Life in plenty or something
Humor // Memoir :: Bossypants - Tina Fey
Sequel // Easy :: After You - Jojo Moyes
History // Characters :: The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
Literature // Love :: This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Teen // Fun :: Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell
Science // History :: The Master and His Emissary - Iain McGilchrist
Memoir // Captivating :: The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
Relationships // History :: The Chaperone - Laura Moriarty
Classic // Literature :: My Antonia - Willa Cather
Writing // Humor :: Bird by Bird - Anne Lammott
Quirky // Love :: One Plus One - Jojo Moyes
Suspense // Twist :: The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
Surprise // Entertaining :: The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
Page Turner // Easy :: The Life Intended - Kristin Harmel
Literature // Paris :: A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemmingway
Fantastical // Romance :: At the Water's Edge - Sara Gruen
One book I could not get into…All the Light We Cannot See! Ya I know, everyone loves it, but holy details batman! Couldn't handle it so I gave up, should I try again?
Convicting // Humor :: 7 - Jen Hatmaker
Culture // Easy :: Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
Journalism // Expose :: Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
Religion // Philosophy :: Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton
Literature // Romantic :: Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love // Addicting - A Hundred Summers - Beatriz Williams
Magical // Imaginative :: The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
Childrens // Enchanting :: The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge
I'm mad about reading. I like to soak in the stories, imagining and picturing each second, each thought. I love the way books make you feel like you were part of them for a while, that you might have actually lived in there somewhere among the sentences and spaces. I get caught up in the inner dialogue of a character, the way their thoughts become yours while the pages last. They also have the great ability to inspire and teach, you can access the world’s greatest minds for 99 cents if you get it used. I like the bookstore and the endless opportunities to learn from experts, understand someone’s life or just be in another reality that one imagination came up with from nothing. I don’t do kindles, I like the smell of a book, I like the pages and the ink, and I really like hardbacks. I carry them around with me like chapstick and pull them out whenever I have spare time, like an antisocial librarian I’ll bury my face in a book to be alone in the chaos, or to be in Narnia on my lunch break.
It’s amazing to me the power of reading and how it still has the ability to capture us, especially with the sprinting speed at which entertainment moves today. It’s Casablanca and Love Actually, one is slow and processed, the other quick and speedy - like pop rocks. Every scene in modern movies is cut and edited to it’s minimum so there isn’t a single bare moment, not a second is wasted. Whether or not it’s the positive evolution of entertainment or just an increase in our A.D.D need to be entertained at cheetah speeds, I don’t know...but I don’t really like pop rocks that much anyway.
Art // Religion :: My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
Magical // Entertaining :: The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Children // Enchanting :: The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
Literature // Love :: Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
Redeeming // Sad :: The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Fascinating // Biography :: Empty Mansions - Bill Dedman
Culture // Writing :: The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Unexpected // Redemption :: The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
I'm crazy about reading, so I'll tell you some of the books I like. Here are a few:
Essay // Funny :: Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Funny // Light :: Where’d you go Bernadette - Maria Semple
Classic // Literature :: The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspiring // Funny :: Small Victories - Anne Lamott
Religion // Biography :: Unorthodox - Deborah Feldman
Mystery // Easy Reading :: Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
Sad // Captivating :: Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
Light // Love :: What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty
