3 of my favorite articles from the weekly blog by @BookJotter . I highly recommend signing up for her blog posts for all things books from all over the world. She is on here, too 📚
In case anyone is wondering if there is any engagement on here— this is the list of every book recommended after I asked if you’d share one book you enjoyed this year. You can scroll underneath the post to see these, but I think seeing them all together shows the true awesomeness of the people on here.
crossposting from bluesky (no need to respond in both places)
A 13 yo in my life LOVES the #Twilight series. Does anyone have any modern readalike #books suggestions? I know a bunch from around the time that series came out but I don't know what the newer diverse ones are out if there are any?
#PennedPossibilities 125 — Do any of your characters ever "put on airs" around others?
Mrs Ashton put on airs? All the time. She is a social climber, always trying to win the favour of the wealthy.
Braddie - her partner, servant, conscience, accomplice - is often described in terms of weather - cold blasts of disapproval, brooding clouds of annoyance, thunderstorms over moors of anger
No me subestimeis, no iba a acabar el mes de septiembre sin leerme ninguna guarrada, por quien me tomais?
Praise - Sara Cate
Es una locura 😏😏😏😏
100% tengo algo que ver con este kink. Pero eso es otro tema
La prota rompe con el gilipollas de su novio, y tiene que ir a ver al padre de este para recuperar su parte de la fianza del piso y, en un malentendido este LE PIDE QUE SE ARRODILLE ANTE EL. ✨ella obedece inmediatamente ✨
Acaba siendo su secretaria 😏
Llegada a este punto no pude parar y me leí el segundo y tercer libro de esta saga Salacious Playera Club de Sara Cate.
Eyes on me (Clichés: hermanastro, proximidad forzada, ella es una camgirl y el es socio del club de sexo junto al señor del primer libro)
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Give me more (OTRO socio del club de sexo se casa con el amor de su vida y ambos crecen juntos con su mejor amigo y sujetavelas oficial de la pareja....y se dan cuenta de que LOS 3 SON MÁS QUE AMIGOS🔥)
I read Iron Curtain by #VesnaGoldsworthy. A page-turner set in the 1980s. A young privileged 'red princess' from a poor unnamed central European country elopes to London in the name of love. The sense of displacement has echoes of the Patricia Engel book I read just before this. There's also enjoyable farce here even if the clichés about the UK are laid on a little thick at times. #bookToot#bookstodon#keefsreads
Just read The Country of Others by #LeilaSlimani. Possibly for the second time. May be going mad. Anyway a young French woman falls in love in 1944 and makes a new life in Morocco. The turmoil in that relationship reflects the upheaval under French rule. I was struck by the symmetry between the dreadful way Amine, the husband treats his wife and family, and the way the colonial power treats Morocco. #bookstodon#BookToot#KeefsReads
The second book in the series, Watch us Dance, covers the family's path from poverty to affluence. Morocco is navigating its way through the early years of independence. It's a much more convincing book than the previous one. You want to know what happens to these characters amid the turbulent growing pains of the country. #LeilaSlimani#bookstodon#BookToot#KeefsReads