Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2017: Read a fantasy novel. It was just luck that this fit a Read Harder category, because it'd been on my to-read list since I first saw that drool-worthy cover (art by Yuta Onoda; design by Carla Weise), and THEN it won the Newbery, so I pretty much had to read it. This is absolutely my kind of book: a witchy fairy tale with a fearless girl protagonist, full of layers and trees and art and magic. I alternately thought of Into the Woods, Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, and my favorite book of all time, Tender Morsels. Recommended for a day when you can get cozy and sink in. 
 Favorite quotes: 
 "In any case, by denying access, we give our people a gift. They learn to accept their lot in life. They learn that any action is inconsequential. Their days remain, as they should be, cloudy. There is no greater gift than that." 
 "His scars, she knew, had kept the silly girls away. He deserved someone extraordinary to love him." 
 "Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. Some of the most wonderful things in the world are invisible. Trusting in invisible things makes them more powerful and wondrous. You'll see." 
 "Stuff. The stuff of stars. The stuff of light. The stuff of a planet before it is a planet. The stuff of a baby before it is born. The stuff of a seed before it is a sycamore. Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change." 
 "My love isn't divided," she said. "It is multiplied."