End of Year Book Tag 2023 @r.enee.morris

renée An itty bitty tag video. Have a great day.

Questions:
1. Are there any books you started this year and need to finish?
2. Do you have any autumnal books to transition to the end of the year?
3. Is there a new release that you are still waiting for?
4. Three books you want to read by the end of the year?
5. Are there any books that could shock you and be your favourite book of the year?
6. Have you started making reading plans for next year yet?

BOOKS 📚
Delphi - Clare Pollard
Fair Play - Tove Jansson
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
Arlington Park - Rachel Cusk
Coventry - Rachel Cusk
The Bradshaw Variations - Rachel Cusk
A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib
Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas
Swing Times - Zadie Smith
The Vunerables - Sigrid Nunez
Milkman - Anna Burns
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Adolescence Leaves - Nathan Truong

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End of Year Book Tag 2023

renée 2023-11-28 | An itty bitty tag video. Have a great day.

Questions:
1. Are there any books you started this year and need to finish?
2. Do you have any autumnal books to transition to the end of the year?
3. Is there a new release that you are still waiting for?
4. Three books you want to read by the end of the year?
5. Are there any books that could shock you and be your favourite book of the year?
6. Have you started making reading plans for next year yet?

BOOKS 📚
Delphi - Clare Pollard
Fair Play - Tove Jansson
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
Arlington Park - Rachel Cusk
Coventry - Rachel Cusk
The Bradshaw Variations - Rachel Cusk
A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib
Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas
Swing Times - Zadie Smith
The Vunerables - Sigrid Nunez
Milkman - Anna Burns
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Adolescence Leaves - Nathan Truong

PEOPLE 💜
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renée 2024-10-17 | ...

VLOG | back into the swing & reading fantasy to cope

renée 2024-10-13 | Reading fantasy, looking at art, buying books, all the good things we know and love.

MENTIONS 💜
A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
Ghost Pains - Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Headshot - Rita Bullwinkel
My First Book - Honor Levy
The Coin - Yasmin Zaher
Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
Cue The Sun - Emily Nussbaum
Scaffolding - Lauren Elkin

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Lets play catch up! where have i been, what ive been reading, book haul ✈️📚

renée 2024-10-05 | It's been a minute, let me fill you in on what i've been up to, books I've been reading and a bonus book haul at the end.

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June Reads 2024

renée 2024-07-21 | Here is everything I read in June, from isolated women, to Greek mythology and everything in between.

BOOKS 📚
Mrs Caliban - Rachel Ingalls
Thunderhead - Miranda Darling
So Late in the Day - Claire Keegan
No. 91/92 - Lauren Elkin
The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka
James - Percival Everett
The Bradshaw Variations - Rachel Cusk
The Hearing Test - Eliza Barry Callahan
Circe - Madeline Miller

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VLOG | a parade by rachel cusk reading vlog

renée 2024-07-14 | A single book reading vlog, where I talk a lot about Parade by Rachel Cusk.

PEOPLE 💜
Both videos worth checking out for further parade content
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Mid Year Freakout Tag & Reading Goals Check In 2024 😱

renée 2024-07-07 | Time to check-in, reassess and see how the reading year is going so far.

😱 Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag Questions 😱
1. How has your 2024 reading year gone so far?
2. What is the best book you've read so far in 2024?
3. Best sequel you've read so far in 2024.
4. A new release you haven't read yet but want to?
5. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year?
6. Biggest disappointment of 2024 so far?
7. Biggest surprise of 2024 so far?
8. Favourite new author (new to you or debut)?
9. Newest fictional crush?
10. Book that made you cry?
11. Book you saw on TikTok and regret reading?
12. Most beautiful book you bought this year?
13. What are the books you need to read by the end of the year?
14. Favourite video you've made so far in 2024?
15. A video you thought would flop but did well?
16. Any upcoming videos you're excited to make?
17. Any channel goals before the end of the year?

