2. top five books of all time?
so this is actually a tough one for me to answer 🥴 mainly because I don't really have any books I'd consider books of all time since for me I've gone through so many different periods of my life with different books, and they aren't what I'd call all time books but they were important to me at the time of reading (am I making sense.) Anyway, let's go with those :)
The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot (the whole series.) YA. Incredibly important to me as a middle schooler/high schooler. Got me through a lot of days.
Days of Blood and Starlight - Laini Taylor. YA. 2nd book in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series but is responsible for my writing style transforming into what it still is today, over a decade on (sidenote: wow I've been writing for a long time.)
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - A. Wolf (but told to Jon Scieszka). Children's picture book. Very important to me, as there's big lore between me, Sapph, and this book from when I was a child. It played a really important role in my development as well as me doing one of my favourite activities: proving people wrong :)
The Second Death of Locke - V.L. Bovalino. Adult. This book caught my attention with its absolutely stunning cover, but was also my late introduction into the modern writings of romantasy, and what it could be. Basically kicked the ass of my years long reading slump, which veeeeery important.
No Bad Parts - Richard C. Schwartz. Non-fiction. Was recommended to me by my therapist who asked if I would be willing to give the idea of internal family systems a try in therapy. I said yes, and it changed my whole entire life and helped significantly in my healing process with my ptsd (and the way I handle it.)
15. recommend and review a book
First Time Caller by B.K. Borison. Contemporary adult romance. This book is so fun! I went through a phase where I was really into that genre (for about the first four months of the year) and this book is great! It's an easy read with a cute cover, and likeable characters and my favourite thing about it is that the adults actually act like adults. Every time I kept expecting some form of miscommunication (but in a not good way) B.K. just went "nope" and actually gave these characters some brain cells to rub together lol. Highly recommend if you need a feel good, easy read.
20. what are things you look for in a book?
lush, descriptive, prose. Romance as part of the main plot. Romance that isn't romanticising abuse. Fantasy so I can be teleported to another world. If it's not explicitly queer, I better be able to headcanon that the characters are at least bisexual or pansexual (lol.) Happy endings (but like, give me angst before that.) Swords (love a good sword. In what context? I mean any lol.) Adult characters who actually act like adults and not teenagers (can be hard to find but we move.) There's probably more but lol. Oh and of course, no ai! Absolutely none.