#2022 Tbrs

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NOVEMBER TBR | percy jackson, the romantic agenda, discworld + 2022 romances! 📚✨🌊

NOVEMBER TBR | percy jackson, the romantic agenda, discworld + 2022 romances! 📚✨🌊

Hey everyone, welcome to or welcome back to my blog! It’s somehow now November so I’m posting my monthly tbr! I’m sure that as per usual I’ll go completely off script but for now these are the top 20-ish books that I’m most excited to read! I have quite a few 2022 releases on my tbr, as well as some backlist series that I want to continue and a couple of Christmas romances I’m excited about! *If…

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I js start reading sakamoto days so i had to make smth

I think nagumo is a cool character + his weapons r cool too

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NoveList: Best Adult Fiction 2022 

Here are a handful of books that made NoveList's best adult fiction list for 2022! Did you know NoveList is a database you can access with your library card to find reading recommendations? Check it out on our website here!

In Search of a Prince by Toni Shiloh

Brielle Adebayo is fully content teaching at a New York City public school and taking annual summer vacations with her mother to Martha's Vineyard. But everything changes when her mom drops the mother of all bombshells - Brielle is a princess in the kingdom of Ọlọrọ Ilé, Africa, and she must immediately assume her royal position, since the health of her grandfather, King Tiwa Jimoh Adebayo, is failing.

Distraught by her mother's betrayal, Brielle is further left spinning when the Ọlọrọ Ilé Royal Council brings up an old edict that states she must marry before assuming the throne or the crown will be passed to another. Uncertain who to choose from the council's list of bachelors, she struggles with the decision along with the weight of her new role in a new country. With her world totally shaken, she must take a chance on love and brave the perils a wrong decision may bring.

This is the first volume in the “In Search of a Prince” series. 

The Fervor by Alma Katsu 

1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the West. It didn’t matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered a threat by the American government.

Mother and daughter attempt to hold on to elements of their old life in the camp when a mysterious disease begins to spread among those interned. What starts as a minor cold quickly becomes spontaneous fits of violence and aggression, even death. And when a disconcerting team of doctors arrive, nearly more threatening than the illness itself, Meiko and her daughter team up with a newspaper reporter and widowed missionary to investigate, and it becomes clear to them that something more sinister is afoot, a demon from the stories of Meiko’s childhood, hell-bent on infiltrating their already strange world.

Just By Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell

Elliott appears to be living the dream as a successful TV writer with a doting boyfriend. But behind his Instagram filter of a life, he’s grappling with an intensifying alcohol addiction, he can’t seem to stop cheating on his boyfriend with various sex workers, and his cerebral palsy is making him feel like gay Shrek.

After falling down a rabbit hole of sex, drinking, and Hollywood backstabbing, Elliott decides to limp his way towards redemption. But facing your demons is easier said than done.

One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips 

Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King’s Freedom Rally, Ingram risks becoming a victim at every crime scene he photographs.

When Ingram hears about a deadly automobile accident on his police scanner, he recognizes the vehicle described as belonging to his good friend and old army buddy, a white jazz trumpeter. The LAPD declares the car crash an accident, but when Ingram develops his photos, he sees signs of foul play. Ingram feels compelled to play detective, even if it means putting his own life on the line. Armed with his wits, his camera, and occasionally his Colt .45, “One-Shot” Harry plunges headfirst into the seamy underbelly of LA society, tangling with racists, leftists, gangsters, zealots, and lovers, all in the hope of finding something resembling justice for a friend.

Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall 

Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems: literally.

It was always his father’s hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. But, unfortunately, too many novels at an impressionable age have caused her to grow up…romantic. So romantic that a marriage of convenience will not do and after Valentine’s proposal she flees into the night determined never to set eyes on him again.

Arabella’s twin brother, Mr. Bonaventure “Bonny” Tarleton, has also grown up…romantic. And fully expects Valentine to ride out after Arabella and prove to her that he’s not the cold-hearted cad he seems to be.

Despite copious misgivings, Valentine finds himself on a pell-mell chase to Dover with Bonny by his side. Bonny is unreasonable, overdramatic, annoying, and…beautiful? And being with him makes Valentine question everything he thought he knew. About himself. About love. Even about which Tarleton he should be pursuing.

