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Last wrap up post! I started and ended the year with some #tob reads. I‘ve already finished my first book of 2025, but I hope to get to some of my missed reviews tomorrow. The tagged is my best nonfiction of the year. The Wedding People is my best fiction; although I developed a new appreciation for Fates and Furies. Here‘s to a great bookish year! 🎉🥂 May your 2025 be filled with more amazing books! 🫶🏻💜

I was gifted a great book haul this holiday.

Finished my first book for #auldlangspine and last book for #wintergames2024
I really liked this one but was a little bit disappointed with the end but overall it was an interesting read.
 @MallenNC @monalyisha

This book was ponderous and annoying. I picked it for my book club and was almost immediately sorry. But I persisted and finished it!

The Wild Inside doesn‘t make a lot of sense and contains animal abuse that isn‘t contained just to “the wild.”

Burn had an interesting premise but didn‘t really live up to it, and I‘m probably done with Peter Heller.

The Darkness was great until the ending, and that‘s all I can really say. 🤬

#worstof2024

This was discussed as a recent read on the episode Cozy Reads With Megan and Alyisha in MA on the podcast. I found it a delight. It was compulsively readable and a fun idea for a book.

#12BooksOf2024 @Andrew65

April

I know it‘s not officially January #auldlangspine but the library hold expires in 7 days so starting this one a few days early before it disappears from my kindle. @MallenNC @monalyisha

Yeah, I don‘t. Not anymore!
Clem is a brilliant Australian journalist, feminist and activist. I learn so much from her books and they are very amusing as well.
But the sad reality is that the people who should read these books and gain a new perspective of things never are the ones who do.
#Oznonfiction

Need a short book to round off the year?
I‘ve got some recs for you in the latest edition of my newsletter.

https://ifyoulovethatreadthis.substack.com/p/if-you-love-short-books-read-these

This was a fast read - a novella really - about a woman who is a second wife, and her obsession with her husband‘s former wife. She is also step-mother to his two older children. The book rips along - the husband is a bit of a blow hard, the former wife seems faultless, the step children have a good relationship with the new wife, and yet the new wife cannot seem to control her impulses leading to a wild ending.