3 Books I Loved in 2023

8 Rules of Love

By Jay Shetty

The first rule to finding love - spoiler alert- is loving yourself.

And you can only truly learn to do that by being alone. I spent the most intentional time alone this year in solitude.

Sometimes, I was uncomfortable walking down the street alone, sitting at restaurants alone, and traveling to foreign countries alone.

Yet all of the experiences were so rewarding.

“The difference between loneliness and solitude is the lens through which we see our time alone, and how we use that time.”

— Jay Shetty

The Moses Code

By James F. Twyman

This book was a quick read with a lot of thought-provoking one-liners. I recommend this book to anyone trying to bridge the gap from religion to spirituality.

As the cover of the book claims, "The most powerful manifestation tool in the history of the world," it has manifestation practices to follow along with biblical references meant to confirm biases yet switch the paradigm you look at them from.

“The closer you get to the center, the more you realize that all religions are guiding us to the same experience”

— James F. Twyman

Adelaide

By Genevieve Wheeler

For my girlies!

It's a book just to read and get lost in the storyline. An American girl living abroad meets an emotionally unavailable character, a successful and charismatic British boy. What's not to love?

“Because if we knew, if we honestly knew the price of love was grief, we’d never do it.”

— Genevieve Wheeler

What were your favorite reads this year?