#top 5 fiction books

[dumb-little-baby]

To be loved the way Aaron Warner loved Juliette Ferras!

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#ask a book girly who Aaron Warner is watch her blush her life away 😭 #my top 5 favorite fictional man #no man can EVER compare my fictional men’s 😭 #my book obsession #booktok #aaron warner

[throughalleternity]

book asks!

11,17

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

If 2019 counts as 'out for a while', then both of these would be Gender Queer. I didn't read it for the longest time because I wasn't reading graphic novels at the time, and I think I didn't want to read it and end up not enjoying it? But I adore it - read it in one or two sittings. It's so honest and vulnerable and human, and the whole thing resonated with me. I was so sad when I hit the end because I wanted more!

Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride also surprised me in a good way. I went into it not having many expectations but several parts really resonated with me, and it was uplifting to read about a trans politician that was successful in passing legislation that banned some forms of discrimination.

Our Time: Breaking the Silence of Don't Ask, Don't Tell was another memoir (kinda—a collection of mini memoirs of service members) that surprised me with how resonant it was and made me appreciate the genre.

#thanks! #ask me #of all the books i read this past year #i think the memoirs and nonfiction have landed the most for me‚ in terms of the emotions (partly due to my choice of fiction but still) #i could have put those in my top 5 as well

[siena-sevenwits]

Disclaimer: These thoughts are more emotionally than logically expressed, and reflect my own experience and preference.

#I have some beef with Lockwood and I say this as someone who really enjoys both the show and the books. #I've been doing a rewatch to introduce it to my dad (who loves it!) but we just hit Episode 5 and - is it just me but does this episode #plunge rather deeper into the darkness than we see in the previous episodes? It makes sense narratively of course #Complete Fiction has the task of structuring it such that there's a proper midpoint shift in the series and in my own works I increase #the stakes around this point and really let the protagonists struggle. So it's not so much that I have an issue with things getting #more focused dangerous and difficult. I don't know that I have a logical reason for the unease I feel with Episode 5 - there's just somethi #vaguely disturbing to me about it. It may be my own personal sensitivities. The interrogation scene at Winkman's has absolutely nothing #graphic about it and I appreciate the discretion - but it's just so intense - the threats to draw on Lockwood's face with the heated #instrument - the whole electric shocks sequence - I have been told I have a particularly vivid and empathetic imagination so I may just #be filling in too many gaps and feeling the scene more intensely than some would but it genuinely bothered me. More so on rewatch #though I didn't like it the first time either. I wonder too if it's because on rewatch I can compare it to the scene in the book #Gosh - the book scene is *comedic!* 'Let's disguise ourselves as ditzy tourists and while you check the backroom I'll let my coins #fall all over the place and crawl around under the tables loaded with antiques and freak the owners out! And when they get caught #Winkman just lifts them off the ground menacingly and chucks them in the street. The fact that we had to turn this into a midnight #torture scene for TV - I don't know - I don't like it. And just the atmosphere isn't as balanced as in the other episodes. So many flashbac #to grotesque corpse faces which are somehow a lot more disturbing than the CGI ghosts which feel much more Halloweenish #Not much love and light carved out in the darkness. There's some for sure! And even in the torture scene that bugs me I appreciate how it #shows Lockwood's heart and allows us to explore some meaningful territory that the ditzy tourist scene doesn't #I'm just griping and mainly hoping that the rest of the series is more how I remember it from first watch. The warmth of the Portland #Row gang means a lot to me. Stacking this dark feel on top of the discomfort I have with the harsh language rubs me the wrong way #(Thankfully I have online filters so the language isn't an issue for me but it does make me more reluctant to recommend to friends.

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Folks who tagged me to do the top 9 things...... what was I supposed to do? Just movies, television, and books, or was there a music one too?

