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@penderbooks
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hi! i'm rainer, and this is my new bookblr. i love to read! here you will hopefully find some posts about books i'm reading.
quick facts:
favorite genres are sci-fi and horror
i work in a used bookstore
i love to crochet and hike
the pacific northwest is home
icon is from owl at home by arnold lobel
Novella November Progress
Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin 🎞
felker-martin's writing is incredible. raw, visceral, and so vibrant i can feel the pain inflicted on the characters as i read. i love the main character, ellen. she's hypocritical, incredibly repressed and damaged, rude, mousy, and a giant mess. being in the head of characters like that can be frustrating, but so much fun. this book also absolutely pushed my limits for upsetting horror in the best way. 4/5 stars.
also trying to find more creative ways to hide the library sticker! i like to try and match my bookmarks to the book.
Begging Goodreads or Storygraph to implement an option for «I won’t touch this book with a ten foot pole»
it's so wild to me that you absolutely cannot force a hyperfixation to happen. like you'll watch the most perfectly tailor-made-for-you content that everyone says you'll love and feel absolutely nothing, and then the thing you watch on a whim to fill time will reach through the screen and put its damn fingers in your brain and start rearranging the neurons right in front of you and every single time you're like THIS??? THIS??????? and this happens like every 6-12 months forever
Oh shit guys its nearly the end of october quick how many books have you read this year
having fun isn't hard, when you've got a library card
0-1
1-9
10-19
20-29
30-39
40-50
55+
This Is How You Lose The Time War, Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
good: library hold came thru and i was able to finish Gideon the Ninth
less good: now i have to wait for another library hold to read Harrow the Ninth
not the most seasonally appropriate book, but i'm really enjoying this.
Have you seen the new movie? It's on library. It's literally on the library. It's on library without ads. It's literally on your local public library. You can probably ask for it on your library. Dude it's on your library. It's in the original case too. It's on library. You can watch it at the library. You can go to your local library and watch it. Register onto your local library right now. Go to your library. Dive into your library. You can watch it. It's on there. Your library has it for you. Your library has it for you.
Why does every queer romance novel have to be cozy or low stakes. Why does every historical queer romance novel these days have to take place in an alternate history without homophobia. God forbid I want some drama. Some scandal.
Novella November TBR 📚
why not start my new blog with a tbr for a challenge? novella november by @thereadingchallengechallenge caught my eye, and i have a bunch of novellas that have been sitting on my tbr for a while that need an excuse to be read! so of course i quickly maxxed out my library holds by requesting them all 😅
hoping to read these:
black flame - gretchen felker-martin (196 pages)
already sitting on my book cart waiting to be read, i'm really excited to try another book from her, i really enjoyed manhunt.
on sundays, she picked flowers - yah-yah scholfield (142 pages)
a southern gothic tale about familial trauma.
the vessel - adam l. g. nevill (173 pages)
i can't remember how i heard about this...probably a goodreads list they've been doing a lot of horror ones.
the vegetarian - han kang (188 pages)
literary horror can be hit or miss for me...excited to find out!
the scourge between stars - ness brown (165 pages)
sci-fi and horror is my favorite pairing of genres, they just go so well together.
may or may not get around to these (longer library wait):
picnic at hanging rock - joan lindsay (189 pages)
a classic gothic mystery that i've had my eye on for years.
the unworthy - augustina bazterrica (192 pages)
i always try to read some of the most popular horror of the year, and this has been languishing in my library holds for at least a month now. i love nuns in horror so this is so up my alley.
Welcome to Novella November!
some dear friends encouraged me to run this event so here we are. it's one I've wanted to host for a few years but I was either too busy or just plain forgot until December 1st 🤣
the only goal is to read however many novellas you can manage in the month of November, with a novella being defined as a novel 200 pages long or shorter. we'll be using "#Novella November" as our event tag
you don't have to read every novella you have, you don't have to read a certain number to "win", I just want us to get together and read a bunch of short books and actually put the community spirit back in booklr <3
I can't wait to see what everyone reads -- if you're putting together a TBR, I'd love to see them! apart from that, I can't wait to see everyone on November 1st! 🧡
Hello friends, I am back with more reading recommendations for your agonies! Next up we have the long awaited and much requested Sad Boat Fiction list. As with all of my lists, this is NOT exhaustive and there WILL be great books left off, and also you may or may not like these books! I only rec things that I've personally enjoyed or that come highly recommended by trusted friends, but taste in books is incredibly subjective, especially with fiction. If I missed your favorite, please add it in the comments or drop it in my DMs!
Now that I'm feeling more settled in my new job, I will hopefully have a lot more time to make book lists and do more virtual Readers' Advisory. I have lists in the works for women in polar exploration and companion reads for the HBO War series, but if there's something else you would love to see, please send me a message!
Classics of the Genre
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Media Tie-Ins
Who Goes There? (Filmed as The Thing) by John W. Campbell, Jr.
The North Water by Ian McGuire
Cold Skin by Alfred Sánchez Piñol
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Graphic Novels
Whiteout by Greg Rucka
How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy
The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard*
*this is only fiction in the broadest possible sense of the term, but there is a shiny new American version of this book coming out with a gorgeous new cover and you should pre-order it immediately
Science Fiction
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
Romance
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
My Last Continent by Midge Raymond
Inspired by the Terra Nova Expedition
The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard*
The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
Terra Nova: A Play by Ted Tally
Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur
*this is only fiction in the broadest possible sense of the term, but there is a shiny new American version of this book coming out with a gorgeous new cover and you should pre-order it immediately
Inspired by the Franklin Expedition
The Rifles by William T. Vollmann
Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
On the Proper Use of Stars by Dominique Fortier
Literary Fiction
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen
Inspired by the Classics
The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Modern Day Antarctica
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Polar and Nautical Horror
Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
The Deep by Nick Cutter
All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
Dark Water by Elizabeth Lowry
The Deep by Alma Katsu
Happy reading!
