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22 & 23 for the end of the year book ask :)?
22. What’s the longest book you read?
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman, which was almost a thousand pages. 998, to be precise.
23. What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?
Sixish hours. That would be The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.
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Book Challenge 2020 (100 books!!) (I did it!!)
After forgetting to track my reading for three years, I started recording my reading on Tumblr last year again, and I’m committed to continuing that this year!
This year is my final year of my Bachelor’s Degrees (I’m finishing English in June) and I’m planning to do a gap year from September on, so now more university after June (at least as far as 2020 is concerned).
I do not really foresee any issues or obstacles to reading this year, except of course finishing my thesis which will probably take quite some time, so I do expect a decline around April until early June. Although I do have a lot more time off in my gap year, I used to read a lot of mandatory books for my studies, so I don’t know whether having a gap year will mean reading more books. Since I’m not doing any university studying, I am interested in reading academic books by myself, studying by myself. Those books are often longer, denser and just take more time to get through; consequently, I might read fewer books in the same amount of energy and time spent reading.
To make a (somewhat) long story short: my expectations are in line with the amount of books I’ve read in the last years, so I’m expecting to read 75 books this year!
Update: it’s mid-October and I’ve already read 99 books this year, so I’ve finished my original goal of 75 books! Now I’m going for 100 books (which should be easy to do, and after that we’ll just see how it goes!).
The crossed book is the one I’m currently reading, I’ve written reviews for books that have a (x) behind them, with the (x) being a link to my Goodreads review!
Update: Today (November 23) I’ve read 114 books so I’ve finished my challenge of 100 books! Right now, I’m still 25 books ahead schedule! Let’s see if I can keep that energy up!
January
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin (5/5) (x)
Serpent and Dove (Serpent and Dove #1) - Shelby Mahurin (4/5) (x)
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike #4) - Robert Galbraith (4/5)
Weirdos from Another Planet (Calvin and Hobbes #4) - Bill Watterson) (5/5)
Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings (5/5) (x)
Niets zal ons redden maar een beetje liefde is oké - Henk van Straten (Dutch) (4/5) (x)
, said the shotgun to the head. - Saul Williams (4/5)
Loud and Yellow Laughter - Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese (3/5)
Fireborn (The Aurelian Cycle #1) - Rosaria Munda (4/5)
Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy - Sylvia Plath (4/5) (x)
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare (3/5) (x)
Nieuwe Herinneringen - Remco Campert (Dutch) (2/5)
Dido, Queen of Carthage - Christopher Marlowe (3/5)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/5)
Alles wat er was - Stine Jensen (Dutch) (3/5)
Zij in de geschiedenis - Alies Pegtel (Dutch) (4/5) (x)
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (reread) (5/5)
February
Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus (3/5)
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo (4/5)
The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus #3) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
Educated - Tara Westover (3/5)
Prometheus on Caucasus - Lucian of Samosata (3/5)
March
Reading Old English: A Primer and First Reader - Robert Hasenfratz (4/5) (x)
Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? - Billy Crystal (3/5)
The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus #4) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
Quick Question: New Poems - John Ashberry (1/5) (x)
Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose - Michael H. Short (3/5) (x)
The Call of the Wild - Jack London (2/5) (x)
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus #5) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
April
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot (reread) (5/5)
And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou (4/5)
Poëzie in Utrechtse Muren - Ingmar Heytze (Dutch) (5/5) (x)
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (4/5)
Mijn dood en ik - Remco Campert (4/5)
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster - Mike Davis (3/5)
Native Son - Richard Wright (2/5)
Dido, Queen of Carthage - Christopher Marlowe (reread) (4/5)
May
The Plague - Albert Camus (4/5)
Absalom! Absalom! - William Faulkner (4/5)
Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance - Carrie J. Preston (2/5)
James Joyce and Sexuality - Richard Brown (3/5)
June
Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/5) (x)
Modernism, Sex and Gender - Alison Pease and Celia Marshik (3/5)
The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles’ Antigone - Seamus Heaney (4/5)
The Host - Stephanie Meyer (reread) (4/5)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5) (x)
