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i'm teaching my friend about the beauty of footnotes in academic writing ("welcome to academic yapping 101") and i remember a lecturer once showed us a classic example of a page from an old famous historian's book where like a ridiculous percentage of the page was just footnotes instead of actual text. i can't for the life of me remember which historian this was, i'm pretty sure he was german? if anyone has any clue who it might be please make a suggestion because that example still makes me laugh to this day.

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first day of spring 💐

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52 books in 2023

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my fellow history (grad student / phd) mofos: do you use zotero or endnotes? in search of all your hottest reference tips and tricks.

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35 mm summer flowers

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slowly making my way through three musketeers

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30,31,32 for the book asks? 😊

30. Best guilty pleasure read of the year?

I’ve really been off my romance game this year, which are usually my top guilty pleasure contenders, so I actually have to say there were no guilty pleasure reads this year!

31. How many books did you listen to on audiobook?

Definite drop from last year where I truly went on a audiobook binge, but this year I only listened to two! Exciting Times and Sorcery of Thorns.

32. What’s the longest book you read?

Dune at 688 pages!

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For the ask game: 11, 14 and 38! 😊

11. What book didn’t live up to the hype?

I hate to say it but Her Body and Other Parties just didn’t do it for me as much as I was expecting it to. I can totally see where people are coming from and I think in another mindset or at another time I too could have loved it, but I’m slowly learning that short story collections just aren’t my genre, no matter how good the topic.

14. What was the best book you read?

It was actually a very bland reading year for me, and I have almost no books that really stuck out for me and that I’ve kept thinking about for months and months after. The two top ones are probably Tender is the Flesh and The Trespasser.

38. Who’s your favourite main character of this year?

Surprisingly not that many character driven books this year where the main character really stood out. I’ll have to cheat a little bit and say Ronan from my trc reread.

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about your 2021 books: 10 & 26 📚

26. What books were you planning on reading but didn’t?

I am known for not making very definitive tbrs, but a few that i had on my mind for this year that i already own were The Luminaries, Oathbringer and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Hopefully this year, though!

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For the book thing: 39. happy new year

39. What book had the prettiest cover?

A tough one! I read a lot of good contemporary books this year which always have covers i really love. I think Magic for Liars and Tender is the Flesh really ended up standing out for me this year.

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5, 10 & 23 <3

1. Oldest book you read this year?

Dune by Frank Herbert! Somehow I was expecting it to be The Lathe of Heaven, I always forget how ridiculously old Dune really is.

10. What book was better than you expected it to be?

I have to say Lakewood by Megan Giddings. I was’t expecting this to be bad, but I hadn’t heard of it before I randomly picked it up at the library and decided to read it solely based on the blurb, which isn’t something I do very often. But this book ended up being absolutely fantastic, would definitely recommend.

23. New favourite author of the year?

I read a lot of books by authors I hadn’t read books from before, but none stood out in the way that i immediately raced to read all of their other books. I think i’ll definitely read more Ocean Vuong once he publishes more novels, and after reading my first Melissa Broder book I think I’ll have to read The Pices at some point as well. But no absolute standouts this year!

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ask me about the books i read in 2021!

how many books did you read this year?

did you have any reading goals, and if you did, did you complete them?

what was the first book you read this year?

the last book you read this year?

oldest book you read this year?

newest release of the year?

what book made you cry?

funniest book you read this year?

what’s the book you were most excited about before you started it?

what book was better than you expected it to be?

what book didn’t live up to the hype?

what book was the most out of your comfort zone?

what was the worst book you read?

what was the best book you read?

did you start any new series?

did you finish any series?

what was your male to female to nb author ratio?

what books did you reread?

what book did you finally read after putting it off for ages?

best non-fiction?

best poetry?

best fiction?

new favourite author of the year?

book you already want to reread?

what book do you wish you hadn’t read?

what books were you planning on reading but didn’t?

what’s the genre you read the most of?

what genre do you wish you’d had time to read more of?

best book you had to read for school/university/work?

best guilty pleasure read of the year?

how many books did you listen to on audiobook?

what’s the longest book you read?

what’s the shortest book you read?

what book have you recommended the most this year?

what book did you read because so many people recommended it?

what books did you dnf?

what book did you relate to the most?

who’s your favourite main character of this year?

what book had the prettiest cover?

what book had the best title?

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the beginning of my great tumblr comeback of 2022 as i'm finally officially starting grad school full time without also having a full time job is listing all the 55 books i read in 2021! i'm also going to repost that "ask me about my 2020" reads post i made last year as that was super fun and a lot of you seemed to like it as well.

the goal for 2022 is to read 60 books, we shall see if i actually manage to do that, as 55 already felt lie a stretch this year.

as usual, if i post more regularly about my reading on instagram and all the books i read can be found on storygraph which i'm using instead of goodreads.

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

Broken Harbour by Tana French

Vengeful by V.E. Schwab

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Secret Place by Tana French

Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel by Zachary Thomas Dodson

Ruinsong by Julia Ember

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

The Trespasser by Tana French

Jalat ilmassa by Antti Rönkä

The Sirens of Mars by Sarah Stewart Johnson

Good omens by Terry Pratchett with Neil Gaiman

The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

The Near Witch by V. E. Schwab

Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

No One Is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

There but for the by Ali Smith

The Raven Cycle books 1–4 by Maggie Stiefvater

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

Nocturno 21:07 by Antti Rönkä

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories by Mariana Enríquez

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

Bechi by Koko Hubar

Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

Weather by Jenny Offill

Tee työtä ja rakasta by Tuula Karjalainen

Supper Club by Lara Williams

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Lakewood by Megan Giddings

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Slay by Brittney Morris

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

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reaching

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what do you mean eating 10 clementines a day won't cure my seasonal depression??

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new favourite corset

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i completely abandoned this project in january but i am happy to report that i started over in deptember and i'm now! 300 pages in! half way through babyy!

we're finally starting dune today, send thoughts and prayers