I buy books faster than I can read them. I know I’m going to read them… eventually. Plus there is always a new book out that just looks interesting, so I pick it up and I add it to the stack. And I do it again, and again, and again until suddenly there’s a book at the bottom of the pile I bought months ago and still haven’t opened.
So I’ve decided October is going to be my stack buster month. By the end of it, all of the books in my physical To Be Read stack will be finished. (My digital TBR stack is a problem for future me). The goal is to read all the books on this list before the clock strikes twelve on Halloween. Trick or treat, give me something good to read?
Today is the birthday of one of my favorite authors — F. Scott Fitzgerald! So for fun (and because he is endlessly quotable) here are 18 of my favorite Fitzgerald quotes from across his bibliography. “Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.” — Notebook E “That is part of the beauty […]
“She had read enough stories to know the princess and the monster were never the same. She had been alone long enough to know which one she was.”
I thought I had figured out exactly where Melissa Bashardoust’s Girl, Serpent, Thorn was going while I was reading the first few chapters. And then it went where I thought I would go… and there was still half the book left!
It’s fall book season! The time of year when books lean into the mysterious and fantastical, two of my favorite genres. Here are six of the books I can’t wait to get my hands on over the next couple months.
Have you ever bought a book, put it to the side for a long time, and just so happen to pick it up at the right moment in your life? Roman Muradov’s On Doing Nothing is — to quote the intro — “not a book about not doing anything; it’s a book about doing nothing.” When I was working my way through my unread books during quarantine, I hit a point where I wanted something small, an easy book to conquer and this one was waiting for me. What I wasn’t entirely expecting was to get an exploration of what we do — and what we can do — during life’s quiet moments.
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