solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris

early thirties / horace walpole hater / a fool with a phd / follows from warmdayswillnevercease

[earlymoderngothic]

26 books in 2026

i am not good at sticking to these lists but i still make them every year. anyway, this is what i'm hoping to read in 2026...

the hollow by agatha christie

orlando furioso by ludovico ariosto

the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky

flights by olga tokarczuk

moving pictures by terry pratchett

inspector imanishi investigates by seichō matsumoto

new grub street by george gissing

hangsaman by shirley jackson

cecilia by frances burney

the red and the black by stendhal

hotel iris by yōko ogawa

death in the arctic by tom hindle

murder at holly house by denzil meyrick

orlando by virginia woolf

a pale view of hills by kazuo ishiguro

barchester towers by anthony trollope

vera wong's unsolicited advice for murderers by jesse sutanto

the healing hippo of hinode park by michiko aoyama

a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki

on the calculation of volume i by solvej balle

death on gokumon island by seishi yokomizo

apparently, sir cameron needs to die by greer stothers

the hollow places by t. kingfisher

the unpleasantness at the bellona club by dorothy l. sayers

gothic tales by elizabeth gaskell

the corset by laura purcell

[dauen]

one down, eleven to go

[somerabbitholes]

Been reading: Childish Literature by Alejandro Zambra, Out of Our Minds by Johannes Fabian, On Earth as it is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia. And revisiting Raag Darbari

[alextbphotography]

spring book haul 🌿 // all photos are mine 🌙

[the---hermit]

09|04|2026

I spent a lot of time out today. I started feeling guilty this morning because I was not working on my thesis but it was worth it. Tomorrow I plan on rereading all the notes I have written on primary sources, and then I will email the professor. Today I focused a lot of my time on getting work done for my English tutoring sidequest, and now I am all good until next week. I'll be finishing the day by dogsitting the creature. We already spent some time in the garden, so I guess that now she'll be sleepy, which only means one thing: cuddles!

April days of productivity - day 9

Morning reading

Morning walk

Organized my next steps for thesis work

Wrote down a timeline of the primary sources I have read so far for my thesis

Prepared materials for my tutoring side quests

Wrote down some simple notes for the girl I am tutoring (I basically wrote down 5 pages of notes with basic rules mainly for verbs since she is struggling to tell them apart. And so many examples. I did write everything by hand, color coded everything. And yes I am indeed an overachiever)

[earlymoderngothic]

breakfast and a book

[dauen]

it's wednesday and i have a wip

this is the ilana camisole, she's beautiful and evil

[earlymoderngothic]

march 2026 in books

read:

cecilia by frances burney (finally!!!)

welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop by hwang bo-reum

the stranger times by c. k. mcdonnell

death in the arctic by tom hindle

inspector imanishi investigates by seichō matsumoto

the corset by laura purcell

still reading:

the name of the rose by umberto eco

[dauen]

ribblehead viaduct, north yorkshire

17/03/2026

[frawth]

[earlymoderngothic]

what i wanted to read in the lake district vs what i actually read

[2026-book-bingo]

I just learned about the Inside Literary Prize, a book award voted entirely by people who are incarcerated

Inside Literary Prize | Freedom Reads

The Inside Literary Prize is an annual national honor that is bestowed on one exceptional book by a jury of 300 incarcerated individuals vot

they've just announced their shortlist for 2026, which will be the third year it's been awarded.

the 2025 winner, Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, is a great pick for anyone still looking to fill their 2025 award space, and since you know that the 2027 bingo sheet will include a similar prompt, you may want to keep an eye out for which book wins this year!

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

reblogging from book bingo to my main because this is really cool!

[dauen]

following a trail in the eden valley

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[earlymoderngothic]

books i read in february:

call for the dead by john le carré (not pictured because i can't find it!)

apparently, sir cameron needs to die by greer stothers

moving pictures by terry pratchett

still reading:

cecilia by frances burney

[dauen]

it's wednesday and i have a wip on the needles that's driving me around the bend.

this is the shoreline sweater by ozetta and it is so beautiful but i had to redo the back yoke three times so i'm ready for it to be finished now.

i'm using knitting for olive merino and soft silk mohair in bottle green because i love this yarn combination. it was intended for a different pattern but i have realised that i can't crochet, not even to do a provisional cast on, so that idea went out of the window. thankfully, i have enough yarn for this pattern.

the collar looks a little funky in these photos but it looks good when i try it on so who cares. i did shorten it significantly so maybe that's why it looks weird? i don't know.

anyways, i don't think i have anything else to say right now except someone please save me from the sheer amount of 1x1 rib i have left to knit

oh, and i'm relistening to the magnus archives whilst knitting. what a podcast!

ravelry

[earlymoderngothic]

i don't know what to read next so i'm going to let the good people of tumblr choose

pick one

welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop by hwang bo-reum

the hollow places by t. kingfisher

moving pictures by terry pratchett

inspector imanishi investigates by seicho matsumoto

celestial bodies by jokha alharthi

Voting ended onFeb 22