What books did I read in a year? How can you read more ? (2018/2019 school year)
Hello and welcome to The Young Reader’s Review! Exactly one year ago, I uploaded on this blog a “What books did I read in a year?” post that, surprisingly enough, became one of the most viewed posts on this blog. I thought that it would be interesting for me to post another one of these while giving tips on how you can find more time to read. This year, being my first year in the “literature and languages” section at school, my compulsory reading list significantly increased. I also found myself reading mostly books of essays, poetry (I only included poetry books that I read in their entirety) as well as books by Japanese authors, which I mostly read since I conducted a six-month long school project on women in Japanese literature. As you can probably tell, this year there were mostly two common literary “themes”: the Beat Generation and literary theory. If I have any predictions for next year, since I will have eight hours of philosophy so I will be reading more in...