This Year in Books

This has become more than a yearly resolution, it has developed into a community of great bloggers and readers. So let's dive into those pages! I am open to book suggestions and conversation. Keep On Reading

[thisyearinbooks]

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Returning

Wow. Hi, there. I’ve been off this site for four years, but I’m actually thinking of coming back!

Not only do other areas of the internet feel increasingly overwhelming, but I am actively trying to build a reading habit back into my life again. The original goal of this blog was to give me some accountability in my journey to read more books, and I’d love to push myself in that direction again. It may look different around here. (I probably won’t be focusing on photography as much. Maybe do more illustration instead.) But I’d love to explore the possibilities of using This Year in Books as a creative outlet.

I don’t even know if any of you are still around or if you are still interested in my reviews and thoughts, but if you are - HELLO - I’m glad to see you. And please let me know what you’re reading nowadays!

-Kelly

[weneeddiversebooks]

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[libraryspectre]

Do y'all remember being a kid and trying to read in the car while it was dark outside and your parents wouldn’t let you turn on the light so you would try to grab snatches of sentences when you passed by street lights

[fanonical]

muggleborns annoying the hogwarts ghosts by putting on their own ghosthunting shows

[sealochs]

fun story I first became obsessed with the harry potter series and hermione in particular in yr 3 of primary school and I decided I wanted to be like hermione in every way so I started reading *lots* and working super hard in school, got a reputation for bookishness and being the smart kid that I kept up into high school and lol here I am graduating in a few weeks from Cambridge all bc I adored this clever bookworm in a children’s book series and absorbed her into my personality as a child like ???

basically long story short female role models in kids media are EVERYTHING

[dorites-deactivated20241117]

that scene in the second Harry Potter where Harry has no bones in his arm is probably the most disgusting use of cgi

[moscowdiscow-deactivated2017011]

that wasnt cgi they literally removed daniel radcliffes bones for that scene

[dorites-deactivated20241117]

I hope he got them back

[moscowdiscow-deactivated2017011]

they didnt have the budget to put them back in so for the rest of the movies in the franchise they used cgi to make it look like they did

[yutaan]

Papercraft commission of the Golden Trio and their patronuses, which was an absolute delight to work on! I’d never actually done the HP kids in paper before (save for a very tiny Hermione years ago), so it was a treat to finally make them. Plus I got to try out a new technique with the patronuses, which are made from several layers of transparent paper for a slightly ghostly effect. Delightful!!

[goosewithajob]

If anyone tries to tell you that Shakespeare is stuffy or boring or highbrow, just remember that the word “nothing” was used in Elizabethan era slang as a euphemism for “vagina”. 

Shakespeare has a play called “Much Ado About Nothing”, which you could basically read in modern slang as “Freaking Out Over Pussy”. And that’s pretty much exactly what happens in the play. 

[tanknspank]

Shakespeare’s Comedies are basically him cramming as many dick jokes and euphemisms as possible into a two hour performance. His Tragedies are him to the same thing, but with more dead people

[moonlight-and-mantles]

Once you brush up on your Elizabethan slang, Shakespeare reads like Ye Olden Millennial wrote it, and I love it. xD

[storywood]

I was listening to Harry Potter audiobooks while working recently! Deathly Hallows is my favorite book of the series, and I’ve always loved this scene. Took the opportunity to experiment with some painting techniques while making this fun little piece.

[cheekbonered]

hogwarts memes

- everyone answering “no, i’m fred” to “are you [insert Y/N]” even hermione - everything draco does ever - calling blast ended skrewts “power bottoms” - calling newt scamander bad variations of his name like nerd sandwicher etc - colin creevey using that one picture he managed to get of hermione punching draco as a reaction image - shouting “spank me daddy” at the whomping willow - [pointing at random object] that’s a portkey - every single cat is professor mcgonagall

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

why

[tawghasa]

- POTTER

[yourjacketisnowdry]

- ever since snape’s “bottle fame, brew fortune” speech students just go on and on with it - “flambé success, bake brilliance” “Can you tutor me in charms?” “TUTOR you? I can teach you how to SAUTÉ EXCELLENCE.”

