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Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
adventurous
challenging
inspiring
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.
What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway. Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and anyone else anyway.
It’s easy for a child to fall in love with something if they’re told that they can be best at it, as long as they want it enough.
One of the hardest things about getting old is admitting mistakes that it’s too late to put right. The worst thing about having power over other people’s lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.
You never stop being scared of falling from the top, because when you close your eyes you can still feel the pain from each and every step of the way up.
A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can’t do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right.
There are plenty of things that hurt people without people ever really knowing why. Anxiety can act as internal gravity, shrinking the soul.
It doesn’t matter how many times you explain it to a child. No one loses a parent that way without knowing that all the other grownups are lying when they say, “It wasn’t your fault.”
People feel pain. And it shrinks their souls.
For years she used to go to bed dreaming of all the things she was going to do when she got older and had more time, and now she sometimes wakes up in despair in the middle of the night because she can no longer remember what those things were.
Pride in a team can come from a variety of causes. Pride in a place, or a community, or just a single person. We devote ourselves to sports because they remind us of how small we are just as much as they make us bigger.
She thinks about that other life far too often. The one someone else is living.
The tactical secret is love.
Any living thing that is kept behind bars for long enough eventually becomes more scared of the unknown than its own captivity.
Bitterness can be corrosive; it can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.
She’ll never stop wishing that she hadn’t gone with him up the stairs.
For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.
A thousand wishes yesterday, one single one today.
“Because otherwise he’ll do it again. To someone else.”
Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes much easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn’t through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple.
There are damn few things in life that are harder than admitting to yourself that you’re a hypocrite.
Fighting isn’t hard. It’s the starting and stopping that are hard. Once you’re actually fighting, it happens more or less instinctively. The complicated thing about fighting is daring to throw the first punch, and then, once you’ve won, refraining from throwing that very last one.
I don’t need any men. I don’t need a man to drive me in a big car to the rink each morning, and I don’t need a man to give me a new job that I don’t want. I don’t need a man to pay my bills, and I don’t need a man to tell me what I can think and feel and believe. I only need one man: my son. And you’re not alone. You’ve never been alone. You just need to be better at choosing the company you keep.
The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washes through them, knocking them off their feet. It’s incomprehensible because there’s nothing to compare it to. It’s like trying to describe sand between your toes or snowflakes on your tongue to someone who’s lived their whole life in a dark room. It sends the soul flying.
“ ‘I was wrong.’ Good words to know.”
There are few words that are harder to explain than “loyalty.” It’s always regarded as a positive characteristic, because a lot of people would say that many of the best things people do for each other occur precisely because of loyalty. The only problem is that many of the very worst things we do to each other occur because of the same thing.
Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.
Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up the next morning.
Date Started: March 15, 2023
Date Finished: March 25, 2023
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
This book is one of my slowest reads so far this year. First, I wanted to appreciate the writing style. Second, it took me a while to adjust to the writing style and the 3rd POV as I was mostly reading 1st POV books recently. This book is great, but I read it at the wrong time. I would still recommend it. Thanks again to my friend for letting me read this book.
Here are some lines that stood out to me:
Here are some lines that stood out to me:
“Success is never a coincidence. Luck can give you money, but never success,” he often says. —Mr. Erdahl
If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.
What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway. Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and anyone else anyway.
It’s easy for a child to fall in love with something if they’re told that they can be best at it, as long as they want it enough.
One of the hardest things about getting old is admitting mistakes that it’s too late to put right. The worst thing about having power over other people’s lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.
You never stop being scared of falling from the top, because when you close your eyes you can still feel the pain from each and every step of the way up.
A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can’t do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right.
There are plenty of things that hurt people without people ever really knowing why. Anxiety can act as internal gravity, shrinking the soul.
It doesn’t matter how many times you explain it to a child. No one loses a parent that way without knowing that all the other grownups are lying when they say, “It wasn’t your fault.”
People feel pain. And it shrinks their souls.
For years she used to go to bed dreaming of all the things she was going to do when she got older and had more time, and now she sometimes wakes up in despair in the middle of the night because she can no longer remember what those things were.
Pride in a team can come from a variety of causes. Pride in a place, or a community, or just a single person. We devote ourselves to sports because they remind us of how small we are just as much as they make us bigger.
She thinks about that other life far too often. The one someone else is living.
