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welcome to my reading cosmos! currently reading: babel INFJ (she/her)

[readingcosmos]

ミ★welcome to my reading cosmos★彡

I’m elle! I am 22 and from Ontario Canada and i’m an INFJ

I've finally fallen in love with reading again for the first time in years and I'm very excited about it!!

but I enjoy contemporary fiction, fantasy and classic literature

I'm also getting into sci-fi!! I've always been into sci-fi movies/shows so I'm giving books a try ( and absolutely obsessed)

I also want to study more french, norwegian and maybe korean so ill try posting that stuff too!

ミ★All Time Favourite books★彡

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Perks of being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alive Saenz

book tag:

ミ★Last book I...★彡

Bought: Klara and the sun - Kazuo Ishiguro 

Borrowed:  The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai

Was gifted: Frankenstein - Mary Shelly (but a really really beautiful cover)

Gave to someone else: I don't think I've ever bought a book for someone... ( I will be changing that LOL)

Started: Dune - Frank Herbert

Finished: Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

Gave 5 stars: I don't even remember its been so long since I've LOVED a book

Gave 2 stars: Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green, David Levithan

Didn’t finish: ... controversial but... death in her hands - Ottessa Moshfegh... (listen.. I didn't hate it but I did spill a cup of tea on it which destroyed it LOL)

[readingcosmos]

started babel.. im literally 20 pages in and im obsessed!! as a linguistics/language nerd and a fantasy fan... it was made for me

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NORMAL PEOPLE - SALLY ROONEY

rating: 3.5/5 ⭐️

didn't live up to the hype for me sadly. i enjoyed it, but overall it felt slow. i did like how the characters changed throughout the story. you could see how both connell's and marianne's family dynamics shaped them into who they are, and how their relationship with eachother did the same. i do also feel like it'll be a book i'll grow more fond of more time passes.

overall, i think i would have enjoyed it more if less people hyped it up

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Here comes FALL

[readingcosmos]

hehe... im back!!

after reading dune... i quite literally needed 8 months to recover😭

i started dune: messiah (dont like it nearly as much as the first book, what a shame, i hate time skips) but im taking a break from it for now!

currently reading normal people by sally rooney!

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why hate the winter?

[readingcosmos]

imagine having handwriting like this😭

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The love language of annotating a book

[readingcosmos]

found out my fav local bookstore is having a 20% off sale until saturday but i work every day other than today😭 but i also have no money.. but mayhaps ill go anyway..

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okay haul time but im too lazy to take pictures but it was so successful!!!

first stop was the one having the sale! I got 3 books and paid $12.50 for them all (such a good deal!!) and they are...

Emma - Jane Austen

Ready Player ONE - Ernest Cline

The Martian - Andy Weir

All of these have been on my tbr for so long!! im glad to find such affordable copies!

then i went to a second bookstore that i havent been to before, but i've always heard great things, and now i know why!! so many books!! and a MASSIVE sci fi section... like half the store. I only ended up getting one thing but i am very excited for it...

a near perfect condition box set of the hitchhiker series by douglas adam! its been a series that has always intresed me but ive never found any copies second hand! so i was so excited!! and for only $30! the books added together would be like $90 (then theres always an up charge for box sets) so im so excited!!

[readingcosmos]

found out my fav local bookstore is having a 20% off sale until saturday but i work every day other than today😭 but i also have no money.. but mayhaps ill go anyway..

[readingcosmos]

DUNE

current rating: 4.5/5

i'm about 50% through Dune and i am loving it. i know its very much a love or hate book, but i just think its amazing. the world building is amazing, the characters are a bit one dimensional but it makes sense why they would be (a royal family doesn't really get much time to develop character traits, and Jessica being a bene gesserit, a discipline group, why would they have dimension?) Dune is also the first book in such a long time, that i have read and not predicted any of the plot, all of the plot points are so unpredictable and i love that! I can't wait to continue on in the book and the series!

I'm about to start book two: muad'dib if anyone wants to talk about Dune with me😭

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celebrating saint lucia’s day with flat white, reading glitch feminism 🌷 so excited for the holidays, i still have so much to do in the next few days but i think i will survive 😂

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I rearranged my bookshelves with the festive season in mind, and I get so much joy from just looking at them.

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[readingcosmos]

why must i be in canada?? i just want to go to the beach and read. for the first time in my life i wish it was summer

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Source.

[marscia]

I read, I think about reading, then I read some more