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Gilmore Girls (Paris Geller)
"I am not cut out to deal with people.."
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Books I read in 2023
1. Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig
2. Happy as Corpses by F. E Choe (short story)
3. The Overcoat by Gulam Abbas (short story)
4. If the Fates Allow: A Short Story by Rainbow Rowell
5. The Coming of Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie (short story) (re-read)
6. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
7. Book Lovers by Katie Henry (skimmed)
8. These Precious Days by Anne Patchett
9. Crying in H-mart by Michelle Zauner
10. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start-up by John Carriyou
11. It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
12. Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertali
13. Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer (🇦🇺)
14. The Beauty in Breaking by Michelle Harper (DNF)
15. How to be Perfect by Michael Schur
16. This Winter by Alice Oseman
17. They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta
18. The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith ⭐️
Movies I watched in 2023
1. Everything, Everywhere, All At Once 🇦🇺 (Moonlight)
2. Barbie 🇦🇺
3. Wonka 🇵🇰
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this is one of my favourite poems ever. it’s so sad yet hopeful. so strong yet short. it’s dusk… your daughter’s tall… it’s dusk! your daughter’s tall!
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NANCY WHEELER in STRANGER THINGS
2.05 "Dig Dug"
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Books I read in 2022
1. The Blythes Are Quoted by L.M Montgomery
2. The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie (re-read)
3. Nemesis by Agatha Christie (re-read)
4. The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang ⭐️
5. Recommended For You by Laura Silverman (sort of skim read)
6. If They Come for Us by Fatima Asghar (mostly..)
7. Pakistan: A Hard Country (DNF)
8. How to Be a Family by Dan Kois
9. Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket
10. Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
11. Atomic Habits by James Clear
12. Trans by Helen Joyce (skim-read)
13. The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith
14. Mind that Child by Simon Rowley
Movies in cinema in 2022
1. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them: the Secrets of Dumbledore 🇦🇺
2. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: the Secrets of Dumbledore 🇦🇺
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Book Review: Recommended for You
Recommended for You by Laura Silverman is a light-hearted love story about two teenagers who work in an indie bookstore and compete with each other to sell as many books as possible. I was expecting it to be more of a young adult novel, but I think it’s actually aimed more at a middle grade demographic. It’s a very cute stocking-stuffer Christmas present for a younger sister or cousin.
I downloaded the book because I’ve read You Asked for Perfect by the same author. I remember crying during You Asked for Perfect, but there were also definitely several scenes that I thought were too on-the-nose. Here, too, the writing is superficial. Silverman basically tells you what to think about everything. I could always tell exactly where the plot was headed. And it was always headed in a saccharine direction.
I think this review is a little unfair, because I was expecting a more complex read. But then again, I am someone who enjoys a lot of middle grade books - I love Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me and her Goodbye, Stranger. Her books proves my point, I think, that you can write complexly and richly for any age range.
On a more positive note, it’s a book about people who love books. I always like books like that, because I think my love of reading is the most defining thing about me. I don’t always read literary books, and I don’t always read attentively, and I don’t really read that much - med school problems, y’all - but reading is a part of my daily life. I love stories. I even love stories that frustrate me or ones I don’t really understand. When I was a kid, one thing that legitimately tripped me up was realising some people read books and just literally forget about them. I swear, if you pointed to any book from my bookcase at home, I would remember at least something about the plot.
So I liked reading about characters in a bookstore, characters who recommend stories to each other and text each other book review links. I liked the generally cosy and quirky feel of the story. I liked that the main character is short! And I liked her impulsive and vibrant personality.
The book touches upon some important themes. There’s some good discussion of class privilege. It also wins points for representation - the main character is Jewish, and her family’s annual Latkepalooza sounds amazing. The woman who owns the indie bookstore is a wheelchair-user, and the book emphasises the importance of disability accomodations.
Also, although I criticised the book for being an easy read, easy reads have a place on everyone’s bookshelf. If you’re in the mood for a light, low-commitment, bibliophilic story, this is a good option.
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What I Read in 2020
1. Doctors by Eric Segal (DNF)
2. They Do it with Mirrors by Agatha Christie (reread)
3. Atonement by Ian McEwan
4. The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs
5. The Moving Finger by Edith Wharton (short story)
6. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (short story)
7. Justin Case: Smells, Shells and the Horrible Fit-Flops of Doom by Rachel Vail
8. Justin Case: Rules, Tools and Maybe a Bully by Rachel Vail
9. The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (short story)
10. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
11. That Thing We Call a Heart by Sheba Karim
12. Love, Creekwood by Becky Albertali
13. Ickabog by J.K Rowling
14. The Ballad of Birds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
15. Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb
16. Stability in Motion by Marina Keagan (essay) (re-read)
17. Against the Grain by Marina Keagan (essay) (re-read)
18. Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes (DNF) (read 19%)
19. Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
20. Unending Patriarchal Implications of the Quran by Asma Barlas (DNF)
21. Crooked House by Agatha Christie
22. This is How We Fly by Anna Meriano
23. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
24. Three Men in a Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (DNF)
2020 Films in Cinema
1. Dolittle
2. The Broken Hearts Gallery (🇦🇺)
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harry potter + snow
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“Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow.”
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Luchenko’s the oldest player here, was World Champion before Elizabeth Harmon was born. He defeated the great Alekhine in an exhibition when he was a boy, played to a draw with Botvinnik, and crushed Bronstien in Havana.
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Jily is good for the soul. (For anon!)
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Cormoran compliments Robin’s dress (which he bought her ages ago).
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Books I read in 2019
1. Circe by Madeline Miller
2. Tash hearts Tolstoy by K. E. Ormsbee
3. A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie
4. Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (re-read)
5. We Have Always Lived at the Castle by Shirley Jackson
6. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson (DNF)
7. The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket (re-read)
8. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier (re-read)
9. The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
10. The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket (re-read)
11. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie (re-read) 👌🏽
13. What We Left Behind by Robin Talley
14. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
15. The First Muslim by Lesley Hazleton
16. Wild by Cheryl Strayed 🌅
17. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions by Chimimanda Adiche
18. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (DNF)
19. This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kehryn Collander
20. Emma by Jane Austen (re-read)
21. THE DEFINING DECADE by Meg Jay
22. What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristen Newman
23. Love From A to Z by S.K Ali (📍)
24. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
25. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (DNF)
26. Me Feel Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (DNF)
27. The Code of the Woosters by P.G Wodehouse
28. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (re-read)
29. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (re-read)
30. WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith
31. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
32. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit (DNF)
33. This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
34. You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman
35. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
36. Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn (DNF)
37. Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
38. Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
39. Misquoting Muhammad by Jonathon A.C Brown (DNF)
39. Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapoor (DNF)
40. THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY AND THE RIDDLE OF AGES by Trenton Lee Stewart
41. THE NAMESAKE by Jhumpa Lahiri
42. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (re-read)
43. Muhammad: a Prophet for Our Time by Karen Armstrong
44. Educated by Tara Westover
45. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimimanda Ngozi Adiche
46. If the Oceans Were Ink by Carla Power
47. Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
48. At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie
49. After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Sunni-Shia Split by Lesley Hazleton
50. Short Stories from Hogwarts: of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists by J.K Rowling
2019 films in Cinema
1. Mary Poppins Returns 🤢
2. Instant Family 😍
3. GulliBoy 😐
4. Aladdin 💕
5. Spider-Man: Far From Home (saw it in 🇶🇦)
6. Aladdin (Saw it again in 🇰🇪)
7. Lion King 👎
8. Charlie’s Angels 🤗
9. Frozen II ☺️
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