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i wish i could heart this review of the long walk on storygraph like it’s a letterboxd review

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tagged by liv @sea-wives to share nine books i want to read in 2025!! thank you for tagging me <333

1. the vegetarian by han kang (currently reading)

2. the terror by dan simmons (currently listening to)

3. madhouse at the end of the earth by julian sancton

4. all the white spaces by ally wilkes

5. never whistle at night anthology

6. arctic dreams by barry lopez

7. the postcard by anne berest

8. when i was mortal by javier marias

9. the vampire lestat by anne rice

no pressure tags: @category5 @barklikeagod @villanele @lieutgore and of course anyone i forgot to tag that wants to share 💙

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daria’s 2024 reading wrap-up

last year’s wrap-up

(fav/recommended books are bolded)

audiobooks:

this thing between us by gus moreno

the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian by sherman alexie

kitchen confidential by anthony bourdain

the metamorphosis by franz kafka

books:

homesick for another world by ottessa moshfegh

ghosts among us by leslie rule

flight of icarus by caitlin schneiderhan

me and earl and the dying girl by jesse andrews

the end of the end of everything by dale bailey

folk songs for trauma surgeons by keith rosson

the hellbound heart by clive barker

starve acre by andrew michael hurley

heart-shaped box by joe hill

84, charing cross rd by helene hanff

ladies’ lunch and other stories by lore segal

oedipus rex by sophocles

the little book of hygge by miek wiking

sweetbitter by stephanie danler

did not finish/still reading:

interview with the vampire by anne rice

open veins of latin america by eduardo galeano

the terror by dan simmons

meditations by marcus aurelius

the roxy letters by mary pauline lowry

final thoughts:

my original goal was to read 10 books, then i bumped it up to 15. i read 18 books total this year which is really big for me!! next year’s goal will be 20. my taste was really all over the place, but short story collections i think will always be my favorite reads- they always tend to get me out of a slump. all the books in the dnf list are books i plan on finishing; i’m a mood reader so i just have to wait for the mood to strike again.

add me on storygraph if you would like! i need more friends there :) and i would also love some book recs if anyone has any <3

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daria dani. they/them. late 20s. chicano.

in a committed relationship with the city of boston (and their sports teams).

🎸 @idlestangk 📷 @mcgreevys 🏒@bankholdup

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daria's 2025 reading wrap-up

last year's wrap up | 2023 wrap-up

(fav books are bolded. books with an asterik were part of my law school summer reading list)

audiobooks:

open throat by henry hoke

never whistle at night: an indigienous dark fiction anthology

slewfoot by brom

the nine: inside the secret world of the supreme court by jeffery toobin*

just mercy: a story of justice and redemption by bryan stevenson*

a people's history of the united states by howard zinn (abridged)

books:

the vegetarian by han kang

small things like these by clarie keegan

rules for a knight by ethan hawke

violent faculties by charlene elsby

heavy hitter by katie cotugno

the law by frederic bastiat*

the long walk by stephen king

allow me to retort: a black guy's guide to the constitution by elie mystal*

game changers series by rachel reid

the shots you take by rachel reid

him series by elle kennedy and sarina bowen

did not finish/paused:

the terror by dan simmons

house of leaves by mark z. danielewski

master and commander by patrick o'brien

a civil action by jonathan harr

final thoughts:

this year, i read some genres for the first time: first splatterpunk book and first romance novel. splatterpunk is not for me <3, and i suprisingly loved all but one of the romance novels i read. for the books on my law school reading list, some where suggested by my professors and some i added based on those suggestions. like i said last year, the dnf books i will finish reading at some point. i hate not finishing books. but next year my reading goal is 25 books, we’ll see if law school actually lets me hit that goal

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just finished the long walk. in one sitting.

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finished my first disturbing horror book and yeah, that really is not for me. despite it being written by a woman, the violence was still gratuitous mainly towards women and it really makes me question why women must be the main targets and sufferers in this genre. the male victims in the book didn’t remotely get the same treatment that the female victims did

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i absolutely love this thing between us !! "the book of the most precious substance" was a novel that gave me similar vibes. i can't even really remember why lol but i liked it and you might also....

if i'm giving you recommendations i have to point out "all the white spaces" as supernatural/survival polar exploration horror

randomly i feel like you might like the works of akwaeke emezi as well

unfortch i don't read a lot of short stories so i don't have much to offer you in that regard. but if you like otessa moshfegh im currently reading mcglue which is a short novella by her and would love to know your thoughts on it

ok thats all for now :-)

SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG FOR ME TO ANSWER omg

thank you for all the recs!!! i do have “all the white spaces” on my tbr list (thank you terror camp) but “mcglue” is one i definitely plan on checking out, i love the way otessa writes. and i will definitely check akwaeke emezi; freshwater looks very interesting so I’m adding that to my tbr list too along with “the book of the most precious substance” <3