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Closing & new blog

After two years, I feel compelled to officially close this blog and let you know I won’t be updating it at all ever again. Still, I’ll keep it open because I do like rereading the quotes and some stuff.

Though I don’t have the time to keep up a blog of this proportions (much as I loved it), I’ve opened a new one with just the quotations I like from the books I read, you can check it out here: MrsRamsay

Thank you <3<3<3<3<3<3

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Closing & new blog

After two years, I feel compelled to officially close this blog and let you know I won’t be updating it at all ever again. Still, I’ll keep it open because I do like rereading the quotes and some stuff.

Though I don’t have the time to keep up a blog of this proportions (much as I loved it), I’ve opened a new one with just the quotations I like from the books I read, you can check it out here: MrsRamsay

Thank you <3<3<3<3<3<3

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Closing & new blog

After two years, I feel compelled to officially close this blog and let you know I won’t be updating it at all ever again. Still, I’ll keep it open because I do like rereading the quotes and some stuff.

Though I don’t have the time to keep up a blog of this proportions (much as I loved it), I’ve opened a new one with just the quotations I like from the books I read, you can check it out here: MrsRamsay

Thank you <3<3<3<3<3<3

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December

Deadly Class, Vol. 2, Rick Remender Lost Horizon, James Hilton Girl Waits with Gun, Amy Stewart The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Ship That Sank Twice, Mike Carey Que se levanten los muertos, Fred Vargas Against Nature, Joris-Karl Huysmans

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November

A World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen Carry On, Rainbow Rowell Segunda antología de la poesía española, ed. Marcelino Jiménez Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff

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October

Revival, Vol. 2, Tim Seeley Speak, Louisa Hall Antes de los dieciocho, ed. Mercedes Chozas Deadly Class, Vol. 1, Rick Remender Lair of Dreams, Libba Bray

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September

Los peces de la amargura, Fernando Aramburu The Guest Cat, Takashi Hiraide La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz, Antonio G. Iturbe

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August

The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara The Ghost Network, Catie Disabato Novelas ejemplares, Miguel de Cervantes A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan This Burns My Heart, Samuel Park

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July

Velvet, Vol. 1, Ed Brubaker The Time of the Angels, Iris Murdoch Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin For the Win, Cory Doctorow Faithful Place, Tana French Nimona, Noelle Stevenson Velvet, Vol. 2, Ed Brubaker

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June

The World Before Us, Aislinn Hunter En el café de la juventud perdida, Patrick Modiano Revival, Vol. 1, Tim Seeley This One Summer, Mariko Tamaki Revival, Vol. 2, Tim Seeley The Museum of Extraordinary Things, Alice Hoffman Saga, Vol. 4, Brian K. Vaughan Two Old Women, Velma Wallis

So maybe 4 of these were comics graphic novels.

Mind blown by: honestly, Revival. And also This One Summer.

Nice but: The World Before Us, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

Simple but important: Two Old Women

Nooo why did you do this: Saga, Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue (honestly, this has been translated to Chinese but not to English, it’s disgraceful the amount of non-English stuff Englishs-peaking people read)

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May

A True Novel Minae Mizumura, 2002 ★★★★

Click the title for the full review. Generally wonderful, only lacking in warmth--being a sentimental person myself.

Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, 2012 ★★★½

In awe with the art (so beautiful) and mood of the story, but maybe because I read it from my computer (not the same) I didn’t completely engage with it. Also I expected it to be a bit more female-centric, hmp.

Attachments Rainbow Rowell, 2011 ★★★★★

A re-read because it had been too long since I had read anything by Rainbow Rowell. Yep, I still loved it.

Almost Famous Women ✪ book of the month Megan Mayhew Bergman, 2015 ★★★★★

One day I’ll write a review--no, scratch that--an ode, to that book. I’m completely obsessed with it. The best thing I’ve read this year (don’t made me say it under oath, but yea). It was everything, that I loved: the women in the stories (the almost-famous and the not-famous-at-all), getting to learn about these women, the stories and the writing. Not a single flaw. Even the cover is a work of art.

