#the dovekeepers

[zuzcreation]

Cote de Pablo as Shirah in The Dovekeepers (x12)

[wulfhalls]

also just finished the dovekeepers and. not to be dramatic but that was spellbinding and breathtaking. there isn't a person I wouldn't recommend this to. so beautifully written such gorgeous prose so so so stunningly executed. went thru every human emotion possible and unlocked some new ones. unputdownable

[movies-tv-more]

TV Show Releases for November 14, 2023

[ragnarockz]

i’m trying to read through the dovekeepers and it’s like

please give books chapters

[midshipmank]

i am over halfway through 4/7 books i’m reading, yet i have not finished a book in over a month….

[hale-raiser1]

lhale: some questions don't need/have answers.

[feylived]

— get to know shelley !

what's your phone wallpaper: i've got two ! my current one is my girl wendy who we lost a couple years ago, and the other is my current pup ! both looking cute as ever

last song you listened to: i haven't properly listened to music today, but i play it while i fall asleep for white noise, and according to spotify it was fifteen ( taylor's version ) !

currently reading: currently i'm reading book 1 of the emily wilde series, and i've got the dovekeepers as my current read that i'm sitting on because it takes me a while to fully get back into it. next on my list i think is either going to be tusks of extinction, or ashes of the star cursed king ! i've also got maps of the otherland for when i finish my current book hehe

last movie: ooh, i'm not sure ! maybe the idea of you, when my mom was watching ?

what are you wearing right now?: i'm in my comfies ! sweat pants and a light t shirt

how tall are you?: 5'3" thank you kindly to the medical assistant who rounded up my height at my last doc appointment im never saying 5’2” again

piercings / tattoos?: my ears are pierced, but during the mask wearing time, i didn't like wearing earrings, so unfortunately i stopped wearing them - and now my earholes are closed up ! at least, the right one is, i haven't tried the left one aslfkgj shouldn't be hard to reopen, but i'm a chicken. no tattoos yet, but i definitely want to get some ! i want to get my late dog's paw print as my first, i just gotta find a good place to go <3

glasses / contacts: glasses ! i don't like anything to do with eyes, so i absolutely will never be trying out contacts

last thing you ate?: i had a few bites of cake, and also some oreos. very exciting hahah now i'm thinking of proper food at 11pm at night !

favorite color: any shade of green !!!!

current obsession: i'm six seasons deep in my criminal minds rewatch, so let's call it that.

do you have a crush right now?: nope ! i'm demiace so they rarely happen for me <3

favorite fictional character: oh, many. to keep it easy, i'll keep it to five ! piper halliwell, isabelle lightwood, emily prentiss, evie carnahan, buffy summers, emma swan, juliette silverton, scott mccall, brooke davis, nina zenik, rosalie hale, hayley marshall .... oops, that's more than five, isn't it ?

last place you travelled: ooh, i'm not sure. travelled being explained how ? going out of town ? the last place i went to out of state was costa rica back in 2020. haven't really taken any trips since ! but i have made a plan for the next year to take a 30 day leave from work to travel, either back to mexico or somewhere new, and that's so exciting !! it's the boost i needed to really get myself out of feeling super stagnant at work, having a plan <3

tagged by: no one i stole this from @salvatoraes tagging: also no one, i'm lazy and if you see this and want to you should do it too !

[embossross]

2023 in books: fiction edition

literary fiction published 2013-2023 (based on English translation)

The Employees by Olga Ravn (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

There’s No Such Thing As an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Human Acts by Han Kang (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Bunny by Mona Awad (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

All Your Children Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Mister N by Najwa Barakat (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Brickmakers by Selva Almada (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

True Biz by Sara Nović (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Abyss by Pilar Quintana (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Rombo by Esther Kinsky (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Men without Women by Haruki Murakami (⭐⭐⭐)

The Sky Above the Roof by Natacha Appanah (⭐⭐⭐)

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (⭐⭐⭐)

Luster by Raven Leilani (⭐⭐⭐)

Solo Dance by Li Kotomi (⭐⭐⭐)

Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah (⭐⭐⭐)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (⭐⭐⭐)

The Deep by Rivers Solomon (⭐⭐⭐)

Afterlives by Abdurazak Gurnah (⭐⭐⭐)

Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

Indelicacy by Amina Cain (⭐⭐⭐)

Out of Love by Hazel Hayes (⭐⭐⭐)

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (⭐⭐⭐)

The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga (⭐⭐⭐)

The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo Dávila (⭐⭐)

The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore (⭐⭐)

Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst (⭐⭐)

Nervous System by Lina Meruane (⭐⭐)

Owlish by Dorothy Tse (⭐⭐)

The President and the Frog by Carolina de Robertis (⭐⭐)

