A full life involves reading – lots of it. I lived a full life in July while backpacking southeast Asia:
- A Little Life (720 pages!!) – the internet is deeply divided on this one. Everyone on Reddit hates it. If you love it, the Redditors hate you. Most old-school book reviewers generally appreciate it – the NYT, New Yorker, Guardian and others. I don’t know if I can “like” a book with this much pain, trauma, sadness, suffering and just unimaginable atrocities.. it feels weird to like such a book. All I can say – this book changed me. Not many books have. I am a different person for having read this book. So, thank you, Hanya Yanagihara
- Trust (Pulitzer winner) – not my usual type, but I LOVED it. 10/10 recommend
- Prisoners of geography – good read if you’re into that kind of stuff 🙂
- The Sympathizer – super interesting description of the Vietnam War from a communist’s perspective. Could have done more re the immigrant experience in the US, but I enjoyed it
- Kafka on the shore – started it but couldn’t get very far ahead. Prob because I had to go back to the real world where nothing is certain except death and taxes
Ipshita Agarwal 