We’ve given you wholesome simps. We’ve even given you sad, wet, and pathetic boys. Now, we offer something else. A new poor little meow meow to add to your collection. But wait, there’s more! We also discuss books we’d kill to read again for the first time, romcoms, a bad attempt at Work of Fart (a MbMbAM original) and book trope smash-or-pass.
Books Discussed:
Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves
The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Books We'd Sell Our Soul to ReRead for the First Time:
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
The Raven Cycle Series by Maggie Stiefvater
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Wicked King by Holly Black
The Captive Prince series by C.S. Pacat
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
Books Mentioned:
ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
Radiance by Grace Draven
Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan
Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer
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Despite working every weekday that wasn't a national holiday or had school cancelled due to weather, I had a really good reading month. I don't think I'll have another one like it until school lets out. 🥴 I'm always so exhausted when I get home.
I ended 2023 with a Heartstopper novella and it prompted a reread of the comics. Then a few of my audio holds came in. I think my favorite is a tie between Mrs. Nash's Ashes by Sarah Adler and A Power Unbound by Freya Marske. Both were incredibly good in different ways. I may eventually post reviews of both of them, but we shall see.
The back of Discworld novels: wowee terry's whipped another wacky and wild adventure for us this time! there's so many silly shenanigans and witty wordplay in this book that you're sure to have a hilarious time!
Discword novels: a cynical alcoholic navigating and overcoming the pointlessness of his job, a transparent metaphor for racism and gun violence in the police system and in general, an intelligent young girl overcoming the ideas she's been taught by her culture and the media she consumes, just an entire novel made of commentary on war and gender, using talking animals as a way to explore what defines personhood and contrasting stories vs reality, an ex-convict coming to terms with the damage he's caused and fighting monopolies that are trying to do the same thing,
“… so basically just about everyone in my life has tried to kill me at least once, it’s kinda become my go-to way of making friends, just striking up a conversation with anyone who shoots me. It’s worked with just about all of the rogues in my hometown, including my clone-turned-sister who I had brunch with just last week. Even my parents used to shoot at me, but that was only for like a year or so and in their defense they didn’t actually know it was me, haha. It’s kinda funny, the only person who ever managed to actually kill me was a friend of mine who didn’t technically kill me the first time, and then only did it a second time to fix some rewritten timeline stuff, and I still dated her for a while after that. Oh, speaking of dating, my first girlfriend tried to kill me WHILE we were dating, but again, in her defense, she didn’t know it was me haha. But yeah, that’s kinda why I kept talking to that guy while he was pummeling me, just a bit of a pattern I’ve wound up developing. Anyway, what was the question again?”
“… How did you get in my safe house, and do you need medical attention.”
“Oh! I crashed through the window, and probably. Also, I’m gonna pass out.”
“The thing about losing someone is that it doesn’t happen just once. It happens every time you do something great you wish they could see, every time you’re stuck and you need advice. Every time you fail. It erodes your sense of normal, and what grows back is decidedly not normal, and yet you still have to figure out how to trudge forward.”