#2019 reading

[monicafilipaa19]

"Não há momentos errados para se conhecer a pessoa certa. As pessoas entram na nossa vida quando têm de entrar, porque é naquele momento que nós precisamos delas e elas de nós. Porque é naquele momento que tínhamos de aprender a lição que ela tinha para nos transmitir e vice-versa. A verdade é que a vida não cruza pessoas aleatórias e muito menos aleatoriamente. Se foi esta pessoa e se foi agora, é porque tinha de ser essa e tinha de ser agora."

- in Ganhei Uma Vida Quando Te Perdi (by Raul Minh'alma)

[the-bibliophiles-bookshelf]

Book no.49 A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara // My god this book was incredible! I don’t think I’ve ever felt so much reading a book? It was so heartbreaking and beautifully written. I also don’t think I’ve ever cried as a much reading a book. Triggers for pretty much everything you can think of just keep that in mind. Add me on goodreads here. Buy this book here. 

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || December 31 || Favorite Books of the Year:

[godzilla-reads]

2019 Reading Goals

Every year I make a list of books I’d like to read and it usually grows throughout the year if I get recs from people. My list this year was 15 books long and I read 9 of them:

“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens

“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling

“Boy Erased” by Gerard Conley

“Lassie Come Home” by Eric Knight

“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Northanger Abbey” by Jane Austen

“My Family and Other Animals” by Gerald Durrell

“Runes of the North” by Sigurd F. Olson

[barrebard]

Reading in 2019 - December Edition

I exceeded my book goal for the year! It’s nice to have the last two weeks of the year off to catch up on some reading. Didn’t read everything on the Read Harder Challenge list--there were just too many other books I wanted to read this year!

I’ll do another post later about the Challenge books I read, my top books of the year, and goals for 2020, which are pretty similar to this year’s goals. More to come...

Progress to goals:

- 54/50 books read this year

- 12/24 books on the Read Harder Challenge

- 10/10 items on the Reading Glasses Challenge

Completed

1. Naamah by Sarah Blake

2. Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

3. Step Aside, Pops by Kate Beaton

4. Know My Name by Chanel Miller

5. The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad

6. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mothar and Max Gladstone

7. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young

8. Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

In Progress

1. Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory, Translated by Helen Cooper

(The goal with this book was to have it be something I read in bits and pieces over the year, but that didn’t really happen. It’s an interesting read, but a slow one. I’m not sure if I’ll continue it in 2020.)

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[melonatures]

maiathebee replied to your post “books finished in 2019an american marriage by tayari jones”

I love Catcher in the Rye soooo much. One of my major personal traumas (lol) was finding out people thought it was disconnected and unrelatable and whiny... and i was like... but.... do u not know pathos

omg it’s SO hopeful at the end, and holden’s love for phoebe, and how what he wants to do is just like protect kids (and like...every year i get older the understanding of just how vulnerable children are becomes clearer and clearer to me and no one really talks about it???), and how fucking awful he feels but he’s still reaching out for human connection, just searching searching searching even though he’s almost jaded, how much he loves and misses allie, and isn’t the whole “i’m gonna fuck off and disappear and live in the woods” exactly what we’re all always wanting to do, just disappear from the bullshit and performance and expectations??? also nyc and all the people in it, all the different people you meet, all the potential for connection, but all the disappointments. also like. catcher in the rye manages to have holden be a kid while allowing him to grapple with being on the threshold of adulthood and this was before “ya lit” was a category, before it was something people published into to try to make money like...catcher in the rye is what modern ya *thinks* it’s doing

[footnoteinhistory]

“The reason I hadn’t washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.

I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it. I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.”

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1963

[aspiringpolymath]

16 and 24 for the book asks! Ty!

16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year? Hmmm. Maybe 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne? Her first book was super hyped, mostly for correct reasons, and this sophomore book was alright, but didn’t live up to expectations.

The hyped book I read this year that deserves ALLLLL the hype and then some is Red, White and Royal Blue. That book is amazing and I love love love it. (I own it on Kindle and in paperback. Sooooo good.24. Did you DNF anything? Why? I dnf’ed a couple of books, mainly bc they just weren’t doing anything for me. I couldn’t see any plot or conflict, or the characters’ voices weren’t distinct enough. Some I didn’t bother to make note of, but there was one that was really highly rated on Goodreads, so I popped a little note on there, because: