books i read in 2019

My reading timeline this year was one tangled loop of memories in my head.

Reading was an act so divorced from the real world; I can hardly remember the circumstances and environment in which I read

I do, however, remember these ones:

• Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto (5/6)

  • cruelty never looked more beautiful

• One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (6/6)

  • these were rereads, and are dearly beloved.

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (6/6)

  • i cried, i raged, i felt deeply for this brief yet powerful memoir

• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (5.5/6)

  • bleak and ugly but in a charming way — not unlike the protagonist himself.

• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (6/6)

  • another reread. 2019 was the year of revisiting old lovers.

• Circe by Madeline Miller (4.5/6)

  • a creative retelling of an old Greek myth I loved. Now I love it a bit more