#lit edit
THE GRISHAVERSE → MATTHIAS HELVAR
“You’re better that waffles, Matthias Helvar.” A small smile curled the Fjerdan’s lips. “Let’s not say things we don’t mean, my love”
THE GRISHAVERSE → GENYA SAFIN
beauty was your armor. fragile stuff, all show. but what’s inside you? that’s steel. it’s brave and unbreakable. and it doesn’t need fixing
MODERN -> SNOW QUEEN
THE GRISHAVERSE → INEJ GHAFA
she was inej ghafa, and she would not quiver like a rabbit in a snare. wherever i am, i just have to get out
ACOTAR → TAMLIN & LUCIEN
i try to hide my pain behind a broken smile
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 065
Greenglass House by Kate Milford
“Nobody said it had to be a story with an ending all neatly tied up like some ridiculous fairy tale. This story’s true, and true stories don’t have endings, because things just keep going.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 064
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
“It was all so clear now, so terrifyingly obvious. I was the villain; I always had been. It explained everything—why I’d never gotten what I wanted, no matter how hard I’d tried. It wasn’t because life was unfair, or not working the way it should. I’d had it backwards my whole life: I wasn’t the princess, set upon by misfortune; I was the witch.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 063
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
“I make a story for my life, for each step my brown shoe takes.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 062
Below Zero by Ali Hazelwood
“Even though i pushed him away over and over, he still came in a rocking boat in the middle of the coldest ocean on planet earth just to get me warm.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 061
The Songbook of Benny Lament by Amy Harmon
“If you want people to change, you have to show them what it looks like.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 060
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
“Here’s the thing. It’s kind of a big coincidence, don’t you agree? That you were researching that case and then happened to be involved in a similar attack.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 059
Siren Queen By Nghi Vo
“I’d like to see more monsters.“
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 058
Euphoria by Lily King
“Despite everything, I believed somehow there was time. Love’s first mistake. Perhaps love’s only mistake.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 057
Malice by Keigo Higashino
“Everyone has secrets. And everyone has the right to keep them. Even if they’re dead.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 056
Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik
“Why were the attractive ones always criminals?”
Books I’ve Read in 2022 no. 055
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
“Trees are never lonely. Humans think they know with certainty where their being ends and someone else’s starts. With their roots tangled and caught up underground, linked to fungi and bacteria, trees harbour no such illusions. For us, everything is interconnected.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 054
A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft
“If he can convince her of one thing in his life, let it be this: A life beyond that house, beyond all the ghosts that haunt it, is a dream worth believing in. One worth trying for.”
books I’ve read in 2022 no. 053
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
“She wonders how much space a person has left in her soul to change herself, once she gets older. What people does she still have to meet, what will they see in her, and what will they make her see in herself?”
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.”
