#25 days of booklr

[shisasan]

May 25, 1929 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931  [volume 4]

[poetry-lair]

Hi everyone!!

Today is a special day in Italy, the Liberation’s Day (Festa della Liberazione that it celebrates the 25th April and we honored and commemorate the liberation of Italy from the fascism and nazism’s tyranny, and the people who fought for freedom, like the resistance of partisans.

In these days is very important to remind the important of freedom and fight for what is right, in peculiar for the people who sacrifice their lives for that, especially for awful censorship, made by the Italian national television networks, of the author Antonio Scurati’s monologue, which denounced the terrible crimes of fascism, their silence and their complicity of nazism’s atrocities, that unfortunately they still justified by neofascists.

For this reason, I wanted to share with you this literary suggestion I’ve made, which talk about the experience of resistance by different point of view, or based from true events linked by the Liberation of Italy.

If you want to know more about it or share a thought,

You can write in the comment sections:

Have a nice day!!

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[the-head-in-the-clouds]

Inktober 2022- Day 25: Tempting

[threephantomrey]

book quiz:

tagged by @rose-of-pollux

1) How many books did you read this year?

a few. i don’t remember the exact number

2) Did you reread anything? What?

i did. Wild Rescuers: Guardians of the Taiga. and i think there were others i reread too.

3) What were your top five books of the year?

oh i don’t think i have enough for it to be top 5🧍🏻‍♂️

4) Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

i don’t think so

5) What genre did you read the most of?

fiction

6) Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

i was gonna read “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” after “Blood Like Magic” but i never finished that so maybe i’ll started reading it in 2024

7) What was your average Goodreads rating? Does it seem accurate?

idk what that is i don’t use that

8) Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

i don’t think so? i don’t remember making any for myself

9) Did you get into any new genres?

no

10) What was your favorite new release of the year?

don’t have any

11) What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Blood Like Magic!!

12) Any books that disappointed you?

no. i never have that problem tbh

13) What were your least favorite books of the year?

don’t have any

14) What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

well i’m never going to finish anything before this year ends😭😭 but i hope i finish Blood Like Magic and start To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before before 2024 ends

15) Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

i don’t think i did? but i wouldn’t really remember

16) What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

i don’t think i read any overhyped books

17) Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

what i read from Blood Like Magic was AMAZINGGG

18) How many books did you buy?

i remember buying 2 back in June

19) Did you use your library?

no, but i should

20) What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

oh i wasn’t really anticipating anything i just bought 2 books that caught my attention once i saw them

21) Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

no i don’t focus on any of that

22) What’s the longest book you read?

i don’t remember

23) What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?

maybe a couple of days

24) Did you DNF anything? Why?

i didn’t finish Blood Like Magic because i just kinda stopped reading randomly and then got hyperfixated over Hades so i forgot about it for a while and it just stayed on my desk next to my bed😭

25) What reading goals do you have for next year?

finish Blood Like Magic and start To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

gonna tag @broke-on-books

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

20-25 (whatever you haven't answered already)

20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

Ask me after Alectopause ends.

21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

No, unless roasting Babel's absurdly overhyped reception over PMs with you and @carys-the-ninth counts.

22. What’s the longest book you read?

Already answered!

23. What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?

I got through any given volume of Otherside Picnic in like a day and a half, both because they're intrinsically quick reads and because I absolutely loved discovering the series.

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

I don't DNF things on principle but Babel tempted me a few times.

end-of-year book ask

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#5

Book questions

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Red, White & Royal Blue

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Book flea market in my library

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hardcover or paperback, romantic story or thriller, fantasy or science fiction, audiobook or ebook, slow burn or crush at first sight, happy ending or open ending, childhood friends to lovers or enemies to lovers, exes to lovers or fake dating, forbidden love or soul mate, au or crossover?

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Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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[caminadrummer]

como leiste un monton este año mereces responder el resto de las preguntas sobre libros a mi pedido por favor

gracias cha t hamo ♥

Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

new as in read for the first time obviously but ursula k le guin!

Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

house of leaves, i don't think i'll get to start it before the year ends lmao

Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

i've read at least a little bit Every Single Day and that's huge. i set a page goal (7.5k) and a audiobook goal (150 hours) based on what i did last year and i met them both, the one i haven't met yet is books read excluding audiobooks which was 26 so hopefully i'll get to it this month

i also wanted to finish the expanse series (yeehaw) and read more in spanish and i did, though like half of what i read in spanish were translations so that's still not ideal

Did you get into any new genres?

i read a couple of autobiographies/memoirs which i hadn't rly done before and i really want to do more of

What was your favorite new release of the year?

the only thing i read that came out this year was elliot page's pageboy, which was a pretty good read but i wouldn't call it a favourite

Any books that disappointed you?

el juego del ángel was ass <3

What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

i'm currently reading mrs dalloway, las primas and undoing gender. mrs dalloway i started a million years ago and i only ever read like 5 pages at a time so i'd love to be able to Fuckin Sit Down And Read It, but hopefully i'll finish all three of them lmao

Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

no idea actually, i'll look them up and get back to this bc now i'm curious lmao

What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

i don't think i'm even tangentially aware of any hype just bc i live in a bubble lmao

How many books did you buy?

3 i think? the left hand of darkness, la traducción, and house of leaves which i Ran to buy when they announced the book depository was closing ):

What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

again not release but the ones i'd been wanting to read the most/the longest were the left hand of darkness and cien años de soledad and yes they were obviously great

Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

No ♥

What’s the longest book you read?

the fifty-year mission: the next 25 years, which was apparently 864 pages

Did you DNF anything? Why?

does it count if i started something and then entirely forgot about it? i started jessica jung's shine for shits and giggles and then lost my place in it due to Software Malfunctions and never went back to it (i only remember this now bc i saw my tweets about it the other day when i was looking for something else lmfao). i kinda want to go back to it for the aforementioned shits and giggles though

What reading goals do you have for next year?

hopefully keep up my streak and read a bit more than i did this year. i want to keep adding more nonfiction! read more in spanish! maybe finally read a little bit in italian and pretend i still remember at least some of it! just more variety in general. getting through the books i've had in my shelves for a literal decade would be nice also <3

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[libraryscarf]

Hey babe. Genuinely I want to know your takes on the following: 2, 3, 4, 6, 11, 13 (to my core, I am a hater), 19 (I know the answer I just love hearing you talk about libraries), 21 (once again, I am a hater), 24 and 25!

2. Did you reread anything? What? i reread Gideon and Harrow the Ninth after blazing through Nona two days after it came out. i also reread Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin. 3. What were your top five books of the year? Tehanu and The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin, Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, and The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber 4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year? i really vibed with T. Kingfisher's style in What Moves the Dead, and also absolutely adored the prose in The House of Rust. i'm also reading my first Octavia Butler (Parable of the Sower) and I can tell she's going to be high up the list of all-time faves. 6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to? no, lol. this year i read so much more than i anticipated or expected, and was pleasantly shocked by how much i actually enjoyed immersing myself in books again. Everything on my tbr i want to get to at some point, but it's nice letting myself float around picking and choosing at random. i guess the closest i can come to properly answering this is i was hoping to finish The Quarter-Life Breakthrough before the end of the year, but that's about it! 11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read? definitely Tehanu. It's been out for over twenty years and it's the best thing i've read this year by like...a lot. 13. What were your least favorite books of the year? The Atrocities by Jeremy Shipp wasted my time so much that i thank god it was only a novella. Speaking of books that are NOT short: Moby Dick spends way too much time talking about how to brutally kill whales for my personal taste. also it wasn't gay enough. L + ratio + should have kissed Queequeg. 19. Did you use your library? pretty much exclusively :) i am working through the stuff on my home bookshelf at a steady pace, but most of what i read comes from the library either physically or digitally! i also have library cards in other places so i can check out digital content from anywhere really. 21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama? beyond hearing a lot about the Lightlark drama...no, lol. i'm very boring i fear. 24. Did you DNF anything? Why? i got lucky this year and didn't have to drop any bad apples. The Atrocities came the closest, but it was so short that I couldn't justify dropping it 20 pages from the end. it was so fucking stupid though. 25. What reading goals do you have for next year? i want to read more nonfiction, but beyond that i'm content to just vibe and pick up whatever i feel like. i'm enjoying the hell out of guilt-free reading, and want to make sure whatever goals i set don't infringe on that enjoyment!!

[ryttu3k]

End-of-the-year book asks! Check out 2022's and 2021's, too.

1. How many books did you read this year?

Okay let's break this down by length! Novels: 26. Non-fiction: 3. Novellas: 3. Novelettes: 3. Zines: 10. Not including novelettes and zines in that, a total of 32!

2. Did you reread anything? What?

Nope, all new stuff.

3. What were your top five books of the year?

Top three is easy - Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, Space Opera by Catherynne M Valente, and Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle. For the last two, let's go with Jeff VanderMeer's Wonderbook, which is a wonderful craft book especially for SFF writers, and the incredibly bonkers My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi.

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

See the first three above! I already have Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle on preorder, and I've just bought The Spirit Bears Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White!

5. What genre did you read the most of?

Comfortably in my SFF hole, tyvm.

6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

*laughs in excessively long TBR*

7. What was your average Goodreads Storygraph rating? Does it seem accurate?

4.24, or approximately 8.5. Yeah, that works!

8. Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

Read more novels, which I did! I also managed a nice little nonfiction month.

9. Did you get into any new genres?

Nnnnnot really, haha.

10. What was your favourite new release of the year?

Camp Damascus my beloved. (The other two faves were 2022 and 2018).

11. What was your favourite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Wonderbook came out in 2013.

12. Any books that disappointed you? 13. What were your least favourite books of the year?

✌️

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

There's only two and a half days left I'm good.

15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women's Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

I read NK Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy (which would have been higher up in my listings but I'm kinda salty over her stance over the library thing and that tarnished them retrospectively) and they won. Everything. Three consecutive Nebulas, and The Stone Sky also won the Locus for Best Fantasy (as did The City We Became by the same writer), and the Hugo, with The Fifth Season and Obelisk Gate also nominated for the Hugo, and The City We Became for Nebula. Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation won a Nebula, Space Opera was nominated for a Hugo.

I'm gonna throw hands if Camp Damascus doesn't win something next year, by the way.

16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

Mmm, maybe Annihilation? I enjoyed it! I actually have a copy now because I spotted an uncorrected proof at a second-hand store for $3! But also I just thought it was 'cool, really interesting' and not like. The greatest in existence.

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

Honestly, not really! Most seemed appropriately hyped?

18. How many books did you buy?

24 ebooks, 12 physical.

19. Did you use your library?

Yup, both for physical and ebook.

20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

Camp Damascus, and absolutely. Go read it.

21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

No, because I value my sanity <3

22. What's the longest book you read?

The Fifth Season, at 498 pages.

23. What's the fastest time it took you to read a book?

I mean the novelettes didn't take long XD

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

Nope!

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

Keep reading. Try not to lose mind too much over Alecto the Ninth. Fail to not lose mind too much over Alecto the Ninth.

For some extra fun, statistics! I worked out each month by page count, so I can work out when I read most and when I… didn't. It works out to:

January: 2,105 pages (5 novels, 1 zine)

February: 463 pages (1 anthology, 2 zines)

March: 1,342 pages (3 novels, 1 anthology, 1 novella)

April: 1,034 pages (2 novels, 1 anthology, 1 zine)

May: 834 pages (1 novel, 1 collection, 1 anthology)

June: 688 pages (2 novels, 1 zine)

July: 1,155 pages (1 novel, 3 nonfiction books, 1 zine)

August: 652 pages (2 novels, 1 novella, 1 zine)

September: 712 pages (2 novels, 1 zine)

October: 911 pages (3 novels, 1 zine)

November: 192 pages (1 novel)

December: 408 pages (1 novella, 3 novelettes, 1 zine - note that this is inflated, the novella is shorter in wordcount but the layout means it's more 'spread out')

Month with most pages read: January, with over two thousand pages over five novels and a zine.

Month with least pages read: November, with one (shortish!) novel.

Month with most out-of-the-ordinary content: July, the month where I focused largely on nonfiction. It also had Camp Damascus <3

Months with the shortest reads: Aside from November, February only had one (novel-length) anthology and two zines, and December had a novella, three novelettes, and a zine.

Most condensed reading month: Aside from November again, October, with all four reads over the course of the one-week cruise.

[megsbooklr]

2022 End of Year Book Asks - part 5/5

21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

No :D

22. What’s the longest book you read?

According to Goodreads - Mo Dao Zu Shi :)

23. What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?

2 days probably :)

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

I stopped reading Tianbao Fuyao Lu because it started to get rather tiring...

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

Stop buying more books; no, SERIOUSLY, someone stop me!

Also seriously:

read all the OG Sherlock Holmes stories

read the "Sunny Books": Heart of the Sun Warrior, The Hand of the Sun King, She Who Became the Sun

just read at least 20 books from my current (as of the end of 2022) owned TBR list!

[shisasan]

May 25, 1931 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931  [volume 4]

[buzzbookshelf]

Buzz Bookshelf 25 Days of Christmas Reading Challenge

Part 1: Intro

Hi Booklr!

I'm Bailey and for my first post, I wanted to talk about my December reading challenge! I will be reading a book a day for the first 25 days (and rewarding myself with more for christmas!).

I'll be picking my books at random from the list linked below (because im v indecisive). I'll also be seperating the posts about my challenge into the intro, books, and reviews because I like to ramble and provide way more detail than necessary.

The challenge is split into 'weeks' (really groups of 5) and I'll have a post with mini reviews of each book. I'll also have in depth reviews of some books (I'll shoot for all, but if I fall behind, I won't force myself)

feel free to do the challenge with me!

the rules of the challenge are easy and flexible:

1. read at least one book a day

2. dnf's are allowed (but only if they're books I'd dnf on a normal day)

3. reading ahead is great!

4. bleeding into the next day is fine

5. if you fall behind, it's okay! catch up on weekends <3

as a personal incentive, if the challenge is not completed (or attempted valiantly) I'm not going to open my new books on christmas

thanks for reading!

Contact

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baileybyebaby@gmail.com

[riseofrai]

I'm doing a reading challenge in december bc my goodreads is severely lacking (10/20😭) so I'm reading a book a day for the first 25 days of december (am i gonna cheat? [reading ahead, starting early, etc] ofc, lmao)

books are picked at random but heres the list I'm picking from <33

(title - author - genre)

1. Spirit River - Erin M Leaf - Romance, lgbt (ebook)

2. August March - Aaron Jackson - Fiction

3. The Girl From Widow Hills - Megan Miranda - Psychological Thriller, Mystery

4. All Our Hidden Gifts - Caroline O’Donoghue - YA, Fantasy

5. The Sullivan Sisters - Kathryn Ormsbee - YA, Mystery

6. Truth or Die - James Patterson - Crime, Mystery

7. Invisible Ghosts - Robyn Schneider - YA, Romance

8. Most Likely - Sarah Watson - YA, Contemporary

9. Refugee - Alan Gratz - Historial Fiction

10. The Giver - Lois Lowry - YA, Dystopian, SciFi

11. Scary! 2 - Peter Haining - Horror

12. I Am Princess X - Cherie Priest - YA, Mystery

13. Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall - RomCom, lgbt

14. The First To Die At The End - Adam Silvera - YA

15. World War Z - Max Brooks - Horror, Post-Apocalyptic

16. Spoiled - Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan - YA, Comedy, Romance

17. Heartbreaker - Claudia Dey - SciFi, Cult, Mystery

18. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchet - Comedy, Fantasy, SciFi

19. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk - Horror

20. Lock The Doors - Vincent Ralph - Thriller

21. Carry On - Rainbow Rowell - YA, Fantasy, lgbt

22. Be More Chill - Ned Vizzini - YA, SciFi

23. The Prophet of Yonwood - Jeanne Duprau - YA, SciFi

24. The Revenge of the Shadow King - Derek Benz - Fantasy, Adventure

25. The Rhythm Section - Mark Burnell - Mystery, Thriller

at the end of the challenge, im buying myself a shitton of books as a present (okay im actually buying them b4, so i can open them on christmas but whatev)

(i also posted this on my booklr. if you saw it there, no, you didn't)

date

11/28/22

time

8:16am

place

econ! we don't have any work today and i finished my history late work so im procrastinating :)

pic bc i can

[themelodyofspring]

25 Days of Booklr | What book would you gift someone?

The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo

Have you seen this book? The way the illustrations span out like branches with each page. I love getting books with illustrations or maps as gifts, so I like to gift people with books that have something more than words. Also, a great way to introduce others to the Grishaverse!

[asreadbydana]

12 Days of Booklr ❄ Day 8

❄ Pick a season and recommend a book to go with it!

WINTER: Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

This book is the perfect Winter read! It’s a Snow White retelling with a focus on the queen and it’s full of wonderful wintery magic.