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April

Magic for Beginners ✪ book of the month Kelly Link, 2005 ★★★★½

Had read a some stories by her but never a whole book of them. SHOULD HAVE DONE IT BEFORE. A couple of them didn’t say anything to me, but the rest were completely brilliant and surreal. Lull and Stone Animals were some of my favourites.

Saga, Volume Three Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples, 2014 ★★★★½

Don’t remember what happens specifically in this one, but Saga is consistently very good, so.

Vicious V.E. Schwab, 2013 ★★★★

Quite brilliant and addictive, some of its bits reminded me of American Gods or The Magicians, although that might be just me. All in all it was much simpler and simplified, but I loved Victor and I loved the flashbacks and all the “mutant” characters. Would read a second part and a third, if there were one...

What a good month, honestly! Didn’t read a lot, but what I read was top-shelf.

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March

I’ll Be Right There ✪ book of the month Shin Kyung-Sook, 2010 ★★★★★

There’s a sensibility to it I’m not used to find in books but to which I really relate too (a bit like in The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto, I think I liked this one more though). So beautiful and dream-like, in all its sadness.

Persepolis ✪ book of the month Marjane Satrapi, 2000 ★★★★★

If you’re late to the party and haven’t read this yet, do it. Now. Read the recent history of Iran from a very very personal, very intelligent and very political point of view. You’ll laugh, cry, and all of the above.

Pretty Deadly, Volume 1: The Shrike Kelly Sue DeConnick & Emma Ríos, 2014 ★★★★

Strange, but in such a way that when I didn’t understand something (happened more than once) it felt as it was actually meant to be inexplicable. Stylish and cool.

The First Bad Man Miranda July, 2015 ★★★

No idea what this book is, does, or represents. It’s weird af and although I truly and honestly admire Miranda July for writing it, I didn’t enjoy it. I’m just really happy someone wrote such an unapologetic (that is the word that better defines it, I think) novel.

In Real Life Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang, 2014 ★★★★

Now that in the present time I’ve read For the Win (by the same author, tackling the same issues just with much much MUCH MORE depth) this one seems silly and infantile, but I really enjoyed it at the time. Also the art is so beautiful my heart hurt when reading.

The DUFF Kody Keplinger, 2010 ★★★

It’s dumb, but not as much as I thought would be, and much cuter. The message underneath is pretty cool, after all (in the context of US especially) and I liked how the guy was generally a great male specimen but realistically so.

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February

The Moon and the Sun Vonda N. McIntyre, 1997 ★★★½

Colourful, intriguing and well-written, but oddly simplified/infantile at places, and more predictable than I had hopped in such an original setting. Loved all the bits about sea people history, and Marie-Josèphe and Sherzad’s relationship.

You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack Tom Gauld, 2013 ★★★★★

So brilliant! But definitely not for everybody. A weird combination between the random and absurd and the literate.

All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, 2014 ★★★★

As beautiful as everybody says it is, poignant, sad and (sometimes) hopeful, with great rounded characters and lots interesting historical facts. I think the only thing that prevented me from connecting 100% with it (and giving it 5 stars) was how short the chapters were, and how crucial they all seemed. It felt a little bit like cheating, sometimes, to jump from one interesting thing to the other, when I would’ve been happy to see the more mundane details about Marie-Laure’s and Werner’s life.

Saga: Volume Two Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples, 2013 ★★★★

One thing Saga is is original. And the art is so wonderful...

As I only read 2 novels, it’s difficult to say which is the Book of the Month...

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We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

Shin Kyung-Sook, I'll Be Right There

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I hope you will never hesitate to say, I’ll be right there.

Shin Kyung-Sook, I'll Be Right There

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My Christophers, thank you for being a part of my life. Do not grieve for me. All things must come to an end—youth, pain, passion, emptiness, war, violence. Do the flowers not bloom and fade? Just as I came into being, so must I pass out of existence. Look up to the sky. That’s where the stars are. They are always shining there, whether we are gazing up at them, and whether we forget, and long after we die. May each one of you become one of those shining stars.

Shin Kyung-Sook, I'll Be Right There