PEOPLE 💜
@nathansnook - youtube.com/watch?v=8vuCoe3C0sw&t=1234s
@kiranreader - youtu.be/2MjVB3iMpCA?si=dOogtjhJ389uBHMa
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VLOG | a week of finishing things I started

renée 2024-06-30 | I spent a week recovering from surgery and finishing all the half read books, making puzzle progress and RHOBH. #recommendedreads #booktube #readingvlog

BOOKS 📚
The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka
James - Percival Everett
The Bradshaw Variations - Rachel Cusk
The Hearing Test - Eliza Barry Callahan
Parade - Rachel Cusk
Worry - Alexandra Tanner
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other - Danielle Dutton
I Paint What I Want To See - Philip Guston
The Beautiful Summer - Cesare Pavese
What I'd rather Not Think About - Jente Posthuma
The Nerves and Their Endings - Jessica Gaitan Johannesson

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All the books I want to read this winter 🥶

renée 2024-06-24 | BOOKS 📚
A Horse at Night: On Writing - Amina Cain
The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
Forbidden Notebook - Alba De Céspedes
The Cost of Living - Deborah Levy
Grief is for People - Sloane Crosley
Kick the Latch - Kathryn Scanlan
All Fours - Miranda July
I Who Have Never Known Men - Jaqueline Harpman
Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck
Is Mother Dead - Vigdis Hjorth
Parade - Rachel Cusk
Acts of Desperation

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April & May Reads 2024 | good and bad rom coms, essays and journey novels 💔

renée 2024-06-18 | Finally recorded my April & May reading wrap-up.

BOOKS 📚
Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld
The Private Lives of Trees - Alejandro Zambra
Coventry - Rachel Cusk
Tar Baby - Toni Morrison
Heartburn - Nora Ephron
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Kala - Colin Walsh

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VLOG | its cold and im sick of reading mid books

renée 2024-05-19 | The cold snap got me grumpy this week and I'm read my first Cormac McCarthy.

BOOKS 📚
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Ten-Year Nap - Meg Wolitzer
A Little Luck - Claudia Piñeiro
At The Edge of the Woods - Kathryn Bromwich
Great Expectations - Vinson Cunnigham
The Bradshaw Variations - Rachel Cusk
Kala - Colin Walsh

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February & March Reads 2024 | family saga, cast of character novels

renée 2024-04-21 | I'm back reading books and talking about them on the internet. This month was all about lots of characters and family drama.

BOOKS 📚
A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J. Maas
Arlington Park - Rachel Cusk
There There - Tommy Orange
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again - Katherine Angel
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Pineapple Street - Jenny Jackson
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
Marigold & Rose - Louise Gluck

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VLOG | i tried vlogging for an entire month

renée 2024-03-04 | It's a mammoth one, to anyone who makes it all the way through I applaud. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #booktube #readingvlog #bookrecommendations

BOOKS 📚
A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J. Maas
Lies and Sorcery - Elsa Morante
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again - Katherine Angel
A Woman Destroyed - Simone de Beauvoir
Arlington Park - Rachel Cusk
There There - Tommy Orange

PEOPLE 💜
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VLOG | a week in my life on my own 💁🏽‍♀️

renée 2024-02-12 | Ever wonder what my life is like? Pretty boring tbh. Keep watching for a week of not much going on in my life. #booktube #bookrecommendations #readingvlog

BOOKS 📚
Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
On Freedom - Maggie Nelson

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January Reads 2024 | coming of age, Irish lit & big brain essays

renée 2024-02-06 | Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy my wrap-up of everything I read in January. #booktube #bookrecommendations #readingwrapup #soireadthisbook

BOOKS 📚
Adolescence Leaves - Nathan Truong
The New Animals - Pip Adam (DNF)
Crook Manifesto - Colson Whitehead
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
Desperate Characters - Paula Fox
Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
On Freedom - Maggie Nelson

