Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
Trashing your favourite books since 2018!
The reading year 2023 has been quite the test of my patience, ngl.
~ the questions ~
1. Best book you’ve read so far.
2. Best sequel you've read so far.
3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to.
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year.
5. Biggest disappointment.
6. Biggest surprise.
7. Book that made you cry.
8. Book that made you happy.
9. Favorite new author. (Debut or new to you)
10. Newest favourite character.
11. Newest fictional crush.
12. Best book to movie adaptation.
13. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)
14. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
~ books metioned (shuffled for the sake of suspense) ~
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Witch King by Martha Wells
Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
Grendel by John Gardner
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Puzzle For Two by Josh Lanyon
The King's Man by Anyta Sunday
Romeo and Juliet & A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
~ Me, Elsewhere ~
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/16148155-eva-strange
Instagram: instagram.com/evastraenge
Wishlist: amazon.de/hz/wishlist/ls/1ZNTE6H16RFBB
Trashing your favourite books since 2018!
The reading year 2023 has been quite the test of my patience, ngl.
~ the questions ~
1. Best book you’ve read so far.
2. Best sequel you've read so far.
3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to.
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year.
5. Biggest disappointment.
6. Biggest surprise.
7. Book that made you cry.
8. Book that made you happy.
9. Favorite new author. (Debut or new to you)
10. Newest favourite character.
11. Newest fictional crush.
12. Best book to movie adaptation.
13. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)
14. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
~ books metioned (shuffled for the sake of suspense) ~
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Witch King by Martha Wells
Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
Grendel by John Gardner
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Puzzle For Two by Josh Lanyon
The King's Man by Anyta Sunday
Romeo and Juliet & A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
~ Me, Elsewhere ~
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/16148155-eva-strange
Instagram: instagram.com/evastraenge
Wishlist: amazon.de/hz/wishlist/ls/1ZNTE6H16RFBB










![Recent Reads: March/April Tops & Flops
Low quality today, as my fancy camera was disinclined to work with me today. Do stay until the end though, because it gets entertainingly offensive! (The book, that is.)
~ the books ~
👍 The Best American Essays (series)
👍 The Henry Rios Mysteries by Michael Nava (Book 1: Lay Your Sleeping Head, formerly titled The Little Death)
👍 Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura (translated into English by Mark Ealey)
👍 An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
👎🏽 N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto (translated into awful German by Annelie Ortmanns-Suzuki)
👎🏽 [Horrible Fantasy Book which I will not name here because the authorzilla is very involved online, and we all know how that ends…]
~ further mentions ~
One Man’s Justice by Akira Yoshimura
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn vol. 1) by Tad Williams
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street & The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley
Lay Your Sleeping Head radio dramatization: http://michaelnavawriter.com/podcast/episodes/
Vlog in which I talk about the Gorgeous book: https://youtu.be/3wO2qt5DymQ
Tan Twan Eng recommendation video: https://youtu.be/miOZEDKWKNs
~ Me, Elsewhere ~
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16148155-eva-strange
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evastraenge/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/evastraenge
Wishlist: https://www.amazon.de/hz/wishlist/ls/1ZNTE6H16RFBB Recent Reads: March/April Tops & Flops](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k7_NRXyyNPY/mqdefault.jpg)