Beth
@bethgilchrist.substack.com
librarian // avid reader // horror film enthusiast // she/her
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it’s been three and a half years since I left, but I honestly still miss living in Gyeongju so much that even just looking at a map of the city makes my heart ache 🥲
September 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
it’s been three and a half years since I left, but I honestly still miss living in Gyeongju so much that even just looking at a map of the city makes my heart ache 🥲
I am now on a self-imposed book-buying ban but here is a selection of recent purchases ✨📚💙
September 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I am now on a self-imposed book-buying ban but here is a selection of recent purchases ✨📚💙
got a whole tuck shop going in my desk drawer at work
August 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
got a whole tuck shop going in my desk drawer at work
this ad makes me die a little inside because you know there are medical staff out there doing this 😭 please do not put any sensitive or confidential information into ChatGPT or any other AI platforms!
August 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
this ad makes me die a little inside because you know there are medical staff out there doing this 😭 please do not put any sensitive or confidential information into ChatGPT or any other AI platforms!
we spent a long weekend in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 I went on so many family holidays to the Netherlands as a kid (my mum grew up there) and it has always felt like a second home - currently trying to work out how we might go about moving there 🚲
July 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
we spent a long weekend in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 I went on so many family holidays to the Netherlands as a kid (my mum grew up there) and it has always felt like a second home - currently trying to work out how we might go about moving there 🚲
recent book purchases 📚 have also been dipping a toe into annotation - mostly particularly striking passages or quotes ✨
July 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
recent book purchases 📚 have also been dipping a toe into annotation - mostly particularly striking passages or quotes ✨
turned 30 a couple of weeks ago and got some waterstones vouchers from friends who know me well - spent some of them in the paperback sale online and they arrived today 💙📚
July 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
turned 30 a couple of weeks ago and got some waterstones vouchers from friends who know me well - spent some of them in the paperback sale online and they arrived today 💙📚
the introduction of the @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social Archive series is both the best and worst thing to happen to my bank account - feels like when I was growing up and I could get a book for £5 or £6 📚
also picked up a copy of The Moustache - been meaning to read it for a while!
also picked up a copy of The Moustache - been meaning to read it for a while!
May 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
the introduction of the @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social Archive series is both the best and worst thing to happen to my bank account - feels like when I was growing up and I could get a book for £5 or £6 📚
also picked up a copy of The Moustache - been meaning to read it for a while!
also picked up a copy of The Moustache - been meaning to read it for a while!
living in the middle of the city is terrible/great because it’s all too easy to pop out for new books whenever the urge takes hold of either one of us (in my defence only one of these is mine) 💙📚
February 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
living in the middle of the city is terrible/great because it’s all too easy to pop out for new books whenever the urge takes hold of either one of us (in my defence only one of these is mine) 💙📚
decided to gather up all my books I’ve yet to read in one place and a book trolley was the perfect solution 📚 tsundoku ✨
February 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
decided to gather up all my books I’ve yet to read in one place and a book trolley was the perfect solution 📚 tsundoku ✨
went to Waterstones so my boyfriend could get a new book and couldn’t resist picking out one for myself too - I’m on annual leave this week so I plan to do a lot of reading 📖
#booksky📚💙
#booksky📚💙
February 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
went to Waterstones so my boyfriend could get a new book and couldn’t resist picking out one for myself too - I’m on annual leave this week so I plan to do a lot of reading 📖
#booksky📚💙
#booksky📚💙
today’s book delivery ✨ many many thanks to @honfordstar.bsky.social for the arc of Red Sword - very excited to read it! also picked up Esc&Ctrl in the @influxpress.bsky.social sale as though I don’t already have enough on my tbr
#booksky📚💙
#booksky📚💙
February 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
today’s book delivery ✨ many many thanks to @honfordstar.bsky.social for the arc of Red Sword - very excited to read it! also picked up Esc&Ctrl in the @influxpress.bsky.social sale as though I don’t already have enough on my tbr
#booksky📚💙
#booksky📚💙
Today’s wfh set up because it’s near impossible to get up the hill to work at the moment, trying not to get too distracted staring out the window
January 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Today’s wfh set up because it’s near impossible to get up the hill to work at the moment, trying not to get too distracted staring out the window
2024 reading wrap-up from the storygraph - didn’t read as much as I would have liked because of various life things going on, but I much prefer setting a pages goal to a books goal 📚
January 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
2024 reading wrap-up from the storygraph - didn’t read as much as I would have liked because of various life things going on, but I much prefer setting a pages goal to a books goal 📚
I kept a journal religiously between the ages of 14 and 24 and I’ve just found them all again - very weird realisation that I saw an Oscar-nominated composer perform in 2016
#journal
#commonplacejournal
#journal
#commonplacejournal
December 31, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I kept a journal religiously between the ages of 14 and 24 and I’ve just found them all again - very weird realisation that I saw an Oscar-nominated composer perform in 2016
#journal
#commonplacejournal
#journal
#commonplacejournal
a cosy and surprisingly thought-provoking read - and now I want to open up my own little bookshop! the translation felt a little clumsy in places, but that’s forgivable as it’s hard to translate perfectly from Korean to English because of the differences in phrasing/language
#recentlyread
#booksky📚💙
#recentlyread
#booksky📚💙
December 29, 2024 at 4:06 PM
a cosy and surprisingly thought-provoking read - and now I want to open up my own little bookshop! the translation felt a little clumsy in places, but that’s forgivable as it’s hard to translate perfectly from Korean to English because of the differences in phrasing/language
#recentlyread
#booksky📚💙
#recentlyread
#booksky📚💙
#recentlyread
I finally got around to reading Bunny, a solid year or two after everyone else… and it was a little underwhelming 😬 Astral Season, Beastly Season is an odd little book - I wish it had kept the tone of the first half all the way through!
