#books!!

[fullmetalscullyy]

@roseofbattles tagged me to list four of my favorite books i've read this year ✨ and omg thank you sm!! i'm ALWAYS down to discuss my besties. i've read so many bangers this year but these are my top ones 👏 (very fantasy heavy haha i love it!)

1. a fate of wrath and flame - actually a reread! from 2022. this is the book which got me back into reading fantasy and ka tucker. the author that you are!!! absolutely sensational. the world??? the magic system?? the POLITICS ✨ the world building? and finally the relationship!!!! 😩🙌 STUNNING IN EVERY WAY. I ADORE IT SO MUCH ROLL ON BOOK 4 IN SEPTEMBER (i'm not ready for it to end 😭)

2. a simple wild - i knew going in i was going to be rocked and honestly. HONESTLY. KA TUCKER THE AUTHOR THAT YOU ARE. i bawled like a baby. through all 4 books. 10/10. no notes. perfection

3. the mist thief - SO. this is a second generation series and features the grown up kids from the first series (broken kingdoms). and oh my god. OH MY GOD. EVERYTHING I DREAMED OF AND MORE. i read along with the parents in their own struggles and battles in the initial series. and seeing them years on (both for me and in world), working with their own kids?? 😩 i had the put the book down multiple times bc it was Too Much but in the best way!! i had a BLAST

4. a far wilder magic - 10/10. no notes. if you know you know.

tagging @dairogo @firewoodfigs @tsaritsa @awesomedurraworld @baudleaires @aicasey @patron-saints @littlewitchbee

[pastara-cell]

ok uh wait, was just reading ur intro post and you like WoF?

/gen very happy like no one (that I’ve seen so far) in the Freakblr community knows what it is so I just think it’s very cool :D

I LOVEEEE WINGS OF FIRE AAAAA

Back in third grade, when style theory wasnt a thing, me and my gay awakening girl crush (my best friend) did girls on the run together, but we would never run. We’d bring in these books and do ���book theory’ together, where we’d carry them up and down the west virginia hills, pick onion grass, and theorise about these damn books together. Those were the days man, those were the days. (We’d sit down and eat the grass unwashed together)

So good to see other people in it! I haven’t read it in so long, i /gen really need to reread it, however, My mine-craft dog is named Tsunami, she’s my favourite! ^^

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OATHBRINGER IS FINALLY HERE!!!!!!!

[sassmar]

ten books to know me

ohhhh tysm for the tag molly @mblematic my beloved !! <3<3 this looks so fun except that now. you will all know what created my twisted brain ah well. alas!

the outsiders by s.e. hinton haha had to start with this one! read the outsiders for the first time at like 11/12 yrs old and it was truly truly formative! PONYBOY! SODAPOP! johnny and dally!! also it's quite gay.

a separate peace by john knowles continuing with the themes of male friendship, homoerotic subtext, and books i read in middle school that fundamentally altered my brain chemistry and turned me into the freak i am today or whatever.

lord of the flies by william golding look i know the ~*~mOrAL*~*`! is arguably misanthropic/malthusian/whatever but also. forget about that. it is very gay thats all that matters. and it is ANOTHER book that i first read in middle school and then immediately reread like at least three more times bc it made me absolutely feral. also . . . . . . sucks to your assmar!!

stoner by john williams :) this one has nothing to do with weed (it is about sad academics) and also i did not read it until my twenties but. i did write like forty-five pages about why it is secretly gay! (also it is starkly beautiful and very heart-rending, i do love a book that digs around in my organs and squeezes mercilessly like a toddler playing with slime.)

the waves by virginia woolf finally a book that isnt gay JUST KIDDING it is in fact also a lil gay but mostly it's just fucking beautiful. possibly the most beautiful novel i've ever read idk, hard to say and its not a quick read but like. read it for the first time in high school and have returned to it a number of times since then and. her prose my GOD. its a novel but also a poem, just a very long love poem to .... everything ....

fun home by alison bechdel technically it's a gRapHiC nOvEL and i only read it for the first time about a year ago but. have reread it since and it continues to haunt me istg this memoir is STUNNING the most gorgeous graphic novel & most gorgeous memoir i have ever ever encountered. an actually brilliant piece of literature in every right. makes me sob. (also, yes, it is very gay.)

the heart is a lonely hunter by carson mccullers well i HAD to include carson mccullers on the list dear god!! also so formative...read this book for the first time in high school, have returned to it a number of times since. it is. truly beautiful !!!!!! what else can i say <3.

who's afraid of virginia woolf by edward albee this is in fact a PLAY (!!) also an amazing movie but. i have read the play many many times it is SO funny, SO smart, SO painful. who needs whips when you and yr partner are. mentally torturing each other for sport. another one i read for the first time as a teen so again.... rather formative.

lolita by vladimir nabokov all right well honestly i read this for the first time in high school and enjoyed it, especially part one, thought it was smart n funny n that part two was kinda all over the place but still yknow overall felt positively about it. BUT. gave it a reread last year and jesus CHRIST i was just like !! i missed SO much !! it is not only so goddamn beautiful but SO much more complex and brilliant than i ever picked up on as a teenager my god. the prose is like the most intricate beautiful renaissance painting and the plot is like the most infuriatingly complicated game of CHESS but. it's ?? the product of a genuinely brilliant mind ?? idek but i will probably read this book at least five more times before i die its just. wow.

the raven cycle by maggie stiefvater HAHA copied you molly !!!!!! :) :) devil emoji etc. thought about choosing a book of poetry or just something else Literary but like, i recognize this list is already pretty full of Boring Classic Literature and such so i guess i can loosen my corset or whatever and say. these goddamn ya books. SPECIFICALLY the dream thieves (you are so right!) but also just the series generally jfc. i thought i hated ya but these books have changed me and everything i thought i knew about myself ....... maggie writes such poetic sentences...... "his exposed shoulder was raw and beautiful as a corpse" JESUS FUCKING !! only just read these like six months ago or something but they have utterly rewired my brain chemistry and maybe shifted the entire trajectory of my life so. i cannot. i cannot even. <3

oh shit i forgot to tag ppl um @billsfangearring @forlorngarden @shipsnsails @everythingbutcoldfire @colgatebluemintygel @perverse-idyll no pressure whatsoever xx

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leighhh i want to do dracula daily but im also in the middle of like. 6 books…… Should I.

🎤 yes

[aliettali]

have you ever read the murderbot diaries

no unfortunately!! i looked into it some and it sounds really cool (i love science fiction) (i love science fiction) so i'll definitely check it out though. thanks for the recommendation!

[radiocheck]

Thank you to @jshadow01 for tagging me to share my top 10 books of 2023! (including my annual read of The Silm and LOTR, which I've put as one, but the rest are new!)

If I had to tell you to add 3 books to your reading list... make it the top 3 shown here 🫶

Basically everyone I tag has already done this or been tagged so tagging @landinrris (sorry if this is also your 100th tag) and anyone who would like to do it! <3

[maceofpentacles]

i love you used book store 🫶🫶🫶

[sweaterssoup]

“He’s a tall, broody, sullen hunk with a genius IQ. Everyone likes tall, broody, sullen hunks with genius IQs.”

I agree.

[unslaadod]

Library’s are literally the best best buildings.

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

[phantom-shell]

Big fan of Dipper "if I ever see you again outside of my nightmares, there is no force in the universe that will stop me from putting you in the ground" Pines

[catchymemes]

[freepunchesintheface]

You cannot convince me this isn’t what happened.

[evilgoodguys]

he’d forgotten how much he missed that smile.

[sourdough-seal]

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental