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Received this giant package yesterday for #NaughtyHolidayListSwap #nhls *and* #jolabokaflodswap !! Thank you @MaleficentBookDragon — I can‘t wait!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Also, you can‘t really see, but the ducks love winter around here because the pool is closed but has water and there are almost 50 ducks in that pic!! 😯

And still reading this book. Very involved, but very good. It‘s taking me a while to get through, but I‘m getting there! ☺️

This one a starts out a little slow when we jump from regular 3rd person for two of the narrators and a 2nd person POV for one. Once you get past that and get into the story this is a great book with some awesome and unique work building. The book touches ideas of discussion, suppression, and exploitation of groups. It makes you think the entire time.

Would say this isn‘t for someone jumping into fantasy the first time.

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Happy Thanksgiving!! 🍁🦃♥️

Started the tagged… finally!! I have wanted to read this for so many years. Of course, it is delivering in ♠️♠️♠️ already!

Also excited to learn that #Belletrist‘s book this month is Darkly!! Super wanted to read that too.

Also, buggy lost his THIRD tooth this month!! 😍

Aaaand just showing off my perfect (it turned out so well this year!!) pumpkin pie with pecan streusel. 🤤

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Wow 🤩 it took at least 100pages to get into this the world building I found slightly confusing but I‘m loving Damaya‘s story and Nussins ; fantasy is usually not my thing , but this is addictive . Just back from a long weekend in beautiful Harrogate and York and had my nose in this book 📖 when I could without being rude to the friends we were with 😆 August is nearly over can‘t believe it ! #augustreads #bookspinbingo

Amen 🙏 to that ; an afternoon in the hairdressers and just starting this one ☝️ not been able to stick to #bookspinbingo list 😆 holds all came in from the library and this one is due back on 4th sept so ready steady teddy …read 🤓😆

Unsurprisingly, I've only read 3% of the books The New York Times claims to be the top 100 books of the century. I usually don't enjoy the sorts of books that end up on lists of this nature (partly because they almost never include fantasy or graphic novels, which are two of my go-to reading experiences). Also, is splayed open really the only image of Fun Home they had available to them?

The NYT has completed their list of the best books of the 21st century, weighted heavily toward literary fiction & nonfiction, today. They invited readers to submit their Top 10 & the tagged book is my only selection to make the list. My list has the most in common with Stephen King‘s & Rebecca Roanhorse‘s—they also picked more science fiction, fantasy, & horror than the NYT included. Interesting list, interesting to see what some authors picked.

This was a soft pick and I do think it was a case of me and not the book. I would usually love this kind of book but my life is so crazy busy at the moment that I feel like I just couldn‘t concentrate and give this book the attention it needed. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

This was an incredible book! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What I got out of this was what I was hoping for in The Priory of the Orange Tree. I was totally engrossed in the story. Such a great reading experience. There is a lot of world building but I didn't find it overwhelming or confusing. It was interesting to see it all come together. It's not a light read, there's some really tragic moments. I'm looking forward to seeing what the next book has in store.

It took me a looonnngg time to even grasp what this book was about, but once I got into it, I enjoyed it. I‘m on the second book now, and it is the same. You have to get your bearings to understand it.

#AwardWinner 🏆 #SpringSkies 🌺🌼🌸🌻🌨️☀️

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

I loved how well written characters were: some are super despicable and some really likable.

This was pretty dark book, and that's the atmosphere I often love. But this also felt a bit confusing to read: there were questions you wanted answered - but not so many answers were given. I think things make more sense in the next book.

#SeriesLove2024

Jan and I have finished our first monthly read in our partner reading challenge. This was his first fantasy novel (very outside his comfort zone). I picked the January book, he will pick February which must include a book related to either Valentine‘s Day or to honor black history month. Since neither of us like romance novels, I assume he will want to go with a book for black history month. Any recommendations for either category?

It took me a few attempts to really get into this book but once I did, I really appreciated it. Loved how all the threads came together at the end although I think it merits another read to really understand everything.

I really loved this epic fantasy packed full of earth-based powers, found family, inclusive character design, and tragedy. The 3-character style worked so well. This starts slow, as many epic fantasy do, and has such an interesting payoff as character stories come together. #LGBTQIA #Rocks #EpicFantasy

I‘m not sure what I missed with this one! I was really looking forward to this story with so many glowing reviews but for whatever reason, I just couldn‘t get into it. The world building and characters were good so it was either the writing or the story itself or most likely a combination of the two. #Booked2023 ~Afrofuturism book

Can‘t say enough good about this series. It‘s complex, emotional, full of #afrofuturism, and includes a diverse cast of characters, including #nonbinaryortrans . I inhaled all three books in a row. Checks off a lot of boxes for my reading preferences. And, of course, #Booked2023 prompts.

