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happy new year to all who dwell here! I could have sworn I did a roundup of my best-of-2021 reads, but apparently not. 

I read 167 books in 2022, and below are featured my 30ish or so favorites. most of them are in some or multiple ways speculative and/or queer, so I’ve tried to delineate them into smaller and more specific groupings from there. please note that while I read all of them for the first time in 2022, they are far from all being 2022 releases.

without further ado, here’s 2022’s best-of!

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RETELLINGS

  • the stars undying, emery robin [cleopatra in space]
  • wrath goddess sing, maya deane [achilles is a woman]

SPECULATIVE

  • the mimicking of known successes, malka older [f/f jupiter-set cozy mystery]
  • foundryside, robert jackson bennett [fantasy]

SERIES, CONTINUED AND FAVORITE

  • the goblin emperor + the witness for the dead & the grief of stones, katherine addison [fantasy political intrigue; fantasy cozy mystery with hints of m/m] (SERIES OF THE YEAR)
  • the liar’s knot, m.a. carrick [fantasy; #2 in series]
  • paladin’s hope, t. kingfisher [m/m fantasy horror mystery; #3 in series]
  • lords of the north, bernard cornwell [historical fiction; #3 in series]
  • the inimitable jeeves, p.g. wodehouse [the english; #2 in series]

DYSTOPIA AND THE APOCALYPSE

  • native tongue, suzette haden elgin [gender and language]
  • station eleven, emily st. john mandel [pandemic fiction]

ROMANCE

  • you deserve each other + twice shy, sarah hogle [m/f contemporary]
  • a lady for a duke, alexis hall [m/f historical; the heroine is trans] (alexis hall’s honorable mention of the year goes to boyfriend material)
  • a marvelous light, freya marske [m/m historical fantasy]
  • milk fed, melissa broder [f/f, the body, religion; not really romance please god don’t go into this expecting romance it just didn’t fit anywhere else]
  • honorable mention: emily henry’s 2020s œuvre [m/f contemporary]

SHORT STORY

MYSTERY

  • the widows of malabar hill, sujata massey [historical]

YA

  • with the fire on high, elizabeth acevedo [the balances of life]
  • ace of spades, faridah àbíké íyímídé [prep school thriller]

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NONFICTION

  • how to hide an empire: A history of the greater united states, daniel immerwahr [us imperialism]
  • we do this ‘til we free us: abolitionist organizing and transforming justice, mariame kaba [prison abolition]
  • madhouse at the end of the earth: the belgica’s journey into the dark antarctic night, julian sancton [polar expedition]
  • the body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma, bessel van der kolk [trauma, mental health]
  • entangled life: how fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures, merlin sheldrake

MEMOIR, POETRY, SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHY

  • I’m glad my mom died, jennette mccurdy [abuse, family, fame]
  • crying in h mart, michelle zauner [grief, family]
  • in the dream house, carmen maria machado [abuse, queerness]
  • the twenty-ninth year, hala alyan [poetry]
  • the pursuit of love, nancy mitford [fiction, the english]
#curre#as usual—if we have ever interacted on here at all ever and you'd like to keep/get back in touch—please do let me know!#I am highly active on goodreads; active on letterboxd; semi-active on instagram; minimally active on twitter;#and a cheerful if absent-minded text correspondent#hope ur well x
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one of the things my little brother and i do to each other is announce our presence by yelling HEWWO??? whenever we get home but. this has now caused our dad to also, upon getting home from work, throw the door open and yell. in the daddest voice possible. HEWWO???

You Canned These Worms. Now Lie In It

#language#misc
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hi hey hope everyone’s alive and getting or staying involved in community organizing. as you probably know if you’re reading this, I don’t use tumblr anymore, but this felt like the best place for my yearly book roundup.

I read 223 books in 2020. these are my top 20, all of which I read for the first time in 2020 (in the case of series—represented above by their first book—I read at least one installment for the first time in 2020).