A Terrible Beauty is Born - W.B. Yeats (4/5)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo (4/5)
Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y. Davis (4/5)
The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) - Brandon Sanderson (4/5)
Everything Leads to You - Nina LaCour (2/5) (x)
The Tempest - William Shakespeare (reread) (3/5)
July
Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood (4/5) (x)
American Slavery (A Very Short Introduction) - Andrea Heather William (reread) (3/5)
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdom #1) - Dan Brown (4/5) (x)
Mythos: A Retelling of Myths of Ancient Greece - Stephen Fry (4/5) (x)
Mean Time - Carol Ann Duffy (3/5)
Lijfrente - Vrouwkje Tuinman (Dutch) (4/5)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) - Suzanne Collins (3/5) (x)
Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (3/5)
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf (reread) (5/5)
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (4/5)
Onbreekbaar - Hans Hagen (Dutch) (1/5) (x)
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwoord (reread) (4/5)
The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde (5/5)
Het goede leven: een briefwisseling - Piet Gerbrandy & Andreas Kinneging (Dutch) (2/5) (x)
Constructions of the Classical Body - James Porter (3/5)
August
The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton (4/5)
The Kissing Booth (The Kissing Booth #1) - Beth Reekles (2/5) (x)
The Daily Show: The Book - Chris Smith (4/5) (x)
The Duchess Deal (Girl meets Duke #1) - Tessa Dare (3/5)
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehesi Coates (4/5)
Fragments - Heraclitus (transl. by Brooks Haxton) (2/5) (x)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (reread) (5/5)
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings #1) - Mackenzi Lee (reread) (4/5)
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (4/5)
Catilina’s Riddle (Roma sub Rosa #3) - Steven Saylor (2/5) (x)
When Dimple met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi #1) - Sandhya Memon (1/5) (x)
Adulthood is a Myth (Sarah’s Scribbles #1) - Sarah Andersen (4/5)
September
Normal People - Sally Rooney (3/5) (x)
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age - Donna Zuckerberg (4/5)
Sadie: A Novel - Courtney Summers (4/5)
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus (4/5)
Vloedlijnen - Piet Gerbrandy (Dutch) (4/5)
Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston (reread) (4/5)
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay (4/5)
Envelope Poems - Emily Dickinson (4/5) (x)
A Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot #10) - Agatha Christie (3/5) (x)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (4/5)
October
Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare (4/5) (x)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) - Agatha Christie (4/5) (x)
Het verhaal van Aeneas - Vergilius (trans. to Dutch) (reread) (4/5)
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin (2/5)
Lesbia, Verzen van Liefde en Spot - Catullus (Dutch) (transl. by Paul Claes) (4/5) (x)
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah (4/5) (x)
The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs (reread) (5/5)
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) - Agatha Christie (3/5)
November
Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid (3/5) (x)
Narratology and Classics: a Practical Guide - Irene de Jong (3/5) (x)
The Murder of Roger Akroyd (Hercule Poirot #4) - Agatha Christie (4/5) (x)
The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot #11) - Agatha Christie (4/5)
The Great Cat (Poetry Collection) - ed. by Emily Fragos (3/5) (x)
Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O’Neil (4/5)
The Northern Lights (His Dark Materials #1) - Philip Pullman (4/5)
Vincent van Gogh en zijn brieven - Leo Jansen (Dutch) (3/5)
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell (4/5)
The Fill-In Boyfriend - Kasie West (reread) (4/5)
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot #3) - Agatha Christie (1/5)
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I was tagged by @ohhdaisy to post my lockscreen, the last song I listened to and the last picture I saved to my phone :) thank you!! 💕
I’m tagging @laranymeria @rise-of-kyoshi @trespassions @onelittlebookgeek @medicineismyanthem @thegoldenlilyguardian
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The Princess Bride :)!
never seen it | need to see it | hate it | ugh | it was okay | LOVED IT | asdfghjkl
send me a film!
#actually idk if ive seen it???#maybe when i was younger but I srsly dont remember#onelittlebookgeek#answered
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Extreme question tag!
Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 92 truths about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person that tagged you. I was tagged by @onelittlebookgeek (I believe a really (like really really) long time ago, but I just saw this, so yea.. I’m bad at this site haha (thanks by the way! Luf!)
What was your: Last Drink: Coke Last Phone Call: The father of the kids I babysit for.. Last text message: ahahahhaa same... Last song you listened to: Summer Love - One Direction Last time you cried: Hah like 5 minutes ago because I watched a really sad supernatural fan video. Yea...
