Have you ever read/heard a book quoted and decided to add it to your TBR? I wanted to start reading books that I wouldn’t normally read while I was trying to get out of a rut, and decided to give this a try. This also led me to think I needed to start reading/listening to more of the classics (a lot of the reading I now is in audiobook form). If you’ve done this, what were the books or quotes?
A while back, I was watching one of my favorite TV shows and heard the famous quote from Jane Eyre:
“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
I decided to read the book (I listened to it as an audiobook).
Years ago, a book series I was reading mentioned Watership Down. This was almost a decade ago,but I still think of the quote often. It is now on my TBR list.
“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
by FickleBlueberry5601
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This is one of the primary ways I discover new stuff. The other being by finding out who my favorite writers read and were friends with.
I read *At the Back of the North Wind* as a kid because it was mentioned in a relatively forgettable children’s fantasy series (called Half Magic, or something like that). At the time it kind of went over my head despite being ostensibly for children, but I reread it as an adult and it’s one of my favorite books.