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Self reblog to say I found out that there was a hatchet movie made in the year of our lord 1990. The film was retitled as A Cry In The Wild and apparently all of my coworkers watched it in middle school except for me. The cover looks like this

Bad

book in one day

I reblogged a post a while back about "reading a book in one setting can can be interpreted in a similar lens as drinking a bottle of wine in one setting -- doesn't mean I was in a healthy place." Well, I haven't done it in a long time, but man I was hooked by this. It's middle grades and written in verse not prose. I usually get turned off by books like that, but I loved it. Essentially it's like if Hatchet meets The Last of Us. Survival narrative about a 12 year old girl who has to make it in an abandoned town after something happened to her parents and all the townsfolk. This is a book I bought for my birthday at a cute indie bookstore.

It's less about the plot and more about the feelings but the ending could've been better (it is middle grades after all). She talks about Island of the Blue Dolphins constantly. Want to check that out/reread that next.

Have they made a Hatchet movie? God I bet it would be horrible. Don't want to put that evil out into the world.

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Happy 2023 epic readers. I have been noodling on and off on some books, and due to this, not completed a single one of them until now.

Finished the Night Circus at the request of a friend begging me to read it. I liked it. But there's something about it holding me at arms length. I think my favorite part was the stylistic choices Morganstern used, but I felt the story... The contest itself was a bit ephemeral. The whole thing was a bit ephemeral. Maybe it's like the French filmmakers inciting ennui in the viewer and we're just supposed to deal with it. Perhaps it's supposed to feel gossamer and like a dream, one that we could go to. Something more about the reader almost than the story?

Then the second is a graphic novel, Glass Town by Isabel Greensburg, which is a retelling of the Bronte sibling's juvenilia as it intersects with their real lives. I found this part was discussed in Glass Town particularly poignant.

The Wikipedia page on Glass Town is fascinating. Charlotte really thought she was going mad.

Also I find the art of Glass Town so simple but yet when you have these really complex human moments (like Charlotte taking off her glasses) you feel like you're there. I've never had that feeling more so than with this graphic novel specifically.

I've been reading Jane Eyre since December or so and I'd really like to finish that up. Additionally, for a total change in tone I'm reading Chelsea Manning's memoir and it's a fucking page turner. I'll have a LOT to say about that, I'd imagine.

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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end of the year book asks

 How many books did you read this year?

Did you have any reading goals? if yes, did you complete them?

What was the first book you read this year?

What was/will be the last book you read this year?

The longest book you read this year

The shortest book you read this year

The oldest book you read this year

The newest release of the year

A book that was better than you expected it to be

A book that didn’t live up to your expectations

A book that was most out of your comfort zone

What was the most unexpected book you read this year?

The funniest book you read this year

A book that made you cry

What was the book you were most excited about before you started reading it?

A book you already want to reread

Top five books of the year

Least favourite books of the year

Best non-fiction book(s) you read this year

Best fiction you read this year

Best book you read for uni/college/school

Worst book you read for uni/college/school

The book with the prettiest cover

The book with the best title

Did you discover any new authors?

What was your top genre for the year?

Did you discover any new genres?

Did you start any new series?

Did you finish any series?

Did you reread anything?

Did you read any translations?

Were there any books you planned on reading but didn’t end up reading/finishing?

Did you DNF anything?

What’s a book you’ve recommended the most this year?

Did you use your library?

How many books did you buy?

Are there any books you want to finish before the year is over?

Releases you’re looking forward to next year

Five books you absolutely want to read next year?

Do you have any reading goals for next year?

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hey sorry your boyfriend fell into the public library book donation bin. yeah he’s being used to fund vital community programs and support services. yeah beanbag chairs too. if you pay your overdue fines we’ll give him back though

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Reading AO3 fics on Kindle

I really love my Kindle, so I was wondering if I could do this. The answer is YES. 

If you have a kindle, go to ‘content and devices’ on you amazon account. Then choose the settings tab, and at the bottom there will be an email address for your kindle device. You also need to authorize an email address the kindle can receive emails from. 

Now go to AO3, and click the download button on the fic you want. From there select the .mobi format

Download the file, and send it to you kindle email. 

Then it will show up on your kindle as a document, but it reads just like any other book! YAY. 

LOOK AT THAT 

@redinkofshame ‘s Marigolds in the Hanged Man , which I am going to read on my vacation :D. Now I can read it on the plane. On my kindle. Without straining my eyes. 

I assume that if you are reading an unfinished fic, you might have to delete from the device and then send again when updated. 

But honestly, one of my big barriers to reading long fics whether done or stull in progress is just getting the time to get started, and being able to put it on a reading device will sure help.

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My new blog name is in loving slutty memory of my second home and this carpet specifically

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Short but powerful (like me)

Quarterlifin. Crisising.

Heard about this book on NPR's Life Kit (I'll go dig the episode up on browser). If you like the episode and want more, definitely buy it but just be aware that most of the principles of it are fairly clearly outlined in the episode.

If anything it was less of "this book" and more like "this book was a midstep domino in the domino meme that is convincing me to quit my job"

I like her relationship with myth and the reassurance of if you're lost at 25-30, theres still hope for you

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BUCKAROOS ASSEMBLE https://bit.ly/CampDamascus

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cmon, get your books:

The Luminous Dead - f/f, horror, caves, spelunking ( powells | amazon | b&n )

The Death of Jane Lawrence - m/f, horror, magic, surgery ( powells | amazon | b&n )

Yellow Jessamine - short, sapphic, and (you guessed it) horror ( the publisher | amazon )

and that last one???

