What Books You Been Reading This Past Months?

A little recap of what I've read in the past three months.

January

~Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery

~A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul

~Arrival/Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

~Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

February

~A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

~Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück
~Dottie by Abdulrazak Gurnah
~The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
~The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

March

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

~The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

~Anne of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery

~Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan

~The Stranger by Albert Camus

~The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov

To pick a favourite from each month:

For Jan, I liked A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul so much. I've been reading books by Western authors, mostly by white people, about white people. I've also read some Asian authors, but I've read very few by Indian-origin authors, about Indians or people of Indian origin, written in a style I enjoy. This was refreshing and a very interesting read. While I read with Kindle, I kept imagining Mr. Biswas' house, what it's like. So I printed the image of the book cover and pasted it on my wall and read. Yeah, I did that.

For Feb, Dottie. Dottie inspires me to be better despite what life throws at you (and of course, I love A Room of One's Own too; this is the second time I've read it).

For March, it's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. I love the book and the theme. I'm thrilled I read this (thanks, Dua Lipa). I intend to read more of Olga Tokarczuk.

And April? coming up soon ;-)

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