Mid Year Book Freakout 2024 || Best & worst books of the year & most anticipated new releases!
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- Hey Booktube, time to review my reading year so far and readjust for the second half... aka my Mid Year Book Freakout Tag of 2024!
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____QUESTIONS____
1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2024
2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2024
3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to.
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year.
5. Biggest disappointment.
6. Biggest surprise.
7. Favourite new author. (Debut or new to you)
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favourite character.
10. Book that made you cry.
11. Book that made you happy.
12. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)
13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
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How's your reading year going so far?
What's your reading plan for the second half of 2024?
My goal this year was to read 12 books and I have already done that and in pride month, so extremely happy and proud in both senses of the way, of course♡
It has been amazing stick to my goals to at my peace that I been doing 😀😀🧡🧡
Just read my 50th book so on track to hit 100, have bought 6 new physical books this year but have read 17 so overall TBR getting smaller.
Also just finished The Will of The Many, can't wait til book 2. One thing that made me laugh in that book was how many times Vis passes out at the end of chapters to wake up at the start of the next, lost count how many times 😅
My reading is going very well with a lot more SciFi/fantasy which I am loving, but it also means I've started lots of long series (Hobb, Sanderson, Tchaikovsky). Biggest surprise so far has been the recently released The Mars House by Natasha Pulley which is her first SciFi book (she normally writes magical realism which didn't work for me). And the Mars House has a whole population of humans who are they/them which was exciting to see represented. It's beginner friendly SciFi too and has great discussion points about refugees and body autonomy. I also loved the Will of the Many. I will eventually read Blood Over Bright Haven because you sold me the first time you mentioned it but now the expectation of it being amazing is scaring me away from reading it 😭😂
There is maybe 400 books on my shelf that I haven't read (I buy them for grandma [85] because she reads a book every two day).
This year I read 14 books (6 of them were manga volumes).
I'm in the middle of a few books, so I hope to finnish them soon.
Immediately commenting because I love your shirt 🌈
Thank you ❤️ every year I wear it during June and every year the video gets a bunch of dislikes and stupid comments I have to block. I call it “spring cleaning” 😂
@@BookswithEmilyFox “spring cleaning” is right 😂
I looove your shirt!!!🫶🌈
Grammar police edit = *whomever
Regular police edit = consent required
Same :)
Always love the Pride shirt! 🌈 🌈 🌈🎉🎉🎉
Every year it has to come out of the closet 🌈🎉
(pun intended)
@@BookswithEmilyFox
lol 🌈 ❤️
I am in the middle of over 70 series - so I feel you with needing to finish series XD
You're better than me, I can't count or it will make me feel anxious XD
Are you good at finishing them?
@@BookswithEmilyFox no. I am horrible at it xD.
I'm relieved lol
I hear you, Ive only read 5 books by male authors this year, and 32 by women 😂
I got curious and check and... 2/3 by women for me. Reading my shelves has definitely made me read more male authors too.
How To Solve Your Own Murder is amazing! It’s a bit slow and a lot of characters so you have to push through, but it’s so worth it
I agree but the characters were all interesting and I read it in two sittings so it didn't feel slow haha
I am listening to "Murder road" audiobook from a library right now and I love it. I have read "Sundown motel" because of you, so many thanks for talking about Simone St. James!
just discovered your channel and I love these videos
i’m gonna do the most and answer all the questions!
1.) i think the Green Bone Saga has been my favorite thing i’ve read this year.
2.) not a favorite sequel exactly but im rereading the Heroes of Olympus so i can finally finish it (never read the last one) and ive actually enjoyed it more this time around so that’s why i want to mention it!
3.) im also looking forward to Simone St. James and Ruth Ware’s books. i love both of them. i’m nervous because i haven’t heard the best things about Murder Road but she hasn’t had a miss with me yet so i guess it’s to be expected.
4.) Im looking forward to Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas and also looking forward to A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping. lowkey sad it’s not a companion novel though.
5.) Our Wives Under the Sea. thought this would be incredible based on what i’ve heard but i just didn’t get it. it did nothing for me.
6.) Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks. in middle and high school i read Nick Sparks all the time but haven’t in years. i thought maybe i would’ve outgrown him but i was pleasantly surprised that i haven’t! i read this in one sitting.
