BOOKS
“Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.”
-Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive
To put things into context, when my parents wanted to ground me as a child, they would take away my books!
Recent books I read:
- Would You Kill the Fat Man? by David Edmonds
- An Ember in the Ashes series by Sabaa Tahir
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Life Support by Jim Down
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- The Kissing Bug by Daisy Hernandez
- Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh
- Do No Harm by Henry Marsh
Favorites:
- Immune by Philipp Dettmer
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- The Stormlight Archive
by Brandon Sanderson (Includes The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer and Rhythm of War) - Worm, a Web Serial by John C. McCrae
- The Big Book of Tell Me Why,
by Arkady Leokum - The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle,
by Stuart Turton - Elantris, by Brandon Sanderson
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles,
by Agatha Christie
Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. Since I was young, I have been reading almost every book I could get my hands on. From fun story anthologies like Big Big Big Book of Tashi, its sequel, the 2nd Big Book of Tashi, and modern children’s tales like Make Way for Ducklings, my childhood was filled with stories that nurtured my creativity and, later on, my love for learning. My interests in biology and mathematics were initially sparked by the Basher Science book series featuring both biology and physics books, which taught the basics of those subjects at a very introductory level.
My kindergarten teachers were fascinated by my reading ability, and told my mom that I read at a second grade level. I enjoyed reading very much, one of my earliest memories is of me when I was in 1st grade and I went back to my preschool to read a book to the kids who were only two year younger than me which included my younger sister.
More recently, I have been using my interest in reading to further my academic interests. Beyond all other forms of writing, however, scientific writing is my favorite to read, simply due to the sheer amount of knowledge available in even a single page. For me, reading is a doorway, an method of peering at and understanding knowledge which I have yet to learn.
