End of Year Book Survey 2017

The End of Year Book Survey is an annual event hosted by Jamie over at Perpetual Page Turner.

ANNUAL END OF THE YEAR SURVEY 2015

Number Of Books You Read: 61
Number of Re-Reads: 0
Genre You Read The Most From: I can’t even tell

Best Book You Read In 2017?

Books You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t?

Tash Hearts Tolstoy – I loved it, but I expected a 5 star read (I rated it 4 stars)

Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read?

One of Us Is Lying – I loved it a lot more than I thought I would.

Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did)?

I don’t think I have any… This was not a great reading year for me.

Best Sequel of 2017?

I didn’t read any sequels.. Unless the Book Review: Pottermore Presents counts…

Favorite new author you discovered in 2017?

Erin Morenstern and Jeff Giles

Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone?

I read A Thousand Splendid Suns which is historical fiction, which I generally dislike, but I had to read it for school. I didn’t LOVE it, but it wasn’t bad.

Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year?

Netgalley Review: One of Us is Lying

I think I read it in two days…in school.

Book You Read In 2017 That You Are Most Likely To Re-Read Next Year?

I’m not.

Favourite cover of a book you read in 2017?

NetGalley Review: The Edge of Everything

The most memorable character of 2017?

Not counting books I already mentioned – Delilah from NetGalley Review: Get It Together, Delilah!

Most beautifully written book read in 2017?

Buddy Read – Book Review: The Night Circus

Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2017?

I don’t know…

Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2017 to finally read?

Buddy Read – Book Review: The Night Circus

Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2017?

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep overlapping and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there in no telling where any of them may lead. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act? Though perhaps it is a singular wolf who goes to such lengths as to dress as a grandmother to toy with its prey.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2017?

NetGalley Review: Royce Rolls

One Book You Didn’t Get To In 2017 But Will Be Your Number 1 Priority in 2018?

I’ve got a couple, but one of the first I want to read is Peter Darling!

Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2018?

Space Opera by Catherine Valente

The Gravity Falls Graphic novel

List of anticipated books

How many books do you want to read in 2018?

150

Is it going to happen? Probably not, but I want to try.