#booksky📚💙
#bookreviews
I finally got around to reading Bunny, a solid year or two after everyone else… and it was a little underwhelming 😬 Astral Season, Beastly Season is an odd little book - I wish it had kept the tone of the first half all the way through!
#booksky📚💙
#bookreviews
December 18, 2024 at 10:46 PM
#recentlyread
I finally got around to reading Bunny, a solid year or two after everyone else… and it was a little underwhelming 😬 Astral Season, Beastly Season is an odd little book - I wish it had kept the tone of the first half all the way through!
#booksky📚💙
#bookreviews
I finally got around to reading Bunny, a solid year or two after everyone else… and it was a little underwhelming 😬 Astral Season, Beastly Season is an odd little book - I wish it had kept the tone of the first half all the way through!
#booksky📚💙
#bookreviews
Whenever I visited Seoul I had to go to Starfield Library (별마당도서관) - a library in the middle of a busy shopping centre! Spot the convenience store hidden among the shelves 📚
📸 January/August 2020
#booksky📚💙
#별마당도서관
#seoul
📸 January/August 2020
#booksky📚💙
#별마당도서관
#seoul
December 15, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Whenever I visited Seoul I had to go to Starfield Library (별마당도서관) - a library in the middle of a busy shopping centre! Spot the convenience store hidden among the shelves 📚
📸 January/August 2020
#booksky📚💙
#별마당도서관
#seoul
📸 January/August 2020
#booksky📚💙
#별마당도서관
#seoul
also got both my Eliza Clark books signed by the author at said event - she admired my personalised 'ex libris' book stamp while my boyfriend, who teases me mercilessly about that stamp, stood by sheepishly
December 11, 2024 at 5:17 PM
also got both my Eliza Clark books signed by the author at said event - she admired my personalised 'ex libris' book stamp while my boyfriend, who teases me mercilessly about that stamp, stood by sheepishly
#recentlyread back in May I went to an Eliza Clark author event and she read an excerpt from this collection - a long wait to read but it lived up to my expectations! I Have Some Questions for You was great except for the last 10% which was a bit of a let-down 🙃 #booksky📚💙 #bookreviews
December 10, 2024 at 8:36 PM
#recentlyread back in May I went to an Eliza Clark author event and she read an excerpt from this collection - a long wait to read but it lived up to my expectations! I Have Some Questions for You was great except for the last 10% which was a bit of a let-down 🙃 #booksky📚💙 #bookreviews
Can’t do a trip home without stopping in at Salts Mill and picking out a new book #booksky 📚💙 #saltsmill
December 7, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Can’t do a trip home without stopping in at Salts Mill and picking out a new book #booksky 📚💙 #saltsmill
We went for Korean food tonight, bibimbap in stone pots and 소떡소떡 washed down with Cass 🍻
📍Joomak, Sheffield
#koreanfood #sheffield
📍Joomak, Sheffield
#koreanfood #sheffield
December 5, 2024 at 11:03 PM
We went for Korean food tonight, bibimbap in stone pots and 소떡소떡 washed down with Cass 🍻
📍Joomak, Sheffield
#koreanfood #sheffield
📍Joomak, Sheffield
#koreanfood #sheffield
I’m reading this book at the moment - I’m a big horror film fan so this is right up my street ✨ bought from Juno Books in Sheffield! They even ordered it in for me as they had sold the copy they had in stock - support your local independent bookshop 📚 #booksky💙📚 #itcamefromthecloset #junobooks
November 24, 2024 at 9:26 PM
I’m reading this book at the moment - I’m a big horror film fan so this is right up my street ✨ bought from Juno Books in Sheffield! They even ordered it in for me as they had sold the copy they had in stock - support your local independent bookshop 📚 #booksky💙📚 #itcamefromthecloset #junobooks