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Everyone under my influence is hereby commanded to go read The Raven Scholar. this is not optional

#daisyreads #more abt this book to follow once I get my thoughts in order #the lengths I went to to finish this book before the libby that giveth also tooketh away #(kept my phone in airplane mode for an inconvenient length of time because I needed to KNOW) I needed to finish

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Books I read in the first half of 2026

linking my 2025 list for my personal satisfaction

List arranged by series under the cut

#daisyreads #I've been doing a lot of audiobook this year which tends to be more of my ''light'' reading #I feel like I'm forgetting something but if I didn't get it through libby my best friend libby there's no record #I didn't put City of Last Chances on there bc I still need to finish it got to like the 50% mark and then lost it :(

A non-comprehensive list of books that I have enjoyed or admired or that have been influential to my own style and taste.

I gave up trying to appear particularly sophisticated or well-read so you'll see my inner obsessive nine-year-old really shining through lol

How many have you read?

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All 100 babey

Voting ended onApr 7, 2025

If you're a mutual or a regular please tell me your score in the comments I wanna knowww

#polls #book list #list challenges #daisyreads #I feel like I forgot to include something really important but oops oh well

whoever was putting Passage by Connie Willis on my dash I want you to know that I picked it up on a whim and am just now beginning to emerge from the three-day fugue state that book put me into. idk what kind of juice was in there bc I was just reading a lot of dialogue and people running around a hospital and somehow I was staying up too late reading and losing track of my afternoon reading and when I wasn't reading I was thinking about the book and experiencing lingering dread and fear of the dark although I cannot tell you why. "Can you be more specific?" no I cannot. feel like I just had a near-death-experience myself

#daisyreads #connie willis #did I like the book? I honestly don't know. I think so?#but in a way where it had such a chokehold on me that I kind of resented it?#and whyyyy though is the thing. like if I try to describe what actually happens in the book it does not seem like it should be that grippin #especially because of the way some of the characters seem so obviously like character and not real people #and like the whole thing felt very much like a book and the characters as just existing to serve their role in the story #which usually keeps me from getting fully invested. but this was something different #I guess more like a mystery novel where the detective exists pretty explicitly as a function of the story. but like with everything #so it was more like me just absolutely desperate to know where we were going with all of this #I think what worked so well was the pacing of the drip-feed of information #and the payoff for you as the reader connecting little dots of significance #I was saying when I was at about the 30% mark that the buildup was so good that I didn't have confidence that they payoff would do it justi #and having finished now I'm not sure what I think #did the ending do the story justice? I don't know. but literally how are you supposed to end that story #I can't think of a better way to do it then how she did it. but it doesn't feel like the absolute best of all possibilities #if I sound insane then good bc that's how I feel #do I recommend this book? I don't know #because either you won't click with it and then you'll think it's boring and silly and too long #or you will click with it. in which case you will have an experience similar to mine #which...well did I enjoy it????? hm.#it was certainly something

so I keep seeing you mention the goblin emperor and it's piqued my interest, do you have any propaganda that might compel me to read it?

YES YES YES

Okay so imagine a book with incredibly rich worldbuilding, folded into the language itself, where every single character is interesting and multifaceted and we are slowly getting glimpses of what's going on.

Imagine a book with a main character who is at his heart so lovable and considerate and wants to do right by everyone but is thrust into situations constantly. completely out of his depth. and he gets tired and cranky about it, and doesn't always do everything right!

This is Maia, our forgotten disfavored fourth son turned emperor of the elflands:

Ok now imagine that there's all this court intrigue going on. Multiple secret plots and plans, and infinite politicking. But of course, everyone is very formal around the emperor, and there are a ton of crazy power dynamics at play, so we have to very slowly and deliciously pick up on what's going on in every direction.

Imagine through all this web of social dynamics that are all about power and the struggle for it, the central question of Maia's story becomes not so much about the accrual and maintenance of power, but instead whether and how he can love and be loved.

And imagine that the writing is really good, and effortlessly and admirably whisks us from scene to scene, and turns the most simple-sounding lines into something you'll turn over and over in your head for the rest of your life.

And also Csevet Aisava is there <3

Anyway would you believe that book is real and you can read it in real life???

