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2025 Reading Goal

30% complete! AlexTran has read 3 of 10 books.

Andrew Wilkinson: Never Enough (2024, BenBella Books)

A cautionary tale in this material world

I love how the book is not any "Self-help" genre, It is actually more about the relationship of the author with money and power, how he sees the petty and jealousy of the rich, how they can never be satisfied with their house, their yacht, their status.

Gail Honeyman: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017)

It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay

If I was good enough to put my words for showing how much I love this book. The dynamic between main couple is refreshing, how he cares and treats for her when he saw her at the bottom of the rock. I am glad we no longer see the unrealistic relationship trope that we commonly see in another romance story

Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven (Hardcover, 2014, Alfred A. Knopf)

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven …

"Survival is insufficient"-Star Trek: Voyager

In praise of genuine human connection and how we make sense in this material world The book was more far relevant and relatable after 2020 pandemic and reading this feels like a personal diary of human soul when facing with loss after the catastrophe