#books I've read

[deermanic]

My king, Eddie Kaspbrak in It - Stephen King

[chardwic]

Books I've Read in 2024: Bride by Ali Hazelwood

"You don’t know anything about what it’s like to find your other half, I would take anything she chose to give me—the tiniest fraction or her entire world. I would take her for a single night knowing that I’ll lose her by morning, and I would hold on to her and never let go. I would take her healthy, or sick, or tired, or angry, or strong, and it would be my fucking privilege. I would take her problems, her gifts, her moods, her passions, her jokes, her body—I would take every last thing, if she chose to give it to me."

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 93 of 2024: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

I absolutely loved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, and even though most of the characters from the first book don't appear in this sequel, it does not disappoint. It's got all the warmth of the first book, just following a different band of weirdos on a different quest. In this one, Lovelace, the AI who evolved into Lovey in the last book, has been rebooted and downloaded into a body (and taken the name Sidra). She's living with Pepper, an engineer with her own past. We alternate between the present, where Sidra is trying to adjust to living in a body, and the past, where we see where Pepper came from. I loved it. Rich characters, fantastic worldbuilding, big questions about life. And I'm obsessed with the device where Sidra's body is programmed to give her imagery to convey the feeling food or drink might give an organic person. Amazing.

What to read next: Really different tone, but for another sci-fi with great characters and a super cool device that takes advantage of the setting, check out The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei.

[shining-dawn]

SHE'S BACK!!!! She's back she's back she's back!!! Oh my god Gideon I thought you were gone forever I thought I had lost you! Oh my god oh my god, Gideon my beloved, the Best Girl is BACK!!!

GIDEON NAV!!!

[febookworm]

If I had a coin for every historical novel set in WWI with gay soldiers that I've read, now I would have three coins.

Which is not much, but it's quite a coincidence.

[princelysome]

A very well done, and timely discourse on the nature of human religion, packaged for delightful consumption.

[bookclubbing]

Storyteller - Morgan Harper Nichols

[sowhatwereyousaying]

My love for you is a constant reminder that sometimes the most beautiful things in life are the ones we can never truly possess.

[gettingnutsfromsquirrels]

[coffeedrgn87]

new prized possession obtained 💜

[deermanic]

It, Stephen King

[chardwic]

Books I've Read in 2024: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen

"You are mine, Born-in-Fire. Even if only the two of us know it."

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 72 of 2024: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

I really liked Interior Chinatown, and this one hit even harder for me. There's a way Yu has of taking a metaphor that's so on the nose and just pushing through it so it's funny and pointed and then so true and moving--and in this book, the metaphor is time travel, and regret, and relationships, and how we grow apart from each other and yearn to get back, and how we get trapped in patterns, and...it's just gorgeous and mournful and also silly and, like, SO on the nose, but it just...works. Yu is some kind of genius, I can't wait to see what he does next.

What to read next: This Time Tomorrow, by Emma Straub, for another book that uses time travel to great emotional effect.

[shining-dawn]

I feel like Hraethen the antihero antagonist from Elantris has just the right mix of unconventional sex appeal and deeply problematic nature to be controversial fandom icon for the Cosmere. Maybe even a Tumblr sexyman.

For starters he's a middle aged man with inner turmoil, so he's do numbers on Tumblr right off the bat, even if he wasn't also over 6 feet tall and buff enough to wear full plate armor whenever he's in public. He canonically respects and admires women who intellectually challenge him, so he's got good taste. And literally everything about his actions and personality is the perfect breeding ground for Discourse™️, he's a manipulative bastard who serves a fascist theocracy because he genuinely believes he is saving people's lives and wants to make up for past mistakes.

I think this man could give Vriska Serkhet a run for her money.

[delaccors]

Books I've Read (1/?): Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray

If she could do nothing else for the suffering people she'd just seen, she could at least free other in their name.

[addie-reviews-books]

I can't stop thinking about this series