#rip bookdepository

[drakvuf]

Men only have two moods

[findmeh-slongson]

idk u but saw ur tags. i also read skullduggery pleasant. and it was good asfk. we are not alone

We're two of probably ten people that have read those books, I have almost all of them but bookdepository shutting down makes it much harder to get them at a reasonable price

[michyeosseo]

Anita Yuen and Hsiao Shu Shen as YUNFANG & JUANJUAN LOVE'S LONE FLOWER (2005) dir. Tsao Jui-Yan

[pepurika]

Aaaa Bookdepository canceled my order for Tiger Tiger Vol 1 (I will get refund), but I really wanted the book. Where to get it to Finland?

AW :( I think you can order one via amazon (rip...) but there's also going to be few books in Akateeminen Kirjakauppa in Helsinki, and also in Turun Sarjakuvakauppa and Fantasiapelit!

[sudaca-swag]

Holaa, por dónde compras libros en inglés?

los compraba por bookdepository antes de que fuera asesinado por amazon, ahora mi vida ya no es tan buena como antes RIP

[eleteskonyvtar]

RIP Bookdepository

Nagyon sok könyvem van onnan. Egy korszak így most lezárult.

[a-chan-no-baka]

My eyes must be deceiving me o.O

[dazzledbybooks]

The day after the funeral all our mourning clothes hung out on the line like sleeping bats. 'This will be really embarrassing,' I kept saying to my family, 'when she shows up at the door in a week or two.'  When Deena's wild and mysterious sister Mandy disappears - presumed dead - her family are heartbroken. But Mandy has always been troubled. It's just another bad thing to happen to Deena's family. Only Deena refuses to believe it's true.  And then the letters start arriving. Letters from Mandy, claiming that their family's blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions - but a curse, handed down through the generations. Mandy has gone in search of the curse's roots, and now Deena must find her. What they find will heal their family's rotten past - or rip it apart forever. Fowley-Doyle says: “All the Bad Apples is a book built of equal parts hope and fury – it’s about feminism and history, family and identity, and what happens when hidden truths are told. I wrote it as Ireland reeled from the findings of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, as grassroots feminist activists rallied to repeal the 8th amendment, and the rage felt by most of this country infused into a story about a teenage girl retracing her family tree and finding herself in its branches.” Advance Praise for All the Bad Apples “Beautiful and visceral, All the Bad Apples is for readers who've had enough of shame and secrets. This essential book unearths what patriarchy wants to keep buried, dragging truth into the light with a fierce belief in the power of telling stories. Moïra Fowley-Doyle has crafted a tale devastating in its universality” - Joy McCullough, author of Blood Water Paint Book Links: Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40545833-all-the-bad-apples US LINKS: Amazon: https://amzn.to/2XsZEIJ B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-the-bad-apples-mo-ra-fowley-doyle/1130335158?ean=9780525552741#/ Google Books: https://books.google.com/books/about/All_the_Bad_Apples.html?id=DJxnDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y UK LINKS: Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Bad-Apples-Moira-Fowley-Doyle-ebook/dp/B07F3NYT8P/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=all+the+bad+apples+moira&qid=1564137706&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/all-the-bad-apples/moira-fowley-doyle/9780241333969 Google Books: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/All_the_Bad_Apples.html?id=DJxnDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y GLOBAL SITES: iTunes: https://books.apple.com/au/book/all-the-bad-apples/id1405309219 Bookdepository: https://www.bookdepository.com/All-the-Bad-Apples-Moira-Fowley-Doyle/9780241333969 Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/nz/en/ebook/all-the-bad-apples About the Author: Moïra Fowley-Doyle is half-French, half-Irish and made of equal parts feminism, whimsy and Doc Martens. She lives in Dublin where she writes magic realism, reads tarot cards and raises witch babies. Moïra’s first novel, The Accident Season, was shortlisted for the 2015 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize & the North East Teen Book Awards, nominated for the Carnegie Medal & won the inaugural School Library Association of Ireland Great Reads Award. It received two starred reviews & sold in ten territories. Her second novel, Spellbook of the Lost and Found, was published in summer 2017, received a starred review from School Library Journal and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Author Links: Website: https://moirafowleydoyle.com/ Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9013537.Mo_ra_Fowley_Doyle Twitter: https://twitter.com/moirawithatrema Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoiraFowleyDoyle/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moirawithatrema/ Tumblr: https://ecritureacreature.tumblr.com/ Giveaway: Prize: Win (1) of (3) copies of ALL THE BAD APPLES by Moïra Fowley-Doyle (UK/Ireland Only) Stars: 22nd August 2019 Ends: 5th September 2019 a Rafflecopter giveaway Tour Schedule: https://fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/tour-schedule-all-bad-apples-by-moira.html August 21st The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club - Welcome Post August 22nd The Book Bratz - Book Spotlight We Live and Breathe Books - Review In Between Book Pages - Review + Favourite Quotes Rants and Raves of a Bibliophile - Review + Favourite Quotes Bookish Looks - Promotional Post August 23rd The Clever Reader - Interview Pages Below the Vaulted Sky - Review Hauntedbybooks - Review + Favourite Quotes Writing with Wolves - Review L.M.Durand - Promotional Post August 24th The Bibliophile Chronicles - Review The Baroness of Books - Review + Favourite Quotes Story-eyed Reviews - Review Sometimes Leelynn Reads - Review + Playlist + Dream Cast Confessions of a YA Reader - Promotional Post August 25th Downright Dystopian - Review + Favourite Quotes The Reading Life - Review + Favourite Quotes marshmallow pudding - Review A Book Addict's Bookshelves - Promotional Post August 26th Utopia State of Mind - Review + Favourite Quotes Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile - Review Dazzled by Books - Spotlight Portrait of a Book - Review Book Rambler - Review August 27th Moonlight Rendezvous - Review + Favourite Quotes The Reading Corner for All - Review + Playlist A Dream Within A Dream - Review Boook Beach Bunny - Review Kait Plus Books - Promotional Post

