one day, in a thousand years

They/them. Vegan. Booklr.

[iphigeniarising]

Books Read in 2026

January

Such Quiet Girls - Noelle W Ihli Check, Please! vol. 1 - Ngozi Ukazu Check, Please! vol. 2 - Ngozi Ukazu Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 5 - Arakawa

February

Hell Put to Shame - Earl Swift Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 6 - Arakawa Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice Flint - Louis L'Amour

March

Sparks - Nakamura Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin Nausea - Sartre The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones Parable of the Sower - Octavia E Butler X-Factor vol. 1 - Peter David X-Factor vol. 2 - Peter David X-Factor vol. 3 - Peter David X-Factor vol. 4 - Peter David X-Factor vol. 5 - Peter David

April

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut X-Factor vol. 6 - Peter David Parable of the Talents - Octavia E Butler The Heartbeat of Trees - Peter Wohlleben The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros Maurice - EM Forster Time Was - Ian McDonald X-Factor vol. 7 - Peter David Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell The Man Who Ate His Boots - Anthony Brandt Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell X-Factor vol. 8 - Peter David

May

Combat Liberalism - Mao Howard's End - EM Forster The Serviceberry - Robin Wall Kimmerer The Solace of Open Spaces - Gretel Ehrlich Days Without End - Sebastian Barry Gathering Moss - Robin Wall Kimmerer The Children's Blizzard - David Laskin The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein A Thousand Moons - Sebastian Barry

June

[iphigeniarising]

did more listening than reading last month

[ivyandbranch]

Get a Library Card even if you never use it

[timballisto]

obsessed with the way martha wells refuses to write an overarching plot for murderbot. every new book you think okay this is the one where she introduces the grand corporate conspiracy and recurring cast of corporate villains that set the premise of her next few books and instead she's like no actually i think i'll just put secunit in a Situation again

[1995lahaine]

horror is a romance genre

[beatricecenci]

Auguste Toulmouche (French, 1829-1890)

Le journal

[skinks]

the blurb on the back of Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End: … “in the 1850s, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms John Cole…”

the book itself:

[iphigeniarising]

Just me and my several copies of The Iliad against the world.

[atasteforblood]

"How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is."

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

[iphigeniarising]

There's old sorrow in your blood like second nature and new sorrow that maddens the halls of sense.

- Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

[iphigeniarising]

It's a dark thing when the world sets no value on you or your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots.

- Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

October 04, 2025 - Faceless

[iphigeniarising]

Hunger takes away what you are.

- Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

[ocies-sideblog]

Ocean's Echo, or, the military finds out what happens when they force together the two most stubborn practitioners of malicious compliance.

[iphigeniarising]

Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

- Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

[iphigeniarising]

Anyway death likes to make a stranger of your face.

- Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

[lyricwritesthings]

Oh, sure. You slither down ONE wall like a lizard, and suddenly your new friend (the same friend you JUST invited to stay in your house for a MONTH!) starts calling you "a creature in the semblance of a man." Smh.