Alright everyone – raise your hand if you know that Tamora Pierce is my favorite author. Everyone got their hands up? Okay good. In my early years of bookstagram, and waayyyy before I started blogging, I didn’t know anyone else who was as big of a fan as I am (well minus my mom who introduced me to Tamora Pierce). But luckily I’ve now found my people in Sakina and Gretal! We want to spread our love of her books and hopefully induct new people into our fanclub 😂. So we’re hosting a readalong of her books! This post will have all the info about it, I really hope you join us!

I mean, just look at all these badass ladies you get to read about if you join us!!! 😍

You know what’s absolutely RIDICULOUS? The fact that it is literally the year 2020 right now. How did that happen?? It’s the twenties now!! Again. Time to bring back the roaring twenties I guess. And that means it’s also time to take a look back at the books I read in 2019! I love sharing my top books, obviously, but I’m including a little bit more about authors I discovered and etc because how can you encapsulate an entire year in just a list of your top ten books?? Answer: you can’t. So here’s just a bunch of stuff about the books I read this year!

Do you like setting goals for yourself in the new year? I know doing New Year’s resolutions is a big thing, but I prefer setting goals rather than resolutions – it’s really just semantics tbh but to me goals are smaller things and resolutions are these big nebulous things and harder to achieve (and easier to give up on). Maybe it’s all just in my head haha but this is how it works for me. So here are a few of my goals, just the book related ones!

This year has been very good to me, reading and book wise. One of the best things has been finding a new favorite author!! Not only that, but an author who has a RIDICULOUS amount of books published already. Sooo many more books to read and look forward to! Seanan McGuire has very very quickly become one of my top five favorite authors.

First encounters:

I read Middlegame in late April, right before it was released. At the time, this was her most recent novel. I am like…still blown away by how fucking GOOD this book is. You can read my full review of it here, but like, it’s probably my favorite read of 2019. I don’t think anything else really comes close. It was so dark and complex and mind blowing, and everything I could possibly want in a book. Middlegame blends science and magic and mystery, and tackles subjects like isolation due to others being unable to understand you, suicide attempts, greed, and attaining the ultimate power. The best part though is that it’s really about a sibling relationship at it’s core, and that drives the novel. It’s brilliant and you all must read it!