The Magic of Discovery by Britt Andrews (⭐)

literary fiction published 1971-2012

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Corregidora by Gayl Jones (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Open City by Teju Cole (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Lover by Marguerite Duras (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Abandon by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kōno (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Perestroika by Tony Kushner *a play (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Queen Pokou by Véronique Tadjo (⭐⭐⭐)

The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra (⭐⭐⭐)

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐)

Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (⭐⭐⭐)

Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid (⭐⭐⭐)

Bluebeard’s First Wife by Ha Seong-nan (⭐⭐⭐)

The Body Artist by Don DeLillo (⭐⭐⭐)

Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith (⭐⭐⭐)

Curtain by Agatha Christie (⭐⭐⭐)

The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza (⭐⭐⭐)

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (⭐⭐⭐)

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (⭐⭐⭐)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (⭐⭐⭐)

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (⭐⭐)

Coraline by Neil Gaiman (⭐⭐)

The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada (⭐⭐)

The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (⭐)

literary fiction published start of time-1970

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

🔁 The Stranger by Albert Camus (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

🔁 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Stoner by John Williams (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Aura by Carlos Fuentes (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (⭐⭐⭐)

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West (⭐⭐⭐)

The Hole by José Revueltas (⭐⭐⭐)

Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (⭐⭐⭐)

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (⭐⭐)

Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist (⭐)

[drumlincountry]

I was tagged by: @sailorpants in this tag meme in LITERALLY JUNE , APOLOGIES FRIEND!

last song: i dunno tbh?

currently watching: Literally presently watching Trainspotting (1996) as i write this. It's pretty fuckin good. I forgot it was a surreal horor comedy. Could do with less shitting on screen but eh.

currently reading: mmm mostly fanfiction since I finished Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. I have some of her vampire novels queued up on my ereader too. I tried to get into Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman this week but gave up about 3 pages in.

I'm looking for a good book on peatlands, since I'm spending so much time on them these days I'd like to learn a little about where i walk. Annie Proulx's Fen, Bog & Swamp was disappointing. she literally wrote Brokeback Mountain! but something about her ecological writing rubs me the wrong way. Very white american. Very colonial. boring. maybe I'd have enjoyed it better as a written text than an audiobook. Can't really skim the boring parts in an audiobook.

current obsession: hmmmmmmm. Overwhelm. Work stress. Housing stress. Various mental crises. I don't really HAVE a functioning obsession at the minute, i might benefit from one. I have been daydreaming about that one Being Human fic I want to write. might put some energy into that!

Thank you for tagging me 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

& tagging: @jealousofthetea @life-lifeisalongtime @likeniobe @milflaralorvan

[feyarchived]

private + selective multimuse, featuring muses from different forms of media including teen wolf, bitten the series, the vampire diaries, riordanverse, shadowhunters, throne of glass, & much more. replies come slowly and when i have muse, with ooc conversations and plotting getting priority when it comes to writing. featuring what i call shelleylore.

♛ affiliated with: @everdawn + @maimedaffair / @screwhope ♛ links: carrd + memes + wishlist + gif credit ♛ currently reading: the dovekeepers

written by shelley. 31. gmt - 8. xkit rewritten & beta editor only.

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[lyllith]

2, 21 and 27!

Do you drink tea or coffee? How do you take it? 

I don't really drink most tea. I'm a coffee girl. I prefer it iced with vanilla creamer, but I'll drink it hot in winter.

How was your day today? 

It was ok! I made a no-bake cake with my mom for Tuesday, threw some food in the crockpot, napped, and have woken up to a rainstorm.

What’s your favorite book? Or just one you’ve read a few times? 

This is so hard because I've read so many, but some that have resonated with me in the last few years are:

Wide Sargasso Sea

The Blind Assassin

Monday's Not Coming

Rooftops of Tehran

We Need To Talk About Kevin

The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Burial Rites

The Tiger Queens: the Women of Genghis Khan

The Dovekeepers

I love historical fiction, so if anyone has recommendations please send them my way!

[wulfhalls]

random ask but do you have any historical fiction to recommend?

well. funny u should ask: WOLF HALL TRILOGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anything sharon kay penman especially the sunne in splendour and the land beyond the sea , the age of innocence!!!! by edith wharton (also house of mirth but I'm only half way thru) the name of the rose (I mean it made me wanna kill myself in real life but a lot of people like it so) the luminaries - eleanor catton, the dovekeepers - alice hoffman!!!!!!!! war and peace (again a chance for me to mention I've read all of that. the whole thing. even the 100 pages long epilogue # post austerlitz depression andrey REAL) count of monte cristo - dumas (genuinely engaging and fun for the entire 1000 page count) alias grace - margaret atwood (one of my all time favs also burial rights by hannah kent which has a very similar subject matter) anything jane austen obv. anything brontes obv. vanity fair!!! (also not finished yet but. delightful)

[magdasabs]

Book recommendations. I tried to vary the topics so hopefully there's something that interests you. These are all among the best books I have ever read.

