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Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Emily Monaco
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| I read this Caldecott Medal winning picture book as part of a summer reading challenge (for adults!) at my local library, which called for reading a picture book. This one is a simple yet lovely story about the frustration of an older sibling when a ...more | |
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| I first discovered Hisham Matar by way of his memoir and was so captivated by his prose that I absolutely had to read his fiction. And I wasn’t disappointed. This story explores the life of a young boy growing up in Libya during the Ghaddafi regime, ...more | |
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| This voicey, gothic début wends together two narratives: a historical one set in 18th century France in the midst of the real-life havoc wrecked by a mysterious "beast" in the Gévaudan and a contemporary one following one woman's discovery of this le ...more | |
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| This adventure story was one of my favorite books as a child, alongside The Phantom Tollbooth, with which it shares many elements: a fantasy romp through a fantasy land well-conceived enough to hook even adult readers, this middle grade novel by Juli ...more | |
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| I picked up this book in the way my sister and I often did when we were younger: By grabbing it at random based on the title and skimming the first page. Immediately, I was struck by the sensory details and loved the world the narrator had created (i ...more | |
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| In the wake of Marjane Satrapi’s tragic passing, I picked up the second tome of her graphic novel series Persepolis. This autobiographical story offers a complex, extremely human look at what it is to come of age under totalitarianism that somehow ma ...more | |
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| This book had been on my "to read" pile for a very long time, but I'm so glad I finally managed it this year. It's a sprawling 19th-century epic starring Paris as its main character the likes of which the 19th century French novelists knew how to do ...more | |
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| I had heard such phenomenal things about this novel, and the first pages definitely hooked me, with their almost claustrophobic and exquisitely rendered portrait of the brain of someone with an eating disorder. There were so many elements of this boo ...more | |
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| This beautiful little book is *extremely* intelligent – and in this case, engaging with it made me feel a little bit dumber. Not that I’m mad about it. It kind of felt like hanging out with a friend you know is smarter than you and therefore hope wil ...more | |
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables