Review: Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3) by Fonda Lee

March 2, 2022.Reading time 15 minutes.

6/5☕| Rarely have I considered the last book in a trilogy as my favorite but the conclusion to The Green Bone Saga is on a league of its own: Jade Legacy is hands down my favorite book out of this series.

Review: Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell

March 1, 2022.Reading time 13 minutes.

4.5/5☕ | Intimacies was a random find but damn did I stumbled upon a unique gem. It’s been a while since I’ve loved a short story collection this much.

Review: The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

November 3, 2021.Reading time 15 minutes.

5/5☕ | The People in the Trees slowly morphed into this thing that I can’t stop thinking about. And now, I am convinced that each second of it was intentional. It reads as it feels: suffocating, fascinating, disturbing.

Review: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

October 29, 2021.Reading time 9 minutes.

4/5☕ | There’s a very comforting element to 84, Charing Cross Road – the way it feels like the sort of story you read when you’re having a bad day: like a cup of hot chocolate or a warm blanket on a cold morning.

Review: (Just) Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane

September 12, 2021.Reading time 16 minutes.

5/5☕ | I love when I read books that forcefully put things into perspective and those that make me want to live my life to the fullest again. Last Night is one such book.

Review: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman

June 26, 2021.Reading time 8 minutes.

5/5☕ | Listening to this book has been a very contemplative and deeply emotional affair.

Review: Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

December 23, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

4/5 ☕ | When you’re used to reading fast-paced books with big characters and bigger endings, reading a quiet book like this would feel like a shock to the system. For me, reading Strange Weather in Tokyo has been a welcome change – a sudden stop: to breathe and slow down.

Review: What To Do When I’m Gone by Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman

November 28, 2020.Reading time 10 minutes.

4/5 ☕ | It has taken me years to read this book without choking up. And though I still feel that unmistakable emotion bubbling up, it’s now faint enough for me to actually finish this book without feeling bad about life. If there’s anything I regret, it’s that I should’ve let myself read this sooner.

Review: The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1) by Abby Jimenez

September 27, 2020.Reading time 10 minutes.

5/5 ☕ | I feel like this is one of those books that I won’t forget for a time. Read this book. But be prepared and please bring tissues with you – because it would definitely make you an emotional mess. As it did to me.

READING DIARY: 10 Thoughts I Had While Reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

May 3, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

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 it, I can give it a shot.