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One of my favorite bookstore traditions is picking our Top Ten books published in 2025. I read a lot of excellent books, many from my backlist, but King Sorrow was the best of the best! I'll tag the other 9 in the comments.

When you wake up in the morning and the social media algorithm is absolutely clocking you. 🤣 Who else here has an embarrassing dalliance with this book in their past? #ItsJustFanFic #IWas13OKAY #ButIReReadItToThisDay

So let's pick a 12 hour audiobook when trying to meet our reading goal for the year. 🤦🏾‍♀️ I've been getting into the LitRPG genre lately, and while this book isn't really LitRPG, it's adjacent. 5 more books to read by the end of the month. I can do this!

Tackle the TBR 🤓📚
#boleybooks #kingsorrow #joehill #frostbuddy #bookbrew #bookbeast #bookbuds #bookclub #letsread #netgalley
🎉🙌There‘s a Frostbuddy discount portal available for you in my linktree.

I love this #AuldLangSpine list from my match @rachelsbrittain ! The only one I‘ve already read is Sunrise on the Reaping. In January I‘m going to attempt to read 3- The Incandescent, as I already have it, Hemlock & Silver (Jan‘s #AuthorAMonth, how convenient!), and An Extraordinary Union as I can get it right away on Libby. I‘m making myself a StoryGraph challenge to keep reading the rest throughout the year.

Looking forward to diving in!

It had a touch of Kipling's influence. I thought so, anyway. I enjoyed it, but it didn't give me the warmth of The Railway Children. Thanks for choosing these books for us, @TheBookHippie #ChildrensClassicRead2025

Read the first 9 chapters of Empire Of Storms
#LittensLoveSJM #ToG @StayCurious
Ready for discussion Dec 8. #SnowyDecemberReadathon

This book was really good!! Actually a huge step up from Alloy of Law, which reading Sanderson‘s prologue makes sense. Fantastic story, move in a lot of fun Mistborn elements, and set up for a really great next book.

“I was barely involved, except for the stabbing part.” 😂

The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo 2), by Katherine Addison (2022)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Premise: A cleric who advocates on behalf of the dead inherits an apprentice just as he takes a case about the murder of an aristocrat.

Review: I was critical for the first book in this series for being diffuse. This was much the same, but it didn‘t bother me as much since I had a better sense of the world and the protagonist‘s job..This was very satisfying.