{"id":3999,"date":"2025-02-01T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T09:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2025-02-01T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T09:32:22","slug":"january-2025-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=3999","title":{"rendered":"January 2025 Recap!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Readers! We are finally at the end of January. It seemed like a forever month, in amazing ways though. I lived SO MUCH<\/mark><\/strong>, and that\u2019s not an exaggeration. A homebody going out every weekend is no joke. But I went out on my terms, doing things that I love, with the people that I love who may not love those things but love me so they go along with it! If I had to describe the month in one word, it would be ARTSY.\u00a0 Art is paintings. Art is music. Art is literature. Art is movies. Art is TV Shows.<\/mark><\/strong> So, yeah, I lived and breathed art this month. It makes me almost deliriously happy, and isn\u2019t that kind of the whole point? \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~~BOOKS READ IN JANUARY~~<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So, as usual let\u2019s start with literature! I read THREE books across 912 PAGES in JANUARY.<\/mark><\/strong> I started off really well. The first book was a 4 star, the second a 3 star and the third 2.5 stars. But the fun part is that with \u2018Intermezzo\u2019, I finally loved a book by Sally Rooney<\/strong><\/mark>. With \u2018The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao\u2019, I read the first book in the \u2018From the People of Languages\u2019<\/mark><\/strong> reading project hosted by Kunal and Misha on Bookstagram<\/a>. And, with \u2018Kitchen\u2019, I read for \u2018January in Japan\u2019<\/mark><\/strong> like I do every year. That\u2019s not half bad, you know? Since everyone\u2019s reading preferences are different, here are my thought snippets on each of the book I read. Maybe you\u2019ll want to pick your next read from these three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~~INTERMEZZO by SALLY ROONEY~~<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Intermezzo is the story of brothers,\u00a0Ivan and Peter, who are trying their best to live their lives after the death of their father. Ivan finds himself attracted to a woman more than half his age. Peter finds himself in a love triangle where he is in love with two women. We also see how strained the relationships are between the brothers, with their mother and with their father. We see how already strained relations become more complex while grieving. There isn\u2019t a strong plot to the book. There is no structure to the story or the punctuation. But, these things are never found in Sally Rooney\u2019s books, so you can\u2019t expect them.\u00a0What you can expect is the nature of human behaviour moulding, evolving, growing, diminishing, flourishing in all its glory. I have rated Intermezzo by Sally Rooney at 4\/5 stars!<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Intermezzo: Sally Rooney’s Best Novel Yet!<\/a><\/blockquote>