#i have been tagged by pornbots too much to go back and find it :/ #anyway i'm breaking down books by fiction and nonfiction too and not including plays #fun fact about me my top 5+ favorite pieces of writing are plays though

[thetypedwriter]

A Magic Steeped In Poison Book Review

A Magic Steeped in Poison Book Review by Judy I. Lin

I’ll start by saying that this book cover is gorgeous. The colors, symbols, and how they all intertwine is incredibly well done and enticing to the eye. It was one of the main things that drew me to this novel.

 Then I read the synopsis and learned this was a Frozen-esque sister tale of love and adventure involving the intricate process of tea-making. I was sold. 

As a self-proclaimed boba connoisseur, luring me in with tea was an easy thing to do. 

Unfortunately, it went downhill from there. 

A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin is a story about a girl named Ning who wants to save her sister after she’s been poisoned. Several other people from different communities in the kingdom have also been poisoned from an anonymous criminal using tea bricks. 

Ning will stop at nothing to save her sister, especially after their mother succumbed to the same fate. Ning holds herself responsible for not noticing or sensing the poison in the cup before handing it to her mother, which led to her demise. 

In a Mulan-like move, Ning steals the scroll destined for her mother and accepts the invitation to the Palace in the capital in order to participate in a competition involving the best of the best shennong-shi, masters of the ancient art of tea-making. 

Now that I’m writing all of this, the novel seemed unique and original to me at first, but other than the tea and the terminology, it’s a very conventional story of a peasant girl going to the capital to compete in a competition (which we’ve all seen a million times before). 

Most recently for me, the same recycled plot was used in Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. 

While competing and living in the capital, Ning meets a variety of people, including Princess Zhen, fellow-competitor Lian, a variety of the servants and kitchen staff, and most importantly, the son of the legendary Banished Prince, Kang. 

As her feelings for Kang grows, Ning also starts to uncover the dark intricacies unraveling in the kingdom, the corruption at court, and new friendships, all the while searching for the antidote to save her sister Shu. 

Now, all of that sounds amazing. Lin has the components of a really great novel, but the execution is poorly done. 

Lin tries to make the setting grand and unique, but it only comes across as confusing. She throws so much terminology at you that it’s impossible to keep track of all the places and landmarks she mentions (and genuinely they’re unimportant anyway). Unless you’re frequently checking the glossary in the back, you will be confused. 

With an unimportant kingdom as the backdrop, most readers will fall back on the premise. Again, it sounds interesting but the execution is once again lacking. 

The most intriguing part is the competition. Unfortunately, we don’t get to see a lot of it. Most of the stages are interrupted from external sources like an attack on the princess or subterfuge. Lin wants us to believe that Ning is this incredible shennong-shi, but really she just seems lucky and sort of unbelievably talented for someone who lacks training and education.

Very quickly, the reader learns that the thick of the plot revolves around kingdom politics and honestly? It was very boring. I didn’t care about the warring parts of the kingdom and the different factions vying for the throne. I didn’t have enough information about either to be invested in what happened or who ruled.

 Lin bit off more than she could chew. She throws so many names and cities at you and wants you to care about them, but as a reader, you don’t have the time or depth to do so. 

The most disappointing part of the novel for me, as always, was the characterization. 

Ning as a character was imbalanced and embodied the terrible writing style of show-not-tell. One moment she would be cowering at the foot of some official and the next she’s making some retort back to the princess without fear. 

One page she’s full of self-loathing about coming from a peasant village and the next she's filled with injustice about how certain communities are treated. 

She was inconsistent and aggravatingly talented without reason. She was also a good person in a very boring way. Towards the end of the book, she learns that someone betrayed her. Instead of being mad once she finds out, she says she doesn’t blame this person since they have a family to look out for. 

Who is that altruistic??? Maybe later most people could come to that conclusion, but most human beings in the moment would feel betrayed and upset and that would be normal and realistic. Ning was too good to be real which worsened the story overall. 

Princess Zhen was your very stereotypical princess who wants the best for her kingdom and Kang is the stereotypical banished prince-sort-of-boy, who also wants the best for his kingdom despite everything they’ve done to him. 

The other characters don’t matter, which is a shame since Lin spends an inordinate amount of time explaining who they are and introducing them. All of them blend together and none of them have enough of their own personalities to make them significant in any kind of way. 

The romance between Kang and Ning is forced and while the burgeoning bud of it had promise, Lin wants you to believe that they have deep feelings for one another and a very strong connection despite meeting…three or four times for a handful of hours? People on the tv show the Bachelor spend more time together than that. 

I didn’t mind the romance, but it lacked depth and evolution. It wasn’t believable in any kind of way that Ning would feel as strongly as she did after the short amount of time they spent together. 

Lastly, the final nail in the coffin was overselling Ning. Lin makes you think that she’s crucial to the story and she’s really, really not. 

The Princess thinks she’s amazing, Kang thinks she’s amazing, the court officials eventually think she’s important enough to keep an eye on, but nothing I saw reflected that. 

It boiled down to Lin saying, hey, this character is super important because. Yeah. That’s why. In the plot itself, however, Ning didn’t matter as much as she was portrayed being. 

Lin’s writing was also…distracting. She started so many sentences with “I” and her syntax read as repetitive and formal. Once I realized this, it was hard not to see it. 

The highlights of this book were the Chinese influences on the setting, characters, and world-building. It’s always amazing when an author can draw on their experiences and Lin certainly did this. I just wish she did it better.

Disappointment was what I was left with after finishing this book. It started off okay and continually became more droll and unconvincing as the pages went on. For a book with such cool aspects and a glorious cover, the contents were a let down. 

Recommendation: Gah. Admire the beautiful cover, go get some boba, and call it a day. If you’re truly obsessed with a lower-class girl traveling to a palace to take part in a competition and you’re also craving the Chinese influences, I’d recommend Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan. 

Just the first one. You don’t need to read the rest of the trilogy, believe me. Otherwise, a slew of competition-centered books exist that are way, way better. 

Score: 5/10

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[hollymbryan]

Blog Tour: Top 5 Reasons to Read THESE BODIES BETWEEN US by Sarah Van Name! #tbrbeyondtours

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the TBR and Beyond Tours blog tour for These Bodies Between Us by Sarah Van Name! I've got all the details on the book below, plus my top 5 reasons to read this YA magical realism novel. Read on!

About the Book

title: These Bodies Between Us author: Sarah Van Name publisher: Delacorte release date: 12 March 2024

Four girls. Four girls skating home, both sides of the road, fearless. Four girls at the mouth of an infinite ocean, sugared and salted with sand and seawater, the tide licking their sunburned feet. This summer, they’re going to disappear. For seventeen-year-old Callie and her best friends Talia and Cleo, every summer in their small North Carolina beach town is as steady as the tides. But this year, Cleo has invited enigmatic new girl Polly to join them, creating waves in their familiar friendship. And Cleo has an idea, gleaned from private YouTube videos and hidden message boards: they’re going to learn how to make themselves invisible. Callie thinks it’s a ridiculous, impossible plan. But the other girls are intoxicated by the thought of disappearing, even temporarily—from bad boyfriends, from overbearing families, from the confusing, uncomfortable reality of having a body altogether. And, miraculously, it works. Yet as the girls revel in their reckless new freedom, they realize it’s getting harder to come back to themselves… and do they even want to? Content Warning: eating disorder, death, abusive relationship

Add to Goodreads: These Bodies Between Us Purchase the Book: Amazon | B&N | Bookshop

About the Author

Sarah Van Name grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and now lives and works in Durham with her family and dog. She is the author of two young adult novels, The Goodbye Summer (2019, a Junior Library Guild pick) and Any Place But Here (2021).

Connect with Sarah: Website | Instagram | Goodreads

Top 5 Reasons to Read

She's a hometown author! I was so excited to see a book from an author who actually lives in my town (Durham, NC).

