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Part 2 of Art for Every Book I Read this Summer: The Symposium by Plato!
(Little explanation)
This is a fairly liberal interpretation of the word ‘fanart’ but it is art inspired by the book I read, which is what I’m going for. The main take away from this book for me was that Ancient Greek philosophers and those three side characters in Dazed and Confused have something in common, and that is that they both represent the way me and my friends get together and have deeply existential conversations for the fun of it. Philosophy hasn’t changed, just the way the philosophers dress.
A very happy publication day to my fellow Disco writer, the wonderful Emma van Straaten! This Immaculate Body is available now in a bookstore near you.
Dm me if you like the Market of Monsters series by Rebecca Schaeffer, I need someone to geek about it with.
COMING SOON
my novel Bismil, on which i am still am working on on wattpad. It will be uploaded soon on wattpad. Based on desi muslim story and social issues of our society.
Hi everyone, I’m hosting a giveaway where you can win any book of your choice from Amazon. 📚
It’s easy to join—just check out the details here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DEr49P9yeJk/?igsh=MXU2b2pta3dwcGk0YQ==
Would love for you to participate and let me know what book you’d choose if you win.
Dopamenu: A List of Feel-Good Activities for When You Feel Lost
Ever felt stuck or unmotivated? I just wrote a blog post about a “Dopamenu” – a list of activities to help you reset and feel good when you’re feeling lost. From quick mood boosters to deeper ways to recharge, there’s something for everyone. 🌿✨
Check it out here:
My Studio Ghibli inspired Notion Template.
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Admit it, we all, at least once in our lives, wanted to read one book a week. Maybe it’s because Jeff Bezos or Barack Obama does it, or sometimes it might be a book vlogger who claims that she read 100+ books this year and shares her top 10. Or maybe it’s because you have a TBR pile you are drowning in, and you just want to finish them. I have always wondered how people manage to do this.
I recently started speed reading my non-fiction books, and it really worked.
Studio Ghibli is an acclaimed animated studio based in Tokyo, Japan, renowned for its enchanting hand-drawn animation and imaginative storytelling. The studio’s films are celebrated for their lush visuals and deeply emotional narratives, often exploring themes of wonder, nostalgia, nature, childhood, and self-discovery.
📚✨ Introducing my 2024 Reading Journal Template on Notion!
Track your books, progress, percentages, and more—all in one place.
Dive into a new level of book tracking! 📝📖
i don’t think reading the entirety of Deltora Quest as a kid was exactly my best decision because now as a teenager anytime i get a weird crawly, touchy or itchy feeling in my ear my immediate reaction is “IT’S THE EVIL BRAINWASHING WORMS!!¡¡!”
Ok can we all agree that one of the best things in life, is going to a bookstore and talking(yapping) with the clerk for a long period of time? Like they're such nice and open minded people /gen
Happy National Poetry Month!
Poetry recs:
“On Meeting a Stranger in a Bookshop” by Oscar Williams
“Clean Socks” by Anna Kate Stanley
“14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes” by Doc Luben
“2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in their Bathrobes” by Yehoshua November
“I Remembered” by Sara Teasdale
“a poem to all the dead things” by Ava (@amethyst.hour on Instagram)
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
“I want to see the tulips in Holland.” by @byrdieprose
"We read to get lost, to forget the hard times we're living in, and we read to remember those who came before us who lived through something harder."
– Jacqueline Woodson, YA fiction writer, from her TED talk: What reading slowly taught me about writing
Yes, why can't life be just as simple as this?
“Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
— The Camel Club by David Baldacci
“A good book will give you answers to questions you didn’t know you had. A great book will give you questions to answers you thought you knew.”
— Give the Dark My Love by Beth Revis
Me reading books: 😍
Me buying books: 😍
Me touching books: 😍
Me seeing books: 😍
Me smelling books: 😍
Me talking about books: 😍
Books in general: 😍
I definitely need an excuse to read one more chapter.
under the sun, under the moon, find me with a book 📖🕯🍁 { prints & more are on society6 and redbubble }
**please refrain from deleting caption. thank you!**
I've been seeing a lot of memes about readers hoarding books and buying some more even through they don't read them, while there are others complaining how they have a huge pile of books to be read. I'm just going to say:
Hoarding books isn't a bad thing – in fact, it could be a sign of intelligence.
