#Ryan Babel

[jewishrizahawkeye]

honestly jack antonoff being pissed at joe now makes so much sense. if i watched my best friend struggle through a 6.5 year relationship and try so hard to save it when her partner was cheating on her, making her feel like the problem, and her life is why it’s not working out i’d be seeing red and doing a lot more than him

[daryj]

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feita em: 18.02.2024

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[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Fiction works with footnotes, Round 1 :

You Feel It Just Below The Ribs (Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson) VS House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)

Babel (R.F. Kuang) VS Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)

Discworld (Terry Pratchett) VS Nation (Terry Pratchett)

The Name of This Book is Secret (Pseudonymous Bosch) VS The Nevernight Chronicle (Jay Kristoff)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Heather Fawcett) VS How to Train your Dragon (Cressida Cowell)

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke) VS The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe (Ryan North and Eric Henderson)

The Bartimaeus Trilogy (Jonathan Stroud) VS Revenge of the Translator (Brice Matthieussent)

2001 : A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke) VS Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians: The Dark Talent (Brandon Sanderson)

[osmiumpenguin]

It's the solstice tonight, and a good time to reflect on my favourite books from the past year.

I'm making very little attempt to rank these titles. They're simply the books that I enjoyed most, and they're presented in the order I read them. • "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet," by Becky Chambers (2014) • "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within," by Becky Chambers (2021) • "Locklands," by Robert Jackson Bennett (2022) • "Beloved," by Toni Morrison (1987) • "Exhalation," by Ted Chiang (2019) • "Fugitive Telemetry," by Martha Wells (2021) • "Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future," by Patty Krawec (2022) • "The Vanished Birds," by Simon Jimenez (2020) • "The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family," by Joshua Cohen (2021) • "Utopia Avenue," by by David Mitchell (2020) • "The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery," by Amitav Ghosh (1995) • "Moon of the Crusted Snow," by Waubgeshig Rice (2018) • "Bea Wolf," by Zach Weinersmith; illustrated by Boulet (2023) • "Fighting the Moon," by Julie McGalliard (2021) • "The Empress of Salt and Fortune," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Glass Hotel," by Emily St. John Mandel (2020) • "New York 2140," by Kim Stanley Robinson (2017) • "When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Omnibus," by Ryan North et al; illustrated by Erica Henderson & Derek Charm & Jacob Chabot & Naomi Franquiz & Tom Fowler & Rico Renzi et al (2022) • "Buffalo Is the New Buffalo: Stories," by Chelsea Vowel (2022) • "Greenwood: A Novel," by Michael Christie (2019) • "The House of Rust," by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (2021) • "Children of Memory," by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2022) • "Jade Legacy," by Fonda Lee (2021) • "A Deadly Education: A Novel: Lesson One of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2020) • "The Last Graduate: A Novel: Lesson Two of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2021) • "The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2022) • "To Be Taught if Fortunate," by Becky Chambers (2019) • "Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution," by Carlo Rovelli (2020), translated by Erica Segre & Simon Carnell (2021) • "A Psalm for the Wild-Built," by Becky Chambers (2021) Ah, but I said I'd make "very little attempt" to rank them, not "no attempt." So here is that attempt: my favourite five books from the last solar orbit — the five I enjoyed even more than those other thirty — also presented in the order I read them.

• "Nona the Ninth," by Tamsyn Muir (2022) • "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands," by Kate Beaton (2022) • "Record of a Spaceborn Few," by Becky Chambers (2018) • "Briar Rose," by Jane Yolen (1992) • "Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution," by R.F. Kuang (2022)

[princessofbookaholics]

END OF THE YEAR BOOK TAG 2023

It's the end of the year again! I've been doing this tag since 2020 and I love looking at the stats every year. Although my 5 star reads keep getting lesser every year or I'm just getting more strict with my ratings, who knows? Some answers might be a continuation of my Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag so I don't repeat books again. Here are the questions:

1. How many books did you read this year?

I read 166 books this year (including 4 rereads)

