#YA nonfiction

[thepenmuse]

Book Blast: MEN OF THE 65TH

This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Talia Aikens-Nunez will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. Honor and Fidelity. That is the motto of the 65th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Borinqueneers, the only Puerto Rican unit in the United States Army. Since the…

[dont-read-this-im-dead]

Me: *reading*

Kid at work: That looks so good! Can I read it when you're done?

[avgsnorlax]

Apropos of nothing, thinking about Ned Vizzini today. I hope that YA readers are still discovering him. As a depressed “gifted” kid his books really resonated with me.

[agardenandlibrary]

me: I need to buckle down and finish this nonfiction book

also me: what if I read a whole ya fantasy series?

[batboys-cumdumpster]

Created a brand new "Book lovers" discord server!

I am still setting it up. Come and hang out, give server recommendations, and let's build a community together!

[urjustaguyonahorse]

Hey, I don't know exactly how to word this, but as of recently I'm working at a book store. It's really important to me to be able to connect with people through books and connect them with books that they'll love and will make them feel seen. I've got a good idea of a pretty wide genre of books but I need to read more to be able to recommend more so hit me with your BEST book recommendations in any and all genres. Fiction, nonfiction, mystery, fantasy, thriller, YA, romance, graphic novel, science fiction, horror, adventure, dystopian, children's, and whatever else. Books you really like, books that you think define the genre, books with good representation, why you like them maybe, whatever you want to do? Comment, tag, message me, repost so it reaches more people. God bless you guys and happy reading! <3

[undercrowns]

@loveisworry tagged me eons ago to list nine books that I like/would recommend. I'm finally reading again so here we go, vaguely sorted fiction -> non-fiction:

The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner: I think it's best to go into The Thief knowing as little as possible so I won't say much about the plot, instead I'll say that MWT is truly a master at using structure and form to convey character and narrative ideas! THE heist novel of all time. Also these books make you insane so there's that

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke: Honestly one of the books of the decade. Extremely different from Jonathan Strange if you've only read that one; it drops you in the deep end from the first word which I always admire (try not to know too much about this one going in either. In fact I'd mistaken it for a completely different book at first and kept wondering when the House was going to turn into the magical school I thought the book was about). Features many topics that interest me: the self as an idea and the mutability thereof, buildings that are maybe alive and maybe love you, loving and caring about people even when things suck so bad

Watchmaker of Filigree Street/Lost Future of Pepperharrow: Natasha Pulley I love you. Do you want to learn a lot about clocks while also losing it as everything goes in the wrong direction. You should. I'd recommend all of Pulley's books (still trying to get my hands on an ARC of the new one!), but Pepperharrow is my favorite of the bunch; I felt every available human emotion reading it and potentially a few others. They're all also SO funny to me while also making me cry multiple times. (originally read these after they appeared on many @lotstradamus rec lists, truly thank you)

Lives of the Monster Dogs, Kirsten Bakis: I don't know that I've ever read anything quite like this book and I have a tough time explaining it. I wrote in my rec to a friend that it's about being nostalgic for something that was painful for everyone involved, but at the same time held so much genuine wonder. Also about trying to understand your place in a world that has no place for you. I don't know what else to say; I loved it.

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel: I love a SCHEMER I love INTRIGUE I love to feel a creeping sense of inevitable dread spread out over three books! Hilary Mantel was simply a genius

The Multitude, Hannah Faith Notess: I debated what (if any) poetry to put on this list and in the end I went with The Multitude simply because I think many people haven't heard of it and Yoshi: A Pastoral is one of my favorite ever poems. beloved i will wait for you / always in the roadless shade

H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald: I came to this a few years after it was popular so maybe everyone has read it already, but I think it's a lovely meditation of grief and nature and how sometimes you just have to pick a (very specific and maybe odd) thing and do it to get through life

Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century, Sam Willis: I love an extremely niche book and I LOVE boats, particularly tall ships. This book was basically made specifically for me, in that it's clearly a labor of love by someone very knowledgeable on a topic that I'm already interested in. If anyone has recs in this vein (about ships or not) please send them my way!!

On the Death and Life of Languages, Claude Hagège (Tr. Jody Gladding): Another of the niche topic books, this time about how and why languages die out and the ramifications of their loss. I haven't read the original French so I can't comment on the faithfulness, but the translation is wonderfully done imo. Some turns of phrase I'm still thinking about

Honorary Mentions: The Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett (only read if you're willing to be in over your head but if you are!!!! they are a masterpiece) The Locked Tomb series, Tamsyn Muir (very polarizing books, I'm obsessed), the Temeraire series, Naomi Novik (dragons fighting in the Napoleonic wars largely featuring the Navy, tailored exactly to my interests)

tagging if you want @valentinetexass @veryspecificfantasies @unrealcities !

[margueritegracq]

Godddd I LOVE the change on perspective of Ellington as you read atwq. Like she very much the "femme fatale" mysterious girl archetype (as much as someone who's like 15 can be a femme fatale) to the reader (because ofc we're seeing this through Lemony's perspective and L's gonna L) but then as we go along we have more and more holes poked in this picture L has built up of her until all the stuff we know about L almost comes crashing down in a way in the 4th book as we realize that LEMONY has been more mysterious more suspicious and altogether more "Ellington" than Ellington the whole time

[safirefire]

im still in the middle of Medical Apartheid and Cobalt Red just came off hold but then I remembered that All This Twisted Glory (This Woven Kingdom #3) comes out next week on Feb 6th and now I’m re-reading the first two because I loved them so much they really hit my need for a fantasy with an interesting plot plus a good romance and it’s by the same author who wrote Shatter Me so if you liked that series I highly recommend it because the main character is so Juliette coded and the writing is so beautiful with funny and quippy dialogue but their speech pattern is Victorian so it’s like a Cinderella/regency romance in a Persian inspired setting with djinn and magic so anyway this is about to be a Tahereh Mafi account for the next two weeks

but also I feel a little bit like

[glassamphibians]

[wingedshoes]

writing nonfiction is hell's work why do i write 300 words then delete 200 because they sound like they should be in a second grader's diary along with what they ate that day. then I stare at the wall as the words turn into a flashback reel in my head completely involuntarily. I make an interesting connection and try to make it into the theme for the piece and my conscience goes "yeah that's why people's lives were wrecked so your amateur writing could have a tHeMe".

[aanantea]

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[analysisroulette]

Sex dreams, magic artefacts, barkeeps who know too much, and Dragon's Den: this book has everything. Except therapy.

[fruitbatfanclub]

welp…..did y’all miss me? i’ve read 7 books in the last 3 weeks. my social media usage has been practically nonexistent, and that’s honestly been such a breath of fresh air. but i still exist….until someone recommends me something good to read.👀

[desdasiwrites]

It's trans awareness week, and I'm gonna give you some books with trans rep/trans authors. Some are fiction, some are nonfiction.

Much love to all trans people, this week and every other week of the year! 🏳️‍⚧️

• Pageboy: A memoir by Elliot Page

• The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

• Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition by Munroe Bergdorf

• Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

• Peter Darlin by Austin Chant

• Variations by Juliet Jacques

• Lumberjanes by Lilah Sturges (comics)

• Yes, You Are Trans Enough by Mia Violet

• Dreadnought by April Daniels

• Gender Euphoria by Laura Kate Dale

• Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve

• Paper Planes by Jennie Wood (graphic novel)

• To Strip the Flesh by Oto Toda (manga)

• Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders

• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

• Whipping Girl by Julia Serano

• Am I Trans Enough? How to Overcome Your Doubts and Find Your Authentic Self by Alo Johnston

💙💗🤍💗💙