So this year I've read the most within the past few years, and I'm really quite proud of it; so maybe I should recap this year before I make my aesthetically pleasing grid of books for next year.
I'd say favorites, but I realized the most meaningful or impactful would be best: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Territory of Light by Yoko Tsushima, Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain, All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women edited by Enid Shomer, Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin, "A Gentle Creature" by Dostoevsky, and The Girl from the Other Side, vol. 6 by Nagabe.
Wonderful Rereads: Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermentov, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
Book which made me create a "Can't be Bothered" Shelf on Goodreads: Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. (It is very hard for me to loathe a piece of fiction more than this one, I couldn't even "hate-read" my way through it..).
So! For 2020, I'm upping my reading goal to 30 (because I nearly reached it this year!); I want to start making use of the public library (literally right up the street); I want to incorporate some non-fiction and my kindle reads into my routine; with a new job, I'd like to read more contemporary and modern authors as well (this year has been a little classic heavy, which was to be kind of expected..). So here we go!
(There are more in mind, but this old computer of mine is giving me a physical headache, and we all know how I feel about the uselessness and pure redundancy of headaches). So for now, that's a handful of what I'm hoping to get to this new year. I'm going to finish my peach wine and get my yoga exercises in before I'm too tired to be bothered. Buh bye for now. x
Love, Lizzie. x