7.) I hate to say it but i think Kristin Hannah. i’ve avoided her bc her fans aren’t really my demographic i feel like, but i read The Four Winds and really loved it. i generally love historical fiction so ill definitely keep reading from her.
8.) Kade from Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. Hope i get to see more of him in the rest of the series!
9.) Vera Wong. just an absolute riot and really hope the author writes a sequel bc i need more!
10.) i don’t cry much anymore but i think if i could As Long as the Lemon Tree Grows would probably have done it for me.
11.) Rereading the Percy Jackson series has made me insanely happy. it’s so comfy.
12.) i got a book from a LFL called the Berry Pickers and i just picked it up bc i love the color.
13.) I actually have a 24 in 24 that’s ongoing! i’ve read 9 so far 😂 i also will be finishing the Heroes of Olympus and reading the new Percy Jackson books.
omg i reread pjo for the first time i think two summers ago i think ? since i originally read them as a kid, and they really are just so nostalgic but not in the sense that they don't hold up, bc i had an absolute blast. i started rereading HOO but had lost momentum after the first, so maybe this is a good reminder for me to pick those back up! have yet to read the newest one, but getting the chance to read more of the og trio in my 20s after all the time is just 😭
@@gracesull78756 YES! they do hold up!! i’ve read some books from my younger years and they just feel cheesy or silly now but PJO didn’t. like i throughly enjoyed myself. i’ve actually enjoyed HOO more this time around than i did the first time (still didn’t like Son of Neptune very much though). i’m excited to finally finish HOO since i never read the last book. and then i’ll read the new PJO! hopefully right around the time that the newest one will be coming out.
thank you for commenting. it’s nice to share this experience with someone who gets it!
@@theotherveronica yeah i was a few years older for HOO than PJO, but still think i'd probably appreciate them so much more now (and probably remember more than like two scenes lol), so i rly should go back to them. so exciting that you're reading the last one for the first time! i don't remember what the general fan reaction was, but ik i liked it and i remember it does have some iconic moments.
yeah it rly is so fun to talk about and share this after all this time! especially with the new books reliving the og ones is just so special. enjoy the last one, if you remember then please feel free to come back and share your thoughts, always down to talk about it! cheers to the new book for both of us, too!
YESSS!!! THE SHIRT!!! 🎊 🎉💚💚
Also, Same! The best book I’ve read so far this year happened to be the FIRST book I read 🤣🤣🤣
Best book: "A Master of Djinn" - P. Djeli Clark
Best sequel: "Mirrored Heavens"- Rebecca Roanhorse, it was such a emotional conclusion, almost made me cry.
I started reading Octavia E Butler with Fledgling and while I liked parts of it, it was not the best introduction to say the least... I'm glad you keep hyping her, because I just finished Parable of the Sower and loved it!
I've read I who have never know men because of you and now I'm traumatized omg!! 5stars loved it!!❤❤❤
You could try Honour by Elif Shafak it has to do with the subject of honor killings in Turkey
I have the island of missing trees still on my shelf so I'll try that one if I don't try the forty rules of love again!
One of the things I did for myself was to get rid of two bookcases, got one bookcase (deeper shelves over previous bookcases) to store books. I am hoping that I can retrain myself to only have just one five shelf bookcase for books. I am going to try to not bring in any more books in until I have space on the one and only bookcase. Hopefully this will slow me down and make me focus on what I own now. I really like the Maisie Dobbs mystery series which is ending with book 18. Yes, its during WWI and WWII but Maisie is very mature, has strong empathic powers over people. She really helps people with their problems in this cozy mystery series. She advertises herself as a psychologist and investigator. The author, Jacqueline Winspear, did a lot of research for this series so I am learning new things about this historical period. I wish you luck in meeting your reading goals for the rest of the year! You are doing so well.
I read Blood over bright heaven because of you and that was 🔥 🔥 Sword of Kaigen was amazing, but it required at least one more round of serious editing
The last murder at the end of the world was FANTASTIC for me! So intriguing, creative and interesting
I listened last year and you were right and I purchased Blood over Bright Haven right before the self published cover went out of print (the trad published cover looks great though, too). I plan on reading rhe book in August/September and I'm excited!
