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thereadingmoon · 4 months

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inspired by @wearethekat's listchallenge, i've created my own checklist of books i've looked at in 2023, rounding it up to a good 70. can't wait to check on this list in a year's time <3

i've also done a couple of others around tumblr and i'll link them under the cut. each list seems to say a lot about their respective readers and i've filled my TBR with books they recommended.

MAIN GENRES OF 2023: queer, science fiction, fantasy, urban fantasy, BIPOC, neurodivergence

READING GOALS FOR 2024: read more for, from, and about BIPOC. i need to diversify my reading list more.

@wearethekat's How Many of Kat's 2023 Books Have You Also Read? - 4/242 books

@bookcub's Goose Girl Era - 1/24 books

@bookcub's All the Bi/Pan Books I've Read or Want to Read - 4/68 books

@ninja-muse's Scattered 2022 Reading List - 4/138 books

@linus-wickworth's Ben's 2022 Reading Wrap-Up - 11/123 books

@readsofawe's Recommendations - 3/181 books

@ofliterarynature's Books of 2023 - 10/174 books

#listchallenge #reading roundup #reading recap

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lucienarcheron · 5 months

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November Reads 📚

King of Greed (King of Sins #3) by Ana Huang - 2.5/5

Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey - 3/5

The Graham Effect (Campus Diaries #1) by Elle Kennedy - 3/5

A Sign of Affection Vol. 8 - 4/5

A Sign of Affection Vol. 9.- 4/5

A Sign of Affection Vol. 10 - 4/5

Spy x Family Vol. 11 - 4/5

Spy x Family Vol. 12 - 4/5

Spy x Family Vol. 13 - 4/5

I love having manga as palate cleansers because they're so fun. The Graham Effect would've been a 4-star had the ending been different but alas! King of Greed was so disappointing, I expected so much better but it did not give what it was supposed to give. I'm so excited for A Sign of Affection's anime coming next year though!

#gigi reads #november reads #2023 reads #reading recap #king of greed #same time next year #a sign of affection #the graham effect #spy x family #gp

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dooareyastudy · 11 months

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Here are the books I read last month and this month!

April

Gérard de Nerval, Les filles du feu, 1854 | 5/10

Jacques Ellul, Le bluff technologique, 1988 | 7/10

Julien Gracq, Les eaux étroites, 1976 | 7/10

Hermann Broch, La mort de Virgile, 1945 | 5/10

Georg Luckás, L’antifascisme en littérature, 1938 - 1942 | 6/10

Albert Ollivier, Le Dix-huit Brumaire, 1959 | 3/10

May

André Gorz, Métamorphoses du travail, 1988 (not pictured) | 7/10

Grégoire Chamayou, Les chasses à l’homme, 2010 | 7/10

Patrick Süskind, Le parfum, 1985 | 6/10

Paul Gadenne, La plage de Scheveningen, 1952 | 8/10

Jaggernaut n° 1, 2019 | 7/10

Pour les utilisateurs éventuels de Senscritique, vous pouvez m’ajouter dessus (mon pseudo, c’est doriavcn) !

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juleworm · 11 months

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hello!! given that it is the first weekend in june, i'd like to go through everything that i read in the month of may and say if i would or would not recommend it and why. lets go !!

in chronological order of reading:

king of pride - ana huang: YES absolutely! god i loved this book. more specifically, yes i would recommend it if you like opposites attract in romance and dating, or if you like income gap relationships ( he's a billionaire, she's a struggling author ), and yes if you like incredibly hot and well written spicy scenes between characters. i honestly can't even think of a no unless you literally just hate spicy romance as a genre; even then i still think this book deserves a chance for your time. i absolutely adore this book.

2. den of vipers - k.a. knight: yes if you miss reading self-insert on wattpad and like pick me fmcs. the vipers themselves do have a lot of good character behind them, but as far as the fmc...i just really didn't like her. i did finish the entire book hoping that it would get better towards the end, but in my opinion the ending was one of the worse parts of the book and throughout it all it felt very predictable. would i generally recommend this? no. but it's definitely a hit or miss book. you'll either really like it, or not like it at all.

