Welcome to Friday Faves! Each week I plan to share my favorite book I read during the past week, as well as any other stuff I've been enjoying. I would also like to invite you all to join my Discord channel, where there's a place for you to share your own Friday Faves. Let's fill each others' lives with wonderful things!

This week's fave read is a real "hey guys have you heard about this massively popular book??!" situation. It's HAMNET by Maggie O'Farrell.

This is the most devastating book I've read in years. Just absolutely a tear your hair out and lay on the floor crying kind of book. I didn't want to keep reading it but I also couldn't stop reading it. Somehow, it feels like the events of the book are happening to you as you read it.

I particularly loved how it both mattered and didn't matter at all that Agnes' husband was William Shakespeare. Who cares, when you're that in the depths of grief? Agnes' touch of the supernatural also added another beautiful, painful layer to her story. I think I can say I've never quite met a character like Agnes.

A non-bookish fave thing for me recently is the video game Date Everything! I've been slowly playing this through over the past few months and it's so delightfully weird. It's a dating sim, but the twist is that the dateables are all of the objects in your house. It's silly, and punny, and voiced by all your favorite voice actors.

Now, I invite you to share your Friday Faves in the Discord chat! See you there!