A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Is that?? The same book?? It has to be the same book right?? Maybe a slightly different title in a different country??? Just a really really weird coincidence????

It is indeed the same book! Apparently, they changed the name when it was published in the U.S. because there was another book published the year before called The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

6. Biggest surprise

I never know if this is supposed to mean like if there was a book I wasn't expecting to like but did, or which book had the most surprising things in it ^^' But I guess I'll just go with The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. It's a time loop murder mystery, so obviously there's lots of twists and surprises in it. And I'm not sure what I was expecting the multiple deaths alluded to in the title to mean, but that was pretty surprising!

10. A book that made you happy

I really enjoyed Lady Audley's Secret. It felt kind of like Austen meets Dickens, and since I love both of those authors, it was like the best of both words. Engaging dialogue, interesting characters, a plot that keeps you turning the pages, and some coincidences that are maybe a bit dramatic and unrealistic, but still! Very fun read. Needs a real BBC miniseries made of it, stat, because the one movie I found of it was a terrible adaptation.

12. A book you need to read by the end of the year

The only remaining book from this year's Book Rec Exchange is The Shadow of What Was Lost, which I'm currently reading. Shouldn't be too hard, because I'm halfway through now.