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bookishjules · 1 year
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I'm nosy so I'm gonna ask for a second: 43
book 43 was Beach Read by Emily Henry <3
discovering Emily Henry this year was such a win. I loved this story sm. the relateable mc and the messy and angsty love interest are just top notch
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beckysbook5 · 1 year
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The 2022 End of Year Book Survey!
Hello! Today on my blog I have the mega ( I apologise about the length) 2022 end of year book survey, where I talk all things books I loved, books I didn't love, blogging goals & 2023 releases I'm excited for!
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fabby-book-blog · 1 year
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Literary Ventures #15: 2022 Books
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I didn’t quite make my reading goal this year, but I definitely got out of the major reading slump I was in a year ago! Hence the lack of a 2021 Literary Ventures post.
This year, I found myself trying to read as much as I could while juggling nail art and work responsibilities. I hadn’t read a comic book in a long time, but I did read 6 graphic novels this year! (one is not pictured). A huge thanks for the nail book club on Instagram for pushing me to read more as well!
I probably could have read more, but I also enrolled back in school to get my teaching certification which is still currently taking up the majority of my time, so one of my hobbies had to go in the back burner for now.
Because of this, 3 books that I picked up remain unfinished, but that’s okay! Maybe I can get those completed this year :)
While I didn’t make the goal, I am proud of what I was able to accomplish this year.
I’m sure that I will continue reading this year and can’t wait to start updating that!
Thanks for reading 🥰
What I read in 2022:
Novels:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Before the Batman: An Original Movie Novel - David Lewman
My Sister, The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Department of Sensitive Crimes - Alexander McCall Smith
The Maidens - Alex Michaelides
The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo
Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
Graphic novels:
Moon Knight (2016)
Batman: Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
Batman: Ego
Batman: Zero Year - Secret City
Batman: Zero Year - Dark City
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Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
The Mountain that Loved a Bird - Alice McLarren / Eric Carle (children’s picture book)
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Worst Reads of 2022
time for some negativity! I’m just going to list the books I absolutely hated this year and give a short explanation of why I hated them.
1- Disfigured by Amanda Leduc
Literally the best part of this book is the description. The contents never get deeper than that and the book utterly failed to really investigate or explore what Leduc claimed to be writing about. Much of the text is taken up by autobiographical details and biographical details about other writers. 
2 - Namesake (Fable, #2) by Adrienne Young
This was especially disappointing because I’d quite enjoyed Fable - in-so-far as I can enjoy most YA adventure fantasy-romance, and Fable was very typical of its genre. But Namesake? What the hell was the point of this duology. I have to ask. What was the point Ms. Young? More importantly, you do understand that in your chosen genre of YA fantasy adventure the protagonist needs to do something.
But wait a second I need to go over another detail before I get back to the insanely weak plot and characters. The worldbuilding. It sucked. In Fable I put up with it, there was some nice imagery. But with all the other issues in Namesake I couldn’t ignore it. Young uses the same tired costuming tropes where, in one scene, the MC is forced - forced I say! - to wear a pretty dress to a party which involves a horribly uncomfortable corset. (What undergarments was she wearing before?) But that’s barely even an issue compared to, for example, that there is exactly one alcoholic drink in the entirety of this fictional world and it is called rye. That’s it. Rye rye rye. He was drinking rye, she was drinking rye, they were drinking rye. I wouldn’t be surprised if it had originally been rum and the editor made Young come up with something else to call it because rum would be too stereotypical or whatever. The rye thing is a pretty good example of the weak worldbuilding without getting too far into the plot. But I would also note that there is no clarity in what the climate is like, or the various cultures. Oh yeah. I guess there’s some magic in this story and some people have the ability to read or sense gems somehow, and it is only used for tension in a couple scenes and doesn’t matter to the main plot.
