reading recap

My reading list reflected the chaos in motion. From soft heartbreak poetry to cosmic absurdity to life advice with a bite. Here's what I read this month

Title: The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck Author: Mark Manson Pub Date: 01/01/2016 Publisher: Harper HC-ISBN: 9798804636129 Formats:...

Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Author: Douglas Adams Pub Date: 10/12/1979 Publisher: Del Ray HC-ISBN: 978034539180 Formats:...

Title: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada Author: Pablo Neruda Pub Date: 01/01/1994 Publisher: Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A....

I did not begin reading poetry by Latinx writers until late 2018 when I started my MFA program. Before then I read mostly white (read:...

Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing was a difficult read. The language was broken down. The scenes created were tough to bear...

I had mixed feelings while reading Chris Kraus’ I Love Dick . On the one hand, there is an empowerment of woman, on the other there is an...

Susan Howe’s “That This” is a heart-wrenching mind-bender. The handling of time (before and after, past and present, etc) in...

Read in the train, it gave me the opportunity to not focus on the individual facts and be in the constant search of who or what they died...

The Complete Maus was painful to read and see. The screaming faces of the Jewish mice as they are crying for their lives, the nooses...

Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing seemed boring. And, well, uncreative, in fact in its appearance and design. That being said, the...

Bluets is a melancholy love song for the color blue. Nelson shows the variety of meanings attributed to blue: depression, stillness,...

“Writers are outlaws.” And though the case may be made by writers that stick to known form and measures as untrue, when it comes to...

John Green has the capacity to tear my soul open and leave me crying for the characters he creates.  Looking for Alaska  was a wonderful...

Carrier Fisher sneaks up on you and tells her story vividly as if she were there beside you and telling it aloud. Wets your palate with...

“We Shall Not Be Moved” details the struggles of women strikers and the labor union’s fight for recognition, especially in the garment...

It's not often that I pick up a true non-fiction book. I mean, why would I? One of the reasons I read is to escape my surroundings (have...

The cover is so simple I fought hard with myself on how to best showcase it, finally deciding to let it speak for itself. Personally, I...

I bought the book the same week it came out, and finished it all in about 4-5 hours. But I didn't end the book in tears. I ended with a...

I found this book in a box hiding in my closet this past month while reorganizing my room. It was stuck between my Japanese for...