#book games

[sparklywaistcoat]

The rules: grab the closest book to you, turn to page 56, post the 5th sentence.

Don't mention the title.

Copy the rules as part of your status.

"Readers expect to be able to search for and find any component of a work on the basis of a few key terms; any work that allows full-text searching will benefit from context-sensitive keyword indexing (see 16.7)."

[godzilla-reads]

7 Covers 7 Days

Day 1: Chivalry by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran

Rules: Every day I will post the cover of a book that I love and nominate someone new to start the challenge.

Tagged by: @littlebitdodgy and @a-ramblinrose

Tagging: @introvertia

[elizmanderson]

omg @victoriacbooks created a Remarkable Retirement RPG!!

[bookcub]

Mid-Year Book Freakout 2023

@readingbooksinisrael and @logarithmicpanda tagged me!!

1. Best book you’ve read so far this year.

this is very hard because ive read so so so many good books this year, but since this says best and not favorite so either kindred by octavia butler or spinning silver by naomi novik. expertly crafted, beautifully written, compelling characters. . . i highly recommend both of these books

(im also excluding rereads because then i would be here all day)

2. Best sequel you’ve read so far this year

ive only read a few sequels but they were fantastic. i will go with kingdom of copper and empire of gold by sa chakraborty. i binged this whole series in two weeks. some of the best worldbuilding, and one of the only political fantasies i have gotten invested in. im sad i didnt read it sooner but im delighted i have it in my life now!

3. New release you haven’t read yet

mmmm the witch and the vampire is a queer rapunzel and that could be sooooo fun, i love a queer fairy tale retelling. godkiller also looks very good.

4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year

you would think it would be the new pat rothfuss book but bast is not my fave so im more pumped for the ashfire king by chelsea abdullah. another high fantasy that is very compelling and quite fun!!

5. Biggest disappointment

gotta be legends and lattes by travis baldree, which i heard fantastic things about but my expectations were all wrong. i found it quite boring unfortunately. i expected it to be funnier and for more character depth. i don't think the book is bad i just dont find it very special.

6. Biggest surprise

seven days in june by tia williams

7. Favorite new author (debut or new to you)

MARGARET OWEN!!! little thieves and painted devils were marvelous, and i am absolutely her target audience!! fairy tale retelling with a twist ft an aspec main character??? how could i hate this book?? anyways, shes on my automatic read list and i follow her now! i need to read her earlier duology soon!!

8. Newest fictional crush/newest favorite character

vanya from little thieves is my absolute favorite, i adore her, she has a fantasticly distinct voice and filled with such relatable emotions. i am obsessed with her

9. Book that made you cry

i cry a LOT in books. most recently, the magic fish by trung le nguyen and my reread of the lunar chronicles but i cried at a lot of these previously mentioned books.

10. Book that made you happy

the magic fish also made me so happy, i cried with happy tears but also as previously stated, little thieves 🥰🥰🥰

tagging: @druggeddraccus @flyingcrowbar @aliteraryprincess @corvidaedream (no pressure!!)

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

9 >:D (and 8 too)

eh heh heh thank u friend >:D referencing this post!

9. What series has most disappointed you?

This year, the winner is absofuckenlutely THE SKYBOUND SAGA by Alex London--I really super wanted to love it, because it's birds (specifically RAPTORS like come ON) and that's 100% my jam, but, unfortunately, I Know Too Much About Raptors To Buy A Lot Of This Shit, and I suspect I've largely outgrown YA :( But gosh I had such high hopes for those books (and their beautiful covers)...

8. What series has most pleased you?

(I've been scrolling backwards through my Goodreads to answer these, by the way, and I already used SINGING HILLS for the previous answer, so:)

I really enjoyed AGENTS OF DREAMLAND by Caitlin R. Kiernan more than I was anticipating? Weird, funny, fucked up little book, and I immediately had to track down books 2 and 3 in the trilogy (BLACK HELICOPTERS and THE TINDALOS ASSET--the whole trilogy is called "Tinfoil Dossier" which. mood lmao).

