#mainly books on my tbr

[gatheryepens]

🌧️ Rules: spell out either your name or username using only books or only movies that have your vibe, and tag some people.

Thank you for tagging me @cravingstudyvalidation sorry it’s taken me a month to do…..

g - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

a - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

t - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

h - Heartless by Marissa Meyer

e - Emma by Jane Austen

r - Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

y - You Know You Love Me by Cecily Von Ziegesar

e - East of Eden John Steinbeck

p - Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

e - (The) Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

n - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

s - Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Thank you once again for the tag Tessa 💖

Tagging anyone who wants to do this :)

[kyoshialone]

tyyy beloved @ash-and-starlight for the tag here r some books im excited to read next year !!!

tagging (v optionally) @wakingstone @jumping-jackalope @legofbicuriosity @lesbianboyfriend 👉🏻👈🏻👀

[lagaans]

perfect representation of thinking gay thoughts..

[unimportantweirdo]

hey someone make me stop buying things

[heavenlyyshecomes]

do you have a list of pre-90s wlw books anywhere...

my tag was mainly about gay movies but also here's a list of books from my tbr:

pre-90s

couple of the white room—ryoko yamagishi

after delores—sarah schulman

olivia—dorothy strachey

sweet days of discipline—fleur jaeggy, tim parks (tr.)

beginning with o—olga broumas

'90s-early '00s

facing the mirror: lesbian writing from india—ashwini sukthankar (ed.)

notes of a crocodile & last words from montmartre—qiu maojin

the membranes—chi ta-wei, ari lariss heinreich (tr.)

fingersmith & affinity—sarah waters

violets—shin kyung sook, anton hur (tr.)

[theliterarymess]

For more information on the drama regarding author Cait Corrain rn.

Corrain has a debut novel coming out next year entitled ‘Crown of Starlight’. It was under consideration for Illumicrate. It has just recently been revealed that Corrain has been creating burner accounts on Goodreads to rate her competition 1-2 ⭐️ and boost her own book. She of course denies it but a lot of evidence has been revealed. It has been noted that she is mainly targeting marginalised authors. It’s very sad because their book wasn’t doing bad! Many people were getting excited for it but this author still chose to sabotage their peers.

The doc exposing burner accounts of her review bombing other authors here. The evidence dates back to April this year

Apparently the author was friends with another recent debut and asked for their endorsement for her book, only to secretly review bomb them too

Author Xiran Jay Zhao is providing lists of other 2024 debut authors you can support here

Goodreads has currently disabled users from interacting with Corrain’s book due to the breach of guidelines which I worked out while trying to remove it from my TBR

[tiredeg]

The lovely @officialmood and @ctimenefic tagged me to give my favourite books of the year - thank you I have already added several books to my tbr from other people's lists 🥰👀

While not being the best reading year for me (work is so all-encompassing 😭), I was pleased to read a good few non-fiction books, my favourite of which are above - I've found that listening to these on my runs and while doing admin is great for me. The Fintan O'Toole was maybe my top book of the whole year.

Prophet Song stuck with me long after finishing it, and I plan on reading The Bee Sting I think this year (wanted to give it a bit of space. If you've already read both, I also enjoyed Skippy Dies a few years ago but not on the same level I would say). Eyes Guts Throat Bones is UGLY and GROSS and GORGEOUS and I really liked it.

(Editing to say I got my Pauls mixed up but these points still stand, Prophet Song was great and I would like to read The Bee Sting, they are just not, as I thought, by the same person. Oh well.)

I am a genre fiction girl at heart though so I mainly read sci-fi and fantasy. Tombs of Atuan is my favourite Le Guin (so far!) other than The Left Hand of Darkness, and Solaris really struck a chord with me. The Sandersons are a reread before I dive into Wind and Truth (I'm reserving my next bank holiday weekend for it!) and say what you want but I love them, I don't think they're too long, and they make me want to strive to Be Better.

