I read a lot and I plan to track my 5 stars reads here. This tracker is NOT yet updated with all of my 5 stars of this year and it DOESN'T include all the 2,3,4 star books.
My Goodreads is probably the most comprehensive and up to date tracker. Here is the link to my profile.
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Solenoid - Mircea Cărtărescu
"Why do I know I exist if I also know I will not? Why was I given access to logical space and the mathematical structure of the world? Just to lose them when my body is destroyed?"
The Door - Magda Szabó
The Physics of Sorrow - Georgi Gospodinov
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
Forbidden Notebook - Alba de Céspedes
I did not expect to like this book as much as I did. It's very tender, sad, and real. It feels like reading my mom's diary. She is a very frustrated woman that her era and poverty did her wrong and she is trying to catch up on life. I relate to her love for life, her frustration, her hesitation, self-doubt, her desires. I think my mother would relate to it too. I can't believe this book was written in the 50s!
Pure Colour - Sheila Heti
I love Sheila. When I read her work, I don't know if I'm reading essays, autobiography, or a novel. And Pure Colour is no different. It's a novel about the start of the universe. This universe, the draft universe. I wish she dwelled more on this concept but she didn't and that's still ok. Because the novel turned into the protagonist relationship with her father, death, her sexuality.
My favourite quote: "But being unlikeable wasn’t the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living."