And back to the plot, which sucked. As a general rule, the main character of a story needs to do something. There are other important things about plots and characters, such as that a main character should want something, and that this drives the plot. The MC here does, at least, want something: her father’s love. What she does do over the course of two books is all about gaining her father’s approval or love, or it’s about helping her love interest. Just typing that makes me realize that somehow this duology failed the sexy lamp test with its main character. Fortunately it’s been almost a year so I won’t write more but seriously. This book is so bad. It’s soooooooooo bad.
3 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
I love the 90s adaptation of this book and so was excited to read listen to it, at last. That was a mistake. The first section of the book, up until Edmond escapes prison is good. It’s tense and you can really feel and understand why he’s so angry and set on revenge. The rest of the book.... his revenge is too intricate, there’s too much moralizing and talking. The revenge isn’t even satisfying. There’s a time gap between the escape and Edmond’s return to Marseille and he picks up this Greek slave girl who is kind of his adopted daughter but then becomes his love interest. He screws Mercedes over. The movie changed almost everything from the point of the escape and that was the right decision. There’s no satisfaction or great romance in the novel.
4 - Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
So, I wasn’t a fan of American Hippo because it turned out that the novellas were not, in fact, fun and were instead gritty westerns. I figure that’s more an issue of my not reading the description carefully enough. This, I was unsure about and I just wish I hadn’t picked it up. It might have been good, but it’s missing so much worldbuilding/ information. I cannot buy into a story where somehow, at the time of the real american civil war, there’s instead this very fascist government over all the white people and there’s a secret society of people ferrying folks from the east to the free, rebel-held west. And that the headquarters of this rebel stronghold are in Utah. And the place names are the same. You cannot actually expect me to believe that there is a Provo, Utah not twenty years after initial colonization that is a glorious safe haven for free speech and being gay and nonbinary. I also don’t recall there being much about race or colonization in this story despite it being set, again, at the time of the real american civil war and with the group the audience is supposed to be rooting for heading for safety in a very recently colonized place.
*addendum, apparently this story is actually supposed to be “near-future.” But the worldbuilding issue remains the same. There’s nothing in this novella to 1) make it clear when this is supposed to be set, 2) make it clear or even possible to guess what has happened to bring about this “near-future” dystopia. I’ve read other, similar stories that also involve a near-future dystopia set in the US that give enough detail for that described future to be plausible. (Ex, The Handmaid’s Tale, or Civilwarland In Bad Decline.) This novella does not give enough information for me to even visualize the story, much less understand the essential question of “how did we get here?”
5 - How to Write a Mystery, edited by Lee Child
There were a lot of bad essays
6 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
I wrote a review of it which you can read here.
7 - The Once and Future King by T.H. White
So yeah. I would like to stuff a sock in Merlyn’s mouth and duct-tape it shut and shoot him out of a cannon. That’s a bit extreme, but so much of this text was taken up by his patronizing, philosophizing, when he wasn’t going on racist rants and making up colonial manifestos. Such speeches rang especially hollow with the hindsight provided from the last several decades since the books were being published. There were other issues I had with the book, such as abrupt time skips and glossing over important details or constantly referencing other authors so that in order to understand this excessively long book, one must already be familiar with the preceding major works of arthuriana.
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muffinsandpages · 1 year
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2022 Reading Wrap Up
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Aaaand scene! According to Goodreads, in 2022 I read 61 books and roughly almost 19k pages.
I'm really satisfied with this year's books, especially because I gave myself space to read what I wanted when I wanted. I'm afraid that with the new year I won't have as much time to read as this year, but I'm excited to see what's ahead. According to Goodreads my tbr is longer than the amount of books I've read this year, so it's going to be fun.
And now, time to reast my StoryGraph stats!
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The fiction to nonfiction ratio is so fun when you consider that almost all the non fiction books were for uni... I really love fiction :D
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I also really love fantasy... It woulnd't look so extreme if I hadn't read seven Shadowhunters books back to back out of spite this summer, but it is what it is
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Neil Gaiman was my most read author. It took me a few years to get into his works, but once I did I never stopped. Cassandra Clare speaks for herself... This was also my Alice Oseman year: I read Heartstopper and Loveless in 2021, but all her other books throught 2022. I hope to read much more Agatha Christie next year.
