Tsundoku
Every Day By David Levithan
Every Day is a love story surrounding a mysterious teen, A, who wakes up in a different body every morning. He lives a different life every day, and because of this, he has learned not to get attached to anybody, not to get noticed, and not to interfere. Everything changes when he wakes up one morning as Justin and meets his girlfriend, Rhiannon. All his rules suddenly don’t matter because he has found someone he wants to be with every day, but how will he achieve this when he wakes up every day as a different person?
Every Day has been on my to-read list for years, and there’s a movie adaptation coming out on February 23, 2018. Personally, I am the kind of person who will always try to read the book before the movie, but if you are more of a movie-goer than a bookworm, I’d definitely recommend watching the movie when it comes out.
Go Set a Watchman By Harper Lee
Go Set a Watchman is a sequel to the classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. With very contrasting themes, Go Set a Watchman is about Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout, who returns to Maycomb to visit her father. During her visit, she struggles as she begins to doubt her values from learning the shocking truths about her family and the people closest to her.
I read To Kill a Mockingbird when I was in eighth grade. Even though I did not think I would enjoy it because of the historical context and references in the story, Harper Lee wove them in very well creating a story
that was both meaningful and interesting to me. I would definitely recommend To Kill a Mockingbird, which is recommended to be read before starting the sequel. Although Go Set a Watchman has many mixed reviews and controversies surrounding the book, I have yet read the book to decide for myself how I feel about the “sequel.”
The Sun and Her Flowers By Rupi Kaur & The Princess Saves Herself in This One By Amanda Lovelace
With the poetry book that started it all, Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, poetry books that weave a small tale have been very popular. Some of the titles that have caught my eye are The Sun and Her Flowers which is a journey of “wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming.” Another title is The Princess Saves Herself in This One By Amanda Lovelace which explores the themes of love, healing, and inspiration.
Although I haven’t personally read a poetry book, I would definitely recommend them as they are filled with heart- wrenching poems that will mess with your emotions. The poems carry messages that are heavy and deep but can also be short and sweet. What attracts me to these books are not only due to the growing popularity but the raw emotions that can be felt from just reading a few pages. They also bring up mental health issues that in a way lessen the stigma that people may feel from having mental illnesses because they know they are not alone in feeling a certain way.
Do you buy books and then end up not reading them, leaving them piled up in some dusty corner of your house? If this sounds like something you do, then you are definitely a tsundoku. A tsundoku is a Japanese word that has no direct synonym in English that means the act of buying a book and then leaving it unread, often being piled together with other unread books.
Does this sound like you? Because I know this is a word that I definitely relate to so I will be sharing you a list of the books that are piled in the little corner of my room that was left unread in 2017.
By: Tiffany Lei