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[kuwdora]

13 Books Meme

What’s up readers?! How about a little show and tell? Answer these 13 questions, tag 13 lucky readers and if you’re feeling extra bookish add a shelfie! Let’s Go!

1) The Last book I read: Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World collected by Pádraig Ó Tuama 2) A book I recommend: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 3) A book that I couldn’t put down: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Kate Abbott 4) A book I’ve read twice (or more): Explorer (Foreigner #6) by CJ Cherryh

5) A book on my TBR: A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

6) A book I’ve put down: Spin State by Chris Moriarty

7) A book on my wish list: I don’t currently have a wishlist but I’d probably put Evan Kennedy’s poetry collection Metamorphoses on it. 8) A favorite book from childhood: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 9) A book you would give to a friend: Xenogensis Saga by Octavia Butler 10) A book of poetry or lyrics that you own: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 11) A nonfiction book you own: The Making of the Planet of the Apes by J. W. Rinzler 12) What are you currently reading: There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib and Burnout by Emily Nagsoki and Amelia Nagsoki and The Infernal Machines & Other Plays by Jean Cocteau. 13) What are you planning on reading next? A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib. Also I technically had started this book already but I'll be picking up James Clive's Cultural Amnesia again. Next audiobook is hopefully going to be Eragon by Christopher Paolini or T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead, whatever comes next on my library holds. Oh, who am I tagging... if you want to do it, hmmmm... @wren-of-the-woods @reinvent-and-believe @soymimikyu @dancingwiththefae @ars-amatoria and hmmm. @crushcandles @danegen and anyone else who wants to talk about their current books.

[kuwdora]

reading has been difficult in the current stage of burnout agony. but i still love going to the library. and this month I went and got a bunch of art history books to read and think about. been working on new art things and thoughts for the last three months. art and design brain is quietly ticking away, even in the brainfog.

and I'm reading Posters: A Concise History by John Barnicoat. it's great, detailing the various art movements from 1870-1970 and how various commercial and graphic art were designed and created and received at the time. context about the conceptualization, creation. weird hangovers from previous movements, etc. the book has these great full page images of the posters that the author is discussing, numbered and referred to by that number in text so I'm constantly flipping 10 or 15 pages to find the poster in question and go back to read the rest of the page. and i discovered that someone who had this library book has ripped out multiple--and i mean multiple--pages of illustrations.

it's just so disheartening. I'm gonna make sure to tell the librarians when I return the book. but seriously, it fucking sucks and I don't always remember to look the posters up later since I have the title/artist but oof.

I'm still really enjoying the book when I can manage to read. And still being gentle with myself when I can only read a few pages at a time right now.