Books that Leave a Lasting Impression

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Today, I want to talk to you about the books that left a lasting impression on me. In her Predicting My 5 Star Reads of 2019, Kate of Reading Through Infinity wrote about how she is quite a critcal reader, and because of this, she only rated four out of the 82 books she read five stars. That got me reading about my own rating of books myself, because I rate a lot of books five stars. How and why I do that is a conversation for another time, but it made me think that there aren't that many that I can think of off the top of my head, just because there are so many.

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Fifth Bloggerversary: Discovering the New

I have had some fantastic opportunities come my way because of blogging, but one of the most important things to me - and the most basic, common thing about blogging - is all the new books I've discovered over the past five years. So for today, as part of my fifth bloggerversary celebration, I'll be taking a look back over some of them.

There are so many books I've discovered through blogging that have become absolute favourites of mine. I could go on forever about how amazing they all are, and this post would be ridiculously long. As it is, having narrowed my list down to the books and/or authors I absolutely must mention, this post is going to be fairly essay-like. These are all books I would never have picked up if it wasn't for blogging (let's put aside the fact that I didn't read YA before I started blogging - if I did, those in this list that are YA wouldn't have been ones I'd automatically pick up), yet all have either moved or touched me in some way, opened my eyes, or just completely blew me away. To be fair, I'm going to go in alphabetical order of author - no favourites within my favourites!

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