Book Review: The Phoenix Keeper

Isn’t this the coziest and cutest book this 2024? The whole time I was reading The Phoenix Keeper, I felt like I got transported into the world of cozy games (i.e. Stardew Valley, Potion Permit, Animal Crossing) wherein I have to grind my ass planting and harvesting plants, and taking care of my livestock every single waking day and I did not mind all the work because everything’s just so enjoyable. The only difference is that The Phoenix Keeper deals with magical creatures, from dragons to phoenixes to unicorns to griffins to kelpies etc., being raised in a magical zoo…

Book Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Perhaps by now, you have already concluded that I’m a big fan of Neil Gaiman. Well, I have become a fan since reading Stardust and watching the Stardust movie and the Sandman TV show.  Can Neil Gaiman do anything wrong? Because like his other books that I have read previously, I loved this book despite the initial weirdness that I felt about it. The Ocean at the End of the Lane does not care about your ego nor your age nor the number of books that you have read all throughout your reading career, it only cares about how well…

Book Review: The Graveyard Book

It’s not every day that you get to encounter a book that would affect you so deeply that you just want to savor in its quaintness for how many days. The Graveyard Book is one such book wherein Neil Gaiman’s storytelling enhanced the richness of Nobody Owen’s, our little hero, story. Nobody ‘Bod’ Owens grew up and was raised by the ghosts in the graveyard.  Bod thought that this was normal as he traipsed around and explored the graveyard as a growing child would normally do. However, his normal life within the compounds of the graveyard was turned upside and…

Book Review: The Last One

So I finally tried listening to my first Audiobook, something that has been on my bucket list for so long but kept on putting off because there is this unnecessary fear that I might not understand the story. As you know, English is not my native language and I have this doubt that I might be wasting my time listening to something that I would not understand because of the accent. Heh. But anyway, I tried because first and foremost, I want to make my walking activities as productive and as less boring as possible. I already mentioned in my…