#bookstagram challenge

[rachel-sylvan-author]

Happy August! ❤️

"Afternoon of the Elves" by Janet Taylor Lisle "Under a Zambian Tree: Dora Moono Nyambe's Quest to Educate Her Nation" by Dora Nyambe and Joseph Schmitt "Gift from the Sea" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand "Soul Lanterns" by Shaw Kuzki "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[libertyreads]

Attempting to read this morning.

[musingsofmonica]

rainy days, oversized sweaters, the good book & a cup of tea, that’s all.

[xoceansx]

I remember there was an unendurable sadness in me; I wanted to cry; I was constantly astonished and anxious: it had a dreadful effect on me that all this was foreign, that I understood. The foreign-ness crushed me.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

[coolappple]

All that leaves. Was never meant to stay.

All that leaves. Was never meant to be chased.

My bad days are precious to me.

I remembered the faces of all those who leave.

[bookishlyvintage]

stack challenge: Matching Sweaters & Books

[herigo]

[inthegoodbooks]

JOMP Challenge | June 19 | Wings

All of these, incidentally, are currently on my tbr… which should I dive into first?

[lgbgchipmunk]

So my goal this year was to read books I wouldn’t normally read. I always struggle to pick my next read so I decided to create the #CriminalMindsReadingChallenge. It’s a list of every book, play, poem and graphic novel mentioned, referenced or shown through out the seasons (not including opening and closing quotes).

I have digitalised the list if anyone wants it.

Seasons 1-9 are on my instragram now. I just ask you reference me if you share or post on your bookstagram :)

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🐈‍⬛ 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙗𝙪𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚

🦇 We haven't had power for the past three days, & I've missed turning to all my bookish bats to hear about your latest reads & bookish adventures. To get back in the swing of things, here's a fun challenge!

❓ QOTD Answer one of the prompts below & tag a friend to see their answer!

𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙧: 𝙖 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙮, 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧-𝙮 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 🦇 Truly, Madly, Deeply - Alexandria Bellefleur

𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙥: 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 🦇 Stars Collide - Rachel Lacey

𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙙: 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 + 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 🦇 Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell

𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙧: 𝙖 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 🦇 This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El Mohtar & Max Gladstone

𝙥𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙧: 𝙖 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙨𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙥 🦇 The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚: 𝙖 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙪𝙥/𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙖 🦇 Will They or Won't They - Ava Wilder 🦇 The Breakup Tour - Emily Wibberly & Austin Siegemund-Broka

𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙩: 𝙖 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 🦇 The Rajes Series - Sonali Dev 🦇 The Lunar Chronicles - Marissa Meyer 🦇 Supernatural Singles - April Asher

𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙘𝙖𝙥: 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 🦇 Triple Sec - TJ Alexander 🦇 Late Bloomer - Mazey Eddings 🦇 Fall for Him - Andie Burke

[bigheartedbibliophile]

Meme Monday! Who else can relate? 😂 Honestly, any book I see gets my attention, at least for a few minutes! I need to get better at reading the books I have (at least some of them!) before I get new ones. That probably isn't going to happen any time soon, seeing as I will be going to a bookstore cafe this weekend 😂

[books-and-strawberry-tea]

Discarded Good Reads TBR

1/11/24

I was gonna leave this till New Years 25, but decided to do it early. Yes it's November, but I have over 600+ in my good reads tbr and would rather get it sorted sooner rather then later. Some of these books and been on my list for years. So long I didn't even remember I had a good reads account. So lets go!

Can I Steal You for a Second

The Lady Upstairs

Silverglass

Night Tide

Off The Record

Dearly Departed

Melt With You

Her Countess to Cherish

Two Winters

Never Ever Getting Back Together

Mistakes Were Made

The Fiance Farce

Victories Greater Than Death

Fake It

The Hellion's Waltz

Payback's a Witch

Cool for the Summer

In The Event of Love

Something Borrowed

In Her Shoes

The Fault In Our Stars

Bridget Jones Diary

The Devil Wears Prada

Confessions of a Shopahoplic

The Help (As you can see from the last few listings, I went through a time were I wanted to read the books of some of the movies I loved but I've just lost interest in doing this. Doesn't help that the people who wanted to read them with me didn't end up reading them either.)

