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60/68 books read

🪼⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ j a n u a r y

• black butler – yana toboso
  • volume 5
  • volume 6
  • volume 7
  • volume 8
• loki – melvin burgess
  • "i am not what i was yesterday, and tomorrow i will not be what i am today."
• tomie – junji ito
• monsters: what do we do with great art by bad people? – claire dederer
  • "the way you consume art doesn't make you a bad person, or a good one. you'll have to find some other way to accomplish that."
• ♡ you made a fool of death with your beauty – akwaeke emezi
  • "you feel like the first time in a long time I can even wonder about a possibility of not feeling alone."
• hooked – a.c. wise

🪼⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ f e b r u a r y

• what you are looking for is in the library – michiko aoyama
  • "you may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might have itself."
• hell followed with us – andrew joseph white
  • "god is an absent parent who demands loyalty despite never being around."
• the sleep watcher – rowan hisayo buchanan

🪼⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ m a r c h

• rivers of london – ben aaronovitch
  • "could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? when I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?"
• darling – k. ancrum
  • "sometimes it's enough to know that this is in there. you can reach for it whenever you like, because this look is a part of you. but it is always your choice whether you want to put in the work. There is power in not doing this, just as much as there is power in knowing how to do it."
• the paying guests – sarah waters
  • "the rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely. I'm sick to death of living falsely. I've been doing it for years."
• a love song for ricki wilde – tia williams
  • "identity changes all the time, I've found. There's a few more 'yous' you haven't met yet."
• hangsaman – shirley jackson
  • "a vague and voiceless yearning filled her, to take these days and force them to solid rich tangible form, to hammer at this foolishness of time and make it into…into…"
• ♡ the wedding people – alison espach
  • "I just mean, a story can be beautiful not because of the way it ends. But because of the way it’s written."
• the final girl support group – grady hendrix
• paper doll: notes from a late bloomer – dylan mulvaney
• black butler – yana toboso
  • volume 9
  • volume 10
  • volume 11
  • volume 12
  • volume 13
  • volume 14
  • volume 15
  • volume 16
  • volume 17
  • volume 18
  • volume 19
  • volume 20
  • volume 21

🪼⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ a p r i l

• black butler – yana toboso
  • volume 22
  • volume 23
  • volume 24
  • volume 25
  • volume 26
  • volume 27
  • volume 28
  • volume 29
  • volume 30
  • volume 31
  • volume 32
  • volume 33
  • volume 34
• model home – rivers solomon
  • "how cruel that our parents, unexorcisable, go on inside of us. how cruel that we cannot disimbricate their ghosts from our being."
• once a monster – robert dinsdale
• several people are typing – calvin kasulke

🪼⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ m a y

• ♡ lula dean's little library of banned books – kirsten miller
  • "stories are the most powerful things in this world. they can mend broken hearts, bring back good memories, and make people fall in love."
• ♡ cemetery boys – aiden thomas
  • "no, it wasn't the end. It was a better beginning"
• ♡ the hunger games – suzanne collins
  • "you don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope."
• yesteryear – caro claire burke
  • "the way some women so willingly compromised every ounce of themselves in the name of building a life for themselves that they didn’t enjoy."
• ♡ the bewitching – sylvia moreno-garcia
• ♡ and now, back to you – b.k. borison
• ♡ the twisted ones – t. kingfisher
• aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe – benjamin alire sáenz
• plays well with others – sophie brickman

🪼⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ j u n e

• the staircase in the woods – chuck wendig
• cherry baby – rainbow rowell