Category: Reading Challenge
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Non Fiction Round Up Episode 2: Crucial Conversations and What-nots
Welcome to Episode 2 of my Non Fiction Round Up series – where I talk about all of the non fiction books I’ve read . I listed down additional 5 non fiction books that I was able to finish lately.
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Review: The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
5/5 ☕ | I thought it would be an action-packed story but was treated with a character-driven plot with found family dynamics, a lot of amusing banters and and a side story on finding one’s identity. What started as a wuxia-ish story morphed into a study on identity and a lesson on moving forward and…
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Review: Beach Read by Emily Henry
5/5 ☕ | Beach Read has actually been such a personal read for me. Moments that were given solidity through words even if I wouldn’t even dare to think about them myself. Reading snippets that felt like I am reliving specific moments in my life.
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Review: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) by Rick Riordan
4/5 ☕ | I kicked myself more than enough already for not reading this series sooner than I had. But I’m glad that I finally gave it a try. Now I understand why people willingly got lost in this world for quite a while now and never left. I would do the same, if I’d…
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Reading Diary: 35 Thoughts I Had While Reading Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
This is a collection of my notes as well as the little entries I had in my journal while reading Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life.
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Review: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
5/5 ☕ | A Little Life is a brilliant study of human emotions and how complex trauma can have lasting effects in one’s later life. I am a fan of books that elicit strong emotions from a reader, whether intentionally or not, and this book definitely delivered on that front.
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Romance Back-to-Back: The Happy Ever After Playlist + If I Never Met You
Romance books has been having a resurgence in my heart. Lately, I’ve listened to two random romances I’ve discovered through my audio book subscriptions and I was quite surprised that both of them delivered!
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Non Fiction Round Up Episode 1: Non Fiction Books I’ve Read Lately + Tips to Reading Non Fiction Books
I realized, after all these years, that the key is reading about topics I care about. In reading non fiction works, you need to be intentional. Mindless reading won’t work.
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Review: The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
This story is a mix of romance, adventure, murder mystery – with a hefty serving of family drama and lore on the side. It’s like an elaborate Asian soap opera peppered with paranormal elements and I loved every minute of it.
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READING DIARY: 10 Thoughts I Had While Reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
These musings are way personal than I was expecting. This is how I usually write in my journal – things that are mostly disjointed it’s hard to fashion them into a decent and coherent review. I was honestly debating whether I should post this or not here but I figured, for the sake of documenting…
Pages and Coffee Cups 