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My top books of 2022

With Goodreads links!

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez

Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver

Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro

Honorable mentions:

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro

The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

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Dahl: A book you read because you saw the movie?

It’s way more often reading the book before seeing the movie for me, but the ones I consumed this way were Catch me if you can & Harry Potter. 

I will probably see Pride and Prejudice before I read it and after seeing Mary Shelley I’m feeling ever more like reading Frankenstein. 

Thanks for the question! :) 

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remember museums? what a time that was

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I miss spending my mornings in cafes, studying or just reading too many books at once, enjoying the tranquility of it all and dreaming of my future academic career

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Oh, to be a burned-out student buried under the weight of their assignments with no intellectual property right whatsoever over their knowledge work...

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My top books of 2020

With Goodreads links!

What a year, right? These are all books I read and really enjoyed in 2020, not necessarily that came out in 2020, sort of ranked:

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

Duplex by Kathryn Davis

The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane

Advice To A Young Scientist by Peter Medawar

Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin

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What did you think was going to be amazing but turned out to be horrible?

Choosing a PhD topic haha