If I may, my reading goal for the next year is to stop forgetting my book at home when I go into the office.

tagging @rockyteriyaki, @utopiastri, and @saapphicx if you'd like, I'd love more recommendations 🧐

[nedlittle]

hello besties and worsties i require your assistance

i'm trying to read at least one book from all 197-ish countries over the course of a few years and need RECOMMENDATIONS! any type of book is accepted, though i lean mainly towards historical fiction, literary fiction, and classics.

the book doesn't have to take place in that country but would be preferred! my only requirement is that the author be from said country, either living there/spending most of their life there or through diaspora (i.e. it felt wrong to exclude clarice lispector for brazil but i'm also reading a book by an afro-brazilian author)

starting with europe, here's my map thus far!

countries i've already read from are orange and countries on my tbr for are green. i'm still looking for books from the following countries: andorra, bulgaria, cyprus, czechia, kosovo, latvia, lithuania, liechtenstein, luxembourg, malta, portugal, san marino, slovakia, slovenia, and switzerland.

if you have a book for a country i've already filled in, feel free to rec it anyway! the only countries i'm not actively seeking recs for (bc i've read several books/have several on my tbr) are the uk, norway, denmark, russia, and ukraine

[tiramissyoucake]

No title sorry bout that lol Satoru Gojo x Reader, mainly fluff, reader lovingly bullies gojo, gojo is whipped, 800+ Words

CW: none, fluff head to toe, can't spell 'Satoru' without 'Sato' (sugar) gehehehehehehehe dies, little proof reading

Notes: I had a long day and I was book shopping and I realised "ah, gojo would buy shit for his gf just because he remembered her" so here we are, I'm not good at writing fluff plz bare wit me, I'm trying out a new divider plz tell me if it looks good or bad :')

A book slid across the soft surface of the table to you, you put down your mug and examined the cover then looked up towards your white haired boyfriend who's face looked like he was expecting you to jump into his arms and express gratitude.

"What's this?" Satoru's expression fell at your words. He sat up and gestured to the book as if that would make you understand. "The book you were talking about, remember? When we had coffee in that new place?"

Wow, he remembered? You couldn't help but smile, that conversation was weeks ago and he still remembered, during then you passively mentioned the book's title, you merely brought it up saying your friends were all reading it and talking about it but you weren't going to pick it up anytime soon (for the sake of your TBR list, you can't..)

"And you waited until now because...?" You picked up the book as you spoke, fingers flipping through the freshly printed pages and examining the font size and spacing of the words. Satoru snorted, "waited? I've been looking for it everywhere!" He folded his arms over his chest as irritation took over his features."Everywhere I checked, it was sold out!"

"Seriously? You ran around stores for me?" You teased, and he pouted, scooting his chair closer to you. "Of course~ when my love asks for something, I race to get it!"

"Satoru, that's nice, but.." You set the book down. "I didn't ask for–"

"Shhhh, you can show me your devoted thanks later." He cut you off with a finger to your lips, acting as if he was saving your breath from praising him and his valiant efforts (of purchasing a popular book).

Continuing this would just prove to be useless, although it was a nice gesture, even if you couldn't read it now– he listened, he knew you were interested and he made the effort to purchase something with you in mind.

To say Satoru was an impulsive buyer was an understatement. He's smart with his money, and yet moments where he loses all rationality in a transaction have been frequent after establishing a relationship with you. If Satoru sees anything in a store that briefly reminds him of you, he's taking it home to you.

The best part of the whole process is seeing your reaction, even if you told him he didn't need to waste his money on you– he could see the smile twitch at the corner of your lips as you grew flushed; almost as if shy that satoru thinks of you so fondly outside of your daily interactions.

His surprises could be anything, ranging from a mug that was the right shade of your favorite color to a necklace he thought would look good on you, it makes him even happier when he sees you use said gift in any mundane activity.

"This is really sweet of you, baby, thank you." You replied and kissed his cheek, Satoru hummed through a smile happily, accepting your affections. You reached for your mug– the mug he bought you because he knew you'd love the cartoon cat on it.

"So where'd you find it?" He waved off your question."It doesn't matter. What matters is that I got it before anyone else could, and capitalism loses!"

"Capitalism actually won because they got your money, so.." You quietly drank from your mug as you watched his face contort to disappointment. You restrained yourself from laughing at his pouting. How dare you belittle his victory?

"You're so mean to me! And here I bought 2 copies so we can read it together!" He announced as he showed his copy, the same book with the same cover. You set down your mug and cooed at him. "Satoru! You didn't have to do that. Honestly, are you obsessed with me?"

