I like to read stories with interesting characters, an intriguing setting, and an enticing plot. My current literary icons are Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez (Love in the Time of Cholera), BenjamĂn Labatut (When We Cease to Understand the World), Louise Erdrich (The Sentence) or Anna Burns (Milkman).
I had a wonderful experience in literature classes during my undergraduate studies, and Iâve compiled some of those writings here (see 2021 and earlier). The most formative books I have read are One Hundred Years of Solitude (while recovering from a stress fracture in my femur) as a teenager and Crime and Punishment as a young adult. My most fruitful time as a young reader came about in the summer of 2022; living with my cousin Boulder, spending most of my free time hiking beautiful paths and reading in gorgeous parks. It was then that I decided to start writing formally about books, the impetus for this page. Ever since I have had the continuous desire to write down my thoughts about books I am reading or have read and a discontinuous ability to do so.