You know how people have resolutions at the end of the year? I have those, but for the summer. I also like to read books.
#1. Her Body and Other Parties ~ Carmen Maria Machado
Summer closet cleaning! Try to buy more colorful clothes ✓
– Navigates issues of female identity, especially patriarchy-induced trauma
– Genre fusion: speculative fiction
#2. The Lathe of Heaven ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Read more philosophy/theory ✔
Sleep early / Rise early ✔
– Incorporates themes that are critical of utilitarianism and eugenics
– Sci-fi: set in a dystopian universe in which the main character has dreams that change reality
#3. One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Try yoga/meditation classes ✔
– Heavy use of theme and symbolism to portray colonization in Latin America
– Magical realism: how individual experience changes perceptions of the world around us
#4. Pedro Paramo ~ Juan Rulfo
Reconnect with old friends and family living back home ✔
– Major influence on Marquez’s interest in magical realism
– Themes include the ghostly and otherwordly; reconnection with loved ones
#5. The Parable of the Sower ~ Octavia Butler
Keep a journal again! Write outside of the academic ✔
– Main character is hypersensitive, focuses on her inclination towards emotion and its purpose in the greater scope of humanity
– Sci-fi: dystopia