#*books2017

[buffonia]

    books read in 2017: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue “We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.”

[babesargent]

books read in 2017: simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by becky albertalli

sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay simon spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. but when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. now simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. worse, the privacy of blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing with, will be jeopardized.

with some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with blue growing more flirtatious every day, simon's junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. now, change-averse simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out — without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met.

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[liaability]

books i read in 2017: far from you by tess sharpe

and we are Just Fine, Thank You. reckless girls dancing down dirt roads, waiting to be saved from ourselves.

[mcttbcyd]

Books Read in 2017: The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson

“Love's more than holding hands and going to dances. It's two people who struggle to live, even when they should maybe both be dead. When one of them would be better off dead.”

[buffonia]

    books read in 2017: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban “Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”

[buffonia]

    books read in 2017:  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

[buffonia]

    books read in 2017:  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone “As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”

[buffonia]

    books read in 2017: American Gods “There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”