[caffeinepants]

- [random object] is totally a hufflepuff

- remember that game where someone yells “SHATNER” and you have to overact? same thing except it’s “TRELAWNEY” and you have to use whatever you’re holding to make a ludicrous prediction

- a more popular variation is “LOCKHART” to make up a pompous story about using whatever you’re holding to drive the [monster] out of [town]

- calling hippogriffs “leggy birbs”

- “Our beloved headmaster Albert Dumpsterfire/Aqueous Disillusionment/Aberdeen Decapitation…”

- shitty incantations ( “The Graying Hair Charm? Make-me-bloody-ancient-osia.” )

[sleepy-salami]

reblogging for albert dumpsterfire xD

[classicantics-deactivated201712]

-the dumbledore one, except you keep adding incorrect names, like albert pensive wallace herbert richard flamingo sherbet tango luthor…

-*peeves appears* IT DAT BOI

-”i’d rather be petrified”

-”so a shack gets to scream and it’s all normal and haunted, but when i do it i’m disturbing class and a nuisance”

[parseltonquinq]

I will sell my soul for all of this in a fic

[bubonickitten]

“average person meets 3 acromantula a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person meets 0 acromantula per year. Acromantula Hagrid, who teaches Care of Magical Creatures & befriends over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

“meet me in the chamber of secrets in 5 minutes for some vintage amontillado” 

“for 8000 galleons a month i will stop,” 

hogwarts gothic 

(in a crowd and can’t find oliver wood) (cups hands over mouth) “QUIDDITCH IS CANCELLED”  “YOU CAN’T CANCEL QUIDDITCH” 

[burnttoastsundays]

I like to think that “I’d rather be petrified” was started by the students who were actually petrified in CoS and then gradually spread to the general public

[solvskrift]

my favorite bit in harry potter is when a gangly freckled ginger child with an old pet rat and patched jeans and dirt on his nose awkwardly sits down across from a scrawny underfed lil kid with baggy clothes and broken glasses and lightning carved onto his face and they both think ‘i must protect this boy’

[mypatronusisrorypond]

And then a bushy haired girl saw then and thought “these two will never survive without my help”

[bingomann]

From a Patreon prompt: draw sceneries in, around or near where I live. Instead of just doing one, I decided to do one everyday for a whole week. :)

Support me on Patreon! 

[weneeddiversebooks]

A Short List of Science Fiction & Fantasy That Celebrates Disability

Today is the 27th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I don’t remember a life without the ADA. I don’t remember school without the ADA. And I don’t remember being a writer without the ADA. The Act means I can go to school, have a job, access buildings. It means that wh

“I want to discuss the work of disabled genre authors, or authors who celebrate disability in their work. Here’s five of them you’ve definitely heard of—some of them write about disability, some don’t, but ll of them have changed the landscape of SFF.”

[kellbelle312]

“Sometimes I forget that I am an adult, and if I want to eat mashed potatoes as a meal, I CAN.”

Inspired by my friend Libby.

[logarithmicpanda]

See this shiny edition of City of Dragon? It’s Harper Voyager, and it’s around 11.2x18cm. I’m missing (all by Robin Hobb as part of the realm of the elderlings series): - Ship of Destiny (Liveship traders 3) - Fool’s errand (Tawny man 1) - Dragon Keeper (Rain Wild 1) - Blood of Dragons (Rain Wild 4) If you have one of these and are willing to sell it to me, please send me a private message! If you could reblog this so lots of people see it, it would be lovely 💜

[thisyearinbooks]

Always reblog for the love of books

[zoepersicoart-deactivated202102]

My boyfriend and I have been binge watching this show all day, it’s like a kid version of Rick and Morty ha!!