This is the first volume in the “Something Fabulous” series.

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2022 Book List

Here’s all the books I read in 2022. It’s a lot fewer than 2021, but not bad. Hopefully now that I’ve graduated college I’ll get a chance to do a bit of research and update my TBR so I can get back to reading more again. I did get to visit four new libraries this year though, so that’s fun :)

Our Violent Ends [These Violent Delights: 2] - Chloe Gong

Black Sun [Between Earth and Sky: 1] - Rebecca Roanhorse

Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Bad Beginning [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 1] - Lemony Snicket

The Reptile Room [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 2] - Lemony Snicket

The Wide Window [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 3] - Lemony Snicket

The Miserable Mill [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 4] - Lemony Snicket

The Austere Academy [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 5] - Lemony Snicket

The Ersatz Elevator [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 6] - Lemony Snicket

The Vile Village [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 7] - Lemony Snicket

The Hostile Hospital [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 8] - Lemony Snicket

The Carnivorous Carnival [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 9] - Lemony Snicket

The Slippery Slope [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 10] - Lemony Snicket

The Grim Grotto [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 11] - Lemony Snicket

The Penultimate Peril [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 12] - Lemony Snicket

The End [A Series of Unfortunate Events: 13] - Lemony Snicket

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

Turtles All the Way Down - John Green

Looking for Alaska - John Green

Paper Towns - John Green

The Unauthorized Autobiography - Lemony Snicket

This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

Fevered Star [Between Earth and Sky: 2] - Rebecca Roanhorse

Gallant - V. E. Schwab

The Atlas Six [The Atlas Series: 1] - Olivie Blake

I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys

Elektra - Jennifer Saint

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel

The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks [Montague Siblings: 3] - Mackenzi Lee

The Invisible Library [Invisible Library: 1] - Genevieve Cogman

Last Night in Montreal - Emily St. John Mandel

The Lola Quartet - Emily St. John Mandel

Black Water Sister - Zen Cho

Lore - Alexandra Bracken

The Masked City [Invisible Library: 2] - Genevieve Cogman

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes [The Hunger Games: 0] - Suzanne Collins

The Singer’s Gun - Emily St. John Mandel

Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Forever, interrupted - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio

Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel

After I Do - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Burning Page [Invisible Library: 3] - Genevieve Cogman

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - R. F. Kuang

Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Atlas Paradox [The Atlas Series: 2] - Olivie Blake

Foul Lady Fortune [Foul Lady Fortune: 1] - Chloe Gong

Alone with you in the ether - Olivie Blake

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by: Colleen Hoover Published: Dec 7, 2018 Genre: Thriller, Romance, Mystery 336 Pages, Audio Book (HH:MM) 08:10

★★

GoodReads Synopsis:

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.

My Review:

I think I read too many thrillers or watch too much, true crime because, I am figuring these plots out too early and then, I get annoyed when the characters don't 'get to it' fast enough.

Lowen couldn't mind her business. Where did she get the audacity to snoop around in Verity's things and in her bedroom? Probably the same place she got the audacity to push up on (and eventually sleep with) Jeremy.

Verity, girl, you sneaking around like a thief in the night just to keep up this charade. Who are you fooling? If you're going to be a lunatic, just be that in front of everyone instead of scaring the shit out of Lowen and your kid.

Furthermore, the sex scenes are too much. Nothing about them was intriguing and I literally gag at the pictures that I have of Jeremy and Lowen in my mind so, I can't imagine that their sex is as hot and heavy as CoHo is trying to make it out to be.

I would love to read a story just about how sadistic and crazy Verity is, without the romance of L & Jeremy. Give me 100% pure deranged, kid-killer Verity.

One-Word Summary: Flat

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My Favorite 2022 Reads - #7

My planner says yesterday was Read Across America day, and since I’ve been meaning to list my favorite books that I read last year, I’m using it as an excuse to countdown my top 7 books from 2022! (read, not necessarily published in 2022) For full context, I read 42 total books in 2022 and am not at all a book reviewer so don’t expect anything mindblowing or well written. That’s the books’ job. ;)

#7 -- So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow

I wouldn’t call Little Women one of my favorite stories of all time since I’ve read the book exactly once 18 years ago and have never watched any of the films -- but I remember really enjoying! And of course I remember falling in love with Jo, so this reimagined take caught my attention. It did not disappoint!

