#books read in July

[godzilla-reads]

Happy End of July, my friends! What have y’all been reading this month? I read 15 books this month, bringing my yearly total to 100 BOOKS!! Can you believe it?!

Anyway, here’s the list of books I read this month, with my Top 3 Starred.

• Riders of Fire and Ice by Brett Salter

• The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

• Jack in the Green by Charles de Lint

• One Foot in the Green by Brett Manning

• Icefire by Chris d’Lacey

• Tell Me a Dragon by Jackie Morris

• Something About a Bear by Jackie Morris

• Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez ⭐️

• Queen of the Sky by Jackie Morris

• The Super Secret Monster Experiment by Tian En

• 100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle and Lian Cho

• The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan edited by Michael Wheatley ⭐️

• M is for Monster by Talia Dutton ⭐️

• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter

• The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter

Did you enjoy your books this month?

[hauntingcryptids]

Books Read In July 2024

Piglet by Lottie Hazell

A Series Of Unfortunate Events - Book Four - The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket

The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

A Series Of Unfortunate Events - Book Five - The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (Buddy Read with my mother)

A Series Of Unfortunate Events - Book Six - The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (Began but Not Finished)

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (Began but Not Finished)

[shisasan]

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[incognitopolls]

For example, characters referring to things like the Ship of Theseus, French braids, etc when the book is set in a fantasy land where there's never been a Greece or France.

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[soracities]

—Julie Beck, "Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read", pub. The Atlantic [ID'd]

[bluehairperson]

I'm not immune to propaganda 😔

[macrolit]

from mlbooks at IG

[vonlipvig]

feeling a bit soft rn, so have some bedtime stories with the edgeworths ♡ (don't worry, just procedure, none of the scary bits for now!)

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

TIL that once the Northern lords find out that Jon is Rhaegar’s son, they will detest him to the point of immediately slitting their wrists instead of accepting him as a fair and worthy leader…

….nevermind that 1) the Northern lords have thus far shown NO hostility towards Rhaegar, 2) Jon is also LYANNA STARK’s son who has thus far been romanticized to some degree, 3) Jon was raised and directly acknowledged as NED STARK’s son, the very same Ned who the mountain clans are willing to die in a raging winter for, the very same Ned whose fathering of Jon compells Alys Karstark and other minor lords to go to the Wall in search for the Lord Commander….

…none of that will ever matter. Because our headcannons dictate that Rhaegar sucks so Jon sucks ass as well, cannon be damned 🙂

[andreai04]

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

‘I have nothing to forget or forgive, I never ceased to love you.'

[louisa-gc]

a languid summer's day, no wind to speak of & the ruthless sun shining down onto the old wooden bench, peaches & lemon water, reading in a sunbleached swimsuit, ice softly crackling in the antique glass & bees buzzing in the distance, the scent of sunscreen, a garden in full bloom.

[why-the-heck-not]

pics of july so far

[britishchick09]

a comparison between julie's journal and her books! ;)

bonus:

[shisasan]

July 19, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[incognitopolls]

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[soracities]

"People are binging on the written word, too. In 2009, the average American encountered 100,000 words a day, even if they didn’t “read” all of them. It’s hard to imagine that’s decreased in the nine years since. In “Binge-Reading Disorder,” an article for The Morning News, Nikkitha Bakshani analyzes the meaning of this statistic. “Reading is a nuanced word,” she writes, “but the most common kind of reading is likely reading as consumption: where we read, especially on the internet, merely to acquire information. Information that stands no chance of becoming knowledge unless it ‘sticks.’”

Or, as Horvath puts it: “It’s the momentary giggle and then you want another giggle. It’s not about actually learning anything. It’s about getting a momentary experience to feel as though you’ve learned something.”

Julie Beck, "Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read", pu. The Atlantic