Category: Reading Life
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Review: The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories is a collection of 85 short stories that explore inner lives, revealing why Lispector’s writing linger with readers.
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Review: Near to the Wild Heart
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector explores a woman’s inner life through memory, marriage, and self-questioning.
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Review: Martyr!
This review of Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar looks at Cyrus’s journey through addiction, grief, and art while questioning meaning and sacrifice.
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Review: The Bell Jar
In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a bright young woman whose world slowly falls apart.
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Review: No One Is Talking About This
No One Is Talking About This begins as an internet-saturated narrative before shifting into a raw story about family and grief.
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I Thought They’d Be Cliché Self-Help Books. I Was Wrong.
I used to judge self-help books by their covers, titles, and subtitles. I almost skipped these books but ended up finding them insightful.
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Review: To Rest Our Minds and Bodies
To Rest Our Minds and Bodies explores final-year university life, capturing freedom, friendship, and the space between youth and adulthood.
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Review: No Longer Human
A compelling glimpse into No Longer Human’s dark, introspective world and Dazai’s enduring portrait of a man losing himself.
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My 2025 Reading Recap: Expanding Reading Horizons
This 2025 reading recap looks back at the year my bookshelf turned into a rainbow of new genres and unexpected favorites.
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Review: Frankenstein, The 1818 Text
I read Frankenstein right after watching del Toro’s adaptation and nothing was what I expected. The book was different yet equally beautiful.
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Books That Have Influenced My Mindset the Most
These are the books I can’t forget, the ones that still shape how I think. These books made their way into my life and conversations.
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Review: Trust
Hernan Diaz’s Trust challenges the myths of American wealth and uncover the subtle forces that shape narratives about money.
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Review: Stoner
Stoner by John Williams follows a poor farm boy who falls in love with literature and faces a lifetime of quiet disappointments.
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When Reading Goals Meet Reading Quality
As the year ends, many readers count their books but is more always better? Here’s how I balance reading goals with meaningful reading.
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Review: Small Things Like These
A short but deeply moving story about compassion, silence, and the quiet bravery found in everyday life in small-town Ireland.
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My Day at Helsinki Book Fair 2025 in Messukeskus
My experience at Helsinki Book Fair 2025: wandering through books, art and creative booths, with an escape to the Food & Wine Fair.
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Writers Whose Words I’ll Never Get Tired Of
These are my favorite authors who inspire my reading, writers whose names alone make me fall in love with their words all over again.
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Review: Beartown
Beartown is a great novel that exposes the silent pressures of a small town, revealing hard truths about ambition, loyalty, and community.
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Review: James
A story where language becomes an act of rebellion. James is about freedom, literacy, and survival, and it leaves a lasting impact.
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Why I Don’t Use a Reading Journal (Yet)
I love notebooks, but reading journals never work for me. Here’s why none fit my reading style and what I use instead.
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Review: The Trial
The Trial by Franz Kafka is about one man’s mysterious arrest as well as a mirror to the systems that still rule our lives.
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2025 Reading Exploration: Highlights from a Year of Words
A personal reflection on my 2025 reading journey, from discovering poetry to falling in love with memoirs, classics, and Backman’s fiction.
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Review: Anxious People
Can a hostage drama make you laugh, cry, and reflect on life all at once? Fredrik Backman’s Anxious People proves it can.
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Review: Orbital
In Orbital, Samantha Harvey writes about our planet, human anxiety, and the unstoppable passage of time. Each page feels timeless.
























