A QUOTE FROM EVERY BOOK I READ IN 2021: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
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Bram Stoker — Dracula
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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?
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“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)
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“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (via cstardust)
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“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
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Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor
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“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
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@booksociety’s love is in the air event:
•Romeo & Juliet
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“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
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