the world was hers for the reading
With the beginning of summer comes the craving for sweet young adult romcoms that I can devour in a day! As a teenager, I was happy to let authors let Morgan Matson and Sarah Dessen rule over my summer vacations, so it only seems natural to crave their newest novels as the temperature rises. Save […]
Read More Young Adult Shelf: Save the Date, Love & Luck, The Rest of the StoryWith An American Marriage, Tayari Jones presents one of the most tragic, complex love triangles I’ve ever read. We have Celestial, a thriving black artist in Atlanta, her husband Roy, wrongfully incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, and their neighbor Andre, Celestial’s childhood best friend who attended college with Roy. Andre is the […]
Read More An American Marriage // Tayari Jones“I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.” -Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six Much like the titular band’s single “Honeycomb,” Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid became an instant hit when it was released, quickly climbing the charts. Following a Stevie Nicks-inspired heroine and […]
Read More Daisy Jones & The Six // Taylor Jenkins ReidWhenever I’m on vacation, I always try to scope out a local independent bookshop. During my family’s week-long trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, I was happy to drag them to Corolla’s Island Bookstore! Island Bookstore has three locations across the Outer Banks, in Corolla, Duck, and Kitty Hawk, but I was most […]
Read More Island Bookstore, Corolla, NCWhat’s better than a day of reading on the beach? Absolutely nothing! As you can see from my packing list, I brought along quite a selection of books to choose from. Right now I’m filling my oceanside hours with Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage, which follows a young married couple as the husband is wrongfully […]
Read More Current Reads: May 28, 2019I read Dept. of Speculation in one sitting, absolutely unable to put down Offill’s sparkling spare prose. If I hadn’t borrowed my copy from the library, I would have underlined basically the entire novel; Offill writes through a remarkably keen perspective. Dept. of Speculation is the kind of novel you want to sit and clutch […]
Read More Dept. of Speculation // Jenny OffillHarbach made quite the splash when The Art of Fielding came out in 2011. Big, chunky novels that follow multiple interconnected characters are my favorites, so when baseball weather (chilly, windy, damp) rolled around this year, I decided it was the perfect time to *finally* see what all the fuss was about. From the back […]
Read More The Art of Fielding // Chad Harbach