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Welcome to my bookshelf! This is where I track some of my reading, as well as where I post my bookbug reviews. Bookbug is an online book club hosted over on Neocities. We read one book a month, and sometimes I write the wrap-ups :) Click the button below to read other member's reviews!

Bookbug reviews

My Bookshelf

Here's just some general stats. As much as I love to read, I'm a bit of a slow reader, so my goals are always modest. Also, I track all my books on Librarything which goes into more detail.

I like most of what I read, but I particularly enjoy "classic" literature. I'm always looking to expand my horizons.

Currently Reading:

• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (on pause?)

2025 Books

• Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities ⭐⭐⭐
• James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• Patti Smith, Just Kids ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)

2024 Books

• Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And The Sea ⭐⭐ (2/5)
• Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• E.M. Forster, A Room with a View ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
• E.M. Forster Maurice ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)
• Willa Cather, My Ántonia (again) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)
• Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
• Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train ⭐⭐ (2/5)
• Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
• Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• Kate Chopin, The Awakening ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• Virginia Woolf, The Waves ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (3.5/5)
• Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• Toni Morrison, Sula ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)
• Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• Emily Dickenson, The Essential Dickenson (selected by Joyce Carol Oats) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
• Micheal Cunningham, The Hours ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)
• Robert Pirsig's translation of The Inferno of Dante ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• Percival Everett, James ⭐⭐ (2/5)
• Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Illych ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
• Patrick Modaino, In the Café of Lost Youth ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)

Please please please recommend me a book!

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