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34/25 books read

january

• world war z – max brooks
  • – "wouldn't you want to believe there was hope?"
• fantasticland – mike bockoven
  • – "sometimes the deer gets away, right?"
• the andromeda strain – michael crichton
  • – "how do you study a form of life totally unlike any you know? how would you even know it was alive?"
• the hobbit – j. r. r. tolkien ↺
  • – "and their hearts looked forward after winter to a spring of joy."
• a short stay in hell – steven peck
  • – "i found a exposition that speculated that god had created the universe as a way of sorting through the great library, finding those books that were most beautiful and meaningful."
• ♡ the way of kings – brandon sanderson
  • – "life before death. strength before weakness. journey before destination."

february

• song of susannah – stephen king
  • – "'only you can save yourself.'"
• ♡ the dark tower – stephen king
  • – "it occurred to him that if he had never loved them, he would never have felt so alone as this. yet of all his many regrets, the re-opening of his heart was not among them, even now."
• ♡♡!!! the color purple – alice walker ↺
  • – "'i think it pisses god off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.'"

march

• summer of night – dan simmons
  • – "he believed mike. he believed duane's notebooks. he believed his friends."
• the bad beginning – lemony snicket ↺
  • "a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit."
• what is not yours is not yours – helen oyeyemi
  • – "the more they loved the more there was to love."
• the great god pan – arthur machen
  • – "it seemed as if he had but passed from one dream into another."
• the reptile room – lemony snicket ↺
  • – "'i think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. after all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.'"

april

• dungeon crawler carl – matt dinniman
  • – "'you're not going to break me,' i said. 'you might hurt me, or kill me, but you're not going to break me.'"
• red dragon – thomas harris ↺
  • – "'perception's a tool that's pointed on both ends.'"
• the wide window – lemony snicket ↺
  • – "'all we can do is hope.'"
• ♡ the silence of the lambs – thomas harris
  • – "over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, i have to hunt a thing that lives on tears."

may

• and then there were none – agatha christie ↺
  • – "'watch and pray. the day of judgment is at hand.'"
• a mysterious affair at styles – agatha christie
  • – "'the good times will come again, dorcas. at least, we hope so.'"
• the miserable mill – lemony snicket ↺
  • – "just knowing that they could read made the baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter."
• the murder on the links – agatha christie
  • – "the heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows."

june

• ♡ it – stephen king ↺
  • – "but he knew well enough."
• poirot investigates – agatha christie
  • – "and the good heart, it is in the end worth all the little grey cells."

july

• hannibal – thomas harris
  • – "the world will not be this way within the reach of my arm."
• project hail mary – andy weir
  • – "because what's the point of even having a world if you're not going to pass it on to the next generation?"
• the austere academy – lemony snicket ↺
  • – "it is a relief, in hectic and frightening times, to find true friends."
• the ersatz elevator – lemony snicket ↺
  • – "'but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.'"
• the vile village – lemony snicket ↺
  • – "'our friends are frightened, and it's up to us to rescue them.'"

august

• 'salem's lot – stephen king ↺
  • – "there is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic."

september

• the hostile hospital – lemony snicket ↺
  • – _"'we're not leaving anyone behind,' klaus said firmly. 'that's what makes us different from olaf.'"
• the fellowship of the ring – j. r. r. tolkien
  • – "'may the stars shine upon the end of your road!'"
• incidents around the house – josh malerman
  • – "'it's all about heart. how long can you maintain an open heart and an open mind in this world, how long can you sustain being kind to other people, no matter what they say or do.'"
• duma key – stephen king
  • – "the only way to go on is to go on. to say i can do this even when you know you can't."

october