Reading in 2022
In 2022, I did something new for my book-reading experience: I joined Bookstagram. It's been in my head for a long time before I officially decided to join. It was daunting, at first, because what I saw from this side of the Internet were the light-spilt books, s…
Sort of a Book Review | A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
In the inside jacket, the book was described as “a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance” , and for 720 pages, Yanagihara did just that, but also stretched the limit of her reader's patience and tolerance to tragedy and viole…
Sort of a Book Review | Heartstopper Vols. 1-4 by Alice Oseman
Last week, Netflix released their newest show Heartstopper , a queer teen romcom based on the graphic novels by Alice Oseman. And the show has taken the world by storm since. From the rare 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating, high Metacritic and iMDB ratings and the constan…
Reading in 2021
2021 is one for the books—literally. With the second year of quarantine and my laptop finally giving up on me, I spent less time watching films and TV series and more on reading my ever-growing pile of books. And this led to me consuming a record-breaking 80 titles th…
