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Perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect anything from you beyond what is in your nature.
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
(2023 favorite reads)
#emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries#Emily Wilde#Wendell x Emily#books read in 2023#my moodboards#my storyboards#2023favs
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I realized today as I was working on my reading journal that I haven’t shared any of my journal spreads or the journal that my sister and I made this year! So here’s some of my favorite pages/spreads (and my journal 🥰):
I wish tumblr allowed for more photos in one post. But these are some of my absolute favorites!
#booklr#reading journal#journaling#reading#books#book journal#journals#handmade journals#bookish#bookworm#books read in 2023#book reviews#journal spreads
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A little something different!
I used to be a TOTAL bookworm as a kid, then sort of lost it for a decade or so, then in about 2016/17 I decided to start reading more (& also moved closer to a library & got in the habit of using it).
Fast forward 7ish years and I'm back in the habit of reading & am devouring stacks of books per year, with 2023 being my most ridiculous one yet. I somehow ended up reading 120 books? Mostly because I'm terrible at managing my library holds list & kept getting stacks of books I really wanted to read (I'm also lucky to be a really fast reader, which helps).
Anyways! All that to say - I compiled a top 22 + 19ish honourable mentions, as seen below:
My Top 22:
Tear – Erica Mckeen
Our Wives Under The Sea – Julia Armfield
The Vaster Wilds – Lauren Groff
Paladin’s Strength – T. Kingfisher
Paladin’s Grace – T. Kingfisher
Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead
Between Two Fires – Christopher Buehlman
Sisters – Daisy Johnson
How High We Go In The Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
Moon Of The Turning Leaves – Waubgeshig Rice
The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
The Night Ship – Jess Kidd
The Conjoined – Jen Sookfong Lee
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter – Hazel Gaynor
If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English – Noor Naga
The Annual Migration Of Clouds – Premee Mohamed
Wandering Souls – Cecile Pin
The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones
Lone Women – Victor Lavalle
Ring Shout – P. Djèlí Clark
Lucy – Jamaica Kincaid
The Bookshop Of Yesterdays – Amy Meyerson
Honourable Mentions:
The Marigold – Andrew F. Sullivan
Five Little Indians – Michelle Good
Swordheart – T. Kingfisher…and all the other books of hers (9 of them in total) I read this year!
Even Though I Knew The End – C.L. Polk
Everything Under – Daisy Johnson
Fen – Daisy Johnson
The Animals In That Country – Laura Jean Mckay
A Prayer For The Crown-Shy – Becky Chambers
The Sea Captain’s Wife – Beth Powning
Hester – Laurie Lico Albanese
Tauhou – Kotuku Titihuia Nuttall
Ducks – Kate Beaton
You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty – Akwaeke Emezi
The Hatbox Letters – Beth Powning
And Then She Fell – Alicia Elliot
The Adult – Bronwyn Fischer
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A Witch – Rivka Galchen
Lute – Jennifer Thorne
Monster – Mariel Ashlinn Kelly
Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway Series (I read 8 books from this series this yr & loved all of them!)
If you want to go through my entire list for 2023, you can read it on my website!
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“The Folk were of another world, with its own rules and customs—and to a child who always felt ill-suited to her own world, the lure was irresistible.”
#reading#books read in 2023#bookblr#books#book photography#book blog#bibliophile#books reading#books and reading#emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries#heather fawcett#wendell x emily#i love them#wendell is so funny#emily wilde is my baby#precious child#protect her at all costs#explorer#adventure#i cant believe there’s a second book#wtf#and now i have to wait until january#emily’s definitely catching feelings#for sure#really really great read#i enjoyed this so much#give me more of them#review#five stars#october reads
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As always, here is the list challenge to see how many of the books I read this year did you read :)
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This was a 2023 read but I am bad at updating.
This was such a haunting book. It's about an Anishinaabe reservation in Northern Canada and its community as a kind of apocalypse descends. The community has to rely on each other to survive, and that is called into question as supplies dwindle, and as people from outside begin to show up.
It's quite a short book for the kind of story it is telling, but it is so full of details, like how the main character and his wife are trying to re-engage with their language and culture in their names for their children, and how they're parenting them. It also never tells you what exactly caused this apocalypse and in a lot of ways that isn't important, what's important is this community. The quiet horror of things going slowly wrong and the kind of climax at the end of the novel were very well paced.
I also really liked reading a differing perspective of end of the world stories, it's directly commented on by one of the elders of the community- that the apocalypse already happened for them when they were forced off their land and into the residential schools.
Moon of the Crusted Snow said a lot about community and society and a lot about what has already happened to Indigenous people.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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After finishing 177 books this year, I went over each month and chose 12 books that I consider to be my favorite reads of 2023. These are the books I liked the most, but still trying to keep within the 12 book limit or else I would’ve chosen a whole lot more. Here they are:
⚔️ Valiant by Holly Black
🧙♂️ A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
🐲 His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
🎨 The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
👑 The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
🔥 The Fire Within by Chris d’Lacey
🐻 On Being a Bear by Rémy Marion (trans. David Warriner)
🐻❄️ East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Jackie Morris
🐈 The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (trans. Philip Gabriel)
🐰 Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by Richard Adams, James Sturm, and Joe Sutphin
☕️ Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha
🥶 The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
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Books Read in 2023:
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.
