I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKPOKKI / 죽고 싶지만 떡볶이는 먹고 싶어 by Baek Se-hee / 백세희 – 3.5 stars I started seeing this title on Bookstagram last year and picked up a copy of the original Korean book while I was in New York last month. While I knew it was about the author’s battle with depression, I hadn’t known that the book is largely about the conversations she has with her therapist and her reflections following. Some of the dialogue felt a bit dry due to the technical language used but I appreciated the back-and-forth between the author and her therapist, which no doubt…

Happy New Year, friends! Somehow I ended up reading 100(!) books in 2022, squeezing in one last book while trying to stay up until the midnight countdown. I will share my top favorite books from 2022 as well as my reading goals (or intentions, more so) for 2023 in a separate post soon! For today, here are the books I read in December and my thoughts on them: Solito by Javier Zamora – 5 stars As an immigrant myself, I always gravitate towards stories told by other immigrants. In Solito, Zamora chronicles his journey from El Salvador to the US as a little kid. The book is written matter-of-factly with…

Happy December, friends! Per usual, I’m a few days into the month before sharing what I read last month. 😉 I had another prolific reading month largely thanks to audiobooks. Here’s everything I read in November: VIOLETA by Isabel Allende – 3 stars After reading Isabel Allende’s The House of Spirits last year, I had been looking forward to her 2022 release Violeta. Like many of Allende’s works, Violeta is expansive and ambitious, spanning one hundred years of Violeta’s life. Despite Violeta’s first-person narrative, I lost interest towards the second half of the book (though that could be attributed to the length of the book as it’s a bit longer…

Happy November, friends! I’m a few days late but I finally got around to writing this post. As always, better late than never. 😉 EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE by Dolly Alderton – 3.5 stars Dolly Alderton is a British freelance writer, and her memoir Everything I Know About Love is a book about growing up and all kinds go love. Some chapters are funny (I listened to this on audiobook and my partner was giggling and laughing out loud while he was around); some are emotional and heartwarming. Overall, I enjoyed it but I was a bit bored and mostly wanted it to be done towards the end (it…