My review of The Giver by Lois Lowry — a quietly devastating dystopia about memory, colour, and the full cost of a full life. I read it across one rainy Queens weekend and found my own bargains with safety and distance staring back at me.
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The Aftertaste: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief: where the climate crisis is the moral engine, not the setting, and everyone, eventually, is both guardian and thief
The Aftertaste: The Housekeeper and The Professor (博士の愛した数式) by Yōko Ogawa
A quiet, tender novel about memory, numbers, and the strange intimacy of being known in fragments. The Housekeeper and the Professor left me thinking about mathematics as beauty, affection as discipline, and the small, sacred rituals through which love makes itself felt.
The Aftertaste: My Friends by Fredrik Backman
My review of My Friends by Fredrik Backman — a tender literary fiction novel about friendship, trauma, and the meaning of art. This book review explores nostalgia, emotional healing, and why art belongs to everyone.
The Big Smokey Apple 