His book reviews are like recommendations from a close friend. But I can't, so I am incredibly glad that he exists in the world and writes the reviews he does. This is not a fuzzy romance it's on the smothering of dreams and hopes, on the choices that life gradually takes away.ĭirda is a kindred spirit in the book world, although I can only sit back and wish that I have read as broadly and as deeply as he has, as well as wish that I could write about the experience of reading and of books so beautifully as he does. She also inverts the trope and makes the hard-living, hard-hearted character the heroine, with a hero painfully in love with her. In this book, they are outlaws, and there is no romance at all in the way Chance portrays their lives. I love Megan Chance's romances because she doesn't bother to whitewash history her characters are rarely the rareified nobility that populate most romances. I've blogged each book before, which you can find in my book memories section, if you want to read me blather on even more.īoth romances on this list are ones that push the boundaries of the genre. I'm cheating quite a bit on this list and including multiple books by authors and such, but hey, it's my list ). They may not be the best books I've read this year, or the most technically proficient, or the like, but they are books that grabbed me somehow and will most likely end up being reread very often. And now, my ten favorite books of the year, out of all the books I have read this year (excluding rereads), not out of all the books published this year.

I read many things I wouldn't have touched previously because of that. A big reason for that is because of LJ, because of all the recs that have come in, and for that, I am eternally grateful. Just off the top of my head, I would say that I feel like I've read a great deal of books this year, and most of them good. This being the inaugural year, I have no idea how this matches up to my reading habits of previous year. I am shamelessly copying coffeeandink's format (I hope you don't mind, Mely), whose posts are the main reason why I started book blogging at all. Heh, the ability to do this post was the reason behind why I started book blogging last year, and of course, now it's about a week late and I don't have much energy to write it.

Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM.

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