FAVORITE NONFICTION:

  • freedom is a constant struggle: ferguson, palestine, & the foundations of a movement, angela y. davis [activism/social justice]
  • inseparable: desire between women in literature, emma donoghue [literary criticism]
  • the language of the night: essays on fantasy and science fiction (revised edition), ursula k. le guin [on writing]
  • recreational terror: women and the pleasures of horror film viewing, isabel cristina pinedo [film criticism]

FAVORITE SERIES:

  • society of gentlemen, kj charles [m/m historical romance]
  • the masquerade, seth dickinson [hard fantasy]
  • wormwood trilogy, tade thompson [science fiction]
  • feminine pursuits, olivia waite [f/f historical romance]
  • the murderbot diaries, martha wells [science fiction]

FAVORITE NOVELLAS:

  • the perilous life of jade yeo, zen cho (here) [m/f historical romance]
  • a taste of honey, rose lerner [m/f historical romance]
  • mrs. martin’s incomparable adventure, courtney milan [f/f historical romance]

FAVORITE SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS:

  • stories of your life and others, ted chiang [speculative fiction]
  • hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage: stories, alice munro [realistic fiction]

FAVORITE YA:

  • the poet x, elizabeth acevedo [ya, verse novel]
  • I am not your perfect mexican daughter, erika l. sánchez [ya]

FAVORITE ‘I CAN’T BELIEVE IT TOOK ME THIS LONG’:

  • americanah, chimamanda ngozi adichie [literary fiction]
  • the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson [gothic/horror]
  • sabriel, garth nix [ya fantasy]

FAVORITE ‘IT DOESN’T FIT ANYWHERE ELSE’:

  • provenance, ann leckie [science fiction]
#curre#would love to hear how those of y'all who I don't have on other sites are doing + I hope everyone is safe + well + in good health#I am a swamp rat :)
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hi / bye

hello i was off tumblr for 41ish days which is the longest ive been off this site since i created my blog in december 2010 and it felt very good, tumblr was my #1 most useless time-waster and although i think there are genuinely wonderful things to be seen and read on here i am more interested in spending my time elsewhere

i am not deleting (my blog has always served and will continue to serve as an oxymoronic compendium of miscellany for self-reference~~~) but i almost certainly will not be living here anymore!

i am available elsewhere on the internet; if you’d like to stay in touch (regardless of whether we talked frequently or communicated only through the silent companionship of likes and reblogs!!! i really mean this, i promise!!!) please feel free to add me there!! drop me a line so i know who you are and can connect yr tumblr identity to yr wherever-else identity!

kiss kiss best wishes yours &c.,

#i will q'ueueue it also
huntswoman

hi / bye

hello i was off tumblr for 41ish days which is the longest ive been off this site since i created my blog in december 2010 and it felt very good, tumblr was my #1 most useless time-waster and although i think there are genuinely wonderful things to be seen and read on here i am more interested in spending my time elsewhere

i am not deleting (my blog has always served and will continue to serve as an oxymoronic compendium of miscellany for self-reference~~~) but i almost certainly will not be living here anymore!

i am available elsewhere on the internet; if you’d like to stay in touch (regardless of whether we talked frequently or communicated only through the silent companionship of likes and reblogs!!! i really mean this, i promise!!!) please feel free to add me there!! drop me a line so i know who you are and can connect yr tumblr identity to yr wherever-else identity!

kiss kiss best wishes yours &c.,

#housekeeping~~~~#i'll check to see if anyone has messaged me but yeah for the most part i'm outie so long and thanks for all the fish <3#l
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The All-Star Game should just be made of volunteers, most of which I guarantee will be fourth and third liners, which means the bottom players who we always ignore will finally get a chance to step out of the shadows of their star players and show off who they really are when it comes down to it. Will it be messy? Yes. Will there probably be a bunch of hilarity to it because half of them don’t know what to do if they aren’t fighting or supporting their star players??? Yes. It may also spurr them onto changing their game up.

#it is not asg time#however#i still think this is a nice idea#sport#hockey
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Blue Mountains

A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit / Penleigh Boyd / Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë /Starlight Night, Lake George - Georgia O’Keeffe / Homero Aridjis - Los Espacios Azules

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“The secret of blue is well kept. Blue comes from far away. On its way, it hardens and changes into a mountain. The cicada works at it. The birds assist. In reality, one doesn’t know…it’s all a mystery.” (Jean Cocteau)
#maggie nelson bluets pdf#ecr santi#artpho#ap blu
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There’s a thunderstorm going on outside and every Romantic bone in my frantic little body wants to go outside and get soaked to the skin, there’s something so enormous and vital about being wet through with rain, or swimming in the sea, or leaning against a high wind. I was definitely put on this earth to die of consumption before the age of 25

#[stand-up comedian voice] you know when you just want to go outside and get soaked to the skin in the thunderstorm? am i right?#misc#omg tho posts from ppl talking abt dying @ an age younger than i am are always.