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I was tagged by my fav and yours @the---hermit ! Thanks Cris! I don't usually pick what I'm going to read ahead of time, either, but here's a selection from my TBR that I think I'd like to get to this year.

And thank you for your patience! Things got a bit hectic with me trying to travel back to the UK after visiting home, but I've completed this now 🌼

Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (finished this between starting this and posting it whoops)

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets (I started this in March 2021 and I'm still not all the way through it, and it's definitely an unwritten goal of mine to finish it ASAP)

Year of the Witch by Temperance Alden

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Life Isn't Binary by Iantaffi and Barker

HMRC by Juno Dawson

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman

The House of Styx by Derek Künsken

Useless Magic by Florence Welch

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Honoring Your Ancestors by Mallorie Vaudoise

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Difficult Women by Roxanne Gay

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Favorite Color: purple

Currently Reading:

La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes by Anon.

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses edited by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory by Peter Barry

The Original Rider Waite: The Pictoral Key to the Tarot, an illustrated guide by A.E. Waite

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets edited by Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig

Last Song I Listened To: “Dark in Here” by The Mountain Goats

Last Series: season 3 of The Circle lmao. No shame in my study break game

Last Movie: Night at the Museum 3

Savory, Spicy, or Sweet: honestly all 3 on different days

Currently Working On: getting a poetry essay done - it is kicking my ass!

23, 71, 118 and one of your choice for the book ask!

I hope you'll have a great day!🍄🍂

Hi! Thank you so much!!

23) a book that is currently on your TBR

Cadaver Exquisito (Tender is the Flesh) by Agustina Bazterrica

71) your favourite LGBTQ+ fiction

Definitely torn between Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Benjamin Alire Sáenz) and An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon)

118) your favourite short story collection

I'm going to cheat a little and say Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury) even though it's short stories that create a novel. Sorry not sorry.

My choice: 16) a book you'd recommend to your younger self

If you have never heard of it, basically the book is narrated by an alien who had to come down to earth disguised as a human (to do stuff I won't spoil). He talkes about how he learned what being a human means and what the human world looks like. It's both funny and thoughtful, cause you have a neutral point of view on the most daily things. I love this book so much, it always manages to give me hope and calm my "existencial anxiety".

- Cris from @the---hermit

added to TBR | on my TBR | couldn’t finish it | did not enjoy | it was OK | liked it | loved it | favorite | not interested

I hadn't heard of this one before but your summary and the summary I looked up make it sound very interesting! It was compared to Douglas Adams, who I love, so it's gotta be good lol

I was tagged by @just-a-cup-of-anxietea and @the---hermit so thanks to you both!

Three ships: I'm not huge on shipping tbh, it's not really something I do anymore.

First ships: definitely Percabeth lmao

Last song: Cicada Days, Will Wood

Last movie: City of Ember

Currently reading: The Amber Spyglass; The Book of Koli

Currently watching: nothing atm

Currently consuming: dayquil and pollution

Currently craving: sleep

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