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bookish-loner · 1 year
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✨ My 2022 Bookish Wrap-Up ✨
This is a post I made for my Bookstagram (@bookish.loner), but I wanted to share it here. Included in this post are:
The top ten books I read in 2022 (it was very hard to narrow it down to just ten)
Most read authors: These are the authors I read the most according to Goodreads
My favorite series I started (and read up to the most recent release)
My favorite debut authors: These are authors that released their first book in 2022; I have so much respect and admiration for their accomplishments
All-time favorite book I read in 2022
2023 releases I'm looking forward to (note: "A Brighter, Darker Art" will be released February 8th, not 7th)
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bookthorns · 1 year
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MY 2022 WRAP UP | favourites, all the stats & everything i read (236 books 💀😱)
MY 2022 WRAP UP | favourites, all the stats & everything i read (236 books 💀😱)
Hey everyone, welcome to or welcome back to my blog! It’s finally time to post my yearly stats wrap up and I’ll be honest I’ve had a long day and I’m pretty exhausted so this year’s post is a lot shorter and less detailed than I would like but, I did manage to get all of my number stats done, as well as a quick graphic of some of my favourite reads from 2022! Continue reading Untitled
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• the school of extraordinary lovers by @aliensingucci | 191k
• PROMETHEUS RISING by @mercurial-madhouse | 5k
• Love After the End of the World by @mercurial-madhouse | 162k
• Golden by @sunshineandhisrainbows | 128k
• Say Hallelujah Say Goodnight by @alivingfire | 110k
• Harry Styles Cooks... by @magicalrocketships | 61k
• Love Is a Winning Game by @all-these-larrythings | 47k
• here comes the sun (little darling) by @nobodymoves | 45k
• The Stars Look Very Different Today by @kingsofeverything | 43k
• there now, steady love (so few come and don't go) by @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed | 42k
• Missed Connection by @littlelouishiccups | 39k
• Say It Back by @quelsentiment | 39k
• Don't Go In The Woods by @harryeatsburger | 39k
• In Your Black Heart (Is Where You'll Find Me) by @graceling-in-a-suit | 35k
• Rub Me the Right Way by @kingsofeverything | 3k
• As You Wish by @kingsofeverything | 25k
• where sirens fear to tread by @aliensingucci | 28k
• Where the World has Come Together by @londonfoginacup | 26k
• learned to lose you (can't afford to) by @lt2soon | 23k
• With the ghost of Lou by @sun-tomato | 19k
• Thought The Song Was Sung by @100percentsassy | 12k
• Stuck In The Middle With You by @greenfeelings | 11k
• Worth the Wait by @all-these-larrythings | 10k
• serve me up a little hope on the rocks by @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed | 10k
• Crystal Fighters by @loveloveolivia | 9k
• All I know is I'm in trouble ('cause the atmosphere's so cold) by @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed | 8k
• I Won't Let You Forget by @graceling-in-a-suit | 7k
• Are We Destined to Burn (Or Will We Last the Night?) by by @fallinglikethis | 6k
• Impress Me by @lightwoodsmagic | 5k
• Somethin' Old and Red by @absoloutenonsense | 5k
• Our Garden Grows by @londonfoginacup | 5k
• you and I love like it's a secret by@so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed | 4k
• Souperhero by @londonfoginacup | 4k
• Let's Raise a Cup by @louandhazaf | 4k
• Threadfinder Threadwinder by @londonfoginacup | 4k
• Been Waitin' (After Weekend After Weekend After) by @absoloutenonsense | 3k
• Staring At The Blank Page Before You by @loveislarryislove | 2k
• Your Heart Is the Biggest Gift You Can Give Anyone by @fallinglikethis | 1k
• Cursing the Daylight by @londonfoginacup | 1k
• Falling For You by @louandhazaf | 1k
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ninja-muse · 1 year
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Every year, a new ListChallenge! Curious to see how you all compare.
