#Book Blog Tag

[davidarc]

#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's Spell the Month in Books #23 - May 2025 - Author Names Edition! I know this is late (again) but I'm abroad today so I held out with this one. Thanks again to Jana @ Reviews from the Stacks for this monthly #bookmeme #SpelltheMonth #bookX #booklists

[holley4734]

Valentine's Day Book Tag

#ValentinesDayBookTag #booktag #bookblog #bookblogger #booklovers #books #bookish #booktwt @_TeamBlogger @BloggersHutn @BiblioblogR

Welcome to the Valentine’s Day Book Tag! A few days ago, I went to the library and happened to see their book sale. It was the sweetest thing that I had seen all week. There were a few books that caught my attention. Hopefully, I will have more time on the next visit to actually peruse their selection. Can books be my Valentine? I do love books. This tag is the original. Everyone is welcome to…

[nirmiti]

the intimacy of "how do you know that?"

"because I know you."

[rheas-chaos-anthology]

Questions to ask beta readers

General:

Were you confused at any point of the story?

What genre would you say this book is?

When did you put the story down?

Is the ending satisfying?

If you had to cut 3 scenes what would they be?

When did you feel like the story really began?

What was the last book you read before this story?

Characters:

Do you get any of the characters names confused?

Which character is your favorite?

If you had to remove a character who would you and why? (you don't have to remove the character, just make sure their role is meaningful)

Which character do you relate to the most?

Which character do you relate to the least?

Do the characters feel real?

Are character relationships believable?

Are the goals clear and influence the plot?

Are the characters distinct (voice, motivations, etc)

Setting:

Which setting was clearest to you?

Which setting was the most memorable?

Am including enough/too much detail?

Plot and conflict:

Are the internal and external conflicts well defined for the main characters?

Are the internal conflicts and the external conflicts organic and believable?

Are there enough stakes?

Are the plot twists believable but still unexpected?

[luca-is-a-pengu]

I just had to draw Josh and Fred the cat

If you recognise them, that's a real "What were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament?" kind of situation.

If you are 18+ I totally recommend the book to you. Very funny. Very spicy.

If you are a minor, please don't look it up.

[99redragons]

did the drawing, bill in full breakup hibernation + drunk crying

text says: ROCKY PLACE - Drown your feelings!

I. Want. SIXER! & O'Sadleys - "you'll be back"

inspired by the 'shave your grandma' code passage

[turtlespancake]

i love seeing out of context posts about long-running stories with deep lore because it's always shit like "MAJOR SPOILER WARNING!! i can't believe that the metallic athenaeum's envoy actually used never-ending dance of the 57th universe on rionne as if she's not LITERALLY the incarnate of august?!?!" it's like buddy boy thank you for the spoiler tag but all of those words are incomprehensible without at least 5 years of foreshadowed knowledge, 7 different fan theories, and 21 wiki entries

[inayascassettetape]

physics grind RAHHHHHHHHH

April 10, 2025

[cherry-mash]

(might need to open some images in another tab, my handwriting is tiny)

felt like drawing cute stuff, so combined zosan, my current ichiji/vinsmoke quadruplets loving each other obsession and my missed childhood reading of Anne of Green Gables which i'm heavily consuming now and foaming over the outfits

ps, zoro was 100% trying to pull the "oh yeah, a bunch of people will be there!" -at gathering- "oh WOW, everybody had something else to do, guess it's just us two then..."

[booksandwordss]

yeah, well

[paperbaacks]

༊*·˚ — 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝟻-𝟺-𝟹-𝟸-𝟷 𝚝𝚊𝚐

✧ — five books i love

the invisible life of addie larue - v.e. schwab

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - taylor jenkins reid

yellowface - r.f. kuang

piranesi - susanna clarke

paper moon - rehana munir

✧ — four books on my tbr

the cinnamon bun book store - laurie gilmore

butter - asako yuzuki (translated by polly barton)

just kids - patti smith

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

✧ — three books i recommend

babel - r.f. kuang

loveless - alice oseman

blue sisters - coco mellors

✧ — two books i've read recently

intermezzo - sally rooney

in the dream house - carmen maria machado

✧ — one book i'm currently reading

the pumpkin spice café - laurie gilmore

[davidarc]

TCL's 2025 Reading Challenge Participation Post!

TCL's 2025 Reading Challenge Participation Post! Once again, I'm making one participation post for all of the many reading (and blogging) challenges in which I'm joining this coming year. Stop by my #bookblog to find out all about them! #bookstodon

[wiishopchanelboots]

The Books of Earthsea Illustrations from the complete illustrated edition, Illustrated by Charles Vess [X]

[subconscious-deactivated20230229]

If anyone out there sees my blog, no the fuck you don’t.

[rheas-chaos-anthology]

Create your characters voice

Write one to ten pages (I usually do 5 for major character, 1 or 2 for side characters) as your character. Anything they would say, opinions, diary entries, complaining, etc.

Ooooh I have collected some helpful things to maybe include:

adopting slang from people they are close too/love interest

do they have a raspy voice? High pitched? Overly sweet? Commanding? Figure that out.

to make characters have their own voice vary rhythm, word choice, use of profanity, how much they talk about themselves or others, their politics.

Take some dialogue and ask if readers would be able to tell who is speaking with no context.

Write an AITA post from their point of view.

Identify what role your character has, a leader? a follower? a disrupter? a rebel? an antagonist? a peacemaker? How does that change the way they speak?

The character traits will tell you what your characters will say or how they will say it.

[crookedneighbour20]

zindagi se yahi gila hai mujhe tu bohot der se mila hai mujhe. humsafar chahiye, hujoom nahi ik musafir hi qaafilaa hai mujhe. tu mohabbat se koyi chaal toh chal haar jaane ka hausla hai mujhe.