PEOPLE 💜
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2024 Most Anticipated Reads

renée 2024-01-29 | Might be a bit late, but here are all the new release books I'm looking forward to reading in 2024. #bookrecommendations #booktube #soireadthisbook

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VLOG | first vlog of 2024 - what im reading

renée 2024-01-22 | Starting the year off strong with a big long vlog about what I read in the first week of 2024. #booktube #readingvlog #literaryfiction

BOOKS 📚
Adolescence Leaves - Nathan Truong
The New Animals - Pip Adam
Crook Manifesto - Colson Whitehead
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

PEOPLE 💜
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20 books i want to read in 2024

renée 2024-01-15 | Consider this your recommended reading list for the year. From literary thrillers, to western frontier novels and even a little bit of fantasy. ✨ Enjoy! #booktube #20for2024

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December Reads 2023

renée 2024-01-09 | An average reading month, but ended it with a new obsession with Irish history and would love to read more Irish authors. #soireadthisbook #booktube #readingwrapup

BOOKS 📚
Milkman - Anna Burns
Swing Times - Zadie Smith
A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib
A Court of Thorns and Roses

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Best Books of 2023

renée 2023-12-31 | Here are my top 10 reads of the year, along with some honourable mentions. Thank you beautiful people. 💜

BOOKS 📚
Gotta watch to find out...😉

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2023 in review - how was my reading year?

renée 2023-12-28 | My favourite time of year, a time to laugh at my ambitious goals for the year just been and rethink new ways I can gamify reading

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November Reads 2023

renée 2023-12-11 | How's your end of year reading going?

BOOKS 📚
Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh
Mary - Vladimir Nabakov
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
Good Material - Dolly Alderton
Recitatif - Toni Morrison
In the Fold - Rachel Cusk
Meaty - Samantha Irby
Sap-wood & Milk - Hone Tuwhare
Obit - Victoria Chang
Small Bodies of Water - Nina Mingya Powles

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October Reads 2023

renée 2023-11-19 | Could this be my best (most concise) wrap-up yet? You tell me.

BOOKS 📚
Alphabetical Diaries - Sheila Heti
I'm a Fan - Sheena Patel
The Shame - Makenna Goodman
The Rachel Incident - Caroline O'Donoghue
The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
Open Water - Caleb Azumah-Nelson
Paris the Memoir - Paris Hilton
Games and Rituals - Katherine Heiny
A Life's Work - Rachel Cusk
Open Throat - Henry Hoke
A Feather on the Breathe of God - Sigrid Nunez
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
O Caledonia - Elspeth Barker

PEOPLE 💜
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VLOG | lets go dancing and then go to a book fair!

renée 2023-11-07 | The quality of the clips degrades after the intro and I can't understand why all too lazy to mix any music so forgive the jarring changes in sound.

BOOKS 📚
Ugly Man - Dennis Cooper
My Happy Life - Lydia Millet
The Carrying - Ada Limon
The Hurting Kind - Ada Limon
Cursed Bread - Sophie Mackintosh
The Body in Question - Jill Ciment
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou - Ranginui Walker
Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh
Obit - Victoria Chang

PEOPLE 💜

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VLOG | a quiet october reading vlog

renée 2023-10-25 | Those opening clips of me walking!?!? Cursed.

BOOKS 📚
I'm a Fan - Sheena patel
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
The Rachel Incident - Caroline O'Donoghue
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann

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New Bookshelf 🎉 Q&A - cost, shelf organising & a shelf tour

renée 2023-10-17 | Answering your question about my new amazing, dream bookshelf. I'm sorry for the very badly filmed tour.

Shelf refresh video - youtube.com/watch?v=x4hr6yee4lA&t=837s

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September Reads 2023

renée 2023-10-04 | I turned on the over head lightning half way through filming and I look ill.

BOOKS 📚
Marble in Metamorphosis - Rachel Cusk, Chris Kontos, Nadine Monem
Sweet Days of Discipline - Fleur Jaeggy
Fates & Furies - Lauren Groff
Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone - J.K Rowling
The Fraud - Zadie Smith
Ruin - Emma Hislop
The Country Life - Rachel Cusk

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August Reads 2023

renée 2023-09-18 | Tell me how your August reading was?