Good In Bed

A Lady's Guide to Scandal (turns out this book was a sequel)

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

If I Stopped Haunting You

I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Funny Story

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

The Ballad Of Never After

A Curse For True Love (Iykyk)

Safe Haven (An Aussie Book, I'm wanting to read Chai Time of Cinnamon Gardens, and if I like this book I'll try the other one)

Wrong Text, Right Love

Spellbound in the Stacks

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved A Demon

Girls Weekend

Parties

Redeeming 6

Saving 6

Keeping 13

Binding 13

Not In Love

Taming 7

Hate Mail

To Woo And To Wed

Haunt Your Heart Out

Otherworldly

Truly, Madly, Deeply

Make The Season Bright

I Feed Her To The Beast Series

Tangled Up In You

Werewolf's Guide to Seducing A Vampire

King of Sloth (Kings Of Sin Series as a whole)

Ready or Not

Kilt Trip

Dead To The World

Dead of Night

Dead Weight

Dead Wrong

A Thousand Broken Pieces

She Who Rose From Ashes

Rebel Belle

Sinner's Anonymous Series

Pretty Little Liar's (I loved the tv show but I dont feel like reading the books anymore)

Peculiar Tastes Series

Children of Blood And Bone

We Used To Live Here

Shatter Me

A Sweet Sting of Salt

My Darling Dreadful Thing

The Summer of Broken Rules

Morrighan (The Remnant Chronicles)

Beasts of Gatamora Series

Dungeons and Drama

Rewitched

The Cottage Around the Corner

A Hunger Like No Other

Crimson Debt

Scream For Us

The Binding

The Betrayals

The Undermining of Twyla and Frank

The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam

A Rival Most Vial

The Volcano Girls

Vampire Girl

The Christmas Appeal

The Pairing

By Any Other Name

Small Miracles

Hum

YouthJuice (I DNFed this. Dunno why its in the TBR list on GR. Boring as all hell)

My Best Friends Exorcism

The Raag of Rta

Silent Sister

The Price Guide to the Occult

Never Fall for a Dragon

The Gathering Dark

Mortal Skin

At Least You Have Your Health

After The Forest

Fit To Do

Natural Beauty

The Glow

All Night Pharmacy

Guillotine

The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

Slasher Girls and Monster Boys

In The Dream House

The Dark Within Us

The Vampires Melody

The Invocations

Such Sharp Teeth

The Ones Who Come Back Hungry

Indian Burial Ground

Castle of the Cursed

Diavola

Haunt Sweet Home

The Dangerous Ones

Fang Fiction

So Let Them Burn

The Woods All Black

We Shall Be Monsters (Turns out I had two books under this name from two different authors)

The Botanical Daughter

Red In Tooth And Claw

Such Lovely Skin

Incidents Around The House

The House Of Last Resort

I Accidently Summoned A Demon Boyfriend

Together We Burn

Even Though I Knew The End

The Monsters We Defy

The Magpie Lord

Mortal Follies

The Dead Romantics

A lot of the books I got rid of in the older tabs were contemporary genre, and there's not a whole lot of contemporary books I like. At least as a whole. There are exceptions but mainly, I find the genre boring. I feel like if it's contemporary, it has to be something really gripping or deranged for me to stay entertained. Murder mysteries and thrillers that are particularly messed up (I loved Butcher & Blackbird), Dark Romance (Adored Haunting Adeline and everything else I've read so far from H.D. Carlton.)

(Also just side note, a lot of the older books listed in my list reminded me of bi erasure and how its alive and well. Bi characters are always listed as lesbian. It's so stupid. Anyway, rant over.)

Books I found that I forgot about (That sound amazing!!)

Spice Road

Off With Their Heads

Dragonfruit

The Lunar Chronicles (I always forget about this series but it looks really awesome, and really want to give it a go)

The Heir of The Beast (I keep missing being able to read this.)

I now have 490 on my list, I may go through it again. Cause there's still a lot on the list. If I go through it again, I'll edit this post. If you've read any of these books, and you think I should reconsider, please let me know!., , ..0 (Greetings from my cat apparently)

[libertyreads]

My special edition of The Lies of Locke Lamora has finally arrived!

[lovebooksforeversblog]

Trans rights readathon books 📚 recommendation 💖😇✨

[xoceansx]

You know, in my opinion, being ridiculous is sometimes even a good thing, and better that; we can forgive one another more quickly, and acquire humility more quickly; after all, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin directly from perfection! In order to achieve perfection, we must first of all fail to understand a great many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand very well.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

[coolappple]

The enemy was always......Me!

Because I let that happen to me. I allowed it...even wanted it.