2021 Reading Journal Flip Through (all filled up!) 📚

i got both raybear and redemptor as arcs from the publisher and i'm obsessed i love these stories so much

very beautiful and vulnerable and visceral one of my favorites of the entire year so many incredible quotes

comfort me with apples which is a horror novella very good can't tell you too much without spoiling it but definitely read it if you're a fan of weird short form horror with a message

a couple other favorites from august

another couple favorites from august drive your plow over the bones of the dead translated from polish

a couple more favorites empire of wild which is a horror about the rugru

it really blew me out of the water the characters are incredible and the story itself has a lot of layers and covers a lot of really important and difficult subjects in i think a very thoughtful way

frankenstein which i loved reading it was really interesting i hated the characters so much but i loved the story itself and i loved the themes that it was exploring and the writing

house of leaves one of my favorite books of the year which is a horror a very creepy weird format horror kind of trippy

not a perfect novel not a favorite of all time but i really found the discussion of whether a.i is sentient and what makes us human really fascinating concept and i enjoyed the writing style and the characters

piranesi by susannah clark which was amazing loved this book it's fantasy it's got a bit of a weird vibe in the best way possible

i got both raybear and redemptor as arcs from the publisher and i'm obsessed i love these stories so much

rebecca which is a classic from the 30s which has become one of if not my most favorite classic that i've ever read

it took me a while to get into it because of the style of the storytelling and the way that the audiobook was recorded but i just fell in love with alex our protagonist and i got really emotionally invested in his story and all the things that he was going through

she drives me crazy which is a sapphic romance an interracial romance between a basketball player and a cheerleader super adorable

six crimson cranes which was a favorite of the year fantasy based on a fairy tale i loved the themes and the way they tied together in the end

not a perfect book for me i gave it three stars still enjoyable i hear the series gets better after the first one i have some qualms with it but i did enjoy it

the galaxy in the ground within which is the fourth book of the wayfarers series by becky chambers and it was such a good finale for the series

a couple more favorites empire of wild

our book club book for august which was the night circus by erin morgenstern this was just such a lovely book i really enjoyed it

a couple other favorites from august so the ones were meant to find which is a y a sci-fi

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde of course a classic horror four absolute favorites for the year

our book club book for june and july the prairie of the orange tree which i really loved

my book bracket my method for figuring out my favorite book of the year and of course the stone sky was our winner

the tangle root palace these stories are amazing this collection made me a huge fan of margery liu

these were all five star reads

the weight of the stars which was an lgbt romance this was a sapphic romance y.a sci-fi really good

the blue castle one of my favorite books of this year so nostalgic even though i'd never read it before

this is a book about grief and loss and death and it was very emotional for me to read very healing and beautiful i would definitely recommend it

watch over me is a contemporary with a little bit of a paranormal edge and it made me pick up one of her other books later in the year

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson which is my favorite shirley jackson i've read to date so good so eerie and creepy the characters are really unsettling but also feel super real and i loved the themes that it was exploring and the way it was written

we are okay by nina lacour which is a contemporary