#top 20 books

[nerdlifeisbetterthanreallife]

Best Books I've Read in 2023

So, in 2023, I’ve read 122 books across all genres. I don’t think it’s easy to narrow it down to 10, so I will do 20, because I want to do a few from each genre I’ve read, so Let’s start: # 20: Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W Fieseler (History/Non-Fiction) This book is probably one of the most underrated in terms of the history…

[lustwithoutlore]

Barbara: What did you get Dick for his birthday?

Jason: I got him a Glutemaster

Barbara: Really? Me too!

Stephanie: I also got him a Glutemaster.

Duke, gesturing to himself and Tim: Looks like we had the same idea.

Jason, sighing: Kill me. Please tell me you didn’t get Dick a Glutemaster as well.

Cass: I got him… a Glutemaster 🥰

Later-

Dick, surrounded by Glutemasters: THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

[svampira]

you could never hurt me

[strangersteddierthings]

I think if Steve Harrington ever did read The Hobbit, he would just find it 'meh'.

This would, if course, devastate Eddie.

[takaraphoenix]

Dear Anonymous Shithead

ai wish i could like this but honestly nico/percy is kinda... wll not exactly toxic but like it really isnt something anyone should ship

It is the year 2024 and there are truly still people on AO3 who have not learned how to navigate the very easy filter-system, huh. When will you people learn that comments like these are just truly so embarrassing for you, because they make you look stupid on multiple levels...?

Can't even decide if the choice to 1. not filter when that's such an easy tool to use, 2. open fics for ships you don't like because you don't have anything joyful to do in your life I guess and 3. comment on the fics for the ships you don't like to complain about its existence like that will change anything is the more ridiculous thing or the "not exactly toxic".

The "not exactly toxic" is deadass so funny to me, like, you don't even have the balls to properly insult the ship you that you bothered to actively seek out and complain about. It's not even toxic it's just mildly inconvenient I guess?? You didn't even have the balls to call it an unhealthy age gap or anything, you're just vaguely mildly uncomfortable, like c'mon, this was the explicit "Nico is a high school student and Percy goes to college" fic, I was, like, fully setting you up for success on the unhealthy age gap angle there!

Would love to see all the hypocritical, fully toxic ships that you do ship in your private sin chamber though.

[mllenugget]

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[myreia]

✦ S U M M O N E R

Summoning does not come easily. Though she understands the principles and geometries, even crafted the arcane ink required for codices, she still could not summon. It is embarrassing, in a way, to have mastered all other forms of magic but to be stuck on this one. She devours text upon text, determined to move past whatever roadblock prevented her from enlightenment. There must be some book here, some tome that will unlock the secrets, teach her in a way she understands. She just needs to find it. —level 90 compendium

[captainderyn]

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[nerdlifeisbetterthanreallife]

Top 20 Books Read in 2024

This year was rough but I read a lot to get through it! I read 157 books and counting and these are my favorites!

I have read 157 books and counting in 2024. Audiobooks are my soul! I love them so much! I had a few favorites. If you read my Halloween book list a lot of these will be familiar. 20: The World We Make by NK Jemison After I read the first book, I was thinking the sequel was going to be boring but I loved it. I do think that Aislyn could’ve been written better. But that’s just the opinion of a…

[terresdebrume]

I think PART of why I've been feeling like. Bummed/self conscious about mind shrinkage, so to speak, is because

I haven't been able to create anything in MONTHS

I've barely read any fic, or watched anything beyond half a bob rewatch and Critical Role episodes

And not only would I like to have energy for more than this (like concentrating better on my DND games on Saturdays for ex) there's also a part of me that's like

Tired of the demands placed over people's hobbies

You've seen the posts, right? Read more fics, read more books, play games other than DND, read books by women, read books by POCs, read gay books play better games play indie video games listen to indie music, leave comments on fics, join this community/discord/bongo circle, also this artist you liked had a scandal: here are ten more things you should discover onstead, and so on forever and ever because this is the internet and millions of people with millions of opinions and passions and needs get mixed together

And to be clear: I understand those posts aren't directed at me and I understand the sentiment! I really do!

I am also just tired of coming to the one website that doesn't have a constant background noise of "hey! Buy our stuff to Life better" and be surrounded by a constant murmur of "Here's how you can Hobby better!"

It's just *exhausting* honestly, and it's not something anyone does on purpose or anything it's just... Well, when you start cumulating it, it's still creating a general landscape of being told you might not be wrong about stuff but you could be more right

And I'm fucking tired

[ladytron]

my top 8 books of the year :-) tagged by @penusinfurs

+ heres my goodreads

[arytha]

my favourite part of the novel finally happened fhfhdjsm rip chi you

have blue balls forever

[mccoppinscrapyard]

StoryGraph wrap up. If you care

[aroaessidhe]

3 and 13 for the book asks?

3 What were your top five books of the year?

this is so impossible but my gut answer is

metal from heaven

the saint of bright doors

the skin and its girl

walking practice

the stardust grail

13 What were your least favorite books of the year?

continuing from the last ask, Where The River Meets The Soul, Sea of Broken Glass, and The Endless Sea Between Us are a couple selfpub ones that had potential in the concept but I thought were just really not well written. The Marble Queen and The Baker & The Bard are a couple graphic novels that I thought had not great writing or storytelling, too

(end-of-year book ask)