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I'm an avid reader and sometimes a writer, so you'll find book posts and writing advice here, mixed with some random posts about my life and whatever else catches my interest. My favourite genres are fantasy and sci-fi, but I'll read pretty much everything and books for every age group. Some of my favourites are YA or children's books. If it's well written, I'll read it, if not, I'll put it aside for someone else to love. If you want to see me fangirl about things other than books, have a look at my main blog. All follows, likes and messages will come from there as well, so don't be surprised. What else is there to know about me? I'm a single mom, a lifelong fangirl, geek, goth (yes, I love black with red and purple, even if my blog might now reflect this), love to knit, crochet and sew (the results of that can be found on my craft blog). I love languages: German is my native language, I'm fluent in English, know some French and very little Spanish. Recently I started to learn German Sign Language. My dream job would be as a translator and I'm working up towards that goal. Coffee or Tea? Why not both? First thing in the morning I prefer my coffee, but otherwise I'm an equal opportunites kind of girl.

[bastard-of-a-bog-being]

Hello, does anyone have any recommendations for comforting fantasy reads?

Things akin to Howl’s Moving Castle, Stardust, The Princess Bride, etc?

I’m particularly looking for audiobook recommendations so if you know one that plays really well as audio, I’d love the suggestions!

Tagging a lot I’m sorry I’m just really hoping to reach more people!

[ninja-muse]

I don’t know how the audiobooks for these are, because I don’t do audio, but I think the books below fit the vibe you’re after. Enjoy!

Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

Unnatural Magic and The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C. M. Waggoner

The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon

Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

[aliteraryprincess]

Totally agree with the recommendation for Spindle’s End, and most of McKinley’s other works would probably fit this vibe, particularly:

Rose Daughter

Chalice

Beauty

And definitely check out the sequels to Howl’s Moving Castle if you haven’t already:

Castle in the Air

House of Many Ways

And here are a few others that may fit the vibe you’re looking for:

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

(I’m not sure about the audiobooks for any of these though.)

[yvii7books]

Klagenfurt, Austria

[jackthebard]

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

[foxsan-deactivated20140515]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205]

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

[cryptovalid]

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

[gunthatshootsennui]

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

[deathcomes4u]

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

[velocigrey-deactivated20160825]

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

[geekinlibrariansclothing]

Got that?

[bettieleetwo]

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

[la-knight]

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

[athenadark]

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

[thepsychicclam]

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

[ladynorbert]

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

[fragments-of-sappho]

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

[booksandrandomfandoms]

JOMP day 20

Kickass characters

[shadowtearling]

25 Days of Booklr (2018!)

Day Seven | Best Ending: If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

“One thing I’m sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt this before.”  

[a-autumn-dream]

[apagewithaview]

Silver & gold books in the spirit of the Olympics!

[freckles-and-books]

[immzies-adventures-through-books]

If I could handletter the entire series, I happily would.

Though, note to self: silver doesn’t photograph well

Instagram | Redbubble | Ko-Fi

[ofthe1nterior]

Autumn & books, life is good.

[macrolit]

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

[iweon]

A good afternoon to lower your mountain of pending readings.

Illustration by Aeppol.

[machetelanding]

[why-the-heck-not]

Every single one of these books is welcome to move into my bookshielf

[rosewater1997]

Worst and most surreal time of the week is Sunday afternoons when you’re like hyper aware of your insignificance and nothingness there has to be a name for this phenomenon

[maculategiraffe]

“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you’ve had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.”

-Douglas Adams, Life, The Universe, and Everything

[slaughter-books]

Day 13: BFTbookchallenge: Space

[bookworm-on-rainy-days]