Am new to Adult ( and YA) Romance books - only started reading them last year,but I highly recommend :
The Ex Hex (Ex Hex #1) by Erin Sterling
And the sequel :
The Kiss Curse
(Ex Hex #2) by Erin Sterling
All the characters are whole ass people who feel like they exist outside the confines of the story.
Their reactions , interactions and motivations make sense
The world building is subtle yet intriguing
The writing is really good !
"I’m not a seer, I watch. I name the patterns that anyone could see, if they also watched.” She lifted her cross out from under her dress and weighed it, then lifted it off and held it in both hands. “I was baptised in Christ. But who is Christ? Who is Woden, or Eorðe? They are all parts of the pattern. The pattern is in everything. We are all part of it. We make the pattern; the pattern makes us."
The Earthseed vibes again!
Book: Wild Mind, Wild Earth
I ended my year with one final book: Wild Mind, Wild Earth by David Hinton. It is an argument that in order to save Planet Earth from the ongoing Sixth Extinction, it must be returned to a state of wildness, and in order to do that, we humans must ourselves return to a state of wildness that we have long forgotten.
#books #bookstodon #books2023 #ecology #taoism #zen #environmentalism #sixthextinction #reading
http://bipolarbodhisattva.com/2024/01/02/book-wild-mind-wild-earth/
My reading list for December 2023:
• 12/1 Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol
• 12/2 Martha Wells, Exit Strategy
• 12/3 Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry
• 12/8 Martha Wells, Network Effect
• 12/14 Martha Wells, System Collapse
• 12/22 Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
• 12/24 Luigi Albertini, The Origins of the War of 1914. Volume I: European Relations From the Congress of Berlin to the Eve of the Sarajevo Murder (tr. Isabella M. Massey)
• 12/28 Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
• 12/28 Tadashi Agi (story) and Shu Okimoto (art), The Drops of God: Volume 31
In which I look back at what I read in 2023 and think about grief and hope: https://sarahwerner.net/blog/2023/12/reading-in-grief-and-hope/
I read a lot of books in 2023. Four of the best:
Bridge, Lauren Beukes
All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Cosby
Titanium Noir, Nick Harkaway
How Far the Light Reaches, Sabrina Imbler
It’s so hard to pick just four. But check out that Imbler book—it’s real good.
Faintdreams
Jules
Rainy Knight
Matt Austern
Akkana Peck
Sarah
snarkout
Matthias Eberspächer
realityCzar
Atara