Books on Yuzupia

Stormlight Archive

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So I’m writing this down as I just finished book three, Oathbringer this morning. To start with, I want to say that this series was recommended to me by my brother and I will never forgive him for recommending an unfinished series (only part 1 is done as the time of this writing).

Anyways, it’s been a long, long, long time since I read grand fantasy. Definitely not something on this kind of big scale for a loooooong ass time. So there were a lot of things that took me a bit to get used to. The main one, and something I found kind of frustrating, was the constant shifting in perspectives. The interludes and the jump arounds are jarring and while I understand the principle behind it, I found that it made the pacing annoying at times especially during the mid parts of certain books. Book three’s start/middle had it the worst for me (for now).

Never Let Me Go

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

When I got back into reading, I collected a few recommendations. One of those recommendations was “Never Let Me Go”, which I had picked up and… taken many pauses while reading (sorry friend!). Not because the book was bad or boring though. More it was just my poor reading habits and wanting to read easier/comfier series instead (so I read a lot of manga instead).

But I did finish it and I really liked it. It’s hard for me to summarize exactly what my favourite aspect of the book is, though I think I’d put it at… the tone of the novel? Maybe there’s a better way to phrase it, it was just the way that the book talked about the world and revealed information in a gradual way without ever feeling extremely blunt about it. (spoilers abound!)

The Tatami Galaxy

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

So as a disclaimer: I had read the Tatami Galaxy a while ago and typed up various thoughts about it. I recently finished the Tatami Time Machine Blues and figured I’d do a writeup of both my thoughts.

The Tatami Galaxy was originally an anime I had watched a long long time ago. I found myself liking it a lot, even to the point where I considered it one of my favourites. I found myself wanting to read the original novel, so when I saw it on sale I figured it was as good a time as any.