http://www.dazzledbybooks.com/2019/08/allbadapplesblogtour.html

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update

it’s a day to the end of november, and soon it’ll be the last month of the year? which honestly feels so crazy, time has passed so quickly once again. i wanna reflect on what has been happening this past year, but i feel like there’s probably more to come by december so maybe then i will reflect and think about my goals in life more properly as well. but anyway, this post will concentrate on the present instead. 

the latest updates would probably be me, ending my internship at dis knee :’>) a chapter of my life is gone and over just like that and it terrifies me to bits. and now i’m back in school and still as rabak as ever. i feel like i need to keep myself in check so i don’t go too far to the edge and do something i regret all over again. it’s hard, to keep on going when you feel like everything is a lost cause. (when you feel like you’re a lost cause) but i need to get through this, and get this over with and to just keep going. i need to just keep doing.

apart from that, i’ve recently received all my bookdepository buys!! which is fairly exciting! i bought:

1. oyasumi punpun vol 1 2. it’s a wonderful world vol 1 3. fragments of horror 4. sad girls 5. kafka on the shore 6. ready player one (which is going to be a gift)

i’m actually super happy!! over having the physical copy of asano inio’s work, especially because it’s such a nice publication with a nice cover to boot! LIKE i adore it so much I’m so glad for its existence. But now that I have started this I feel like I need to get every single volume, so wish me good luck on that tbvh :’>) rip me LOL

I feel like with these purchases that my list of I want to get for books and shit should be getting smaller but I feel like I am a book fiend who will probably never have enough of books. but I guess,,, it’s better than buying drugs am i right HAHAH

honestly I don’t know what to feel about the coming year, which will be full of changes and things and oh my god the big 2. it’s wild and scary and I don’t know what i’m feeling but i hope it’ll be okay. I hope I’ll be okay. I genuinely hope that I will also be working hard to be a better person and not be so amazingly shit at everything. I should probably be starting from today already but, well, here I am right.

[realisticflyinglesbian]

2 and 23?

I’m so sorry I can’t figure out which list of questions you asked from so I’m just gonna answer from the ones I found and hope I get lucky.

/Bookish Asks/

2: What are you currently reading?

The last book I picked up was called The Miles Between Me by Toni Nealie, but that was over a month ago, RIP my reading schedule

23: Bookdepository or Amazon?

I’ve never heard of Bookdepository before but I have sworn off Amazon since all the Jeff Bezos shit came out so I guess I’ll go with that one

/100 This or That Asks/

2: Black and white or color?

Colors are beautiful and sunsets will always be spectacular but a good black and white film is honestly so gorgeous in its own right. So I guess it depends on the context.

23: Boots or sandals?

BOOTS BABY!!!! I’m a stompy lesbian!!!

/Vaguely NSFW Asks/

2: Are relationships ever worth it?

Always. Even if they’re brief, there is always something to be gained.

(This naturally excludes abusive/manipulative relationships. Those are never worth your effort and to anyone trapped in one I hope you’re able to find the strength or resources you need to get out soon.) 

23: Do you think you can last in a relationship for six months and never cheat?

Honestly when I’m in a relationship cheating is the last thing on my mind. I am loyal to a fault at times, but I would never cheat on someone.

[drakvuf]

Az utolsó bookdepó loot

Nyugodj békében Bookdepository! Nem érdemeltünk meg.

[inktae]

1 I think tumblr might have eaten my last ask, either that or I just can't find it over all the recent coffee asks 🙈. I finally read something by murakami in english and I'm so glad I gave him another shot! It's a short story called sleep and I just reread it because I found a really pretty illustrated copy in a bookstore yesterday ^^. His style is really so nice, it's so quite and introspective but also somtimes a bit eerie, it's really something else -coffee anon

2 I really want to read one of his full length novels now, even though the length is a bit intimidating and I'm in a bit of a slump with reading atm. Btw did the bookdepository work out for you? I hope it did^^, I get almost all of my books there or through amazon since most bookshops here don't really have a lot of english books. Also asdfgjkl now we dream apart is such a you type of angst, I don't even know what about it broke my heart, but it definitely did! -coffee anon

3 I don't know if you got my last ask, but in case you didn't, I just wanted to say again how much I love the idea of platonic soulmates! I totally get why fanfiction usually focuses pretty much exclusively on romance, but it's really nice to see something like this too^^. (trying not to write an essay about this again :') but I really loved it and don't get me started on hoseoks character ❤) -coffee anon

4 How is vegetarianism working for you btw? I've been thinking a lot about becoming pescatarian lately, but I'm still on the fence on whether I should wait until I've moved out or not - coffee anon

ahhh tumblr most probably ate your message ;^; there are still so many murakami works I haven’t checked out, so thank you for the rec! especially since it’s a short story, I feel like I can only read short stuff these days :( anyway, I am glad you gave him another shot. his style is definitely not for everyone but I think that’s what makes a writer special :) 

and yes! bookdepository worked perfectly. it took a bit more than I expected to get here, but I can’t complain, it’s free delivery after all hehe. I already know which books I am buying next but I’m very, very broke right now so I have to be patient and save up for a while. maybe in the summer I can buy from them again. I cant wait to get my hands on more books!! :’)

I was a bit confused for a second, but then I realized you were talking about the train of lost souls! I’m super fond of this story and I’m so glad it’s still on your mind, I also think about hoseok’s character from time to time 💕

and about vegetarianism, I adapted to the lifestyle very fast actually! though I eat vegetarian when I go out, I already have a vegan diet at home. I thought it’d be too expensive, but I think it really depends on where you live. I’m fortunate enough that Madrid has already adapted to plenty of options. two supermarkets near my house are super veggie friendly, and they both have a lot of cheap options for me (except seitan, but I am not eating any replacements except for vegan cheese which is also on the cheaper side). we’re even spending less than before so I think that’s also benefited my parents :)

if I had to speak about the hardest part… probably people’s reactions, which tend to be full of confusion or negativity, or both D: yesterday I met up with an old friend and as we were catching up I slipped it in very casually, and she literally just went ‘oh wow you’re a horrible person’ rip. when it comes to cravings, I do feel the need to eat fast food sometimes (old habits die hard) but chocolate, chips and the occasional homemade pizza have really helped me ahaha. I’m still trying to control that lol, you’d be surprised at how terrifyingly easy it is to binge eat on all the vegan junk food. chocolate will be my undoing ;;;

