Books I've Read in 2024: Bride by Ali Hazelwood
"You don’t know anything about what it’s like to find your other half, I would take anything she chose to give me—the tiniest fraction or her entire world. I would take her for a single night knowing that I’ll lose her by morning, and I would hold on to her and never let go. I would take her healthy, or sick, or tired, or angry, or strong, and it would be my fucking privilege. I would take her problems, her gifts, her moods, her passions, her jokes, her body—I would take every last thing, if she chose to give it to me."
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A very well done, and timely discourse on the nature of human religion, packaged for delightful consumption.
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My love for you is a constant reminder that sometimes the most beautiful things in life are the ones we can never truly possess.
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Book 22 of 2024: The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
This was basically tailor-made for me. A P&P retelling where Lydia is a witch? And Kitty is a CAT?? And Wickham is an ancient demon but also hot??? AND Georgina Lambe from Sanditon is in this!! Sign me the fuck up, this was great, 10/10, no notes.
What to read next: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow, for another historical fantasy that's just a delight from start to finish.
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new prized possession obtained 💜
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If I had a coin for every historical novel set in WWI with gay soldiers that I've read, now I would have three coins.
Which is not much, but it's quite a coincidence.
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I can't stop thinking about this series
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Starring your favorite version of the Grim Reaper in a challenging role of self-discovery.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotions recollected in tranquility
- William Wordsworth
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-Conversations on love by Natasha Lunn
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"You will simply have to call Saul."-Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968) by James Baldwin
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“It was love, not pain, that broke her.”
-Slewfoot , a tale of bewitchery by Gerald Brom
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Book 50 of 2023: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
A secret society of booksellers fight magical crime in London. A girl named Susan, freshly arrived from the country and searching for her long-lost father, gets caught up in some very strange happenings and drawn into the booksellers' world. Old Ones, lies and betrayals, the ancient and the modern--this is kinda designed in a lab to be my fave, and it worked. I loved it. Definitely check this out if you love Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series and faery tales where the fae are neither cute nor friendly.
What to read next: Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman, for the all time classic old-magicks-in-a-modern-city adventure.
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