A writer from Medium, Michael Simmons, wrote this golden post about the habit. This is for all of you readers out there: boy, you are some smarty-pants.
What to Read When You've Run Out of Reading Material
for the reader who just can't get enough.
Books in your bookshelf. Rereading is like greeting former friends. It means re-entering familiar worlds and receiving warm "welcome home" greetings from your favorite characters.
Poetry. From Edgar Allan Poe to Lang Leav, some poems are as short as five words, others take 1.8 million words. Reading poetry can enhance your language and cognitive skills, open your mind and stimulate your imagination, and make you more aware of the world and the people around you. Here's a compilation of free online poetry sites you can visit.
A topic you're interested in. Ever wondered how the government of Zimbabwe works? The Internet is home to everything you may be wondering about and longing to know. Take time to research and immerse yourself. You'll be armed with trivia that you can bring up in conversations. Stuck? Try experimenting with these weird-but-wonderful topics.
Discarded newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, etc. Besides using them as cat litter box liners and placemats, there's a lot of usefulness in reading them. You can find how-to articles, political opinions, and one-line comic strips. Maybe there's hidden treasure in their text.
Text from cereal boxes and other food containers. Want to know how much calories you consume from your Mars bar? Check the back of its packaging. Before long, you'll learn about terms like monounsaturated fatty acids and disodium guanylate. You are what you eat.
Your old writings. Take a trip down memory lane. It can be your third grade homework, confession letters to your middle school crush, or a story about dragons you made up when you were six. You'll notice how much you've grown as a reader and a writer.
Something from your book list. Your list consists of the books you want to read. These may be recommendations from your friends or interesting books you've seen online. Now's the time to tackle the books on your list. Haven't started on your book list? Take a look at these books!
Similar books from the ones you've previously read. Perhaps your favorite author wrote other books than the ones you've already read. Or maybe you want to keep reading about dystopian communities. Either way, the literary world is interconnected with millions of books for you to read.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries. These were invented for you to read them. Long before Google and other browsing sites existed, your ancestors looked up information from these thick, dusty hardcovers. Time to brush up on your knowledge, buddy.
Your last resort. This is the topic of your nightmares; something that you find boring or useless. You would never, ever dream of reading about this. But with your boredom and desperation to read something, you might find these topics interesting. Learning about the migration patterns of redwings could be useful someday.
Leo Tolstoy sure does know what happiness is!
“Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.”
-Leo Tolstoy
I honestly think that crying over a book is one of the most prominent sign of compassion for humanity. You’re crying over someone who isn’t really there, doesn’t really exist, but you still feel for them as if you have known them your entire life.
Reading opens our minds to the world around us, taking us to places even though we're only within four walls.
One real benefit of reading I rarely hear anybody mention is how much more interesting life becomes when you read a lot. It depends what you’re reading, of course, but most (good) books will teach you something you didn’t already know, and even if you have to give the book back to the library, you get to take that much with you. A lot of people talk about things they wish they’d studied in school–I’ve done it, too–but it’s a nice consolation prize that you can always pick up a book and learn something new. And as that library in your brain collects more volumes, everything around you gains new resonances, new context, and new connections which make your lived experience richer. In quarantine alone I’ve read about religion and politics and history and evolution and computer science and astrophysics without even leaving my house and it’s already a more interesting world.
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” // Charles William Eliot
"Stories can cross the barriers of time, past, present and future, and allow us to experience the similarities between ourselves and through others, real and imagined."
— Andrew Stanton, PIXAR screenwriter, from his TED talk: The Clues to a Great Story
Trivia Tuesday #3
Bookworm vocabulary: Abibliophobia is the fear of running out of reading material. Bibliosmia is the love of the smell of old books. Tsundoku (Japanese) means to let reading materials pile up in one's home and never read them.
It happens way too often.
"Take your reading material with you everywhere you go and think of it as a treasure and a lifeline."
𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴💡
There are plenty of ways to maintain focus while we are reading, but here are my top five. I would love to know yours too! Feel free to share them. 📝