#warmdayswillnevercease

(This is @earlymoderngothic btw)

Aahh omg thank you?? Some of my favorites in recent years are:

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

The Secret History and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Lie With Me by Philippe Besson

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Samlade Verk by Lydia Sandgren

Find Me by André Aciman

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

And just for the hell of it, here are a few that weren't favorites, but were such good and memorable reading experiences:

A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux

Quicksand by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

5 Name a movie that makes you genuinely laugh.

Elf. Somehow it gets me every single time.

28 Name a book you don’t mind reading over and over.

Answered here, but another one is the entire Percy Jackson series!

Thank you!

29. What is your favorite expletive?

For every day use, definitely “fuck.” On particularly special occasions (meaning when someone is being especially heinous), I like to call people/things “spectacularly cunty.”

61. Do you often read your horoscope? 

Thank you!

15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

No, none that were nominated for an award this year. Those are always out in just hardcover and I’m too cheap.😆 I did read some that won awards in past years though, most notably Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, which won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018. 

16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

Bunny by Mona Awad. I have seen people raving about it, and I did like it (I think) but I don’t think it was quite that good. Half the time it didn’t even make sense.

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

I was surprised by Doll Bones by Holly Black. I thought it was just going to be a fun little middle grade novel, but it was a truly lovely coming-of-age story. It’s my favorite book by her now.

18. How many books did you buy?

End of youth - Ed Sheeran

this song really is something

I hope you have a truly lovely day filled with all of your favourite things because you deserve to feel happy and special and I hope the coming year is filled with calmness and kindness and all good things <3 <3 <3

12. what do you think comes after life? I have no idea. nothing? no I really don't know. I tend not to think about it too much.

48. what is your favourite album? ohh that one is hard! I think I have listened to Linkin Park- One more light a lot, also: the script- #3, Die Ärzte- Rock 'n Roll Realschule

72. do you collect anything? I used to collect stones! Like rocks, but also gems. Now I collect shot glasses of places I've been to!

3. Popular book you dislike? Oh, easy: The Priory of the Orange Tree. Don't see the hype at all. And I read all of the 1000 pages (German edition)

4. Favourite genre? All of them!! No I like a lot of different genres, I love crime novels, young adult, science fiction, fantasy,... I can't decide I think. If I really HAD to I think I'd pick fantasy because you can dive very deep into different worlds.