**2020 READING STATS**
Number Of Books You Read: 31 (not my best year)
Number of Re-Reads: none
Genre You Read The Most From: Non-fiction, both feminist and anti-Racist literature
Here we go!
- Best Book You Read In 2020?
It has to be a tie between A Moveable Feast by Hemingway and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I read the first one this month after a reading slump and it really got me back into the mood to read. The other I read during January before were all it by this neverending pandemic and all I can say is that I’m glad it was my first book by Murakami.
- Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t?
For this one I have t go with How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran. The concept looked really good but unfortunately, the delivery and writing were not. I can’t tell you if it’s only this book, or if it’s her tone or outlook in general I disliked, the only thing I can say is that it was overall a disappointment.
- Favourite new author, you discovered in 2020?
I have to keep with the first answer and say, Murakami and Hemingway.
- Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year?
No doubt this title belongs to The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. I was so glad to confirm my love for H. G. Wells’ books. Highly recommend this one to all the sci-fi fans.
- Book You Read In 2020 That You Would Be MOST Likely To Re-Read Next Year?
Moby Dick by Herman Melville just because I feel like I need to give it another chance. I feel like if I re-read it, I might actually really like it.
- Favourite cover of a book you read in 2020?
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks, it’s just so cute.
- The most memorable character of 2020?
Nakata from Kafka on the Shore we all need to collectively hug him.
- Most beautifully written book read in 2020?
Death with Interruptions (or in the original title: As Intermitências da Morte) by the great, the best, the only José Saramago. We all know I love his writing with all my soul, nothing new.
- Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2020?
I have to go with Death with Interruptions by Saramago or Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
- Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2020 to finally read?
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez. I just needed to read all of his small books first before picking up Hundred Years of Solitude get to know his writing style.
- Favourite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2020
This is easy:
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
This has to be the most beautiful, most honest paragraph to ever be written.
- Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2020?
The shortest is the essay Fascism and Democracy by George Orwell and the longest is obviously Moby Dick.
- Favourite Non-Romantic Relationship Of The Year
I know this one, it has to be Nakata and the truck driver from Kafka on the Shore. Just so sweet and pure, aaaaaah.
- Favourite Book You Read in 2020 From An Author You’ve Read Previously
Death with Interruptions by Saramago, my love for his books is the most authentic form of love.
- Book That Put A Smile On Your Face/Was The Most FUN To Read?
Death with Interruptions by Saramago! It this getting repetitive?
- Book That Made You Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2020?
It was a very dry year for me, book crying wise. No triers, whatsoever.
- Most Unique Book You Read In 2020?
Poems to Night by Rainer Maria Rilke. Some of the best poetry I have ever read.
- Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?
The Suffragettes from the Little Black Classics collection. The part about the anti-suffragette movement was infuriating.
Well, I guess this is it. Let me know if you read any of the books I mentioned and what books fit these questions regarding your reading year.
I what to thank The Perpetual Page Turner for once again sharing with us her Annual End Of Year Survey, please go check out her blog.
Bye, keep on reading.
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