2. What genres did you read?

62 romance books

59 mystery/thrillers

15 fantasy books

11 contemporaries

6 graphic novel/manga

6 anthologies

3 non-fiction books

3 historical fiction

1 poetry

3. What age ranges did you read?

130 adult books

16 young adult books

13 new adult books

7 middle grade books

4. How many books got each rating?

23 five star books (including 4 rereads)

69 four star books

58 three star books

16 two star books

5. Best book you've read this year?

I think Babel by R. F. Kuang is still my number one of the year, nothing was able to top that reading experience for me. I've made a post with all my 5 star reads of the year if you need more recs!

6. Have you completed any series this year?

It was my reading goal to complete more series and i definitely did that.

Dance of Thieves duology by Mary E. Pearson

Lovestruck series by Mimi Grace

Tattered and Torn series by Catherine Cowles

Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh

Dirty Air Series by Lauren Asher

Queen's Cove series by Stephanie Archer

7. Biggest disappointment (for the second half of the year)

8. Biggest surprise (for the second half of the year)

9. Underrated gems (for the second half of the year)

10. Beautiful book covers (for the second half of the year)

11. New favorite authors you discovered

Romance authors: Catherine Cowles, Mimi Grace, Stephanie Archer, Juliana Smith, Kristina Forest, Catherine Walsh

Mystery/thriller authors: Freida McFadden, Mary Kubica, Catherine Ryan Howard, A. R. Torre, Lucinda Berry, Keigo Higashino

12. Favorite new releases of the year

13. Books that lived up to the hype

14. Books that did not live up to the hype

15. Longest and shortest book you read this year

Longest book: Final Offer by Lauren Asher (583 books)

Shortest book: Not Your Valentine by Jackie Lau (136 pages)

16. Did you accomplish your reading goals

I did complete 5 series so that's done. I read more than 100 books but i didn't manage to finish The Count of Monte Cristo because i gave up halfway because I had started slumping. I will try to pick it up again next year!

17. Reading plans for next year

I want to slow down on my reading and try to put quality over quantity because this reading year was so average.

[eddiebabygirldiaz]

Hellooo Ryan 💕💕💕

Do you have any favorite books? I am looking for a new book to read :) Rec me on please 🥰

-❤️🪐

oh darlin do i!

some of my most absolute favorites are:

green creek series by tj klune

summer sons by lee mandelo

the empirium trilogy by claire legrand

dark rise series by c s pacat

silver under nightfall by rin chupeco

babel by r f kuang

beach read by emily henry

wild and wicked things by francesca may

godly heathens by h e edgmon

the captive prince series by c s pacat

under the whispering door by tj klune

sandstorm by james rollins

talk to me/ask me anything

[inolienkiki]

cataloguing all my new books because I love doing this

my friend was in town last week, and having somebody visit reminded me that I can just. go places and do things whenever I want

so I went to three different bookstores, and I also ordered some online "just in case"

so. new this week:

Lumberjanes 1 & 2 (ND Stevenson & friends)- I read the first one earlier this year and liked it, but was a little confused? so I got the sequel to help me out with that!

Wheel of Time 4, 5, & 6 (Robert Jordan)- I'm already this far in. What more do I have to lose?

Echo (Pam Muñoz Ryan)- A fond memory! I was asked to review an advance copy of this book when it came out in 2015. At the time I was making fast friends with the local librarian, and she ended up asking me to review a lot of books after this, including The Box and the Dragonfly, my favorite book ever! I remember liking Echo a lot, and then it got the Newbery medal so I was probably right.

Hollow Dolls (MarcyKate Connolly)- I was looking for Monstrous, another book I reviewed around that time, but found out the author is still writing... about body snatchers apparently? How could I say no?

Edgedancer, Dawnshard, & Mistborn Secret History (Brandon Sanderson)- Found some nice hardcover editions of these three Sanderson novellas I love. I know Lift's not a popular character but she's one of my favorites <3

Power of Three, Omen of the Stars, & A Vision of Shadows (Erin Hunter)- Finally got myself Warrior Cats arcs 3, 4, and 5! I've never actually read AVoS so I'm very excited about that.

