The Lit Bitch’s Year in Literature Wrap Up 2011

A Year in Literature Wrap Up–2011.

Here are my stats and a quick recap

8 reading challenges entered
6 challenges completed
52 books read
22,645 pages total

Want to see all the bitchin’ details about what I read this year? Click the ‘read more’ in this post to see the answers to all your favorite questions……. 🙂

What was the best book you read this year?

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (the first book, hands down)

What was the least favorite book you read this year?

Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke

What was the longest book you read?

An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (992 pages)

Best new or indie writer you read this year?

Best series you discovered in 2011?

Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel and Clockwork Prince)

Best book that was out of your comfort zone or was a new genre for you?

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Book you most anticipated in 2011?

Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris

Favorite cover of a book you read in 2011?

Poughkeepsie by Debra Anastasia

Most beautifully written book you read in 2011?

Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2011?

Too many to list….all of my books have highlights and sticky notes designating all my fav quotes of the year from all my books but here are a few that just stand out to me….

Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

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Of course it isn’t these homely and accustomed ghosts that trouble sleep and curdle wakefulness. Look back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind, when you walk alone. All the time the ghosts fit past and through us hiding in the future. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves (137)

Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

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Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There’s the always preexisting, and having no end…and time is of course, all healing. give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompasses, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed…and if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil (2).

A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

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I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul…Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent forever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”

Originally from A Tale of Two Cities but I actually read it in Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

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I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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