Yay!! You’ll have to tell me how it goes!!
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping is on my TBR.
Your t-shirt is awesome. 🏳️🌈
Just like many others, loving the shirt! Happy pride month to everyone💙
just finished On a Quiet Street which is a thrilling neighborhood drama that had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Every twist felt unexpected but made so much sense! I don’t often read thrillers but this was a blast
A video where you go over the fantasy series that aren't problematic would be AMAZING! ❤ Seems so hard to find in the genre unforunately.
I have a playlist with fantasy recs: ruclips.net/p/PLIam3Nh6TWYphQm-w-SVW6bsgK5LcAyO-
I'll definitely do more in the future!
@@BookswithEmilyFox That's so great! Thanks for the link! 😀
“This has to stop, Emily” lol
A list of books by women that are worth the read in various genres would sooooo be worth the watch!
My reading year is going pretty well so far honestly. I've read 50 books and all were 3 stars or higher except for 1.
Sending good ratings vibes for the last half of the year ❤
How to solve your own murder is a nice one, cozy mystery, easy read, well written. But don't expect professionalism when they're handling proofs lol
I loved Part of your world too! Unfortunately the 'sequel' Yours truly wasn't it for me...
Murder Road was not a win for me, BUT I do think it'd be a very good beach/summer book. The whole book takes place during a hot summer week and the author did do an incredible job of conveying that scorching, humid, summer feeling. And it's just a very silly book and not something that you need to invest too much brain power into.
Among the many books I’m reading, Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower is one of them. Considered a classic. So far I’m not minding it and may have to consider reading more.
I think you and I have the same struggles with Mystery/Thriller books that others find popular, and I have to say that I really enjoyed How To Solve Your Own Murder. You should give it a try! :)
I am about 20 books behind in my end-of-year goal of 200. Not bad. I'm reading a lot of manga right now. I have too many cluttering up my house, especially unread ones! My goal at the beginning of the year was to read all the Witcher books. I love them but I keep getting distracted by other books. Lately I'm just a mood reader and jump around from book to book, struggling to finish anything.
One of my toxic traits is that I have no problem reading the first book in a series and then moving on. Every now and again I'm tempted to keep going so I do. But generally, I have no issues with loving a first in a series and then just dipping. Lol! I've been burned too many times by too many series. I don't have faith that the author can finish the job. So I'm good with just book one.
My reading is going quite well. I really like Elif Shafak and I love the 13th tale when I read it what... a decade ago! I liked Everyone in my family has killed someone a lot more than you did!
My favorite book of 2024 (so far) is also my first book of the year: Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands! I hope to find something else that I like too lol
That James Islington series is also on my TBR along with a lot of other finished series, too many to realistically read all of them in 2024😂
I definitely want to get to The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, Earthseed Series by Octavia E. Butler and The Machineries of Empire Series by Yoon Ha Lee in 2024.
I'm also looking forwards to the last books in The Sunbearer Duology, The Belladonna Trilogy and The Bloodsworn Saga.
I'm also currently reading the last book in Rebecca Roanhorse's Between Earth And Sky Trilogy.
Would be down to watch a sequels/series vlog haha
You should try "Seven Days in June" by Tia Williams, amazing characters and a brilliant love story. I was so surprised that the best book I read in 2023 was a romance but here we are.
I'm not a romance reader, but I read Happly Never After by Lynn Painter. I laughed out loud so many times that it would be a great beach read.
I've been seeing this book around a lot! Your comment convinced me to add it in my tbr!
That shirt is awesome! ❤
Haven’t been able to read much at all because of having been finishing my Masters in English and Finnish teacher qualification. But some I have read…
The Warm Hands of Ghosts - put off work to read this.. wasn’t worth it.
Emily Wilde books 1 and 2 - amazing, loved them.
Before the Coffee gets cold part 1 and 2 - not as good as book 4 that I started with… But loved it.
Planning to read How to Lose a Time War next, then Three Body Problem, plus books 3 and 4 of Thursday Murder club. All books I have.
On the fence about getting Murder at the End of the World because I didn’t like the author’s last book… But the premise is so intriguing
I just finished Blood Over Bright Haven and now I’m harassing people to read it too!