The book explores the unique pressures of being a teenage girl through the use of magical realism, with the girls learning how to turn themselves invisible.

There is an unflinching look at an abusive teen relationship, one that's important for teens to read about because it doesn't involve (*yet*) being physically abusive. It's important for teen girls especially to recognize the signs of a toxic relationship and to have the strength to get out.

There is also a sensitive look at eating disorders, and how being invisible would appeal to a girl who hated her body and had body dysmorphia.

While a lot of YA (and adult) fiction often involves toxic female friendships (which, don't get me wrong, I also love reading about!), I love the fact that this book focuses on the purity and strength that actually exist in most friendships between girls and women. These girls would do absolutely anything for each other, and in the end that is truly put to the test.

I encourage you to read this, and to put it in the hands of the teen girls you know. I think it will speak to them, as it has done for me even at my way-past-teen-years age!

Rating: 5 stars!

**Disclosure: I received an early e-copy of this book for purposes of this blog tour. This review is voluntary on my part and reflects my honest rating and review of the book.

Make sure you check out the Instagram tour too! You can find the full schedule here, and my post can be found here.

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[radfordwrites]

Episode Two: Don’t Look Up | Radford Writes

In the second episode of the first cycle, the discussion on disaster stories continues. This time, Daniel and his returning guest, Jon Coenan, are putting a twist on things. Episode Two is focused on Adam McKay’s satirical disaster movie, Don’t Look Up (2021).

Episode Two: Don't Look Up

Daniel Radford, Jon Coenan

Visit More : https://www.radfordwrites.com/podcast/episode-two-dont-look-up

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[clarislam]

Top 5 Books I Read In 2023

Wondering what the Top 5 Books I read in 2023 are? Check out today's post to find out! #Top5Booksof2023 #2023Top5Books #books #reading

Hello, fellow readers! Today, I have a new book ranking post. Just like previous years, this post details the Top 5 Books I read and reviewed this year. Since I didn’t review as many books in previous years, and I read quite a few good ones, this list was difficult to decide. However, I did figure out a Top 5 (or else this post wouldn’t exist!). My Top 5 Books Of 2023 are: 5. “Legends & Lattes”…

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[booksofdelight]

5 Books to Read in Your Lifetime

See our Picks for the 5 Books to Read in Your Lifetime!

There are so many amazing books to read in the world. But you won’t be able to read most of them. However, there are some novels that you should read at least once. Keep reading to find out the 5 books to read in your lifetime! Discovering new books to read is one of my favorite parts about reading. A novel written 50 years ago that may have been forgotten. When scrolling various lists to find…

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[tea-and-thrillers]

My Top 5 Favorite Authors of All Time!

If you’re like me, you tend to stick with your favorite authors, sure you branch out every now and again, but you always come back to those select few. Maybe it’s a favorite story, or an author that reminds you of a great time in your life, for me, reading has always been a way to escape real life and take a break from reality. Some of these authors are newer to this list, and some have been on…

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[dkehoe]

This Chicks Sunday Commentary: My Top 5 Most Anticipated Book Releases- Oct'23

Usually I start this post talking about the hard task of digging through all of the choices to figure out my top 5 book releases for the month. I’ll admit, I had the opposite problem this time. I dug through the lists and had trouble finding five I wanted to read. I’ll admit, I’m in a bit of a slump and finding it hard to get into a book at the moment. Life has just been so busy! BUT here are the…

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[davidarc]

TCL's #TopTenTuesday - August 1, 2023 - Back List Love.

TCL's #TopTenTuesday #TTT - August 1, 2023 - Back List Love. Thanks to @ArtsyReaderGirl for this weekly #booktag #booklist #meme #TuesdayBookBlog #bookblog. Spread the love for books that people don’t talk about much anymore!

