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May 8 … maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate. I always find it a bit funny when I read lines like “he’s my mate” or “I have found my mate” because it means something VERY different in Australia and we tend to put on a really bogan accent when we say it.
So some of my favourite maaaaaaaaates are Harry and Ron! I just adore their friendship and I want to hug them forever.
Who are some of your favourite bookish besties?
Day 8:
#Ampersand2018: Mate
#NovelBeanMay: Book you’d recommend
8 May 2018. .
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#harrypotter #jkrowling #funko #funkopop #ronweasley #openbook #igreads #bookishfeatures #bookporn #aussiereaders #bookstagram #bookish #instaread #booknerdigans #booksofinsta #bookstagrammer #bloomsbury
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It’s Lost Sock Memorial Day! Whenever I lose one of my socks, I assume that I’ve accidentally freed a house-elf.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, you know how I was looking for my Ravenclaw socks a few weeks ago? I bloody found them. Balled up in the pockets of a pair of jeans I haven’t worn since last year. What a great place to put them for safe keeping.
What’s the last thing you misplaced?
My April wrap-up video is now on my channel! Check out the link in my bio.
Day 9:
#Ampersand2018: Free
9 May 2018. .
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#harrypotter #jkrowling #houseelf #socksunday #socksaturday #shelfie #bookshelves #shelfiesunday #shelfiesaturday #igreads #bookishfeatures #bookporn #aussiereaders #bookstagram #bookish #bookstagrammer #geekchic #booksocks #bloomsbury
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Wands up! It’s been TWENTY YEARS since the #BattleOfHogwarts!
Would you have fought in the battle? I like to think that I’d be brave enough, considering the choice between defeating Voldemort and living under his rule but I honestly have no idea!
Day 2:
#Ampersand2018: Battle
#MayInBooks18: Character with special power
#BookReadHappyHour: Coming of age
#LILGettingToKnowYou: Favourite series
2 May 2018. .
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#shelfie #harrypotter #bloomsbury #jkrowling #hogwarts #aussiereaders #bookstagram #bookish #instaread #booknerdigans #wandsup
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Is it just me or is #ACOFAS the prettiest of all the #ACOTAR books so far? I have been SLAIN by this cover.
I’m going to be super busy over the next week but I’m really hoping to squeeze this tiny read into my schedule. I read a few cheeky pages while taking this photo and I’m already keen.
Day 1:
#Ampersand2018: Stars
#IAmSweetMaasMay, #MayInBooks18, #NovelBeanMay, #AllTheBooksMay, #BookReadHappyHour, #FangirlingInMay, #LILGettingToKnowYou, #RFABMay18: TBR
1 May 2018. .
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#openbook #shelfie #acomaf #acowar #acourtoffrostandstarlight #bloomsbury #aussiereaders #bookstagram #bookish #instaread #booknerdigans #tbr #anticipatedread #sarahjmaas
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Is it just me or has #bookstagram massively increased everyone else’s collection of socks?
Autumn is FINALLY kicking in here in Brisbane, and I’m looking forward to wearing these cuties again!
Day 29:
#Ampersand2018: Shine
#ReadGushMerch18: All-time favourite bookish merch
29 Apr 2018.
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#socksunday #onsundayswepostpotter #harrypotter #jkrowling #hogwarts #bloomsbury #harrypotterillustrated #aussiereaders #bookstagram #bookish #instaread #booknerdigans
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New from Tim Duggan Books, Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars, by Francesca Wade.
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Something that I’ve grown to adore about Sarah J. Maas’s books is a common trait that her female main characters have. They are all lovers of the arts. Aelin loves music, Feyre loves painting, and now Bryce loves dancing. Characters loving the arts isn’t something I’ve often come across in books that I love, so I really appreciate that.
So Tumblr how do we feel about #Soapgate??
Cover illustration for the upcoming epic fantasy The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Out 26 February 2019.
Pre-orders already available.
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Part of the cover illustration for The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and Bloomsbury Publishing, an epic fantasy inspired by the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that re-imagines the legend of St. George and the Dragon. Proud to announce that the book has been published today.
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“I open at the close”… I’ve (finally) finished my re-read of Harry Potter, but I’m very tempted to start all over again with these lovely illustrated editions
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#harrypotter #jimkay #jkrowling #harrypotterillustrated #bookish #bookstagram #instabooks #bookstagramfeatures #bookworm #bibliophile #bookishfeatures #igreads #bookography #vscobooks #readersofinstagram #bookcommunity #bookgram #bloomsbury #⚡
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What is everyone #currentlyreading
I just pickup this gem!
I’d like to take a moment and apologize for the lack of posts lately. Life has been super busy for all of us lately. To make it up to you I have a joke! I hope you like it.
What did King George think of the colonists?
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He thought they were revolting.
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#ireadya #ya #youngadult #youngadultbooks #silverintheblood #jessicadaygeorge #bloomsbury #bookstagram #yalit #bookstagram #bookblogger #youngadult #amreading #bookphotography (at Laramie, Wyoming)
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❧ art by nanna.arts; commissioned by me
Celebrating Week Two of @elriel-month, Spies, Visions, Shadows and Knives.
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Review: I want to die, but I want to eat tteokbokki by Baek Se-Hee.
Baek Se-Hee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can’t be normal.
But if she’s so hopeless, why can she always summon a yen for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?
Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.
I just finished, ’ I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki’ and what a book.
There are moments in this book where I am just like ‘you can get out of my head’ because it really does hit close to home in moments and taught me alot about myself, but also about others and how they work, I know that a book can’t make you read people, but it did teach me alot about empathy and how to be real, but also how to be more in your own moment something that can be tough to keep a hold of and I feel this author really explores that idea in this book.
And I do get why RM would read this too, it’s very much about loving yourself (a big part of BTS’ message) and treating yourself with kindness. It reminds me of the lyrics, 'you give me the best of me, so you give you the best of you’ from Magic Shop by BTS, as this book explores how to make yourself a better you but also reminding you that how to get better is with you all along, with all the right guidance and the right person helping you along the way. I do feel the psychiatrist allows the book balance and brings in an edge of humour with the sheer sometimes common sense of it all.
the honesty it takes to write a book like this and be open about their thoughts, emotions and feelings is really incredible and I think that this is a book that will help others comes to terms with their own as well. How she talks about the relationships she has with people around them and how their brain reacts to those people is fascinating, but also incredibly illuminating and human and that humanity shines so much in this book.
Written in such a way that is accessible for anyone to take in. I really like how this book is structured and how it explores different topics. In the appendix there also the perspective of the psychiatrist she talks to which is really enlightening, and gives a rounded experience to the book. There are moments of heartbreak (the short essay on her dogs in the appendix broke my heart), there are moments of light, but mostly moments of learning and I think that’s what makes this now of my new favourite books.
thank you to Bloomsbury Books for the ARC via Netgalley! I can’t wait for more people to read this.
A must-read for SATB fans. Bennett puts into words the aural landscapes this album has always given me. PEEPSHOW and Kate Bush’s HOUNDS OF LOVE, my two all-time favorite albums, being strange, expansive fairy tales for the ears and soul.