Happy Pride 🏳️🌈
Love your shirt!! 🌈🥰
Thank you ❤️🌈
I want your shirt!!! ❤
Love the shirt❤
I just finished The Story of the Lost Child and it gutted me. I gasped so many times. It's great, read it!
I’m so not ready but I’m reading it next week 💔
If you enjoyed goblin emperor I would recommend the hands of the emperor!
Loved Blood Over Bright Havan
Blood over bright haven is preordered since a month and im sooo hyped (even tho english is not my first Language i‘m willing to pick up a Challenge) 🎉🎉🎉🥰
I love your shirt!
My favorite romance books are the Garnet run series by Roan Parrish. Male/male romance.
Thriller recommendation from someone who normally doesn't read thrillers. Set in Spain and hugely popular in that country: Red Queen by Juan Gomez-Jurado and it's part of a series.
I still need to read the sword of Kaigen 😩
It's a must!
I also really loved The Humans and want to re-read it
My (very underrated) romance recommendation is the Say Everything trilogy by Roni Loren. More on the emotional side, but I thought the author handled some topics really well (ex: Tourette’s Syndrome, PTSD). Reminds me a bit of Abby Jimenez’s storytelling! I haven’t read the last book yet, but I’ve given the first 2 books 5 stars 🤩!
Love your t shirt!!🏳️🌈💓
Paying attention to read Octavia e butler and the Elena Ferrante series ❤ loooove the shirt 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Love the t-shirt you are wearing! I don't know if I'm right but you sound like a fellow Quebecer. I really love how you are reading the shelves and letting go of the books that you haven't liked. And that big jar wow :) I discovered this year Shari Lapena (a Canadian author, a happy surprised to me) and loved her! So that is part of my reading plans.
I love Elif Shafak 🙌🏻
Favorite thrillers this year: everyone on this train is a suspect (which is the follow up to everyone in my family has killed someone) & kill for me, kill For you. I also really enjoyed first lie wins but I it's not one I think you'll be a fan of.
Another abysmal reading year for me… so far at least. I’ve only read Psalm for the Wild Built and got like halfway through Tress of the Emerald Sea. I will say I started The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo last night and read a third if it in one sitting which is highly unusual for me unless I’m really captivated by a book (and I am). I’m moving overseas in a few months so I definitely need to read a few more books on my shelf before I decide to keep them or give them away.
LOVE your T-shirt! Happy Pride Month! The romance I keep recommending to people because I love the characters and found the book laugh-out-loud funny is Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall.
Just reread it ❤ it holds up! Great book.
My library has it… On the waiting list it goes!
That's my favourite romance!! ❤❤❤
Boyfriend Material is so good! The sequel is pretty good too
Does anyone have recs for fully released series similar to The Will of the Many? I want to read it so badly but cannot justify starting another series that only has one book out! Thanks!!
I really wanna check out Octavia Butlers writing but I´m just anxious that heavy stuff like SA which I´ve heard feature heavily in her books would be too much for me 😬
They are definitely heavy. They're meant to make you feel uncomfortable. You could try her short story collection (Bloodchild) and some stories are easier.
I've been reading a lot but not a lot of GREAT books. Most of my 5 stars are from January. Mostly I've been trying to make space on my shelves, so reading books I bought YEARS ago.
I see the Great Hunt in the cover, but I couldn't find it in the video. Any one could kindly tell me when she talked about the Great HUnt? Thank you!
I also love The Humans by Matt Haig and I am reading a new release called The Ministry of Time which I am loving and has exactly the same vibes. Except replace aliens with time travel and bringing people from the past to our time. It has the same kind of humour but goes deeper into looking at humanity etc. I have a whole tab colour for “humans are awful”
Maybe, so that your reading numbers could be more visual and hence motivate you more, you could put a piece of paper of the right color in your "read ou unhauled" jar for every book you have read from you shelves, and not only those read during your challenge videos ?
Oh hey … I just noticed Recursion by Blake Crouch on the shelf behind you … have you read it? Thoughts? Is there a video? I just finished it ..
I neeeeeeeed to know what you thought …. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
(Will continue watching now …. )
It's been a few years but I enjoyed it. Reads like a movie, keeps you up at night, some of my fav genres and tropes. The characters are better than in his other books but still not as good as they could be and it does take a little to get into but... I recommend it often with Dark Matter!
