I love books. Plain and simple. I love to read. I love to read books about books. Books like The Shadow of the Wind. Books are happiness. And fun. And love.
Currently Reading:
A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan
On Writing by Stephen King
Recent Reads:
The Fates Will Find A Way by Hannah Pittard
The Possessed by Elif Batuman
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese- BRILLIANT! Read this book. It was simply stunning.
The City of Dreaming Books- a book about books, authors and bookstores….ahh love
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Rief Larsen- absolutely brilliant!
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen- I gave up. Too creepy and too much testosterone and architecture.
The Imperfectionists- overrated, but a decent read
So Much Pretty
The Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
This novel was absolutely brilliant and renewed my love of literature, not that I ever lost it.
Never Let Me Go- creepy beyond creepy
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
This was wonderful! Very fun and precise! I didn’t want to leave the characters.
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
On Deck:
Baking Cakes in Kigali
How To Write A Sentence
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Reading to the Kid:
We have begun reading Harry Potter. I have to make sure that his only exposure to this world is just not the movies. Plus, it gives me a chance to read them again.
