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+title: Reading
+language: en
+ref: misc-books
+translationKey: misc-books
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+---
+
+I'm not the bookworm I used to be, reading mostly mainstream books. Some books
+I read and liked:
+
+- <i>Dế Mèn phiêu lưu kí</i>, a famous children book in Vietnamese about an
+    arrogant cricket who learned humility and altruism during his journey.
+- <i>The adventures of Valya and Karik</i>, a Russian children book (my copy
+    was a Vietnamese translation) about the adventures of shrunken children in
+    which they learn about small animals around them.
+- <i>Sans famille</i>, a story about a child who had to leave his family for
+    poverty, though now that I think about it, it sounds like children
+    trafficking and child labor.
+- <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i>, a dystopian tragedy that is often mistaken as
+    criticism of socialism, while the actual object is authoritanism and mass
+    surveillance.
+- <i>The Hobbit</i> and <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>, the well-known fantasy
+    franchise
+- <i>Inheritance Cycle</i>, often labeled as rip-off <i>Star Wars</i> by haters
+- <i>Gulliver's Travels</i>, a book that's supposed to be satire but I didn't
+    know enough to understand these deep meanings.
+- <i>Le petit prince</i>, a novella with a childish theme but discuss many
+    aspects of life in a lighthearted way.
+- [Ellana][ellana] (<i>Le Pacte des MarchOmbres</i> series) (French)
+
+Books I'm reading:
+
+- [Ellana: L'envol][ellana-2] (<i>Le Pacte des MarchOmbres</i> series) (French)
+- [Tous les hommes sont mortels][hommes-mortels] (French)
+- <i>The Necromancer</i> (<i>The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel</i>
+    series)
+
+Dropped:
+
+- [XKCD what if](what-if)
+- <i>A Storm of Swords</i>(<i>A Song of Ice and Fire</i> series)
+
+See also: [book reviews](/en/book-reviews) I wrote on this site.
+
+[what-if]: https://store.xkcd.com/pages/if-you-re-looking-for-the-what-if-book
+[ellana]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24210815W/Le_Pacte_des_MarchOmbres_-_Ellana
+[ellana-2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24339191W/Ellana_l%27envol
+[hommes-mortels]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13053706W/Tous_les_hommes_sont_mortels