I'm reading Look Closer by David Ellis. Thriller
Morning Glory Milking Farm for great SMUT.......pretty please!
How is mid-year already? You’re stressing me out 😫
If you want a cozy English murder mystery I think you’d like “How to Solve Your Own Murder.” I thought it was really enjoyable and unique!
21:38 Dont know if its helpful or not but atleast one of the series in your TBR has a man who is SAed and it is quite well written, i think.
My read author stats say 67% women and I think thats how I would like it to stay, definitely not less👌🏻
I've finished 82 so far
Best book
The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec (standalone!)
Best sequel
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
New release
A Botanicle Daughter by Noah Medlock
New releases for 2nd half of the year "The Night Guest" by Hildur Knutsdottir
"A Novel Love Story" by Ashley Poston
"Fury of the Gods" by John Gwynne
"Heavenly Tyrant" by Xiran Jay Zhao
Biggest disappointment
After World by Debbie Urbanski
Biggest surprise
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Fictional crush
Ruby from "Taken by the Witch Queen" by Luna Fury
Fav character
Winter from Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu
Made me cry
The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
The Hidden Guardian by J.D.L Rosell
Made me happy
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Prettiest book
The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska
Need to read
Under the Keep by Erika Johansen (prequel to Queen of the Tearling)
You're a reading machine!
Read Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez! So freaking good
Love the shirt being shown off in the thumbnail 😂👏🌈🏳️🌈
Love that pride shirt ❤
Romance rec! I feel exactly the same way about Part of Your World, so maybe this will work for you - The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston. Grown up main characters, a supernatural twist, and the romance is woven into the story well
Oh it's the same author as the seven year slip, I've heard of that one a lot!
I love how colorful romance books are!
@@BookswithEmilyFox and she has a new one coming out! I think it's called A Novel Story...something like that 🤪
Have you read Liz Nugent? Strange Sally Diamond?
Happy Pride month! 🌈
This month, I'm focusing on the queer books on my TBR and it has been going very well so far, especially the queer scifi has been great.
What queer scifi would you recommend? :)
@@Kyubone This month I read More Than This by Patrick Ness which was quite nice (not that focused on the queer part tho), and Prophet by Sin Blanché and Helen Macdonald (also not big focus on queer part, but it added in really nicely) which I really really loved but it was pretty disturbing and twisty in parts (if you don't like a little bit of gore, I wouldn't recommend). Generally, my favorite queer scifi reads were A Song For The Wild-Built and its sequel A Prayer For The Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers as well as the Wayfarer series by her (my favorites were part 1 and 4). Dead Space by Kali Wallace is another queer scifi that was really cool, but the queer part was very very minor, so it's only a small mention.
I have 10 unfinished series that are already finished (fully published) and i want to make it a challenge to finish them all by the end of the year
That's awesome! Which ones are you the most excited to continue?
Amber in the ashes by Sabaa tahir
And from the german author Walter Moers the next Zamonien book (dont know if its available in english)
I’ve had amber in the ashes on my shelves for so long! Hopefully I’ll pick it from the jar!
Its YA you will just unhaul it 😂
Can anything be weirder than fledgling by Octavia E Butler?
It's one of the two I have left... I'm expecting the worst lol
I have the same answer for What books do you need to read by the end of the year?, in my case, 350.
LOL right? Which book isn't on my TBR?!
I found myself skipping mystery thriller written by men too, not only SFF, because WTF, why is it always the cute but secretly derranged 16 YO girl who is murdered, like "oh that's so sad she was so pretty she didn't deserve that blablabla" 🙄
For romance anything by tal Bauer (I can give you specific recommendations or Tia Williams
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Happy pride!!!🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Ohh, don't think I am overstating or faking but i can see a deserving girl in beautiful T-shirt😅❤l💝
I find it really interesting that for you it's called 7 AND A HALF deaths of Evelyn hardcastle, for us in uk its just seven... Why?
Because it came out the same year at the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo so they changed it. My copy also only says seven deaths. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard lol
Didn’t like the last murder at the world of the world either
Blood Over Bright Haven has been my favourite book so far this year. I don't think anything will beat it tbh. Hope the publisher version gets a UK release, I want a physical copy.