You uttered that sentence in a clear joking tone, but his expression hadn't changed. "Of course I am! I thought I made it pretty clear! You're literally all I think about!" Satoru proudly proclaimed and grew red in the face when you burst out laughing, your features growing flushed as well at his declaration.

"You're so lame, Satoru!" You wiped the tear away from your eye as you came down from your little giggle fit. He pouted at you once more. "What? Am I the only obsessed one here?"

"Maybe, I'm not the one who ran store to store looking for 2 copies of the same book?" His pout persisted at your retort, laying his head on your shoulder he stared up at you with a pitiful yet loving gaze, one that he would give you whenever you were being 'mean' to him.

"Okay, okay.." You turned to him and cupped both his cheeks in your hands, kissing his forehead, Satoru indulged in the closeness, feeling your scent envelope him as you leaned closely to him. He stopped you from moving your hands away just as you began doing so, keeping them on his cheeks.

"... Satoru?" You waited for him to answer but he only tipped his face towards you, you rolled your eyes unable to fight the smile off your lips as you kissed his cheeks, the tip of his nose and finally right on his soft lips. "Was that good enough compensation?"

His face reddened, and he nodded once. "Mhmm, thank you, pookie~"

[oniiion-studies]

–studyblr intro–

hello hello! welcome to my (somewhat) new studyblr! i'm no stranger to the community, but i've taken a LONG hiatus from academia. life has a way of life-ing, y'know?

...about

amaris <3

she/her

20

american

...academics

3-time dropout, so... independent studies! XD

latin + art history

interests: language, classic literature, greek + roman history

my long-term goal is to pursue an associates degree in music!

...hobbies

crochet – i run a small business selling finished items. my business is almost 2 years old!! i've been crocheting since i was 6 years old, and i'm mostly self-taught

music – i'm a huge metalhead, and i play a lot of instruments! my first love will always be bass (upright), but i mainly play bass guitar now

reading – i LOVE to read. anything i can get my hands on, my TBR is miles long, send help...

taking notes – a rather silly interest considering my break from academia, but i love typing, writing and color-coordinating notes! i will take notes on anything and everything if given the opportunity!

aquariums – i'm currently keeping ghost shrimp!! i have about 15 of them, and i'm hoping to get another tank so i can keep a red-clawed crab!

...what to expect

study session recaps

book reviews

word of the day

life stuff/cool things i'm doing

...etc

i looooove cozy video games (stardew valley, animal crossing, etc)

cooking + baking, i love to try new recipes!

tea > coffee

i go rock hunting almost every year in the upper peninsula of michigan and tumble them in my free time!

all of my tattoos are bugs !!

all of my original posts are tagged #oniiionstudies, which i'm also tracking!! feel free to tag me in stuff, let's be mutuals! <3

[liu-anhuaming]

Reading Chinese Ebooks on 讀墨 ReadMoo

For the past few years, I've labored under the assumption that I can't read Chinese ebooks because I just can't focus on them. However, I recently saw someone on insta mention the app 讀墨. I was intrigued, and decided to give it a try. And wow, what a shock, I can in fact read Chinese ebooks! I just have to change it to vertical text and make the font very large.

So the past couple weeks I've been trying to read more consistently using 讀墨. The book I started with was slow going at first, which almost made me give up; it was the Chinese translation of The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera. This book really wasn't for me, and I didn't want to keep reading it. So instead of just giving up, I bought one more book and tried again: 《你的孩子不是你的孩子》 by 吳曉樂 (yes, it is the basis for the Netflix show of the same name).

I devoured the book in under a week. So yeah, I think Chinese ebooks work for me if I like the book.

Below is gonna be an overview of the app, and my thoughts on it so far. It's not comprehensive though, since there's a lot of things on this app I haven't explored yet (like the audiobooks).

***Please note that 讀墨 is a Taiwanese app, and as such it mainly offers books written in traditional characters. There are apparently books written in simplified available, but I haven't explored those since I'm fine reading traditional.***

Buying Books

Buying books is fairly simple. You make an in-app purchase of coins, which you then use to buy books. Note: As of writing this, I have recently recently received a notification from the app that their book purchasing system will be changing soon. Instead of being able to buy the books in the app, you'll have to log in to your account in a browser and buy the books there. The books will apparently then appear on the app for you to read.

