book recommendations

  • The Best Books of 2019

    Despite reading less books than years past, I would qualify 2019 as my best reading year. It was certainly better than 2018, when I only managed to read about 70 books. I read more books in 2019 by simply reading for quality over quantity. How? Well, good books are easier to finish. And so, I’ve

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  • ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from Book Depository (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** “Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they

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  • ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from Book Depository (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** “One is not safe alone in the house at night.” Simmering in Patagonian myth, The Tenth Girl is a gothic psychological thriller with a haunting twist. At the

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  • If you’ve spent any time in the online book community within the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly heard the phrase, “No mourners. No funerals.” Or maybe you’ve heard, “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.” Or perhaps, “My darling Inej, treasure of my heart, will you please do me the honor

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  • ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from Book Depository or IndieBound (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** “Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.” Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands

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  • ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from Book Depository or IndieBound (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** “She’d heard somewhere that pride came before the fall. But she wasn’t going to fall. She was going to climb.” When Gyre Price lied her way

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  • ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from Book Depository or IndieBound (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** “All the dreamers are castle-bound. At midnight’s stroke, we will unwind, Revealing fantasies soft or unkind. Show me debauched nightmares or sunniest daydreams. Come not

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  • Roaring 20s Book Tag

    ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from Book Depository (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** After announcing I was going to start doing Top 5 Tuesday in my last post, you may have expected one to go up today. Not so. Why? Because

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  • September 2019 Wrap-Up

    ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from IndieBound (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** It’s spooky season!!!!! But before we jump headfirst into those Halloween vibes, I need to recap everything I read in September. I read four novels, three graphic novels,

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  • ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from IndieBound (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** “Nav, show them what the Ninth House does.” “We do bones, motherfucker.” The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines,

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