jessie 🌻 booktwt

23 ; writer of words, wormer of books.
myth retelling connoisseur
currently reading: the marriage portrait 📚

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jessie's book tracker 2023
goal: 15 (again!)

thank you for helping me love my books again. every page is a gift.

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@PenguinUKBooks the marriage portrait by the enchanting Maggie O'Farrell

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oh how I love you, wonderful wordsmith @arden_katherine

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you know what time it is

(winternight reread season)

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@goodreads Freckles by Cecelia Ahern. So moving!

[Saint of Never Getting It Right🩷💜💙 @kell_be_belle]

"And I wish that I could take his hand, but where I'm going is for me and me alone."

Sometimes goodbye is the only thing we can say, but love is a fierce and transcendent thing and has ways of coming back to us. A tribute to Inkpot Gods by the lovely @amazingdevilmus 💖💖

[Marcus L. Kearns @marcuslynnk]

Published my review of @amazingdevilmus
"[The Horror and the Wild's] harsh diction and bitter wordplay leave the lines circling like the arms of a hurricane, with awe-inspiring destruction of the relationship that the listener has been made a voyeur of."

https://t.co/KK0wkKgDIT

[Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks]

‘Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.’

John Keats, in a letter to his sister

[gwenhwÿfar 🏹 @narnialogy]

forget the roman empire, how often do you think about the golden age of narnia

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Billboard names ‘I’m Just Ken’ a front-runner for Best Original Song at the Oscars.

[nico @jemcarstairs]

do you guys ever think about what will happen when jem dies and tessa stays alive

[fran @galacticidiots]

I’ve never felt more seen than when they made Barbie depressed, repressed, and obsessed with Pride & Prejudice. This is real representation.

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@catvalente @arden_katherine what a joy to write about how retellings continue to keep the traditions of storytelling alive while providing a vehicle of modern-day culture and a display of our changing values and ideals across time, history and geographical space!!!

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had to share it here too, but I just graduated from my modern languages degree with a first in my dissertation on the changing role of the heroine in modern retellings of Russian folktales (i.e. the amazing works of @catvalente and @arden_katherine)

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@goodreads bookmark - but it must be only the most random pieces of paper, receipts, business cards, etc.

[best of willabeth @bestofwillabeth]

20 years since keira knightley & orlando bloom invented romance on screen.

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@arden_katherine oh to have my hands on another katherine arden book

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@BiruktiWrites oh no, I am definitely a winker and so is my partner. not even in a cringy way, it's just more of a "hey there" when you lock eyes with someone you like

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not me being completely unable to put down the cruel prince after YEARS of saying I wasn't going to read it