Summer Reading – 2019

Summer is almost here! I will be continuing to read for my Reading the Classics Challenge and my 2019 Focus on Authors Challenge. Titles are mostly based on giveaways, book club picks, and books set in Ireland, as I get ready to travel there in August. What are y’all reading this summer? Any read you are most looking forward to? Here is my list:

Book Club Reads

• The Plague by Albert Camus
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Power by Naomi Alderman √
• Tigerman by Nick Harkaway √
• Recollections of Things to Come by Elena Garro √

NetGalley Reads

• Once Upon a Bad Boy by Melonie Johnson √
• A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell
• The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins √
• The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
• The Long Call by Ann Cleeves
• How to Raise a Reader by Pamela Paul; Maria Russo

Readalongs

• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling √
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling √
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck √

2019 Focus on Authors

• Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson √
• Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson
• The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson √
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell √
• Landline by Rainbow Rowell
• Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
• On Writing by Stephen King √
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie √
• Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson

Other

• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand- audiobook
• The Children by David Halberstam – audiobook
• Becoming by Michelle Obama – audiobook/book √
• Made for This by Jennie Allen – audiobook √
• The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy – audiobook/ebook
• Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt – audiobook
• The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich – audiobook
• The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein – audiobook
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas – book
• 1916: The Easter Rising by Tim Pat Coogan – ebook

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WWW Wednesdays – June 13, 2018

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

I semi-regularly join in on WWW Wednesdays, which is brought to you by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. If you too want to participate, answer the above questions and post that link on Sam’s page.

Currently Reading

Pachinko by Min Lee

I am finally reading Pachinko! It was the first book I received from BOTM last year. It was a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Reading Women Award for Fiction (which is a great book related podcast I listen to regularly). It is a generational story of a Korean family living in Japan. I am very much looking forward to reading this one.

Recently Finished

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

This was my third Murakami read, and I think it might finally be time to admit that no matter how much I want to like Murakami novels (or in this case short stories), I just don’t. His work is just not for me. I do like books that incorporate symbolism and open readers to different views of interpretation, but his stories end with the readers having more questions than answers, and I just can’t stand that.

Reading Next

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

This is one of my favorite book covers. I hope the book itself is as lovely. This is another book club read that will tie in nicely with Reading Women Month.

Feel free to let me know what you are reading.

HAPPY READING!!!

WWW Wednesdays – May 30, 2018

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

I’m joining in on WWW Wednesdays, which is brought to you by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. If you too want to participate, answer the above questions and post that link on Sam’s page.

Currently Reading

Lowcountry Bookshop by Susan M. Boyer

I normally don’t read a book in a series if I haven’t started from Book One, but I received this ARC (though I think it came out to the public yesterday) from NetGalley and thought I would give it a try. It seemed like a fun plot. However, this is the 7th book in the series and is causing me some issues as a first-time reader of this series. There is really no good introduction to the main character (or for that matter any of the characters), so it can be confusing. Although, I can say that the mystery plot does seem interesting and will help lead me to finish this book quickly.

Recently Finished

The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin

I read Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project last year and really enjoyed it. Then I also read Anne Bogel’s Reading People and realized that I was really interested in learning about different personality types. I find books like The Four Tendencies really useful in not just understanding others but understanding yourself. I don’t know…it is nice to feel some justification why I behave the way that I do. It can also assist you in changing on you react to those around you. Watch out everyone…I’m an upholder!

Next Read

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

This book is a June book club read and will be my third Murakami (technically I started 1Q84 as well but didn’t finish it). This is a collection of short stories, which is not a typical genre I read, so I am excited to expand my reading life a bit. This is why I joined book clubs.

Feel free to let me know what you are reading!

HAPPY READING!