![]() ![]() When I tell you that I am thankful for the BookTok community, it will have nothing to do with views or engagement or Bridgerton or (god forbid) Colleen Hoover. No one had expected her to last.” Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi She’d existed to be lovely and to be chosen. Snipped from the root, quick to wilt, temporary. As I said in my original review there is a “triumphant way that LaCour arranges imagery into something powerful and seductive,” and months after setting this down I still remember the feeling it gave me. And while LaCour is wholly good at the will-they-won’t-they romance between Sara and Emilie, it is her prose and the decadent way she describes southern California that makes this book unforgettable to me. I love a book that centers a theme and explores it fully without belaboring it. Here are the best 2022 books I read in 2022. ![]() This year, 2022, was the year I quit reading books I wasn’t interested in, and started reading the back list of authors like Ursula K LeGuin and Octavia E Butler.īut true to my book-reviewing self, I read dozens of books published in 2022, and loved at least one of those dozen. I don’t know how they are screaming by but I do know I am reading the best books of all time throughout them. And here we are, on the cusp of yet another new year. ![]()
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