Reading

I’m not the bookworm I used to be, reading mostly mainstream books. Some books I read and liked:

• Dế Mèn phiêu lưu kí, a famous children book in Vietnamese about an arrogant cricket who learned humility and altruism during his journey.
• The adventures of Valya and Karik, a Russian children book (my copy was a Vietnamese translation) about the adventures of shrunken children in which they learn about small animals around them.
• Sans famille, a story about a child who had to leave his family for poverty, though now that I think about it, it sounds like children trafficking and child labor.
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian tragedy that is often mistaken as criticism of socialism, while the actual object is authoritanism and mass surveillance.
• The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the well-known fantasy franchise
• Inheritance Cycle, often labeled as rip-off Star Wars by haters
• Gulliver’s Travels, a book that’s supposed to be satire but I didn’t know enough to understand these deep meanings.
• Le petit prince, a novella with a childish theme but discuss many aspects of life in a lighthearted way.
• Ellana (Le Pacte des MarchOmbres series) (French)

Books I’m reading:

• Ellana: L’envol (Le Pacte des MarchOmbres series) (French)
• Tous les hommes sont mortels (French)
• The Necromancer (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series)

Dropped:

• XKCD what if
• A Storm of Swords(A Song of Ice and Fire series)

See also: book reviews I wrote on this site.