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Each coloured band represents the genre of a nook I read this year. Purple is fantasy, pink is romantasy, teal is scifi and red is romance. I was just learning to crochet when I started, so I made some mistakes and choices at the beginning I wouldn't now, but it doesn't need to be perfect. This covers the 36 books I read through june, and it's just over 6' long! No idea where I'm going to store/display it when I'm done!
that's such a cute idea! I'd make one too— if I didn't mostly read near-never-ending web novels, lmao
Could make one each year. Not just one giant one haha. Maybe easier to store
That's the plan, and I still have no clue how I'll have it displayed lol
This is so cool. A unique way of remembering, of storing that data. Also a very cute snake. I'm happy I saw this.
Could you crosspost to !snakes@lemmy.world, or !snakes@sh.itjust.works?
How do you know when you're done? There's an awful lot of books out there.
This is just going to encompass 2026, so december 31st is the last day for a book to get onto this snake
That’s so creative!
And yellow?
Cozy. That band was for legends and lattes, a cozy fantasy
All three books of the series are very cute:)
But how are you reading 36 books in only a month? oO
Edit: maybe cute is not the right term, cozy for sure, I liked them
Ooh I didn't realize there was a third book. Thanks
36 is for the year 😆 I'm not that much of a speed reader!
Ohhhh alright! Still a lot! I have only around 7 this year
I love it!
Teal is alone, and might be sad! If you want more scifi, here's some recommendations.
If you don't, ignore me!
Bobbiverse series: books starts with a random tech-dude that just signed the documents to get frozen after he dies, to eventually get resurrected in the future, shen technology allows. Then very quickly receives a visit from truck-kun. Bite sized chapters, I once described those booms as "fast food" as it's a very easy read that you just don't want to stop.
Old Man's War: Space-Army recruits only old people from earth, nobody even knows why as earthlings have no idea what actually happens outside of earth, even if Humantiy is apparently spanning multiple solar systems. The book follows an old dude joining up. One of my favorite authors. There's I believe 5 to 7 books in the series now fleshing out the universe so if you like it there's more!
Children of time: first attempt from humanity to uplift a species goes sideways when humanity encounters major issues dealing with itself. This book blew my mind. The author has zoology and psychology diplomas, which he clearly draws from for this book. It's part of a trilogy, but I only read the first one for now.
If you end up reading any of those, I hope you like them :)
Bonus: it's a chunky series, but "Dagonriders of Pern" is clearly fantasy with people riding dragons, except the Wikipedia page lists the whole thing as scifi. The scifi is burried quite deep in the series, but since you seem to love fantasy anyways it's probably not a bad thing.
Awesome project by the way!
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Very cool.