Does anyone have any books that they recommend about pirates? Ideally at the turn of the 20th century, but I’m open to any time (golden age is welcome) so long as it is historical non-fiction or well-researched fiction!

Hiiii It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is part 11. I think

If you participated any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

If you’re new, introduce yourself!

I’ll go first.

My name is JadeLovesBooks

It’s cold AF here in Pensacola Florida and I am cranky because I hate the cold (edit: it’s not really that cold here I’m just dramatic. Reading about everyone here in SUPER cold weather makes me want to clarify this 💀 )

I’ve been spiraling for two days bc my school sent me a notice of academic probation and then 2 days later said they made a mistake and I’m actually doing exceedingly well. Thanks. I’ve literally not been sleeping.

I like white cake with white icing. Preferable fluffy icing. Like whipped. Not the super sweet kind. Also my family makes banana pudding. Like, a lot.

Can we please humor eachother for a moment and name some reasons we DNF'd books that are weird or funny? I found one of my old phones, and looking at the pictures on it I saw I photographed a bunch of book pages at some point. And then I remembered... my first DNF 😭

The outfits, man. THE OUTFITS. Do you remember when you would read X Reader fanfiction on Wattpad and the author would so kindly put a picture of the outfit in there, but it was the early 2010s and we were teens so it was the worst thing you ever saw when you think back on it? I kid you not when I say that the further I looked, the more i expected the pages to show a picture of sneakers and galaxy leggings with layers of the same top in different colors and an owl necklace for some reason. ✋️😩 So yes. I DNF'd that book for the outfits alone.

And now, my favourite two outfits I had the pleasure of reading about. Ahem;

She had her hair in a bun, and because she wanted to look nice for a date she put on red lipstick, a pair of rose shaped red earrings, a jean jacket over a red casual dress printed with palm leaves and red sandals paired with a blue purse to compliment the jean jacket.

Her showstopping outfit to a skatepark, which had the love interest whispering 'wow' and the rival staring in envy was made up of a purple beanie, a white T-shirt with black sleeves, black leggings with moons that ran down the sides and purple sneakers with black laces.

If you don't know: there is a website (or I'm sure there are more than one but I'm referring to a specific one) with supposed experts and you can pay them to recommend you books (or send you physical copies of the recommended books). I have a hard time explaining what I actually like in books. It's just not easy to put into words. I like literary fiction, I don't like romance - but there are exceptions. I don't know 😔 I never met someone with a similar taste which is crazy to me because I do read popular books. But it feels wrong to pay someone when there are so many free tools to help with book recommendations.. I was just wondering: Has anyone tried that website or something similar? How was the experience? Were the books good or is it a waste of money?

I just finished the newly released rewrite that was done to remove all of the explicit SCP references, and it was incredible! I cried at the end, and throughout I was thoroughly engaged. Highly, highly recommend.

This was a very good choice for a lighter read in between big novels, i'm enjoying his writing style, especially dialogues

Does anyone have any music recommendations for music that's sounds like it's straight out of a fantasy book? Preferably orchestral and without lyrics.

Some of my favorites are The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit soundtracks, as well as the album Heart of Darkness by Succession Studios. I also recently found Malte Wegmann's music inspired by Eragon and I'm loving it!