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Standing there, I promised myself that if I ever had kids, I was going to be different.

It’s a promise every Indian kid makes at some point. You mean it when you say it, though.

You mean it so hard.

- quote from Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

In movies, after you beat the bad guy, the monster, then all the injuries it inflicted, they heal right up.

That’s not how it works in the real world.

- quote from Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

You never tell your mom anything that might worry her. Moms have enough to worry about already.

- quote from Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

I sought loneliness when I was young. […]
But when I think of you, I want to be alone together.

- quote from This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air […]? You could leave me for five years, you could return never -  and I have to write the rest of this not knowing.

- quote from This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

frayderike:

Around the World in 80 Books (2022)

Reading challenge for 2022: Read books that take place in 80 different countries of the world. You have to visit countries within the following 8 regions: North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania/Australia.

More info: Goodreads group

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legend: want to read (subject to change) | * currently reading | ✔ done

Countries: 13/80

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North America

  • Untied States: An Emotion of Great Delight ✔
  • Canada: The Testaments ✔

the Caribbean

  • Jamaica: A Brief History of Seven Killings

Latin America

  • Brazil: Where We Go From Here ✔
  • Venezuela: It Would Be Night in Caracas
  • Mexico: Gods of Jade and Shadow

Europe

  • Germany: Die Schwarze Madonna: Afrodeutscher Heimatkrimi ✔
  • Poland: Schindler’s List
  • France: The Gilded Wolves
  • Austria: Carmilla
  • Slovakia: Samko Tále’s Cemetery Book ✔
  • Norway: The Mercies ✔
  • England: Loveless ✔
  • Finland: Blaue Frau ✔
  • Ireland: Angela’s Ashes
  • Spain: The Shadow of the Wind
  • Sweden: Anxious People
  • Ukraine: Voices from Chernobyl
  • Greece: Ariadne

Africa

  • Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions ✔
  • Sudan: Who Fears Death
  • Tanzania: Afterlives
  • Morocco: Daughter of Smoke & Bone
  • Nigeria: Noor or The Girl with the Louding Voice
  • Ethiopia: My Soul to Keep
  • Libya: The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
  • South Africa: Sugar Town Queens ✔

the Middle East

  • Israel: Israel - eine Utopie
  • Turkey: Black Powder War
  • Iran: The Stationary Shop
  • Kuwait: Against the Loveless World
  • Qatar: Love from A to Z ✔

Asia

  • Japan: Confessions ✔
  • South Korea: Our Happy Time or Kim Ji Young, Born 1982
  • China: Dream of Ding Village
  • Taiwan: The Membranes *
  • India: The Widows of Malabar Hill or Blue-Skinned Gods
  • Vietnam: The Sympathizer
  • Malaysia: State of Emergency
  • Hong Kong: Second Sister

Oceania/Australia

  • New Zealand: Quiet in Her Bones ✔
  • Australia: A Million Things

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“Are you afraid of that?” they asked. “Of death?” “Of course,” Mosscap said. “All conscious things are. Why else do snakes bite? Why do birds fly away? But that’s part of the lesson too, I think. It’s very odd, isn’t it? The thing every being fears most is the only thing that’s for certain?“

- quote from A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Everybody thinks they’re the exception to the rule, and that’s exactly where the trouble starts. One person can do a lot of damage.

- quote from A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Throw together some criteria, approve it by vote, and anything can become an official psychiatric disorder—which means that the manual has long been a mirror for biases that would horrify many people today.

- quote from Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

frayderike:

Books 2022

♥ fav // ♫ audiobook // 🖌 graphic novel, manga // ∞ re-read

my goodreads profile

  1. How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air #3.5)
  2. Die Schwarze Madonna: Afrodeutscher Heimatkrimi
  3. Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen (Aber wissen sollten) ♫ ♥
  4. Quiet in Her Bones
  5. Samko Tále’s Cemetery Book
  6. Light from Uncommon Stars ♫ ♥
  7. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #1)
  8. Where We Go From Here
  9. Iron Widow (Iron Widow #1)
  10. An Emotion of Great Delight ♫ ♥
  11. The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
  12. The Deal (Off-Campus #1)
  13. The Sweetest Oblivion (Made #1)
  14. Marriage for One
  15. Punk 57
  16. Kulti
  17. Lingus
  18. Jade City (The Green Bone Saga #1) ♥♥♥
  19. Confessions
  20. Blaue Frau ♫
  21. Vergewaltigung: Aspekte eines Verbrechens
  22. The Mercies
  23. A Psalm of Storms and Silence (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #2)
  24. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy #1)

Dropped / DNFed

  • The Mistake (Off-Campus #2)
  • The Gravity of Us (Elements #4)

Currently Reading

  • The Broken Kingdoms
  • Girls Save the World in This One ♫
  • Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
  • The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

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