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jeanmoreaux · 1 year
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*✧ — april 2023 wrap up
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i finally read deathless!!! who is surprised it ended up being a new favourite? not me, but probably none of you either (big thanks to everyone who told me to read it because they thought it sounds like something i’d enjoy. you were right.) i had a great reading moths in general and the slump i was fearing didn’t manifest in the end, which i’m so happy about. nevertheless, this might be my last massive wrap up for the first half of the year. i assume may and june will be much shorter simply because of uni and an urge to get back into watching tv shows. i guess will see how things develop from here on out :)
2023 goal: 74/100 books
as alway, feel free to drop book recs, questions, or opinions in my inbox; i am always happy to talk to you about books!
* –> newly added to my favorites shelf
follow my goodreads | follow my storygraph | previous wrap ups
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Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo | 3.75★ | review
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin | 2.5★ | review
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy | 3★
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey | 4★
The Beautifull Cassandra by Jane Austen | 3★
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey | 3.25★
Die Physiker by Friedrich Dürrenmatt | 4★
Demon in the Wood by by Leigh Bardugo, Dani Pendergast (illustrator) | 4★
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors | 4.25★
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados | 4★
* Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente | 5★ | review
War of the Foxes by Richard Siken | 5★ | review
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood | 3★ | review
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano | 3.5★ 
* Joan by Katherine J. Chen | 5★ | review
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson | 4.5★ | review
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rereads
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden | 4.25★
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo | 4.5★ | review
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo | 5★
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo | 5★
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slaughter-books · 2 years
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Day 30: JOMPBPC: Read In September
My September, 2022 reading wrap up! 💙
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bookishjules · 1 year
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Ok imma be bold and for number 1, I feel like no one ever goes for the very lowest numbers in these things, I am the change I want to see in the world
book 1 was The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.
this books is so unique and just so so good. I feel like it could prompt so many discussions about life and love and happiness. I found this quote from it in my notes app: "There's music everywhere, Mr. Baker, you just have to learn to listen for it"
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libertyreads · 2 years
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October Wrap Up--
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If you can believe it, this is just half of the things I read this month. Though, to be fair, most of my eBooks and eARCs were pretty short. I started the month with the pace of finishing one thing every other day and I kept it going throughout the entire month. Part of that was spurred on by the fact that I got approved for the new Truly Devious ARC and need to get through a few things first. But the months of November and December are hectic at my work so I’m going to enjoy my voracious reading this month with the knowledge that I won’t get nearly as much read for the rest of the year.
Comics/Graphic Novels-- 1. Cowboy Bebop: Supernova Swing by Dan Watters-- 2.5 stars.
Novellas/Short Stories-- 1. When Snowflakes Fall by Tara Wyatt-- 3.25 stars.
2. Like Fresh Fallen Snow by Tara Wyatt-- 4.25 stars.
3. Until the Sun Sets by Tara Wyatt-- 2 stars.
Novels-- 1. Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell-- 3 stars.
2. Pucked by Helena Hunting-- 3 stars.
3. The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher-- 4 stars.
4. Escaping Eleven by Jerri Chisholm-- 3.5 stars (original rating).
5. Cupid for Hire by Lila Monroe-- 2.5 stars.
6. None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marnie-- 3.5 stars.
7. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher-- 4 stars.
8. Love Next Door by Helena Hunting-- 4 stars.
9. The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson-- 4 stars (original rating).
10. Order of the Phoenix-- 5 stars (original rating).
11. Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones-- 3.25 stars.
12. The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson-- 4.5 stars.
The average star rating for the month of October was 3.52 stars. It hasn’t been the best reading month, but I got a lot of things I’ve been meaning to read off my Kindle so I’ll take the win.
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the---hermit · 2 years
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Articles I read in May 2022
I normally don't do this, but since I have been working full time on my thesis, I read a lot of articles, so I thought I do a wrap up of those aswell. The theme of the articles is witch hunts and the historiography of witchcraft, as my thesis is on a witch trial. All the articles I found on jstor (and I will link the website), the majority are in English but I'll also include those written in Italian.
