The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov 📚
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 • 1 min read
Finished reading: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
❗️Disclaimer: Possible spoilers ahead.
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The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov 📚
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 • 2 min read
Finished reading: The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
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Dust by Hugh Howey 📚
Friday, April 25, 2025 • 1 min read
Finished reading: Dust by Hugh Howey This book series and its ending remind me of another series I read at the age of 13-14 by the Austrian author Ursula Poznanski called Eleria in which humanity also makes the planet uninhabitable and lives in so-called spheres that aren’t too different from silos. Lots of effort was put into concealing the reasons behind the uninhabitability of the Earth. Obviously, a reason was given, just not the truth.
Shift by Hugh Howey 📚
Saturday, March 29, 2025 • 1 min read
Finished reading: Shift by Hugh Howey I love how this book served as a retelling of the first from a different perspective. We kind of got the full story with how Solo was discovered by Jules. We also got some info on how he lived up until he met her. It’s like there were two opponents in this entire story: the silo’s populace and its managers, the silo’s managers and their managers, an intruder and the intruded.
Wool by Hugh Howey 📚
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 • 1 min read
Finished reading: Wool by Hugh Howey This book feels like a manual for how this world is being run at the moment. The turn of events and the move of rich people clutching their purses evermore so tightly is going to end in a devastating war for which the perpetrators will be well equipped with. And they won’t protect anyone except to further pursue their agenda. It scares me to think that all we are and all we do is one Nazi project away from being erased.
This Arab Is Queer by Elias Jahshan 📚
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 • 5 min read
Finished reading: This Arab Is Queer by Elias Jahshan This Arab Is Queer by Elia Jahshan is an anthology of queer Arab stories told by Arabs primarily living in the diaspora. The book aims to reclaim the narration of Arab stories with Arab voices. Queer people in Western media are reduced to pawns in geopolitical games, a continuation of colonial white supremacy in the Middle East. I wish I had read this book earlier, maybe in my teens.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo 📚
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 • 1 min read
Finished reading: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo Do laws and institutions change values, or do values drive laws and institutions? – Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (p. 177) A great question posed by the author in the voice of the main character. Such a powerful question that just took me off-guard because I had never thought about this dynamic before reading it about it in the book before.