My very sturdy tote bag from Foyles is worth every pound. And look at the amazing edges of the Miéville book! I might have to shelve it spine in.
#bookstorecrawl
My #bookhaul from yesterday's London #bookshopcrawl with @squirrelbrain @Oryx @LeeRHarry and @scripturient
Some of these were planned, others were total impulse buys. Some are gifts for the fam.
Books bought at Waterstones, Foyles, Daunt, and Gay's the Word. (And I lost my self control almost completely in Foyles. If we hadn't been on a schedule I might have ended up with twice as many books (and possibly a fraud check-up from my bank) 😅)
pickGhost story, lockdown novel, indigenous characters, bookstore setting, George Floyd, multireferential title, identity, forgiveness, author self-insert side-character, list of book recs.
#WomensPrizeShortList
My eldest child makes my bookmarks. Origami bookmarks that hook over the corner of the page, intricately drawn and coloured in bookmarks with trailing ribbons, and for those hardcover tomes: embroidered felt bookmarks.
#Deweys #readathon #bookmark
It's that time again! @DeweysReadathon is happening, and each member of the family is hunkered down with stacks of books and snacks.
#RaisingReaders #readathon #Deweys
Opening day for #SpeculativeSpringSwap #SSS at last! 😄 Thank you @maich for an exciting package with the cutest wrapping paper. The mermaid stickers are awesome. I want the Resting Beach Face one as a pin/button. 😂 My teen has already stolen the washi tape, but has kindly allowed me to keep the rest. 😆 Can Malorie be read as a standalone or should I read (or watch) Bird Box first?
Thank you @Avanders for arranging the swap.
I rarely preorder books, because it usually takes me months or even years to get around to reading them anyway! 🙄 But I really wanted a signed edition of this one. My precious. *caresses book* 🤩
I've had way too many library holds come in lately! Add to this three audio books and an ebook in my library app. I need an intervention! 😱 Especially since I keep ignoring these in favour of my Kindle. I should ban myself from charging the Kindle or using the Kindle app until I've read a few of these. 😣😬
I have an #SSS package from Slovenia and from the Book Depository. There's a name, but no Litsy handle, and the name doesn't come up when I search. So thank you secret swapper! I can't wait until opening day! 😃
@Avanders #SpeculativeSpringSwap
@Blueberry See? Same cover, different book! I didn't really expect Penguin to use stock images. You'd think they could afford to comission their own covers!
Eunice has passed us by, and we're all fine (except for our fence, which needs replacing). I finished two good books and watched a bunch of curling and figure skating. Pretty good Friday, all in all!
Any #readathons going on? We have holed up awaiting the arrival of Storm Eunice in the early morning hours, so I figure I'll just read from now until it blows over (apparently on Monday). What do you say, fellow Brits, Irish, and continental Europeans in the path of the storm(s): #StormReadathon ftw? Keep safe, keep indoors, keep reading.
"I used to want so badly to be different. I wonder why?"
"There's a point, around the age of twenty," Bedap said, "when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."
"Or at least accept them with resignation," said Shevek.
"A body-profiteer," Takver called women who used their sexuality as a weapon in a power-struggle with men. To look at her, Vea was the body-profiteer to end them all. (...) She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being.
"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think - refusing to change."
"But what," Oiie said abruptly, as if the question, long kept back, burst from him under pressure- "What keeps people in order? Why don't they rob and murder each other?"
"Nobody owns anything to rob. If you want things you take them from the depository. As for violence, well, I don't know, Oiie; would you murder me, ordinarily? And if you felt like it, would a law against it stop you? Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order."
#BeginsWith #Library
I had plenty to choose from with this final prompt (after several difficult ones, including one I failed to complete), but I decided to go with the only Murakami I have read so far: An illustrated children's book where very strange and creepy events begin at the library.
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#BeginsWith #Paris
One of my favourite cathedrals and a book that made quite an impression on me as a child.
#BeginsWith #Two
The story of what happened, or didn't, when Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins - two men of very different disposition to the outdoors - went hiking in the northwest of England.
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'There were walls around all his thoughts, and he seemed utterly unaware of them though he was perpetually hiding behind them.'
'I heard Nightingale sigh.
"Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter", he said. However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.'
#BeginsWith #Blue
I think this is my favourite book in the series. 🤔 Might have to read all four again just to make sure. 😆
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#BeginsWith #Spice
This looks like the ultimate book on the spice trade and how it shaped history. Sadly it is out of print, but I am sorely tempted to throw money at a used copy.
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#BeginsWith #Glass
For a moment I regretted using The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters for the Dream prompt at the beginning of the month, but then I remembered this pseudo-scifi chunkster.
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#BeginsWith #Home
This is one I've read, for a change, instead of a half forgotten part of my endless TBR. 😅
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Jeremy Beaumont-Jones had been lucky enough to be born rich. He wasn't in the mad oligarch class but once you're past a certain point, the sheer weight of your money sucks in wealth like a financial singularity. If you're sensible enough not to blow it on race horses, cocaine or musical theatre, then it becomes a perpetual-motion money making machine.
Admitting defeat on #BeginsWith #Salt
I've got nothing.
But when scrolling through Goodreads I did find this, which looks good but also horrific.
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I've got nothing that #BeginsWith #Sugar except the odd recipe like these Swedish biscuits/cookies where sugar is both the first and last ingredient.
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Early birthday present for myself from the Folio Society new year's sale. So pretty! So shiny! Can't wait for it to get dark so I can check out the Oryx and Crake glow in the dark effect. 😍
#BeginsWith
I had a few options here, but when in doubt go with Douglas Adams. I have this as both ragged old paperback and as Kindle edition, but neither of them has this particular cover. I just went with this one because of the way it makes the word #Long stand out. 😄
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#BeginsWith #One
Let's hear it for the #IndieAuthors of #LGBTQ+ Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance.
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Another tricky one.
#BeginsWith #State
I think I'm all caught up now. Also, there is no prompt for the 15th?
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#BeginsWith #Voice
This one was tricky, but I was massively into Mercedes Lackey books in my teens, including her Bardic Voices series.
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Of #TheThingsThatLurkOnMyKindle that I have forgotten about, this one at least I get why I have. Time travel and Edgar Allan Poe? Right up my alley. Must remember to read!
#BeginsWith #Door
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Oops, I've fallen behind a bit. But #TheThingsThatLurkOnMyKindle include #BeginsWith #Hope
Although this one seems to also be the end of hope.
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Another book I have no recollection of acquiring. #TheThingsThatLurkOnMyKindle
#BeginsWith #First
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#BeginsWith #Final
and is another entry into #TheThingsThatLurkOnMyKindle 🤷♀️
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#BeginsWith #True
"Absolutely True" even! ?
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#BeginsWith #You
Although it also begins with the end.
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#BeginsWith #Red
(and ends with blue)
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#BeginsWith #Secret
Sort of? I guess strictly speaking it begins with Empire.
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#BeginsWith #Garden
(I think I need to start the hashtag #TheThingsThatLurkOnMyKindle
I didn't know I had this! Where did it come from? 😅)
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#BoutOfBooks is starting, and while they're mainly on Twitter and Instagram I am only marginally there, but as their motto says, I was going to read anyway - so I signed up. I'll probably post here and ignore all the Twitter sprints and what nots. No better way to start the year than with a week long #readathon amirite? 😄 📚
