Carolina Fantaccini Brito

It's cute. Didn't blow my mind, but the “science the sh*** out of this” shenanigans were a lot fun. Yes, it does feel a lot like The Martian at times, but with a different and interesting enough premise to make it worthwhile. The most unbeliebable part of this was the protagonist not knowing about Pete Best. Dude! Come on! Beatles lore is not something you can avoid even if you want to.

Nope.

Remains of The Day is beyond a doubt Ishiguro's magnum opus, but I kind of love how f** up this one is. Never Let Me Go exudes gut-punching sadness and beauty in a dystopian scenario that would have been cheaply used as shock factor by a less skilled writer.

Not as bad as the infinitely annoying (and absurdly popular) musical based on it.

I was forced to read this for school when I was 12 and... ugh.

You know, when people talk about schools killing children's potential pleasure for reading by forcing down their throats some classics without proper context and without easing the kids into them through more dynamic, age apropriate literature, it's hard for me to relate - I went to excellent schools that yeah, made us read some classics, but there was always a pretty awesome class about those books so we would know what we were getting into. It just nurtured my love for reading.

That is, except when they did this: recommend message-y, self-help drivel. The sort of annoying, preachy nonsense you get in a motivational cult. Hated those books at 12, continue to hate them 30 years on.