#2022 reads
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 052
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
“We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 050
The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon
“The truth is, the harder we are, the easier we shatter. It takes some softness to absorb life’s blows.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 049
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
“And he paused, in the space between inhalation and exhalation, and invited the magic in.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 048
Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
“And I’m sitting here wondering why my mother won’t change the channel and why the news won’t change the story and why the story won’t change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about how we won’t change the world or the way we treat the world or the way we treat each other.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 047
Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
“You’re just going to live out your life not knowing whether your old man ever found the most famous treasure in American history? This is it, you guys, our big adventure.”
Books I’ve read in 2022 no. 046
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
“You have no idea how difficult it was for me to not say, ‘Welcome to Jurassic Park!’ to all of you just now.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 045
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
“Am I bitter or am I sweet? Ladies can be either.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 044
Mickey7 by Edward Ashton
“Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 043
How to be a Wallflower by Eloisa James
“She loathed stubborn men: they were so often underqualified and overpresumptuous.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 042
A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
“Grief has a taste, bitter and lingering, but so soft it sometimes disguises itself as sweetness.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 041
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
“That’s not to say I didn’t think about you. I thought about you a lot when you were gone, though all I ever knew was the absence of you.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 040
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
“Human nature could be so hideous, but it persisted in this ugliness by insisting it was good.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 039
Stuck with You by Ali Hazelwood
“I only knew you for 24 hours but I’ve never missed anyone so much.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 038
Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
“I mean, plot can just be time passing, you know?”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 037
Book of Night by Holly Black
“What makes you feel safe when you go to sleep at night? Being able to check and see that your secrets are still hidden.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 036
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik
“We found a body in the ice out on Glacier 35A. A young girl. We were able to cut through the ice and bring her back to the compound. Val, she thawed out alive. Don’t ask me to explain it, I can’t.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 035
Electric Idol by Katee Robert
“I don’t care if she deserves someone just as sweet as she is. I want her chained to me, and I’ll rip out the throat of anyone who thinks they can take her away.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 034
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
“A text—a book—is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on. But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 033
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
“This, I realize, is what they mean, all those thousands of writers who’ve tried to describe the sensation of following the trail of your life for years, only to smack into something that changes it forever.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 032
Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison
“It is the burden of the survivor to wake up one day and discover in yourself a stranger.”
