skiesbeyondearth

Litfic, old Russian novels, Steinbeck obsessed, also love a good fantasy/romantasy, scifi, play, greek myth retelling, graphic novel, memoir. I like to read and I haven't read enough!

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Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel

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I Saw the Movie and that might be Good Enough

I think the title pretty much describes it — books I haven’t actually read but feel like I have because I watched the movie or show

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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California Dreamin'

by skiesbeyondearth

52 books

I know there are already several lists with a California theme, but I am hoping this acts as a syllabus of sorts for books that deal with the core myth, history, violence, dream, and contradiction of California. Suggestions are welcome!

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The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances

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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Thoughts from 27% (page 351)

~ Definitely Spoilers ~** WHAT!? ARE WE SERIOUS HERE!??? DID HE JUST KILL OFF ANDREI’S WIFE IN CHILDBIRTH!? And he keeps calling her “the little princess” in my version. She has a name!! I’m actually so upset.

‘I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you done to me?’—said her charming, pathetic, dead face.

😭🤌 I DO NOT APPROVE OF THIS DECISION! I didn’t want her to die. And it happened so quickly! Like they hardly gave her screen time! And Andrei wasn’t even really there! Ugh WHY

skiesbeyondearth commented...

I mean, this is not a relaxed and sweet love story, but there are many different love dynamics! Would you be interested in Anna Karenina ? Haha

Ceriise posted...

Pagebound Club

Sick of SMUT and searching relatable romance

I am sick of reading romance stories of teenagers falling in love in unatural ways and always the same dynamics in the relationship between a white "powerful" man and the "in need for help desperate" white girl.. Do you have any recommandations of books where we can follow a couple and maybe be bored by their life because love is not alwyas butterflies and fireworks, I love Sally Rooney for that but already devoured all her books :(