#five books

[kazperthegh0st]

Not my rarest rare pair but god there are only 79 percy/grover fics on ao3.

[shakespearenews]

Shakespeare Books - Five Books Expert Recommendations

The best Shakespeare books and plays, recommended by eminent Shakespeare scholars including Emma Smith, James Shapiro, and Stanley Wells

[oflgtfol]

he was literally the baddest bitch for this. what a way to introduce a new villain

[godzilla-reads]

International Women’s Day and Five Books I Want to Read

1. “The Woman Warrior” by Maxine Hong Kingston

This book is a blend of a memoir and classic Chinese folktales. 

2. “Asleep” by Banana Yoshimoto

Three women are bewitched into a magical and surreal sleep where they deal with their own personal issues. 

3. “Mules and Men” by Zora Neale Hurston

An anthropologist, Hurston puts together a collection of African-American folklore she collected in Florida and New Orleans. 

4. “Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature” by Linda Lear

Beatrix Potter is famous for her illustrations and children’s stories. She is one of my favorite authors and I’ve always wanted to know more about her. 

5. “Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A young woman investigates her cousin’s claims that her husband is trying to murder her. 

[wildlingoftarth]

Thanks for the tag @albatrossisland !

5 books I plan to read this year

1. This is cheating because it's four books but I plan to finish the Expanse series by James S.A. Corey this year. I am on #5 right now (Nemesis Games) so I still need to read Babylon's Ashes, Persepolis Rising, Tiamat's Wrath, and Leviathan Falls.

2. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell. Trying to read more nonfiction this year and I've always been weirdly into cults. 🤷🏼‍♀️

3. The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna. I've heard this is similar to Children of Blood and Bone which I really loved.

4. Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuistion. Too many people have raved about this for me to not read it!

5. The Winds of Winter by George R.R. Martin. LMAOOOOO 😭🤣🙃

Tagging @it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined @catherineflowers29 @twelvemonkeyswere @virareve @bussdowntarthiana

[something-tofightfor]

what are five books you wish you could experience reading for the first time again? also, have there been any negative [book] reading experiences that have impacted what you do as a fiction writer?

This is a really good question. REALLY REALLY GOOD. 

1. The Stand; Stephen King - I read this book (extended cut) at least once a year. It’s my favorite book of all time. I remember being in absolute awe the first time I read it. I still love it, and at this point, there are entire passages that I could probably almost quote to you. I am so nervous about the remake (especially with Amber Heard in it) ... but even though the first miniseries was TERRIBLE, it’s still a classic. I just want a good, true to the original work adaptation of something King that ISNT The Shining (which, arguably, still isn’t even super true to the novel)

2. The Giver; Lois Lowry - I read this book in elementary school, and I’m not sure if it’s required reading for everyone, but it should be. They nearly ruined it by making the movie and casting that succubus Tswift as Rosemary, but then again the movie itself was friggin terrible, so... Anyway. The book was short, simple and really, really effective. I find zero faults with it.  3. Phoenix Rising; Karen Hesse -@the-blind-assassin-12 and @its-my-little-dumpster-fire know of my love for this book, and if I had to cite one of my inspirations for wanting to be a writer in the first place, it’s this book. I stole it from my classroom when I was a kid, and never looked back. She managed to tell a relevant story in a very specific way, and keep it relevant throughout the times. (I just read it again a couple months ago, and it still hits me the same way it did as a preteen reading it). I think that I latched onto the way she wrote details - particularly about Ezra - and actually incorporate a lot of that into my writing.  4. The “Little House” series; Laura Ingalls Wilder - Reading these as a kid, I was shocked that this is the way people used to live. It was such a shocking look into the way she grew up, what she experienced, what happened to her family. I devoured these books over and over. If I remember correctly, I did a book report on “The Long Winter” and I had to make a diorama and it was badass. 

5. (I hate putting this on here because JK Rowling is a literal piece of trash) ... but Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; JK Rowling - I grew up reading these books. My 6th grade home ec teacher would read one chapter to us every Friday from the first HP book... and I was HOOKED. I bought them as they came out, and the 7th one actually came out while my friends and I were on a cross-country drive, and we stopped at some shitty KMart in the middle of nowhere in Arizona to buy it. I finished it in 2 days, reading when I wasn’t driving, and then when I WAS driving, my friend Greg was reading. I ended up finishing before him, and had to sit quietly on my friend’s sister’s couch on the corner of Hollywood and Vine and wait for him to finish. He closed the book, looked at me, and then we ended up leaving the apartment together and just walking aimlessly for a couple hours while we talked about it. That ending - with the exception of the epilogue - was the PERFECT way to wrap up the series. The Cursed Child shouldn’t ever have been written.  I would give anything to be able to experience the end of that series all over again for the first time. 

OOPS I FORGOT TO ANSWER THE SECOND PART: 

Perfect examples: Twilight, 50 Shades. They’re popular, but they aren’t good. I’m not going to ever write something that is one cliche after another just to make a buck. I’m willing to compromise a little, but never ever like that - or just to prove a point. 

I hate cliches. I hate trying to capitalize on popular genres and tropes to the point where it literally looks like I filled in blanks. I won’t do it.  I won’t spend a million years creating a world for my characters that’s full of promise and opportunity and then fill it with one dimensional characters that flat out suck and have no personality. (Katniss. Alina. Mal. Four.) 

[julcheninred]

5 books to summon you

I was tagged by @magpiefngrl to say which five books someone would need to put in a pentagram to summon me. I would apologize for being about to make it weird, but hell, we’re putting books in a pentagram, it’s already weird. 😄 1. Brave Girls: The Story of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides in the Underground, by Harriett C. Philmus Girl Scouting was outlawed under the Third Reich, and this is the account of how Europe’s Girl Scouts and Guides participated in the Resistance. I have an original copy from 1947 and it’s one of my most cherished possessions. 2. Macho Sluts, by Pat Califia I fell out of the closet in the early ‘90s, right into a pile of Pat Califia’s lesbian BDSM fiction. Califia’s writing on queerness, kink, and pornography was formative for me, and I count myself lucky to have found it early on. 3. Grandad’s Prayers of the Earth, by Douglas Wood and PJ Lynch I collect beautifully-illustrated picture books. This is a lovely story that touches my pagan heart, with gorgeous artwork by one of my favorite children’s illustrators. 4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by JK Rowling I was 28 by the time I finally read it, and it rocked me harder than anything I’d read in years. It put me right back on the floor in the stacks of my elementary school’s library, reading about magic during recess, and it rekindled a quality of the reading experience I hadn’t felt in decades. 5. Girl Genius Book 4: Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams, by Phil & Kaja Foglio The whole Girl Genius series, really, but Circus of Dreams is a marvelous arc among many. Girl Genius is a series of lushly illustrated graphic novels, presented one page at a time at the Girl Genius website. It’s a towering, intricate mad science gaslamp fantasy adventure, full of elegant machines and monstrosities. I found it in 2007, during a deep depression, and inhaled the whole series to that point over the course of a delirious week. After all these years following these characters, the story is as much a part of my mind’s topography as the HP books. Who wants to play? This is my magical tagging pencil: ✏️ TAG. You’re tagged! I have tagged you. What five books should we put in a pentagram to summon you? Tag me back so I can see! ❤️🌹❤️

[days-of-reading]

"It is not easy to measure the intelligence of animals, but what is certain is that canids are one of the groups with the greatest ability for adaptation, and therefore intelligence."

The only reading list on dogs you’ll ever need.