#v.e. mitchell

[lichqueenlibrarian]

and how…how does Spock improve his grade in “pleasing the captain”? Is there extra curricular work he could do…?

[rmstitanics]

* FAMOUS INDIVIDUALS WITH YOUR MOON SIGN.

If you’re looking for suggestions on which authors and music artists to check out next, look to your moon sign! In Western astrology, the moon is said to represent your subconscious mind, emotions, and inner personality, so it is widely believed that we tend to relate to media by artists who share our moon sign.

♈️ ARIES MOON

WRITERS:

Gore Vidal

George R. R. Martin

Nicholas Sparks

Rick Riordan

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Christopher Paolini

MUSICIANS:

P!nk

Whitney Houston

Céline Dion

Selena Gomez

Rihanna

Tupac

♉️ TAURUS MOON

WRITERS:

Jodi Picoult

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hans Christian Anderson

Clive Barker

George Bernard Shaw

Aldous Huxley

MUSICIANS:

Pharrell Williams

Kelly Clarkson

Bob Dylan

Demi Lovato

Christina Aguilera

Pitbull

♊️ GEMINI MOON

WRITERS:

C. S. Lewis

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Orson Scott Card

Franz Kafka

Margaret Mitchell

R.A. Salvatore

T. S. Elliot

MUSICIANS:

Ella Fitzgerald

Florence Welch

Art Garfunkel

Billy Idol

Sia

Tina Turner

♋️ CANCER MOON

WRITERS:

George Orwell

Liu Cixin

Brandon Sanderson

Cassandra Clare

Diana Gabaldon

Lois Lowry

MUSICIANS:

Tchaikovsky

Taylor Swift

Kurt Cobain

Halsey

Aretha Franklin

Janis Joplin

♌️ LEO MOON

Oscar Wilde

Holly Black

Geraldine Brooks

James Dashner

Jack London

Ta Nehisi Coates

MUSICIANS:

Lana Del Ray

Paul McCartney

Queen Latifah

Niall Horan

Bruno Mars

David Bowie

♍️ VIRGO MOON

WRITERS:

Leo Tolstoy

John Grisham

Claudia Gray

Isabel Allende

Xiran Jay Zhao

Douglas Adams

MUSICIANS:

Dolly Parton

Nicki Manaj

Madonna

Lorde

Bo Burnham

Lizzo

♎️ LIBRA MOON

WRITERS:

Jane Austen

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Sylvia Plath

William Shakespeare

Maya Angelou

R.F. Kuang

MUSICIANS:

Ariana Grande

Charli XCX

Bruce Springsteen

Jay-Z

Harry Styles

Fergie

♏️ SCORPIO MOON

WRITERS:

Veronica Roth

Edith Wharton

V.E. Schwab

Harper Lee

Keira Cass

Meg Cabot

MUSICIANS:

Lady Gaga

Tyler the Creator

Cyndi Lauper

Beyoncé

Bob Marley

The Weeknd

♐️ SAGITTARIUS MOON

WRITERS:

Stephen King

Victor Hugo

Marie Lu

Suzanne Collins

Samantha Shannon

Adam Silvera

MUSICIANS

Hozier

Freddie Mercury

Adele

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Chappell Roan

John Legend

♑️ CAPRICORN MOON

WRITERS:

Sarah J. Maas

J.M. Barrie

Jeff Shaara

Joyce Carol Oates

Stephanie Meyer

Angie Thomas

MUSICIANS:

Frédéric Chopin

Neil Diamond

Jon Bon Jovi

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Stevie Nicks

Donna Summer

♒️ AQUARIUS MOON

WRITERS:

Margaret Atwood

Leigh Bardugo

Louisa May Alcott

Seth Grahame-Smith

Anthony Horowitz

S.E. Hinton

MUSICIANS:

Cody Simpson

Marilyn Monroe

Britney Spears

Billie Eilish

Tim McGraw

Carrie Underwood

♓️ PISCES MOON

WRITERS:

Toni Morrison

Edgar Allen Poe

Malcolm Gladwell

Lisa McMann

Alice Oseman

Philippa Gregory

MUSICIANS:

Kenny Chesney

Elvis Presley

Frank Sinatra

Prince

Kendrick Lamar

Sabrina Carpenter

[petalpetal]

Anyway here is the full list of books I’ve read this year this is a mix of adult and YA with one middle school book the ones in bold are my big reccomenders

