#SO MANY BOOKS

[misskaboom]

So many books.. so little time.. ⏰

[ssj2hindudude]

Me in the library in middle school:

Me in the library now:

[thetransfemininereview]

Great that’s one book down, only *checks tbr* thirty-six to go! :)))

[lovertm]

book pins by Occasionalish

[bestestbooknerd]

Another glimpse into my shelves

[shenaniganeryfromtheabyss]

being a disabled nerd is hard because you can't work but that doesn't stop you from getting into very expensive hobbies

like, brain,, why legos? why gundam? why fashion dolls? transformers?

[am-iaou]

Redraw of an older illustration from 2022 🖋️✨

[galaxostars]

there are simply not enough hours in a day for me to consume all the art I want to consume

[haemey]

Silly Game Time: Grab the nearest book and open it to a random page. What's the first complete sentence on it?

Alright, nearest book is a book of Japanese fairytales, but in German:

"Nun, sie ist vermutlich an den Strand gegangen, um sich zu vergnügen," sagte die weiße Katze.

Translation: "Well, she probably went to the beach to have some fun," said the white cat.

Nearest book in English: The buried giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (I really need to finish this someday, it's been years)

His eyes were fixed on the warrior's back in front of him, though intermittently he would angle his head to one side, as though trying to peer around the warrior's legs at the thing on the ground.

Your games are getting less silly, are you ok? I'm still having fun, though :D

[lettersnorth]

Decisions, decisions

[co-u-ch]

Went to a neat used bookstore last weekend!

Lighthouse Books, Monterey CA

[acheaptrickandacheesyoneline]

Mr. Cheaptrick and I have lived at our place for over 13 years. I moved in December 2011, and he joined August 2012.

Which means that packing our entire place for a move that neither of us really wants to make but kinda need to just....sucks.

So many memories, and so much stuff.

[nymzi]

Inquires for an online book club???

[osmiumpenguin]

It's solstice night again, and time to recount the books I've best loved over the past year.

My second-favourites

Here, in order of their first publication, are a whole lot of books I read for the first time this year, and loved.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë (1848)

Unnatural Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1927)

Strong Poison, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1930)

Have His Carcase, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1932)

The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1934)

The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut (1959)

The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood (1969)

Charmed Life, by Diana Wynne Jones (1977)

The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch — "Angouleme", by Samuel R. Delany (1978, revised 2014)

The Homeward Bounders, by Diana Wynne Jones (1981)

Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones (1986)

The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing (1988)

The Lives of Christopher Chant, by Diana Wynne Jones (1988)

Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean (1991)

The Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynne Jones (1998)

Ben, in the World, by Doris Lessing (2000)

The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler (2004)

The Pinhoe Egg, by Diana Wynne Jones (2006)

Stonemouth, by Iain Banks (2012)

The Quarry, by Iain Banks (2013)

Swing Time, by Zadie Smith (2016)

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune (2020)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins (2020)

The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey (2021)

Machinehood, by S.B. Divya (2021)

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (2021)

Elder Race, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2021)

On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World, by Danya Ruttenberg (2022)

Shirley Estar Goes to Heaven, by Winston Rowntree (2024)

My favourites

But I loved a few books even more: books which touched me more, taught me more, more valuably rewired my brain, and reminded me just how good a book can be. Sentence and solaas, baby.

Here — once again, in order of their first publication — were my ten favourite books I read in 2024.

Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)

Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (1952)

The Quiet American, by Graham Greene (1955)

334, by Thomas M. Disch (1972)

We Who Are about to..., by Joanna Russ (1977)

Fire & Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones (1985)

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & D͟r͟e͟a͟m͟s͟ ͟D͟e͟f͟e͟r͟r͟e͟d͟, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (2021)

Fayne, by Ann-Marie MacDonald (2022)

Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, by John Vaillant (2023)

The Fraud, by Zadie Smith (2023)

[litwitlady]

You can stop watching any television show or movie you don't like. Hell, I've even turned off a couple of baseball games this year.

You can never listen to that album you hate ever again.

You can ditch that shitty book you're reading.

On your deathbed, you won't remember a single one of those fuckers. ❤️

[guardian-angle22]

10 Books to Read in 2024

Thank you @lemonlyman-dotcom for the tag! At this point you must know that I go overboard with these posts. I appreciate the enabling. 😂

#1 & 2: Book Club/Buddy Reads

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coats - This is one of the official Paul Strickland Approved Reads and it's been on my shelf for awhile now too. It's about time I sit down and read it!

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden - This book was chosen by one of my friends for our seasonal book club to be read for winter.

#3 & 4: Series to Complete/Continue

Light of Impossible Stars by Gareth L. Powell - This is the 3rd and final book in the Embers of War trilogy. I read the previous book back in 2020... so it's unclear if I will remember the plot enough for this. oops.

Saga Volume 9 by Fiona Staples & Brian K. Vaughan - I've had this volume on my shelf since 2018 when it was published but kept holding off on reading it because the authors had announced going on a break and I heard there was a cliffhanger. They've since come back and started releasing more volumes, so I gotta catch up!

#5 & 6: Series to Start

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin - Series are a big focus of my personal reading goals in 2024. I own the entire Broken Earth trilogy in physical copies, and they've been staring at me for awhile now and guilting me for buying a whole series without knowing if I like the first book.

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee - I was smart enough with this one to at least purchase just the first book and not the entire Machineries of Empire series. However, I have owned this since 2018. Why haven't I read it yet???

#7 & 8: Indigenous Fiction

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko - I was in an online Indigenous Reading Book Club for a little bit and this was one of the books we were supposed to read for that. and I never did. Must fix my prior mistakes!

There There by Tommy Orange - I've heard great things about this book and Tommy Orange is releasing a second novel this year that I hear has ties to this one.

#9 & 10: Books that have been on my TBR for the longest

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I've had this on my digital TBR since August of 2009... 2 0 0 9! WTF!

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - This one has been on there since December of 2010. Not much better at all. What have I been doing all these years??

I'm not sure which of my mutuals are big book readers tbh. Hit me up and let me know if you are! I'd love to know who to tag for these kinds of things in the future! 📚💜