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75 Booked
Day 1 of 75 - The Foxhole Court (AFTG #1) by Nora Sakavic One reading session in bed and one at my desk. I'm revisiting one of my favorite series to start off this year. There are two new books in it, so I figured let's start from the beginning. I've missed this series!
75 Booked Rules:
Complete two 45 minute reading sessions daily * one of them not being in bed
Finish a water bottle during each session
Log all reading in a physical journal * as well as keeping track digitally on Fable, Storygraph, etc.
No purchasing books * can only read from owned books, books bought secondhand, or ones acquired through a library/lending service. this challenge was created by EmilyPaigeBooks, the reel for the challenge is linked at the top.
fog haters are weak. you are walking in a cloud and it's making everything look like a moody detective film! the veil is thin and there could be a faerie 20 metres directly ahead of you! appreciate it!!
Hey so like many of you, I saw that article about how people are going into college having read no classic books. And believe it or not, I've been pissed about this for years. Like the article revealed, a good chunk of American Schools don't require students to actually read books, rather they just give them an excerpt and tell them how to feel about it. Which is bullshit.
So like. As a positivity post, let's use this time to recommend actually good classic books that you've actually enjoyed reading! I know that Dracula Daily and Epic the Musical have wonderfully tricked y'all into reading Dracula and The Odyssey, and I've seen a resurgence of Picture of Dorian Gray readership out of spite for N-tflix, so let's keep the ball rolling!
My absolute favorite books of all time are The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Classic psychological horror books about unhinged women.
I adore The Bad Seed by William March. It's widely considered to be the first "creepy child" book in American literature, so reading it now you're like "wow that's kinda cliche- oh my god this is what started it. This was ground zero."
I remember the feelings of validation I got when people realized Dracula wasn't actually a love story. For further feelings of validation, please read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. There's a lot the more popular adaptations missed out on.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is an absolute gem of a book. It's a slow-build psychological study so it may not be for everyone, but damn do the plot twists hit. It's a really good book to go into blind, but I will say that its handling of abuse victims is actually insanely good for the time period it was written in.
Moving on from horror, you know people who say "I loved this book so much I couldn't put it down"? That was me as a kid reading A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Picked it up while bored at the library and was glued to it until I finished it.
Peter Pan and Wendy by JM Barrie was also a childhood favorite of mine. Next time someone bitches about Woke Casting, tell them that the original 1911 Peter Pan novel had canon nonbinary fairies.
Watership Down by Richard Adams is my sister Cori's favorite book period. If you were a Warrior Cats, Guardians of Ga'Hoole or Wings of Fire kid, you owe a metric fuckton to Watership Down and its "little animals on a big adventure" setup.
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry was a play and not a book first, but damn if it isn't a good fucking read. It was also named after a Langston Hughes poem, who's also an absolutely incredible author.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book I absolutely adore and will defend until the day I die. It's so friggin good, y'all, I love it more than anything. You like people breaking out of fascist brainwashing? You like reading and value knowledge? You wanna see a guy basically predict the future of television back in 1953? Read Fahrenheit.
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are considered required reading for a reason: they're both really good books about young white children unlearning the racial biases of their time. Huck Finn specifically has the main character being told that he will go to hell if he frees a slave, and deciding eternal damnation would be worth it.
As a sidenote, another Mark Twain book I was obsessed with as a kid was A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Exactly what it says on the tin, incredibly insane read.
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin is a heartbreaking but powerful book and a look at the racism of the time while still centering the love the two black protagonists feel for each other. Giovanni's Room by the same author is one that focuses on a MLM man struggling with his sexuality, and it's really important to see from the perspective of a queer man living in the 50s– as well as Baldwin's autobiographical novel, Go Tell it on the Mountain.
Agatha Christie mysteries are all still absolutely iconic, but Murder on the Orient Express is such a good read whether or not you know the end twist.
Maybe-controversial-maybe-not take: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a good book if you have reading comprehension. No, you're not supposed to like the main character. He pretty much spells that out for you at the end ffs.
Animal Farm by George Orwell was another favorite of mine; it was written as an obvious metaphor for the rise of fascism in Russia at the time and boy does it hit even now.
