#ReadingRecs

[else-creates]

MILESTONE ACHIEVED

I started posting my original Superhero story "Nobody Can Help You" on the 1st of January and I've been updating on a weekly basis. In three months I've hit one thousand views. It might not sound like much to some people, but as someone with 50 followers on TikTok, just over 100 followers on Tumblr, working on a completely original story and who hasn't spent any money to really promote my writing I'm honestly surprised. The support means a lot.

"Nobody Can Help You" is available to read for free HERE

[studying-with-k]

Reading list Jan-24

Books

Frolic of the beasts by Yukio Mishima

tools for conviviality by Ivan Illch

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

In The Company of Men by Veronique Tadjo (you can find my review here)

Only People Make Their Own History by Samir Amin

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Richard J. Evans

Papers/articles!

Letter: On Academic Marxism, “The Masses,” and Bourgeois Nationalism - Cosmonaut (cosmonautmag.com)

International Financial Centres as Channels for Foreign Investment Inflows to Europe by Bulatov, Habarta and Sergeev

Robin Blackburn, Crisis 2.0, NLR 72, November–December 2011 (newleftreview.org)

Robin Blackburn, The Subprime Crisis, NLR 50, March–April 2008 (newleftreview.org)

Financialization, Financial Elites, and the Changing Genres of Financial and Banking History by Simon Mollan

[byfaithmedia]

What has God called you to do? ✍🏼

Discover More: https://byfaith.org/product/rees-howells-life-of-faith-intercession-spiritual-warfare-walking-in-the-spirit/

[piepress]

Today's quote is from David McCullough, who wrote The Johnstown Flood. Did you know that many of Pie Press's books are set in Johnstown, PA?

Check them out here: https://piepresspublishing.com/product-category/johnstown-pa-books/

[thespotofficial]

Hey Spot I have a really good reading recommendation https://archiveofourown.org/works/48547717 I think you should check it out

ogay!! thank you ❤️👍😝

[committingtothetbr]

No Thoughts, Just Knives & Banter: A Spark of the Everflame Review

park of the Everflame by Penn Cole is fast-paced, easy to devour, and honestly exactly what I needed after my Onyx Storm slump. Some fantasy authors drown you in world-building, and I end up flipping back like, “Wait, who’s fighting again?” But Penn? She feeds it to you in manageable bites. I might have been confused at times, but it felt like I was learning the world with Diem. No harm, no foul!

Let’s talk about Diem. She’s messy, complicated, and incredibly unreliable– and I love her for it. Watching her not fall for Henri? A personal win. (THANK GOD! He was giving Chaol. Sorry Chaol stans.) I’m not here for the “I want you to unknowingly drop everything you stand for and join my side of the war, but I’m going to give you no backstory and keep you in the dark because it amuses me” trope. No thanks! I’ve seen this film before… and I didn’t like the ending!

But Diem herself? I felt so drawn to her. She’s constantly questioning herself– wanting to fight for what’s right, realizing maybe she picked the wrong side, and loving people who might not deserve it. Her father figure and Henri taking opposite stances in the war just deepens the internal tug-of-war. She feels unreliable, but maybe she’s just overwhelmed- and who wouldn’t be?

Now Luther… oof. I want to be into him, but something’s just not clicking. If Henri wasn’t such a walking red flag, I’m not sure I’d be rooting for Luther and Diem. There’s mystery, there’s hear, and he clearly cares about her– but he’s still a bit too enigmatic. I personally need more. More softness, more depth, more something to balance the powerful broody energy. Still, that knife scene when he checks her for weapons? I could eat that up every time. Maura was internally screaming with her little cane and so was I.

The world of Lumnos is brutal and beautiful, and the story blend magic, rebellion, and inner conflict seamlessly. One theme that really stood out was Fate vs. Choice. Diem doesn’t know the full prophecy for herself yet, but you can feel it simmering just underneath the surface of Spark of the Everflame. I’m sure the next one will rip it right open.

Vibes-wise, it gave me From Blood and Ash meets The Cruel Prince— not in plot, but in vibes and energy. There’s political tension, coded language, dramatic reveals, and that delicious banter. No bully-romance here, but Diem definitely knows how to spar.

Closing the last page, knowing what Diem is probably going to face next? Yeah… we’re in for a wild rife. Bring on Glow of the Everflame.

Rating: 3.75 / 5 Stars

⭐⭐⭐

[kathleenstoneauthor]

“Hey Jude” is the story of a young woman and a deaf child who desperately need each other, with outside circumstances fighting against them at every turn.

mybook.to/HeyJude

#ValentinesDay #romance #love #BookRecs #ReadingRecs

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

Watch Tobias Menzies read an extract from Mater 2-10, the #InternationalBooker2024-shortlisted novel written by Hwang Sok-yong and translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae

Directed by Charlotte Hamblin for Merman.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE International Booker–---nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history. In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-storey factory chimney.

