I have more or less neglected this blog, and more than once was even tempted to delete it completely. Though I am still reading books and can’t leave the house because of the pandemic, I have been pretty busy with work and don’t have a lot of time to blog. I did not “review” any…
So I’m thinking, maybe, if I wrote down all the books I’d like to read in 2018, I’d be better able to focus and finally accomplish my goal of finishing 50 books. Not sure if this will work, since I am notorious for making tbr lists then immediately picking up a random book not included…
Have you ever encountered a book that was so good or unforgettable that, after reading it, you instantly wished you hadn’t, just so you can experience the feeling of reading it again for the first time? Of course, re-reading the said book wouldn’t be the same, because although you will still enjoy it, the emotions…
As part of my read more/blog more New Year’s Resolution, I’ve decided to read all the books I stopped reading, unfinished, for one reason or another, in 2016. To my knowledge, they are: Tom Jones – Henry Fielding The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco A Strangeness in my Mind – Orhan Pamuk Bel…
I first heard about Bibliotherapy a few months back in an article that showed up on my Facebook news feed. According to the article, Bibliotherapy is the practice of soothing emotional, mental, and possibly physical (?) ailments through books. Bibliotherapists (yes, it’s a real job), listen to their patients’ problems then prescribe certain books –…
Japan, 1936. An eccentric artist named Heikichi Umezawa is found dead – murdered in his locked studio. Along with his dead body, detectives also find his journal or “will,” describing a gruesome project he had planned to carry out. A staunch believer of astrology and the occult, Heikichi writes in his journal that his obsession with women has inspired…
I try to post something on here at least once a week, but recently, because I haven’t been reading as much, it takes me about 2 weeks before I can post anything. I still don’t have a book review to post – though I will have one soon, so here’s my book loot for the past month:…
Back in January, I was confident that I could accomplish my reading goal of 50 books this year. Up until February, I was doing pretty well – I was even ahead, according to the Goodreads Reading Challenge tracker. Come March though, my reading slowed down, partly because I participated in a group reading of Middlemarch. After…
Unlike April, May was a great book-buying month! I was able to buy 11 books – 7 brand new ones, and 4 second-hand ones. Most of these I wrote about in an earlier post, about my ever-growing pile of “to-be-read-soon” books. The Familiar, Volume 1 – Mark Z. Danielewski – So, remember the distraction I talked about…
Slim pickings in the book buying department for the month of April. I only bought 2 books: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. April was pretty much slow in all things bookish. Apart from buying only 2 books, I read only one book, Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago, which I…
The Misanthropologist 