- Hild and Menewood by Nicola Griffith

- Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

- Joan by Kathrine J. Chen

- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

- Butcher of The Forest by Premee Mohamed

- The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

- Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian

- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

- The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik

- Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

- Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: and Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott

- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

- Godkiller and Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner

- Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

- The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec

- A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix by C.B. Lee

- The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

- Lore by Alexandra Bracken

- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

- The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

- Gallant by V.E. Schwab

- Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

- The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

- No One Will Come Back For Us: And Other Stories by Premee Mohamed

- Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by Various Authors

- The Libarary of Legends by Janie Chang

- The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman

- Girls Who Burn by MK Pagano

- Starve Arc by Andrew Michael Hurley

- Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

- Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai

- A Sorceress Comes To Call by T. Kingfisher

- The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks

- Circe by Madeline Miller

- Woodworm by Layla Martínez

- The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

- Sworn Soldier series by T. Kingfisher

- Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

- A Drop of Venom by Sajni Patel

- Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

- Jonathan Strange & Me Norrell by Susanna Clarke

- The Darkest Part of The Forest by Holly Black

- The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack

- Six Crimson Cranes series by Elizabeth Lim

- A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

- Boys In the Valley by Philip Fracassi

- The West Passage by Jared Pechaček @jpechacek

- The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

- Revelator by Daryl Gregory

- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

- Hera by Jennifer Saint

- Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

- Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

- The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

- The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

- Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

- The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

- The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

- The Hearts We Sold by Emily Lloyd-Jones

- Sistersong by Lucy Holland

- House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

- The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne

- The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

- The Children of Gods and Fighting Men by Shauna Lawless

- The Witch of Colchis by Rosie Hewlett

- Sisters of Sword & Song by Rebecca Ross

- Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

- Little Eve by Catriona Ward

- Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror by Mitchell Lüthi

- The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

- Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid

- O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

- everything by Shirley Jackson

[vellichor-lover]

Decided to compile the songs which represent evervale best imo, because I just love my Villains playlist (and them) sm 😭😭

Evervale Songs!

Innocent - Mitchel Dae (“I / Wish I could turn back the time / And do it all over, let someone close enough / To lift off the weight of the crimes / That weigh on my shoulders, then maybe I would be / Innocent where I don’t convolute / Twisted up versions of the truth” AGHHHGAGHGA ELI EVER IS THAT YOU)

Bury a Friend/God’s Gonna Cut You Down - Every King & Commoner, Travelers (self-explanatory even just from the title I think 😭)

Snakes - MIYAVI, PVRIS, Arcane (Victor to Eli, Eli’s the snake. Definitely badass enough for them as well)

Kill Our Way to Heaven - Michl (was this song literally written about Eli?)

Succession (Main Title Theme) - Nicholas Britell (vibes)

Sucker - Arcane, Marcus King (Vic after Eli’s death?? 👀)

The Good Soldier - Nine Inch Nails (Eli: “I am trying to believe / Blood hardens in the sand, cold metal in my hand / Hope you understand the way that things are gonna be / There’s nowhere left to hide ‘cause God is on our side”)

down to the river - Mitchel Dae (the whole thing. Listen to it guys it’s my favourite song)

Dark Signs - Sleep Token (“And where we met, there must have been dark signs / Omens in your skies / Most days you reach for safety / Remain calm, forget that you know me / And when we met, I could see dark signs” AND ALL THE REST OF THE LYRICS AHHGHAHGAH)

Outrunning Karma - Alec Benjamin (ELI THIS IS SO SO ELI OMG)

Hell Hath No Such Fury - David Chappell (vibes again)

engravings - Ethan Bortnick (vibesss omg the piano!! Also the lyrics kinda give Victor to Eli)

Ascensionism - Sleep Token (“Who made you like this? / Who encrypted your dark gospel in body language? / … / Won’t you come and dance in the dark with me? / Show me what you are, I’m desperate to know / Nobody better than the perfect enemy”)

Call Me Revenge - 21 Savage, d4vd (I’ll give you three guesses who this one relates to)

What Could Have Been - Sting, Ray Chen (also from Arcane. I am obsessed w this song and it is so them. On a related note, Silco and Vander from Arcane really gave me Evervale vibes?? Might make another post abt this; to me they are both very similar to Victor in different ways)

flAsh flooD - Mitchel Dae (haha can you guys tell I like Mitchel Dae? idk for this one, mostly just vibes again)

Blood Sport - Sleep Token (GUYS THIS IS *THE* EVERVALE SONG TO ME. WDYM “I’m still your favourite regret / You’re still my weapon of choosing”? BRO WDYM “I wanna be forgiven / I wanna choke up chunks of my own sins / Even if the sky cracks in mourning / And the heavens just won’t open up for me / Would you invite me in again? / Let me pay for my arrogance? / Won’t you show me your weakness? / I made loving you a blood sport”?? IT’S LITERALLY THEM)

Here is the link to my playlist if anyone needs more of their vibes ❤️❤️

[tnglesbian]

Assorted thoughts and quotes I liked from "Imbalance" by V.E. Mitchell

• I enjoyed Riker getting to have a musical moment! The chapter made me want to pick up my cello.

@overseer-picard Hi!! Book #2!!

• In a similar vein to how I chose the first book, I chose this one because Beverly is on the cover 🥰

• Keiko's inclusion was a pleasant surprise! I like her character, so when I realized she was a main character in the plot I was excited for more content.

• I liked the utilization of multiple perspectives. It kept the suspense alive, and I enjoyed weaving the storylines together.

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• The issues Keiko and Miles had throughout the book were a can of worms I didn't really want to unpack while reading. This book felt very 90s. As happy as I was to have Keiko in the story, I ended up disliking much of her storyline.

• Overall, the writing was good. The plot was interesting. I can't say it's a book I would've picked up if not for these characters, but it was a good read! It was a very action driven sci-fi story. It didn't have as much of an episode-like feel as "Boogeymen", but that's fine because it was a solid book.

• I appreciated the lack of typos lol.

• I enjoyed the book! I don't know how motivated I'd feel to reread it, but I'm glad I read it! I don't read sci-fi very often, so I'm having fun with this avenue of venturing into the genre.

1.

It should be noted that I also point out every time this happens while watching the show. I love the inclusion in both books I've read so far.

2.

I already texted you about this, but man, Riker is always going through it. Is it even a Riker-centric scene if he's not getting battered and bruised? He did not have a single moment of peace in this book. He was concerned for Picard's well-being every time he went to the planet. He was nervous about offending the aliens when he accompanied their musicians. He was totally bruised, swollen, and had poisoned scratches all over himself, but instead he focused on Beverly's (mostly healed!) scratch on her arm.

I think I've mentioned it before, but the turning point for me starting to like Riker's character while watching the show was a result of him getting beat up so much at the end of season 1/beginning of season 2. This whole book, I felt bad for him 😭. He's just a traumatized little guy (I say about a grown man over 6 feet all).

3.

Beverly has my heart forever. It's very sweet that Wesley was at the forefront of her mind while she was in danger, and she was comforted by knowing he wasn't facing the same danger. It also seems very in character for her to acknowledge how bad her situation was while also pre-planning how she would repackage the story as to not concern Wesley.

Wesley may not have been involved in this story, but I enjoyed knowing he was in Beverly's thoughts.

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Additional thoughts:

• I thought it was funny that Worf and Riker ended up in fairly similar situations, but they had entirely different outcomes. Worf strategically got himself out of the compound and was rescued by the Enterprise. Riker severely injured himself, and then he escaped the compound by being kidnapped and taken to a second location. 💀

• I guessed pretty immediately that Keiko was pregnant. It's a pretty used trope that if a woman in a committed relationship in a book is suddenly puking a bunch, the reveal will be that she's pregnant.

• While watching TNG, my brother and I would frequently say, "Picard in trouble. Riker most affected." In this book, I would say it was Worf who was most affected. Every single chapter in Worf's perspective, half of his thoughts were that it was his duty to save Picard. It was fun seeing Picard's amusement at Worf's dedication to his job + warrior status.

[bloodwrittenletters]

❪ ✶ ❫ 'YOU'RE LIKE A LOVE LETTER TO THE WORLD.'

(this angel/vampire loves her best friend and loves that she said this to her!)

──── 🪽 STRAIGHT FROM THE ANGEL'S MOUTH; hello! i'm anabella, bella, bells, bellsie or more! (most of my names coming from my dearest of friends). english is not my first language and although i am fluent, i still struggle with it daily!!! so, please, bear with me and my writing.

──── ✒️ SHE'S BEEN AROUND MANY TIMES AND THIS ARE HER FAVORITES; percy jackson, the naturals, boys of tommen, a good girl's guide to murder (series) , yellowjackets, the hunger games, outer banks, gilmore girls, better than the movies / nothing like the movies, betting on you, veil, a curse for true love (series), caraval (series), the cruel prince, the invisible life of andie la rue, criminal minds. (and more!!)