As it stands, 210 coins costs $10.99, and the books I've bought have ranged in price from 210 to about 300 coins. That means the books cost ~$11-$16, just like a regular book. This could be pricey, but since I'd otherwise be paying for international shipping if I were buying a physical copy, this feels like a bargain to me. (For me, shipping books from Taiwan/China to the US typically doubles the price of the purchase rip)

Once you buy the book, it's in your library for you to start whenever you please.

As for browsing for books, I haven't gone too in-depth yet. I went in to 讀墨 with a TBR and went for books off that list exclusively. When it comes to buying books online, I almost always go on whatever site I'm buying from with a list of the books I'm thinking of buying. I get recommendations elsewhere (e.g., Goodreads or insta).

Reading Books

The 讀墨 reading interface is pretty typical for an e-reader app. What makes me like it way better than other apps I've used is that it has a lot more customization options.

For starters, you've got 6 options for page/text color. There's the typical black, white, and sepia, but there's also blue and green! I use the 奶綠 option, since I don't like having such a stark contrast between the text and the background when reading on my phone for long periods.

Then there's the options for changing the text size and spacing. You can make it bigger or smaller as you please, and put more or less space between each line of text.

You can also change the font. There's 8 different fonts you can choose from, including the default. There's even a font that puts 注音 next to each character! You can see a preview of that one in the photo below.

And then, there's the option to switch between horizontal and vertical text. The default is horizontal text, but I've come to prefer vertical when reading Chinese novels. If you go to your settings on your profile, you can make vertical text your default, which is what I ended up doing.

Like any good e-reader, there's options to highlight text. There's four different colors you can use (pink, yellow, purple, and blue). If you go the ToC, you can find all of your highlights and filter by color of highlight. Super convenient, since I've been using pink to highlight words/phrases I don't know or find interesting and yellow to highlight key sentences/paragraphs.

Aside from highlighting, when you select text you have the option to look the characters up in a dictionary or online. I've been getting a lot of errors with this recently, but I'm wondering if that's just my phone acting weird? It worked perfectly fine when I first started using the app. Anyways, the dictionary it takes you to is 夢典 MoeDict and it opens in a browser. This personally is a bit annoying bc I actually have this dictionary app installed on my phone, but this is a minor complaint. The dictionary opening in a new browser tab is a non-issue.

Reading Stats

Now, I'm a big dork and love to track my reading stats. To my great satisfaction, 讀墨 keeps track of some stats. The main one is time spent reading. You can set a daily goal (the minimum is 20 minutes), and if you reach it you get a nice checkmark on the calendar. The calendar doesn't update until the very end of each day, so if you've reached your goal for the day it won't show on the calendar until the next day.

Also, keep in mind time differences between where you live and Taiwan. I'm ~12 hours behind Taiwan, so the app doesn't start a new day until around noon for me.

Below the calendar, there's a chart that shows your total reading times for a week, month, or year. I normally can't be bothered to time my reading (especially not when I'm reading physical books) so this is cool to see. I think when it comes to reading in Chinese, being timed is more interesting because I'm able to more clearly gauge progress.

And below all that, there's a breakdown of the genres you read. I don't pay much attention to genre when choosing books, so I don't find this one quite as interesting.

(tfw you're reading a non-fiction book about a tutor so your main genre becomes 教育)

Overall Thoughts

So yeah, I've enjoyed myself so far. Aside from the reading interface, I find the app pretty easy to navigate. I spent a bit of time just clicking around and was able to figure out what's what pretty quick.

Like I said, this isn't a comprehensive review, but I'd recommend giving the app a try if you're willing/able to put down money for ebooks and are able to read traditional. It feels worth the money for me, since the interface is pretty customizable and easy to use.

If you're wondering where to find simplified ebooks, idk. This is my first real foray into Chinese ebooks, so I don't really know where to find them for simplified or traditional. I have heard that it is a little easier to pirate Chinese ebooks since their copyright laws are a little different than ours in the US?

