#reading asks

[godzilla-reads]

Make a List Book Asks ✅

🌸 Make a playlist based on your current read.

🌹 Create a book rec list based on the mood you’re in.

🌷 What’re three pieces of artwork that make you think of your current book?

🌼 Make a moodboard that matches the visual aesthetic of your current book.

🌱Rank the four seasons (spring, summer, autumn, winter) by how likely you are to read in?

🌺 Make a movie watch list based off your current read.

💐 What are your Top 3 Quotes from your book? If you haven’t found any good ones- what are some of your favorite book quotes from other reads?

🍀 Using the Language of Flowers (or your own version of it), what three flowers would you pair with your book?

🌻 If you’re reading a fictitious book, what books would you recommend to one of the characters?

🌵 If you’re reading a nonfiction book, what are similar books to the topic you’re reading about, and would you recommend them?

[gracewight]

10, 14, and 21 for the bookish asks?

10. Bookmarks, dog ears or leaving the novel open and face down to keep your spot?

I LOVE BOOKMARKS, and ANY excuse to BUY BOOKMARKS, they are beautiful tiny pieces of functional art! But I will confess to having laid the book open and face down now and then if I was only stepping away for a moment (or, ahem, I thought it was only going to be a moment…)

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14. What is your favourite children’s book?

Oh this one is SO hard! Because Children’s Books is SUCH a broad catagory! And there are so MANY I LOVE. And like, I want to say The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy but I’m not sure it was written FOR children so much as for an adult’s inner child? Like as much as I love it and the art I know it wouldn’t have appealed as much to me when I actually was a child? I liked bright colors and really complicated pictures, like in Where’s Waldo, I wanted to get lost in the pictures.

But when I was a child, the book that probably had the most impact on me was a picture book called Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak; I’m not sure how baby me came to the conclusion I was a goblin changeling (I don’t want to blame my sister but “look it’s you” was the kind of joke she would have made, because I Was Actually the kind of child who would dance until I passed out if you didn’t turn the music off), but it was a TERROR I struggled with for YEARS before I discovered what Autism was. Now I am very fond of the book! 🤣

But also Shel Silverstein’s kids poetry books like Falling Up and Where the Sidewalk Ends, which was the beginning of a lifelong love of poetry, Dr. Seuss, especially There’s a Wocket in my Pocket, and also an honorary mention to another picture book, Tuesday by David Wiesner, which still makes me cackle.

You see the problem is I have too many favorites and I really can’t pick just one.

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21. Ideal reading position?

Cradled in the loving embrace of my recliner, but not actually reclined. I have chronic pain and lose feeling in my arms if they stay bent too long, holding the book in my lap is the position I can hold the longest without that happening for the best uninterrupted immersion.

Alternatively! Crocheting while listening to an audiobook! More or less the same position though. 🤔🤣

[sunscreenstudies]

📚Bookish Asks📚

📕 What book has had the biggest impact on your life, and why?

📖Do you prefer physical books or e-books? Why?

💛How do you organize your bookshelves? By genre, author, color, or in a completely unique way?

🔖What quote from a book resonated with you deeply?

🤎Are you a one-book-at-a-time reader, or do you read multiple books simultaneously?

📝What fictional world would you love to visit and explore if given the chance?

💚Which book character do you relate to the most, and why?

📙What’s your favorite genre to read, and do you have any recommendations within that genre?

📑Hardcover, paperback, ebook, or audiobook? Which format do you prefer?

🤍Do you have any reading goals for this year? How are you progressing so far?

💙 What is your favorite book-to-movie adaptation, and why?

📚Do you have a go-to reading spot or do you read everywhere?

❤️Who is your all-time favorite author, and what makes their writing so special to you?

🧾What is the most memorable book ending you’ve ever read? Did it leave you satisfied or wanting more?

💜What book did you initially not enjoy but ended up loving? What changed your perspective?

📗If you could have a conversation with any author, living or deceased, who would it be and what would you ask them?

🖤 Are there any book series that you’ve been meaning to start but haven’t gotten around to yet? Which ones are they?

