#like my executive dysfunction and attention span fell to the pits once i reached teenagehood and now its just. So So Bad

[master-of-the-opera-house]

thanks for the tag this is so fun and dire bc im actually jared 19

Last book I read: Hamlet by William Shakespeare ((I think?? trying to go off my last theatre class here))

Book I recommend: I think everyone's read it but if they haven't The Great Gatsby by F Scott. Fitzgerald.

Book I couldn't put down: Oh baby, executive dysfunction has made me put every book down..... K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist by Peter Carlson took me the shortest amount of time ((4 months??)) to finish recently.

A book on my TBR: Mad King: The Life and Times of Ludwig II of Bavaria by Greg King bc he wrote another historical biography that I really, really liked about a similarly misunderstood person ((with Sue Woolmans)) ((hehe)) and I trust him to handle my dear lad with grace, but because my attention span is a bitch I never got past the first 40 pages but I WILL. one day.,,,,,,,,

A book I've put down: HITLER AND THE HABSBURGS BY JAMES LONGO!!1! Sorry not sorry but SOD that son of a cunt NO footnotes so half the things he said could've been made up for all I care bUT THE LAST STRAW was him PERVING OVER poor sophie von hohenberg when she was ON HER WAY TO CONFRONT THE NAZIS like piss offfffffff

A book on my wishlist: BBC Ghosts Button House Archives *finger guns* ooh and 'Allo 'Allo!: The War Diaries of Rene Artois

A favourite book from childhood: I don't remember a favourite bc I was actually a voracious reader once upon a time so I tore through them like it was nothing but The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo destroyed me even if I am now morally opposed to the fundamental idea framing the narrative that rats arent cute little besties

A book you would give to a friend: Harry Clarke: An Imaginative Genius in Illustrations and Stained-Glass Arts by Hiroshi Umino bc I LOVE Harry Clarke's work and I think everyone should have a nice book full of pretty pictures to look at. It's also technically on my wishlist as well

A book of poetry/lyrics you own: I don't "own" any "books" bc im flat broke but a favourite would be that compilation of Oscar Wilde's nonsense quotations. I know he did real poetry but that's poetry in itself to me.

A non-fiction book you own: Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan :)))))) this i actually DO own!1!

Currently reading: *sweats nervously in executive dysfunction*

Planning on reading next: Florian: The Emperor's Stallion by Felix Saltern bc it's got my meow meow in it and it's a kids book and I want to practice focusing enough to read like a normal human person again

tagging @pqnnier @alliluyevas whom I know for sure have read a lot and anyone who wants to do it bc idk whos a reader and who isnt!

Thanks for the tag, @enlitment!

Last book I read: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. Charming!

Book I recommend: Impossible question. Show me your soul and then ask me again.

Book I couldn't put down: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Grabbed me by the throat and would not let go. Sublime.

A book on my TBR: Vicious and Immoral by John Gilbert McCurdy is right up there; it looks fascinating and relevant to my research.

A book I've put down: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Surprising that I got as far as I did (the first 120 or so pages), since that could all have been covered in a two-page prologue.

A book on my wishlist: At some point I also need to drop €60 (🥲) on André Weibel's »Einen Spiegel hast gefunden, der in allem Dich reflectirt«.

A book on my wishlist: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. Unquestioned reigning champion of being read approx one million times.

A book you would give to a friend: Anything by David Mitchell or Scarlett Thomas, depending on the friend.

A book of poetry/lyrics you own: The Loeb Greek Lyric: Anacreon, Anacreontea & Early Choral Lyric. Bangers on every page. Very gay.

A non-fiction book you own: Tom Cutterham's Gentlemen Revolutionaries is well worth a read for anyone interested in late 18th century masculinity and culture.

Currently reading: Temeraire by Naomi Novik. An old favourite that I'm discovering brand new joy in.

Planning on reading next: I have almost no time for fiction in between academic reading and writing and work, but These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever has been waiting very patiently on my nightstand.

Tagging @permanenthistorydamage @iron--and--blood @nordleuchten @ouiouixmonami @clove-pinks and you!