#parable of the sower#octavia e butler#bookedit#literature#lit edit#lit aesthetic#my edit#books read in 2023#I read a couple more books this year but this is the last moodboard I think for 2023
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books read in 2023: the stolen heir by holly black
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“they did this. the girl they made was delicate in form, with eyes of stone, and lips of frozen rose petals, and the sharply pointed ears of their people. when they finished sculpting her, they smiled at each other, captivated by her beauty.
the hag smiled too, for other reasons."
#it is a travesty that ppl were too focused on the lack of judecardan to appreciate how absolutely incredible this book is#justice for the stolen heir#the stolen heir#the folk of the air#holly black#queen suren#wren x oak#jude duarte#cardan greenbriar#books read in 2023
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I've been reading Bookshops and Bonedust (prequel to Legends and Lattes, very enjoyable btw!) Anyway I couldn't sleep the other night so I read a bit and fell asleep on it, and then woke up and read some more, and in-between I dreamed this whole other sequence. For several chapters I kept thinking "But what about that other tavern, and the mysterious fortune-telling woman, when is it going to get back to her" then finally i realized i had dreamed that part
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You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery too.
A Study In Drowning
(2023 favorite reads)
#a study in drowning#ava reid#my moodboards#my storyboards#bookworm stuff#effy sayre#Preston heloury#Preston héloury#ASID#2023favs#books read in 2023
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Mer's 2023 Books
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Josh : I'm a doctor and I've taken an oath to treat every human who need my hel-
Christian : You ReFuSeD tO TrEat Me yesterday, Doc
Josh : I said I treat humans . You're a bitch .
Christian:
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#twisted series#twisted love#twisted hate#twisted games#twisted lies#christian harper#josh chen#incorrect quotes#booklr#book reading#books and reading#books read in 2023#bookish
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“‘Mina.’ She said my name softly, like a prayer. Like an incantation.”
#reading#books read in 2023#bookblr#books#book photography#book blog#bibliophile#books reading#books and reading#bitterthorn#kat dunn#sapphic#sapphic romance#lgbtq#queer#love#witchy#wheel of time#mina x holda#i love them#i ship these two so hard#oh god this was beautiful#everyone needs to read this#true love#the power of love#opening yourself up to love#learning to let people in#review#four stars#october reads
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Books read in 2023 - Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
"Never flinch" A cold whisper in her ear. "Never fear. And never, ever forget."
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2023 books — be my friend on storygraph :)
I feel bad about my neck - nora ephron (☆☆☆☆☆)
the duke and I - julia quinn (☆☆)
small fires: an epic in the kitchen - rebecca may johnson (☆☆☆☆½)
taste: my life through food - stanley tucci (☆☆☆☆)
passing - nella larsen (☆☆☆☆)
if we were villains - m.l. rio (☆☆☆☆☆)
the metamorphosis - franz kafka (☆☆☆)
after I do - taylor jenkins reid (☆☆☆☆☆)
our endless numbered days - claire fuller (☆☆☆½)
happy place - emily henry (☆☆☆☆☆)
other parents - sarah stovell (☆☆☆☆)
the lonely city: adventures in the art of being alone - olivia laing (☆☆☆☆)
women talking - miriam toews (☆☆☆☆½)
meet me at the lake - carley fortune (☆☆☆☆)
humankind: a hopeful history - rutger bregman (☆☆☆☆☆)
mules of love - ellen bass (☆☆☆☆½)
a thousand mornings - mary oliver (☆☆☆½)
the course of love - alain de botton (☆☆☆½)
medusa - jessie burton (☆☆☆½)
so you want to talk about race - ijeoma oluo (☆☆☆☆)
sex power money - sara pascoe (☆☆☆☆☆)
red, white & royal blue - casey mcquiston (☆☆☆☆☆) (re-read)
east of eden - john steinbeck (☆☆☆☆☆)
in memoriam - alice winn (☆☆☆☆☆)
everyday sexism - laura bates (☆☆☆☆)
icebreaker - hannah grace (☆☆☆)
romantic comedy - curtis sittenfeld (☆☆☆☆)
fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury (☆☆☆½)
the other passenger - louise candlish (☆☆☆☆)
consent: a memoir - vanessa spingora (☆☆☆☆)
women & power: a manifesto - mary beard (☆☆☆☆½)
postcolonial love poem - natalie diaz (☆☆½)
the ballad of songbirds and snakes - suzanne collins (☆☆☆☆½) (re-read)
the simple wild - k.a. tucker (☆☆☆☆)
house of hollow - krystal sutherland (☆☆☆☆)
the hobbit - j.r.r. tolkien (☆☆☆☆½)
high windows - philip larkin (☆☆)
so late in the day - claire keegan (☆☆☆☆)
one day in december - josie silver (☆☆☆½)
the woman in me - britney spears (☆☆☆☆)
assembly - natasha brown (☆☆☆)
feel your way through - kelsea ballerini (☆☆☆½)
a christmas carol - charles dickens (☆☆☆½)
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