──── 🪐 HER AND HER LOVERS; percy jackson, michael townsend, gerard gibson, joey lynch, charlie sampson, wes bennett...!!

❪ ✶✶ ❫ THE VAMPIRE LADY IS VERY, VERY MAGICAL.

(the vampire lady loves her cherry lady and thanks her for giving her this nickname!)

──── 🫂 FOREVER IN HER HEART; covey girl! kj, annie, viana, lou, bibi, rosie, kailyn. (more to be added!)

──── 💌 YOU'RE JUST LIKE ME; percy jackson, hazel levesque, cassie hobbes, michael townsend (slightly), claire biggs, gerard gibson, shannon lynch, katie wilmot, evangeline fox, bailey mitchell, lenore dove baird variant...!!

──── 🫀 SHE LOVES; cats, dogs, animals in general, books, nicole rafiee, tv shows, pretty clothes, art, shopping, pinterest, showing her affection, psychology, writing, talking/yapping, painting, sleeping, walking, flowers, fanfics, her friends, fleetwood mac, her cat, stuffed animals, sewing, tumblr, wattpad, spotify, libraries, poetry.

──── 📖 CURRENTLY FALLING APART IN HER GLASSES; a curse for true love / stephanie garber, bad blood / jennifer lynn barnes, the hunger games / suzanne collins, the invisible life of addie la rue / v.e. schwab.

──── 🎧 TANGLED IN HER HAIR; DOES GOD CRY? / nessa barrett, merry christmas, please don't call / bleachers, fade into you / mazzy star, bags / clairo, cologne / beabadoobee, iris / the goo goo dolls, fool's gold / lucy dacus, silver springs / fleetwood mac, mess it up / gracie abrams, love grows (where my rosemary goes) / edison lighthouse, blackbird / the beatles.

CIAO AMORE,

CIAO AMORE,

CIAO AMORE,

CIAO.

'why do all vampires are portrayed as murderous and gloomy? :( i'm a sunshine!'

[emometalhead]

Thanks for the tag, Spence!! @almosthonest 🩷🩷

Last Song: Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles

Last Book: Imbalance by V.E. Mitchell

Last Movie: I can't remember for sure, but I think it was Carry-On.

Last TV Show: I was watching Futurama this morning!

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: Sweet!! I have such a major sweet tooth.

Relationship Status: Single ☹️

Last Thing I Googled: ao3

Current Obsession: I can't stop thinking about Squid Game.

Looking Forward To: Having lunch shortly lol

Leaving an open tag!!

[cunningmagpie]

i am presently four chapters into windows on a lost world by v.e. mitchell, one of a great many star trek tie-in novels which i’ve technically read before but so long ago that i remember nearly nothing about it.

my observations so far:

one of the recreational activities available to crewmembers on the starship enterprise is a glee club lol

these archeologists are very interested in the potential for flashy discoveries that might lead to their own acclaim, and not very interested in puzzling out what the material culture they’re looking at has to tell them 🤨

wow i sure am getting lots of “this is not a place of honor” vibes from the mysterious artifact that everyone is determined to uncover, open up, and investigate 😅

still to come: i am like 40% sure that this is the tie-in novel where kirk and chekov get turned into giant alien crabs whose language involves creating bioluminescent patterns on their carapaces? but so far no hints of that, so perhaps i’m misremembering…

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Jim you’re projecting

[imgunnagetyou]

my reads for feb :O

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson - 1/5 i have a massive review in the works for this whole series comin up, been working on it for weeks lol A Dangerous Path by Erin Hunter 5/5 The Endless Skies by Shannon Price 2.75/5 way too much love triangle shit The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 3.5/5 Vengeful by V.E. Schwab 4/5 time jumps were worse this book Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi The New York Idea: A Comedy In Four Acts - Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott 3/5 little bit of male author syndrome Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi 3.5/5 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 5/5 The Darkest Hour by Erin Hunter 5/5 Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb 2/5 incredibly disappointing The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo 3.5/5

[petalpetal]

For halloween here all the horror books I've read and loved

I want to say all of these greatly vary in degree of scariness because books range from middle school to adult audiences

first up is the one I am currently reading

Revelator by Daryl Gregory

Boys In the Valley by Philip Fracassi

Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

What Moves the Dead (book 1) What Feasts at Night (book 2) by T. Kingfisher

Woodworm by Layla Martínez

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley

Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by multiple authors (its YA horror anthology)

No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed

The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

Gallant by V.E. Schwab

The Twisted Ones by The Twisted Ones

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian

The Deep by Nick Cutter

Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

The Troop by Nick Cutter (my number 1 favorite)

To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames

Slade House by David Mitchell

Perfect Blue by Yoshikazu Takeuchi

The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon

Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle

Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Crimson Labyrinth by Yusuke Kishi

The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

The Bone Snatcher by Charlotte Salter

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

[depressed-overthinker]

A few more?