And finally, please read Shakespeare plays. As soon as you get used to their way of talking, they're not as hard to understand as people will lead you to believe. My absolute favorite is Twelfth Night- crossdressing, bisexual love triangles, yellow stockings... it's all a joy.
and those are just the ones i thought of off the top of my head! What're your guys' favorite classic books? Let's make everyone a reading list!
Some of my favorites (not mentioned in the fantastic list above) are Madame Butterfly, Brave New World, A Christmas Carol, Lord of the Rings and the Time Machine. Not sure if they are old enough to count as classics but I also love The Handmaid's Tale, The Color Purple, The Shining and Dune.
JOMP Book Photo Challenge: January 1st, Reading Goals
I am using Novelly Yours 2026 Reading Tracker this year. I've always wanted to do a reading journal, but I don't have it in me to properly set one up. Finding one that does all the leg work for me is great. Allows me to focus on my goals.
I'll probably add more to this page, but this is my start!
JOMP Book Photo Challenge hosted by Just One More Page 📚 📷
Month: January; Tags: #justonemorepage • #jompbpc
Got a redesigned and shuffled around challenge prompt for you! I figure it's been long enough, it's time for a pretty refresh. 🥰
Let's just ignore that it's already like two days from 2025, like what the hell.
Click here for the FAQ, and ask me if you have any questions. ❤️ Enjoy!
I've been on and off tumblr for over a decade. It's been probably five years since I've had any real presence. I am looking to get back into reading and using tumblr and other social media sites was a big reason I was engaged before. I'm looking for new blogs to follow, I don't even know how many are still active from my current followed list. I am open to following anyone at least 18 or older because I know great recs come from everywhere! And even all ages, just at my age, I would not want to follow anyone under 18. And it would be nice to also find some 30+ blogs.
Whenever someone tries to justify saying it's bad to read many books in a year or whatever it's usually to say that they need time to digest/sit with the text. And it's fine if you do need that, but it's a little weird to assume anyone who doesn't take a week to process a book just doesn't process it all and is merely consuming it in a shallow, meaningless way
Anyone who reads fewer books than me is an illiterate philistine. Anyone who reads more than me is rushing through them and failing to properly appreciate them. It just so happens that the number of books I read is the number that makes you a perfect human being.
All the books I read in 2025! Most of the reads were with my bookclub and I would say at least 10 of these were rereads.
Somehow, I managed to read 25 books in 2025! I had a few rereads and most of my reading was based off book club picks. Not a lot of newer books this year.
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I have returned
I haven't posted anything in years. I've read less than what I was doing before. I've moved states a few times and have now landed in Minnesota. That's a whole new experience with all of that snow! I did recently lose my job, which is what prompted the move. My aunt offered me a place to live and a fresh start seemed right. My depression has gotten worse over the years and my physical health (just more weight gain, otherwise OK) and I am trying to rebuild here. I moved to Minnesota at the end of November after being fired in October. Here's to 2026 and getting back to reading and being a part of the communities that I loved. If it still exists on here!
21st century horror + “unhinged” female leads
“Perhaps what we’re witnessing in horror right now is not a commentary on a single anxiety, but a culmination of all the anxieties that exist in culture—the shit that’s built up, affecting generation after generation, especially women … who’ve internalized the brunt of trauma for so long and are only now able to channel it. The rage that stems from internalising trauma (while coddling men) … is perfectly visualised by Toni Collette literally crawling up the walls in Hereditary.” — Ryan Bradford
“This is what horror tells us—that in the collective unconscious of all women are psychic wounds so deep and raw that even to brush against them is to become a conduit for their primal violence… We self-censor our every reaction, debating endlessly with ourselves over which thoughts are permitted and which are forbidden or unclean… Perhaps that’s why, after so long spent boiling within us under such terrible and unrelenting pressure, women’s desires hold such power to fascinate and terrify.” — Gretchen Felker-Martin
I read books but like haven’t in a while. But I still exist.
hey you. im proud of you. im proud of you for overcoming all the obstacles you've faced to be here with us today. and i'll be proud of you tomorrow for the obstacles you continue to overcome.
you've put so much effort into this life, and that deserves praise. even though many of the things you had to work through should have never happened to you. you did it. you're here. you're right here. and you don't have to go anywhere.
so i hope you're proud of yourself too - or that you will be, someday. take all the time you need. everyone lives differently.
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