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[readingwithwrin]

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei | Graphic Novel Review

Title: They Called Us Enemy Author: George Takei Publisher: Top Shelf Productions Published Date: July 17th. 2019 Genre: Biography/Memoir, History, Graphic Novel Source: Kindle Unlimited Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Goodreads Summary: George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new…

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[authoraesthetic]

Top 5 FAVE books

Choosing my top five favorite books is nearly impossible, but I’ll try (in no particular order). Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Casey McQuiston perfected a witty, awkward, beautiful, sexy, and tropey romance novel with Red White & Royal Blue. This book is a celebration of and for all people have felt out of place, like they didn’t fit in, and had to work to carve out a space for them…

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[thetypedwriter]

The Midnight Library Book Review

The Midnight Library Book Review by Matt Haig 

The Midnight Library is another grand example of thetypedwriter receiving a book as a present from someone they care about. The Midnight Library is not exactly my cup of tea. The premise is fine, but it wouldn’t be a book I’d pick up myself for multiple reasons. Because of this, my view of the book is colored differently. 

As I’ve already mentioned, the premise is fine. The plot revolves around Nora Seed, a young woman who no longer sees the point of living her life after failures that span professional, romantic, friendship, and personal choices. Nora feels like she no longer has anyone in the world who loves her or cares for her. Because of this, Nora sadly decides to take her own life. 

Instead of ending up in heaven or hell, Nora ends up in a sort of purgatory-like state. She enters the Midnight Library. She’s shocked to find herself in a dimly lit room with her old librarian, Ms. Elm, one of the few people in Nora’s life that she remembers being kind to her. 

Ms. Elm explains that Nora is between life and death. Nora has choices. The books surrounding them are actually infinite possibilities of other lives that Nora has lived if she had made different choices throughout her life. 

What follows is Nora Seed experiencing different lives. In one, she’s a famous rockstar. In another she’s an Olympic swimmer. In others, she’s a glaciologist, lives with her best friend in Australia, opened a pub with her ex-boyfriend, Dan, and many more. However, no matter how many lives she experiences, she finds that every single one is disappointing in one way or another. 

Like me you can probably call the ending of the novel by chapter two. By that, I mean you can probably predict what life she ends up choosing and what Nora ends up learning. 

This isn’t necessarily a con, but it’s not positive either. The ending was very predictable and while the theme of learning to live life and not take it for granted is a good one, Nora also takes an exceedingly long time (in my opinion) to learn this lesson. 

My other annoyance with this book was its repetitive nature. Nora enters the Midnight Library. Nora goes into a new life of hers. Nora learns something. Nora goes back to the Midnight Library. Repeat cycle. 

Again, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but the repetitive nature was aggravating and made me not want to read. I wanted to shake Nora and tell her the solution to her own problems (which were glaringly obvious). For some people, I’m sure this repetitive nature was expected and welcome. For me, it made the plot dry and not engaging. 

My last point is that Matt Haig as a writer is good. His writing style is simple, but effective. He has some poignant points that resonated with me and truly made me stop and think, which is always a great sign in a book. 

However, I also feel like he tried too hard to be deep. This is more of a personal critique, and I wholeheartedly understand if people disagree with me. That being said, every chapter where Nora experiences a different life, Matt Haig offers some profound epiphany, that was, to me, generally not very profound. 

At the end of the day, this was a simple book. Vini, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered. Or, in this case, I received, I read, I finished. This book won’t have a lasting impression on me, but that’s okay. It was an enjoyable, simple read talking about living life to the fullest. If this sounds like a book you need or would enjoy, I say go for it. 

If you want something a little more engaging, a little more surprising, and a little more unique, I would steer clear. 

Recommendation: I genuinely think this novel would be better off as a short story. It wasn’t bad, but the plot dragged after Nora’s third life. It’s a simple story with a good theme that will remind you to not give up. That being said, the main reason I finished it was so that I could move onto another book. Take what you will from that. 