Have you ever:
Dated someone twice: Nope Been cheated on: Nope Kissed someone and regretted it: Nope Lost someone special: yea Been drunk and thrown up: No :) List 3 favourite colours: Red, green, Blue
In the last year have you:
Made a new friend: No, I don’t think so.. (I already have lovely friends:)) Fallen out of love: No Laughed until you cried: Yes! Many times :) Met someone who changed you: No Found out who your true friends are: No Found out someone was talking about you: No Kissed anyone on your FB list: No
General: How many people on your FB friends do you know IRL: All of them, although I haven’t spoken to some of them in years.. Do you have any pets: Yes! Two cats! Do you want to change your name: Sometimes. Right now I don’t What did you do for your last b-day party: I still have to give a party for my friends, but my birthday is on Christmas, so I saw all of my family.. What time did you wake up today: 7:03 AM What were you doing at midnight last night: Reading Name something you CANNOT wait for: I’m gonna travel with friends after graduation and i’m super excited!! Last time you saw your mother: 2 minutes ago? What is one thing you wish you could change about your life: my inability to manage any motivation at all for school.. What are you listening to rn: Don’t look back - Amarante Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: Yes What’s getting on your nerves rn: the light that falls on my screen so I see all the dust on it.. Blood type: No idea! (should probably ask my parents) Nickname(s): Suus, Suusje, Suzan Relationship status: Single Zodiac sign: Capricorn Pronouns: She/her Favourite TV show(s): Oh god. Favorite definitely Supernatural, but I like soo many! Galavant, Hannibal, GOT, i’ve been into VD some time, Teen Wolf and some more I won’t bore you with right now :) Long or short: halfway there? Height: 5″4?? I’m not really good with these measurements.. (1.62 meters..) Do you have a crush on someone: No What do you like about yourself: I have a big heart Tattoos: None Righty or lefty: Righty First surgery: Haven’t had surgery yet First piercing: I don’t have any First best friend: A girl in preschool. We were always together but we’ve grown apart when we went to different schools... ;( First sport you joined: Ballet First vacation: ??? I believe Spain when my mother was pregnant haha First pair of trainers(sneakers): I don’t remember?
Rn:
Eating: Chocolate :3 Drinking: Coke I’m about to: Eat dinner (so the chocolate is probably a bad idea) Waiting for: My mom to shout dinner is ready.. haha Want kids: Yaaas Get married: Not necissarily. We’ll see. Career: I don’t know (STRESS!)! I’d love to be an actress but it’s such a tough world...
Which is better
: Lips or eyes: eyes Hugs or kisses: Both :3
Shorter or taller: Taller (but when I like someone it wouldnt really mind..) Older or younger: Older (same as the shorter/taller question) Romantic or spontaneous: spontaneous Sensitive or loud: Loud Hook up or relationship: Relationship Troublemaker or hesitant: Troublemaker, but not in all things
Have you ever: Kissed a stranger: No Drank hard liquor: Yes Lost glasses/contacts: Yes ohmygawd it’s such horror Sex on first date: No Broke someone’s heart: Maybe? Don’t know how he feels about it Been arrested: No Turn someone down: Yes Cried when someone died: Yes Fallen for a friend: Yes
Do you believe: in yourself: I try to Miracles: No Love at first sight: Not really, (but maybe?) Heaven: No.. (I’d love to have that idea of someplace you will go after death, but I can’t get myself to believe it..) Santa Claus: No haha Kiss at first date: Ye sure, why not. (only if I like my date tho ;)) Angels: No..(?)
I tag... everyone who wants to do this!!! (I know, lame, but someone tagged all my friends already haha)
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Hey :D
Opening Credits: Soul Meets Body - Death Cab for CutieWaking Up: Night Drive - Jimmy Eat WorldFirst Day At School: Send Me an Angel - ScorpionsFalling In Love: Screaming Infidelities - Dashboard Confessional Fight Song: Payphone - Maroon 5Breaking Up: Black and Blue - Christina PerriLife’s OK: Nemo - NightwishGetting Back Together: Hold on Be Strong - Maria Haukaas StorengWedding: I Can’t Decide - Scissors SistersBirth of Child: Elvis Ain’t Dead - Scouting For GirlsFinal Battle: Change - Taylor SwiftDeath Scene: Cemeteries of London - ColdplayFuneral Song: Translanticism - Death Cab for CutieEnd Credits: Comme des Enfants - Coeur de Pirate
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Book Challenge 2019 - I DID IT!