BOOKS 📚
Boulder - Eva Baltasar
The Vanity Fair Diaries - Tina Brown
In The Act - Rachel Ingalls
Poūkahangatus - Tayi Tibble
The Palace Papers - Tina Brown
The Employees - Olga Ravn

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VLOG | reading tiny books to get me out of a slump

renée 2023-09-10 | Tiny books work miracles, she's outta the slump people!

Olga Ravn Conversation - lollieditions.com/lolli-in-conversation/reading-with-the-mouth

BOOKS 📚
In The Act - Rachel Ingalls
Poukahangatus - Tayi Tibble
The Employees - Olga Ravn
Marble in Metamorphosis - Rachel Cusk, Chris Kontos & Nadine Monem
Sweet Days of Discipline - Fleur Jaeggy

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July Reads 2023

renée 2023-09-04 | Nearly forgot to record this wrap-up completely, haha. How many books did you DNF this month?

BOOKS 📚
The English Understand Wool - Helen DeWitt
Quartet - Jean Rhys
Hot Milk - Deborah Levy (DNF)
Milk Fed - Melissa Broder
Love - Toni Morrison

PEOPLE 💜
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VLOG | reading Love by Toni Morrison for bookclub

renée 2023-08-19 | First vlog in a wee while, took forever to edit so please give it some love.

BOOKS 📚
Love by Toni Morrison
Boulder by Eva Baltasar

PEOPLE 💜
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Things I would rather do than get out of bed on a Sunday #soireadthisbook #booktube #ytshorts

renée 2023-08-12 | ...

Spooky but in a ‘cause it’s true way’ 👻 #soireadthisbook #booktube #ytshorts

renée 2023-08-12 | ...

Mid Year Freakout Tag + Goals Check In 📈

renée 2023-07-18 | BOOKS 📚

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May & June Reads 2023

renée 2023-07-11 | It's been slow around here these last couple months, but I still read some great ones.

BOOKS 📚
Optic Nerve - Maria Gainza
Monsters - Claire Dederer (DNF)
The Woman Who Killed The Fish - Clarice Lispector
The Lucky Ones - Rachel Cusk
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Permafrost - Eva Baltasar

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VLOG | five days in Sydney - eating, shopping, books

renée 2023-07-04 | First holiday in ages was a success.
If you wanna see the books I bought watch my latest haul - youtube.com/watch?v=GNfzPm7rhes&t=1090s

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You were right, I hated it! #booktube #emilyhenry #ytshorts

renée 2023-06-30 | ...

Sydney Book Haul 🛍

renée 2023-06-27 | What's a trip to a foreign land without a bit of retail therapy of the book kind #bookhaul #booktube

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Just a reader girl #books #ytshorts #soireadthisbook

renée 2023-06-27 | ...

VLOG | Reading east of eden - my first steinbeck

renée 2023-06-20 | Watch me discover literature for the first time...and do lots of cleaning apparently? #eastofeden #readingvlog #literaryfiction

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2k Q&A - I answer 40 questions about reading, food, music and more

renée 2023-05-30 | Thank you again for getting me to 2k, I love talking about books with you all and answering your q's made me feel extra spesh. 🥰

BOOKS 📚
How to Loiter in a Turf War - Coco Solid
The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson
Neapolitan Quartet - Elena Ferrante
Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid
Too Much and Not the Mood - Durga Chew-Bose
Tomorrow When The War Began Series - John Marsden

PEOPLE 💜
Bookety Book Books - booketybookbooks.co.nz
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Jason Books - jasonbooks.co.nz
Hard to Find Books - hardtofind.co.nz
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April Reads 2023

renée 2023-05-23 | Is it possible to read yourself into a reading slump?

