#read in july

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Read in July 2024

well, having top surgery in the middle of the month cramped my style a bit, but I still managed to get through a fair few audiobooks before I moved into recovery mode hehe

I'm a bit sad I didn't get to a series or any of my backlog books but I've got some lined up for next month already so hopefully I'll have more luck in August, especially now that my energy is finally starting to come back

Series read: The Ouroboros duology by HE Edgmon

Godly Heathens - DNF

Backlog books:

None

Familiar authors:

All the Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce - 2/5 (audio)

For Her Consideration by Amy Spalding - 1/5

Other reads:

Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry & Tobias Iaconis (reread)

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (reread)

Coraline by Neil Gaiman (reread)

The Outsiders by SE Hinton - 3/5 (audio)

Nettle and Bone by T Kingfisher (reread)

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice - 3/5 (audio)

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu & Joamette Gil - 4/5

[slaughter-books]

Day 31: JOMPBPC: Read In July

My amazing July, 2024 reading wrap-up! 🧡

[booksandrandomfandoms]

JOMP day 31

Read in July

Here is my wrap up for July

I enjoyed most of everything I read this month & got some books off my tbr that have been there for YEARS 🙌 😂

[princessofbookaholics]

July is over and I spent the month reading thrillers (and a few horrors) because of the summerween readathon in the beginning of the month! My favorite of the month was The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels which is also my favorite book of the year yes I said it! I'm aiming to focus on the fantasy genre for next month. Here's the wrap up:

The Female of the Species ⭐⭐⭐

Home is Where the Bodies Are ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Midnight Feast ⭐⭐⭐

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Stranger in Her House ⭐⭐⭐

Horror Movie ⭐⭐⭐

56 Days ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Episode Thirteen ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Meet Your Match ⭐⭐⭐

The Partner Plot ⭐⭐⭐

Hello Summer ⭐⭐⭐

The Housemaid's Secret ⭐⭐⭐⭐

No One Saw a Thing ⭐⭐⭐

Past Present Future ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Sentence is Death ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Love Redesigned ⭐⭐⭐

[evilmafuyu666]

[shisasan]

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[ninthprime]

now that hxh is officially coming back here's my attempt to count how many plots are going on at once right now

a plot: the kakin royal family, joined by beyond netero, has chartered an expedition to the forbidden dark continent on a huge whale ship with thousands of civilians. the hunter association signed on to join with the plan of actually sending the ship to a fake “new continent”, dropping off the family and civilians there, and then continuing to the real continent. the problem is the king of kakin is also using this expedition to force his fourteen (legitimate) children into a death match, with the survivor as heir

b plot: kurapika has discovered that kakin’s fourth prince tserriednich is in possession of the remaining scarlet eyes and, in order to get close to him, has signed on as a bodyguard to the fourteenth prince, baby woble, and her mom queen oito. as it turns out all the princes have autonomous nen beasts so this is a more complicated job than it looks. by which i mean at one point he gave up a substantial part of his life to possess a cockroach

c plot: to get more specific, kurapika has been trying to keep the peace by inviting the servants and bodyguards of the other princes to come to nen classes taught by him (read: he and fellow bodyguard bill are just forcibly opening their nen abilities), but a mysterious nen construct called “silent majority” killed most of woble’s other servants and now keeps killing people in the classes. there are apparently multiple people who can use nen in the classes already and who are mostly not telling him.

d plot: the three big mafia families of kakin (the hei-ly, xi-yu and cha-r) have been invited onto the ship mostly because their leaders are all illegitimately related to the king and been told to not cause any trouble…but the king’s illegitimate daughter morena, the new leader of the hei-ly and certified #gamergirl, actively wants to the destroy the world and is breaking the peace by spreading nen to her followers using her ability and letting them gain “levels” by killing people on the ship.

e plot: the phantom troupe has shown up knowing that hisoka will have followed them here and are trying to track him down and kill him. they’ve split into groups and the only group we’ve followed- phinks, feitan and nobunaga- have teamed up with the xi-yu and cha-r to deal with both hisoka and morena. during this we get an extended flashback about how the phantom troupe used to be tween anime dubbers and originally became criminals to track down those who killed their friend.

f plot: unbeknownst to the phantom troupe, the xi-yu’s underboss hinrigh has already met with hisoka (or at least someone who looks a lot like him) and given him a passage to the top level, where the royal family is, because the mafia knows a fight against hisoka will be more trouble than it’s worth while also trying to stop morena. in other words: hisoka is going to where kurapika is

g plot: tserriednich, the previously mentioned guy with the eyes, is also a misogynist serial killer and has gotten interested in nen, so his bodyguard theta has decided to teach him nen herself in order to slow him down and potentially stop him. unfortunately he’s a nen genius and has already developed an ability that lets him see into the future and overwrite reality by reacting accordingly, which he used to get out of theta shooting him. his nen beast has now marked theta for lying to him twice and will make her “no longer human” if she lies a third time.

h plot: melody, hired to be here by kurapika, attempted to sneak the teenage twin tenth and eleven princes off the ship only for the tenth prince (and the other hunter she was working with) to be killed, revealing the princes cannot leave the ship. thankfully the tenth prince kacho’s nen beast is basically her ghost. melody is now likely going to have to deal with an investigation into her actions and has also noticed that eleventh prince fugetsu is rapidly having her nen depleted. kaiser, a member of the justice bureau, claims to have fallen in love with melody after she performed her music for the ship and intends to help her, but melody doesn’t trust him and thinks he’s using manipulation nen on himself. oh and a large amount of the princes have invited her to perform for them, including tserriednich.

