{ Yearly Wrap-up } Wrapping-up my bookish year of 2019

As it has now become a thing, I’m proud to present you my year 2019 in books.

The year 2019 has brought me the end of the worst reading slump of my life that lasted for 18 months. One year ago, I was 16 reviews late, and now the only books left to review are those I’ve read in the last couple of months (aka 6 books). In 2019, I went on a bookish trip to the US to go to BookExpo and BookCon for the first time ever, I met so many great people, awesome authors and inspirational booktubers. It was one of the best experiments I ever had, and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to live that. I’ve got a grip on my bookish blog and I’m now posting at least twice a week if you want to check it out. This year’s statistics are making me so happy as you can see:
– 49 books read (↗ +9)
– 18,602 pages read (↗ +3,443)
– Average rating: 3.7 (=)
If you want more of my 2019 book year on GR, click here

My best reads of this year are:

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My worst reads of this year are:

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Favourite quote(s) of 2019:

“Choices are never easy. There are good and bad options, but the most dangerous is to not make any choice at all.”
_ Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart so Fierce and Broken

“For what we want most, we will take almost any chance.”
_ Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“It was a risk, to love someone. To do it with the full knowledge that they’d leave someday.
And to let go of them, when they did.”
_ Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“If the decision you’ve made has brought you closer to humanity, then you’ve done the right thing.”
_ Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“When you act in anger, you have already lost your battle”
_ Margaret Owen, The Merciful Crow

“If men were ashamed when they should be, they’d have no time for anything else.”
_ Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.”
_ Mia Sheridan, Archer’s Voice

“Can you miss something before it’s gone?”
_ Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“I want to tell you so many lies.”
_ Holly Black, The Wicked King

“They might’ve all been hypocrites, but I was the biggest of all.”
_ Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“When darkness closes in, though, the stars shine brightest.”
_ Lindsay Lackey, All the Impossible Things

“Would you do something bad if you knew it would have more good in it, in the end, than bad?”
_ K. Ancrum, The Wicker King

“When the world denies you choices, you make your own.”
_ Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.”
_ Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“I am more than my emotions, more than my depression and fear.”
_ Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“Healing hurt”
_ Ryan Graudin, Blood For Blood

“Sometimes strangers feel like family. And sometimes my family feels like a stranger.”
_ Lindsay Lackey, All the Impossible Things

Favourite authors of 2019:

I fell in love with:

Cardan (The Folk of the Air), Jude (The Folk of the Air), Citra (Arc of a Scythe), Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue), Aderyn verch Gwyn (The Bone Houses), Prince Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor (Red, White & Royal Blue), Louise Le Blanc (Serpent & Dove), Nina Zenik (King of Scars), Declan Murphy (Letters to the Lost), Harper (A Curse so Dark and Lonely), Lia Mara (A Heart so Fierce and Broken), Manon Blackbeak (Kingdom of Ash), Lorcan Salvaterre (Kingdom of Ash), Yael (Wolf by Wolf).

Books I intend to read in 2020 (released or not):

I wish you all a pleasant holiday, a happy new year and all my best wishes for 2020.