#childfree!jamil

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2020 BOOKS

Hoping to finish The Overstory by Richard Powers to squeak it in before January, but here is a list of the books I read this year. Usually I aim for 50 and land in the 40s so you can see quarantine at least helped my reading hah. Bolded are the ones worth reading IMO. (cover pictures for my fave 10)

01 - Jan 04 - The Ensemble - Aja Gabel 02 - Jan 05 - You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me - Sherman Alexie 03 - Jan 13 - Surveys - Natasha Stagg 04 - Jan 19 - Disappearing Earth - Julia Phillips 05 - Jan 25 - Three Women - Lisa Taddeo 06 - Jan 26 - Spring - Karl Ove Knausgaard 07 - Feb 02 - The Pursuit of William Abbey - Claire North 08 - Feb 17 - Severance - Ling Ma 09 - Feb 17 - The Island Dwellers - Jen Silverman 10 - Feb 24 - The Undying - Anne Boyer 11 - Feb 28 - There There - Tommy Orange 12 - Mar 02 - No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work - Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy 13 - Mar 07 - Radical Candor - Kim Scott 14 - Mar 13 - Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keane 15 - Mar 16 - The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher series was good and I’m glad I read it, but it was more of a time-waster when quarantine started) 16 - Mar 18 - Look How Happy I’m Making You - Polly Rosenwaike 17 - Mar 21 - Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski 18 - Mar 26 - The Time of Contempt - Andrzej Sapkowski 19 - Apr 02 - Baptism of Fire - Andrzej Sapkowski 20 - Apr 04 - Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson 21 - Apr 11 - Originals - Adam Grant 22 - Apr 22 - The Tower of the Swallow - Andrzej Sapkowski 23 - Apr 27 - Writers & Lovers - Lily King LOVED 24 - May 02 - Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism - Angus Deaton & Anne Case (it’s good, but I would just read some of their many articles) 25 - May 16 - Lady of the Lake - Andrzej Sapkowski 26 - May 18 - The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John 27 - May 29 - Pleasing Hour - Lily King 28 - Jun 03 - Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener 29 - Jun 08 - Sea Wife - Amity Gaige 30 - Jun 14 - Days of Distraction - Alexandra Chang 31 - Jun 25 - Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You - Frances Frei & Anne Morriss  32 - Jun 29 - Two is Enough: A Couple’s Guide to Living Childless by Choice - Laura S. Scott 33 - Jul 02 - Such A Fun Age - Kiley Reid 34 - Jul 04 - Long Bright River - Liz Moore 35 - Jul 16 - Childfree by Choice - Dr. Amy Blackstone 36 - Aug 01 - Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America - Alissa Quart 37 - Aug 04 - Recollections of My Non-Existence - Rebecca Solnit 38 - Aug 15 - The Motion of the Body Through Space - Lionel Shriver 39 - Aug 16 - The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World - Jamil Zaki 40 - Aug 18 - Weather - Jenny Offill 1 - Aug 21 - The Regrets - Amy Bonnaffons 42 - Aug 27 - Topics of Conversation - Miranda Popkey 43 - Aug 30 - Perfect Tunes - Emily Gould 44 - Sept 04 - What Are People For? Wendell Berry 45 - Sept 06 - I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown 46 - Sept 07 - Little Weirds - Jenny Slate 47 - Sept 11 - The Art of Waiting - Belle Boggs 48 - Sept 22 - The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante 49 - Sept 26 - Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl 50 - Oct 04 - Dune - Frank Herbert 51 - Oct 11 - The Far Field - Madhuri Vijay 52 - Oct 24 - The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (I HATED this and then I came around. I’m not usually made uncomfortable but dang, scatalogical + child abuse = ugh ) 53 - Nov 07 - The Memo: What Women of Color Need to know to secure a Seat at the Table - Minda Harts 54 - Nov 08 - Stray - Stephanie Danler 55 - Nov 09 - Having and Being Had - Eula Biss LOVED! 56 - Nov 13 - What Are You Going Through - Sigrid Nunez 57 - Nov 18 - Luster - Raven Leilani 58 - Nov 22 - Works Well With Others - Ross McCammon 59 - Nov 27 - The Topeka School - Ben Lerner 60 - Dec 08 - Warp - Lev Grossman 61 - Dec 13 - Creatures - Crissy Van Meter 62 - Dec 20 - The People, No - Thomas Frank

[twisted-whispers]

Mermay #3 is about two weeks away as this week is particularly busy for me, but I do have a bit of time in between responsibilities to spin up headcanons.

Asks and inbox are also open if anyone wants to chat or submit ideas!

I'm currently thinking of childfree!Malleus though. It's a secret he holds close to his heart - perhaps all he truly wants in life is one person to share himself with and not deal with the intricacies of the royal court. He doesn't want the responsibilities that come with the throne and wants to focus on himself and the person he will eventually pick to be by his side for eternity.

Childfree!Azul is also a great concept because he's such a busy lounge owner and keeps you by his side 24/7. He would probably make you his assistant for both business efficiency and possessiveness. You synchronize with him so well, why would he add complexities to the equation hes meticulously planned for you two?

Childfree!Jamil too. He's done so much caretaking with Kalim that HE wants to be the one that comes home to his significant other - embracing and watching movies together while dinner cooks in the background. He'll provide and dote on you as long as your attention is only for him - which isn't hard to do at all considering he's absolutely obsessed with making you happy.