📚 My Favourite Book of the Year: My 2023 Book Bracket! (it never gets easier 😭)

I really like all three of those for very different reasons

astred Parker doesn't date one of my favorite contemporary romances that I've ever read

I feel like there's a lot in that collection about loneliness and isolation because it's partially about the experience of the pandemic

I read a lot of horror short stories so I have more Five Star reads

it's non-fiction all about fungi and it was fantastic it was really beautifully written fascinating I loved it

they're all great for different reasons

Hester is historical fiction about the woman who inspired The Scarlet Letter

a childhood favorite that I reread and I still love and is very nostalgic for me

if I had to just pick one of those three it has to be Kai k

of those four Legends and lattes is definitely my favorite but it was a reread

I think that's the one I would be most likely to want to reread out of those and I think it's the one that's stuck with me the most out of those

lost in the moment and found was also profoundly moving

it had so much to say and it was so funny and ridiculous and I loved the parallels between the main character search for sort of coming into her own and trying to discover her own identity and figure out her place in the world and using her artistic expression as a painter as a metaphor for all the things she was going through

it was heartbreaking and just devastating to read

I also love the Miss and thrope so much

it is a bit of a mystery sort of literary fiction by an indigenous author in Canada about a young indigenous woman whose brother has gone missing at Sea and I really love that book

it's so strange it's so heart Ren chain it's gorgeous I'm obsessed with it

monstrous is my favorite graphic novel series that I've ever read not that I've read that many but I'm obsessed with it I love the series

I found it so impactful I thought it did so many different things very well and really wo together a lot of different thematic content in a way that was pretty seamless and also horrifying and fascinating and really engaging

a classic for a reason and incredible so well written so many layers

both of these have a young protagonist that I feel so fiercely protective over I love them both for so many reasons

it was so intense and we had such good discussions it was our book club pick that month and we just had so much to say and it was so fascinating and I just thought it was so good

I really loved it's great I would highly recommend

Shades of Gray is a really absurd comedic sort of dystopian sci-fi kind of Novel that I really loved

Sisters of the Lost Nation definitely has a bit of a thriller or horror structure to it that's sort of the packaging but it's very serious very emotional heartbreaking really impactful

it was interesting I learned a lot it's given me a lot of jumping off points for developing more you know systems and coping mechanisms for my own life but it hasn't been utterly life-changing

two of them impacted me a lot more on a deep emotional level and those were the collective regrets of clover and lost in moment and found both of those made me cry like a little baby

it's really a story about what makes us human and found family and love and belonging and starting over and it's so beautiful

I love the Reformatory and I do really love it made me cry so much and I thought it was fantastic

I really like all three of those for very different reasons

oh there were two more Five Star reads in October the boy on the bridge which is the sequel to The Girl With all the gifts

they're all great for different reasons

they're all great for different reasons

it's literary horror and it has a young protagonist which is not as common for me in this genre and it's very weird and dreamlike and emotional