#2021books**

[aaronstveit]

@storyseekers event 18: 2021 debuts BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➵ ACE OF SPADES BY FARIDAH ÀBÍKÉ-ÍYÍMÍDÉ (★★★★★)

No matter what I do, no matter how much I iron down the hair that springs from my scalp, or work as hard as I can, I’m always going to be other to them. Not good enough for this place I’ve tried to call home all my life.

[aaronstveit]

BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➵ PRIDE AND PREJUDICE  BY JANE AUSTEN (★★★★☆)

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

[aaronstveit]

BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➵ PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION BY EMILY HENRY (★★★★★)

“Ready,” I confirm, and Alex Nilsen sweeps me up into his arms and carries me down a motherfucking mountain. No. I really could not have invented him.

[aaronstveit]

BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➵ THIS POISON HEART BY KAYLNN BAYRON (★★★★☆)

Mythology is a murky world. It’s much like unraveling a centuries-long game of telephone. The messages we see and hear today may be nothing like what was actually intended.

[aaronstveit]

BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➵ HONEY GIRL BY MORGAN ROGERS (★★★★★)

The stars glimmer above her. They gleam under the gaze of people like Grace, searching for meaning in their formations. They are doing their best for all the people that stare up at the dark and do not know that they, too, shine brilliantly.

[aaronstveit]

BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➵ THE GIRLS I’VE BEEN BY TESS SHARPE (★★★★★)

I was raised for a kind of slaughter. But I grew into a huntress instead. One who always hits her target. No matter what.

[aaronstveit]

@storyseekers event 14: book to read to understand me BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➵ PERFECT ON PAPER BY SOPHIE GONZALES (★★★★★)

When I was younger, I was the kind of kid who spent hours fishing ladybugs out of the pool so they didn’t drown, and who invited the kids sitting alone to play, and who went door-to-door knocking if I found a stray dog to reunite with its owner. It just didn’t sit right with me to ignore someone who might need help.

[aaronstveit]

BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➵ THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS BY @chloegong (★★★★★)

This place hums to the tune of debauchery. This city is filthy and deep in the thrall of unending sin, so saturated with the kiss of decadence that the sky threatens to buckle and crush all those living vivaciously beneath it in punishment.