Posts Tagged ‘Reading’

Current Must Reads

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“You read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” -The Fault in our Stars by John Green

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I feel this way to some degree about all the books below. Some are just fun, others will change the way you move through the world. Thanks to this article for the permission to love and talk openly about Young Adult fiction.

The Fault in Our Stars- John Green

Eleanor & Park- Rainbow Rowell

Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage- Molly Wizenburg

The Sense of an Ending- Julian Barnes

The Circle- Dave Eggers

Crazy Rich Asians- Kevin Kwan

Still Alice- Lisa Genova

The Snow Child- Eowyn Ivey

The Interestings- Meg Wolitzer

The Lowland- Jhumpa Lahiri

Me Before You- Jojo Moyes

 

What are your current favorite reads? I’m always looking for my next obsession.

 

xx, Lydia

Where’d You Go, Bernadette

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Yes summer officially ended two weeks ago, but is it too late to move “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” to the top of my Beach Reads 2012 list?

I absolutely loved this book, which was recommended to me by a friend who reads everything. So did the The New York Times:

“The tightly constructed “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” is written in many formats — e-mails, letters, F.B.I. documents, correspondence with a psychiatrist and even an emergency-room bill for a run-in between Bernadette and Audrey. Yet these pieces are strung together so wittily that Ms. Semple’s storytelling is always front and center, in sharp focus. You could stop and pay attention to how apt each new format is, how rarely she repeats herself and how imaginatively she unveils every bit of information. But you would have to stop laughing first.”

What should I read next?

XO,

Lydia

Beach Reads 2012

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Hi Friends,

I’m headed to the outer banks of North Carolina for my annual beach vaca (picture G & T’s, squished squash and cobalt blue hydrangeas) and have loaded up my Kindle with new beach books. I thought I might share what’s on my reading list and what I have recently enjoyed. Sarah and I love hear what you all are reading, book worms unite!

 

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

On tap for this week… (a bit ambitious when you factor in G&T’s)
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson

Mission to Paris by Alan Furst

Persuasion by Jane Austen (I have a tradition of rereading one Austen book on my vacations)

Recent Favorites…

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walters

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Freedom by Johnathan Franzen

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Any book by Ken Follett (especially Pillars of the Earth)

Any Pat Conroy but Beach Music is my fav (when in Rome…)

 

What have you been reading this summer?

 

xo,

Lydia