and I think becoming a pescatarian should be quite easy! (then again, I found vegetarianism very easy, so that might just be me), having the option of fish gives you a lot of freedom, a lot more than someone who has to avoid all meat. pretty much every restaurant has fish options, so I don’t think the change would be that big. no need to worry about missing any nutrients either since fish pretty much has everything. but ofc it depends on your current diet and what foods you’re currently used to - the change for me was easy since my previous diet was mostly pasta and rice ahaha. anyway, just remember to be patient with yourself and to think it through for as long as you need to! 

[mariannareads]

🌵19.9.18 🌵 Happy Wednesday Bookworms! 🍁QOTD: Favorite Hermione moment? . Life update: Uni is kicking my ass right now. I need sleep. . Current read: Found a way of making Tower of Dawn work. I'm going to while communicating to and from uni! _ Book Challenges 🍁Hermione Granger's Birthday, #bookishgreekchallenge 🍁What would Hermione Granger Do?, #BooksinSept18 🍁Happy Birthday Hermione, #BookstagramReadsSeptember 🍁Happy Birthday Hermione , #moonreadssept18 🍁Favorite page, #SeptBookstagram18 _ ⭕I was tagged by @parisian_bookshelf to do the #top5bookishfears _ 🍂Cracked spines _ 🍂Ripped pages _ 🍂Dog eared pages _ 🍂Spilled liquids _ 🍂Loaning my books and never have them returned to me 😔 _________________________________________ #fall2018 #bookscoffeelifestyle #septemberbooks #bibliophile #igreads #goodreads #instavivlio #vscobooks #hermionegranger #HarryPotter #bookdragon #bookdepository #booktography #greekbookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookstagramfeature #thebookchroniclesvol #bookphotography #diavazo #mariannareads #currentlyreading (at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn55fnzlWBS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ax3284p48mo0

[artbookclubdublin-blog]

Book Suggestion List: Meeting 2

A Manual For Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin

A collection of her short stories. It's 432 pages - it’s suggested that we would read half of it if selected

Available on bookdepository.com €7,08  or in Dubray Books

Book Depository Description

The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction.With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace. Her voice is uniquely witty, anarchic and compassionate. Celebrated for many years by those in the know, she is about to become - a decade after her death - the writer everyone is talking about. The collection will be introduced by Lydia Davis.'With Lucia Berlin we are very far away from the parlours of Boston and New York and quite far away, too, from the fiction of manners, unless we are speaking of very bad manners .

More Detailed review at New York Times Link Below:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/books/review/a-manual-for-cleaning-women-by-lucia-berlin.html

"All pain is real could be Berlin’s mantra, the motto of this collection. It’s no accident that one of her alter egos is named Dolores. The narrator is sometimes a cleaning woman (as in the title story) or an emergency-room nurse, two jobs that require constant contact with the messier aspects of being human: blood, vomit, ­colostomy bags, hemorrhoids. The agonizing moments relived here are often rooted in the physical. The time her grandfather, a dentist, took her into his office and told her to pull out all his teeth: “The sound was the sound of roots being ripped out, like trees being torn from winter ground.” The trip across the Mexican border to an abortion clinic, where she couldn’t go through with it but watched another girl hemorrhage on the hallway floor. Her ­arrest in middle age with her teenage boyfriend: After he is beaten by a policeman, she licks clean his eyes, fused shut with blood. “The best thing that could happen to you would be for you to be uncomfortable once in a while,” a teenage narrator, during a rare moment of privilege, is told by her teacher. In the context of this collection, it sounds like a bitter joke."  RUTH FRANKLIN

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Blurb: Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making.

Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

https://www.amazon.com/Argonauts-Maggie-Nelson/dp/1555977359

SCUM Manifesto - Valerie Solanas 

A radical feminist manifesto published in 1967. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of SCUM, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex. The Manifesto is widely regarded as satirical, but based on legitimate philosophical and social concerns.

