In October 2019, I decided it would be a good idea to read a 100 books in a year, to get back on the reading grind in hopes that it can help with my creativity and sanity. However, after some calculations, I realised that would mean that I'd have to read 8 books per month, which means 2 books a week, which honestly is pretty fucking daunting, even for someone who used to spend their spare time downing YA novels like it's soda on a hot day. Therefore I decided it would be more realistic to set a goal of reading 50 books by October 2020. So far it has been going great, and here's the list of books that I've read so far:
1.Everything is f*cked— Mark Manson
(Ok I don't know If I should really count this book since I was already reading it before I set this goal, but still, good book, If you liked The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, and/or are always thinking about why's of being human, tis a book for you my child)
2.Kitchen— Banana Yoshimito
(A birthday gift, a warm book, two short stories, translated from Japanese)
3.Everything I know About Love— Dolly Alderton
(This book just UGH, it is everything, I love it, read it and weep, it's non-fiction but reads like one, and finish it feeling like you've been mentored by Dolly in life)
4.Autumn — Ali Smith
(A artsy feeling fiction book, a little out of my usual selection, but since I saw it on Jemimah Wei's book recs, I decided to give it a go. A mixture of love, family, friendship, art, emotions and Brexit's before and afters)
5. Home Remedies— Xuan Juliana Wang
(Also Jemimah Wei's recs, like the previous two books, a collection of short stories about Chinese immigrants, from ABC's that we all know all too well to people who just stumble onto the American dream)
6.The Hate U Give— Angie Thomas
(One of the book rec's I found when I looked for YA book recs, I am well aware I'm supposed to be leaving the young behind OK don't come at me. A story about a girl who through the death of her friend, finds her voice in standing up for Black lives, a book inspired/for the unjust deaths of Black people due to police brutality.)
7.Tell Me Three Things— Julie Buxbaum
(Second book I read on the Libby library app, which I finally tried after hearing recommendations for a while, a story of a teenage girl figuring out how to live after her mom's death and moving to a different state to her dad's new wife's house, and finding comfort in new friends, old friends and words of poetry)
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