#2018 books

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The Clockmaker's Daughter: Book Review

"The Clockmaker's Daughter" by Kate Morton revolves around the scandalous events of a summer in an English manor house, resulting in murder, burglary, and vanishing... Read my review of this supernatural historical mystery here! Perfect read for October :)

While my genre of choice is usually fantasy, one of my favourite non-fantasy authors is historical mystery writer Kate Morton. All her books are must-reads for me, and her newest novel The Clockmaker’s Daughter was no exception. It has been out for over a year now, and I have already owned a copy for several months, but I finally got round to reading it recently! I was incredibly excited about…

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[iwriteaboutfeminism]

My favorite non-fiction reads of 2018

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrice Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, by Rebecca Traister

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder

The Battle for Paradise, by Naomi Klein

The Geek Feminist Revolution, by Kameron Hurley

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women, by Silvia Federici

[grishae]

BOOKS I’VE READ ⁽²⁰¹⁸⁾ · aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, benjamin alire sáenz

“I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren't meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn't have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. "Dante's my friend.”

[godzilla-reads]

Books in Review 2018

Since today is New Year’s Eve, here’s a rec list of the books I’ve read this past year that I totally think you guys should read or maybe just look up! Here it is!

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“Stuart Little” by E.B. White (January)

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde (January-February)

“If We Were Villains” by M.L. Rio (January-February)

“Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky (February)

“Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda” by Becky Albertalli (February)

“The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes” (February-March)

“Journey to the Center of the Earth” by Jules Verne (March)

“19 Varieties of Gazelle” by Naomi Shihab Nye (March)

“Holes” by Louis Sachar (April)

“The Tale of Despereaux” by Kate DiCamillo (April)

“Crank” by Ellen Hopkins (April)

“One True Way” by Shannon Hitchcock (April)

“In Calabria” by Peter S. Beagle (April)

“Wild Embers” by Nikita Gill (April)

“Planting Gardens in Graves” by r.h. Sin (May)

“The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller (May-September)

“Pillow Thoughts” by Courtney Peppernell (May-July)

“Carrie” by Stephen King (May)

“Hinds Feet on High Places” by Hannah Hurnard (June-August)

“Helium” by Rudy Francisco (June)

“Born This Gay” by Babet van der Schot (June)

“Balance of Five” by Barbara Wade, Dorothy Hopkins Schnare, Tina Parker, Libby Falk Jones, Vicky Hayes (June)

“Bestiary” by Donika Kelly (July)

“The Princess Saves Herself in This One” by Amanda Lovelace (August)

“American Wolf” by Nate Bakeslee (August-September)

“Hawkes Harbor” by S.E. Hinton (September)

“James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl (September-October)

“Cycle of the Werewolf” by Stephen King (September)

“A Monster Calls” by Patrick Ness (September)

“This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson (October-November)

“For Everyone” by Jason Reynolds (October)

“Dear Martin” by Nic Stone (October)

“The Little Paris Bookshop” by Nina George (October)

“Call Me By Your Name” by Andre Aciman (November)

“The Chaos of Longing” by K.Y. Robinson (December)

“Boy Erased” by Gerard Conley (December)

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

Neil Gaiman, “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”

If you make one of these, tag me in it! I’d love to see your recs and what you read this year!

[threeseagrass]

books read in 2018: children of blood and bone by tomi adeyemi

As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden all along. We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp.

[rhaella]

BOOKS I’VE READ IN 2018  →  American Gods by Neil Gaiman

“People believe, thought Shadow. It’s what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.”

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WARM BODIES [2018 books 2/?] dir Isaac Marion

"What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?"

[jamesoncoylewright]

The Stand Outs, The Greats, and The Skips of 2018 - all in no particular order:

The Stand Outs:

Tell The Wolves I’m Home

Bad Blood

An American Marriage 

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark 

Tiny Beautiful Things

Circe

Rage Becomes Her

The Greats:

Every Heart a Doorwary

You Think It, I’ll Say It

Station Eleven

Make Your Home Among Strangers

The Hate U Give

The Skips:

Room

Artemis (BUT SERIOUSLY)

In the House in the Dark of the Woods (SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY)