books?? amazing. paperbacks?? soft, cozy, may fit in your pocket, cheap so you don’t feel bad for taking notes in them. hardcovers??? beautiful, pristine, ground you into the world they hold by making you grip them tighter, the stars of every bookshelf. ebooks?? convenient, cheap, always with you, a vast library that you can hold in your palm. new books?? crisp, the smell of wood, ideas waiting to imprint themselves upon the world. old books?? objects transcending history, sweet smelling, enriched by the hands that stroked their pages. books.
Books for Thoughts/JOMP/Shelf Confidence - Dec 31 - Books of the Year As much as I love these books (all of my 5-star reads of 2018), I’m ready to find some new authors and new books to rave about (and take pictures of!)
WE’VE COLLECTIVELY READ OVER 55 MILLION BOOKS THIS YEAR!!!
With 20 hours to go in the Goodreads Reading Challenge, we’re at over 55.5 million books and I am SO FUCKING PROUD of us all.
I started checking these stats in 2015 and compared to that year, we’ve almost doubled the number of books read annually.
Not to mention that there are so many people who don’t use Goodreads to track their reading progress, so the number of read books is bound to be much, much higher.
I am so so so proud of us all! 2018 was a great reading year, bring it on 2019!
“So the fairy silver brought you a monster of fire for a husband,
and me a monster of ice. We should put them in a room together and let
them make us both widows.”
