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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

i haven't been active here at all since last year I think? so these are kinda like my offerings to make up for the past four months

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

top four books I've read so far in 2024☀️

Taiwan Travelogue (Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, Lin King)

dd's umbrella (Hwang Jungeun, e. yaewon)

Miss Kim Knows (Cho Nam-joo, Jamie Chang)

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

my reading wrap-up for 2024💛🩷🤍

StoryGraph Wrap-Up 2024

First read: Small Things Like These (Claire Keegan)
Last read: Soldiers and Kings (Jason De León)
Longest book read: The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain (Ian Mortimer)
Shortest: Halifax Holiday (Alexandra Vasti)

Top genres read: Historical, Romance, Contemporary
Top authors: Julie Anne Long, Alexandra Vasti, Terry Pratchett

5-star reads: Flowers of Fire (Hawon Jung), Our Women on the Ground, The Holocaust Industry (Norman Finkelstein)
Average rating: 3.99 stars

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 16/12/2024

That's a wrap on Bora Chung's MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE in our fifth book collaboration, this time for Algonquin in the US and Dialogue in the UK, on a novel narrated by a night shift worker at a research institute for haunted objects, coming in late 2025.

Screenshot of attachment for MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE on Gmail

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

finished this and the focus on the romance faded away in the second half + the ending wasn't that satisfactory but the first 16-20 eps? a definite must-watch.

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

started Amidst a Snowstorm of Love with less than 5% knowledge of what it's about. all i know is it's set in a snowy city, smth smth competitive billiards, and there's leo wu in it🙂‍↕️🌨️🎱🤍

Official poster for the c-drama Amidst a Snowstorm of Love

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

easy 5/5 stars. a bit disturbed by the amount of tears I shed though

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

now watching 🌲🐾🤖

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

(some of) my most anticipated reads of 2025! #booksky

Book covers of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping (Sangu Mandanna), Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Mohammed El-Kurd), Deep End (Ali Hazelwood), The Possession of Alba Díaz (Isabel Cañas), Never Thought I'd End Up Here (Ann Liang), We Do Not Part (Han Kang)

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The Broken Binding @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Missed out on our edition of Blood Over Bright Haven? Follow us and repost this in order to enter the draw for a copy 💚

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Sameer from gaza🍉 @sameerrraed.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Please don't skip me :(( My account was restricted by people I don't know because they don't want us to achieve our goal and get out of here Please support gfm as much as you can!! Please, leave a comment 🇵🇸 or 🍉 www.gofundme.com/f/support-sa...

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

with all the recent developments in Syria, I'm reminded again of this book I read earlier this year. it's a nonfic about a journalist who interviewed & befriended a band of rebels trapped in Daraya, a syrian town that was under siege. this book left an impression on me and I v much recommend it 💙📚

Book cover for The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War (Delphine Minoui)

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

currently reading: 24 Hours in Ancient China [Dr. Yijie Zhuang] i quite like this series. this is gonna be my last book from it, at least until a new one is out—if there is one. love learning random curious info about the pastྀ◌𓈒𑁍𓂃

Book cover of 24 Hours in Ancient China (Yijie Zhuang)

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Delicious Hunger [Hai Fan, Jeremy Tiang] ✯✯✯ thoughts & opinions: this short story collection is filled with wild beauties even amidst all the sufferings that I'm sure came directly from the author's own memories as an ex-communist guerrilla who spent ~10 years living in the rainforest.

Book cover for Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan (Jeremy Tiang)

A quote from the book, “For the literature of Singapore and Malaysia, this previously forbidden corner turned out to be rich with buried rations, but only the people who'd actually taken part in the burying, the 'people of yesterday', knew where to dig them up.”

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

i lied i started a new cdrama. she got isekai'd into a fantasy story where she is the evil female secondary character and has to make him, the evil male secondary character, fall for her. oh and he's a tsundere

Official poster for Love Game in Eastern Fantasy

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

in mourning bc i have to put the rest of my to-watch dramas on hold in order to catch up to my readings first

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

finished it. altered my brain chemistry forever. officially my favourite historical romance drama of all time. general ling buyi literally redefined "he fell first AND harder". 10/10

Official poster for Love Like the Galaxy

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dilara @kauljade.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

hey i’m dilara & looking for new mutuals !! #promo #booksky 🍿 tv & film ↳ fantasy, sci-fi, horror ↳ star wars, atla, dune, GOT, LotR 📚 books ↳ SFF, non fiction ↳ nk jemisin, fonda lee, rf kuang, ml wang 🎏 animanga ↳ apothecary diaries, moribito: guardian of the spirit, witch hat atelier

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

historical romance will never escape the allegations of being one of if not THE most unhinged romance subgenre because tell me why this drama has the main couple biting & leaving bloody bitemarks on each other's arms, and intertwining their fingers afterwards?

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

somehow two of my favourite artists decided 2024 is the year for horror-themed albums(?) and i couldn't be more grateful

Writings on a book page, "December 13th, 5pm PST, The Sweet Lamb, Livestream"

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

!!! Exhausted on the Cross is one of my top reads of 2024, I'm beyond excited to find out Najwan Darwish has a new poetry collection translation about to be out🕊️🇵🇸

A screenshot of the Libby app of Najwan Darwish's poetry book, Exhausted on the Cross, borrowed on 15th June.

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

it already feels like it's gonna be pretty hard to move on from this drama now it gotta hit me with excellent fight choreography too stoppp😩 #LoveLiketheGalaxy

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 03/12/2024

190 present, 190 voted to DEMAND END TO MARTIAL LAW DECLARATION

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 03/12/2024

Office of the Speaker of the National Assembly declares martial law declaration invalid 2h48m after declaration Helicopters seen moving toward National Assembly, crowds outside chanting "IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT"

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 03/12/2024

Han Kang’s Nobel Prize speech next week is going to be VERY interesting

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

was offline last night & south korea really almost went to crap but the people rallied immediately & are almost free of their crappy president, all within <12 hours? what a beautiful thing democracy can be. what an even more beautiful thing a solid historical education across generations can be.

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

✯✯✯✯ almost forgot about this lol but thoughts & opinions: it was a solid novella. I liked it but as with the rest other romance novellas I've read before, wish it's a full-length novel instead. anw can't wait for ali's new novel this feb!!

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Alin @libreyn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

this guy really kissed her then said "shouldn't we do this after we're married?" and when she said "shouldn't I be the one to say that?" he responded with "let's kiss again and this time you can say it"????? 완전 늑대야 늑대 #LoveLiketheGalaxy

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