Tuesday, January 2, 2024

2023 Book Stats

*My 10 Favorite Books of 2023

1. Finna by Nino Cipri (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
2. That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon by Kimberly Lemming (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
3. The Do-Over by Lynn Painter (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
4. Mile High by Liz Tomforde (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
5. Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
6. The Fastest Way To Fall by Denise Williams (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
7. Court of Ice & Ash by L.J. Andrews (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
8. Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
9. Ten Trends to Seduce Your Best Friend by Penny Reid (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
10. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2)

*My 5 Least Favorite Books of 2023

1. A Year At The French Farmhouse by Gillian Harvey (⭐️⭐️)
2. The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka (⭐️⭐️1/2)
3. Rugged Rock by Ellie Pond (⭐️⭐️1/2)
4. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
5. Confess by Colleen Hoover (⭐️⭐️⭐️)

*Total Books Read: 54/52 book goal

*Breakdown of Genres: Romance (37), General or Speculative Fiction (8), Fantasy (7), Non-Fiction (1), Mystery (1)

*Longest Book: End Game by G.A. Mazurke (646 pages)

*Shortest Book: Rescued by the Rhan by Ariel Ryan (71 pages)

*Average Book Length: 332 pages

*Favorite quotes in no order:
From Ten Trends To Seduce Your Best Friend:

"They’ve been told their interests are frivolous. You can’t adore pop music and be taken seriously. You can’t openly read romance novels for enjoyment and have articles published in a major peer review publication. You can’t wear clothes you enjoy and not get side-eyed. That’s a problem! Why should anyone have to bury who they are, what they look like, what they want, what they value, what they enjoy in order to get a seat at the table? They shouldn’t—girls and women shouldn’t. And you could show them that they don’t have to.”

From Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow:
“What is a game?” Marx said. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
From Get A Life Chloe Brown:
“You know,” he laughed, “I used to think you were a snob. But when it comes to this stuff, you’re just oblivious, aren’t you?” “You thought what?” She tried to look horrified. “Gasp, et cetera. I can’t believe you thought I was a snob.” “Neither can I. You’re just a cute little hermit who hisses at sunlight.”
From The Fine Print:
His hand flexes by his side before he pockets it. Jane Austen, are you my guardian angel now? I look up at the high ceiling for answers but come up empty.
From The Dead Romantics:
As an English major, I had studied rising actions, I had charted climaxes. Making love and making stories were close to the same thing. You were intimate and vulnerable and wandering, traveling across the landscape of each other, learning. You told a story with each gesture, each sound—every kiss a period, every gasp a comma.
From Finna:
“It showed me that there were infinite possibilities, at all times. After I made captain of the Anahita, I worried over every decision, doubted whether I was brave or smart or strong enough to pull my mission off and protect my crew. I could remind myself that somewhere in the multiverse of possibility, there existed a world where I was all of those things. Maybe it was the world that I already lived in.”

*What 5 books are you most excited for next year?
1. How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying by Django Wexler
2. Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood
3. Bride by Ali Hazelwood
4. Daydream by Hannah Grace
5. The Honey Witch by Sydney J Shields