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Book Society introduces its August and September reading event - Of Gods & Tales! As we are celebrating our fourth birthday this month, our members have decided for us to revisit the theme of our very first reading event titled Myths. As both names suggest, this event's focus is on books inspired by various mythologies from all around the world, as well as their retellings. This event is open to everyone, not just our members, so we invite you to come and join us on our mythical reading quest!

✧ how to participate:

  • optional: reblog this post; check out our network and members
  • read (or reread) a book of your choice that fits this month’s theme
  • share what book you've chosen, thoughts, reactions, and/or creations
  • use the tag #booksocietynet in your posts, and include “@booksociety's Of Gods & Tales event: [insert book title here]” in the description of your creations
  • the event starts on August 5 and ends on September 30

✧ reading recommendations (under the cut):

#booksociety#booksocietynet#litedit#*event#august and september 2022 event
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clarkesyd

he glanced down at her. ‘tell me, miss tallant!—just why do you grant me the pleasure of driving you out in my curricle?’

she responded with perfect composure, but with that sparkle in her eye which he had encountered several times before: ‘you must know that it does me a great deal of good socially to be seen in your company, sir!’

he was so much surprised that momentarily he let his hands drop. the grays broke into a canter, and miss tallant kindly advised him to mind his horses. the most notable whip in the country thanked her for her reminder, and steadied his pair.

ARABELLA by georgette heyer

#arabella#edit#nickie
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ohwarnette
Our hearts may be spoken for by those with sweet eyes, little smiles, and so very many needs, but that does not mean that which makes us us is gone. And I hope . . . part of me hopes anyway that in seeing me do this, Marjana knows more is possible. I would not want her to believe that because she was born a girl, she cannot dream.
#amina al sirafi#edit#nickie
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riding-with-the-wild-hunt
“As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Chapter 1: An Unexpected Party"

[ID: an edit comprised of six posters in muted colors, mainly greens and browns. White text in the center of each image reads "The Hobbit" and underneath "J.R.R. Tolkien."

1: Wooden barrels in a stack / 2: Someone wearing several layered jackets in various tweed fabrics and a red corduroy vest with leather buttons / 3: Mountains with a path in between them / 4: Several shelves holding old-fashioned books, a stack of plates, a scroll, teacups, and various other objects / 5: Mushrooms growing on a tree trunk / 6: A golden eagle it with its wings slightly unfolded sitting on a branch /End ID]

#the hobbit#edit#nickie
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acotars

Read in 2023:

When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel. I want to take you places and show you things. I want to memorize you—to learn you like a song. And that nightgown, and the way you get so cranky when I leave my stuff all over the place, and the way you tie your hair back in that crazy bun. You make me laugh every single day—and nobody makes me laugh. I feel like I’ve been lost all my life until now—and somehow with you I’m just … found.

THE BODYGUARD by Katherine Center ★★★★★

#the bodyguard#edit#nickie#*#*kate
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