📔Do you have any bookish rituals or habits that you follow before, during, or after reading a book?

🧡Is there a particular book cover that you find absolutely stunning? Share a picture or describe it!

📘Which classic book or author do you think everyone should read at least once in their lifetime, and why?

[daisychainsandbowties]

1 and 8 for the reads in review ask :)

1. favs of the year

i’m not extremely clear on the timeline this was probably more than one november ago but i read “the last true poets of the sea” aloud to my girlfriend while they were sick & since used that book as assigned reading for my students i thought it was very good

definitely the second murderbot i read that in may and loved it more than the first one actually because there’s a ship Guy in it (a ship who has opinions) & the dynamic between murderbot and ART is really fun

i read the traitor baru cormorant this year and it’s one of the most skilfully executed books i’ve ever encountered. and the writing is stellar like it had me taking deep breaths and staring at the wall sometimes just by prose alone, and nevermind what the prose is building i think that was probably the best book i read this year

those were my favourites that weren’t just rereads. i did read temeraire again, and the girl and the stars and i listened to the first three wheel of time books with rosamund pike narrating (which was almost a whole new experience she does them so well!)

8. Blorbo from my books

for sure this one goes to Baru from the traitor baru cormorant. she absolutely rewired my brain she’s like if harrow from tlt made more sense to me as a person, and was also somehow messier and worse and more compex. set against the world from those books which is so so fascinating she definitely takes the lead on character who crawles inside my brain and set all the furniture on fire

[sassysnowperson]

Political intrigue baybeeee

Oh of course!

I think the most broad-scale political intrigue is R. F Kuang's 'Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution' - and I feel safe reccing it to you but for my folks that hate an ending with a heavy dose of tragedy, maybe stay clear. But, for my Rogue One is the Best Star Wars Movie folks - I think there's a plot to enjoy here.

Colonialism examined through the eyes of translation, except translation has magic. Fluently bilingual speakers are now a product to export along with everything else Britain wants from India and China and all the other places its tendrils reach to. The power of that magic keeps the society running. It starts out as a complex coming of age novel for one young man trained to be this sort of translator, and as he becomes more aware of the world, the reader becomes more aware of the politics. Revolution is impossible, doomed, and the only just thing. Colonialism and exploitation is a monster eating itself, omnipresent and at the same time, unsustainable. I found it hopeful, in amongst the tragedy. You don't get a happy ending, but there's a lot to chew on, and I left the book the better for reading it.

Send me an ask with a favorite book/genre/plot of yours, and I'll tell you what I'd rec from my year in reading in response!

[penna-nomen]

For the book ask!

Did you reread anything? What?

What were your top five books of the year?

Oh those are fun questions. There's overlap between them, so for the rereads I'll just mention things that I didn't read for the first time this year:

Rereads:

Defekt by Nino Cipri

Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells - in preparation for the release of System Collapse

Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston - in preparation for the movie release

Top 5:

System Collapse by Martha Wells

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

God of Lost Words by AJ Hackwith

10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall

12 Points of Caleb Canto by Copperbadge

Thanks for the ask!

[misspiggyilya]

9, 11 and 17!!!

9. Did you get into any new genres?

Not really? I’m just now realizing I did mostly re-reads this year soo….. I didn’t really venture out…. I read pretty exclusively YA/new adult fantasy and adult literary fiction with like one gay romcom which is my norm. I guess the one thing kind of out of character for me was this high school murder mystery called One of Us is Lying…. It was just ok

…ACTUALLY scratch that I read 2 celebrity memoirs this year which is new for me! Jeanette McCurdy and Naya Rivera. Both were good but Jeanette’s was better

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Hard bc all of the books I read this year were pretty recent lol. Literally I think the “oldest” book I read for the first time this year that I actually liked a lot was Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare, and that came out in 2017 lmao so.

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman! Excellent and one of my new favs, was only surprised bc I had never heard anyone talk about it ever and it feels like a book people would talk about. OH and Jeannette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died