There’s a free PDF of it online at: http://kunsthallezurich.ch/sites/default/files/scum_manifesto.pdf

David Eagleman 'Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives'

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sum-Tales-Afterlives-David-Eagleman/dp/1847674275/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516394116&sr=8-1&keywords=sum+forty+tales+from+the+afterlives

Chris Krauss - Aliens and Anorexia

First published in 2000, Chris Kraus’s second novel, Aliens & Anorexia, defined a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. Unfolding like a set of Chinese boxes, with storytelling and philosophy informing each other, the novel weaves together the lives of earnest visionaries and failed artists. Its characters include Simone Weil, the first radical philosopher of sadness; the artist Paul Thek; Kraus herself; and “Africa,” Kraus’s virtual S&M partner, who is shooting a big-budget Hollywood film in Namibia while Kraus holes up in the Northwest woods to chronicle the failure of Gravity & Grace, her own low-budget independent film.

In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus makes a case for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor “self-esteem.” Anorexia, Kraus writes, could be an attempt to leave the body altogether: a rejection of the cynicism that this culture hands us through its food.

6.64 on a kindle

10.60 Amazon

Sarah Baume - A Line Made by Walking

Struggling to cope with urban life-and life in general-Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to her family's rural house on "turbine hill," vacant since her grandmother's death three years earlier. It is in this space, surrounded by countryside and wild creatures, that she can finally grapple with the chain of events that led her here-her shaky mental health, her difficult time in art school-and maybe, just maybe, regain her footing in art and life. As Frankie picks up photography once more, closely examining the natural world around her, she reconsiders seminal works of art and their relevance.

With "prose that makes sure we look and listen," Sara Baume has written an elegant novel that is as much an exploration of wildness, the art world, mental illness, and community as it is a profoundly beautiful and powerful meditation on life.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/10/a-line-made-by-walking-review-sara-baume

"The Sublime", edited by Simon Morley

Documents of Contemporary Art, co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, 2010

ISBN 978-0-85488-178-9 (Whitechapel Galllery)

ISBN 978-0-262-51391-3 (The MIT Press)

Here is a link to it on BookDepository: https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Sublime/9780262513913, it costs 19.48 euro.

and on the Whitechapel gallery website: https://shop.whitechapelgallery.org/products/the-sublime, it is 16.95 pounds

and the UK amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sublime-Documents-Contemporary-Art/dp/0854881786 , also 16.95 pounds for a new one, and from 8.99 pounds for used ones.

Artful by Ali Smith

Blurb (copied from Goodreads):

In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Her lectures took the shape of this set of discursive stories. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted—literally—by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature.

A hypnotic dialogue unfolds, a duet between and a meditation on art and storytelling, a book about love, grief, memory, and revitalization. Smith’s heady powers as a fiction writer harmonize with her keen perceptions as a reader and critic to form a living thing that reminds us that life and art are never separate.

Artful is a book about the things art can do, the things art is full of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. It glances off artists and writers from Michelangelo through Dickens, then all the way past postmodernity, exploring every form, from ancient cave painting to 1960s cinema musicals. This kaleidoscope opens up new, inventive, elastic insights—on the relation of aesthetic form to the human mind, the ways we build our minds from stories, the bridges art builds between us. Artful is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world and a meaningful contribution to that worth in itself.

BookDepository: https://www.bookdepository.com/Artful-Ali-Smith/9780241959572?ref=grid-view&qid=1516465563487&sr=1-1

How Forests Think Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human - Eduardo Kohn

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world’s most complex ecosystems. Whether or not we recognize it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human. However, when we turn our ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) break down. How Forests Think seizes on this breakdown as an opportunity. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself. In this groundbreaking work, Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting direction–one that offers a more capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings.

€21.33 on book depository

Three Hito Steyerl Essays:

In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective - http://www.e-flux.com/journal/24/67860/in-free-fall-a-thought-experiment-on-vertical-perspective/

Politics of the archive Translations in film - http://eipcp.net/transversal/0608/steyerl/en

In Defense of the Poor Image - http://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image

[lostinastory]

Since NaNoWriMo took place in November and I was busy writing 50 thousand words (which I managed, yay), I haven’t had a lot of time to read. So I’ve been reading a little less than I normally do, but I don’t really mind. Not at all, actually. I think I’m going to try to not read as much as I normally do, is that a weird thing to say? I’ve been reading ~10 books per month for this entire year and it’s a bit crazy. I love reading but I’m constantly trying to push myself to read more, and that’s just not a good thing.

This month I’ve read 6 books, which is a really good amount!

  Truth or Dare by Non Pratt ★★★.5

This book was fun and I really liked one of the main characters and the story, but the other main character I hated and I also didn’t like how halfway through the story, you went back in time to the start and had to read through all of it again before you finally found out what happened after the cliffhanger.

Weave a Circle Round by Kari Maaren ★★★

This was mind-boggling and a bit fun too, but sooo weird. I just couldn’t make sense of what was going on at all. I think it’s just not for me. But if you don’t get confused very often or don’t mind being left in the dark, and like books that are a little crazy and all over the place, I think you could really enjoy this! (review)

Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff ★★★★★

Gemina, oh Gemina… I never thought that after Illuminae, Gemina would be able to make me feel all the same things all over again. Illuminae was amazing, Gemina did it again, Obsidio will be the end of me but I can’t wait to let it rip out my heart. This book (this series) is so creative and original, there’s honestly nothing I’ve ever read that was this beautifully made. The characters are so real, the writing style so original, the story so mind-blowing, this series is just a whole new experience. There’s nothing like it.

All The Ways To Here by Emily O’Beirne ★★★★

This is the second book in the duology about Finn and Willa. It was an adorable f/f romance with wonderful characters! The romance was so cute and I loved how it continued on from the former book. I would highly recommend this book if you like diverse romance with a focus on family! But definitely read Future Leaders of Nowhere first! (review)

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed ★★★★★

This book is so amazing and important! The Nowhere Girls tackles rape and feminism in so many ways, I loved it so much! The characters were amazing and the story was great and I think everyone needs to read this book. (review)

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern ★★★.5

Oh boy, I’m going to disappoint people now. Sorry if I’m going to ruin your favourite book for you, but THIS ROMANCE PLOT-LINE WAS SO PROBLEMATIC. I loved the writing style, the way different timelines were interwoven, the magical and mysterious vibe to the story, and most of the story itself… but I hated the romance. And that ended up having such a big role in both the story and the ending that it ruined the book for me.

What I added to my TBR

  Girlhood by Cat Clarke seems like a dark contemporary/mystery and I’m going to buddy-read it! I received an eARC of By A Charm and A Curse by Jaime Questell (February 2018), which is a circus romance story? I think? I’m really not in the mood for that after reading The Night Circus haha. I bought a few ebooks, Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Bernard, Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley (which seems like an impactful story about racism) and Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid. Lastly, I got an eARC of Furyborn by Claire Legrand (May 2018)!

How was your reading month? Got any exciting plans for December? Any of these books you’ve read? What did you think? Any recommendations on what to read next?

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November Wrap-Up: The Month of Writing Since NaNoWriMo took place in November and I was busy writing 50 thousand words (which I managed, yay), I haven't had a lot of time to read.

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Remember how I posted in my stories that Book Depository had copies of the Boddington Sense and Sensibility in stock? Remember how I thought I had purchased one? Well, I got an email informing me that they were unable to fulfill my order and I was going to be given a refund 😱So no Boddington. I still only have 3 of the 6... needless to say, I am devastated and I can't get over it. Like I have a legit rain cloud over my head with Boddington's floating around inside of it 🌧😢🌧😭• • The search for these books is definitely a frustrating one, but to actually think I had one in my grasp and have it ripped away is the most painful part so far. Yes I want these books because they're beautiful, but I also want them because I have read them all and I love them all. Sorry for whining and thank you to anyone who has stuck with me to the end of my sad and depressing post. Writing about it has proven very therapeutic. Maybe now I can get over it and continue the search... eventually 😭📚💔• #mrboddingtonpenguinclassics #penguinclassics #wutheringheights #aliceinwonderland #littlewomen #classicliterature #classicscollection @penguinclassics @bookdepository