#books I've read

[deermanic]

My king, Eddie Kaspbrak in It - Stephen King

[chardwic]

Books I've Read in 2024: Bride by Ali Hazelwood

"You don’t know anything about what it’s like to find your other half, I would take anything she chose to give me—the tiniest fraction or her entire world. I would take her for a single night knowing that I’ll lose her by morning, and I would hold on to her and never let go. I would take her healthy, or sick, or tired, or angry, or strong, and it would be my fucking privilege. I would take her problems, her gifts, her moods, her passions, her jokes, her body—I would take every last thing, if she chose to give it to me."

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 93 of 2024: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

I absolutely loved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, and even though most of the characters from the first book don't appear in this sequel, it does not disappoint. It's got all the warmth of the first book, just following a different band of weirdos on a different quest. In this one, Lovelace, the AI who evolved into Lovey in the last book, has been rebooted and downloaded into a body (and taken the name Sidra). She's living with Pepper, an engineer with her own past. We alternate between the present, where Sidra is trying to adjust to living in a body, and the past, where we see where Pepper came from. I loved it. Rich characters, fantastic worldbuilding, big questions about life. And I'm obsessed with the device where Sidra's body is programmed to give her imagery to convey the feeling food or drink might give an organic person. Amazing.

What to read next: Really different tone, but for another sci-fi with great characters and a super cool device that takes advantage of the setting, check out The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei.

[febookworm]

If I had a coin for every historical novel set in WWI with gay soldiers that I've read, now I would have three coins.

Which is not much, but it's quite a coincidence.

[shining-dawn]

SHE'S BACK!!!! She's back she's back she's back!!! Oh my god Gideon I thought you were gone forever I thought I had lost you! Oh my god oh my god, Gideon my beloved, the Best Girl is BACK!!!

GIDEON NAV!!!

[princelysome]

A very well done, and timely discourse on the nature of human religion, packaged for delightful consumption.

[wanderingmind867]

Okay, I didn't get through my whole bookshelf yet. And it's annoying having to search through my bedroom for all my books. So let's try to make this a lightning round, listing all the books I saw in my room (specifically, all the novels i know i read):

The Guardians of Childhood by William Joyce (These were the books that first made me love reading, I think. The first novels I ever read, in Grade 1 or 2. They were turned into that movie, Rise of The Guardians. But the movie came out before he was done with the books, and the books took forever to come out. He finally finished them recently, but now I feel like it's too late. Also, I didn't like the summary when I looked it up).

Alice in Wonderland (This book is amazing. Lewis Carroll is a genius. I have a whole massive book full of his works. It's too big to bring it to school, but I've read Alice in Wonderland many times. Genius book. Fun and clever and not at all depressing. I never really got into the sequel, Through the Looking Glass, as much. But I still like Lewis Carroll. He's also a great poet.)

Sherlock Holmes (Somehow, I ended up buying a big book of Sherlock Holmes stories at a library clearance sale or something years ago. It's now too old to feel safe reading it again, but I liked it. The short stories with Sherlock Holmes were the best. Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the few mystery writers I know I like. Although the full length novel didn't hold my attention nearly as well as the short stories did. I guess I couldn't handle a full novel of detective stuff?).

Roald Dahl's books (I read most of these, including the one where he wrote about his childhood. The only one of his children's books I skipped was the one about his war service. It was boring to me. But his books were pretty good. A bit creepy and weird in some spots, but never enough to scare me into dread the way many other things do. Also, I don't want to read his adult stuff. In elementary school I had to read a crime story he wrote. It was dark and weird, and it made me uncomfortable. So he's a complicated writer).

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (This series. God, this series. I started out really liking it. Historical figures, magic, mythology? It was amazing. But the ending. God, that ending. Time travel, time loops, immortality and more. It just became too confusing for me. I couldn't stand that last book. I did like how the book introduced me to Niccolo Machiavelli and Billy the Kid and other historical figures, though. I just really, really hated that ending).

The Seven Wonders series by Peter Lerangis (I barely remember these books. I don't think I actually ended up loving their ending, but I did somehow sit through them. So that was probably a deep disappointment to my younger self).

Fine. I have to stop again. Turns out I have at least four more book series. So I'll make a third part, then i'll probably be too burnt out to mske any more posts for an hour or two. But to think, I started making these posts hoping I could eventually use them to ask for suggestions for books for my Christmas List. But I guess that'll have to wait. sigh...

[bookclubbing]

Storyteller - Morgan Harper Nichols

[sowhatwereyousaying]

My love for you is a constant reminder that sometimes the most beautiful things in life are the ones we can never truly possess.

[deermanic]

It, Stephen King

[chardwic]

Books I've Read in 2024: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen

"You are mine, Born-in-Fire. Even if only the two of us know it."

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 72 of 2024: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

I really liked Interior Chinatown, and this one hit even harder for me. There's a way Yu has of taking a metaphor that's so on the nose and just pushing through it so it's funny and pointed and then so true and moving--and in this book, the metaphor is time travel, and regret, and relationships, and how we grow apart from each other and yearn to get back, and how we get trapped in patterns, and...it's just gorgeous and mournful and also silly and, like, SO on the nose, but it just...works. Yu is some kind of genius, I can't wait to see what he does next.

What to read next: This Time Tomorrow, by Emma Straub, for another book that uses time travel to great emotional effect.

[gettingnutsfromsquirrels]

[shining-dawn]

I feel like Hraethen the antihero antagonist from Elantris has just the right mix of unconventional sex appeal and deeply problematic nature to be controversial fandom icon for the Cosmere. Maybe even a Tumblr sexyman.

For starters he's a middle aged man with inner turmoil, so he's do numbers on Tumblr right off the bat, even if he wasn't also over 6 feet tall and buff enough to wear full plate armor whenever he's in public. He canonically respects and admires women who intellectually challenge him, so he's got good taste. And literally everything about his actions and personality is the perfect breeding ground for Discourse™️, he's a manipulative bastard who serves a fascist theocracy because he genuinely believes he is saving people's lives and wants to make up for past mistakes.

I think this man could give Vriska Serkhet a run for her money.

[delaccors]

Books I've Read (1/?): Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray

If she could do nothing else for the suffering people she'd just seen, she could at least free other in their name.

[b00kkat]

K's Book-Recap of 2024

🔷Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks

🔷Hermann Melville: Moby Dick

🔷Homer: Ilias (englich title: Iliad)

🔷Homer: Odyssee (Odessey)

🔷Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman: Ein gutes Omen (Good Omens)

🔷Ashley Herring Blake: Delilah Green Doesen't Care

🔷Caroline Criado-Perez: Unsichtbare Frauen (Invisible Women)

🔷Louisa May Alcott: Little Women

🔷Taylor Jenkins Reid: Daisy Jones & the Six

🔷J. R. R. Tolkien: Das Silmarillion (The Silmarillion)

🔷Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Die Physiker (The Physicists) (not pictured)

🔷Casey McQuiston: The Pairing

🔷Lana Harper: Rise And Devine