Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite quotes

Happy Top Ten Tuesday! Today’s topic is top ten favorite book quotes. I am actually really bad at keeping track of quotes that I love, so what I ended up doing was going through my Kindle highlights on Goodreads.  (Sorry to all the paper books I’ve forgotten about!)

Some of these quotes are funny, some are serious, and some I just really related to. Some are from books I loved and some are from books I didn’t, so this selection of ten quotes really runs the gamut.

Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.

– The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

There’s a lump in my throat. That’s another thing about me. If someone says I’m sad, or asks me what’s wrong, or tells me not to cry, it’s like my body hears: NOW CRY. Like a command, even if I’m not actually sad. But maybe there are always tiny sad pieces inside me, waiting to be recognized and named. Maybe it’s like that for everyone.

– The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can’t Google.)

– Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

I didn’t plan to be this dysfunctional at 27, but dysfunctionality has a way of creeping up on you. One second, you’re 22, wrapping up your undergraduate degree from a top business school, and then suddenly, you’re sitting alone in your car at 27, wondering how five years slipped through your fingers without so much as a blink.

– The Foxe and the Hound by R.S. Grey

As a side note, don’t you think everyone should have to come out? Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it should be this big awkward thing whether you’re straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I’m just saying.

– Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Oh god, a winky face. The most provocative of all emoticons.

– Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

I get angry when women disavow feminism and shun the feminist label but say they support all the advances born of feminism because I see a disconnect that does not need to be there. I get angry but I understand and hope someday we will live in a culture where we don’t need to distance ourselves from the feminist label, where the label doesn’t make us afraid of being alone, of being too different, of wanting too much.

– Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

You don’t need to fit yourself into what society tells us a girl should be. Girls can be whoever they want. Whether that’s an ass-kicking, sarcastic, crime-solving FBI agent or a funny, gorgeous, witty beauty queen—or both at the same time.

– Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Cheat on me once, shame on him. Cheat on me twice…what the actual fuck is going on? How in the world have I managed to find my last two boyfriends cheating on me? No, not together. Although, that would have been much more poetic, and at least they could have included me or something.

– Scoring Wilder by R.S. Grey

We speak of moving mountains, but sometimes people can completely rotate the world, just so someone else can land upright on their feet.

– Some Kind of Perfect by Krista & Becca Ritchie

Top Ten Tuesday: Best of 2016

Happy Top Ten Tuesday!  It’s already the last one of 2016!  Today’s theme is the best of 2016.  I read a lot of great books this year, so rather than agonize over which ones to include, I’m using this as a general overview of my favorites.  In early 2017, I’ll have a more detailed list available for you, broken down by genre.

Below are Goodreads links for all titles included in the graphics:

[since you’ve been gone] [koreatown] [are you there god? it’s me margaret]
[what we saw] [the unexpected everything] [lured in] [you know me well]
[me before you] [some kind of perfect] [made you up]

What were your favorites of 2016?

Book review: Some Kind of Perfect by Krista & Becca Ritchie

Goodreads   Amazon

“Our bad days have the ability to become better. It may be a horrible month. A horrible year. But there will be good days, good moments, great seconds.”

What an ending.

It’s been almost a month since I finished this book, and I’m still having trouble sorting out my thoughts. It’s the end of an era. The epilogue of all the stories I’ve come to love. This series that I picked up on a whim, that grew to be my absolute favorite, is now finished.

I’m so conflicted. Because even though this was the perfect end to a perfect series, I can’t believe that it’s over. Because even though I couldn’t have come up with a better finish, I know that I’ll never get another book featuring the characters again.

Sure, they might be in the background of the Like Us series. I’m sure they’ll pop up in Whatever It Takes. But it won’t be the same.

But still, I am continually impressed with the way that Krista and Becca Ritchie develop their characters. They grow, just like real people, throughout the series. They make mistakes and learn from them. Things happen and they get stronger. Their relationships get better. I feel like I’ve watched these characters grow from babies into powerful adults. It’s the best kind of feeling.

The first book in this series is Addicted to You. If you haven’t picked it up yet, please do. It’s free on Amazon, so there’s literally nothing to lose. And it only gets better as we’re introduced to more characters. If you look at my reviews, you can see that my ratings only get higher as the series goes on. (Although I’m sure if I re-read the series from the beginning, knowing what I know now, I would give it five stars all the way through.)

The last thing I want is to spoil anybody’s experience with this series, so I’m going to end my review here. Just know that I’ve loved this series more than anything, and while I’ll miss these characters more than I can express, I cannot wait to move on to the next generation in Damaged Like Us.

Final rating: ★★★★★

For my 2016 reading challenge, I crossed off #7: a romance set in the future.

How excited are you for SOME KIND OF PERFECT?!

“What we decide will inevitably shape the lives of our children.
​For better or for worse. We can’t foresee.”

​~ Connor Cobalt, Some Kind of Perfect

This epilogue to the entire Addicted series, as well as its spinoffs, had its release date officially announced today.  I don’t know about you, but I’ll be holding my breath until April 22, 2016.

Only a little over a month away!

More information here.