3. does it hurt? - h.d. carlton: yes yes yes yes yes. this was my favorite read of the month of may. i'd recommend it even more if you like witty and funny fmcs; it's sort of a dark romance version of grumpy x sunshine. it has a lot of spice and it's very creative if that makes sense? it's not just boring vanilla missionary, that's for sure. the mmcs character is phenomenal and both of them each have very full character arcs. but i wouldn't recommend it if mentions of incest and domestic abuse trigger you, or if body horror and gore triggers you.

4. never lie - freida mcfadden: yes if you're new to thrillers and want something easy to digest. definitely not if you're not new to thrillers and have read some absolutely breathtaking ones that kept you up at night. to me it had a rather predictable storyline, a twist that falls flat, and characters with absolutely zero depth or anywhere near a completed arc. i really did not like this book at all. also yes if you like a quick read; this didn't take me very long to get through.

5 + 6. there are no saints / there is no devil [ sinner's duet ] - sophie lark: yes if you like a "beginner" dark romance that doesn't stray too far into depravity, but still has a very dominant and demanding mmc. no if you've read things by h.d. carlton or other dark romance authors and that's your expectation level. this might come off as boring to you. however as this was a bit tame for me storyline wise, the spicy scenes were amazing and i did like that they were both artists. i feel like usually billionaires are business-oriented but it was cool to see a wealthy and famous artist. also yes if you like mentor romance dynamics.

7. iced out - veronica eden: yes if you like boys who are very clearly written by women ( in a good way! ). the mmc is perfectly balanced; he's as hot and dominant as he is cute and sweet and nice and thoughtful. he's pretty much the picturesque model citizen for what a girl typically would want in a perfectly healthy romantic relationship. there's very little drama between characters, which i personally liked. but no if parental death or familial death or grief/loss are triggers for you. for a more in-depth response, i did a spoiler free book review here!

if you do read any of these let me know! i'd love to see how our opinions differ :))

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bibliophilecats · 3 months

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Read this month: January 2024

I struggled a little with finding something I liked to read and ended up dnf'ing several books (luckily, all from the library - libraries are great!). But a reread of Discworld helped.

H. Fawcett: All the wandering light

T. Pratchett: Carpe jugulum (reread)

S. Fry: Heroes (audiobook)

L. Jackson Braun: The cat who robbed a bank (ebook)

#helen reads 2024 #read this month #reading recap #monthly recap #booklr

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battyaboutbooksreviews · 4 months

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🥂 2023 Reading Wrap Up 🦇

🦇 What a year! This was my first year on Bookstagram (that Bookstaversary is coming up!)! I've had the fortune of receiving so many amazing ARCs, meeting and befriending an amazing community of book dragons, and of course, READING so many unique books! I'm super proud of what I accomplished in 2023, but there's still so much more to read! Here's a recap of my year in books!

✨ MY YEAR IN BOOKS ✨

🦇 Books read — 103 ✨ Pages read — 33,435 🦇 Average book length — 349 pages ✨ Longest Book — Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (640 pages) 🦇 Shortest Book — Rebel Girls Rock: 25 Tales of Women in Music (68 pages)

✨ Top 5 Books ✨ 🦇 Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross @beccajross 🦇 Will They or Won't They by Ava Wilder 🦇 Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou @kikahatzopoulou 🦇 Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler @missdahlelama 🦇 Stars Collide by Rachel Lacey @rachelslacey

#books #reading #book blog #book lovers #books and cats #cats and books #cats reading #cats #black cat #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #reading recap #month recap #reading challenge #currently reading #book: fourth wing #author: rebecca yarros

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luminouscrow · 29 days

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march reading recap !! 🍁🌕☕️

honestly the fact that we’re about to wrap up the first quarter of 2024 is fkn nuts like wdym ?!

this month i re read “never let me go”, read “eleanor oliphant is completely fine” & got to read a friend of mines first book which she’s just published, “oz”. i’ve also been reading “the ballad of songbirds and snakes” but i ain’t done hehe

never let me go by kazuo ishiguro (re read) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

eleanor oliphant is completely fine by gail honeyman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

oz by hope swan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#bookblr #book blog #bookish #book review #books and reading #books and libraries #academia aesthetic #never let me go #kazuo ishiguro #eleanor oliphant is completely fine #gail honeyman #reading recap #book recs

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moononastring · 11 months

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May Reads 📚

*Book Lovers by Emily Henry - 5/5

Happy Place by Emily Henry - 4/5

The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay #3 ARC) by Elle Kennedy - 3.5~4/5

*Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women #1) by Evie Dunmore - 5/5

*A Rouge of One's Own (ALOEW #2) - 5/5

*Portrait of a Scotsman (ALOEW #3) - 4.85/5

A better month than the last one but full of rereads! Rereading Book Lovers was just so 🤌🏼 and it hit the spot so good! Happy Place was so good and so angsty; I said this in my GR review but it really hits on that ache of adulthood and all the changes that come with it. The Summer Girl arc was pleasantly surprising and to me, it redeemed the series because the first two books of that series sucked lol. Then wrapped up my birthday month with one of my favorite historical romance series everrrrr. Overall, good reading month!!

*marked for rereads

#gpost #gigi reads #may reads #2023 reads #Emily Henry #happy place #elle kennedy #evie dunmore #a league of extraordinary women #reading recap

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fairyinpages · 2 months

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★ — february wrap up

february was a very lightweight month, freaking thanks. things were falling back into place and it finally feels like my year has started. everything is official now. i've read very easy and fast paced books and started a book club with friends. it was very good.

books read: 3 — total pages: 962

the princess diaries by meg cabot — 3.5 stars

princess in the spotlight by meg cabot — 2 stars

this heart of mine by c. c. hunter — 4 stars

moodboards will be coming soon, stay tuned.

and welcome march. let it bring more happy endings. ♡

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bensbooks · 3 months

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Books 25-30 of 2024

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V.: Adult graphic novel.

Starsight by Brandon Sanderson: YA sci-fi.

Ziggy, Stardust & Me by James Brandon: YA queer historical.

All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt: Adult queer memoir.

In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier: YA mystery.

From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine

#books #booklr #bookblr #reading recap

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lucienarcheron · 4 months

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December Reads 📚

*Glow (The Plated Prisoner #4) by Raven Kennedy - 4.5/5

*The Hating Game by Sally Thorne - 5/5

Gold (The Plated Prisoner #5) by Raven Kennedy - 4.5/5

One Piece Vol. 1 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 2 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 3 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 4 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 5 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 6 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 7 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 8 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 9 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 10 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 11 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 12 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 13 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 14 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 15 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 16 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 17 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 18 - 4/5

One Piece Vol. 19 - 4/5

*ACOMAF (ACOTAR #2) by SJM - 5/5

*ACOWAR (ACOTAR #3) by SJM - 4/5

*marked for rereads

I really took that manga palate cleanser and dived deep lol. I'm taking a break from watching One Piece until the new year so naturally, I dived into the manga instead and I LOVE going through the beginning with them again. It's very similar to the anime, which I appreciate! Gold was one of an anticipated read and I'm so glad I loved it! It was so good!!! ACOMAF will always have my whole heart and every time I reread, I wanna cry. Planning to continue with my SJM reread before HOFAS comes out.

Total reads of 2023: 90!

Happy reading in 2024! ✨

#gigi reads #gp #reading recap #2023 reads #december reads #acomaf #acowar #one piece #the plated prisoner #the hating game #I know I could've just listed One Piece Vol. 1 - 19 but I like seeing the total number of them listed lmao

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dooareyastudy · 1 year

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March 2023

Un beau ténébreux, Julien Gracq, 1945 | How come each Gracq’s book I read becomes my favorite? Well, Le roi pêcheur is still my absolute favorite but this one comes right after. The atmosphere, the tension, everthing is addicting. The writing, so elegant and striking. I really love Julien Gracq you guys.

Philosophie du droit, Jacques Ellul, 2022 | This is a lecture from the 70s given by Ellul to PhD students in Bordeaux. Kinda sad to see that PhD students from that same university are now mainly offered lectures on entrepreneurship and how not to be too depressed during their thesis! About the book itself, just like a lecture, some bits are really interesting and others less. Not too dense, overall a good introduction to law philosophy I think!

