This is a catalog of everything that I’ve read and am currently reading. I’ve also recently become active on Goodreads, so feel free to connect with me there.
Currently, I’m reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Rust Programming Language by Carol Nichols and Steve Klabnik.
‘A Little Life’ by Hanya Yanagihara
Read: April 25, 2025 - March 2, 2025 • Rating: 3/5
This was the first work of fiction that I read in some time, and I found it both troubling and remarkable.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about it was Yanagihara’s prose. She switches between the perspectives of five personalities: Jude, Willem, JB, Malcolm, and Harold (but mostly Jude) as they navigate through shared experiences. Over and over again, I found myself re-reading excerpts from the book, many of which I could relate to on a personal level.
I actually cared for Jude’s story much less than the other characters in the book (maybe because everything in the book revolved around him). But this is probably not a popular take.
It seemed that every time Jude got a glimpse at a happy life, it was accompanied by immense pain and sorrow—which had no effect but to reinforce things we already knew about Jude: that he believed himself unworthy of being loved and suffered from a tendency to self-harm. He seldom deviated from these characteristics, and when he did, he inevitably regressed. Jude’s story was one of immense sorrow such that pain and suffering almost seemed like the plot itself.
Read my full review here.