BLACK HELICOPTERS has been out of print for a while, and I did NOT want to source it from The Evil River, so I got to have a lot of fun tracking down a pristine used copy! So so far I've enjoyed both the series itself AND the process of tracking down additional volumes--double win!

[shimaira]

I'm wondering if I should add a game of sorts to MY LORD's rerelease 🤔 I already made a text adventure for it, could easily add it... But it would make the book a lot thicker depending on how I divide the options (there are like 50 paths so max 50 extra pages if 1 per page)

Thoughts? 👀

[disappearinginq]

Tagged by

@brambleberrycottage

Soooo....I don’t actually reread a lot of things, which is dumb, because I have literally hundreds of books that I won’t donate even though I’ll probably never read them again, so this was actually kinda challenging. 

a book you want to reread: Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C Wrede because we were just discussing it and I need to see if memory serves that it would be fine for an 8-9 year old to read. Or the Gypsy Crown by Kate Forsyth because I just bought the rest of the series off Ebay because either it’s going out of print or it’s being edited to be re-released with ‘more appropriate language’ and I am vehemently against editing things to appeal to our “modern sense of morality” which is a separate issue that I’ll not get into here 

any books you reread every two to five years: This sounds terrible, but probably picture books, especially one called Wild by Emily Hughes. 

any books you reread once a year: The Betrayal of Renegade X by Chelsea Campbell. This series is super simplistic, but it reminds me a little of the reviews people leave about the Foxhole Court - it’s not that great, but you also can’t help but love it. It’s in a world where superheroes and supervillians both live in the same city, the vibe very similar to Sky High. I love Damien, the narrator, who gets his Renegade X name from the fact that his mom is a super villian and his dad a superhero. It reads like fanfic, which is the best compliment I can think of. 

the book you reread within the shortest turnaround time: A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab because the first time was on audio book and the second time was reading the physical copy. 

the book you’ve reread the most times: Samanta Saves the Day or Felicity Saves the Day from the American Girl original series, because I forced my parents to read those to me every night for like a solid four years. Dad had it memorized at one point. He didn’t have to read it at all. 

tagging...anyone who wants to play, because I don’t know that I’ve talked to anyone else about reading books versus fanfic. 

[water-gaw]

The Hidden Books game is back and making me want to end whoever came up with some of those puns.

[theauthorinblue]

Okay so I just had the best idea for a library activity!

(For connect my local library does tons of community things and we have tons of parks nearby)

So, you find a story and break it up into a bunch of pieces. From there you hide them around the park, maybe have some that you have to do an activity to get, and have clues to all of them that can lead a child to the next segment and the next activity and all that until they collect the entire story, and since I’m imagining this in the middle of summer with a bunch of 8-year-olds probably a popsicle as well at the end.

I think I might actually suggest this to my local library because I think it would be fun, but I’m not sure how many people we can get to volunteer in order to run this because people are going to have to monitor the activity stations and if possible the non-activity stations too to make sure they can find it.

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[bookpdf]

there should be more hours between 6 and 10pm. like even just two more hours. for my assorted hobbies & activities

[unpretty]

as a kid i thought i would graduate from kid problems like cleaning my room to adult problems like jobs and taxes. but instead i have a job and taxes and still have to clean my room. cleaning my room is a lifetime problem. i will never stop having to put my markers away before bedtime. this is a rude way for aging to work.

[chic-beyond-the-wall]

More medieval dyes for y'all!

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

End of the year book ask:

What are some books you discovered this year that you added to your tbr?

hello! thanks for asking! referencing this post.

i got NO EDGES from Two Lines Press's Calico series in a subscription box, this year, and i liked both it and THAT WE MAY LIVE enough that i'm interested in acquiring the rest of the collection!

i've also added a truly obscene amount of things to my goodreads "want to read" list, very impulsively. highlight reel:

THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by Em X. Liu

DESERT CREATURES by Kay Chronister

AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS by Masatsugu Ono

THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera

THE INVISIBLE HOTEL by Yeji Y. Ham

THIS BODY'S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US by Edgar Cantero

(the TBR is, truly, neverending).

thanks again for asking!!