it’s a vision board
✨ that’s a wrap! ✨ my goal was to read 1 book per month so this year was more than successful (ㅅ´ ˘ `)♡ and so many 4-5 starrers!
Invisible Cities • Italo Calvino 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Severance • Ling Ma ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Tombs of Atuan • Ursula LeGuin 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🔁 Fallen Hero: Rebirth (IF) • Malin Rydén @fallenhero-rebirth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fallen Hero: Retribution (IF) • Malin Rydén @fallenhero-rebirth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔁 The Amulet of Samarkand • Jonathan Stroud ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
The Golden Compass • Phillip Pullman 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Powers • Ursula LeGuin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gideon the Ninth • Tamsyn Muir 💀 DNF.
The Subtle Knife • Phillip Pullman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Here There Be Dragons (Webcomic) • Steve Horton & co-creators @htbdcomic 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Farthest Shore • Ursula LeGuin ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nimona • Nate Stevenson 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Moon of the Crusted Snow • Waubgeshig Rice 💀 DNF.
Ain’t I A Woman • Bell Hooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ship of Magic • Robin Hobb 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Empress of Salt & Fortune • Nghi Vo 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Pillars of the Earth • Ken Follett 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Braiding Sweetgrass • Robin Wall Kimmerer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
🔁 Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone • JK Rowling ⭐️⭐️
Mad Ship • Robin Hobb 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
*has a degree in environmental studies* *can’t read or interpret or study*
what are you talking about?
The tide comes in. The Throne’s man watches her, waiting for her to lift her eyes and make a census of the birds.
Do you ever think about how fucked up it would be if your brother died and came back but now he has someone else's face and all the stupid scars from climbing trees and stuff are gone and he used to be just taller than you but now he's like two inches shorter than you and he still talks the same way but in someone else's voice
Iron Widow • Xiran Jay Zhao (@/xiranjayzhao) ⭐️⭐️
The Penelopiad • Margaret Atwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️
On Palestine • Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé ⭐️⭐️⭐️
In the Garden of Iden • Kage Baker 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🔄 The Raven Boys • Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain • Nghi Vo 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Bruising of Qilwa • Naseem Jamnia ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Dream Thieves • Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
Blue Lily, Lily Blue • Maggie Stiefvater 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Into the Riverlands • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
🔄 The Fifth Season • NK Jemisin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
Sky Coyote • Kage Baker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spear • Nicola Griffith 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Siren Queen • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔄 Outlander • Diana Gabaldon 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🔄 Gullstruck Island • Frances Hardinge ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
House of Open Wounds • Adrian Tchaikovsky 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Great Illustrated Classics) • Howard Pyle ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Babel • R.F. Kuang ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
Chainsaw Man Vol. 1-11 • Tatsuki Fujimoto 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🔄 The Bloody Chamber • Angela Carter 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Haunting of Hill House • Shirley Jackson 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Sacred Bodies • Ver (@/sticksandsharks) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🔄 American Gods • Neil Gaiman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mammoths at the Gate • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Key:
⭐️ stars out of 5
✨ 1/2 star
🔄 reread
💀 did not finish
📌 in progress
and i think its corny to act as if this type of post is intended to be a positivity post or a living rec list. it isn’t. thats a lovely & constructive way to use the notes, but the post is negative. the post is a call to examine racist behavior, not an invitation to talk about yourself as the specialest exception, or a request for book recs & positivity. so for you to then see anyone, including OP, in the replies being even a little harsh on the erasure & implicit bias that is the subject of the post itself, and get upset bc that kind of negativity isn’t copacetic w the wholesome, conversation-ending spin u want to put on the post? is corny.
it’s also cuckoo crazy for cocoa puffs how any time there’s a sardonic “name one [member of an under-represented group]” post, 100,000 tumblrinas will triumphantly Name One as if that actually addresses the complaint or exonerates them from the culture that generated it. you’re NOT passing!