BOOKS 📚
Hex - Jenni Fagan
Citizen - Claudia Rankine
Always Italicise: How to write while Colonised - Alice Te Punga Somerville
Medea - Euripedes & Rachel Cusk
If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English - Noor Naga
Breasts & Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal
Beach Read - Emily Henry
Dinosaurs - Lydia Millett
Aftermath - Rachel Cusk
The Clothing of Books - Jhumpa Lahiri

PEOPLE 💜
@nathansnook

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Tell Me What to Read Next 📚

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PEOPLE 💜
@nathansnook
Jessica - instagram.com/jessicas_bookstack
@rebareads
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Quarterly Reading Check-In

renée 2023-04-25 | A wee lil check-in to see how I'm tracking with my reading so far.

BOOKS 📚
How to Loiter in a Turf War - Coco Solid
Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid
Women Talking - Miriam Toews
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li
Frantumaglia - Elena Ferrante
Simple Passion - Annie Ernaux
Whereabouts - Jhumpa Lahiri
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
Sunbathing - Isobel Beech
Post Colonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz

PEOPLE 💜
Jess Dekker - instagram.com/jessdekkerreads
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Yeah, it’s a no from me 🙅🏽‍♀️ #booktube #ytshorts #booktok #emilyhenry #beachread

renée 2023-04-19 | ...

Judging Books By Their Covers Tag 💞

renée 2023-04-18 | In the spirit of being superficial I haven't given any synopsis for these books, just enjoy the beauty and look it up. Thank you Nadia for the tag. #booktube #judgeabookbyitscovertag

I tag...
@hannahmay11
@bibliosophie
@dinaklarisse
@linenlibrarian

BOOKS 📚
Dogs of Summer - Andrea Abreu
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
Raven Smith's Men - Raven Smith
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Biography of X - Catherine Lacey
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Kurangaituku - Whiti Hereaka
The Woman Who Killed the Fish - Clarice Lispector
I Love Dick - Chris Kraus
Women Talking - Miriam Toews

PEOPLE 💜
Nadia - @nadsluvs2read
Allison - @allisonpaiges

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March Reads 2023

renée 2023-04-11 | Another wrap-up in a neat little bow for yah! Enjoy

BOOKS 📚
The Temporary - Rachel Cusk
Women Talking - Miriam Toews
Pure Colour - Sheila Heti
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Red Parts - Maggie Nelson
Beloved - Toni Morrison
A History of My Brief Body - Billy-Ray Belcourt
Among Flowers - Jamaica Kincaid

PEOPLE 💜
@bookepiphanies - instagram.com/bookepiphanies
@TheBarandtheBookcase
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VLOG | Birthday stuff, books, food & dancing 🕺🏽

renée 2023-04-04 | A sit down catch up where I share birthday activities, books I bought, books I have recently finished and ones I want to read soon.

BOOKS 📚
Too many to list will do it later

PEOPLE 💜
@literaryiggy
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Aries Szn ❤️‍🔥♈︎ I recommend books based on my star sign

renée 2023-03-21 | BOOKS 📚
A Small Place - Jamaica Kincaid
Fleishman is in Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner
My Year of Rest & Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
Sorrow & Bliss - Meg Mason
Second Place - Rachel Cusk
The Dry Heart - Natalia Ginzburg
Higher Ground - Anke Stelling
Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid
Women Talking - Miriam Toews

PEOPLE 💜
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February Reads 2023

renée 2023-03-07 | Everything I read last month for your viewing/listening pleasure, enjoy! #readingwrapup #booktube

BOOKS 📚
The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Here For a Good Time - Chris Parker
Simple Passion - Annie Ernaux
The Wall - Marlen Haushofer
Yes Yes More More - Anna Wood
Post Colonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz
Close to the Knives - David Wojnarowicz
The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Lesser Bohemians - Eimear McBride (DNF)

PEOPLE 💜
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Alina - @accordingtoalina

VIDEOS 📽
Books about love vlog - youtu.be/NQbrKlB57NQ

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