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Category Archives: What I’m Reading

everyday

From my awesome niece Rebecca. LOVED THIS BOOK! Every day A wakes up in a different body. Every day, a different life. Except one day he wakes up as Justin and falls in love with Justin’s girlfriend Rhiannon. Not surprised David Levithan is a friend of John Green’s. They have a similar sensibility: romantic, philosophical, […]

How To Say Goodbye In Robot

It took me a long time to get interested in this story; it seemed like the action didn’t move very swiftly for a while. I also couldn’t understand why Beatrice loved Jonah so much. He was self-absorbed and damaged and I didn’t really buy that she was herself as damaged as that. Glad that Walt […]

The Painted Veil

SO good to read a book written by a writer of this time. I love that Maugham is exploring big ideas and using his characters to do so — they aren’t exactly ciphers but they represent things besides their own selves. Kitty’s struggle between the desires of the flesh and the spirit was very moving […]

Eleanor and Park

Another recommendation from niece Rebecca. Thank you, lovely young person. I’ve read quite a few romance novels in the last few years and let me say that Rainbow Rowell put more passion in a novel about teenagers who don’t have sex than all the others put together. I want to believe that Ms. Rowell lived […]

The Fault In Our Stars

Thanks for the recommendation Rebecca! What a wonderful book. SAD. But wonderful. I already read An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. Sometimes I think I never knew a teenager who talks or thinks like John Green’s characters do, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t out there. I would have fallen in love with Augustus […]

Out of the Easy

Ruta Sepetys you are amazing. This book read like magic. I could SEE it all and I am sure it’s been optioned for a movie already. A GREAT read. Beautiful.