#bookishness

[aspiringpolymath]

hi! for the book asks, 6 and 24?

Thanks for the ask!

6. Any new favorite authors?

S. B. Barnes - I read all three currently published books this year and need more

J.J. Mulder - I'm on the fifth/final book in the SCU Hockey series and I started in November

Jemma Croft - I've only read two book so far, the Try For Love rugby series, but they were both very good!

I read my first Akwaeke Emezi book this year (You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty) and feel like their backlist could be a rabbit hole I fall down at some point

I'm sure there are more, but those were the ones that came to mind immediately

24. What new releases are you looking forward to in 2026?

Oh, good, this will help me organize my thoughts about this!

How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles - I hope this is the year I complete her backlist!

Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian - see above. I'm much closer to finishing Sebastian's, though, I think this book and the last two books in the Regency Impostors series are all I have left.

Our Dining Table: Seconds, Please Vol. 2 by Mita Ori - Volume One of this continuation of the first volume was one of the cutest things I've ever read in my LIFE

A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander

And Now, Back to You by B. K. Borison

Nobody's Baby by Olivia Waite (next book in the Dorothy Gentleman novella series)

No Matter What by Cara Bastone

New to me authors: Bromantasy by Maire Roche and Nemesis Mine by Amy Archer both seem intriguing

Even though some recent releases by Emmy Sanders haven't hit for me, I'm very excited for the next installment of the Elite 8 Studio series (Bruiser, I think?)

The next installment of The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter comes out soon

Impact Zone by Keira Andrews, very excited to be getting another book so soon from her

I think that's enough . . . for now, heh

[insteading]

Tagged by @roxyrondell:

List as many characters as you’d like (using gifs) with or without explanation that you’ve been compared to or identified with in your life.

I think my tagger already tagged most of the people who've been in my mentions lately! No pressure tags to @loopslip @eshtarra @queersandz @youngdeerengineer and @madameoconnel86

[but-my-weekend-is-booked]

I decided to rebind the ACOTAR series as I read them. I’m reading ACOWAR atm, and almost done with the rebind for ACOMAF. In the meantime, I finished the rebind for book one!!!

I’ve never done a printed cover before, so it was definitely a learning curve, but I really enjoyed the process.

Also, why did no one tell me these books were actually political and contained things like deep philosophical discussions of trauma??? The “there are many different kinds of darkness” scene was absolutely brilliant!

[nadaahhmed]

First read of 2023📚

[quotationsworld]

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

[boysofbooks]

She felt as if she'd just edged toward a cliff; below was a fall that could break her bones. His look, his voice. She stared into his eyes, which were dark as night and soulful and just a little sad, although what he could possibly have to be sad about, she couldn't imagine.

Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

[ijustkindalikebooks]

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You.