The Second Sex, Simone De Beavouir

Vindication Of The Rights Of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft

The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer

Feminine Mystique, Betty Freidan

Frankenstein, Mary Shelly

Mysteries Of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe

The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice

The Yellow Wallpaper And Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

14 Days, Margaret Atwood

Handmaiden's Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Testament, Margaret Atwood

Rebecca, Daphne De Maurier

Freshman's Creek Daphne De Maurier

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Scum Manifesto, Valerie Solanas

Lives Not Lived, Monica Bhatti

Independence, Chitra Devakurni

A Palace Of Illusions, Chitra Devakurni

Queen Of Spices, Chitra Devakurni

The Robber's Bride, Margaret Atwood

White Malice, Susan Williams

Complete Poems, Emily Bronte

Complete Poems, Elizabeth Barett Browning

Tender Is The Flesh, Sarah Moses

Paradise, Toni Morrison

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Persuasion, Jane Austen

All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte

Kim Jiyoung Born 1982, Cho Nam Joo

The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh

I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Path

The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Path, Sylvia Path

Azaadi, Arundhati Roy

The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman

The Poppy Trilogy, R.F. Kuang

Babel: An Arcane History, R.F. Kuang

If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

The Sati Series, Koral Das Gupta

Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barett Browning

Lajja, Tasleema Nasrin

Short Stories, Ismant Chugtai

Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell

The Phoenix King, Aparna Verma

Little Women: With Good Wives, Louisa May Alcott

The Song Of Achilles, Madeline Miller

The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert

The Hindus, Wendy Doniger

Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung

Capitalism: An Unknown Ideal, Ayn Rand

The Underground Girls Of Kabul, Jenny Nordberg

Women, Fire And Dangerous Things, Robin Lakoff

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

White Is For Witching, Helen Oyeyemi

Villain Series, V.E. Schwab

The Feminine Macabre, Don't know the writer

Iron Curtain, Anne Applebaum

The Unwomanly Face Of War, Svetlana Alexievich

The Dark Queens, Shelley Puhak

Ice, Anna Kavan

The Royal Art Of Poison, Eleanor Herman

The Temple Is NOT My Father, Rasana Atreya

Beasts, Joyce Carol Oats

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima

The Last Flight, Julie Clark

Swan Theives, Elizabeth Kostova

The Italian, Ann Radcliffe

Revenge, Yoko Ogawa

Bad Behaviour, Mary Gaitskill

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

Forbidden Colors, Yukio Mishima

Thirst For Love, Yukio Mishima

Sister Outsider, Audrey Lorde

Iron Widow Series, Xiran Jay Zhao

That's it?

I will add on more if I remember....

Pls keep in mind some of these books are purely recommended on their writing style rather than their plot.

Best books you've read written by women? I hate reading stuff written by men lately...

Fiction(ish)

The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa

A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Paris, When It's Naked, Etel Adnan

Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill

My Sister, The Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite

Possession, A.S. Byatt

Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood

The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney

The Doll's Alphabet, Camilla Grudova

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

The People in the Room, Norah Lange

Água Viva, Clarice Lispector

Collected Stories, Clarice Lispector

The Empty Book, Josefina Vicens

Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson

The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

White Teeth, Zadie Smith

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

The Waves and Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Non-Fiction:

Second-hand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Svetlana Alexievich

A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

Bluets, Maggie Nelson

Living, Thinking, Looking, Siri Hustvedt

Feel Free: Essays, Zadie Smith

The Need for Roots, Simone Weil

Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg

An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

Little Weirds, Jenny Slate

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Women Who Run with Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton

Poetry:

The War Works Hard, Dunya Mikhail

Barefoot Souls and A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor, Maram al-Masri

Tell Me and Wild Nights, Kim Addonizio

What the Living Do, Marie Howe

What We Carry, Dorianne Laux

Extracting the Stone of Madness, Alejandra Pizarnik

Poppies in Translation, Sujata Bhatt

The Neverfield: A Poem, Nathalie Handal

Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women

View with a Grain of Sand, Wislawa Szymborska

The Black Unicorn, Audre Lorde

[inspiwriter]

A reading list

Mostly to feed my own obsession with lists, but also to be used as a book recommendations list. Enjoy!