i plot: first prince benjamin, a nen user, has control of the military and has used his customary status as firstborn to send one of his guards to each of his younger siblings, which in at least one case led to a successful kill (the eighth prince). he’s in lockdown currently however because second prince camilla, also a nen user with an extremely powerful ability that seems to prevent her from being killed, attempted to kill him herself, and the justice bureau on the ship is trying to figure out who started what.

j plot: camilla has a group of ultra-loyal guards from the lower caste who have developed nen curses to kill her siblings in exchange for their own deaths. their captain, sarahell, has been developing a curse on woble and intends to attend kurapika’s class to deploy it.

k plot: ninth prince halkenburg, a baby marxist who progressive civilians and the younger princes both see as a potential savior, tried to kill his father and then himself after the first death in the succession battle and got stopped by nen beasts both times. he has responded to this by going apeshit and developing an ability that appears to allow him to put the souls of his guards into other people. his testing of this involved having one of his men shoot himself while in the body of one of benjamin’s men, so benjamin has him arrested now too.

l plot: third prince zhang-li’s nen beast is dispensing mysterious coins and zhang-li is dispensing said coins amongst his guards as well as to melody, whose performance he liked. zhang-li also appears to be hiding that he’s actually the son of the king’s illegitimate half-brother onior, the head of the xi-yu, who he’s asked to look into the last succession battle.

m plot: hanzo and bisky, also hired to be here by kurapika, were working as bodyguards for the twelfth and thirteenth princes until the twelfth prince was the first death of the war. the kindergarten-aged thirteenth prince’s stress in response to his sister dying now appears to have led his nen beast to trap their group in some sort of reality bubble. bisky had to reveal her battle form to head servant vergei to explain nen and what was happening, which has mostly just led to vergei getting a mad crush on her.

n plot: izunavi and basho are also here on kurapika’s behest guarding the sixth and seventh princes, who both have not done much yet; sixth prince tyson has a mysterious religious creed that izunavi has convinced her to pass onto her father and seventh prince luzurus mostly likes to smoke weed everyday but seems surprisingly perceptive and, more importantly, apparently funds the cha-r.

o plot: despite being a deranged maniac, tserriednich has a group of childhood friends working fairly standard military guard positions on the lower floors; they’re trying to find out more about nen after picking up that the hei-ly, which tserriednich was allied with before morena took over, are using it.

p plot: fifth prince tubeppa, aware she has few allies and little knowledge of nen, has been trying to meet with kurapika for a while. the literal last thing teased before this hiatus was her bodyguard longhi revealing to kurapika that she knows nen and kurapika agreeing to meet with tubeppa.

q plot: the rest of the phantom troupe has split off: machi and franklin are both on their own (but nobunaga wants to go get franklin), chrollo is making a plan with shizuku and bonolenov that appears to involve a disguise ability bono has, and illumi joined the troupe on hisoka’s request so they could have a yaoi death battle and is with kalluto. speaking of which:

r plot: mizai ran into illumi and kalluto and has them staying in a room in the quarters the zodiacs are using. he’s currently trying to figure out whether he should be telling kurapika the troupe is on the ship or not, knowing it could risk the well-being of both woble and kurapika himself. (he also secretly gave melody clearance to try to save the twins.)

s plot: beyond netero is still in lock up and being watched by members of the zodiacs. he hasn’t done anything yet, but it has been implied he’ll try to escape at the fake “dark continent.”

t plot: ging and pariston have a group allied with beyond who are going to the dark continent themselves; ging joined because he knows pariston must be up to something. it remains ambiguous whether they have their own boat or are on the whale somewhere.

u plot: leorio and cheadle are working at an understaffed clinic near the zodiac headquarters, meaning that once again Leorio Is Just Offscreen

v plot: a random member of the cha-r is trying to get the autographs of the phantom troupe members. this has been used to dispense plot info about how far we are from being out of contact with land. pray for his success

TOTAL PLOTS COUNT: 22

[kikker-oma]

Fan Joy July - Day 26

What's the Opposite of Tunnel Vision? By @enjolras-out is freaking - RAAAAAAAHH

SO good. SO TENSE! Lots of whump and ooohhh wild throwing Hyrule out of the way and taking the damage himself?! SELF SACRIFICE BELOVED.

Read this if you love whump!! Mind the tags🥰🥰

[ladeldee]

Happy Anniversary to them 💖💖💖

Also shout out to Phil meeting Missa for the first time being the most replayed moment in his first vod lmaoooo

[shinotail]

totally haven't been hyperfixed on this game for the past two weeks ahaha

+ some sif portrait redraws under the cut

[k3nnyonly1]

I been watching the Basics In Behavior Animation Video nonstop and i really like the animationNNNNNN Let me put the link for you guys to check it out! THeir style is so cool!! So cool that I have to draw them into WH version The last guy is my WH oc! His name is Drag web! :DD Basic In Behavior by The Living Tombstone Animation by Kaatie

[slaughter-books]

Day 31: JOMPBPC: Read In July

My incredible July, 2023 reading wrap-up! 💙

[booksandrandomfandoms]

JOMP day 31

Read in July

Here is my July wrap up

[aakipple]

it was my 1st cherry magicversary the other day

[pillsopa]

4th of July, a perfect day for Bananafish

up as a print here :-)

[shisasan]

July 19, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]