The Bookshelf Game
Tagged by the delightful @polarcell thank you kindly!
the last book I read: The last one I finished was Speed Thief by Sean Hennessy. A comic to start May off nicely.
a book I'd recommend: I always recommend people Piranesi and A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan. I think they're just books it's hard to not like.
a book I couldn't put down: It's odd because it's never the books I give high ratings too... The last book I read in one sitting was In Memoriam by Alice Winn (and I didn't even like it that much) but I think The Spear Cuts through Water by Simon Jimenez was the one that grabbed me the most recently. I just really wanted to know what happened next.
a book I've read twice or more: I used to constantly reread childhood books, so I'd going to say Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. I still have large chunks memorised lol.
a book on my tbr: Good God, way too many. Let's say Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse.
a book I've put down: I have finally surrendered to my distaste and redonated The House on the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune without finishing it. I don't want that in my house.
a book on my wishlist: Argh, so many! I think on my fiction list it's Unknown Soldiers by Väinö Linna, and on my non-fiction list it's The Sacred Band by James Romm.
a favourite book from childhood: Apart from the aforementioned Artemis Fowl, Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis (I do need everyone to understand that I did not comprehend any of the Christian allegory in these books as a child. Like zero.)
a book I'd give to a friend: I lend people anything they ask for, I throw my books around very easily (because my friends generally treat them well), but for gifts I always give A Natural History of Dragons. Idk, it's fun.
a book of poetry or lyrics that I own: Liriche scelte by Ugo Foscolo. It's a really lovely copy from the 60s that someone annotated parts of that I found in a corner of a secondhand bookshop in Rochester.
a non-fiction book that I own: Lots of them! I'm going to go with The Singular Beast by Claudine Fabre-Vassas.
what I'm currently reading: The third Cadfael book, Monk's-Hood by Ellis Peters, and also, as always, Les Miserables.
what I'm planning on reading next: I think I'll reread Temeraire so I can lend it to a friend, and then aslo read a non-fiction book, because I'm behind on those.
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