The Pursuit of Reality: Recent Research into the History of Witchcraft by Malcolm Gaskill
The Historiography of European Witchcraft: Progress and Prospects by E. William Monter
The European Witch Craze of the 14th to 17th Centuries: A Sociologist's Perspective by Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Who Were the Witches? The Social Roles of the Accused in the European Witch Trials by Richard A. Horsley
Witchcraft, Female Aggression, and Power in the Early Modern Community by Edward Bever
Witchcraft Prosecutions and the Decline of Magic by Edward Bever
The Invisible Men: The Historial and The Male Witch by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow (This is the first chapter of the book Male Witches In Early Modern Europe, I ended up reading the whole book, all the chapters are present on jstor, but I will link only this one. For those interested the book is composed by five chapters plus the introduction and conclusion)
La stregoneria. Confessioni e accuse, nell'analisi di storici e antropologi di Mary Douglas Reviewed by Michela Pereira
Ancora a Proposito di Streghe by Michaela Valente
The full list of books I read this month and their reviews is here
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godzilla-reads · 1 year
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Godzilla-reads 12 Best Books Read in 2022
January- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (@xiranjayzhao)
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February- Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
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March- Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
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April- Heartstopper Vol. 4 by Alice Oseman
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May- Dragonhenge by Bob Eggleton and John Grant
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June- Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
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July- Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
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August- Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time by James Gurney
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September- Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
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October- Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens
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November- Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
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December- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
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theinquisitxor · 1 year
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November Reading Wrap-Up
November was a great reading month for me, and I read 10 books this month, which is well above average. I read a several new releases, and continued on with a new favorite series.
1.Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore (4.5/5 stars): This is the next book of the Graceling Realms series, and follows Hava as the main character. An arctic and seafaring setting are two of my favorite things, and this book had both. I also found parts of this emotional and there was a theme of disability and motherhood. And more of the wonderful blue foxes. I felt like Cashore's writing reflected Hava's pov and mind, which was interesting to read. ya-fantasy
2.The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (5/5 stars, audiobook): This was my annual reread of one of my all time favorites. The audiobook is superb and if you haven't read this yet, what are you waiting for? young-adult
3.Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell (3.75/5 stars): This was one of my most anticipated books of the year. This is a sci-fi set in the same universe as Winter's Orbit but in a very different place. This has do with the military, mind control, coups, and romance. mlm adult sci-fi
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4.A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger (3/5 stars): This is a middle grade book about a Lipan girl and a group of animal people from the world of spirits. More ace rep, real world issues, and a good story. middle grade
5.A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (3.5/5 stars) book 4 in the queen's thief series. Enjoyable, but not quite at the level as the previous two were. Following a different character and his development and growth. ya fantasy
6.The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake (4.5/5 stars): Sequel to The Atlas Six, and I found this one so entertaining and I could not put it down. I enjoyed this one more than the first book, and I eagerly anticipate the third. adult fantasy
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7.Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance (1.5/5 stars) Admittedly, I sort of hate read this. Which I never do, but I decided to read this mainly because I read What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte over the summer, and Catte's book is a response to this. I wanted to have a better understanding of why books like Hillbilly Elegy are detrimental to the people actively doing work in the Appalachian region and beyond. memior
8. Sistersong by Lucy Holland (4.5/5 stars): I enjoyed this book much more than I thought I would at first. Lovely medieval Briton world, trans main character, pagan magic, and external threats. I had a good time reading this one. historical fantasy
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9.Thick As Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner (5/5 stars) Book 5 of the queen's thief series. My favorite so far, and I was thoroughly wowed by this book. I love the two main characters so much and I was rooting for them and their relationship the whole time. Features a travel narrative and epic poetry, so of course I loved it. ya fantasy
10.The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt (3/5 stars): This is a collection of fairy tale short stories by one of my favorite authors. Some of the stories I liked more than others. literary fiction
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December reading plans:
queen's thief 6
Moon Witch, Spider King (dark star #2) by Marlon James
Another AS Byatt
A nonfiction
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