[i-know-too-many-greek-myths]

Introduction post ig

There's a fuck ton about me under the cut

Plz don't send me donation asks I feel bad but I can't help you

Plz just use my user (smth like "mythie" is fine) and he/him pronouns, I'm genderfluid. Im a minor so I'm not age dropping, I mainly feel more masc than fem and would like to medically transition (transmasc) eventually, I have diagnosed ADD, SPD and dispraxia, I love to read and my favourite books are the percy jackson series, the magnus chase series, the song of achilles, the odyssey, the fireborn series, heartstopper, and too many others to list, I don't play video games often but I love hades and sky, children of the light. I have some percy jackson posters and a few pride items.

So yeah if you think you know me from irl no tf you don't (unless I gave you my tumblr)

I'm also gonna add a tbr (to be read) list and come back and tick off the books as I read them

Stone blind

Gwen and art are not in love- HOLY FUCK THIS IS SO GOOD, WHERE IS THE FANDOM, I would like Bridget to stab me

Vagabond

The sorceress

The sun and the star- it was amazing, so gay

The chalice of the gods- great, I feel so bad for gamemede, poor child

The tower of nero- great, I think the only book where apollo didn't piss his pants

Treasure hunters

Alex neptune

Vetman

Not for the faint of heart- holy shit, they shared a bed and it wasn't a sex scene that wouldn't fit? This is incredible (it's hinted that they do later in the story but it's a 'fade-to-black' / *in the morning* "oh shit that happened" kinda thing)

The illiad

elextra

Circe

A good girls guide to murder- I got half way through and I couldn't get into it, it was very good tho

Wicked(haven't got the book yet but desperately want to read it after seeing the musical)

Alex and axel

War horse

Sapphos poetry (found a book of it but still need to buy it)

[girlcaelius]

books tag game!!! tagged by @en-theos :D

Last book I read: Imperium by Robert Harris. Cicero........Ciceroooo....... I'm rereading the trilogy and I forgot how good they were! Wish wish wish I'd had the chance to see the plays :>

Book I recommend: Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature. Hello.........👁️👁️

Book I couldn't put down: the Silo series by Hugh Howey!

Book I've read twice: the book with the most recent rereads is unironically Attis. Hello. Taps mic. It's like a parasite. I feel like I miss the point of it every time I read it so I reread it again and give myself one billion points of psychic damage. Either that or the Revenge of the Sith novelisation because I enjoy torturing myself

A book on my TBR: Metamorphoses!!!! I've recently read Peter Green's translations of the Amores and the Ars Amatoria and. Hhngh. I need to get Ovidpilled Quickly.

A book I've put down: Halcyon by Rio Youers. Tried to get into a non-spin related book and didn't really like it - cool concept but absolutely could not Stand the way children were written.

A book on my wishlist: clothbound classics.......clothbound classics hello.........also a physical copy of Augustus by John Williams. It's so so so good and has my absolute favourite favourite portrayal of Salvidienus 🫶🫶🫶

A favourite book from childhood: SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT. My copy of the first book is falling apart at the seams I've read it so many times.

A book you would give to a friend: hhrghhghh inferno

A book of poetry/lyrics you own: Propertius' complete works! 4.7 my best friend <3

A non-fiction book you own: the Roman Revolution stares at me from my bedside table every time I wake up. Good Morning Mr Syme.

Currently reading: I'm in the middle of soooo many books rn but mainly Lustrum by Robert Harris, Lucan's Pharsalia (JWJ translation) and the Aeneid (David West translation)!! Also Exposed: the Greek and Roman Body by Caroline Vout which I'm really enjoying

Planning on reading next: Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell (thank you Xuan), Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy (thank you Loïs) or the Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (thank you Judith) :]

tagging @cattus-catos @foxnewsdeathcult @enlitment @tunathena @stcantarella (no pressure though)

[thefaeryscribe]

The Scholomance Trilogy by Naomi Novik I've had this trilogy on my TBR pile for a while, and I'm glad I finally got around to reading it.

Book Description:

I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.

Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I'm concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I'm not joining his pack of adoring fans.

I don't need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I'm probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I'll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world.

At least, that's what the world expects. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that's crawled out of the drains. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. The school certainly does.

