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Every month in this series, I want to take one work of fiction and answer a simple question: What does this story teach us about being human? I'm starting with Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. If you somehow haven't heard of it yet, it's a science fiction novel about a dying Sun, an impossible mission, and a very reluctant hero. The premise sounds ridiculous on paper. The Sun is slowly dimming, Earth is freezing, and humanity has to solve a problem so enormous that every major

Why we should all read some fiction!

I went into The Calamity Club expecting something special and for a while, it really delivered. Unfortunately, what started as a promising and engaging story ended up being one of the more disappointing reads I’ve had in a long time. Not because it was poorly written, but because it never quite lived up to its potential. A Strong Start For the first half of the book, I was completely hooked. The story takes its time introducing the characters, giving us insight into their pas

Reading The God of Small Things left me with two seemingly contradictory thoughts: I completely understand why it is studied in universities, and I did not think it was a particularly good novel. Arundhati Roy tackles an incredible range of themes—caste, forbidden love, generational trauma, domestic violence, child abuse, religion, politics, and communism in Kerala. These are difficult, layered subjects, and the novel does not offer easy answers. Instead, it asks readers to t

I've been making my way through the original Red Rising trilogy, and I can't stop thinking about why stories like this resonate so deeply. If you haven't heard of the series, Red Rising is a science fiction saga set hundreds of years into the future, after humanity has colonised the solar system. Society is divided into a rigid caste system based on colours. At the very bottom are the Reds. We meet Darrow, a Red who spends his days mining helium-3 beneath the surface of Mars.

As an OG lover of the anime movie Your Name ever since I was 13, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson was everything I could have hoped for and more. From the moment I picked it up, I could tell this book was going to scratch a very specific itch in my fantasy loving brain. It has that quiet, emotional, slightly surreal vibe that makes stories linger with you long after you finish them. At its core, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is a standalone fantasy abou

I am, quite literally, one of the biggest lovers of ancient Greek and Roman mythology. I love the myths, the history, the everyday lives of people who lived in those worlds, not just the emperors and heroes but the ordinary people who rarely get to be the focus of stories. I even ended up doing a minor in Classics at the University of Toronto. I technically had enough courses to complete it, but I never officially declared it because I did not really need it on my transcript.

Hi guys, I know it has been a while since I last posted, and I’m sorry about that. I kind of disappeared, but only because I was busy doing the most important thing, which was reading. A lot. I’m heading into 2026 feeling genuinely excited to post more regularly, be more interactive, and just talk about books in a way that feels fun again. But before we move forward, let’s wrap up 2025 because it was a really solid reading year. The Stats Let’s start with the numbers, because

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Hello everyone and welcome to my first ever blog post. Today marks a historic moment in my reading journey as I finally put effort into...