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No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

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4.0

reading this sometimes felt like when you’re driving and you’re getting comfortable at the pace you’re going and then all of sudden the car in front of you stops short so you stop short and your heart kinda feels like it stopped short too, but then you keep going towards your destination anyways

i liked it. underlined the hell of it. weird amount of incest/power imbalances though.
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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4.0

thank god i finally decided to finish this book right before the sequel comes out because WHAT THE FUCK?!
Dream Work by Mary Oliver

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5.0

if i had the means to tattoo every mary oliver poem into my skin, i would.

anyways, here are the bits i loved:

“the seeds of restlessness
    that made you, finally,
         swim toward the world,
             kicking and shouting
but trailing a mossy darkness —
    a dream that would never breathe air
         and was hinged to your wildest joy
             like a shadow.”

“each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered
lavishly,
every morning,
whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.”

“You do not have to be good…You only have to let the soft animal of your body
    love what it loves.”

Love, love, loved this collection. It made a home in my heart.
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

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5.0

it’s actually insane how horny this book was given everything that was at stake, but i loved every minute of it. i already miss these characters so much and i can’t wait to reread this series some time in the future.
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

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5.0

dicks out for darlington and that’s all i’m going to say about that.

this book had everything. it had me gasping, it had me screaming, it had me up til 1 am just until I got to “A real-“ “Gentleman.” and then i realized i had to stop or I’d never go to sleep. Such a good follow-up and I need the next one NOW!!
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson

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3.0

this memoir was, at times, silly and, at others, deeply relatable. it’s filled with wonderful streams of thought, drawings of the things that kept the author sane on her solo cross-country road trip, and the usual prose that accompanies a major break-up. she takes a lot of tangents throughout the book that i didn’t always want to sit through, and sometimes she veered into that repetitive style of writing that’s become kind of cliche, which i wasn’t a huge fan of. this also wasn’t a memoir or an essay collection in the classical sense. it’s more like a travel guide, a checklist, a what’s in my bag, a sketchbook, and a diary rolled into one. safe to say, i enjoyed my time reading this. didn’t regret it at all.

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

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4.0

The more I read this, the better it got. Especially those last like 100-150 pages—absolutely buckwild. Sazed and Spook are everything to me.
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté

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5.0

this was such an enlightening read and if i had a physical copy it would be tabbed and highlighted to hell and back