#asks #The Goblin Emperor #daisyreads #book recs #sorry I've been sitting on this ask for a few days :/#anyway I love this book with my whole heart I've read it twice now and will many more times #there's so much going on but it all fits together so beautifully!!!#also Cala is there! And Beshelar! and Idra!! and Csethiro my beloved!!!!!!

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Books I read in the first half of 2025

This is more or less in order. Next up is—you guessed it—Rhythm of War (Stormlight Archive book 4)!

Feel free to ask me my thoughts on any of these books; I love talking about what I read!

List under the cut

#daisyreads #making this for my personal satisfaction mostly #I really feel like I'm forgetting something but I can't think of it for the life of me so here we are #very Sanderson-heavy list obviously but I'm trying to actually get through Stormlight Archive properly. and it has like. appendages #some disappointments here but others that made me insane #as usual #obviously it's not quite the end of June but it's not like I'm going to finish Rhythm of War before then

okay so while I'm talking about books, I finished The Starless Sea a few days ago (was convinced to read it even though I didn't really like The Night Circus) and at the end of the day was unimpressed. Too much vibes not enough coherence. idk. And the thing is people who really like it don't seem to be understanding anything that I missed. It's like "oh idk exactly what that means but like it's just the vibes yk yk." which is frustrating to me. but I'm realizing that's probably what I would sound like if I was talking about The Green Knight to someone who didn't like/get it so to each their own I guess

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I was going to end the post there but actually I'm going to complain more

After having read two of her books, I don't think it's a matter of a bad copyedit. Erin Morgenstern is using commas the worst anyone's ever done it to torment me personally. "ooh I don't subscribe to the rules it's messing up my flow." girl the flow is off and your sentences sound ugly in my head. yes because of the commas

WHO OR WHAT IS THE OWL KING????? I feel like I was actually doing a decent job at connecting all of the elements/symbols but that one seemed so built up for nothing. Even the good citizens of reddit don't seem to have a convincing answer so I don't think it's me being uniquely stupid

"Man lost in time"/Simon I also felt was really built up and then when we found him it was like. okay?

some of the imagery was really powerful and really nice but it all kind of fell flat because I feel like the story was built around the vibes/elements/imagery she wanted to use and not the other way around. If I wanted to browse a pinterest board I would just do that

why were some of the most interesting parts glossed over so quickly and some of the other parts of the story so slow???

The fact that the sea was revealed to be made of honey and yet still for the most part was described to act like water really started to annoy me. Like those are two substances with very different viscosity and general properties. idk

overall just for me personally it was overkill on the whole "books as an aesthetic" "power of stories" kind of thing. like something so sweet it's nauseating

Saying nice things for fair representation of my overall feelings:

I liked how more of the elements of the vignettes/short stories/fairy tales became more apparently connected to each other as it all came together but they still were interesting on their own

I liked Zachary as a character :)

A lot of the imagery was genuinely good and interesting. Also the part where he died and was with all the bees I still don't quite get but it evoked shrimp emotions in me so I think that was successful

I really liked how the last interspersed book was Kat's diary. It really tied in a lot of the stuff from the beginning back to the end quite nicely

honestly the introduction of Dorian as the storyteller in the dark was an incredible vibe

I liked how Zachary's academic video game interest informed his character/internal monologue

#daisyreads #the starless sea #I do see the irony in me complaining about commas while writing like this #but this is a tumblr post and that is a professionally published novel #anyway EYE get The Green Knight to a degree but I don't think I can articulate it very well #but yes. I think now I can just be done with this author. I think my tastes are just very different from what she is prioritizing #which is allowed

finished Fire and Hemlock and felt stupid until I googled the ending and realized everybody else also finds it confusing

#daisyreads #really good book though #essay afterword also confirm that DWJ is very smart #I think I more or less understand the ending now but also I don't think it's confusing in a bad way #more just expecting the reader to be paying attention #had to read someone else's blog post before the parameters of the contest at the end clicked for me and then I was like oohhhhhh #but tbh what I still don't understand is how Polly was supposed to be helping Tom in the first place #like what was his plan for her????#like I get that in order for him to win she had to reject the role of being his savior #but I don't understand what she would actually do if she were to help him? what was his connection with her providing?#I think it must have had something to do with the strand of hair and the photograph?#but like that might just be something I missed/haven't digested yet?#also I'm not really familiar with the og Tam Lin or Thomas the Rhymer so that might be a factor #wow. really good book though. very clever book

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