But the Scholomance isn't getting what it wants from me. And neither is Orion Lake. I may not be anyone's idea of the shining hero, but I'm going to make it out of this place alive, and I'm not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either.

Although I'm giving serious consideration to just one.

With flawless mastery, Naomi Novik creates a school bursting with magic like you've never seen before, and a heroine for the ages--a character so sharply realized and so richly nuanced that she will live on in hearts and minds for generations to come.

My Thoughts:

I'll admit I was a little thrown off in the beginning, mainly because there's a lot of information to take in at once, and it's given to us in the voice of El, the snarky main character. But I persevered and after a few chapters, the story began to flow nicely. Naomi has built an intriguing world, and a part of me wishes there were more books set in this universe. I would love to see what the characters were up to and how things have turned out a few years down the line.

As a die-hard Tolkien fan, I have to bring up the elephant in the room that is the main character's name: Galadriel, though she goes by El. Naomi gives a brief explanation that El's mother named her, and it's implied she's a Tolkien fan, though that's never explicitly said. I suppose that's all I wanted, really. Even if Naomi didn't want to list any of Tolkien's books--or perhaps couldn't--surely something simple like, "My mum's a Tolkien fan," would've gotten the point across while still giving a nod to the Professor. The fact that neither his name nor his books were ever mentioned except for in the vaguest terms stuck out as odd to me.

That said, I did enjoy these books and can see myself returning to them in the future.

My Affiliate Link for Book 1: Bookshop.org My Affiliate Link for Book 2: Bookshop.org My Affiliate Link for Book 3: Bookshop.org

[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)

[thelimeonade]

I am in no way new here but it's been so long since I have used this blog to the point that it has - sadly - descended into an early grave. So in an attempt to revive it and be more consistent, I'm going to reintroduce myself to you all.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Lime and I am an aspiring writer (mainly high fantasy). I'm 22 years old and I'm in my 5th year as a med student, with hopes of landing a position in either cardiology, surgery or general practice especially emergency and trauma. I live in Cairo, Egypt and as I have said before to disperse the false stereotypes, no, I do not live in a tent. No, I don't live next to the pyramids. Yes, I have wifi and all the modern things you have.

My hobbies include portrait drawing and reading. I have been an avid reader ever since I could hold books and pretend that I was reading because I couldn't actually read just yet. My TBR is at a completely unrealistic number of 4.5k and growing as I have no favorite genre and I bury myself in books as a somewhat unhealthy way to deal with my depression, anxiety and borderline.

I have a LOT of WIPs - wouldn't exactly call them that as I never really started outlining any of them, I just started writing random scenes but I plan on working on one of them fully in the upcoming 5 years (yes I have set a timeline for myself), my most probable decision will be to work on Extinct Galactic but I am torn between burning my greatest card as my first book instead of testing the waters with a simpler, milder idea that would be more acceptable and help me grow my base as a writer.

I initially started this writeblr to share my love and knowledge with everyone here and this reason still stands to this day but we will add to it "the motivation to keep moving forward and improving". I will do my best to post daily, to share how life is going on, to update you on how far I have come in goals that I will be also sharing with you guys.

Some Fun Facts about me:

I used to have over 100 Australian budgies. They were initially two... then they kinda got a lil frisky... and yea... Now I have two cockatiels, Zizo and Bar'o'aa (means plum in Egyptian) and two rescue cats called, Safroot (means tiny in Egyptian) and Nougat.

I have my own small business bookstore that sells manga, manhwa, comic books, light novels and other similar books.

My favorite series is Altered Carbon, the first season, second one was awful.

My anxiety manifests as the need to always be prepared for anything so you'll always find me carrying a huge, heavy backpack full of anything and everything I might ever need.

My guilt pleasure is buying more books even-though I do not have the shelf space nor the capacity to read all of them but I must. own. all. books.

I have an anonymous writing account on instagram called @metanoia.writes

I'm an INFP-T and a Pisces

I love love love LOVE questions so please send me some

So this is it for my somewhat short introduction. I am excited to get to know all of you! Please follow me and reblog this post so it reaches as many people as possible. I will be following back everyone that does. If you're a writeblr as well, let me know so I can check out your works and support you, hopefully we will be more than mutuals!

Lots of love, Lime