Booksiebutterfly

Artist, thespian, gamer, pro-tomato🍅! Not really a quest follower. I’m a native English speaker learning Spanish and Levantine Arabic 🇵🇸🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 :)

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My Taste

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

Reading...

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

84%

An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing

58%

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Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Heather Fawcett

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Booksiebutterfly commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

lostinthebooks

book recs for dystopian/sci-fi/fantasy

Hii guys!!

I’m currently reading Sunrise on The Reaping, and it’s making me crave more books similar to this vibe.

I’ve read The Hunger Games, Divergent series, The Lunar Chronicles and I’ve loved them so much.

Do you have any recs for something similar? Or dystopian (sci-fi and fantasy) books that you think are absolutely amazing and deserve a read?

Thank you so much!! x

Booksiebutterfly is interested in reading...

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache. Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence – a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?

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cheersforLatte

Thoughts from 55% (page 184) - POE!!

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An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing

Tim Brookes

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An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing

Tim Brookes

A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them.If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85% of the world's writing systems are on the verge of vanishing - not granted official status, not taught in schools, discouraged and dismissed.When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional script, everything it has written for hundreds of years - sacred texts, poems, personal correspondence, legal documents, the collective experience, wisdom and identity of a people - is lost.This Atlas is about those writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them. From the ancient holy alphabets of the Middle East, now used only by tiny sects, to newly created African alphabets designed to keep cultural traditions alive in the twenty-first from a Sudanese script based on the ownership marks traditionally branded into camels, to a secret system used in one corner of China exclusively by women to record the songs and stories of their inner this unique book profiles dozens of scripts and the cultures they encapsulate, offering glimpses of worlds unknown to us - and ways of saving them from vanishing entirely.

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An Atlas of Extinct Countries

Gideon Defoe

Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated – and timely – history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didnt deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either 'got too greedy' or 'Napoleon turned up'. Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. This is an atlas of 48 nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book refuses to do so, because these dead nations are so full of schemers, racists, and con men that it's impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff. Because of this - and because treating nation-states with too much reverence is the entire problem with pretty much everything - these accounts are not concerned with adding to the earnest flag saluting in the world, however nice some of the flags might be.

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Enjoying reread

How do you guys enjoy rereading?

This is may sound outrageous, but I never look forward to rereading my (fiction) books, which makes me feel guilty, it's such a waste of money to only read your books once in a lifetime. When I want to be reminded what happened from the previous book, I just jump ahead through the specific pages or not doing altogether. Brute forcing the 2nd book with no memory and hoping to remember anything as I go. Other times was for literary analysis given by my professor, so I need to read the text several times.

I've tried it, but the feeling of already knowing what happens in a book makes me feel like Phil from Groundhog Day in his 100th—or only god know how many—loop.

So, what kind of activities or techniques you guys did?

Sorry for my grammar (⁠ᗒ⁠ᗩ⁠ᗕ⁠) And I'm sorry if it sound idiotic

Booksiebutterfly made progress on...

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Heather Fawcett

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fitzchivalry

Thoughts from 73% (page 248)

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