Books I have read so far

I love reading, it is one of my most favourite hobbies and I have picked up again after dropping it for couple of months in 2024

I love all of these books to different extents, many of these were disappointing because I went in with wrong expectatiions and just messed it up

Now I won't list comic books and manga here, but I just love my manga when I do read them. My favourite has to be One Piece and Berserk without a doubt. As for western comics, I don't have any I particularly like but if I ever feel like reading one I always go for Spider Man Miles Morales, I don't know but I just enjoy the Miles Morales's Spider Man so much and I really enjoy its storylines.

Now I personally like some of Lovecraft's stories a lot and I mean a lot, most of them aren't that interesting but they're still very fascinating, his intense racism aside, the way he talks about cosmic horror is just very chilling, it's like he exhausts all the ways a human comprehend this bigger than life horror yet it keeps going and going, that is what makes it chilling. You are at the end of the story but horror is still remaining, best example of this is his most famous story The Call of Cthulhu, you're at the end of the story but the horror of Cthulhu hasn't even been touched yet, all the characters have gone mad but they haven't even properly gazed at this monstrosity.

This wasn't my first Sarah J. Maas book but it was the first series I got into, I found the first three ACOTAR books as a combo deal and I was hooked, I hadn't experienced young adult fantasy by then and this was my first step into it and I have to say in hindsight it isn't that good but boy when I read it was my darling series! I have to say this book's strong point for me was the main character of Feyre because I think she is around 15 or 16 in this book and I was around 17 and also going through a hard time during covid so it just connected with me and became a source of comfort for me during that time but because of that also became a reminder of some scary later. Currently I have some fond memories but I personally can't pick up this series again because of the fact that so many painful memories are also attached to it.

This was the first literary series I completed, I haven't read the prequel book called The Assassin's Blade but yea I liked this series quite a bit but looking back it is quite average but for me it still has a pulpy appeal because I love fantasy so much especially high fantasy with old gods and multiple dimensions and realms, the whole shabang. Series doesn't have the best pacing by a long shot but it can be quite enjoyable if you either enjoy smut or fantasy. It is quite a nice for anyone who likes those two but you should also have the ability to tolerate the pulpiness of this series. The main character is quite the typical character but the world itself is a very interesting place, you really want to learn more about the world, that is I think the strength of many high fantasy authors that they can make amazing worlds and this essentially goes back to the daddy of high fantasy Tolkien himself who's strength was the world he created.

I just love this one so much, genuinely it was something that I read during a pivotal moment of my life, I had just completed my first semester in college and I had a month to myself so I picked this up and read it. It really gave me a perspective of someone who expected romantic adventures but never received them and so ended up spiraling down, I was like that too for a while until like I think 16 or 17 and it was an extremely rude awakening and I had to accept mundanity, it was quite the transition but it happened and I was fine with it. Madame Bovary really showed me what happens when you don't make peace with mundanity and cling to a romantic image which isn't compatible with life in our own world. It is a book I recommend to everyone who is struggling mentally because it really highlights how enoyable mundane life can be, even if unintentionally, Flaubert really shows how just living your is also enoyable while pursuing the whatever interest you can instead of just thinking about a future which might never materialize.