Loving the shirt 🌈❤
The 40 rules of love was one of the most dissapointing books of last year for me. So boring and alembicated, I could barely finish it. Now I don't know if I should pick up something else by Elif Shafak.
That’s the one I can’t seem to finish!!
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I feel like you’re not going to like murder road lol it’s not her best I do want to see your reaction to it though…
Please tell me you are reading “The time I got drunk and saved a Demon” for your smut read video!? So many people recommend it, but I am on the edge, so would love to see your opinions, they are so honestly funny 😂😊 Hope ya have a safe, fun reading summer with your babies ❤
Mayyyyyyybbeeeeee
Yes lol
Will be on the look out for it, so excited!🎉😊😂
i dont like elif shafak's books
And your T-shirt should also say “we don’t want to hear about it” and “keep it to yourselves”
Can appreciate peoples opinions but do not want it shoved in my face ( not you doing that Emily )
But I am doing that.
We wouldn't need to talk about it if people weren't trying to take away other people's rights. I don't think people that aren't cis and straight existing is shoving it in your face.
I’m straight as a nail and I still feel like it needs to be talked about. It bothers me so bad when people bad mouth pride. Someone you love could be having a battle within themselves about their sexuality and scared to talk about because of all the judging. Just listening and being there for them can save a life.
Lol, what about all the cishet couples making out anywhere and everywhere, freely talking about their SO, holding hands in public, etc? If that doesn't bother you why does it bother you or when it's queer people doing it? Not wanting to hear about/ see queer relationships is still homophobic. ✌🏻
Lol, if cishet couples can make out, hold hands, talk about their relationship openly and more and it doesn't bother you yet queer people should "keep it to themselves" or only do it behind closed doors, you're still being homophobic. ✌🏻 Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈
Bruh it's just a t-shirt. What's wrong with it? The fact it has profanity on it and kids might see it?
i read 45 books so far!
here are my answers:
best book:
- howl's moving castle by diana wynne jones
read it in may and already reread it😭💗
best sequel:
- ignite me by tahereh mafi
new releases:
- the god and the gumhio by sophie kim
- evocation by s.t. gibson
- ballad of blood and wine by tang jiu qing
(have a few more)
new releases for 2nd half:
- these deathless shores by p.h. low
- of jade and dragons by amber chen
- lady marcbeth by ava reid
- a dark and drowning tide by allison saft
(and sooo much more!!)
biggest disappointment:
- haru to aidem by alexa pranks, bella chan
it's not a big disappointment because it was for free on kindle and i read it randomly on work, so i didn't expect anything, but it was bad :(
biggest surprise:
- shatter me by tahereh mafi
never wanted to read it because of the hype, but i gave it a try and i love it!
- am i trans enough by alo johnston
helped me more than i thought because i alredy knew the answer, but i still wanted to read it and there were so many topics were he called me out😭
author's i want to read more from:
- kaori yuki
- spica aori
- diana wynne jones
- ben alderson
- tahere mafi
fictional crush:
- aaron warner from shatter me
i am NOT sorry😭💚
favourite characters:
- kenji kishimoto from shatter me
- howl from howl's moving castle
- calzifer from howl's moving castle
- li yu and prince jing from the disabled tyrant's beloved pet fish xD
made me cry: am i trans enough alo johnston
made me happy: the disabled tyrant's beloved pet fish by xue shan fei hu
most beautiful book: the spanish hardcover edition of mo dao zu shi by mo xiang tong xiu
need to read:
(all of them are sequels)
- heir to frost & storm by brendon anderson
- the promised neverland were i hopefully finally after, i think 5 years, read the last 10 volumes😭
- harry potter and the chamber of secrets by j.k. rowling
- here's to us by becky albertalli, adam silvera
try to read it a few times, it's not bad, i'm just never in the mood for it :(
that's it c: you all have a nice 2nd half of the reading year💗
So proud of you Emily you done so well and I am rooting for you! 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🩵🩵🩵🩵💛🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🧡💚💚💚💚💚💚💜💜💞💞💞💞💜💞🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊📚📚📚📚📙📙📙📙📙📙📖📖📖📖📚📚📚📚