Livro: Não é Amor Autora: Ali Hazelwood Data: 09/07/2024 - 10/07/2024 Ali Hazelwood me faz sentir coisas. Sério, muitas coisas. Terminei esse livro em menos de um dia, e fiquei fascinada. Acho que podemos notar minha animação após essa leitura por eu ter tido a coragem de escrever uma resenha assim que finalizei o livro. Tenho criado uma paixão cada vez mais profunda pelos livros da Ali. Alguns livros de romance eu amo o par romântico da protagonista, adoro suas interações e o romance. Porém, os últimos livros dessa autora eu tenho lido e me apaixonado pela protagonista, me identificado com as dores dela e tenho me visto ali naquela história. Com Rue não foi diferente. Tímida, anti-social, quieta, que acha que não pertence em nenhum lugar no mundo. O livro perfeito para quem é introvertida e não quer ler uma história com o mesmo padrão de mocinha de quase todos os livros. Em relação às minhas críticas: 1. Eu adoraria ter visto um pouco mais de romance, mas entendo a escolha da autora em construir um amor complexo para uma personagem indisponível amorosamente.

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Okay, I know I misspelled misogyny. OMG, I’m embarrassed, but I already merged all the layers on procreate before I noticed it, nooo! So, too late now. Back to it, I LOVED THIS BOOK! I literally read it in ONE DAY. I was chomping. This book is an excellent commentary on the sensationalization of serial killers in America and the incompetency and misogyny in the law enforcement investigations in these cases. Going with its message, they never give the killer in this story a name, they only refer to him as The Defendant. This book is about BADASS women working together to provide peace and justice for their friends who were also bright young women before their lives were cut short.

This book was phenomenal. I declare 5/5 ⭐️s! My first 5⭐️ read of 2024!

Skip and Loafer Vol. 2 by Misaki Takamatsu

Second read of 2024! The second volume to this series, a continuation of this coming of age series and slow burn romance! Very cute and fluffy with some hard hitting themes of enjoying life. Honestly it was a breeze! Excited to read Vol. 31

I declare 4/5 ⭐️’s !

My first read of 2024! A nice, short book of poems. It seemed to be a poetry book about poetry. Sort of a meta analysis of how poets perceive the world. This worked for me sometimes, but others it felt a little distanced and detracted from the very personal nature that living life is. But it had striking moments that absolutely left me breathless.

I declare 3/5 ⭐️s!

A good start to the reading year!

Planned a very academic outfit accordingly. Here’s to a new school year. Wish me luck.

For the past month or so, I have been trying very hard to fall out of love with someone who I love very dearly in a multitude of ways.

Nothing horrific or terrible happened between us. It was just plain honestly, which might actually be worse. But I’d rather live in a harsh reality than a rotting delusion.

I think the strange part about it all is how calm things are. The sea is still as far as the eye can see. We are even better friends.

But unfortunately I still love her.

But the funny thing about love is how quickly it can all change. Over the course of this month, the pedestal in my mind that she sat atop has softly landed. The truth that she does not love me back dulled the shimmer, little by little, as the truth set in. But I couldn’t be upset. She couldn’t help that part, as much as it was disappointing to me. As we continued to spend time together, afterwards, talking, this perfect image of the perfect way things could be faded away until I saw a real person in front of me.

A person with fears and flaws, someone who is deserving and capable of love, and though it might not be a love with me, there is a caring soul reaching out to mine, imperfect and astounding.

And unfortunately that makes me love her more.

Oh, damn.

Honestly, I am so excited to READ in 2024. I had such bad academic burnout in early 2023 that I had to take a break from reading for pleasure. But towards the end, I really got back into it, thank goodness. It’s like I forgot how reading could be fun, like the joy was sucked out of it.

I’m very excited for my list for 2024. The top mentions are:

The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson

Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica

Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney

Nick and Charlie, Alice Oseman

So, as you can see, it is an eclectic list of genres from fluffy, coming of age to horror to fantasy. Above all, I have just always been drawn to a great story. My goal for this year is to read 45 books! We shall see… but I will be recording my book adventures and writing about how I liked them.

Stay Tuned!