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Sometimes it’s a kindness to let something go even when you love it very much.

Katya Balen, October, October

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RAZREADS’ RECMAS 2023

December 20th ~ A book featuring royalty: Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

“Just because it’s not important doesn’t mean it’s not important to someone."

(Photo credit not mine - please see the original post. I just know there are so many great photographs of books out there, I thought I’d explore some whilst I spread the word about some of my favourite reads from the year!)

Currently reading: Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

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Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you. Everything pauses while you do familiar things with taps and kettles: it allows you to get your breath back and become calm.

Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow

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We don’t always have to love ourselves in order to receive love from others. Sometimes that’s how we learn to love ourselves.

Lauren Shippen, The Infinite Noise

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This, I think, is my ultimate fatal flaw. Missing people who don’t miss me back. Clinging on to strands of string that shouldn’t mean half as much as they do. It takes so little for me to love someone, yet so long for me to move on.

Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

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RAZREADS’ RECMAS 2023

December 21st ~ A book featuring aliens and/or robots: Network Effect by Martha Wells

“ ''Just remember you’re not alone here.'' I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are."

(Photo credit not mine - please see the original post. I just know there are so many great photographs of books out there, I thought I’d explore some whilst I spread the word about some of my favourite reads from the year!)

Books of 2023: ARTIFICIAL CONDITION and NETWORK EFFECT by Martha Wells.

Speedrunning a (selective) Murderbot reread so I can do SYSTEM COLLAPSE next!!! ART, my beloved!!

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Whatever we did – or, more crucially, did not do – it seemed that so long as we did it together, our individual sins might be abated. There is no comfort like complicity.

M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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 Justice doesn’t require a membership card. Just a sense of right and wrong.

James Ponti, City Spies

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Hindsight is a powerful thing. We don't always see what's right in front of us, much less appreciate it. It's not until we look back that we find what we should have known all along.

T. J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

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RAZREADS’ RECMAS 2023

December 8th ~ A book related to art: And They Lived... by Steven Salvatore

“Part of that path means having to figure out what’s important to you and what will help you grow versus hold you back. What your father says is not reflective of you but of him. What other people want from you is more about them than you. Don’t let anyone hold power over you."

(Photo credit not mine - please see the original post. I just know there are so many great photographs of books out there, I thought I’d explore some whilst I spread the word about some of my favourite reads from the year!)

Happily ever after? It's complicated...

Excited to reveal this cover I worked on for And They Lived . . . by Steven Salvatore! This project was one of the longer ones I have worked on (had a TON of variations) but I'm super pleased with the final result. S/O to my art director Jeanette Levy & the Bloomsbury team.

And They Lived . . . is a college-set, sex-positive YA gay romance, coming out Spring 2022 ✨🌈

Make sure to check out this book and don't forget to preorder!

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People are passionate and flawed and fallible. They make mistakes. Their memories fade. Their eyes deceive them.

M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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It’s not always about the things you’ve done, or the mistakes you’ve made. It’s about the people, and what we’re willing to do for one another.

T. J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

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Books, however, are just one part of a library. A proper library has at least one fantastic librarian, preferably more than one, so if the fantastic librarian goes out to lunch or falls into a tar pit, there will be a spare.

Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

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RAZREADS’ RECMAS 2023

December 18th ~ A book adapted for television/film: The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

“Whatever the cost, as long as you’re in my company, be sure I’ll always be there for you."

(Photo credit not mine - please see the original post. I just know there are so many great photographs of books out there, I thought I’d explore some whilst I spread the word about some of my favourite reads from the year!)

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

March 02, 2023 - Currently Reading

I can't find the print copies so I've switched to ebooks and audiobooks for book 3 of Lockwood & Co. Loving how good the books are! 💕

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Everyone loses their way at some point, and it’s not just because of their mistakes or the decisions they make. It’s because they’re horribly, wonderfully human.

T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

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You don’t have to be part of a group to understand that they’re being mistreated.  

James Ponti, City Spies