Rec | KEEP THAT THANG ON YOU

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always have a book with you and every time you idly grab your phone because you’re bored slap it outta ur hand and grab book instead also start with something fun that isnt ✨literature✨ to get your brain used to words again, this almost always works for me

@cl0e

4d ago

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@sarahpilled

Any recommendations for something fun?

19h ago

@cl0e

@SARAHPILLED here’s a few by genre! SciFi: The Anomaly, Neuromancer Fantasy: A Deadly Education, The Bear and the Nightingale Nonfiction: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Look Alive Out There Horror: Rouge (Mona Awad) Crime-y: Penance Music: Girl in a Band Mystery: Once There Were Wolves, Catherine House In translation: Kappa And some stuff that’s hard to categorize: The Pisces, Made for Love

9h ago

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@salmune

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