Moloka'i - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3273.Moloka_i - it's a novel about a girl (she becomes a woman over the course of the book) growing up in a Hawaiian leper colony in the early 20th century. It sounds depressing but it's one of the most beautiful books I have ever read.

Educated - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35133922-educated - a memoir written by a woman who grew up in a survivalist and fundamentalist Mormon family. I read it and basically only put it down to sleep during the time between starting it and finishing it.

The Great Believers - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45304101-the-great-believers - a novel split between Chicago in the 1980s and Paris in the 2010s. It's about the effects of the AIDS crisis on the gay community in the 1980s and their loved ones.

Tell it to the Bees - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6767519-tell-it-to-the-bees - enjoyable (non-smutty) lesbian romance novel.

In Other Lands - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31944679-in-other-lands - it's a young adult novel about a boy who crosses a barrier that others can't see and enters a magical land where he goes to a magical boarding school. But it's basically a literary deconstruction of the typical books like that you will read, tackling the tropes head on. Fun, funny, serious, and gripping. I can't recommend it enough.

The You I've Never Known - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30312837-the-you-i-ve-never-known - a young adult story, half of which is told in verse. It's about two girls growing up, dealing with difficult family situations and relationships, and discovering their sexualities. Don't read the summary please, as it contains a major spoiler.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12000020-aristotle-and-dante-discover-the-secrets-of-the-universe - a young adult book about two boys in El Paso. It's a love story, it's a coming of age story, it's everything.

Annie on My Mind - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/595375.Annie_on_My_Mind - the ending feels a bit rushed, but I believe this was the first book to tell a lesbian love story with a happy ending.

The Dovekeepers - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10950924-the-dovekeepers - a novel about four women who find themselves in the doomed stronghold of Masada during a war fought in the first century CE. The women all meet over the course of the book, which is divided into four sections, one told from each of their perspectives.

Darling - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51199185-darling - a modern retelling of Peter Pan from Wendy's perspective. You'll never feel the same way about Peter Pan again.

Under the Lights and in the Dark - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33114524-under-the-lights-and-in-the-dark - this one was enjoyable but not as good as the others. I'm including it because it's about woso and I did enjoy reading it. It's non-fiction.

oh wow, thank you so much!!! I really appreciate the effort you put into this, I will absolutely check all of them out

[cyberstabbing]

i thought this was a dovekeeper reference 😭

[pancakehouse]

oooh hiii 🥞🥞🥞 please <333

y !!!! how are you babe!!!! going to rec the dovekeepers by alice hoffman for you MWAH x

(send me a 🥞 and i’ll rec you a book!)

[thelovelygods]

tagged by @ravenkings 😘 (godspeed grading those last few papers)

nickname: none

sign: capricorn

height: 5′4

last thing i googled: post.news (just got approved to join the beta version!)

song stuck in my head: nothing at the moment, but three songs i’ve had on repeat lately are “mr. badman” by cruel youth, “anti-hero” by taylor swift, and “now i’m in it” by haim

number of followers: 339

amount of sleep: probably around 6 hours

lucky number: 47

dream job: i’d like to work in a museum/library/archive and do some writing on the side

wearing: green turtleneck and brown leggings

movies/books that summarize me

(i’m just gonna go nuts here and list all my faves, sorry)

books:

the red tent by anita diamant

the dovekeepers by alice hoffman

the book of longings by sue monk kidd

the dream of scipio by iain pears

the winter people by jennifer mcmahon

the bear and the nightingale by katherine arden

the legend of holly claus by brittney ryan

inkheart by cornelia funke

song of the sparrow by lisa ann-sandell

fire bringer by david clement-davies

island of ghosts by gillian bradshaw

movies:

the red tent (2014)

ready or not (2019)

troll (2022)

you won’t be alone (2022)

only lovers left alive (2013)

agora (2009)

amazing grace (2006)

one night with the king (2004)

o brother where art thou (2000)

the last king (2016)

the physician (2013)

the patriot (2000)

the alamo (2004)

favorite song: literally no way i could pick

favorite instrument: honestly, the synthesizer <--- same i think

aesthetic: bohemian mixed with like...office casual. my mom says i have a “classic” style, whatever that means

favorite author: jennifer mcmahon

favorite animal noise: no idea

random: looking forward to streaming the invitation (2022) on christmas eve 👀

tagging @a-hulder and @blood-and-bile