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2018 review: All the books I've read

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The end of the year is coming, and with it its share of balance sheets. To begin with, I would like to share with you the list of books I read in 2018 (including comics and comics). It had been ten years since I had counted the books I read each year, and it really pisses me off to do so:

It helps me remember everything I read
I like the challenge of having a goal to aim for (or even exceed!) For next year 😉
Rereading this list and thinking back to the books I read in a certain season reminds me of the memories of the time in question, it's a nice trip back in time

read 54 stories in total.

For the past few months I have been reading a lot less than before, because I have the luxury of being able to walk to work and I mainly read in the metro. This luxury therefore has a downside, and not the least! I wish I could make more time to read at home.

Read differently

This year, I wanted to try several things:

Read novels recommended by literary blogs: I read 3 novels and 2 comics, it's still very little and I still have an endless Pile-A-Lire, but overall I really enjoyed the stories that were recommended to me
Read more novels written by women: 18! (+ Erin Morgenstern for Le Cirque des Rêves which I have just covered). We're not quite average, but I still find it quite good and I'm glad I did this exercise, inspired by Diglee's "Women of Letters, I Love You" article. Among all these books, I loved some (LA PASSE-MIROIR ❤️ ❤️) while others I liked less, in short, nothing but very normal
Read books written by authors and bloggers like myself: 1 read and 1 in progress, I can still improve on this
Borrow comics from the library: 3 for now, which is always better than absolute zero
Most recently: reading stories on WattPad (I just started a pretty interesting one)
All of this will therefore have to be continued next year! In the end, there are a few of all genres on my list. I enjoyed varying the pleasures - even if that necessarily involved taking risks, and having some big disappointments. There were also some very nice discoveries 🙂

List of my readings :

Here is the full list (my favorites marked with ❤️). I am also putting you the link to the reviews I was able to write.

The Charles Parker Ward Affair, by HP Lovecraft
History of France, by Jacques Bainville ❤️
Star Wars The Complete Episode I by Terry Brooks
Star Wars The Complete Episode II by R.A. Salvatore
Lady Mechanika, volume 4 (BD), by Joe Benitez ❤️
Mechanical Gentlemen (short story collection) (ongoing)
Birds Hide to Die, by Colleen McCullough
The Dark Tower, volume 1, by Stephen King
The Black Chrysanthemum, by Feldrik Rivat
La Passe-Miroir, volume 2: The missing from Clairdelune, by Christelle Dabos ❤️
Eclosia or the Scotland of Legends, by Nathalie Bagadey
Earthsea, from Ursula Le Guin ❤️
Agnès Gray, Anne Brontë ❤️
Les Salauds Gentilshommes, volume 2, by Scott Lynch ❤️
Ten little niggers, from Agatha Christie ❤️
The Bruce-Partigton plans, Arthur Conan Doyle (short story)
The Blue Train, by Agatha Christie
Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
The Interns, by Samantha Bailly ❤️
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
La Passe-Miroir, volume 3: The memory of Babel, by Christelle Dabos ❤️
Fixed term, by Samantha Bailly
The sewn heart, by Carole Martinez
Germinal, by Zola ❤️
The Paris seamstress, by Natasha Lester ❤️
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, recommended by Le Petit Pingouin Vert
Confessions of an opium-eating automaton, by Fabrice Colin & Mathieu Gaborit
Porcelaine, volume 3: Mère (BD), by Benjamin Read & Chris Wildgoose
Winning the War, by Jean-Philippe Jaworski, recommended by Journal d’un Curieux ❤️
Les Cahiers d´Esther, volume 1: The year of my 10 years (BD), by Riad Saatouf
Small country, by Gaël Faye
La Tresse, by Laëtitia Colombani ❤️
Rue Farfadet, by Gaël Albert
Uter Pandragon, by Thomas Spok
Zero waste, by Béa Johnson ❤️
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
Lady Mechanika - The Clockwork Assassin (BD), by Joe Benitez ❤️
Les Cahiers d´Esther, volume 2: The year of my 11 years (BD), by Riad Saatouf
Facteur pour femmes (BD), by Didier Quella-Guyot and Sébastien Morice, recommended by Petite Plume
Star Wars The Complete Episode III by Matthew Stover
The Legacy - and other short stories, from Robin Hobb aka Megan Lindholm ❤️
Canoë Bay (BD), by Patrick Prugne and Tiburce Oger, recommended by Petite Plume
The time of innocence, Edith Wharton ❤️
Blog, volume 1 (BD), by Maliki ❤️
Blog, volume 2 (BD), by Maliki ❤️
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, by Gail Honeyman, recommended by Boldreadings ❤️
The City of Mysteries, by Julien Hirt (in progress)
Life is Easy, by Simon Mageau (Wattpad) (in progress)
Re-read books:
House of M (BD), by Brian Michael Bendis & Olivier Coipel ❤️
Porcelain, volume 1: Gamine, by Benjamin Read & Chris Wildgoose ❤️
Porcelaine, tome 2: Femme, by Benjamin Read & Chris Wildgoose
The Circus of Dreams, Erin Morgenstern (in progress) ❤️
I will be able to update my various PAL lists, in particular

The 100 books to read in your life: I have read 8 this year, which I admit to having enjoyed very differently (don't tell me about Frankenstein again)
The 100 Geek Books to Read in Your Life: None read since I wrote this article, but I bought Alain Damasio's La Zone du Dehors which I will read soon.
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