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gabbagabbadoo · 1 year

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Books Read in 2022

I set a goal at the beginning of the year to read more books this year than I did last year.... which was 9 (lol) so, here they are:

(I also read more books cover to cover in a day or 2 than I ever have, and that is marked by *)

All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Clap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami, Sonali Deraniyagala ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

What's Mine and Yours, Naima Coster ⭐️/5

They Went Left, Monica Hesse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Panic, Lauren Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Orphan Collector, Ellen Marie Wiseman ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover ⭐️⭐️/5

House Rules, Jodi Picoult ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The First to Die at the End, Adam Silvera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

I Must Betray You, Ruta Sepetys ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Four Souls, Louise Erdrich ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris ⭐️⭐️/5

Four Three Two One, Courtney Stevens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

We Are Lost and Found, Helene Dunbar ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

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luffysfakebeard · 5 months

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the struggle in a nutshell 😬

#Gael makes a post #book highlights #Jodi Picoult #House Rules #autism tag #about me

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lakecountylibrary · 5 months

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LCPL Wrapped: 2023

We waited until the very last moment of 2023 to gather our numbers, and now here they are! The most checked-out books of 2023!

Want to compare to 2022? Here's 2022 wrapped.

(Images are lists of books; each list is typed out in the post under the image.)

Top Adult Fiction:

Welcome back returning champ Jodi Picoult!

1: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan 2: It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover 3: The House of Wolves by James Patterson and Mike Lupica 4: Identity by Nora Roberts 5: Without a Trace by Danielle Steel

Top Adult Nonfiction:

Novelty is the name of the game; none of these titles were on last year's list!

1: Spare by Prince Harry 2: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry 3: I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy 4: The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama 5: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Top YA, Kids', and ebooks/audiobooks under the Read More ⬇️ Hit that jump to see where Suzanne Collins ended up this year, and find out which author walked away with an ENTIRE category!

Top Adult eBooks and eAudiobooks:

Welcome back returning champ Colleen Hoover!

1: It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover 2: Verity by Colleen Hoover 3: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover 4: Happy Place by Emily Henry 5: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Top YA Print Books:

Suzanne Collins pulls into 1st and 2nd place over last year's 2nd and 3rd while Jenny Han holds steady at 5th!

1: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 2: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 3: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling 4: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 5: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Top YA eBooks and eAudiobooks:

Welcome back returning champ Jenny Han!

1: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han 2: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 3: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson 4: If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin 5: It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han

Top Kids' Print Books:

AKA We Hope You're Pleased With Yourself, Mr. Kinney

1: Diper Överlöde by Jeff Kinney 2: Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney 3: Big Shot by Jeff Kinney 4: Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure by Jeff Kinney 5: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney

Top Kids' eBooks and eAudiobooks:

Jeff Kinney's The Deep End pulls into 1st from last year's 4th!

1: The Deep End by Jeff Kinney 2: Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery by Ann M. Martin 3: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling 4: Diper Överlöde by Jeff Kinney 5: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea by Dav Pilkey

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cpericardium · 11 months

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The Art of Hating

—Roger Ebert's review of North

The thing about having a literary nemesis is that they can't just be a terrible author or an awful person. They have to also be someone everyone else sees as harmless and inoffensive, even good, even amazing. Only you, the chosen one, truly comprehend the truth about them. Seeing them mentioned sends you into a frothing rage. You stand in a corner of the party muttering under your breath, They Don't Know he's evil. You want to fight anyone who says "I love them, they're great" but not nearly as much as you want to throttle anyone who says "they're okay" or "idk they do charity can't judge". Bonus points if they're obscure and no one else you know read their books so you look insane when you complain about them.

My literary nemesis is Jodi Picoult. I was 12 going on 13 when I picked up House Rules, a book that I'd seen a friend reading under her desk in class. The school library had a shelf dedicated to her books so I checked it out there. It was the worst fucking book I'd ever read. Honestly, I don't think anything has dethroned it since. I systematically read all of the others on that shelf, and when I finished those I went to her website to pore over the excerpts of her upcoming books. I vividly remember sprinting to the bookstore to purchase her new books as soon as they came out. It made me crazy that all the online criticisms I saw of her books were not only half-baked and trivial but also made it easy for her and fans to dismiss as just hate because none of them pinpointed the actual issues with her writing. I wrote like, dissertations on why her books were ontologically evil, on why her prose was garbage and were ridiculous, and then squirrelled these documents away where no one could see them. It's not 'just' hate. Never just.

#some thought doubloons #john green is my other literary nemesis #is it still socially acceptable to be annoyed by john green #also I just remembered I have epubs of picoult books on this computer because i'm this devoted to silently hating this random author #do you have a literary nemesis

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bookworldofmeghan · 3 months

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Meet the Booklr

Is that even a thing, a Booklr? Well, I guess it is now. Nice to meet ya, my name is Meghan. Here are three fun facts about me:

I have dual citizenship in Ireland and America. I am born and raised in NJ, USA

I love to knit, my grandma taught me, but I'm too afraid to learn how to crochet.

I absolutely love ice skating and swimming; I hate the winter and snow and love the summer. Even though I know how to ice skate, I don't know how to roller-skate/rollerblade, which apparently is surprising to people

I love physical books and kindle books. (why are kindle books becoming the same price or more as a physical book?) My favorite genres are romance and mystery, I am getting into psychological thrillers and romantasy genres.

My favorite authors/books:

Fourth Wing b Rebecca Yarros

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas

House Rules by Jodi Picoult

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

I love to read on my free time and watch crime shows. Monday through Friday, 7 am-3 pm, I am a high school English teacher.

What is your all time favorite book/author?

#booklr #books #get to know the blogger #get to know me #bookworm #bookblr #book lover

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softlyapocalytpic · 1 year

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Embodiment of love

@pchberrytea tagged me!! And then my partner had to help me take it because I couldn't figure out how to do it well??? Its fun and cool they just do uquiz better.

I tag @maxiseden since I think this would be fun for your blorbos and @plasma-packin-mama cuz I love Delilah & Arcade and would love to see what they get!! And! Copying Tea here, if you want an excuse to be tagged for this then CONGRATS. It's you. You've been tagged. You're it.

Also, I guess some spoilers for pairings for my characters...?

💕 RULES: Take this quiz for your OC/ship.

Without further ado:

Amy/Butch

[ love is beautiful because it's built deliberately ] when casey mcquinston wrote "that's the choice. i love him, with all that, because of all that, on purpose. i love him on purpose" and when jenny slate tweeted "i just want someone to grab my little face and scream on purpose, on purpose i am going to care about you" and when jodi picoult wrote "after fifteen years, love isn't just a feeling. it's a choice" and when the good place said "if soulmates do exist, they're not found they're made"

Man this one HURTS. It hurts in the long term, and it hurts in the short term. They communicate terribly, they understand each other better than most people understand them, they argue a lot and also are the bestest friend the other has ever had. I've said this for a while, but if things had panned out differently these two would've been best friends all the way back in the vault. And this invokes all that for me, but also. In context of where they end up by the end of the story... It hurts so so so bad. They never stop choosing each other even long long after.

They're always touching each other, holding each other, putting their hands on the other. A punch, a hug, holding each other's face. Hands holding, Butch arm around Amy's shoulder, Amy always ready and willing to hold Butch when he needs it. The world is shitty, but they're together.

Sunshine/Half Pint

[ devotion: love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause ] when ruth said to naomi "where you go, i will go, and where you stay, i will stay. your people will be my people, and your God my God" and when hozier sang "i'll be the dreadful need from the devotee that drove [orpheus] underground" and when deathcab for cutie sang "if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, i will follow you into the dark"

So if Butch/Amy hollowed me out, this one knocks me in the teeth and guts me. YES. YES. THIS IS THEM. These courier dorks will follow each other to the very ends of earth, to hell and back again, will be by each other's side till the very end and beyond. They die by each other's side. Literally. It doesn't matter what happens this two are soulmates eternally devoted to each other.

They are "I love you in this life and when I'm someone else entirely" and "I love you when you burn down the world", "I love you when you're a monster", "we're monsters together".

Leo/MacCready/Hancock

[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

crying, actually crying

This is the boys. This is the boys all the way. They're all so fucked up and hurt and love each other so much, and yeah they're TENDER. When I think of Leo/Hancock it's such gentle touches and adoring looks and holding each other gently. It's softly spoken words. It's staring into each others eyes. Mac/Leo is sharing the weight of a trauma, it's defending the other to the other, it's giggles and warmth by the fire as they help the other unwind. Hancock/Mac is camaraderie. It's being debaucherous fools who wind up holding each other. It's having their arms wrapped around each other and laughing.