The tactical secret is love.
Any living thing that is kept behind bars for long enough eventually becomes more scared of the unknown than its own captivity.
Bitterness can be corrosive; it can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.
She’ll never stop wishing that she hadn’t gone with him up the stairs.
For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.
A thousand wishes yesterday, one single one today.
“Because otherwise he’ll do it again. To someone else.”
Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes much easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn’t through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple.
There are damn few things in life that are harder than admitting to yourself that you’re a hypocrite.
Fighting isn’t hard. It’s the starting and stopping that are hard. Once you’re actually fighting, it happens more or less instinctively. The complicated thing about fighting is daring to throw the first punch, and then, once you’ve won, refraining from throwing that very last one.
I don’t need any men. I don’t need a man to drive me in a big car to the rink each morning, and I don’t need a man to give me a new job that I don’t want. I don’t need a man to pay my bills, and I don’t need a man to tell me what I can think and feel and believe. I only need one man: my son. And you’re not alone. You’ve never been alone. You just need to be better at choosing the company you keep.
The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washes through them, knocking them off their feet. It’s incomprehensible because there’s nothing to compare it to. It’s like trying to describe sand between your toes or snowflakes on your tongue to someone who’s lived their whole life in a dark room. It sends the soul flying.
“ ‘I was wrong.’ Good words to know.”
There are few words that are harder to explain than “loyalty.” It’s always regarded as a positive characteristic, because a lot of people would say that many of the best things people do for each other occur precisely because of loyalty. The only problem is that many of the very worst things we do to each other occur because of the same thing.
Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.
Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up the next morning.
Date Started: March 15, 2023
Date Finished: March 25, 2023
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault and Rape
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Homophobia and Suicidal thoughts
How It Ends by Catherine Lo
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
This book was given to me by a dear friend for our exchange gift. She gave me a hard copy of the book. I was actually not expecting much from the book as I have no idea about the book and the author. I gave a low rating since it wasn't as captivating as I had anticipated. If I were to have read this on an earlier year, I would have given it a higher rating.
Date Started: March 19, 2023
Date Finished: March 21, 2023
Date Started: March 19, 2023
Date Finished: March 21, 2023
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abortion
It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I honestly didn't want to read this book at the beginning of the year but my friend offered it to me since she didn't finish reading it. I also don't have any copy of my annotations as I speed read it and there weren't any remarkable lines for me there.
Date Started: February 26, 2023
Date Finished: March 6, 2023
Date Started: February 26, 2023
Date Finished: March 6, 2023
Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi
And suddenly this small, battered notebook means more to me than anything I’ve ever owned.
Date Started: January 02, 2023 8:26 PM
Date Finished: January 02, 2023 9:20 PM
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This is the first novella in the shatte me series and I was actually doubting if I should read it or read it after I finished reading the main books. During this time, I was really keen on keeping up with my reading goal so I gave it a shot.
Here are some line that stood out to me:
Here are some line that stood out to me:
I can’t control a nightmare, but in my waking moments her name is the only reminder I will permit myself. —Adam Warner
And suddenly this small, battered notebook means more to me than anything I’ve ever owned.
Date Started: January 02, 2023 8:26 PM
Date Finished: January 02, 2023 9:20 PM
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
But then, they never believed anything I said. That’s exactly why I’m here.
Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes I’m not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all.
The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
Maybe you should accept the fact that you’ve tried to be someone you’re not for so long and that no matter what you did, those bastards were never happy. They were never satisfied. They never gave a damn, did they?”
Date Started: January 02, 2022 12:12 AM
Date Finished: January 02, 2022 6:49 PM
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Yes, I finally gave in and started reading this book. As I've seen a lot of mixed opinions of this series, I decided to read it with an open mind and not expect so much as I haven't read fantasy books for a while.
Here are some line that stood out for me:
Here are some line that stood out for me:
“You’ve suppressed all your rage and resentment because you wanted to be loved." —Adam Warner
But then, they never believed anything I said. That’s exactly why I’m here.
Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes I’m not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all.
The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
Maybe you should accept the fact that you’ve tried to be someone you’re not for so long and that no matter what you did, those bastards were never happy. They were never satisfied. They never gave a damn, did they?”
Date Started: January 02, 2022 12:12 AM
Date Finished: January 02, 2022 6:49 PM