Day 1: Best Book You've Read This Year
My reading timeline is so messed up, rooting from being busy on a couple of stuff, that I cannot always remember when I have read this and that. But thanks to Goodreads Reading Challenge (which reminds me, I'm still a few books behind of my 34 books read this year. Hah. I still have at least one and a half months, though.) that somehow it is easier to track the books read for this year.
And so, for Day 1, I am asked to post the best book that I have read this year. It was not that hard because there are only a few to choose from, really.
It was a close figght but runner-ups would be The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (How I love that book!!!) and The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan (a sucker for happy endings, as I have always been. I am going to miss Percy Jackson and Leo Valdez, but I do not feel like reading Egyptian myths just yet even though Percy and Annabeth's having some exposure in there as well on some crossover novel by the Scribe. Just not ready to delve into some series again, I guess. I still have some trilogy to finish reading.)
My top pick for this year has to be (also, the best book-to-film adaptation this year) Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.
It is nothing that I have read and I don't have much to expect that it has left me mindblown upon finishing it. Mad props to Flynn for making these character seem real. It doesn't hurt as well that the actors have portrayed them quite impressively accurate on the film, just how I have pictured them in my head.
Both main characters, Nick Dunne and Amy Elliot Dunne will leave you on the verge of madness as it is hard to choose whom to root for. Both possessed equal love or hate vibe, darn them. One time you'd feel for Amy and then thoroughly hate her and that was almost the same case with Nick. They are like the perfect example for some imperfect souls that are perfect for each other.
In the end, though, I felt bad for Nick for all the pain Amy has put him through. But Amy being so badass (though psychopathic)....I don't know anymore.
"My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?"
He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.
But he said, "Because I feel sorry for you."
"Why?"
"Because every morning you have to wake up and be you."
Could not agree more.
What was your best book read this year?
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