June Buddy Assignments
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thestoryinside
The themes for June will be:
FANTASY // NON-FICTION // FEMALE AUTHOR
You must choose books with these genres and themes for your buddy. If you think you might not have books in your TBR pile that fits this month's choices, please let your buddy know.
You can find your buddy's TBR lists here.
fred_mouse & monkiainenroyalblue31 & badfalconsiberian_angel & vickysg1snowynight & einhornmaedchen You have until the 5th to choose your partner's books.
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Date: 2024-06-02 01:56 pm (UTC)Choice 1: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: A Full Cast Production by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman (fantasy)
Choice 2: How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organising by K. C. Davis (non-fiction)
Choice 3: The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling (female author)
I hope these are okay!
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Date: 2024-06-02 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-03 08:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-02 06:24 pm (UTC)Choice 1:
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna (Fantasy)
Choice 2:
Man into Woman: The First Sex Change by Lili Elbe, ed. by Niels Hoyer (Nonfiction)
Choice 3:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Female writer)
I hope it's all right.
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Date: 2024-06-02 06:28 pm (UTC)I will post yours in a minute :)
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Date: 2024-06-02 06:36 pm (UTC)Choice 1:Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Fantasy)
Choice 2:Masculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 by Helen Smith (Non-fiction)
Choice 3:Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb (Female author)
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Date: 2024-06-03 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-09 02:08 pm (UTC)Happy reading!
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Date: 2024-06-02 10:27 pm (UTC)Choice 1:Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (fantasy)
Choice 2: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (non-fiction, female author)
Choice 3: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (female author)
Happy reading!
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Date: 2024-06-03 08:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-03 09:43 am (UTC)Choice 1: The Pomegranate Gate - Ariel Kaplan (fantasy)
Choice 2: Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question - Edward W. Said & Christopher Hitchens (non-fiction)
Choice 3: The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison (female author)
Hope these are okay. Happy reading! :)
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Date: 2024-06-05 02:27 pm (UTC)Oh, those look great!
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Date: 2024-06-05 06:41 am (UTC)Choice 1: Love at first book by Jenn McKinlay (Female Author)
As per your request, I chose only one book, I hope this one's fine. Happy reading!
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Date: 2024-06-05 02:51 pm (UTC)I'll post yours in a minute!
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Date: 2024-06-05 02:27 pm (UTC)Your buddy’s name:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
monkiainen
Choice 1: We Are Okay - Nina LaCour (female writer)
Choice 2: Jade City - Fonda Lee (Fantasy)
Choice 3: The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie (fantasy)
Hope these work for you! Happy reading!
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Date: 2024-06-07 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-08 09:53 am (UTC)I was so very tempted to pick Good Omens for you as well, given that it is on two other people's lists!
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Date: 2024-06-09 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-10 01:51 pm (UTC)Consider it a secret fourth option then!
You have so many interesting books in your list, that whittling it down to three was an exercise in restraint.
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Date: 2024-06-16 08:08 pm (UTC)Both my parents are avid readers (one wall of their living room is basically one big bookshelf) and I learned to read when I was four so it's probably no wonder I love books and reading so much. Annnnd that's probably why my tbr list is so massive :D
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Date: 2024-06-17 03:36 am (UTC)Not actually a problem, it was an exercise in 'oooh, I loved that, you should read that. And that. And that.' And then there were forty open tabs with fantasy books and how is one supposed to pick a favourite child? I did make myself pick one (Jade City) which I haven't read, but it is also on my TBR, just not on the 'maybe I'll read that this year' wish list.
I was just having a lot of fun going through the list.
I also discovered books early. As a child, there was a strict limit on two books at a time from the council library (adults got four!) and so I've been building my reading wishlist since the 80s. My full one has multiple thousands of books on.
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Date: 2024-06-20 12:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-23 04:11 pm (UTC)Possibly also different times? This was the early 80s, and loans were done entirely manually, so that I had two little folders that were my library 'cards', and the card from in the book went in to my little folder, and then the librarian put it in the filing drawer. By the time I had kids, library cards were swipe cards with barcodes, and we could get many books per person.
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Date: 2024-06-26 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-01 02:05 pm (UTC)hmm. trying to remember whether I was using a public (council) library in the early 90s, or whether all my reading was coming from the uni library. I remember going to the nearest library, but that might have been late 90s (I lived near to campus for quite a number of years, including some post graduation). By the time I was regularly using a public library again, I think we had barcodes, but that would have been 2000.
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Date: 2024-06-05 02:55 pm (UTC)Choice 1: The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow (Fantasy)
Choice 2: The vice of reading - Edith Wharton (Non-Fiction)
Choice 3: Heidi Grand-mère - Johanna Spyri (Female Author)
I hope these are okay. Happy reading!