#not even to mention my KINDLEEE which i barely use bc i look at screens so much

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Peachy!! im so sorry i completley forgot i wanted to ask about your reward aka the book trolley :D First off what was the best and worst book of last year? What was the easiest to listen to and the hardest, and with the trolley itself are you going to leave it as it is or are you gonna maybe add stickers or something to it? I had a random thought you could do some quilting inserts for the books to sit on, or something to put around the edge. I'm happy you reached your goal. what about this year?

hello!! I'm currently going to leave the Book Cart as is. I already have a drop off spot for stickers I get for free from random places, and I like the clean look of the cart currently. I do like the idea of quilting something for it, but I think that's just because I like the idea of a bookshelf quilt (but I uhhhhh have too many UFOs to start something big and new like that right now). Inspired by a coworker, my goal for 2024 is to read 105 books, and I've read 5 so far! I found another library that does free non-resident cards so Libby is my lifeblood right now for audiobooks.

best book(s) of 2023:

how the word is passed by clint smith

kill anything that moves by nick turse

this is how you lose the time war by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar

yellowface by r.f. kuang

salvation day by kari wallace

worst books of 2023:

Animal by Lisa Taddeo

a court of thorns and roses by sarah j. maas

hardest to listen to:

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman (it was good, just so fucking long. and maggie haberman narrates the book, and she's very much a journalist rather than a voice actor, so it's so monotone)

America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything by Christopher F. Rufo (conservatives are just...so dumb and wrong about things, to a degree that is legitimately painful)

best to listen to:

killers of a certain age by deanna raybourn (it's about assassins, so there are tons of accents, and the voice actors did an excellent job with all of them)