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Currently reading:

"Invisible cities" by Italo Calvino

"The road" by Cormac McCarthy
(and a bunch of university readings)

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"The Palliative Society" - Han Byung Chul : an essay on the importance of pain and the current loss of its meaning

"Una storia dei diritti delle donne" - Facchi, Giolo: university reading about the evolution of feminism and the conquering of women's rights, with a focus on italy

"Red, white and royal blue" - Casey McQuinston: a sweet and lighthearted story about the son of the US president and an English prince

"Autoboyography" - Christina Lauren: a boy falls in love with a boy in the Mormon community. Can religion and queer love co-exist? A very delicate story on this subject!

"White nights" - Dostoevsky: a short classic about a lonely dreamer that falls in love with a girl, though it's unrequited. Hope, vulnerability and heartbreak

"A weak heart" - Dostoevsky: an exploration of how intense emotions, even positive ones, can be so overwhelming to the point of breaking an entire person

"Stupid Cupid" - Maeve Black: Cupid (who for some reason doesn't believe in love) has a physical relationship with a half monster-half dragon, who also happens to be (get ready for it) in line of succession to become the next Santa Claus. Take a moment to let that sink in. Okay. They slowly fall in love. Terrible, terrible read.
The plot? Awful. The writing? Appalling. The typos? Very much present. But I know people like it (it has around 4 stars on goodreads), so to each their own (though I will judge you forever. Just kidding. Maybe.)

"Don't die alone, Lucas Cook!" - George Lester: Lucas is a teenage boy with a crush on one of his classmates. Not being very confident, he decides to use some dating tips to try and get his love interest to notice him. The premise is very nice, and the books delvs into topics like parental death and grief. Despite having liked the first half of the book, the second part was messy and disappointing. You can read my review on the storygraph or on goodreads

Books I highly recommend

On life:

"Blindness", Jose' Saramago (novel - morality, human nature)

"Man's search for meaning", Viktor E. Frankl (autobiography, essay - holocaust, hope, importance of giving meaning to events, by a camp survivor psychologist)

"Life Ceremony", Murata Sayaka (novel - social constructs, unconventional)

LGBT+ representation:

"Cemetery Boys", Aiden Thomas (YA novel - trans ftm, mlm, by a trans author)

"Red, white and royal blue", Casey McQuinston (novel - mlm, great escapism from the current political world, by a bisexual author)

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