Hopefully there will be a pt.2 with more members of the quartet (Sunshine/Half Pint/Deacon/Danse) (ik ik ik trust me it WILL work even if I forget why sometimes) (we've gone to crackship hell and we WILL radicalize Danse). Maybe for Mae/Takeshi? Maybe for Mae and someone else? A lot maybes.

#ship tag #sunpint #butch/amy #Leo/Mac/Hancock

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unorganisedalienrubbish · 1 year

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Get to know me better Tag Game

I got tagged by @gala1981 thank you so much for the tag (😭<3)

Rules: answer the questions and tag nine people you want to get to know better

3 ships: I don’t really consume romantic media, umm... I really like the couple Joe and Nicky from ‘The Old Guard’. (am I allowed to say Akia and River? ‘Cause I definitely ship them)

First ship: We do not speak of the dark ages, those old times are past us now. (I was a (angst) Drarry shipper in middle school - please forgive me )

Last song: ‘Last Man on Earth’ - Anna Bates (I’ve been playing it on repeat the last week and I really hope it doesn’t wear off)

Last Movie: ‘Lost Bullet 2′ - I have to admit I was crocheting the whole time, but I really liked the first film, this one pretty good too.

Currently reading: re-reading ‘House Rules’ - Jodi Picoult (prolly my favourite author) its about a court case of an autistic boy who’s accused of murder. It rips me apart every time I read it.

Currently consuming: Paint water

Currently craving: Eggs? or my headache to go away, that too...

Tagging: (I don’t really know 9 people, so) @whump-queen @riverlett-arboreal @jester-step @recidivistboy @crow-trapped-in-a-library (and the whump-rp anons if you want, I’d love to hear more about you or your character :] )

(only if you want to! No pressure!) <3

#tag game #get to know me better #i love hearing about my mutuals #yall are so cool #I can't believe people want to hear about me! (i am loved!)#the paint water wasn't tasty. wouldn't recommend #personal

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screametc · 1 year

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10 10 10 10 10 >:)

10. do you have a guilty fav?

PLEASE, that would require me to feel guilt and as we all know cringe culture is DEAD (but also it’s twilight… i really really do love those books idc what anyone thinks and it is not an ironic love whatsoever! AND the host which is also by stephenie meyer is so fucking underrated, a hill i will die on)

oh and i suppose this counts! i own like, quite a lot of jodi picoult books that my grandma used to pass on to me and i really don’t mind them at all, even if they’re all a bit formulaic/the same sometimes. she’s just prolific in the way that like, stephen king is prolific, but because she writes books for middle aged mums and not horrorbros her writing is ‘bad’/unelevated which is obviously bollocks. house rules and nineteen minutes are total bops

#ask games #ask #dumpsterhipster #book tag

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crazybutgood · 1 year

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Thanks so much for the tag a while back @bluesundaycake, and also @nv-md, and @lumosatnight, and @schmem14 as well! I'm so sorry for the late reply,, I've been catching up with my mentions now that my semester is over 😅

10 books to get to know me:

I am the messenger by Markus Zusak

I love so many of Jodi Picoult's books I think I've read almost all,, I'll just mention The Storyteller and House Rules

The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman

The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella

The Sound of Sch by Danielle Lim (also love her book Trafalgar Sunrise so much,, and I have a signed copy!!)

The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom (again, he has many amazing books)

The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason

The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon

The Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy

Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali

Apart from these, I love short story collections, and poetry (mostly in Hindi and Urdu) as well,, short story collections I love include Dust on the Mountain by Ruskin Bond, and Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit by Wodehouse

Tagging @julcheninred @curlyy-hair-dont-care @triggerlil if you'd like to do this (sorry if there's double tags!) and anyone else who wants to as well~

#no I didn't cheat with the series what are you saying shh #there's so many books ajjfjs how to choose #this is just a glimpse #just remembered Oscar Wilde while typing this ksjfjs #and the song of achilles #anyway #personal #tagged #tag game #books

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identity-library · 1 month

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Disability (Books)

A:

All The Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

Marie-Laure (Blind)

Animorphs (K.A. Applegate)

Collette (Paralyzed)

Craig (Unspecified Disability)

Erica (Unspecified Disability)

James (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

Jessie (Unspecified Disability)

Judy (Unspecified Disability)

Julio (Unspecified Disability)

Kelly (Cystic Fibrosis)