Onestar's Confession (Erin Hunter)- I don't actually like Onestar and I've heard this book isn't very good, but it's the only Super Edition any of the bookstores had...

Secrets of the Clans, Code of the Clans, & both Ultimate Guides (Erin Hunter)- The first two of these are a lot nicer than I expected! The full-color illustrations and fold-out maps are very welcome, and almost make up for Featherwhisker not being in the second Ultimate Guide >:(

A Thief in ThunderClan & The Rise of Scourge (Erin Hunter)- Rise of Scourge isn't my favorite but it's waaaay prettier in color. I've been excited about its release.

The Disappearing Spoon & The Icepick Surgeon (Sam Kean)- I love both these books! But I didn't own them for some reason... so I finally got them in paperback to match my other Sam Kean books.

Chasing Vermeer & Hold Fast (Blue Balliett)- The Wright 3, also by Blue Balliett, is one of the most well-thumbed books in my library! I finally got myself a copy of Chasing Vermeer, plus Hold Fast, which I've actually never read.

Gregor the Overlander (Suzanne Collins)- I don't actually remember why I put this on my reading list, but I'm really excited to try it out!

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Jessica Townsend)- One of you on my dash is really excited about this book, and I'm ready to get into it too.

The Constant Rabbit (Jasper Fforde)- I'm going to read Thursday Next eventually and I think it's going to thoroughly absorb me, so I figured I'd try some of his other books first! This one is about anti-rabbit bigotry, apparently.

Babel: An Arcane History (R.F. Kuang)- I'd been casually waiting for this to come out in paperback so I could try it without committing too much. We'll see how I feel about it!

The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman)- I love mystery series, especially big or ongoing ones, so I figured I should give this a try! Weirdly enough, I know Richard Osman from having been on Taskmaster, despite him being pretty thoroughly independently famous.

Legends & Lattes (Travis Baldree)- The premise intrigued me. I normally go for epic fantasy, so I'm not sure if I'll find this fun... depends on the quality of the storytelling and the presence of a romantic subplot (or, preferably, the lack thereof.)

The Hexologists (Josiah Bancroft)- My best friend told me about this, and it looked so ridiculous I just had to try it (/pos).

Raybearer (Jordan Ifueko)- I know almost nothing about this! But it was another friend's first recommendation, and if her taste is anything to judge by, I'm going to love it.

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)- Also new and exciting for me. I say I like to read fantasy, but I feel a little bad that most of that rests on Brandon Sanderson. So I'm trying some new fantasy authors!

Because Internet (Gretchen McCulloch)- I used to listen to her linguistics podcast a lot- "Lingthusiasm"- so for a long time I thought her last name was spelt McCullough. I'm sure she'd find that interesting.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (V.E. Schwab)- I know V.E. Schwab has written a lot of cool-looking fantasy books, so I'm trying out a standalone from her to see whether I'd like to read more. Should be intriguing!

Watership Down (Richard Adams & friends)- This is actually a graphic novel adaptation of the original classic, which is a book I absolutely love. I got this for my grandma for Christmas, and I just couldn't resist getting my own copy!

This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone)- I do love time travel, and anything that scratches the DARK itch will be well welcome.

In the Lives of Puppets (TJ Klune)- After reading The House on the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door, I'm sure this will be lovely. I'd been eagerly awaiting its paperback release for quite a bit!

Yeah, I don't know why I did this. I love both reading and collecting books, and sharing them with people is quite the treat <3

I hope my 3 followers and cheezbot enjoy this!

