#placeofwonder

[ben-learns-smth]

(telling people to answer their own questions is such a fun idea and I might steal it tbh) anyway! How about questions 2 (I re-read so much compared to the total number of books I read because the brain likes familiarity, what can you do), 4 (I guess I'm kind of discovering E.M. Forster right now (who never came up in my entire English degree??), but most of the books were by authors I already knew) and 14?

2) did you reread anything? what?

the lady astronaut series, priory of the orange tree for funsies & technically the bone season (but idk if I count the revised anniversay edition as a reread) ! I'm a bit surprised, usually I also reread a lot, at least one or two faves for emotional support. I still count a book for my reading goal as long as it's been at least 1 year since I read it last

4) Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

I found lots of new authors and will make sure to check out any new releases to see if they're one hit wonders for me or if I want to find more! a lot of it was debut stuff though so I gotta be patient...

two authors whose work I looked for a bit more already are biba oskar nass for german poetry & essays and daniel schreiber for german literary essays

14) what books do you want to finish before the year is over?

my current read alte sorten (halfway through, I definitely will manage that thanks to my commute) and as many of my physical tbr shelf as possible before I have to switch to ebooks after my top surgery in january (apparently holding a book and turning pages is hard in the first weeks of recovery </3). funnily enough most of those are about trans and (gender)queer topics: pageboy (elliot page), before we were trans (kit heyam), to be seen - queer lives 1900-1950

[natreads]

3 & 14? 📚

Thank you!!

3. What were your top five books of the year?

Thus far it's probably:

Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (reread)

Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

A Kind of Magic by Luke Edward Hall

Blir du ledsen om jag dör? by Nicolas Lunabba

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Now THIS is more like it. I'm in the middle of half my shelf it feels like. The most prominent ones is The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Romanens segertåg by Ingrid Elam and Enigma Variations by André Aciman, which I have to decide whether I want to finish or dnf lol

end-of-year book ask

[ayliffe]

@placeofwonder holy shit, you absolute hero — thank you so much! x

hey does anyone have access to cambridge core and if so, would they be able to download this for me if they can do so for free? i don’t want to pay £50 for an ebook lol

[coffeewithwhiskee]

Thank you so much for tagging me @placeofwonder !

Because I‘m currently drowning in work, I can only speak of that lovely little collection of short stories by Tolstoi I found in my late uncle‘s estate.

I‘m really looking forward to more freetime after submitting my paper. Until then, studying outside with my cat shall be my only delight.

I tag everybody who likes to give some more reading inspiration to us!

[honeststudying]

100 days of productivity - 12/100 (18-09-17) 

hnngghhh this post looks really weird but whatever! study session at the library between classes w/ iced coffee to keep me from falling asleep 😴 

[songofsaraneth]

#famously few birds in space#probably the safest place to take him (via @placeofwonder)

Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this

[jorge-raya]

Acapulco, con su magia, clima e historia. Un lugar excepcional.

[natreads]

@placeofwonder said: I understand Swedish! Kind of! I learned it in uni and am trying not to forget it all, so I'd love to know what your Substack is

Oh fun!! Then I guess my substack would be good practice hehehehe

Here it is!

[satravelcompany]

Estuary at sunset ☀︎ (at Saint Lucia, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa)

[sporadicivanvannorman]

update from @placeofwonder

image ID: Ivan Van Norman wearing a caped cloak and laced shirt, with a make-up mask over his eyes. His hands are held in front of him, fingertips touching. 

[battlemasterofceremonies]

for those wondering, someone on the dimension 20 subreddit mentioned looking to brennan’s spotify because sometimes his playlists show his scheming about future campaigns, so i found his spotify and stumbled on izzy’s through that (but i think she made all her playlists except for the 7 private which is valid)

@placeofwonder @themagiciankingsley

izzy has a spotify playlist called “bren vibes” :’)

[upside-down-uni]

@placeofwonder you're so right, like the one good thing that came from online lectures was not having to sit in the old maths building at 8am freezing to death. #uni stop only putting all the money into research challenge

some ~uni vibes~ since I'm finally spending time here again (they say after doing nothing but sitting in the library for hours)