to the next generation of lovers, and the next

svea, english major || side blog || adult fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, classics ||2021 goodreads reading challenge: 2/50

[asianalina]

alina starkov — you can’t carve this power out of me.

[bellamysgriffin]

A QUOTE FROM EVERY BOOK I READ IN 2021: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

[flowerytale]

Bram Stoker — Dracula

[henry-marchbanks]

one likes to think there’s something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. but if i’ve learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. love doesn’t conquer everything. and whoever thinks it does is a fool.

[bookofmirth]

end-of-year book ask

How many books did you read this year?

Did you reread anything? What?

What were your top five books of the year?

Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

What genre did you read the most of?

Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

What was your average Goodreads rating? Does it seem accurate?

Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

Did you get into any new genres?

What was your favorite new release of the year?

What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Any books that disappointed you?

What were your least favorite books of the year?

What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

How many books did you buy?

Did you use your library?

What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

What’s the longest book you read?

What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?

Did you DNF anything? Why?

What reading goals do you have for next year?

[macrolit]

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

— Paradise Lost, John Milton (b. 9 December 1608)

[macrolit]

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (via cstardust)

[theoptia]

“In December the first frosts came with the full moon, […] There was a sort of beauty to them, cold and clear, that caught at the heart and made me stare in wonder.”

— Daphne du Maurier, from My Cousin Rachel

[violentdelvghts]

“The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.“

[weltenwellen]

Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor

[cavarage]

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[edenprime]

@booksociety​ hogwarts houses reads event » slytherin   ↳ gone girl by gillian flynn 

“i waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading jane austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. and then we’d say, yeah, he’s a cool guy.”

[amoremetbellum]

“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches, and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions, and him entirely and altogether.”

—Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[virginiadre]

@booksociety’s love is in the air event: •Romeo & Juliet

[forasecondtherewedwon]

“How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.”

— Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

[lunaathorne]

books read in 2020: the color purple by alice walker (★★★★★)

celie, tell the truth, have you ever found god in church? i never did. i just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. any god i ever felt in church, i brought in with me. and i think all the other folks did too. they come to church to share god, not find god.

[lunaathorne]

books read in 2020: the little prince by antoine de saint-exupéry (★★★★★)

the proof that the little prince existed is that he was delightful, that he laughed, and that he wanted a sheep. when you want a sheep, it is proof that you exist.