Pensées, Blaise Pascal, 1669 | I read this in order to read another book about jansenism and the figure of God in Pascal’s, Racine’s and Kant’s work. I’ll admit I skipped the parts about theology but the first half of the book is really worth reading. Not gonna lie, I wouldn’t have enjoy reading this if not for Goldmann’s book that brings a really interesting light on Pascal’s philosophy!

Le Dieu caché, Lucien Goldmann, 1955 | This book is an analysis of Pascal’s Pensées (and Racine’s tragedies but this is a very short part of the book unfortunately). I really like how it uses concepts and methods from Hegel and Marx to give a really deep and interesting insight on Pascal’s philosophy. The main concept of the book is the concept of “vision du monde” (world view). The author tries to demonstrate that Pascal’s philosophy (and Racine’s tragedies) embodies a tragic world view. The author shows that Pascal’s philosophy is one of paradoxes that cannot be solve in the world, but only in christian heaven. Thus, a never ending suffering for the one that cannot not live in the world where everything is relative and full of contradictions yet aspires to something absolute that can embrace and overtake the contradictions.

Liberté grande, Julien Gracq, 1946 | I was a bit disappointed but not too surprising as I am not usually a fan of prose poetry! Well, I had to have a least favorite Gracq’s piece!

Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann, 1901 | Second book by Mann that I read and he is slowly but surely becoming an author that I really enjoy. This one is the portrayal of an old and wealthy family declining in a generation or so. The writing is clever, witty, often funny, often touching. Reading it was a ride! It had been a while since I appreciated a book so much for its characters.

La forme d’une ville, Julien Gracq, 1985 | An essay about the French city of Nantes and its role in shaping what is a city for the author. Very poetic essay (very Gracq), as the title suggests : as Baudelaire wrote, “la forme d'une ville change plus vite, hélas ! que le cœur d'un mortel”. It isn’t a description of Nantes as it is (was) but rather an exploration of the city as it exists in Gracq’s memory and mind.

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queerhawkeyes · 4 months

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2023 reading recap

in reviewing my year in books, it seems like most everything was kind of so-so, with far less stand outs than previous years. I also read less than I wanted, mostly because graduating law school, taking the bar exam, and starting a full time job as a staff attorney was rather time consuming. that said, my top five books this year:

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz (contains an extremely accurate depiction of Vermont's beloved/beloathed RutVegas, and was one of three mystery/suspense novels about novels I read this year, the other two being Who is Maud Dixon? and The Writing Retreat)

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang (funny, gross, self optimization but make it body horror and racism)

Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather (queer space nuns against imperialism)

The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon (frankenstein but the horror is actually the history of eugenics in Vermont and also psychiatry, not the monsters)

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (Nimona but with even more villains and more queerness and more disability)

interestingly, the last three were all December reads. Hench was possibly my favorite book this year--highly highly recommend.

my goal for 2024 is to read more weird creepy queer horror. if you have any recs, please share--the creepier the better.

#human crap sack tire fire #yearly recap #reading recap #year in books

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cfiesler · 1 year

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This is my TENTH year of sharing my favorite novels I’ve read each year on social media. (I was doing it before it was cool I guess. :-p ) Anyway, here’s my list for 2022! And at the link you can find every other year’s recs. (Also yes I know that the John Green book is cheating because it’s not fiction but it was a really important book for me so wanted to include it. <3 )

FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER by Angeline Boulley. A gripping mystery/thriller starring a college student and set in a Native American community. I hear this is being made into a Netflix series, and I can’t wait!

AKATA WITCH by Nnedi Okorafor. This falls into the category of “slightly embarrassed I hadn’t read it sooner” after hearing such good things about this book for years, but I’m glad I finally did! YA fantasy featuring the magical community in Nigeria.

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin. Favorite novel I read this year, hands down. It’s hard to describe, but in addition to being a nostalgia blanket for gamers my age, it’s also a story about friendship and life and the tech industry.