STAY TUNED because I think I'll finally get to announce some shit soon.

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I finished these a bit ago but I have been distracted with life and I'm trying to impose screentime limits on tumblr so I don't keep binging and undownloading it constantly.

Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

This was a cover driven impulse purchase. Gorgeous right? It's YA, not in a series (felt nice to read something that you can tell won't be dumped into a million spin offs and merched to death).

A lot of it is really good. But one the framing narrative kind of drops off, everything is pretty well explored, you're left with a "mystery" which isn't so much a mystery. I don't know, feels like it was fumbled at the 5 yard line. I would still definitely hard recommend it for fans of Erin Morgenstern and historical fiction.

Oh, another big win, this book was set in the 1900s and there are several BIPOC characters. The lead, January, is a WOC and this book doesn't shy away from discussing issues surrounding racism, despite the fantasy setting. Would be curious to hear what any readers in these communities think of this book.

Alix has another book with a similarly beautiful cover that I'm also interested in.

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Would I be exaggerating if I said this book changed my life? Well it did. Changed my idea of what music could be. Made me fall in love with Sleater Kinney. Inspired me to buy an Gibson SG (all these men around me are so horny for stratocasters) and name her Carrie.

Of all the celeb memoirs I've read, this is the one that I would definitely read again. CARRIE IS AN INSPIRATION.

God I wish she had gone even one chapter into her Portlandia stuff and I really wish she would add an addendum at the end. This was published in 2016, SK released an album in 2015, but they've released at least 3-4 more since. I want to know how the band is doing now!

Currently reading: Quarterlife, Artist's Way, Glamourama, Gideon the 9th

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FUCK dude, I'm sorry. Dude, what is it with moving and these books disappearing? Seems like a common theme. (except I was the culprit)

Fire Study's cover is painfully uggo (same with the redesigns of the rest of the series), they look like abstinence flyers

Picture is crooked but I'm lazy

I've read this a few times. This is the most "ya stereotypey" it's read. Also I hate all the sequels despite owning them too.

slight spoilers considering also this came out in 2006, decently progressive stance (for the time) for trans characters. Will leave it at that.

Interesting backstory on this specific book: a friend of mine's wife lent them to me to read, then they divorced, and I never saw any of them again. So I kept it. I've actually not found this jacket design elsewhere online, which is the only reason I'm hanging on to the sequel.

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Adding my personal fave oceanofpdf.com 💕 happy reading!

zlibrary gone... FUCK TIKTOK FUCK BOOKTOK I hope that app burns in hell

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some not reads

some trigger warnings: brief mention of SA and suicide in context

Thought it could be interesting to note books I gave up on. It's pretty seldom, honestly, so I like noting it when it happens.

Autism in Heels: I don't even need to summarize why I didn't finish it, this person's review below hit the nail on the head. I got to a chapter about sexual assault in the last third of the book and I was like "why am I putting up with a lady I find annoying AND she's about to trigger the fuck out of me..." I would recommend "But You Don't Look Autistic At All" for a non-cis guy take on what it's like to be autistic (which I have blogged about previously).

"we don't actually care of you wear lipstick, Jennifer."

Heavier than Heaven: Kurt Cobain's definitive autobiography, if you're interested in Nirvana and Cobain, this is the one to read. HOWEVER, I got the sense I was reading/listening to a slow motion car crash. We know where the story ends. Then...on top of that...he's not a really likable person. He had a hard life and was kind of a fucked up guitar/songwriting savant. But even in the best times, Cobain was:

immature

gross (as in, dirty/physically unclean...some of his living conditions by his own choice are really difficult to read about)

lying

self-obsessed person

I know that's harsh. It's really harsh. The dude didn't have much of a chance to become well and self actualized. The big question is if he would've made the art he did if he had. Perhaps not.

But essentially it felt like I was listening to a book about an unlikeable character that ends with that person's suicide. Has a lot in common with a lot of protagonists in Chuck Palahniuk novels, in fact. Maybe there's a reason I've not finished a single one. (Someone spoiled the end of Invisible Monsters for me in a Contrapoints live chat rip).

I checked out Dave Grohl's autobiography because I'm kind of hot for obsessed interested in that man. That probably is more my speed.

Seems like a through line of both of these: biographies are only interesting if the subject isn't completely self obsessed. There's a way to do celeb memoirs (I just finished one and I've got two in the stack).

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the cruel choice between pdf (free) vs physical copy (annotatable)

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Sleater-Kinney in Spin - August 1996

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book in one day

I reblogged a post a while back about "reading a book in one setting can can be interpreted in a similar lens as drinking a bottle of wine in one setting -- doesn't mean I was in a healthy place." Well, I haven't done it in a long time, but man I was hooked by this. It's middle grades and written in verse not prose. I usually get turned off by books like that, but I loved it. Essentially it's like if Hatchet meets The Last of Us. Survival narrative about a 12 year old girl who has to make it in an abandoned town after something happened to her parents and all the townsfolk. This is a book I bought for my birthday at a cute indie bookstore.

It's less about the plot and more about the feelings but the ending could've been better (it is middle grades after all). She talks about Island of the Blue Dolphins constantly. Want to check that out/reread that next.

Have they made a Hatchet movie? God I bet it would be horrible. Don't want to put that evil out into the world.