I'm Thinking of Reading a Book 💁🏻‍♀️

This was the first time that I needed so much time to pass before I could talk about my birthday (my birthday was on 6 March). And to be honest, I am still not sure how to express my thoughts and emotions about my birthday this year. This is why I will keep this post short and sweet.  It might sound irrational, but I feel like I'm going through a quarter-life crisis. It's crazy because I recognise that I am still young and I stress myself for no reason. But what can I do when all I feel is pressure and stress about the lack of direction and motive that dominates my life? I know that I do not have an excuse not to know what I want to do in my life. On paper, I am an educated person with a job that I should adore. However, I am not happy. The sole things that give me pleasure is reading books and filming TikTok videos about them. Unfortunately, I cannot devote much time to these activities because I have to work in order to earn money to survive and   to buy  more books ....

  In November 2021, I moved to a new house. As a typical booklover, I thought that this was my chance to create the bookshelf of my dreams. This is why, after carefully going through all the books I had at my parents' home, I decided to bring only my favourite and the most-promising ones to my new house.  Today I will share with you the books that made the cut. Before going on with the list of the books on my bookshelf, I want to note two things; Firstly, although I haven't read all of the books below, they all sound like books that I could easily like. Secondly, the book descriptions are copied by the blurb at the back of the books. And without further ado, I present to you my books. 

Milkman  for me is the definition of a book that has a fascinating premise but the execution is lacking. An eighteen-year-old woman tries to stay away from all the political conflicts of her little conservative town. Her life changes radically, when she becomes the talk of the town because a rumour about her being involved with a man named Milkman, who is not only a revolutionary leader but also a middle-aged, married man, is spread. Now that everyone is watching and judging her every move, she will have to reconsider her place in the community. Let me start the review with some major story-related choices. First of all, we don't know any of the characters' names. Instead of names, we get the relation between characters, like ‘first brother-in-law’, or nicknames, like ‘Milkman’. The lack of names can be interpreted in numerous ways; Firstly (as this is my personal favourite interpretation), it may show how the complete compliance to social rules leaves people with no critical t...

  The first book haul in this blog is finally here 🙌 This is a special haul for me because I paid for all those books with my own money from my first 'serious/adult' job. It was hard to choose just a few books out of all the novels, poetry collections and plays I have on my wish list. However, once I saw the images of the books below on the online bookstore, I couldn't stop myself. If you have read any of the books below, please tell me if you think that it was a good purchase or not in the comments.  I should note that the summaries are taken from the blurbs at the back cover. And without further ado, let me show you the new additions to my book collection.  My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (2018) Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for by her inheritance: our narrator has many of the advantages of life. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn't just the loss of he...