Hi guys, after tracking all the books I’ve read here from 2013-2016, I completely forgot this whole thing for more than 3 years! Sorry!!
No fear though: I’m back! Even though 2019 has almost ended, I’ll make sure this post correctly reflects the whole of 2019!
Since it’s already the end of October, I do feel like I have some hindsight vision into my reading pace this past year, but before I mention how it actually went, I want to explain my original expectations! So 2019 for me is the year I’m finishing my Classics Bachelor Degree in July and the year I’ll be studying abroad for one term from September to December (I’m doing two degrees, so I’ll still be doing my English degree after Classics!). So for my reading, I’d expected not to read a lot. Perhaps for my thesis some books on the subjects and of course for English my course work. So my original reading goal was 50 books!
Looking back on these expectations I must say I’ve read a great deal more than I expected! Writing my thesis did include reading a lot of books and other course work had more reading than I thought I would which boosted my challenge in the first half of the year! Of course, I’ve also read quite a lot during the holidays because what else is there to do in the holidays :D? Regarding my studying abroad experience, I’m reading more than I expected. This is partly because the course work is again much more based on reading books than articles or just parts of book. At the same time, I’m doing less studying than I used to do back home, so I have more time free to do some casual reading. On top of that - since I’m walking everywhere here - I’ve started listening to audiobooks which also adds a couple to the challenge.
So my challenge became 80 books! But I had already surpassed before November, so that’s great! I’d expressed my hopes to read 100 books this year as well, but out of fear of not making that I hadn’t changed my goals. Seeing as of now (mid-November), I’ve already read 93 books I feel confident I can read at least 7 more until a 100, so I’ve changed my goal to read 100 books
The crossed book is the one I’m currently reading, I’ve written reviews for books that have a (x) behind them; the (x) is a link to my Goodreads review!
Update: Today (December 31) I’ve read 135 books so I’ve finished my challenge!! Let’s see where the rest of this year brings me :D!
January
The Oresteia - Ted Hughes (4/5) (x)
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes #2) - Arthur Conan Doyle (3/5)
The Suffragettes - Various (3/5)
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley - Philils Wheatley (3/5) (x)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - Frederick Douglass (3/5)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself - Harriet Ann Jacobs (4/5)
February
Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram (5/5)
A Disquisition on Government - John C. Calhoen (2/5)
March:
‘s Nachts verdwijnt de wereld - Jaap Robben (Dutch) (4/5)
Public Opinion - Walter Whitman (3/5)
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman (5/5) (x)
Zalig Uiteinde - Viktor Frölke (Dutch) (2/5)
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
Frostbite (Vampire Academy #2) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
Language and Power - Paul Simpson (3/5)
Language Change: Progress or Decay? - Jean Aitchison (3/5) (x)
Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy #3) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
April:
Blood Promise (Vampire Academy #4) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome - W.R. Johnson (2/5) (x)
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot (5/5) (x)
Propertius: Elegies - Propertius (ed. Hutchinson) (2/5) (x)
Propertius: A Critical Introduction - J.P. Sullivan (3/5)
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett (4/5) (x)
Lanny - Max Porter (4/5) (x)
Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf (5/5) (x)
Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy - Jeri Blair DeBrohun (1/5)
Yukon Ho! (Calvin and Hobbes #3) - Bill Watterson (4/5) (x)
Emancipating Lincoln - Harold Holzer (3/5)
The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon (1/5) (x)
May:
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov (5/5) (x)
The Shadow of Callimachus: Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome - Richard Hunter (2/5)
Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome - Barbara K. Gold (3/5)
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America - Nancy Isenberg (2/5) (x)
Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War - Burrus M. Carnahan (3/5)
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America - Allen C. Guelzo (3/5)
June:
Apollo, Augustus and the Poets - John F. Miller (2/5) (x)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam #1) - Margaret Atwood (3/5) (x)
Circe - Madeline Miller (4/5) (x)
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
Callimachus and his Critics - Alan Cameron (2/5)
July:
Elegies - Propertius (5/5)
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson #2) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
Er was er eens en er was er eens niet - Judith Herzberg (Dutch) (1/5)
Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson #3) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf (5/5) (x)
Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston (4/5) (x)
The Book of Extraordinary Deaths - Cecilia Ruiz (3/5)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems - Oscar Wilde (4/5)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (3/5)
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare (5/5)
Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson #4) - Rick Riordan (reread) (5/5)
Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian (Percy Jackson #5) - Rick Riordan (reread) (5/5)
The Peloponnesian War, Book 2 - Thucydides (3/5)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (5/5)
August:
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2) - Sarah J. Maas (reread) (4/5)
Hold Your Own - Kate Tempest (4/5)
Slimy Stuarts - Terry Deary (3/5)
Orlando - Virginia Woolf (5/5) (x)
Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker (3/5) (x)
Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake (4/5)
Windharp: Poems of Ireland since 1916 - Coll. by Niall MacMonagle (4/5)
Kaas - Willem Elsschot (Dutch) (1/5)
Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti (4/5)
Brand New Ancients - Kate Tempest (3/5)
September:
The Fall of Arthur - J.R.R. Tolkien (3/5)
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (4/5)
The Bees - Carol Ann Duffy (4/5)
Poems - Allen Ginsberg (5/5)
Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy #5) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy #6) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
Callirhoe and Caereas - Chariton (3/5)
Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville (3/5)
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville (4/5)
October:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - Frederick Douglass (4/5)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself - Harriet Ann Jacobs (2/5)
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green (4/5)
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman (4/5) (x)
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness - Salsa Agnieszka (3/5)
A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes (4/5) (x)
Roderick Hudson - Henry James (4/5) (x)
All That She Can See - Carrie Hope Fletcher (3/5) (x)
The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (4/5)
All the Crooked Saints - Maggie Stiefvater (3/5) (x)
Daphnis and Chloe - Longus (3/5)
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (1/5) (x)
November:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (2/5) (x)
Lily and the Octopus - Steven Rowley (4/5) (x)
First World War Poems from the Front (4/5)
If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio (4/5) (x)
The Republic - Plato (2/5) (x)
Observations - Marianne Moore (5/5)
Poems (1930) - W.H. Auden (2/5) (x)
The Professor’s House - Willa Cather (1/5) (x)
Becoming - Michelle Obama (4/5)
The Outsider - Albert Camus (4/5)
Three Poems - Hannah Sullivan (3/5)
Leucippe and Clitophon - Achilles Tatius (4/5)
The Book of Mirrors - Frieda Hughes (3/5) (x)
Sophist - Plato (5/5) (x)
Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings (4/5)
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry (4/5)
The Beats (A Very Short Introduction) - David Sterrit (4/5)
The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs (5/5)
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (4/5) (x)
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler (4/5)
Remains of Elmet - Ted Hughes (3/5) (x)
Dear Boy - Emily Berry (1/5) (x)
The Merchant of Venice - Willaim Shakespeare (3/5)
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov (4/5)
How to Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran (2/5) (x)
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America - Bill Bryson (3/5)
December
Tracks - Louise Erdrich (3/5)
Derrida (A Very Short Introduction) - Simon Glendinning (x)
Ariel - Sylvia Plath (5/5)
London Triptych - Jonathan Kemp (3/5)
Two Cures for Love - Wendy Cope (5/5)
Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine (4/5)
Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase #3) - Rick Riordan (4/5)
The Vegetarian - Han Kang (4/5)
Selected Poems - Philip Larkin (3/5)
Kid - Simon Armitage (1/5) (x)
The Children Act - Ian McEwan (4/5)
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (3/5) (x)
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (4/5) (x)
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs (4/5)
Man met hoed - Lieke Marsman (3/5) (Dutch) (x)
Koffers Zeelucht: Gedichten - Hagar Peeters (Dutch) (4/5)
Selected Poems - Gregory Corso (3/5)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling (reread) (5/5)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (reread) (5/5)
Erotic Poems - E.E. Cummings (3/5)
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare (reread) (4/5)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee (2/5)
Carry On - Rainbow Rowell (reread) (4/5)
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Hi! I'm currently reading 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher and The Iliad by Homer..
