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First read book of the year! 📚 Out of The Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis Having only read Narnia before, it was interesting to read something Lewis wrote of a different genre & for an adult audience. Beautiful prose, unsurprisingly, and definitely plan to check out the other two books in the series.

been lagging a bit on reading and also doing multiple books at once, but Book #2 finished! The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien figured since I finally watched LotR and just read some Lewis, it’d be a good pick What I learned: 1. Gandalf fixes everything 2. Bombur is fat

Book #3! God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. This is the 3rd Vonnegut novel I’ve read recently, and it’s very charming as is his style. Multiple characters apparently make their way into some of his other novels, so looking forward to seeing them pop up!

Book #4 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski been working on this off & on for 3+ months now Such an important origin of modern & internet horror, and the horror at the core of it is phenomenal. A feat of publishing, too. Gave me one major nightmare lol glad I read it, glad to be done with it

Book #6 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Unfortunately haven’t been reading a lot lately, but finally finished this. Gabo’s thick prose was intimidating at times, but the depth of his characters is mesmerizing. Certainly a fascinating exploration on the complexities of love.

Book #7 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer Wanted something easy to get back into a regular reading habit, so revisited a childhood favorite. It’s a pretty fun take on magic/fairies/goblins etc but I think I mostly liked it as a kid because the main character reminded me of Ken Ichijoji from Digimon 02.

I remember getting Artemis Fowl at the school book fair. Kept reading them for years.

Book #8 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 3rd Ishiguro I’ve read & I can say with certainty he’s one of my favorite authors. His writing is just so beautiful and enthralling, even during the most mundane. The air of melancholy that he’s able to carry through a whole book is truly phenomenal.

Is it as good as 'Love In the Time of Scurvy'?

I really enjoy the covers for the 2015 editions of all his books (like this one here). It’s so neat they all form a big puzzle. There’s a diagram of it here. 99designs.com/blog/famous-...

oh I had no idea about this, how neat!

I definitely need to read more Haruki. Kafka on the Shore was so weird. I both hated and loved it and still think about it two years after reading it.