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jaimie. 30-something. librarian. infp. Like roses in his hands, death blooms.

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 066

The One Day You Were My Husband by Rosie Walsh

“Our one day of marriage was recorded only by the cameras of strangers whose names I don’t remember, whose contact details I never took. To this day I still don’t know what we looked like together in our wedding outfits, Johan and Carrie, bound up in all that joy.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 065

Heart the Lover by Lily King

“The feeling catches me off guard. Oh. Love.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 no. 064

Bite by Bite: Nourishments & Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

“When you have a meal that is just SO good it takes your breath away, you might stop, breathe deeply, close your eyes, and try to savor the moment, so it can live on in your memory forever.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 063

Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher

“Fortunately, some things stay true whether we believe in them or not.”

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books I read in 2026 📖 no. 062

Don’t Believe It by Charlie Donlea

“In the tiny world of chess, have you ever wondered how crappy it is to be a pawn?”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 062

The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

“Target any healers within range or target anyone who thinks it’s okay to put mayonnaise on hotdogs!”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 060

The Midnight Train by Matt Haig

“I don’t know where the past hides, but I will meet you there.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 059

Behind Five Willows by June Hur

“You are the kind of soul one finds only once in a lifetime, and travels the next thousand searching for again I would do that for you. I could live and die, searching each lifetime, for you.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 058

Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer by Paige Classey

“From far off an ambulance siren screams into the night. I glance in its direction and catch a pair of yellow eyes watching us from the brush. I run faster.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 056

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

“Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 056

The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

“I thought of everybody here with me now. They’d all jumped into certain death, just to save me. Me. I couldn’t have survived without them. All my life, I’d felt alone. And now, at the edge of the apocalypse, I finally realized how much I needed other people.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 055

Broken Dove by Dani Francis

“You own me, Dove. My heart, soul, body. It’s all yours. There could never be anybody else. Not in a million fucking lifetimes.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 054

Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez

“Here lies nothing. Just dust and bones. Nothing.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 053

Rustler Mountain by Maisey Yates

“He should want to corrupt her just by virtue of the fact that he was a wicked outlaw. He should tie her to the railroad tracks. Or to his bed.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 052

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

“So help me god,” I said. “I will abandon you right here and right now if you choose to take up the kazoo.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 051

After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian

“The kiss is soft and slow, worryingly tender, a kiss under a yellow porch light at the end of a date. It’s a kiss by the luggage carousel, after someone’s finally come back. It’s the sort of kiss Patrick has always known is for other people.”

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books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 050

The Library After Dark by Ande Pliego

“Not every fairytale is meant for children.”