The Book Beside Me

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[violetsnotebook-archive]

Are we fully given to our nature? And if we endeavour to change and reinvent who we are, is that effort necessarily a betrayal?

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

[imteremarin]

Can you keep a secret?

a playlist inspired by the ravenhood series

Hi! I read The ravenhood series by Kate Stewart last year and I couldn't seem to get the story or the characters out of my head, so of course I had to make a playlist. Hopefully some of you guys get to enjoy it <3

[enchantedengland]

Autumn at Scotney Castle, Kent (@jameslloydcole IG)

[weltenwellen]

Mark Wolynn, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

[greetingsfromthewreck]

Earl Grey Creme + Book of Night

[scriptedsilence-deactivated2025]

* unraveler *

you are my torrential downpour

of inescapable longings

your words play upon my lips

coating my throat

dancing through me dirty

spinning wildfire through my veins

skin warm and aching

each fiery pulse throbbing in those very places

which has already claimed you.

breath too heavy to catch

hot-cold-fast-slow

consumption of primal engulfing tenderness

parched escaped moans

bite marks on flesh

raw-tangled-swollen

bones splintering from the weight of blood rushing.

heaviness unraveled -light

stars bursting

unwound -unbound

exhaustion exerted

not a damn thing left,

but your name dripping off my tongue

© ScriptedSilence.All rights reserved

[cupsandthoughts]

a moment of bliss 🫶🏼☕️☁️🍂 i haven’t been reading much lately, but i have been doing all sorts of other things like drawing and writing again ☺️ i finally reopened my little shop (@mythoughtful.space) again and journaled after weeks! it’s been great 🥰 i plan on reading a ton of books this month though! my winter break is coming soon so i’ll have lots more time to tackle my tbr 💫 what are your plans for the month? :) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeYpoixv4Pf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fictionnet]

@fictionnet event 04 - parallels.

➤ the leading women of taylor jenkin-reids novels; the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, daisy jones & the six, malibu rising.

“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”

[therefugeofbooks]

A super special June TBR with some Queer books I'm looking forward to reading this month!

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi

The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Gostaria que Você Estivesse Aqui by Fernando Scheller

Perfect On Paper by Sophia Gonzalez

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Are you guys reading any Queer books for Pride Month? 🌈

[thebookbesideme]

This book swallowed me whole.

[thenilofernoorulain]

Some books make you smile.

Some books make you cry.

Some books change the way you look at everything.

But some books pick you up and yeet your ass to the sixth dimension.

[thebookbesideme]

[thebookbesideme]

The beauty that is a bookstore

[weltenwellen]

Ada Limón, from “Calling Things What They Are”, The Hurting Kind

[mjalti]

[cupsandthoughts]

here’s my take on #artofannotating 🤍 if you ever have any questions on my annotations, feel free to have a read! :) . do you write directly on the page? - absolutely! the larger the margins (and space) the better 🥰

do you annotate all your books? - i try to, but it depends! if i don’t feel like making any comments (for whatever reason — it could be because i don’t find the need to interact with the story), then i won’t annotate it

why do you annotate? - because it makes me connect with the story and characters better ☺️ it also allows me to underline phrases that i can go back to in the future. plus i feel more in touch with the author and what they’re trying to write about as well!

what tabs do you use? - studymate tabs! they’re only available in australia sadly :(

what pens do you use? - @artlineau ballpoint and fineliner pens! ✨ . love this tag so much! i’m so glad that annotating is becoming a bigger thing here in the #bookstagram community 🫶🏼 https://www.instagram.com/p/CeLvxTVP492/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=