Lifestyle: In Practice

What if you could have dinner with the five people who shaped your life? In this reflective review, Grace explores the emotional layers of The Dinner List—a novel that brings together exes, estranged parents, and soul friends at one unforgettable meal. With sharp insights on character dynamics and missed opportunities in structure, this review weighs love, regret, and the complexity of memory.

What does it mean to truly translate someone’s story? In this powerful reflection, Grace Sofia explores R.F. Kuang’s Babel and Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends, unpacking the violence, responsibility, and nuance behind language, storytelling, and interpretation. From magic to migration, this piece asks: how do we stay true to meaning when words are never neutral?

Dear Reader,  I read a total of 200 pages worth of A Little Life  before I gave up on this book. It was by far one of the most...

8.25/10 Dear Readers,  There’s some poetic language in this loving tale of a band of misfits on a train. As the novel says, “Trains are...

9/10 Dear Readers, “He couldn’t believe it was only Wednesday. And it was made worse when he realized it was actually Tuesday.” Linus...

8/10 Dear Reader,  This novel takes readers on the story of the Riva family, particularly the Riva kids: Nina, Jay, Hud, and Kit. These...

Dear Reader, Here is a list of summaries and reviews on the several books I read this last week. I also included a short list of the...

8.5/10  Dear Reader,  This book elicited the strangest feelings in me. I didn’t know who to hate more, where to draw the lines, or what...

Dear Reader,  We are on the streets of Fifth Ave NYC at the start of this story, with ex-convict Stella Schmidt. She’s staring at the...

7.5/10  Dear Reader,  This sequel was a great followup to the first novel, “Fourth Wing”. We get to see the story and plotlines of all of...

5/10 Dear reader,  I was very indifferent towards this book, there were parts that were slow and boring and there were parts that kept me...

Rating: 6/10 Arianna Sloane, a wannabe comedian who moved to New York to follow her dreams meets Josh Kestenberg on a less than positive...