[mrschwartz]

What was that about AM being kicked off the rock category? 👀👀 Pls explain 🙏

okay so like i said on that ask, in this video (which i still highly recommend in its entirety!) at around 14:50 it's mentioned how in the mid-2010s one guy who was part of the comittee who voted in the rock categories said that one year the best selling rock album of that year got kicked out of the best rock album category bc one other person in the committee thought it was "too commercial" (do watch the video if you want to know better how this works, btw)

his actual quote: “A lot of the people in the room that year were either crusty old metal dudes or indie-rock guys who hate anything successful, and they took that year’s biggest-selling rock album and knocked it off the ballot because they thought it was too commercial. Then they added two [from outside the top 15], and one was a band that one guy on the committee brought up at the end of two long days of listening. Everybody was, like, ‘F— it, let’s put that on.’”

so i actually went to read the article mentioned in the video and basically narrowed it down to the guy talking about AM. we can never be 100% sure until he says so, but basically:

the article is from 2017, and the guy is a former member, so that places the year he's talking about as 2016 or down

they mention 1975 as an example of a "commercially successful act" and their first album came out in 2013, so this places the year between 2014 (since the ceremony is always at least on the following year) and 2016

they mention 1975 but they never had a best selling rock album of the year so it wasn't them

so let's break it down: in 2014 the nominees were led zeppelin, black sabbath, david bowie, kings of leon, queens of the stone age, and neil young+crazy horse; in 2015 the nominees were beck, ryan adams, the black keys, tom petty and the heartbreakers, and u2; and in 2016 the nominees were muse, james bay, death cab for cutie, highly suspect, and slipknot. idk about you, but to me all of those would very much please both the "crusty old metal dudes" and the "indie-rock guys who hate anything successful" as the guy in the article says

let's break it down some more: the best selling rock album of its debut year that could've vied for the 2014 ceremony was babel my mumford and sons (so let's discard this album and year bc to me this would please the "indie-rock guys"); the best selling rock album of its debut year that could've vied for the 2015 ceremony was (guess what??) AM by arctic monkeys (🚨🚨🚨 fresh sound ✔️ commercially successful so not exactly "indie" ✔️ definitely not old rock ✔️); and the best selling rock album of its debut year that could've vied for the 2016 ceremony was rock or bust by ac/dc (i'd also discard this one bc this would very much please the "old rock" bores)

not to mention 2015 seems like a year especially filled with some more-than-common obscure nominations (which would go along with what the guy said that two recommendations from two members were added last-minute)

and phewwwwwwwww this places AM as the most likely album that got kicked out for being too successful. does this makes sense? like to me am is the only album which ticks of all the boxes

[loveisbraveandwild]

2023 books (check out my storygraph for reviews)

