Dagtag鈥檚 Year in Books

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2024

2,301

pages read

books read

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Shortest Book

243

pages

Longest Book

608

pages

Average book length in 2024

383

pages

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Dagtag鈥檚 average rating for 2024

4.3

Highest Rated on 欧宝娱乐

4.23 average

Dagtag鈥檚 first review of the year

it was amazing

"On the 15th of July 1993 the sun rises at 5:01 a.m. and already Dexter Mayhew is in hell."

There are some books that you want to buy five copies of and send to the five people that you think will read it and care about the most and scream at them over the phone to read it, please please please, because it doesn't work if I'm crying on my bedroom floor about a story that I already knew the ending to and I can't talk about it with you and you in pa "On the 15th of July 1993 the sun rises at 5:01 a.m. and already Dexter Mayhew is in hell."

There are some books that you want to buy five copies of and send to the five people that you think will read it and care about the most and scream at them over the phone to read it, please please please, because it doesn't work if I'm crying on my bedroom floor about a story that I already knew the ending to and I can't talk about it with you and you in particular. This is one of those books. In my collection of books, it's an odd puzzle piece, jarring and out of place, too real and simultaneously too far beyond my grasp to the point where I think reading this book has changed my life.

Anyway, this book is for everyone who will take the time to read it. That being said, I think that, as someone who particularly struggles with this, this book is for people who can't wrap their head around the idea of romance and grief, separately or together.

I am a person who cannot wrap my head around either of those concepts. I am inherently bad at it, if you can even be good at something like that, but for someone who has their fair share of life experience I feel like I am constantly on the outs as I watch the world around me engage in the concept of romance. This may be because every romance novel I've read has felt like an incorrect fantasy that warped my vision and made me very confused and wondering if I was missing something up there in my head. Mind you, I'm in a relationship, a good one at that, and I've been told that I have a good idea of things. Apparently, I'm still in this enviable position of confusion because there are many one star reviews here saying "why do these people like each other?" etc., but I see exactly why they like each other. This is the first romance book that has ever made sense to me. I felt like the author was banging me over the head throughout this book saying "you are Dexter Mayhew," over and over, and simultaneously reassuring me that I'll never be him.

Dexter Mayhew. This book is Dexter's, at its core. Dexter's grief is the centerpiece of this, dilating and dragging every romantic aspect of the book, centralizing it and shaping it. This is the most realistic depiction of grief I've ever read. This is the most realistic depiction of love that I've ever read. Maybe someday I'll comeback with a scholarly review of this book where I talk about how it is "gritty" and "authentic" and how it's a good example of growing up and the aches and pains of life in your twenties, thirties, forties, but I can't, all I can say is what I'm saying now, and that is that this book has reached into my soul and turned on some light switch that I didn't know existed, and I am very, very, very happy that I found this staring at me in Barnes and Nobles after my mom made me watch the show. I now have my own paper copy of this book with my name written on the inside in a very Emma Morley like way, and I'll drag it around as I move places, and I'll think about how this story will live inside me and change the way I do everything. The way I love everything. ...more

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it was amazing

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Dagtag鈥檚 last review of the year

it was amazing

I read this to understand the enemy. Just kidding, but in all seriousness, reading this from the perspective of a Ferrari and Fernando Alonso fan is hilarious and reaffirms my loyalties. This is a unique perspective into the controversy of the 2007 season and on young Lewis Hamilton, who I am now a fan of because of his upcoming move to the Greatest Sports Team of History of Sports. This is an accessible read and is interesting to compare to anot ...more

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