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…
2020 in Fiction
2020 is a shitty year. The pandemic forced everyone to stay inside their homes, lest be a possible victim of the highly contagious, and in some cases, fatal coronavirus. In my case though, it wasn’t only COVID-19 that made me stay at home, but also unemployment. As a s…
