#this book is still on my TBR

[mrspasser]

'The obvious conclusion,' writes military expert Dave Grossman, 'is that most soldiers were not trying to kill the enemy.'

"Some twelve thousand muskets were double-loaded, and half of those more than triple. One rifle even had twenty-three balls in the barrel — which is absurd. These soldiers had been thoroughly drilled by their officers. Muskets, they all knew, were designed to discharge one ball at a time. So what were they doing? Only much later did historians figure it out: loading a gun is the perfect excuse not to shoot it. And if it happened to be loaded already, well, you just loaded it again. And again.

— Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

[idontmindifuforgetme]

About to deep clean & rearrange my bookcase …… I am about to be a girl reborn

[smartspo]

I visited a friend in Norway last week, and brought some souvenirs back 📖☕️ I'm continuing my tradition of getting a book written by an author of the country I'm visiting, so I decided to pick this one!

[divorceblogger]

I get the impression that I’ve become such a movie guy lately (160 movies logged this year…. 🚬) because I tend to have a harder time discovering and collating good books for my tbr. letterboxd offers many interesting lists and the ratings generally tend to correlate with the objective merit of a movie so I think I also find movies pertaining to specific genres and themes very easily? anyway how do all of you discover good books ❤️

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Bought a few books in the last little while but to be fair to me, it’s my birthday month and I had coupons 🙊

[read-alert]

Every month I go "Wow, I really bit off more than I can chew with this TBR; I'll make a smaller one next month," and every month I proceed to make a way too big TBR

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Daisy Chaining; Or, Connecting the TBR!

Does anybody besides me like to find Connections between Seemingly/Largely Unrelated Books and use those connections to plot a route through the old TBR?? I don't know about you, but I have a LOT of books I want to read, and sometimes I get Whelmed™ by my choices. So I'll either pick a small stack and make that a particular month's micro-TBR (good if I have specific Goals!), OR I'll start with something I really want to read, and I'll daisy chain from there.

For example: I'd been waiting for TRANSLATION STATE to release in paperback since the hardback was announced (because Translators, my beloveds). So I annihilated that in a couple days (it was very good, all right??), and then I had to figure out where to go next despite cruising on the Translators High.

Because the Translators' fucked up body horror (which I mean mostly affectionately, but I'm side eyeing the matching pretty hard) was at times....goopy...I thought a book about a shapeshifter whose default form is an amorphous lump would be good next, which got me to SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (which I also enjoyed!! shout-out to @asexualbookbird for gifting it to meee!!).

Since NEST is Monsters in a Fantasy Forest with a side of Politics and Power, my next read is THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST (because it's also...wait for it...Monsters in a Fantasy Forest with a side of Politics and Power). And after that, I'll come OUT of the forest with AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, which promises to be weird and vaguely monstrous but with a literary bent (I put it on one of my writing TBR lists, and my general "read this by the end of 2024" list).

So, yeah! That's how you daisy chain to get from SF to fantasy/horror to fantasy to weird Lit Fic in the span of four (4) books, while maintaining something like a continuity. By the end of the year, my Books Read shelf looks a little chaotic, but there generally really is a rhyme AND a reason about it!

(Please click on the photo for better image quality! I edited it weirdly compared to usual and it looks good on my screen but ah. Less So, in tungledlandia.,.,)

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

oughhhhh T_T i need to read . i need to read i need to readddddddddd

[gothsuguru]

hi kairo :333 he loves you i love you i hope you’re doing well …. !!!! napping and eating tasty food and drinking lots of water and going on walks !!!!!!!

here is a treat and a drink that suguru made for u :33 ily always 🍵🍪

ARI MY ULTIMATE BELOVED HIIIIIIII BESTIEEEEEE :3 HOW ARE YOU MY LOVE HOW’RE YOU FEELING i hope you feel a bit more refreshed & rejuvenated bc you deserve it!!! AND HEHEHEHE am doing most of those things except the walking omg let me add daily walks back into my routine actually…….. will walk & get boba soon you just Opened my third eye rn <333

TY FOR THE TREAT & THE SUGU I’M CHOMPING ON THEM BOTH RARFJFJDJGHHARGSH (sounds of me eating) HERE’S SOME TREATS & A SUGU FOR YOU AS WELL HEHEHEHE 🍱🍡🍵 ILYSMMMMM 🙂‍↕️🫶🏼

[acourtofquestions]

Starting the Assassin’s Blade:

Fully aware that I am going to fall in love with Sam Cortland; enjoy the story & character arc so much that I forget I know the ending… 🚨And then be consequently utterly wrecked when he inevitably dies… yay🤦🏼‍♀️😅🖤☠️.

[henreyettah]

“There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air and the flies that will eat this carcass? You could leave me for five years, you could return never—and I have to write the rest of this not knowing.”

[nikoisme]

fighting the urge to reread the odyssey again btw.

[seventhofcrows]

Who here Alaning their Gratz right now?

[kay-claire]

Title reveal for my next book! The Full Moon Problem, m/m werewolf x witch romance with a trans main character, out in October!

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || January 2 || TBR This Month:  Most of January's must read books are already started and destined for tomorrow's prompt. A few photogenic tales still await me though.

[tosahobi-if]

hey yeri!! i hope your week gets better!! is there anything have you've read or watched recently??

hi again anon 💕! it's been over a month, how are you doing? recently i've just been reading things for school (μ_μ) but i've been working through late victorian holocausts by mike davis in my own time! i've also started the jakarta method by vincent bevins but i've been so busy i've hardly made a dent in it (TAT) and last month i picked up what’s wrong with a snake that just wants to cultivate and transform? by chengyu but i've been waiting for a free weekend so i can binge it properly HAHAHA

as for things i've been watching lately, i've been watching shogun, dungeon meshi, and worst of evil! frieren and apothecary diaries recently finished so i'm looking for more background media to turn on while i work asfjsj if anyone has recommendations i'd looooove to hear them!