My son recently murdered my cell phone but throwing it in a pot of pasta mid cooking, and now I’m terribly bored and need something to do. So why not pick up reading again. I used to basically inhale books when I was young teenager, but I haven’t really been reading for about 5-6 years (I’m almost 24 now).
I honestly don’t think my taste has changed that much. I guess a girl just like what she likes.
So I decided to pick up the selection series by Kiera Cass as I used to love it with a burning passion. And as a current day reality tv lover, it would definitely hit the spot for simple entertainment. I have consumed the first book in like 3 days, and while I did enjoy it even now, it does seem…. I mean it’s very clearly a “popular, but not that kind of popular” YA series from the 2010’s.
So I would like to find something that is a bit more adult, with better writting and world building, and definitely a LOT less pick me girl energy for the leading lady.
Other books I remember liking is the Riley Bloom series, and then a danish book series called “Vild Heks”. I have also read more classic books. I have all of Jane Austin’s books in my collection, and I remember loving them.
I also read “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde” for an english class when I was 17 and I remember being absolutely infatuated with it, so I tried to read that as my first choice on this new reading journey. But I honestly could not comprehend what I was reading because of the vocabulary and writting. So while I would be down for more peculiar and mystery-esk books, it needs to be a much easier read for now.
I usually consume podcasts about politics, true crime and celebrity gossip for entertainment if that can be a hint for something I would like too. And I am a bio engineering student who loves data and programming, so while I am looking for fiction, anything with a touch of nerdy in that sense is right up my alley.
I’m fluent in english, danish, portuguese and well versed in spanish if anyone has a hidden gem that isn’t available in English. Hit me with anything!
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How was the phone with the sauce?
Focusing in your bioengineering studies along with politics and you’re interest in peering into darker aspects of human nature, you may be interested in Benjamin Labatut’s *When We Cease to Understand the World*. It’s a collection of inter-related essays to fictionalized short stories about scientists and the dual nature of their discoveries. It focuses on Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger. I read the English translation, but it was originally written in Spanish.
I also think you may like Louise Erdrich’s *The Night Watchman*. I recall it being pretty easy to read. It has politics, as the main characters are Native Americans fighting against dispossession in the 1950s. It has a bit of a mystery and crime as one character goes to Minneapolis in search of her missing sister and gets involved in some shadiness. It has elements of magic realism, community, and a pair of Mormons trying to convert some of the Native American characters.