austen (3/5)

The Peregrine, by JA Baker (3.5/5)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë (4/5)

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (5/5)

The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth Von Arnim (5/5)

My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante (3/5)

The Incredible Journey, by Sheila Burnford (3.5/5)

The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell (4/5)

Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake (4.5/5)

Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake (4/5)

[hcolleen]

Twenty books

In no particular order other than how I remember them, twenty books that helped make me who I am. Supposed to be without explanation, but I think I'll add some. I'm not saying these are all good, but they all influenced me.

The Time Quartet by Madeline L'Engle. I'm on my third copy of Wrinkle in Time (the other two fell apart and my current copy has loose pages)

The DragonRiders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. Not sure if this was authorial intent, but there's a scene that impressed upon young me that you judge people by what they do, not by who they love.

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter. I learned a lot about moths and butterflies in this book

Spock's World by Diane Duane. Taught me to question who and why behind news.

The Nero Wolfe Mysteries by Rex Stout. The first mysteries I actually liked.

Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne. The first deeper science book about cosmology and relativity that started a deep love.

The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willow Davis Roberts. Haunted me.

For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony. Not all evils are the same, and sometimes evil is a means to get to the good ending, but still should be evaluated by results and motivation.

Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur. Got me back into PNR after Anita Blake put me off the genre, which led me to most of what I read now.

The Cat Ate My Gym Shorts by Paula Danzinger (and other titles). Helped young me develop resilience.

They Have a Word for It by Howard Rheingold. Started my love of linguistics.

GetBackers by Yuya Aoki and Rando Ayamine. The best manga I've read and I think of how it all ties together so well and deliciously often.

The Turing Option by Harry Harrison. An exploration of the divide between human and machine and what makes us human

The Last Coincidence by Robert Goldsburough. The first audiobook I listened to and while I thought it odd in high school, though I enjoyed it, is now how I read most books.

Double Trouble by Barthe DeClements. One of those books that haunts my brain from childhood.

The Vmapire's Mail Order Bride by Kristen Painter. Started my love affair with cozy PNR mysteries, my most read genre now.

The Utterly Uninterestig and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes. Introduced me to one of my new favorite authors.

The Cures of Chalion by Louis McMaster Bujold. One of my favorite books and an interesting exploration of religion and how it affects history.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. An openly curious exploration of everything that fascinated the author as a child, encouraging my adult curiosity and exploration.

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum. History and science and crime and how our modern systems developed.

The Giver by Lois Lowry. Quite a haunting book.

[ladytauria]

i think i reblogged it from you but never sent you questions, so for the book rec asks: 1, 13, 23, 44, 50, 54, 79, 92, 116, 130, 131 please!! thats A Lot, so feel free to pick and choose haha

ahhh thank u bean! i love talking books uwu

coming back up after answering to edit... um. bean, i'm so sorry for my answer on the last one xD i should have picked a different book. (i ranted. a little.)

1. a book that is close to your heart

there are a few books i could name, but i'm going to do the one i thought of first.

a girl of the limberlost. i only remember reading it once, but my mother is the one who gave it to me, and told me that it was a book she loved at my age at the time. (same with the secret garden.) so i can't think of that book without thinking of her, which makes it a little bit more special to me <3

13. your favorite romance novel

immediate impulse is to say legends and lattes by travis baldree bc. it's so good. however, while there is a romance i don't know if i would count it as a romance novel.

so.

the lady's guide to celestial mechanics. historical, sapphic, featuring both women in STEM (or, yknow, historical equiv) but also an appreciation for domestic arts / crafts normally looked down on. also there's an acknowledgement that homophobia existed, but there's none on page.

the prose is also gorgeous.

i don't actually read a ton of romance novels, but i've been trying to pick up more!

23. a book that is currently on your TBR

mmm, too many

but Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield went on sale on kindle the other day so! it's mine now <3 and one i've been eying for a while. the kindle cover isn't the one i wanted, but that's okay.

44. your favourite fantasy novel

a very large chunk of what i read is fantasy. this is HARD 😂

uhhh.

the locked tomb is technically sci-fi, isn't it?

fuck.

i'm gonna go with The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle bc it is the only book i purposefully own more than one copy of! would love to get my hands on the graphic novel <3

honorary mention to the Inheritence Cycle bc reading Eragon was what got me to start writing my first novel.

which absolutely wasn't just. Eragon but with griffin riders instead.

(okay, legitimately, there were differences, but there was also definitely heavy inspiration.)

