end of year book tag 📖 🌟 favorites, disappointments and surprises of 2024

[@casskrug]

i’ve been so intimidated by autobiography of red 😩 love that edition of monstrilio!! these were such fun questions, happy new year!!

[@StephReadsStufff]

I love that you started with your disappointments, we all know it's gonna be the biggest list xD ♥

[@AliDoisRead]

I just got a notification that my library loan for Cursed Bread just came in omg I'm even more excited now 🥳

[@dulogda]

this was such a good video! I feel inspired to do one of my own now :)) happy new year!

[@litwithkat]

i rlly need to read perfume & pain! i always hear such great things. allllso!! if you do a reread of sally rooney, i’d love to see a vlog of it! i’ve only read normal people & i tried reading bwway, but put it down & it’s one i’d like to come back to at some point. i don’t think it was the right time when i tried the first time! i’ve been so curious to read cursed bread, especially after realizing that the afterword in i who have never known men is written by sophie mackintosh. will have to try & get around to cursed bread this year!

[@ChanelChapters]

I prefer putting my number goal less - don’t want the pressure either

[@nataliep.1321]

"The accidental" by Ali Smith is one of my favourite books! But I'll need to verify this, as I read it last time about 15 years ago so I guess it's possible I would find it pretentious now. I loved also another book by Smith - Hotel World (?) but it is also quite peculiar. Unfortunately I didn't really like newest books by this author (the Seasons series) and I think they are way different than her older works. So maybe give them a go :) Yet it's possible Ali Smith is just not myour cup of tea :)

[@disisally]

Such an interesting phenomenon with Boy Parts - I think readers online have portrayed and understood the main character and her actions in a very different way than the author intended them to be portrayed and understood. I believe the MC is meant to be horrible, meant to be perceived, by us, as a criminal, a deviant, and a psychopath - more than that, she herself is constantly asking "How far can I go? How much will it take? When will I finally be seen as dangerous, as monstrous, as disgusting, as a threat?" She felt very angry to me, not only with society, not only with the art world, not only with men and with herself, but also and very much so with the fact that she never gets held accountable for her despicable and rapidly more and more evil behavior. And this is coming from someone who despised the main character, didn't like the voice the book was written in, and honestly barely enjoyed the reading experience of it. But I think booktok and booktube are doing Boy Parts a terrible disservice by painting it as a "you-go-girl" kind of story. The MC is much more complex and interesting than that. She is meant to be a female Patrick Bateman, and Boy Parts is meant, I think, to imagine the impact and differences in that role reversal, from a very patriarchal society.

[@disisally]

oh my b I didn't mean to write an essay