#SO MANY BOOKS

[misskaboom]

So many books.. so little time.. ⏰

[lovertm]

book pins by Occasionalish

[ssj2hindudude]

Me in the library in middle school:

Me in the library now:

[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?

[thetransfemininereview]

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

[bestestbooknerd]

Another glimpse into my shelves

[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

[bigheartedbibliophile]

This TBR is... daunting, to say the least! This is only from the books I own or listed as want to read on @the.storygraph . I haven't even begun to look at the ones on my Kindle or the randomly saved ones on Instagram, lol 😂

By the way, this is a screenshot of an Excel sheet I found on Reddit! It's super cool, I highly recommend looking into it if you like spreadsheets!

[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???

[eiemzi]

So ignoring my pathetic excuse for a bedroom.... A Facebook group I'm in talked about favourite authors and how much of what they have done that you had. Soooooo...... I stacked up what I have from Neil. Books and DVDs a CD and even a VHS copy of "day of the dead" I have some fragile comics I didn't include in the stack for fear of damage and I also noticed I had four books still on my dresser after I took this picture. 😒 so it's most of what I have... I have shirts too. (Obviously not shown)

[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)