Liam (Unspecified Disability)

Ray (Unspecified Disability)

Timmy (Cerebral Palsy, Wheelchair User)

Tricia (Unspecified Disability)

B:

Bruised (Tanya Boteju)

Cai (Deaf)

C:

Cemetary Boys (Aiden Thomas)

Julian Diaz (ADHD)

Connection Error (Annabeth Albert)

Josiah Simmons (ADHD)

Ryan Orson (Multi-Limb Amputee)

D:

Dear Mothman (Robin Gow)

Noah (Autistic)

E:

F:

G:

Good Kings, Bad Kings (Susan Nussbaum)

Joanna Madsen (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

H:

Handle With Care (Jodi Picoult)

Willow O'Keefe (Osteogenesis Imperfecta)

House Rules (Jodi Picoult)

Jacob Hunt (Autistic)

I:

J:

Jerk, California (Jonathan Friesen)

Sam Carrier (Tourette's Syndrome)

K:

L:

Learning Curves (Ceillie Simkiss)

Cora McLaughlin (ADHD)

M:

Maximum Ride (James Patterson)

Iggy (Blind)

N:

Nestlings (Nat Cassidy)

Ana Greene (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

Not If I See You First (Eric Lindstrom)

Parker Grant (Blind)

O:

P:

Planet Earth is Blue (Nicole Panteleakos)

Nova (Autistic)

Punk 57 (Penelope Douglas)

Ryen Trevarrow (Allergies, Asthma)

Q:

R:

S:

Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)

Kaz Brekker (Chronic Pain, Cane User)

Wylan Van Eck (Dyslexia)

T:

The Locked Tomb (Tamsyn Muir)

Cytherea the First (Cancer)

The Luis Ortega Survival Club (Sonora Reyes)

Ariana Ruiz (Autistic, Situational Mutism)

The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan)

Mat Cauthon (Blind)

U:

V:

W:

Warriors (Erin Hunter)

Berrynose (Amputee)

Briarlight (Limited Mobility)

Brightheart (Partially Blind)

Cinderpelt (Limited Mobility)

Deadpaw (Limb Difference)

Fallowfern (Deaf)

Finleap (Amputee)

Halftail (Amputee)

Jayfeather (Blind)

Leopardstar (Diabetes)

Lilywhisker (Paralyzed)

Longtail (Blind)

Moth Flight (ADD)

Oddfoot (Limb Difference)

One-Eye (Partially Blind)

Petalfall (Epilepsy)

Shadowsight (Epilepsy)

Snowkit (Deaf)

Whitewater (Partially Blind)

Wings of Fire (Tui T. Sutherland)

Addax (Limp)

Chameleon (Facial Difference, Limited Abilities)

Clay (Limp)

Dune (Amputee)

Jerboa ||| (Amputee)

Mayfly (Amputee)

Onyx (Limited Mobility)

Osprey (Blind, Paralyzed)

Peregrine (Deaf)

Sapphire (Amputee)

Scarlet (Facial Difference)

Sequoia (Amputee)

Snowflake (Limited Mobility)

Stonemover (Limited Mobility)

Tamarin (Blind)

Tau (Limb Difference, Limited Mobility)

Vengeance (Facial Difference)

Wasp (Facial Difference)

X:

Y:

Z:

#:

100 Sideways Miles (Andrew Smith)

Finn Easton (Epilepsy)

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unfilteredrealities · 4 months

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I’m so proud of myself that since last year I started to read books again albeit I’m listening to them but that is still valid!

2023 I read 23 books 🥳 special shout out to Harry with his one quote I heard on TikTok and that was my first book in 2023 to read again bcs of „My penis was oscillating between extremely sensitive...and borderline traumatized The last place I wanted to be was Frostnipistan…” 😂

It helps me a lot that I’m in a Book club with 2 of my siblings and my s.i.l :3

Now in 2024 I already read 4 books and uh weirdly the theme is death so far 💀 buuuuut I read one book yesterday and one book today :3 which makes me super proud!

2023 books in pictures:

Prince Harry - Spare

Notes on a Nervous Planet - Matt Haig

Britt-Marie was here - Frederik Backman

The Fourty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak

Mad Honey - Jodi Picoult

Before the Coffee gets cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson

Verity - Colleen Hoover (wtf was this weird and wild fever dream of a book 🤪🫠)

The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

Anxious People - Frederik Backman

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier