the world was hers for the reading
What’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, 2019One of my favorite parts about going on vacation is packing the books I want to read on my journey! Tomorrow morning my family and I will be making the twelve-hour road-trip to our rental house in Nags Head, North Carolina, where we’ll be for the entire week in the sand, listening to the ocean […]
Read More Packing the Paperbacks: A Week in the Outer BanksFiction is my jam, but sometimes life gets too busy to immerse myself into a beastly novel. Enter: the short story. I don’t read many stories beside the occasional literary magazine, certainly not a collection of stories by a singular author, but I’d like to remedy that, starting with these. Each collection listed here is […]
Read More Short Story Collections I Want to ReadTwo things I love most: books and sales! I’ve been frequenting my local library lately, checking out backlist titles and donating some reads I’d lost interest in. When I saw the annual book sale was coming up, I couldn’t resist. I ended up walking away with nine gently-used books, including two hardcovers, for just nine […]
Read More Library Book Sale HaulI am home sweet home after a few months away and it feels so good! While I’m busy spring-cleaning my bedroom, spending time with family, and slowly putting my life back together, I thought I’d share a glimpse of what I’m reading right now. After a while of reading just one book at a time, […]
Read More Current Reads: April 29, 2019Another month, another nightstand! There is nothing I love more than spending a few hours browsing a bookstore, espresso in hand. Bad for the wallet but good for the soul! A recent trip to Barnes & Noble brought these good reads my way. Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi I’ve never read Oyeyemi, which is a real […]
Read More On My Nightstand: April 2019The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of adventure exploring central Florida, leaving not too much time available for reading, but I’m hoping to get back on track this month, starting with these fantastic titles. Golden Child by Claire Adam Golden Child is one of the books I brought with me down to Florida […]
Read More On My Nightstand: March 2019