booksandquills 179K subscribers · Jan 9, 2020

My 10 Favourite Books of 2019.

Reviews10

CirceMadeline Miller
Loved it

This is a story of young who metals and things she shouldn't meddle with and she gets banished grows up you know for thousands and thousands of years by herself and it's about how her character develops and how she learns on how she reacts to certain things that happened to her. I just loved the writing style of both of these I devoured them.

KindredOctavia E. Butler
Loved it

It's super engaging it's a really quick read but it has so much depth to it as well like you really get to know these characters on a deep level. I'm so glad I've read it and I definitely want to read more by this author.

LullabyUnknown
Loved it

It's quite a short book it's about a young couple in Paris maybe their life isn't exactly how they want it to be and they hire this nanny who comes highly recommended and she seems like the perfect nanny but then things start getting a bit odd. Just the way the nanny's life was described and her personality was described and the viciousness of how people react to each other really stuck with me.

ScytheNeal Shusterman
Loved it

I think my highlights for this book were definitely that I was just obsessed with the world it was said and it was so interesting as a thought experiment to think about what life would be like and this has so many twists and turns like every time I thought I knew where the story was going it went a totally different way and I loved that.

The descriptions in this are so luscious again like you feel like you're really there I feel like the cover really encapsulate the writing as well the setting of the kind of medieval castle and working in the kitchens like that is something that I'm absolutely shocked her for so really loved this.

I use my local library app to listen to the audiobook for free and I just had such a great time and for this book I would like to particularly recommend the audiobook the narrator's voice very sexy and the book itself is also very exciting very saucy just like a great adventure of this young bisexual Lord who was going on his grand tour.

The Girl AquariumJen Campbell
Loved it

I was really excited to read her poetry bundle this year and I really loved it. I've heard her perform several of the poems live and on video and it's all about girls and bodies and nature and beauty and fairy tales darkness and there's love and friendship I love to the themes running through it.

The song of Achilles is the story of Achilles and Patroclus and how they grow up and this is definitely a tragic love story I hosted a book club for this book I just loved the writing style of both of these I devoured them I cried a lot while reading this.

It's the story of a teenage girl whose father passes away in a car crash but she feels like something else might have happened about her also making this kind of like unlikely connection with another girl and dealing with grief it's just beautifully written and actually I'm really keen to reread this.

This is going to hurtAdam Kay
Loved it

It's such a roller coaster ride it's really funny but also gives you an insight of what goes on behind the scenes in a hospital again we would highly recommend. I think it's also a really great book to give to people who maybe don't read a ton because I think it will really draw people in.