Hello, it’s been an awful while since my last post and a lot has happened (to me, and to you as well, probably) in between and I hope everyone is doing just fine. As for me, I’ve just been doing a lot of reading and a little bit of writing lately in order to keep myself from absolutely going insane in quarantine, but not that I’m complaining about it because hey! It’s important to just stay at home unless you have immediate errands to run but other than that please avoid going out, both for the sake of your health and everyone else’s around, and please wear a mask if you do.
Anyway, pardon the tangent! Today I just want to have a little catch-up in the form of a quick rundown of the books I’ve read so far since I was able to jump back in on my reading this year. Both 2018 and 2019 had not been so good to me thus putting me in a very long and tedious reading slump, so thank goodness I’m back!
I have to admit, though, as much as I want to provide quick reviews of each book, I’m stuck in this frustrating creative rut. However, I genuinely do want to share my 2020 reads so far so here’s a list instead with my ratings on the side of each respective book.
1. Dubliners by James Joyce (3 stars)
2. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (3 stars)
3. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (5 stars)
4. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (1 stars)
5. I’d Rather be Reading by Anne Bogel (3 stars)
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (3 stars)
7. I Hate and I Love by Catullus (5 stars)
8. Come Close by Sappho (4 stars)
9. What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund (4 stars)
10. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (4 stars)
11. The Meek One by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (5 stars)
12. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino (4 stars)
13. Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (1 star)
14. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (4 stars)
15. The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (3 stars)
16. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (3 stars)
17. The Waves by Virginia Woolf ( 3 stars)
18. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (2 stars)
19. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (4 stars)
20. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2 stars)
21. The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes (2 stars)
22. Essays in Love by Alain de Botton (4 stars)
23. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (3 stars)
24. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (2 stars)
25. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (4 stars)
26. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (3 stars)
27. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (3 stars)
28. Poems and Fragments by Sappho (4 stars)
29. Atonement by Ian McEwan (4 stars)
30. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2 stars)
31. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson (5 stars)
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