Hey, G! For the book asks, how about 3 and 10?
not me queueing up an ask game and then forgetting to log in to the entire app all day sorry ioco ily
3 - What were your top five books of the year?
I feel like 80% of what I read this year were flops, but now that I look at this list, I read so many books that 20% non-flops isn't too bad, actually. My favorites this year were mostly "finally got around to reading" books that are only new to me! And of course we had some gems from Bella's Book Club, both regular and from the summer reading challenge (shoutout to Braiding Sweetgrass, the Emily books, and The Hollow Kingdom!)
- the His Dark Materials trilogy - Yeah yeah, everyone's been telling me to read this since I was 10 to the point where I was like "there's no way this could possibly live up to the hype" but oops yes it does
- The Haunting of Hill House - shirley is Mother
- Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower - if shirley is Mother, tamsyn is God
- System Collapse/my more diplomatic answer: the Ancillary Justice series - AJ isn't as good as Murderbot but that's an insanely high bar so it's still pretty good
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Wasn't expecting to like this nearly as much as I did, but found I was just stoked to keep reading every time I picked it up
10 - What was your favorite new release of the year?
At the beginning of the year I said it was gonna be System Collapse and I was 100% correct, it was System Collapse