So, I have been on the fence about whether or not I want to read 13 Reasons Why… I would be really interested in your opinion when you finish the book. No spoilers though, I hate spoilers!! And I read The Iliad and The Odyssey so long ago I really need to do a re-read. I read them in middle school. In first semester of undergrad I read The Odyssey again but it is all such a blur. So that is definitely on my to do list: re-read both. I do know that with classics like those it is vital to pick up a good edition, the translation and/ or footnotes on something like that can make or break a reading. So I hope you have a good copy!! And I hope you are enjoying both. :]
*Send me the name of the book you are reading, and I shall tell you if I have read it, and what I thought!*
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top 10 male characters
tagged by @herondaleatheart, thank you!! <3
Tony Stark (Marvel)
Peter Parker (Marvel)
Fred & George Weasley (Harry Potter)
Zuko (Avatar)
Baz (Carry On)
Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)
William Turner (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Tyrion Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Achilles (Song of Achilles)
Rhysand (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
tagging: @laranymeria @trespassions @thegoldenlilyguardian @onelittlebookgeek @xchiles @medicineismyanthem @posh-with-2-fields @star-dust-storm @libramoon @thejordipie @dusken-odalisque
#making this made me realise that 99% of my faves are female#ask games#ps. don’t feel obliged to do this
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Happy birthday, darling! I hope you have an amazing day (and a lovely year of course :3!)x
Ahhhh thank you!! I love your url too! Lol and I will definitely try to have a good year! Things seem to be getting better with age! I hope your day was great as well!!
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NICE THOUGHTS CHALLENGE. Once you get this, you must write 5 things you like about yourself and release them publicly. Send this to 10 of your favorite followers.
I've been blessed with the most beautiful best friend in the world
I'm creative/imaginative
I have a passion for music and am a rather good guitar player
I care a lot about animals
I have a few good talents that I'm incredibly proud of ^_^
Thank you so much, sweet!
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Ship to Wreck by Florence And The Machine and See You Again by Wiz Khalifa :)?
Ship to Wreck:
couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library
See You Again
couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library
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Molly Weasley and Professor Sprout :)?
Molly Weasley: What is the proudest moment of your life?
That is a hard one… I guess because I don’t really let myself feel proud too often. One of the moments I gave in to feeling proud was when I was in high school, I won 2 writing awards from Scholastic and I went to an award ceremony in NYC, in Carnegie Hall and Rosie O’Donnell was there. It was probably one of the biggest deals that anyone ever made over me & it felt really good. :]
Professor Sprout: What is your favourite class that is offered at Hogwarts?
I have thought about it before and it would probably be a tie between Charms and Potions. Although Astronomy would be interesting, and so would Care of Magical Creatures… and I wouldn’t mind sitting in on a Divination class either. Or just all of them. SOMEBODY GET ME A TIME TURNER.
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@trespassions tagged me (i feel honoured that you did remember my url lmao) to list 10 songs ive been listening to recently!
1. Fallingwater - Maggie Rogers (and Dog Years, and all of her other songs)
2. Jalousie / La thune - Angèle
3. Doom Days - Bastille
4. Looking for America - Lana del Rey
5. Myth - Beach House
6. Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
7. Good Now - Janne Schra
8. when the party’s over - Billie Eilish
9. Million Years Ago - Adele
10. Promise - Ben Howard
tagging: @medicineismyanthem @thegoldenlilyguardian @onelittlebookgeek @xchiles @laranymeria @caroldanvers13 @trisandhya-sairandhri @libramoon @iamyasmine
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thank you for tagging me dear @cordyline-belardia <3
✦ glossy or matte? matte
✦ denim or leather? denim
✦ favorite flower? forget-me-not
✦ pearls or gemstones? gemstones
✦ favorite scent? the scent of the sea, and old bookshops
✦ barefoot or heels? hmmm both
✦ patronus? cat! idc what the test says (it said hare)
✦ bath bombs or shower gel? bath bombs
✦ eye color? blue with a brown spot
✦ favorite emoji? 🌻or 🌈
✦ body glitter or body shimmer? body shimmer
✦ prada or miu miu? i’m sorry but i don’t even know what miu miu is 🙈
✦ fireworks or lightning? lightning
✦ hiking or swimming? swimming with hot weather & hiking if it’s colder
✦ night in or night out? night in, atm :)
tagging: @laranymeria @trespassions @xchiles @its-tomlinsunshine @thegoldenlilyguardian @onelittlebookgeek @spacecadet927 @toocooltobeappointed @throughtheglass04 @secretlyapanda
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