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A hippo emerges from the water covered with greenery in the Masai Mara nature reserve, Kenya

Photograph: Ann Aveyard/Animal News Agency

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Spotted Hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), family Hyaenidae, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

photograph by Ann Aveyard

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(by Ann Aveyard)

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February 2024 Young Adult Book Releases

🦇 Good afternoon, my bookish bats. I hope you're bundled up with a fur baby, hot bev, and good book as you ward off this (lovely) chilly weather. No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and plenty were released in January! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves.

🩷 February 6 🩷 ✨ All This Twisted Glory by Taherah Mafi ✨ ASAP by Axie Oh ✨ I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang ✨ No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub ✨ Even If It Breaks Your Heart by Erin Hahn ✨ Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops ✨ How The Boogeyman Became A Poet by Tony Keith Jr. ✨ Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry by Abby Elenko ✨ Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender ✨ Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada ✨ Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories by Various ✨ The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton ✨ Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos ✨ King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, Jamie Green ✨ Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo ✨ These Deadly Prophecies by Andrea Tang ✨ The Cursed Rose by Leslie Vedder ✨ Clarion Call by Cayla Fay ✨ Out of Body by Nia Davenport

🩷 February 13 🩷 ✨ The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna ✨ A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai ✨ This Day Changes Everything by Edward Underhill ✨ With a Little Luck by Marissa Meyer ✨ Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu, Mad Rupert ✨ The Boyfriend Wish by Swati Teerdhala ✨ Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley ✨ The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha

🩷 February 20 🩷 ✨ A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal ✨ The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert ✨ Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli ✨ The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa ✨ We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller ✨ The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover ✨ Conditions of a Heart by Bethany Mangle ✨ My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino

🩷 February 27 🩷 ✨ Fate Breaker by Victoria Aveyard ✨ Illusions of Fire by Nisha Sharma ✨ Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury ✨ Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana ✨ Daughter of the Bone Forest by Jasmine Skye ✨ Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek

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Book recs? (I’m deleting most of my tbr and starting over. Idk what I will actually end up getting to but I trust your taste in books.)

I am very honored that you trust my taste. I'd have to know specific genres you are looking for to make the best recommendations, but here are my basic ones (including a lot of my favorite books):

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (This is probably actually my favorite book ever. The characters are amazing, the dynamics, everything) (trilogy with a sequel series starting)

If You Could See The Sun by Ann Liang (speculative fiction, girl turns invisible) (standalone)

Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard (fantasy book, somehow has strong world building, characters, relationships, AND plot while most only have one or two) (finished trilogy)

Renegades by Marissa Meyer (it is not the best of her books, but I think you might appreciate the fact that the messy situation is almost exactly like the Phoebe Silas Priest situation but messier? I don't remember it that well) (finished trilogy)

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (this book has some of the most vivid characters in any book I've read. They feel real. It's also very open to interpretation and analysis which I think you'd like.) (standalone)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (this is my favorite classic. everyone sucks it's great. I mostly love the writing)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (standalone, it's a little hard to get through at first but it's a lot to think about)

Made of Stars (Bonnie and Clyde retelling, sci-fi)

I could probably think of more, but I'll leave it at this.

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hello, hero! for anna ryder and rose cousland, could i know these: 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 21, 23, 25!!

Anna Ryder

4) What color or colors do you most associate with your OC?

Maroon, Amber, Blue, Purple

5) Any animals you most associate with your OC?

Not really. Anna isn't much of a pet person, Alliance life didn't really allow for one and even before that her parents were too busy to take care of a pet plus twins. In Andromeda Scott gets a pyjack and Anna finds it somewhat cute.

6) Any flowers you associate with your OC?

Queen Anne's Lace, Daffodils, Dandelions

7) Does your OC have a favorite and least favorite food?

Anna doesn't care for winter squashes, she doesn't like the texture. Her favorite is anything noodles, easy to carry in a bowl/eat while trying to catch up on reports/etc

11) What actor or voice actor do you see best playing as your OC?

I haven't really given this much thought for Anna only because I mainly use her CC when getting fanart created. That being said, I could see Agam Darshi being a faceclaim for Anna.

21) Any embarrassing secrets your OC demands you take to the grave but you will share anyway?

Her first time snowboarding, she had a hard time finding her balance and went ass over teakettle right in front of a girl she was crushing on. Face full of powder, Anna managed to get up without too much trouble but that ended up having the girl ask if she was alright and Anna managing to flirt (somewhat) successfully with her. They ended up going out on a few dates so it worked out in the end.