january

unbought and unbossed, shirley chisholm

true biz, sara nović

yerba buena, nina lacour

the racism of people who love you, samira mehta

night, elie wiesel

seven says in june, tia williams

the reading list, sara nisha adams

finna, nino cipri

ace, angela chen

nightcrawling, leila mottley

the light we carry, michelle obama

how to resist amazon and why, danny caine

the daughter of auschwitz, tova friedman

kaikeyi, vaishnsvi patel

just as you are, camille kellogg

hijab butch blues, lamya h

february

a guide to just being friends, sophie sullivan

mean baby, selma blair

lavender house, lev ac rosen

loveless, alice oseman

the department of rare books and special collections, eva jurczyk

small game, blair braverman

wash day diaries, jamila rowser

the heartstopper yearbook, alice oseman

yellowface, r.f. kuang

stay true, hua hsu

the school for good mothers, jassamine chan

elatsoe, darcie little badger

under the udala tree, chinelo okparanta

there there, tommy orange

making a scene, constance wu

happy place, emily henry

i have a question for you, rebecca makkai

finding me, viola davis

wow, no thank you, samantha irby

march

lark and kasim start a revolution, kacen callender

mooncakes, suzanne walker

lies we sing to the sea, sarah underwood

the family outing, jessi hempel

dead collections, isaac fellman

ace voices, eris young

the anthropocene review, john green

mad honey, jennifer finney boylan & jody picoult

all my rage, sabaa tahir

hello, molly, molly shannon

fine, rhea ewing

nevada, imogen binnie

super late bloomer, julia kaye

love & other disasters, anita kelly

the boy with a bird in his chest, emme lund

the honeys, ryan lansala

the 57 bus, dashka slater

making love with the land, joshua whitehead

a history of my brief body, billy-ray belcourt

there are trans people here, h. melt

patricia wants to cuddle, samantha allen

babel, r.f. kuang

april

lessons in chemistry, bonnie garmus

ace of spaces, faridah abike-,ymide

the things we do to our friends, heather darwent

deaf utopia, nyle dimarco

black cake, charmaine wilkerson

simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda, becky albertalli

the things we couldn't say, jay cole

long black veil, jennifer finney boylan

good talk, mira jacobs

remarkably bright creatures, shelby van pelt

[ohwarnette]

Top 10 book boys? Top 5 books you read this year? Top 5 enemies to lovers from any media?

omg

top 10 book boys

kaz brekker (soc )

ravi singh ( a good girl’s guide )

nasir ghameq ( sands of arawiya )

Matthias halver ( soc )

richard gansey ( trc )

aaron warner ( shatter me)

kell maresh ( shades of magic)

carden greenbriar( tfota)

Loren hale ( addicted series)

Ryan shay ( windy city)

top 5 books read this year ( so far )

we hunt the flame by hafsah faizal

babel by r f kaung

the last tale of the flower bride by roshani chokshi

do I know you? by Emily wibberley

out on a limb by hannah bonam-young

top 5 enemies to lovers from any media

warnette ( shatter me )

captain swan ( ouat )

jurdan ( tfota)

june and day ( legend)

zafira x nasir ( sands of arawiya )

put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer ok go

[dejwritesarchived]

dejjjj hi < 3 i wanted to ask if you had any book recs😭😭 cause like i see the books you post about and i just know you have phenomenal taste in novels 🤭

obviously, i'm going to suggest the two books i have finished. which is terms and conditions by lauren asher (this book is apart of a series but each book can be read as a stand-alone if you want), seven days in june by tia williams, ace of spades by faridah abike iyimide.

i'm currently reading the princess trap by talia hibbert. i only have this book by her but i do have a sense that a lot of talia's books are fun read type of books. also her books are heavy on black big girl representation and i love it.

some others that are on my tbr list this year are

reel by kennedy ryan

babel by r.f kuang

before i let go by kennedy ryan

the grim reaper's lawyer by mea monique (honestly excited to read this one because i followed the author on tik tok from when they first started planning this book)

again by j.l seegars

legendborn by tracy deonn

[daryj]

He's just a Ken

disponivel para doação

[motherofkittens94]

23 Books in 2023

I was tagged by @readingaway

i have a bunch of book i want to read this year im already behind a bit but im gonna do it here is some

hare house sally hinchcliffe

daughters of izdihar hadeer elsbai

Shield maiden sharon emmerichs

meet me in another life catriona silvey

station eleven emily st john mendel

The shards bret easten ellis

spare prince harry

unwell woman elinor cleghorn

testimony mark hardbourn

the three body problem cixin liu

the women could fly megan giddings

Agatha christie lucy worsley

midnights children salman rushdie

the Parisian isabella hammod

wild and true relation kim sherwood

house of ghosts w c ryan

the mermaid and mrs hancock

the confessions of frannie langton sara collins

babel r f kaung

ithaca claire north

the long way to a small angry planet becky chambers

the marriage portrait maggie o farrell

what can you see from here marianna leky

tagging @mrs-storm-andrews @saltwaterwoods @lyledebeast @duchess-of-tales @softironman

if you like to :)

[cyclone-rachel]

favorite books I’ve read this year:

When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Fan Club by Erin Mayer

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor

Venomous by Christie Wilcox

Live, Laugh, Kidnap by Gabby Noone

Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao

Hide by Kiersten White

Hopepunk by Preston Norton

Severance by Ling Ma

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

Sheets by Brenna Thummler

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Babel by R.F. Kuang

[realitajayasaktigroup]

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