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What a book to end 2025 with. I am both crying and wanting to open it back up and start over from the beginning. Love and friendship and heartbreak and growing up and holding on and it was just so lovely.

Every year I choose a few books I want to re-read. These are the ones I have been thinking about a lot and will be my picks for 2026!
A Dive From Clausen's Pier
Death With Interruptions
The Collector
Slaughter House 5
The Bluest Eye
5th Season
Red @the Bone
In The Time of Butterflies
Death of Vivik Oj
Underground Railroad

I loved this book way too much considering how it devastated me…

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This started out so well but I lost interest halfway and found myself switching off. Possibly better to read in print. I think I would have preferred it if there weren‘t as many character points of view, too. I was left with similar feelings as when I listened to I Want To Go Home But I‘m Already There…just couldn‘t connect to the characters and not very memorable. #10beforetheend

Good Material, by Dolly Alderton (2023) [RE-READ]
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Premise: A thirty-something failing comedian spirals in the aftermath of a break-up he didn‘t see coming.

Review: I loved this as much on seven read as first. The main male character is a bit of a man-child, but the book never suggests anything else. And, it‘s refreshing to see the flip side of the ‘cast off the unsatisfying relationship to live the life you‘re meant to live!‘ motif.⬇️

Thank you @alexus_sb for the lovely #jolabokaflod package! This book has been a long-timer on my tbr, so I'm excited to dive in! Thank you @MaleficentBookDragon for another year of this Christmas Eve tradition 🎄

Just started The 5 Love Languages—curious to see what my love language really is! Anyone else read this?

Ok, so halfway through, I thought this was going to be a ‘meh‘ book, and that maybe Lily King‘s a little overrated (this is my first time reading her). But then, I‘m reading the ending, and I‘m blown away by it. I get all the hype now.

A book about love, friendship, and the relationships that mark us for life. King writes so evocatively about the intoxication of first love and how huge and impossible life choices loom when one is young. And then how the consequences of those choices follow you into adulthood. An exquisite novel.

This feels like a hard book to describe but it was very much my kind of read, as I knew it would be - one of my favourites of the year. #10beforetheend