50. a book that made you cry a LOT

i don't actually cry at much? the last time i remember actually crying was when i was reading an abridged version of little women and beth died xD

i'm trying to think of another book which really grabbed me emotionally recently that also isn't. already on this list. and i'm coming up empty?

54. a book with the best opening line

i don't have a good memory for opening lines ^^; however for some reason i want to say The Lightning Thief, so. that's what i'm going with.

79. a book that reminds you of your favorite song

my favorite song changes by the moment, so i don't have answer for this one ^^;

92. a book about a redeemable villain

kay, so i almost answered this question with the book i gave for the next question, but i realized i don't? read a lot of multi pov books?? or at least not that i remember being such. i did remember one but it was the second in a duology, so.

so.

anyway!

the closest i can think of atm would be Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone. (highly rec this one, though i was a little disappointed when the pairing i wanted didn't happen xD)

116. a book with multiple povs

The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley.

this book.

i.

woof.

okay, so. if you are. remotely squeamish, like. at all? you might wanna give this one a pass. (def check storygraph / other places for trigger warnings. im also happy to elaborate myself, lol.) i am. very squeamish, and made it through only because the story grabbed me tight and wouldn't let go. the worldbuilding is extremely interesting. the characters are all very different and both likeable and unlikeable in a million different ways. but.

oh boy, it was a tough one.

if you're NOT squeamish, though--

it was a 4 or 5 star read for me, iirc, so, y'know. recommended. not sure i'll ever pick it up again, but like. do not regret reading.

130. a book featuring flashbacks and/or intersecting storylines

i know i've read others like this, but the book that comes to mind is--and i had to google this bc it's been so long since i read it---Thirst by Christopher Pike. It was also published under "The Last Vampire." i don't actually recommend them; i read them during my middle school vampire phase and even i remembered being a little mindboggled. mainly bc i think there was an alien abduction in... the second or third book? idk, i had an omnibus.

131. recommend any book you like!

there's only one answer i can give to this, tbh. the locked tomb series brainrot is real and deep and i am. both highly anticipating and dreading the release of alecto so.

i gotta recommend Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.

that SAID, i am well aware that this book has a reputation on tumblr esp for being poorly summarized, as the most oft-used pitch is "lesbian necromancers in space."

this is not an inaccurate summary.

BUT.

it is also not complete.

so first, some expectations: it's sci-fi, definitely, but also there are a lot of fantasy vibes? probably because of the swords and the necromancy and the sworn knights-esque plot. uh. basically, it's sci-fi like star wars is sci-fi, but also it's. it's not star wars.

second thing: this series is unreliable narrator central. tamsyn picks the least qualified person in the group for you to follow the story with, and it works. so well. like, firstly bc ofc things get explained (some; it does drop you in and expect you to pick up a lot through context clues) but ALSO because you WILL pick up things you didn't on re-reads. i did a reread before Nona and spent half of it screaming. i'm not much of an annotator beyond highlighting some lines on kindle but i was commenting all over the place.

uh.

i still haven't talked about the plot, my bad.

Gideon the Ninth follows the titular Gideon, after her childhood nemesis and heir to the Ninth House, is invited to the First House by the God Emperor of the Nine Houses to seek quasi-immortality and join him in fighting a war as old as the Houses themselves. When they get there, though, they soon find their fellow heir-and-cavalier pairs being picked off one by one.

this book also features a lot of gay... not pining, not really, but like. Gideon likes women and her pov spends a lot of time appreciating the other women with them xD (this is also part of what makes her unreliable as a narrator. plot? what plot? gideon is here for thirsting, and a little bit of pining.)

also mild enemies to lovers vibes.

ALSO there are memes. there's a none pizza left beef joke in book 2, i'm still not over it.

does get a little squicky at times with loving descriptions of bones and viscera, though.

if i keep talking about this book i won't ever stop <3

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Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924), born Geneva Grace Stratton, was an American writer, nature photographer, and naturalist from Wabash County, Indiana. In 1917 Stratton-Porter urged legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in Indiana. She was also a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company, Gene Stratton Porter Productions, in 1924.

Stratton-Porter wrote several best-selling novels in addition to columns for national magazines, such as McCall's and Good Housekeeping, among others. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages, including Braille, and at their peak in the 1910s attracted an estimated 50 million readers. Eight of her novels, including A Girl of the Limberlost, were adapted into moving pictures. Stratton-Porter was also the subject of a one-woman play, A Song of the Wilderness. Two of her former homes in Indiana are state historic sites, the Limberlost State Historical Site in Geneva and the Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site on Sylvan Lake, near Rome City, Indiana.