#my reading

[leehallfae]

“i am more god than god is / these days. watch me refuse / to let my father die / in this poem. he is dying, yes, / but see how i keep him flickering / with a gerund?”

— eugenia leigh, “post-traumatic stress disorder with han (한/恨),” bianca

[academic-vampire]

Me when my professor asks me to elaborate:

-Antigone, by Sophocles

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

Silmarillion-knower Celeborn when this sounds vaguely familiar:

[mygrayzone]

Reading in nature.

[theunstuffedpepper]

Anyone else make the switch from GoodReads to StoryGraph?

I never used GR for the social component - strictly used it for (lazily) tracking my reading. Now that I’m getting more into reading, I decided to make the switch to StoryGraph and already I like it so much more. More options for tracking — I like that you can categorize books as “did not finish” — and it’s a much, much cleaner app experience.

Anywho! If you’re on SG and wanna find me, I’m audiopepper.

[bookaddict24-7]

💫What books did you read in April?💫

✨April FLEW by. I read some pretty great mangas and books this month! Here is my wrap up:

•I read 34 books

•I own 26 of those books

•My favourite read of the month was: How To Say I Do

•My least favourite read of the month was: The Idea of You (that ending ruined the whole book for me)

•I DNFed: 9 books

•I Unhauled: 18 books

[thelonelybrilliance]

Just finished my 90th read of the year! Here are 9 recs :)

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara Daughter of the Nile

Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Louise Glück, Vita Nova

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (currently rereading)

Patrick Phillips, Song of the Closing Doors: Poems

[105nt]

I finished Have His Carcase and I think it might be my favourite yet, I loved the twist and the ending and a lot of it was very funny (must here make a special mention of the theatrical agent trying to recruit Wimsey - had to pull over and park the car until it was over).

Busman's Honeymoon is on the way and I am topping up with the BBC drama series starring Harriet Walter and Edward Petherbridge 'til it comes.

[leehallfae]

“lieutenant commander jadzia dax is a trill, a humanoid species that attains its fullest realization in symbiotic connection with a species of large, long-lived slugs called symbionts. a trill is also a musical articulation created, with an instrument, by the rapid alternation of two tones, either a whole or a half tone apart, or, with a voice, by the rapid vibration of one speech organ against another. a trill, then, is a singular musical motif created by the contiguous motion of two distinct notes or organs. it is simultaneously mobile and arrested, present and absent, ‘a sound locked in movement.’ likewise the trill are, in their fullest realization, a plural species, two distinct organs creating a unique and fluid singularity. the constant transformation between the two voices/organisms constitutes the fragile yet durable continuity of the t/Trill.”

— kathy e. ferguson, “this species which is not one: identity practices in star trek: deep space nine”

[inkcurlsandknives]

Really enjoyed A Psalm for the Wild-Built it was the perfectly sized solar punk novella I needed to unwind. I need more hopeful stories in my life, the pace of it was a balm and as a certified tea person, once a small tea buisness owner I found the concept of a traveling monk providing tea service utterly delightful.

I really miss lazy Saturday mornings at the farmers market offering samples of tea and talking about blends and herbs with folks

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

Virgin film trilogy orcs: knows about menus

Chad book trilogy orcs: tiktok slang

[seastares]

"One short step from eternal art into artifical eternity - I reluctantly admit that it's better than nothing and more fitting than otherwise."

View with a Grain of Sand, my favourite poetry collection to date. Bought randomly, purposefully kept. I often find myself flicking through it ⚘

[lightineventide]

Found the second installment of The Murderbot Diaries in my local bookstore today. :) Hopefully the rest will also be translated soon, because it seems I'm gonna eat devour this one in a day.

[bookaddict24-7]

✨One of my reading goals for 2024 is reading more of my backlist TBR titles. So, here are a few of the books I hope to get to in February! ✨

P.S. I have already DNF’ed Gothikana 🫢