Το καπλάνι της βιτρίνας, Άλκη Ζέη- Tiger in the glass, by Alke Zei

Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα, Πηνελόπη Δέλτα - Fairytale without a name, by Penelope Delta

Ο Μάγκας, Πηνελόπη Δέλτα - The cool kid, by Penelope Delta

Ένα παιδί μετράει τ’ άστρα, Μενέλαος Λουντέμης - A child counts the stars, by Menelaos Loudemis

Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder

The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux

Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Livingston seagull, by Richard Bach

The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

The orange girl, by Jostein Gaarder

Anna: a fable about the Earth’s climate and environment, by Jostein Gaarder

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings (The Felowship of the Ring - Two Towers - The return of the King), by J. R. R. Tolkien

Demian, by Herman Hesse

Anna of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of the Island, by L.M. Montgomery

The ones that walk away from Omelas, by Ursula Le Guin

Howl’s Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones

A wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1), by Ursula Le Guin

The Worlds of Chrestomanci, by Diana Wynne Jones (heptalogy: Charmed Life - The Magicians of Caprona - Witch Week - The Lives of Christopher Chant - Mixed Magics - Conrad’s Fate - The Pinhoe Egg)

Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες, Στρατής Τσίρκας (τριλογία: Η Λέσχη - Αριάδνη - Νυχτερίδα) - Drifitng Cities, by Stratis Tsirkas (a trilogy : The Club - Ariagne - The Bat)

Η Φόνισσα, Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης - The Murderess, by Alexandros Papadiamantis

Emma, by Jane Austen

The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco

Kafka on the Shore, by Haraki Murakami

The Plague, by Albert Camus

Eroica, Κοσμάς Πολίτης (Kosmas Politis)

The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott 

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom, by Leigh Bardugo

The Owl Service, by Alan Garner

Διακοπές στον Καύκασο, Μαρία Ιορδανίδου - Holidays in Caucasus, by Maria Iordanidou

Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones

A Tale of Time City, by Dianna Wynne Jones

The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford

The Princess Bride, by William Goldman

Love in a cold climate, by Nancy Mitford

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

The turn of the screw, by Henry James

The Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynne Jones

The game, by Diana Wynne Jones

The last wish, by Andrzej Sapkwosky

A darker shade of magic, by V.E. Schwab

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Auaten

Sculpting in time, by Andrei Tarkovski

Persuasion, by Jane Austen

Winter Rose, by Patricia A. McKillip

Swallows and amazons, by Arthur Ransome 

What is literature?, by Jean-Paul Sartre

Hexwood, by Diana Wynne Jones

Deep Secret, by Diana Wynne Jones

The hatred of literature, by William Marx

Year of the Griffin, by Diana Wynne Jones

Castle in the air, by Diana Wynne Jones

Home of the Gentry, by Ivan Turgeniev

Archer’s Goon, by Diana Wynne Jones

The Homeward Bounders, by Diana Wynne Jones

Wilkin’s tooth, by Diana Wynne Jones

A wizard’s guide to defensive baking, by T. Kingfisher

Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett

The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle #2), by Ursula Le Guin

Tehanu, (Earthsea Cycle #4), by Ursula Le Guin 

Mort, by Terry Pratchett

Μπουμπουλίνας 18, Κίττυ Αρσένη (Bouboylinas 18, by Kitty Arseni)

Ανθρωποφύλακες, Περικλής Κοροβέσης (The Method, by Pericles Korovesis)

Vita Nostra, Sergey & Marine Dyachenko

Dune, Frank Herbert

Larklight, by Philip Reeve

Starcross, by Philip Reeve

Elantris, by Brandon Sanderson

The stardust thief, by Chelsea Abdullah

Witches abroad, by Terry Pratchett

Wyrd sisters, by Terry Pratchett

Lords and ladies, by Terry Pratchett

Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett

Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett

Τα ψάθινα καπέλα, Μαργαρίτα Λυμπεράκη - Trois étés, by Marguerite Liberaki

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V.E. Mitchell: Windows on a Lost World. Star Trek. Cover by X. Pocket Books, USA, 1993.

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how to be a villain 101

vicious is so funny

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Victor Vale is the sexiest villain ever. I love that pallid, malnourished, scraggly-looking man <3