Score: 5/10

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[inkskinned]

yesterday while feverish i wrote about how boats can moor next to each other like pigeons, cooing with the gentle rap of water against their hull. you once said that that the way i see things - birds in the water, feathers in marina paint - was "childish and naive." you said i'd been misdiagnosed - "it can't all be adhd. you might be just kind of stupid and lazy."

i still do certain things like how you taught me - turn the pillow case inside out before putting it on. drive defensively. hate myself entirely.

the prompt for this poem is "mahler's fifth." i wish it wasn't, but mahler's fifth was our song. it ended up in my book. every person that knows your name has promised me they'll give you one swift rabbit punch, right to the face. dean read the book and showed up on my front porch, drenched in sweat from running the 8 miles at 4 in the morning. he was shaking. pacifist and gentle - he works with children - i'd never seen him furious. a punch isn't going to do it, he said, and then said i'm sorry. i had to come to see if you were okay.

mahler's fifth was mine first, like my girlhood. i like the way each movement piles onto the next movement, each instrument bleeding into the next. i like the horn version the best. before i met you, i danced to it on grass still-wet from sprinklers.

later you would tell me that the way you heard it was somehow better. you understood something in it that i couldn't quite wrap my fingers into. once, on our anniversary, you asked the classical music radio station to play it for us. we missed hearing it because we were fighting. one of the things people get wrong about abuse is that sometimes victims are, like, brutally aware of the stupidity of our situation. what do you mean that you thought i wasn't good enough for you? you? you're just... nothing.

sometimes people can pull the poetry out of your life. i watched my words become clothesline, and then thin out into kite twine. i watched you chew through every good syllable of me. so many good songs and places and moments were ruined. i am glad you didn't like most of my music - less to tie back to you.

but still mahler's fifth. the music swells, and i am 21 and throwing up in a bathroom on my birthday. a woman i will later refer to as lesbian jesus runs a cool hand down my back, her perfect pantsuit starch-pressed. she told me to leave you. she said - and this is true, and not an invention of rhyme or fantasy - i'm you from the future.

i am 22, and i got home from an award ceremony, and i remember you telling me - you act so proud of yourself when you're actually so fucking embarrassing. i took you to disney world. you took my virginity. i gave up visiting spain for a week with my family - i instead choose you, to spend the time just-cuddling. you called it "our fuck week." the music swells. it probably should have been a red flag that for about 3 years - i just gave up on crying. my grandfather died and you said nothing. my uncle died and you ghosted me for 3 weeks. you said i need to protect myself from your ongoing tragedy.

every so often i come back to the memory of one of our last afternoons in person. i had just told you that i wasn't going to law school, despite the free ride - i was going to join a creative writing program. master's in fine arts. i was going to finally do it - i was going to follow my dreams. this blog was already internet-famous. however reluctantly, i would occasionally refer to myself as a poet. i got into umass amherst's writing program for fiction authors. it is one of the the top 5 programs in the country.

wait are you seriously considering actually attending that? dumbfounded, you turned completely towards me in your seat. for the 3rd time in our relationship, you almost crashed the car. you actually want to be a writer?

the first time i went viral, it was for a poem i wrote about you:

he wants to say i love you but keeps it to goodnight because love will take some falling and she's afraid of heights.

every time i see that, i want to throw up. you weren't in love with me, you were in love with the control you had over me. a little truth though: i am afraid of heights. you caught a rabbitgirl and skinned her alive.

mahler's fifth still makes me sick.

give me that back. give me back music. give me back everything i had before you. give me back fearlessness. give me back bravery. give me back a scarless body.

give me back what you took from me.

#nosebleed club #sorry stephen not ur fault #just like. thinking #writeblr #spilled ink #warm up #every time nat is like - oh let me get that for u #im like .... this is a trick right like ur gonna be mean now bc u did something nice rn #so obviously if ur being nice now either u did something mean and im about to learn about it #or you're going to BE mean #or ur gonna hold this over my head forever and i'll never get a nice thing ever again? #and every time nat is like .... babe i just actually like u #lesbian jesus story is 100% real btw. she also told me not to be an event planner #literally changed the shape of my life