JOMP BPC - April 16th - Books and Flowers

sunflowers on a rainy day with some underrated yellow books 💛📚🌻

Mid Year Book Tag!

Nabbed from @theinquisitxor, who said I should tag myself if I was interested. (And then I got tagged by @readingbooksinisrael.)

1.Best book you’ve read so far: Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks

2.Best sequel you’ve read so far: The House with the Golden Door by Elodie Harper

3.New Release you haven’t read yet but want to: The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher by E.M. Anderson

4.Most anticipated release for the second half of the year? I have a few! But The Frugal Wizard’s Guide to Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson sounds like a tonne of fun.

5.Biggest Disappointment: British Columbiana by Josie Teed

6.Biggest Surprise: When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

7. Favorite new author: Janie Chang

8.Newest Fictional Crush: I don’t crush, but Sir Kay from Perilous Times is the exact kind of guy I’d want in my corner.

9.Newest Favorite Character: Amina al-Sirafi

10.Book that made you cry: Diary of a Misfit or, not to repeat myself, The Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry

11.A Book that made you happy: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi or, not to repeat myself, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

12. Favorite Adaptation: Bold of you to assume I remember things i watch! 😜 Um, finally watched the Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell miniseries? Twas very good.

13. Prettiest Cover: the UK edition of The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, which I reread a few months ago

14. A book you need to read before the end of the year: Gonna go with a deep cut and say The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton

Tag yourself if you’re interested too!

books needed some floor time

Reading amongst the flowers tonight.

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

June 04, 2023 - Precious Cinnamon Roll

queer stack 🌈

Snapshots at Alabaster Bookshop (NYC)

Completely a bonus that my fingernail polish matched this :D

Ever since I learned about fanbinding, I knew I'd have to bind this. It's such an unlikely, macabre little gem about Pooh & friends learning about the horrors of war, told in the style of A. A. Milne, with one incredible Pooh-like companion illustration. I had a great time using this Pooh font to match.

The cover papers are hand-marbled by me, and the endpapers are too! The latter was made at the end of a marbling session when I was draining the carrageenan and couldn't resist doing one pull of the fantastic colors left in the vat. You can see the angle at which the tank was draining :) When I saw the result I knew it was perfect for this fic.

Some reading in the evening light - starting All Systems Red by Martha Wells

in hysterics

afternoon light and books, my 2 great loves

Philippine Book Festival 2023 Haul! ✨ | Out of all the book fests/fairs I've attended, this was my favourite! I've yet to go through my photos and videos from the event, so flatlay muna for now.

— time to start the day !

This tweet is just... Odd. Very odd.

Like... You live like this? You write like this? You think like this??

I want to be absolutely clear that, when I write an alcoholic character, it's because I think that alcohol addiction and drinking to excess are cool. Just like when I write a criminal, I'm trying to persuade you, the reader, to take up a life of larceny and murder. Just so long as that's understood.

Oh good, because that's 100% the message I take from fictional media. For instance, I watched Hannibal for recipes and relationship advice.

celebrating saint lucia’s day with flat white, reading glitch feminism 🌷 so excited for the holidays, i still have so much to do in the next few days but i think i will survive 😂

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

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