My favorite books of 2023 (so far) 📚✨ manga, fantasy and classics

if you've never read a Bachmann novel I would highly recommend this one and also a man called ove those two are great those two were fantastic

I loved anxious people I feel like it spoke to a part of me that needed so much comfort at the time that I read this book and I found myself crying with these characters I found myself feeling everything that they were feeling

I think one of my favorite things of this book is all of the plot twists that the author comes up with and how original they feel and how they're never obvious like you never see them coming and it's just so exciting because you're constantly at the edge of your seat you never want to put the book down because you never know what's coming next

I didn't know what to expect when I went into it but I surely wasn't expecting to just fall head over heels in love with the writing with the characters with the story itself with how just how Bleak it all was and how tense and how sad and depressing it just made it so good

this is probably one of the most beautiful poetry collections that I will ever own and that I will ever read because at the heart of it Mary Oliver is such a simp for nature and all of her poems are basically geared towards appreciating the beauty that nature is

I have read her body on other parties and it's this collection of short stories by Carmen Maria Machado and even though yeah like some of them were good but overall it was just like a 3.5 type of reading experience

I ended up giving this book 4.5 out of 5 Stars I ended up crying over this book and I ended up relating in ways that I wish I hadn't yeah this book kind of called me out but I loved that about this book because it put so many things into perspective

I'm currently in volume 4 of the Omnibus versions so I've read the first three volumes of this and yeah I am officially collecting the manga

I was reading people we meet on vacation and I cried my eyes out I love this book to bits

whenever I read this book I felt like I was being comforted I felt like I was being hugged I felt like I was being loved and if you have the opportunity to read this book I would highly recommend it because it's just so heartwarming and light-hearted and yes it does get sad at times but I feel like that's part of the whole journey that we have to go through and the ending is just so it's so worth it the payoff is beautiful

I had such an incredible time reading yellowface by RF Quang and I think that it is such an important read that literally everybody should read and even if you hate it even you know if it's not your cup of tea just read it and see if you can take something away from it because I personally enjoyed the heck out of this book