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favourite books of 2023:

"arc of a scythe" trilogy

neal shusterman

"my greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. it is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. for only the pain of empathy will keep us human. there’s no version of god that can help us if we ever lose that."

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dolina grzybowska | poland

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books i read in 2025:

"a botanical daughter"

noah medlock

"her body would be the host of this congregation of plants and fungi. it would be an abandoned cathedral, once more filled with spirit. the artistic process took on a religious significance for simon. (...) this is her body, given for you. we are all one because we all share in one bread. a floral transubstantiation was taking place under his hands. he was a scientist priest, the workbench his altar, and the mycelium moved amongst them like the holy ghost."

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books i read in 2025:

"kill creatures"

rory power

"no day at the canyon will ever be as perfect as the day my best friends died."

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books i read in 2025:

"the incendescent"

emily tesh

"selves came and went. they grew and grew. you discovered something to be and then you learned how to inhabit it with every inch of your being. and so you became old, and strong, and terrible."

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books i read in 2025:

"blood on her tongue"

johanna van veen

"grief made people do strange things, yes. but it also made strange things happen to people."

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books i read in 2025:

"the starving saints"

caitlin starling

"the hunger was a prayer, they said, a stripping away of the flesh that caged the soul."

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books i read in 2025:

"thirteen ways to kill lulabelle rock"

maude woolf

"i want the world to be gentle with me, but i don't know if i deserve it. i've not been gentle with the world."

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books i read in 2025:

"eat the ones you love"

sarah maria griffin

"in reality, literally nobody cared about the girl with the shopping bags and the flowers. she was invisible: ordinary. if i could, i would crawl inside her collar and whisper in her ear, nobody cares, shell, over and over. nobody is thinking about you, and though this would not release her from the narcissism of believing that the world’s eyes were on her as opposed to on their own steps and field of vision, it would at least jolt her, cause her to consider that maybe her life was even smaller than she had imagined at first."

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books i read in 2025:

"hammajang luck"

makana yamamoto

"i know that you would sell your soul if it meant saving your loved ones. i only ask you to consider who you're selling your soul to."

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favourite books of 2023:

"camp damascus"

chuck tingle

"the sadness is still there, lurking in the corner like a pale demon in a red polo, just waiting to finally be acknowledged. that acknowledgment could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. eventually, i’ll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love i was promised is conditional."

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birds of my hometown 🇵🇱🐦

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books i read in 2025:

"death's country"

r. m. romero

"love can't be contained in a word, a kiss, a single heart. love's a pandemonium of parakeets, free and bright. love isn't a single beat; it's a serenade, one line rolling into the next. love can be stretched like toffee across bodies and lips. love won't shatter when it's held in more than one hand. love doesn't need to be divided between only two people. there's enough of it to go around. so i'm not afraid of letting love in. i'm afraid of letting it drag me down."

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books i read in 2025:

"lovely dark and deep"

elisa a. bonnin

"maybe belonging was a decision. maybe it wasn't simply being offered a place as it was taking that place. the other red stripes had offered faith a place to belong, but none of that mattered if faith didn't actively try to be one of them."