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"I loved you completely. And you loved me the same. That's all. The rest is confetti." Mostly Booklr. Also film, television, and music. Lovely things only.
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Happy New Year, lovelies! These are the best books I read in 2023. (Many of them didn’t actually come out this year, and I don’t count rereads.) The real life hits kept coming, and I struggled a lot with reading and blogging this year. As such, my list is quite a bit shorter than usual. It's normal to withdraw when things get rough, and it was less a year of branching out than a year of getting by. I didn't read as much or enjoy as much, through no fault of the books, and I tended to stick to things I know I enjoy. With that in mind, I think it's all the more impressive that these gems stood out and made me feel excited to be reading again.

YA: Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton Summer’s Edge by Dana Mele Katzenjammer by Francesca Zappia Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

Adult: The Trespasser by Tana French The Infinite Miles by Hannah Fergesen Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone

Graphic Novels: Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe

Happy reading in 2024!

2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016

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Love, for her, was her confession to him that she didn't feel it the same way, that she'd trusted him enough with this truth about herself. Love was that she wanted him to know her truly, rather than love a version of herself that she simply wore for him. That love might not ever look like the love he gave to her, but it didn't change what it was.

— Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren

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All this time, he had judged Declan for being so staid as he took extreme measures to keep his brothers safe. But all this time, that was what Ronan should have been doing. He had so much power before the ley line was shut down. He should have been guarding his family, not the other way around. Instead he acted liked a petulant kid. He made up the task of guarding the world, which meant nothing to him, instead of guarding his family, which meant everything to him.

— Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren

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“We love films because they make us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They fill us with longing. But also. They tell us to remember; they remind us of life. Remember, they say, how much it hurts to have your heart broken. Remember about death and suffering and the complexities of living. Remember what it is like to love someone. Remember how it is to be loved. Remember what you feel in this moment. Remember this. Remember this.”

— Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You

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“Our lips touch. The imaginary music goes quiet. The room is only a room and we are the miracles. Her mouth is warm and human and soft, her hand presses hard and insistent against my back, her breasts press against mine. My hand grazes the delicate line of her jaw; there’s the whisper of her hair against my fingers as we kiss harder.”

— Excerpt From: LaCour, Nina. “Everything Leads to You.”

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