So Many Beginnings took the primary characteristics of the March family, translated them into the new setting of the Freedmen’s Colony of Roanoke Island (a real thing I had never previously learned about but now want to read everything about), and did it so well that it’s permanently replaced Little Women canon for me. You know, like those fanfic AUs that are so cleverly translated, they deepen your understanding of who these characters are and who they could be that it becomes impossible to return to the source material without the fanon version always sitting in the back in your mind? Yeah, it’s like that. I’ve already moved So Many Beginnings back onto my tbr list while drafting this post because I was remembering how good it was without remembering any of the specifics (so frustrating!... but useful for rereads). I do remember specifics of Morrow’s interpretation of Jo though, and spoiler alert, it is my favorite, queer interpretation of Jo and her relationship with Lorie I’ve seen. The book doesn’t give any labels (because our labels obviously didn’t exist in the 1860s), but I’d definitely categorize this Jo as aro/ace and her relationship with Lorie as queerplatonic life partners and I adore it! <3

12/10 would recommend. So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow was my 7th favorite read of 2022.

(And if you’re interested, Morrow has written several other books. The one I’ve read, A Song Below Water, is also enjoyable and would be a perfect fit for this upcoming Mer-May if you’re someone who celebrates with themed reading... or who celebrates at all... which I do.... on both counts :P)

(Also also, while looking up the Remixed Classics series for this post, I saw it is now up to 8(!) published/announced books! (I believe there were only 3 announced last January when I read So Many Beginnings.) And one of those announced books was a remixed Secret Garden written by an indigenous author (Cheri Dimaline) that I am now eye emojing at REAL hard. It’s due out September 2023 and I will be eagerly counting down to the release date because I need to know how that turns out.)

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A PRELUDE TO ASHES(THE ASHES OF AVARIN #0.5) BY THIAGO ABDALLA | BOOK REVIEW

TITLE : A Prelude To Ashes(The Ashes Of Avarin #0.5) AUTHOR : Thiago Abdalla GENRE : Fantasy, Novella FR RATING : ⭐⭐⭐⭐(4 Stars) DATE OF PUBLISHING : March 28, 2022 PUBLISHER : The Alterian Press (Self-Published) NO OF PAGES : 144 FR REVIEW Thiago Abdalla’s A Prelude To Ashes is a prequel novella to A Touch of Light, the first book in The Ashes Of Avarin series. So I had heard a lot of…

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Poets,

I gotta tell you there are too many books in the world and not enough time to read them all. I got an ereader for Christmas and a friend told me about LibGen, so now I have A HUNDRED ebooks. Which, as someone who already has 30 unread physical books in her house, and also the inability to make a decision on what to read next, this is not a great development. I have given myself too many choices! I broadened my horizons too much!! Send help!!!

Much love xoxo

PS. Hope your reading journey is starting off well!

OH GOD I FEEL YOU! getting an ebook reader truly upped my reading game. it's just so easy to take along on commutes or vacation and since i am a BIG mood reader having a great number of options to choose my next read from is important—especially in situations in which i can't travel with several physical books in tow. i can promise you, though, after you get use to having so many options you'll get the hang of balancing physical and digital books. it's overwhelming at first but i am sure you'll adapt just fine :) wishing you lots of fun with your next reads <3

[kattra]

What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF DECEMBER The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller ** American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson  The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie Moonbath by Yanick Lahens You’d Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (P) Into the Windwracked Wilds by A. Deborah Baker St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell (SS)  You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat Beneath a Waning Moon: A Duo of Gothic Romances by Elizabeth Hunter & Grace Draven The Host by Stephanie Meyer  A Wilderness of Glass by Grace Draven  The Book of Night by Holly Black **

Graphic Novels: HoriMiya Vol.6-10 by Hero & Daisuke Hagiwara ** Wotakoi: Love is Hard For Otaku Vol.3-6 by Fujita ** Queen’s Quality Vol.1-3 by Kyousuke Motomi My Dress-up Darling Vol.4-6 by Shinichi Fukuda **  Dengeki Daisy Vol.1-4 by Kyousuke Motor 

(167 books read / 165 books goal)

currently reading:  Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone by James Martin (NF) Girls Against God by Jenny Hval  Kink edited by R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell (SS)  No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay (P)* ** Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater* ** 

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook 

TBR: Mr. Impossible / Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater Empty Smiles by Katherine Arden Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo Radiance by Grace Draven Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

WHAT ARE YOU READING? :D

Find me on: GOODREADS | THE STORYGRAPH 

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The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (The Montague Siblings #3) - Mackenzi Lee

★ ★ ★ ★ ★/5

Did anyone else forget about The Goblin? No? Just me... okay. First, I would like to say this is one of the very few series where I have rated every single book 5 stars. Although I think that's largely because each book can hold its own and the others only provide nice background knowledge. I am so glad Adrian got his own book. He's not really mentioned a ton in the other two books, and this "oversight" plays a large part in this book's plot as he finds out he has not one older sibling, but two that he was never told about. I would argue that Adrian's book was heavier than the other two. It's very clear that Adrian suffers from heavy anxiety and probably also OCD. It's very apparent in his narration and I've honestly never related more. One thing I love about Mackenzi Lee is her ability to write disabled characters (either mentally or physically) as regular people who just deal with extra things. Their disabilities don't make them less of a person or less able to survive piracy (something that manages to happen in all three books lol). She tells such honest stories and I think that's why I love her books and writing so much. I loved the sibling bonding that happened here despite the almost 20-year age gap. Also... Monty and Percy got married!!! I actually teared up while reading that scene. It, like the rest of the book, was absolutely beautiful and I genuinely cannot recommend this series enough (also the fact that it took three books before we got a straight couple- amazing).

[sophiecountsclouds]

my honeymoon tbr!

everything I could possibly read on my honeymoon | HOLIDAY TBR -

Hello! Ever since booking our honeymoon back in January, I’ve been umming and aahing about how many books is a suitable number of books to bring with me (as I had zero plans other than ‘reading in the sunshine’). So after a lot of deliberation (and finding some fantastic titles on Kindle unlimited) – here’s everything I have the potential to read on holiday (but I will absolutely not get…

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Team TBR Challenge Review: A Familiar Stranger

Shen Qin, the Prime Minister’s daughter, is due to be married to a powerful general, Xiao Han Sheng, but she is already in love with another man, Prince Ning. In a nefarious bid to disentangle herself from this marriage, Shen Qin traps a female artist, Shi Qi, and uses a magician to perform a type of sorcery that enables the two ladies to swap faces. Shi Qi wakes up with her face now belonging to…

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In Memoriam: Authors We Lost in 2022

How Y’all Doing? by Leslie Jordan

In this collection of intimate and sassy essays, Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the odd, funny, and unforgettable events in his life. Whether he’s writing about his brush with a group of ruffians in a West Hollywood Starbucks, or an unexpected phone call from legendary Hollywood start Debbie Reynolds, Leslie infuses each story with his fresh and saucy humor and pure heart. Leslie Jordan passed away on October 24th.

Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantel

In this volume, Hilary Mantel presents a collection of loosely autobiographical stories that locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Absorbing and evocative, these drawn-from-life stories include living in an insular northern village in the 1950s, coming to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage, and ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress in the title story, among others. Hilary Mantel passed away on September 22nd.

Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich

In this razor-sharp polemic, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. Ehrenreich offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, describes how we over-prepare and worry too much about what is inevitable, and topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life. She is also known for her 2001 title, Nickel and Dimed. Barbara Ehrenreich passed away on September 1st.

The Pioneers by David McCullough 

In this volume, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. McCullough tells the story through five major characters who let no obstacle deter or defeat them. David McCullough passed away on August 7th.

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What Did I Read From My Winter TBR 2022/2023

I can’t believe it is already time to start looking at how I did with my winter tbr. I feel like I haven’t had enough time for any reading from it. To be fair that is my own fault. Giving into mood reading and requesting plenty of arcs. Which is why my spring tbr probably will have more arcs on it haha. Read: The Immortality Thief | The World We Make | Lost in the Moment and Found | The Scarlet…