Reviewing the 63 Books I've Read So Far in 2022 in ONE Sentence Each! 📖

this book was my worst nightmare in the best possible way just over 100 pages of heart pounding and horrifying suspense that kept me hooked even as I constantly wanted to put it down and walk away and never pick it up again with an ending that I wish had left a little bit more to the imagination but still overall satisfying

this book had solid characters and interesting magic system and an intriguing mystery as well as a cute romance but some of the larger issues that were touched on in this story weren't adequately addressed for my taste four out of 5 Stars

this book does not contain any brand new revelatory information about habit formation but it is laid out in a really easy to follow actionable way four out of 5 Stars

I'm not sure if I've ever hated a book more one star

this is a collection of stories and they are Bleak uncomfortable upsetting and frustrating but that was their purpose to shine a glaring light on the failures of the misogynistic culture that mustard inhabited in Morocco in the 90s 4 out of 5 stars

finally I have found a 99 accurate representation of my brain in book form and I absolutely loved it so funny Five Stars

I'm very excited because I love Cersei and song of Achilles I gave both of them five stars

this was exquisitely paced with distinct characters that I grew to love connecting seemingly unrelated people and places and events moments in history together in a really beautiful way absolutely packed to the brim with sincerity and humor 5 stars out of five

this book is a heartbreaking exploration of grief and identity that left me sobbing like a little baby 4 out of 5 Stars

as an adult I found the pacing a little rushed and the World building a little sparse and I also struggled to believe these characters that they were so young and yet so powerful and capable and multi-talented three out of 5 Stars

this was surprisingly super interesting even though I had no prior knowledge of nor interest in the subject matter which was the family responsible for the opioid crisis in America 5 out of 5 stars

read this book if your idea of a good time is being on the edge of your seat heart pounding while following the real life story of 27 men surviving on Polar Ice in the middle of the antarctic's Weddell sea for two years in the early 1900s absolutely incredible 5 out of 5 Stars

this was a really Innovative book with a super creative concept but it was also very depressing and I struggled a little bit with the core premise because it was very misaligned with my own personal beliefs around non-human animal sentience so I ended up giving it 3 out of 5 stars

this book was so dull and predictable with zero twists and literally made no sense one star

this is a deeply human story about a man who was living in Blissful ignorance of the politics involved in the war that surrounds him on all sides a man who is just trying to survive and care for his bees and it surprised me in the best possible way 5 out of 5 Stars

this book had no real Intrigue pretty awful characters nothing really to redeem it in my eyes two out of 5 stars

this book had a pretty unlikable protagonist and love interest but there were some really sweet moments between secondary characters and lovely rap for the early stages of gender non-conforming exploration 3 out of 5 Stars

bouncing between joy and suffering in that buoyant manner of children Angelou tells of the highs and lows that defined her early years with a writing style that reads almost like a song four to five stars

these are fragments of ancient poetry about love and beauty that are just as relevant and evocative today as they were thousands of years ago 5 out of 5 stars

this book is a love letter to science and exploration wrapped up in a mermaid-esque gory monstrous bow and it's honestly something I didn't know I needed until I read it but I definitely needed it four stars

this felt like one of those samples you get of ebooks where you can kind of start to read the story but it cuts off before you get to anything actually good but I will say that the art is really pretty two out of 5 Stars

I was very pleasantly surprised by this one I did not expect to enjoy it but I liked the characters and I liked the ending three out of 5 stars

the main character setting and overall concept had a lot of potential but the plot was a bit plotting and the dialogue was repetitive with too many asides breaking the fourth wall to info dump the exposition 3 out of 5 Stars

this graphic novel oh my God the art the characters the story absolute perfection

the story was quite grounded despite its Fantastical nature and the premise was really unique but it was kind of confusing three out of 5 stars

this is a magnificent example of afrofuturism that explores the ways that capitalism and corporate control can destroy the lives of the human beings they purport to serve four out of 5 stars

this is a deeply moving semi-autobiographical novel to told in the form of a letter a lyrically written and often poetic bridge between a young man and his mother who will never be able to read the words her son so desperately needs her to understand 5 out of 5 Stars

reading this book is like seeing your preteen cousin at Christmas and them telling you about every single inside joke they have with their best friend in one long run-on sentence as you feel your final brain cell suffocate and die one star

this Memoir is profoundly eye-opening a window into the experiences of especially women in Iran in the 1980s and onward as they faced a rapidly changing Society due to shifting political and religious movements and extremism 4 out of 5 Stars

this was possibly the most annoying book I've ever read in my life one star

with timely commentary on pandemics and Humanity's obsession with the perceived oncoming apocalypse Mandel manages to tell both a bra Broad and a profoundly intimate story with multiple point of views and a cleverly intertwining narrative 5 out of 5 Stars

