BOOKS READ - 2/2020

Feb was a hectic month for me, as the amount of books (and pages) I read decreased from Jan.

I started going through the classic ones I could find on my Libby, as you can see.

  1. Watchmen - by Alan Moore (Goodreads Author), Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer), John Higgins (Colorist) - 5/5. Such a masterpiece that only gets better with time.

  2. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi - 4/5. I could feel the quicken in pace turning into a rush through to the end of the book, as he tried to wrap it up as best as he could. Eye-opening, and sad.

  3. I'm Not Dying with You Tonight - Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal - 3/5. Eh- A fun read to kill time, if nothing else.

  4. Animal Farm - George Orwell - 5/5. Again, a masterpiece that ages like good wine.

  5. Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami - ~4/5. Like other Murakami works, exudes an overwhelming, yet gentle, lingering, kind of loneliness.

  6. Matilda - Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) - 5/5. I watched the movie when I was little, in a foreign hotel somewhere that I’ve long forgotten, and was so mesmerized by it. The book is a cuter? version, and the movie certainly did it justice.

  7. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - ~4/5. I’ve watched so many cinematic interpretations of this book, yet I’d never read it in full. Now that I have, I can safely confirm this genre is not for me lol.

  8. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) - 4/5. Yet another cute one, and also with a good movie adaptation.

  9. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R.R. Martin, Gary Gianni (Illustrator) - ~4/5. G.R.R. Martin’s is definitely something else. Some parts of the stories were kind of a lull, but his world-building and narrative skills are absolutely top-notch. Which reminds me, I have to go back to finishing ASOIAF, but I also don’t want to wait in agony for the next ones like the other peeps…

  10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - 5/5. I vaguely remember reading this when I was little, but maybe it was a Viet translation, so it was a good run to jog up the memory, and to marvel at Doyle’s writing at the same time. I especially like how Holmes isn’t a perfect man in his stories, unlike his many cinematic representations - with the coke addiction and all. Explains a lot, and also makes him more relateable to me a great deal.