During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on wisdom passed down the generations. Through the lives of those ancestors, three generations of railroad workers, Mater 2-10 vividly portrays the struggles of ordinary Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century.

It is at once a gripping account of a nation’s longing to be free from oppression, a lyrical folktale that reflects the blood, sweat, and tears shed by modern industrial labourers, and a culmination of Hwang’s career — a masterpiece thirty years in the making. A true voice of a generation, Hwang shows again why he is unmatched when it comes to depicting the roots and reality of a divided nation and bringing to life the trials and tribulations of the Korean people.

@ The Booker Prizes

Absolutely brilliant, Tobias Menzies! 🤩 Just his facial expressions show the audience his level of acting 🎭

#BookerPrize #BookRecs #ReadingRecs #BookTok #TBR #TobiasMenzies # TikTok #TobiasMenziesEdit #Seoul #TheCrown #TheCrownNetflix #TheTerror #Outlander #GameOfThrones #GameOfThronesEdit

Posted 25th April 2024

[alixx-black]

Books! Books! Books! Read My Books!

I am #writing #books and they obvs are my #readingrecs - so let me tell you all about them.

I know! I know! What do you mean books? You’ve been posting poetry every day. That is a factual statement. However, I wrote all of these poems over the course of several months and have been scheduling them to post regularly. What I’m proactively working on right now are multiple novellas and an anthology series over on WattPad. It was always the plan to put multi-chapter works on a different…

[emperatrix]

off the shelf:what I read Oct - Dec 2024

all the books I read and listed to between Oct and Dec 2024... a reading recap #bookreviews #readingrecs #whatIread #bookblog

Disclaimer: The cake rating is my totally subjective, entirely arbitrary rating system. If I finished it, you can assume I enjoyed it regardless of the rating. 5 🍰‘s generally mean that I absolutely loved it and will/have purchased a copy for my personal collection. Read Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey 🍰🍰🍰 See Rebel Yule for my sudden desire for holiday reads. A sweet, Christmas-themed…

[aaknopf]

“What is a game? It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.” ―from Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

[else-creates]

What I read in March:

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Men at Arms by by

Godzilla by Shigeru Kayama (Translated by Jeffery Angles)

Godzilla Raids again by Shigeru Kayama (Translated by Jeffery Angles)

Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

[studying-with-k]

Monthly Reading list

Books

Beautiful world, where are you by Sally Rooney

Circe by Madeline Miller

Stolen by Grace Blakeley (reading in progress)

Sputnik sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Papers

Frantz Fanon; Reason and Violence by Immanuel Wallerstein

From Stokely Carmichael to Kwame Ture by Charles E. Cobb Jr.

Marxism-Leninism and Nkrumahism by Kwame Ture

Nietzsche's Reading and Private Library; from 1885-89 by Thomas Brobjer

The Man Who Didn't Exist; The Strange Case of Louis Althusser by Lewis S. Kirshner

Vernacular Values by Ivan Illich

articles (thanks once again @apricitystudies for these article recs)

Pakistan’s biometric ID scheme is stripping citizenship from thousands of people by Alizeh Kohari

Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare by Peter Guest

[byfaithmedia]

Amen ✍🏼

[piepress]

Don’t miss these edgy, exciting, and surprising fantasy tales by a Doctor Who author who was nominated for the British Fantasy Award. It’s the latest collection from award-winning storyteller Robert Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected fantasy that really packs a punch. This collection features a Victorian steampunk who finds that cross-dressing is the key to saving the world, a rainmaking sorcerer who’s about to make the fourth Johnstown Flood a reality…and Inspector Glisten, a hard-boiled, two-fisted, rose-headed cop.

[yourbiggestfangirl]

No matter what you stan, fandom is full of contentious communications! Our guest this week Dr. CarrieLynn Reinhard quite literally wrote the book on improving communication online between fans! Link in bio to hear her insights! #unc #universityofnorthcarolina #uncchapelhill #chapehill #college #dominicanuniversity #professor #fanstudies #podcaster #scholar #popculture #academic #geek #geekgirl #ladypodsquad #fangirling #recommendedreading #readingrecs #backtoschool #yourbiggestfangirl #yourbiggestfangirlpodcast #ybfgpodcast #ybfg #fandom #fangirl #podcast (at Old Well) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1zLEBOhqAg/?igshid=ybzn5hbm41xj