BOOK OF NIGHT by Holly Black. I got to read an ARC of this a bit early, and really wasn’t disappointed by her first adult book. The system of magic was *fascinating* and I really liked the mystery plot.

BLOOD LIKE MAGIC by Liselle Sambury. Fantasy AND science fiction! It’s about witches in 2040s Toronto, and so manages to have a cool magic system while also featuring an evil tech CEO.

THE DEAD ROMANTICS by Ashley Poston. I actually don’t read much romance, so two books making it on this list is pretty unusual for me! This was Ashley’s adult debut, and it was *charming* and has this sort of flavor to it that I often get from writers that I know “grew up” in fanfiction communities. Also such a cool premise: a ghost writer who can see ghosts!

ONE LAST STOP by Casey McQuiston. I actually think it’s a bit of a spoiler to give away the main premise, so I’ll just say that it’s about two women who meet and fall in love on the subway. Except now you know there’s a twist, and I’ll note that (similar Dead Romantics) I almost never read romance that doesn’t have some kind of speculative fiction element.

THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED by John Green. I know this is cheating, because this is a list of fiction reads. But I needed to put this book on my list because it was so deeply important for me this year. I read it during a really difficult time for me, and it sort of kept me going in a way that’s kind of hard to describe. And I think I got out of it something quite similar to what I get out of the best fiction that makes me reflect on my own life. Anyway. Read it.

#book recs 2022 #reading recap #book recommendations #tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow #book of night #one last stop #firekeeper's daughter #the anthropocene reviewed #the dead romantics #akata witch

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bookswritinghappiness · 1 year

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January 2023 Reading Recap!

Hi everyone!

First of all, in case you didn't hear the news, the Harper Collins union voted to ratify a contract which means that the strike is finally over! I'm so happy for them, and so glad I can finally talk about all of the incredible Harper Collins books I've read recently. So... that means reviews coming soon - there's a lot to catch up on : )

In the meantime, this year I want to start posting monthly reading recaps, both to keep myself accountable and because I think stats are fun. January got away from me a little bit (where did the time go???) but I'm finally compiling this post to share with you all : )

January was mostly the month of Alice Oseman for me, and I had the best time reading through their bibliography. I still have one more book to go, and I'm so excited to read it, but also so sad that I'm almost finished reading all of her books!! If you haven't read any of Alice's books yet, I highly highly recommend - they're all brilliant.

How have you all been? Did you read anything especially noteworthy last month? Let me know : )

And now, for the stats:

This month, I read six books, totaling 1,620 pages:

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

This Winter by Alice Oseman

Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

The Heartstopper Yearbook by Alice Oseman

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

Out of these six, Radio Silence was definitely my favorite - I was truly blown away and I still cannot stop thinking about that ending!!

(I just love these colorful charts - they're all from Storygraph, which is similar to Goodreads but a) not owned by Amazon, and b) it has more real-time statistics that I think are really fun. You can find me on that site here.)

I'm back in school now, so I don't know if I'll be able to read as much in February, but I'm trying my best.

Thanks for sticking with me - I'll be back with some reviews soon : )

#original #books #reading recap #january 2023 #yay harper collins union!!

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bibliophilecats · 2 years

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Read this month: May 2022

So many outstanding books! And I am pretty current with the trends and new releases (rather untypical for me).

O. Atwater: Half A Soul (eARC)

Neon Yand: The Tensorat series (tbrbusterchallenge)

S. McGuire: Where The Drowned Girls Go

B. Aaronovitch: Amongst Our Wapons

T. Kingfisher: Nettle and Bone

J. Cranor + J. Fink: Welcome to Nightvale (audio)

My average rating over all these books is four stars. And I enjoyed them all, even the ones that were not as good would still have stood out in other months. Now for June, I should tackle more of my #tbrbusterchallenge books - but there are still two highly anticipated new releases on my shelf, tempting me. We’ll see how it goes.

#read this month #read this month may 2022 #reading recap #tbrbusterchallenge2022 #t. kingfisher #ben aaronovitch #seanan mcguire #neon yan #olivia atwater #nettle and bone #the tensorate series #amongst our wapons #where the drowned girls go #wayward children #rivers of london #helen reads 2022

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