Then when the Tempest first landed on Aya she was so excited to explore that she tripped over her own feet and nearly ate grass. But she managed to right herself and endured the jokes from the crew, brushing it off with a crack of her own.

23) Is your OC religious and what religion? If it’s a fictional religion for your story please give a summary of the core teachings of their faith?

Not really. Alec and Ellen weren't super religious, their mom more because of her science background and Alec just because, so they never really encouraged it with Scott and Anna. They did try to teach them to be nice but firm, to stand up for what was wrong but also be kind, and to help those in need though.

25) The name you chose for your OC, why did you chose it?

I wanted something that I could shorten, that Anna would only be called when she was in trouble (which ended up being A Lot). At the time I was reading War Storm by Victoria Aveyard where one of the characters has the nickname 'Nanabel' and that stuck with me so I decided to go in that direction and came up with Annabel, eventually deciding that she had a vague US Southern/Hispanic background.

Rose Cousland

4) What color or colors do you most associate with your OC?

Black, Silver, Dark Blue

5) Any animals you most associate with your OC?

Her mabari Griffins. She's had Griffins since he was a puppy and wouldn't know what to do if he wasn't in her life. She dares anyone to tell her that she can't have a Marbari in the castle.

6) Any flowers you associate with your OC?

Roses obliviously :P but also sunflowers and snow drops.

7) Does your OC have a favorite and least favorite food?

Rose is a fan of bread, especially if it's fresh from the oven. Also once Zevran introduces her to Antivan dishes, she's a big fan of the spices. Doesn't really care for "travel rations" (aka hardtack & cheese) but knows that when they're on the road there's not much choice.

11) What actor or voice actor do you see best playing as your OC?

I've fancasted Gemma Arterton as Rose, specifically from Hansel & Gretel: Witchhunters because she had the vibe I was looking for in the movie (but with redder hair).

21) Any embarrassing secrets your OC demands you take to the grave but you will share anyway?

Rose is somewhat afraid of the dark, she needs a candle burning in her room once the sun starts setting and can't fall asleep if it's completely dark.

23) Is your OC religious and what religion? If it’s a fictional religion for your story please give a summary of the core teachings of their faith?

Rose had to sit through Chantry services while at Highever, it was expected of her as the Teryn's daughter, and only loosely followed the teachings of the church. Then Highever got razed and she turned her back on Andraste and the Chantry, angry and confused at how she could let that happen since her parents had been devout followers of Andraste. She doesn't belittle Leliana for her beliefs, but at the same time she doesn't try to go back to the Chantry and the Maker.

Once she becomes Queen, Rose knows that she has to at least attend one service a week, but at the same time she tries to find an excuse not to go if she can help it.

25) The name you chose for your OC, why did you chose it?

This was before I fully fleshed out my Cousland Warden and wanted to just jump into the game. A friend on here had been talking about Titanic/Doctor Who and Rose so that was at the forefront of my mind so I went with that.

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☆･*:.｡ books read in 2024 ｡.:*･☆

January - May

January

1. Sara al Husaini: Huono tyttö, audiobook, ★★★★.5 2. Kim Ligget: Armonvuosi (The Grace Year), audio, ★★★☆☆ 3. Satu Rämö: Hildur, audio, ★★★.5☆ 4. R.F. Kuang: Yellowface, audio, ★★★.5☆

February

5. Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman: Hyviä enteitä (Good Omens), audio, ★★★★.5 6. Martha Wells: Murhabotin päiväkirjat 2: Keinotekoinen olotila (Murderbot Diaries 2), physical book, ★★★★☆ 7. TJ Klune: Wolfsong, physical, ★★★★☆ 8. Victoria Aveyard: Maailmojen murtaja (Realm Breaker), audio, ★★★.5☆ 9. Alice Oseman: Heartstopper vol 3, physical, ★★★★.5

March

10. Leena Parkkinen: Neiti Steinin keittäjätär, ebook, ★★★.5☆ 11. Johanna Hedman: Trio, audio, ★★★☆☆ 12. Sarah Anderson: Fangs, physical, ★★★★★ 13. Madeline Miller: Kirke (Circe), audio, ★★★★★ 14. Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa: She and Her Cat, physical, ★★★☆☆

April

15. Emmi-Liia Sjöholm: Virtahevot, audio, ★★★★.5 16. Vampires Never Get Old - anthology, physical, ★★★.5☆ 17. Nora Sakavic: The Sunshine Court, ebook, ★★★★★ 18. Satu Rämö: Rósa & Björk, audio, ★★★★☆ 19. Ann Liang: If You Could See the Sun, audio, ★★★.5☆ 20. Elina Pitkäkangas: Naraka, ebook, ★★★★.5 21. Frances Wren: Earthflown, ebook, ★★★★.5

May

22. Satu Rämö: Jakob, audio, ★★★☆☆ 23. Julia Armfield: Our Wives Under the Sea, audio, ★★★★☆ 24. Holly Jackson: Kiltin tytön murhaopas (Good Girl's Guide to Murder), physical, ★★★★☆ 25. J.S. Meresmaa: Tytär hämärä, piika pimeän, ebook, ★★★.5☆ 26. J.S. Meresmaa: Poika Valkea, renki raudan, physical, ★★★★☆ 27. Sasha Hamdani: Self-care for People with ADHD, audio, ★★★.5☆ 28. Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Ace of Spades, audio, literally cannot rate this one (in a good way?) 29. Jennette McCurdy: I'm Glad My Mom Died, audio, ★★★★☆ 30. Gege Akutami: Jujutsu Kaisen vol. 1, physical, ★★★★☆ 31. Nora Sakavic: The Sunshine Court, ebook reread, ★★★★★ 32. Krystal Sutherland: House of Hollow, audiobook, ★★★★☆

[elayne-shalotts-world]

23 books in 2023

Here are 23 books I want to read in 2023:

Anne sin filtros by Iria G. Parente & Selene M. Pascual

Le mystère de la chambre jaune by Gaston Leroux

Temporada de huracanes by Fernanda Melchor

Reinos de cristal by Iria G. Parente & Selene M. Pascual

The house in the cerulean sea by TJ Klune

The girl who fell beneath the sea by Axie Oh

La canción de los hermanos by TJ Klune

The bell jar by Sylvia Plath

La guía del caballero para el vicio y la virtud by Mackenzi Lee

The silent patient by Alex Michaelides

Color me in by Natasha Diaz

Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee

Then she was gone by Lisa Jewell

Lobizona by Romina Garber

Once Upon a K-Prom by Kat Cho

A dowry of blood by Margaret Atwood

I wish you all the best by Mason Deaver

Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

Strange the dreamer by Laini Taylor

El jilguero by Donna Tartt

Infinity Son by Adam Silvera

The catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

She gets the girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick

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welcome to do you know this book poll!

about:

This blog was inspired by RecommendMeABook.com—which posts first pages of novels before revealing the title and author—and by poll blogs such as doyoulikethissong-poll. The main goal of this blog is to expose people to books that they might like and read through posting snippets of different books.

how this works:

I post polls with excerpts from books—occasionally I post excerpts from novellas and short stories. Polls run for one week, so results are posted eight days after the original post date. Part of the fun is guessing/trying to figure out which book the excerpt is from, with some excerpts being more obvious than others. Feel free to leave suggestions for books you want to see posted (or suggestions for the blog in general) in the replies of this post 😊📚

I am one person running this blog so please be patient and kind. I currently post 1-3 polls per week.

submissions are now open, submit a book here!

current voting options:

A) I’ve read this book before, and I like it!

B) I can tell which book this is from based on this excerpt, but I haven't read it

C) I started reading this, but didn’t finish it (or I am reading it currently)

D) I haven’t read this book, but I like this excerpt!

E) I’ve read this book before, and I don’t like it

F) I haven’t read this book and I don’t like this excerpt

tags:

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closed polls/revealed: tagged/results

all of this blog’s polls: tagged/poll time

fiction polls only: tagged/fiction

nonfiction polls only: tagged/nonfiction

all polls (includes polls from other blogs): tagged/poll

all posts that are not a poll: tagged/not a poll

resources to free reading, libraries, and posts about libraries: tagged/library

additional tags not listed here include names of titles and their authors.

a list of all excerpts that have been posted and revealed:

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Six of Crows (part of the Six of Crows duology and the Grishaverse) by Leigh Bardugo

Beloved by Toni Morrison

“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

My Immortal fanfiction — this was posted for April Fool’s Day

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel von der Kolk

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

Silver in the Wood (part of The Greenhollow Duology) by Emily Tesh

Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

Holes by Louis Sachar

1984 by George Orwell

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy

The Giver by Lois Lowry

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

All Systems Red (part of The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells

The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsburg

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Aces Wild by Amanda DeWitt

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki (the results also discuss Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur Golden)

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

The Alchemist by Paulo Cuelho

Mistborn: The Final Empire (part of the Mistborn trilogy and universe) by Brandon Sanderson

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Eve by Cat Bohannon

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Carrie by Stephen King

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

“The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

The Forests of Silence (part of the Deltora Quest series) by Emily Rodda — submission by @/pearlhoardingdragon

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laur’s 2024 reading log

Current Read: Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

the reservoir;

Key: 🩷 - favorite | 💌 - arc | 🔄 - reread | 👥 - buddy read | ❌ - DNF

Barbarian’s Prize by Ruby Dixon

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Air Awakens by Elise Kova

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Barbarian’s Mate by Ruby Dixon

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Barbarian’s Touch by Ruby Dixon

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Barbarian’s Taming by Ruby Dixon

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Fire Falling by Elise Kova

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🔄

Earth’s End by Elise Kova

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Legendary by Stephanie Garber

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Water’s Wrath by Elise Kova

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The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Finale by Stephanie Garber

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout

⭐️⭐️⭐️

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Crystal Crowned by Elise Kova

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A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🔄

A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. Clair

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Gild by Raven Kennedy

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Glint by Raven Kennedy

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Bride by Ali Hazelwood

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The Awakening by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🔄 👥

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔄

Love On the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Legacy by Shannon Messenger

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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Crave by Tracy Wolff

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Phoenix Selected by Claire Luana

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

⭐️⭐️ 🔄

Phoenix Protected by Claire Luana

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

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The Risk by C.M. Owens

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

The Forest Grimm by Kathryn Purdie

⭐️⭐️ 💌

Phoenix Captured by Claire Luana

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Sidetracked by C.M. Owens

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

Scarlet Angel by C.M. Owens

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

All The Lies by C.M. Owens

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

Paint It All Red by C.M. Owens

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

The Library of Shadows by Rachel Moore

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💌

Gleam by Raven Kennedy

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Silver In the Bone by Alexandra Bracken

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Unlocked by Shannon Messenger

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Loathe To Love You by Ali Hazelwood

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Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer

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Phoenix Trafficked by Claire Luana

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The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

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Crush by Tracy Wolff

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A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

Kill Joy by Holly Jackson

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

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It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han

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We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han

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Ember of Night by Molly E. Lee

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Choosing Theo by Victoria Aveline

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Heist Society by Ally Carter

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Assistant To The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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The Lies We Conjure by Sarah Henning

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💌

Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

This Time It's Real by Ann Liang

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Fairest by Marissa Meyer

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Heartstopper, Vol. 5 by Alice Oseman

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Wren In the Holly Library by K.A. Linde

⭐️

All of Our Demise by Amanda Foody & C.L. Herman

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💌

King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

King of Fools by Amanda Foody

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💌

Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Prodigy by Marie Lu

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Phoenix Revealed by Claire Luana

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Prince of Song & Sea by Linsey Miller

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The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

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Champion by Marie Lu

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Fable by Chanda Hahn

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Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

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Apprentice To The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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Capturing The Devil by Kerri Maniscalco

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These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

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Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

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A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

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The Au-Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey

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Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

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The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

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Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

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Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood

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The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

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House of Ash and Shadow by Leia Stone

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Inheritance by Katharine McGee

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Sanctuary of the Shadow by Aurora Ascher

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The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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Foxglove by Adalyn Grace

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A Ruinous Fate by Kaylie Smith

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Five Survive by Holly Jackson

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The Improbable Meet-Cute by Abby Jimenez

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the backlog;

The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

Queen of Volts by Amanda Foody

Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

Wisteria by Adalyn Grace

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen

Heavenbreaker by Sara Wolf

stats;

Overall Reading Goal: 100 Books (Read 104/100)

Minor Goals:

Start 5 Series: ?/5 Series

Finish 5 Series: ?/5 Series

Read 10 New Authors: 31/10 Authors

Read 3 Classics: 2/3 Classics

Stats:

Finished Series: TBA

Up-To-Date Series: TBA

Favorite Reads: TBA

5-Star Reads: TBA

ARCs Read: 7

DNFed Books (Over 50% Read): 1

DNFed Books (Under 50% Read): 2

2024 Releases Read: TBA

Best Book of the Year Award: TBA

Honorary Mentions: TBA

Worst Book of the Year Award: TBA

Honorary Mentions: TBA

Most Read Author of the Year Award: TBA

Honorary Mentions: TBA

last updated 9•21•2024

[whitewatermedia]

Nature in Action Photography Competition winners announced

John Cumber from Hertfordshire, England took second place with his beautiful image above

While third place went to Ann Aveyard from Hampshire, England

[nerdywriter36]

thanks for the solo tag, socks 😂

Last Song: Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey

Currently Reading: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but I'm about to finish that, so I intend to start reading Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard when I'm done.

Currently Watching: Technically nothing, but I intend to watch season one of Percy Jackson and the Olympians as soon as I can!

Currently obssesed with: Phantom of the Opera, forever and always, and reading, also forever and always.

i also don't totally know everyone who has been tagged, so feel free to ignore if I'm double tagging you lol: @brendadaaedestler @lieblingslok01 @angel-with-paper-wings @ablatheringblatherskite @ladystormcrow @rose-margaritas and anyone else who wants to play!

tagged by @glassprism

Last song:

You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, performed by the London Philharmonic (I know none of you saw this coming)

Currently reading: it is going to take me years to finish reading any of these because they are all so boring/I am constantly distracted by things that are more fun

Hamlet

Once and Future King

Golden Compass

The Time Machine

Jewel of the Seven Stars

Currently watching:

Clone Wars series

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Currently obsessed with:

Phantom of the Opera (always)

Argylle

tagging @nerdywriter36 I am too tired to figure out who else has been tagged, and I know you’ll tag lots of people so

[evangelineartemiasamos]

@redqueenetwork mission 02 | alternate universes

Medieval AU: Evangeline Samos as Anne Neville in the Wars of the Roses

I don’t want this anymore. Let me go home. Each word is a betrayal to my house, my family, my blood. My teeth grate against one another, bone on bone. A locked cage for my heart.

Cal has no answer. Say no. Say no. Say no.

But already I see the tug. The lure. Power seduces us all, and it makes us blind. Cal is not immune to it. If anything, he is particularly vulnerable. All his life he watched a throne, preparing for a day it would be his. I know firsthand that’s not a habit a person can easily break. And I know firsthand that few things taste sweeter than a crown. I think of Elane again. Does he think of Mare?

“Long live Tiberias the Seventh,” Anabel says.

The chamber echoes the sentiment. I only mouth the words. I feel poisoned.

[typingwithmyhandstied]

What are your top 10 favorite books of all time?

This is probably the correct books but not the order.

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

If You Could See The Sun by Ann Liang

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

Gilded by Marissa Meyer

Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

[fresh-coast-reader]

BFT Book Photo Challenge | 14 August 2018: “Book Maps” ... I ran out of table to display them all.

[happinessisntfun]

I'm reblogging because I'm a gremlin so:

Three ships: Charther (RDR2), Gimli/Legolas (LOTR) , and Sadie/Abigail (RDR2) (runner-up is: Ciri/Cerys (Witcher 3)

First ever ship: almost certainly Anne and Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables)

Last song: Fast Car, Tracy Chapman

Last movie: HTTYD

Currently reading: Glass Sword, Victoria Aveyard

Currently watching: Elementary and DS9

Currently consuming: cold leftover pizza and coffee

Currently craving: more coffee

Gonna tag: @wei--wuxian @druggeddraccus @denizenhardwick

And anyone else who wants to

@evelynstarshine tagged me so here we go.

Three ships: NurseyDex (omgcp), PolyFrogs (omgcp), PolyFarms (omgcp). if this is cheating then let's substitute in Sam/Nick (Dice Punks), Ramnet/Dask (Dice Punks), Lyssa/Kaya (Dice Punks). If you're going to force me to pick from yet a third source even though those are all actually comprised of different characters (and Sam/Nick isn't even from the same story as the others), then David/Patrick (Shitts Creek)

First Ever Ship: Gambit/Rogue

Last song: Mr Darkside

Last Movie: Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Currently reading: My own fanfic that I'm writing I guess? I don't have any published books that I'm currently reading. The last that I finished was Strictly No Heroics (highly recommend, check it out)

Currently watching: Cal Kestis fall into space repeatedly because I can't manage this Force Tear in Jedi: Survivor.

Currently consuming: Dr. Pepper

Currently craving: Sleep

I'm going to tag @happinessisntfun @bonesofyarn @quill-of-thoth @draskireis @vanillivilovesreus anyone who actually wants to do it (and if none of y'all do, that's chill)