Currently Reading

The ever-expanding list of books I am currently reading (i.e. unfinished books)

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ✓
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Human Acts by Han Kang
• No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Books

Good books that I like

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Trust by Hernan Diaz
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

Movies

• Doctor Strange - my favorite marvel movie
• Exhuma - Korean horror works, at least it does for me.
• The Mission Impossible series
• Inception
• Parasite
• Glass Onion, Murder Mystery, and other comedy-esque mysteries
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Shows

Jumping around too many countries and genres

• Stranger Things - no explanation needed
• Detective L - a historical mystery Chinese drama set in Shanghai in the 1930s that I watched ~3 times, much different from the cliche romance-esque plot most Chinese shows follow
• Extraordinary Attorney Woo - the right balance between comedy, law, romance, and social issues
• The Good Place - surprisingly philosophical, cool plot, a great sitcom overall
• Manifest - the best supernatural/thriller show ever, very underrated
• Guardian: The Lonely and Great God - one of the very few high-quality romance (+fantasy) kdramas I've watched my entire life
• Itaewon Class - another high-quality kdrama
• Culinary Class Wars - best cooking show I've ever watched (I've only watched one but this is still significant)

Anti Recommendations

Pretty self-explanatory: the opposite of recommendations. Read/watch if you are genuinely inclined to kill time!

• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
  The first book is okay, the second book gets repetitive. Both books are very addictive but very unproductive (i.e. fun but cliche, most things are predictable and not very new). Consider reading if you want to get out of a reading slump!
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
  Same as above, but rom-com instead of fantasy. Maybe I have an inherent dislike for romance, but the plot for this one was also too shallow.
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  A bit too depressing. I have an unpublished full-length review for this one that I might want to put out on the Internet.
• Titanic - slightly controversial but I think it's overhyped