Nejj's Book Collection

hello, my name is Nejj (22 – f – muslimah – bookblr – dark academia – sfw account)

'I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book. When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.'

Autumnal Poetry

🖤The Complete Poems of John Keats. 🤎The Poetry of W. B. Yeats.

Between reading my September TBR I’ve been thumbing through the poetry books I own, looking for autumnal poetry. So far this is what I’ve found.

Things I have found in books I've thrifted: postcard edition.

Feel free to reblog and add on any trinkets you've found in your thrifted books xx

First Read of September.

A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford.

An underrated dark academia book that isn’t as celebrated as it should be. It’s a relatively short book, a little over 200 pages. The reviews and the summaries promise a coming-of-age story that deals with a seventeen-year-old girl’s ambitions and a forbidden romantic romp. Set in France during the 1920s, Flavia is studying for the entrance exam to Oxford University, she has dreams of becoming a writer. But the realities and cruelty of life will try to get in between herself and her desires.

This is a sequel to a story of her mother, which apparently is rehashed in the first twenty pages so I feel no need to get the first book.

Blue Bookish Flatlays

A genre mix of blue books from my bookshelves. There’s some murder mysteries, modern classics, history, fantasy, crime fiction, contemporary, biographies and historical fiction.

🍁Reading Tracker🍂٢٩/٢/١٤٤٦🍁

As most of my craft things go, I found inspo on Pinterest and made my reading tracker into a bookmark of sorts. The flower image came from an old book of orchid flowers I think? I tore the pages off and repurposed the images for bookmarks.

🍁September TBR 🍂 ٢٨/٢/١٤٤٦ 🍁

I think this month’s reads keep in theme with the beginning of autumn? As usual I’ve chosen books from across all genres.

🌕The Secret History by Donna Tartt. 🌖The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell. 🌗A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford. 🌘Histories of Nations edited by Peter Furtado. 🌑I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. 🌒The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. 🌓On Fiction by Sebastian Faulks. 🌔Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. 🌕Sunset Song by Lewis Gibson. 🌖The Oxford Book of Ireland edited by Patricia Craig.