It‘s rare that I have time to sit and read for a decent amount of time. Taking a break from literary fiction to finally read one of the books that‘s been sitting in my bookshelf for way too long

Anyone else doing #TransRightsReadathon? Anyone know Sim_Bookstagrams_Badly or know if they‘re over here under another name?
This one features at least a trans main character, there may be others I don‘t recall from my first time through several years ago.

wow 😲 definitely worth the hype

I think this is from you @Avanders !?!? For your 100k give away? Thank you so much! 😊 This was such a happy surprise on my porch this afternoon! 😃 I‘m looking forward to starting this series. I‘ve heard awesome things.

#BlavkHistoryMonth Recommendations Day 27
Fiction
A fantastic journey of a book. A pinnacle of what a fantasy book can be. The world building is immaculate, the characters are multifaceted and are given room to grow. The writing is vivid and wonderful.
Very deserving of all the awards it has won.

Someone was not pleased with me for being away overnight. I‘m trying to make amends.

"Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind" #Januarybookclub2023 #fantasy #book1of24

“Let‘s start with the end of the world, why don‘t we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.”
#January2023

Mind-blowing novel with an Earth, a bit different than ours, that keeps destroying its inhabitants in various seasons and gifted individuals who can control seismic activity, etc. Others try to control them. Plus mysterious obelisks with power, etc. It switches between a handful of characters. Very worthwhile if you like this genre.

I am starting this fantasy trilogy. Highly recommended

Photo from White Sands National Park New Mexico

I was on vacation driving (a lot!) through New Mexico so I grabbed this on audio and really enjoyed it!
The world building is wonderful, I really enjoyed how the dramatic beginning draws you in and explains the world right up front. I found the characters to be well drawn, solid and interesting.
The book seemed to wrap around and felt complete to me so I am unsure if I will continue the series

#OnThisDay in 1972 Nora Keita Jemisin was born. Raised in Mobile, Alabama Jemisin spent much of her time immersed in fairy tales and fantasy at the local library, and summers in NYC with her father who introduced her to Twilight Zone and Star Trek. In 2015 she became the first Black author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Fifth Season. 👇 #HistoryGetsLIT

This was a very well-thought out, imagined, high fantasy. At first I didn‘t know how the 3 perspectives of the women would come together, and then it all crashed together in shocking clarity. I very rarely expect a twist on fantasy, but man. Very enjoyable. I will definitely get the next two.

Side note for audio, the 3 perspectives were at first confusing. You had to really focus to figure them out.

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Starting this next on audible! #currentlylistening

#LetterF recs:
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisn
For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
Furybon by Claire Legrand
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

#AlphabetGame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Been on my shelf for a while, long overdue to finally read this one!

Also featuring: my favorite NYPL mug ☕️

Okay! A book I have been a bit intimidated by.
Excited for my #bookspin and #doublespin for May
@TheAromaofBooks

This is a strange story set sometime in the distant future when Earth has become much more geologically active, possibly due to human interference. Some humans have evolved to be able to control geokinetic activity (orogenes), and they can protect regions but also destroy. The book starts at the end, when someone tears open a fault line and begins the end of the world, at least for most life. The characters are not very relatable, but I think ⏬

Rusting Rust this was a great book. I had to start the next one as soon as I finished this one!

Really good and exciting, I enjoyed the world building and the characters. The world feels unique with deep lore and the magic systems seem so fresh and exciting. Hated that it ended on a cliff hanger but I guess that just means I have to read the second book soon!

1. The ones I use the most are librarything.com and tor.com.

2. Intentions more than goals - reading more in translation. (#foodandlit2022 & an Asian reading challenge on LT)

3. The broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin, starting with The fifth season.

@Eggs #WondrousWednesday

#BeginsWith #You

Although it also begins with the end.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Started this one six months ago. It was hard for me to read with the triggers in here but it was a good book.

This was my favorite read from #March even if I was “supposed” to read it in January. It took me a little while and a couple checkouts to get into it, but once I was in I was fascinated. True to form, I had an Isabel Allende book on my shelf all month and waited too long to start it, so I‘ll put it back in the general TBR category. 🤦🏻‍♀️
#authoramonth
#12booksof2021

The tagged book was even better the 2nd time through with a group discussing.

Looking forward to the light coming back, and a new-to-me car.

1. Tagged book + Dawn (Octavia Butler) + The invisible guardian (Dolores Redondo)
2. Live music! & dinner with friends. (Cook casserole this am for dinner.)
3. Tagged book

#weekendreads, @rachelsbrittain

This was an incredible fantasy book. I typically don‘t read fantasy but really enjoyed this story of post apocalyptic earth and the division of orogenes and stills. This book had so much depth to it and was a really enjoyable and enrapturing read.