both point of view characters in this story were hard to root for in their ruthlessness and the pacing and World building left a little bit to be desired but I did really enjoy some of the secondary characters and the exploration of gender and sexuality in Mongol occupied China

this was a visceral yet dreamlike blending of fantasy and horror that explores racism misogyny colonization religion identity motherhood queerness and so much more and it was absolutely incredible 5 out of 5 Stars

this is truly a love letter to the world and I really enjoyed reading it 4 out of 5 stars

this book was surprisingly good I did not expect to like it as much as I did I loved the characters I enjoyed the magic system I was really pulled into the story and the whole mysterious dark Academia Vibe really worked for me

this was a bizarre urban fantasy that is definitely better enjoyed without knowing too much with a diverse cast of flawed and infinitely layered characters a terrifying monster social commentary that hits you right in the gut and clever Pros 5 out of 5 Stars

this book was unevenly paced poorly narrated and honestly not nonsensical it also had racist undertones one star

I found this book mildly insulting to my intelligence and also mildly insulting to my Humanity as a person who is non-religious it just wasn't a good time one star

this book was well paced fun to read and had a lot of really well done diversity including some really great bisexual rep four stars out of five

while I didn't think this was a perfect book because I will never not cringe at the Trope of an all-powerful ageless ancient man falling in love with a teenage girl who was alone and vulnerable it was still an enjoyable read that made me SOB a few more times than I am proud to admit so four out of 5 Stars

this was very creepy and unsettling and not at all what I expected four to five stars

this book was so poorly written and repetitive that I started to wonder if my ebook had glitches where sentences were being written multiple times when they shouldn't be spoiler alert there was no glitch two out of 5 Stars

I spent hours ranting to my husband about this book and those are hours that I'll never get back and neither will he

this was a very predictable mystery with pretty unsatisfying twists and cardboard cutout characters with possibly harmful autism spectrum representation existing solely to deliver very basic life lessons in blunt force trauma fashion one out of five stars

while tidbek did a fabulous job of creating this otherworldly Eerie Vibe reminiscent of the dark fairy tales of Brothers Grimm this novel was just a bit too short and simple to fully pay off all those cool and creepy loans it took out three out of 5 Stars

this novel lacked a subtlety and Nuance that I think would have really served it was full of one-dimensional characters without believable motivations and it just left me cold one out of five stars

this century and a half old novel is told in over 100 super short hilarious chapters where the last kubas a very unlikable character that somehow still manages to be enduring tells the story of his life and death his journey through philosophy and comes to terms with his own humanity and morality as a ghost from the grave 5 out of 5 Stars

I love how this book held up a mirror to our society and how everything we learn and think we know about history and gender is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how power manifests itself in human beings and what gender actually is which is a construct four out of 5 Stars

read this book if you love the gothic dark Academia Vibes of walking down a dark cobbled alleyway in the Moonlight in the rain in 1940s Barcelona as you're watched by a mysterious man in the shadows lit only by his cigarette before you disappear into a secret library of Forgotten books 5 out of 5 Stars

this novel freaked me out in the best way possible five super creepy dolls out of five

this is a dark fairy tale retelling pulling from both Snow White and Sleeping Beauty that was a quick and enjoyable read though not particularly memorable I honestly think this would have had a much bigger impact on me if I'd read it 20 years ago 3 out of 5 Stars

I'm very excited because I love Cersei and song of Achilles I gave both of them five stars

this was kind of trauma porny kind of racist and also kind of boring two stars

it wasn't quite as good as the first but because I'm invested in these characters I enjoyed spending time with them even though the mystery didn't capture me as much as the mystery in the first book four out of 5 Stars

this is a passionate thoughtful and beautifully written analysis of American culture and religion and how they're tied to racism and the black experience in America and it is still so deeply relevant even 60 years later five stars

this was immersive and emotional with stunning prose and strong characterization I just loved it 5 out of 5 Stars

this is a profound exploration of how toxic masculinity and colonization mirror each other in their ability to rot a community or an individual from the inside out through fear and hatred of the other 4 out of 5 Stars

this was a middle of the road romance with so-so dialogue and one of my least favorite tropes of all time but it did incorporate the experience of being a first generation immigrant from Nigeria to Canada in what felt like a deeply authentic way three out of five stars

this book is pretentious over dramatic whiny shallow and nonsensical one star

this is a beautifully written gut punch of a book telling the story of a community of indigenous people in Australia who were on the receiving end of colonization by white Christian missionaries and it's told in three intertwining narratives simultaneously personal familial and generational and it left me an absolutely emotionally destroyed sobbing mess 5 out of 5 Stars

this book had really thoughtful eating disorder rep though it was quite triggering at times and a very interesting sisterly Dynamic but I must admit I started to get irrationally angry at the number of times toy used the verb to PAD as if all of her characters are actually cats in human clothing