2022:
The School for Good Mothers: Possibly the weirdest book I have ever read. I'm not sure I would even recommend this one. It was Jenna's pick for January, but goodness was it strange and a bit disturbing. It was dystopia, so I expected it a bit, but this one just didn't feel right.
Want to read:
The People we Keep: This is a slow read and I've been reading it in the car line for a few months now, 20 or less min. at a time. I like it though and want to make it through.
Reckless Girls- Fast read! Twisty kind of ending you might not expect.
Four Winds
We Are the Brennans
The Golden Couple- I enjoyed this story and it's def. a book up my alley.
One Italian Summer
Reminders of Him
Bright Burning Things
The Shimmering State
The Christie Affair- Reese pick and its so good! I really enjoyed this one-historical fiction
The Paris Apartment-
Darling Girl- May BOTM-peter pan retelling
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2021
What I read in 2021
Joyful-I've read this already but I have started to read it again. This time, I'm just picking through it though because it's the type of book that makes it easy to do that. Joyful is a just a wonderful book to motivate you in a new year and I will always recommend it.
The Wife Upstairs-Rachel Hawkins-One of those can't put it down, suspenseful thrillers!
People Like Her-Ellery Lloyd- Social Media, influencers, the highs the lows...a thriller, kind of dark, another hard to put down, need to know what happens book.
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Want to read this year:
The checklist manifesto
Quench
Faye, Faraway
Firefly Lane-I've had this book since summer of 2020, but just saw there is a new series on netflix coming out 2/3 so I'm trying to make my way through it now so I can watch the series!
The Push- This is GMA's Jan pick. It will hook you from the start. Suspense, thriller, kind of dark...it's a good one you won't be able to put down!
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue-still need to read
The Age of Miracles
The Devines
Good Neighbors
Malibu Rising-This was a great summer read. I love almost anything by this author.
Everything After
The Shimering State
The Last Thing He Told Me-This was sort of a mystery, I got through it fast wanting to know what was going to happen.
That Summer
Breathe: the new science of a lost art
Regretting You
The Guest List
The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary
The Wrong Family
The Midnight Library-Feb 2021. Such a sucker for novel about time travel. Very thought provoking and enjoyable.
Such a Quiet Place- Neighborhood drama, 'who dun' it'. I enjoyed this one.
The Husbands-This was the GMA pick one month this year and was a fun one to read.
Mary Jane-I picked this one up at B&N this summer b/c I loved the cover. I love a book with a music background and this one had that.
A Little Hope: Book of the month in late 2021. I enjoyed this one. Multiple storylines that cross each other.
Lucky: Reese's Dec. pick. I'm hit or miss with her picks lately, but this one looked interesting. I got through this one quick wanting to know what happened. Quick fun read for sure.
Happy Reading...
If Only I Could Tell You (Hannah Beckerman) -TEAR JERKER, but I loved this book.
"it's the greatest trick people play on themselves, allowing their fears to destroy their ambitions."
Chasing The Brightside (Jess Ekstrom)- So Motivational and I loved her story. GREAT book for January
My favorite quote from the book:
"instead of trying to paint the same sunset as the person beside you, find the white space that's untouched"
and then:
"meaningful moments do not need to be validated with likes and comments. They just need to be felt with purpose and passion"
Girl On Fire (Cara Leyba) - short read that I breezed through but I enjoyed the kick in the butt
To Love and Let Go-Rachel Brathen-Another memoir. This was on sale at target and looked like something I may like. Also a kind of sad read but not as tear jerky as the first one listed above.
"Just like the moon, life waxes and wanes in cycles-what comes, must go, and come again-but also, every night the moon rises"
The Scent Keeper(Erica Beaumeister)- This is Reese Witherspoons Feb. book club pick and as soon as I saw that, I put it on hold and it came available so quick! I finished it this past week and truly loved it. It's a great little story and I loved the way this author writes. It's also now available in paperback, but I LOVE the hardcover's cover, don't you?
"I always thought fall was like that, nature tucking everything in"
"words were like scents that way; they changed the very air you breathed"
OOna Out of Order-Margarita Martimore- Such an interesting novel about time travel. One of my big things in 2020 was stepping away from social media. Since Oona goes from one year forward to years back, it was neat how she knew about cell phones, but when she went back in time, she noticed how people were looking up, living their lives instead of being glued to a screen all the time or curating their lives for the internet.
Evie Drake Starts Over-Linda Holmes-Just a kind of feel good easy read for summer.
Still Alice-Lisa Genova-Follow this one with the movie not vice versa. The book is so much better, but it was still neat to watch the movie after. It dives into the seriousness and realness of alzheimers at a young age.
Everything I never told you-Pretty good read. I got this one from a booklist. Not my top choice for 2020, but I enjoyed it.
The Bright Hour-Nina Riggs-A memoir of a woman dying of breast cancer. It was very real and raw.
In Five Years-Rebecca Serle-This was recommended b/c I read OOna out of order. It kept my attention and was interesting. A little twist at the end.
One of my favorite quotes from it:
"you mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future."
Untamed-Glennon Doyle- There was a lot to digest from this book. The cover drew me in. Lots of good stuff to write down, but here's one:
"in my thirties, i learned that there is a type of pain in life that i want to feel. It's the inevitable, excruciating, neccessary pain of losing beautiful things: trust, dreams, health, animals, relationships, people. This kind of pain is the price of love, the cost of living a brave open hearted life-and I'll pay it"
I'm taking it way back this month and I've started Ps. I love you (Cecelia Ahern) b/c the sequel 'PostScript' is out now and I can't wait to read it!--UPDATE...I never finsihed PS or started PostScript. Can you believe that.
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The Light We Lost by:Jill Santopolo
The Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Girl Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
Ghosted by Rosie Walsh
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A few of the rest of 2019:
Daisy Jones and the Six(taylor jenkins reid)- This was such a fun read for me and I enjoyed following along the bands journey.
The Dreamers(Karen Walker): This was such an interesting book that I had a hard time putting down. It gave me so much to think about.
The Whisper Network(Chandler Baker)-Another Reese Pick in 2019. Nothing earth shattering, but it was a light and easy read.
The Last House Guest(Megan Miranda)-A suspenseful can't put it down type of book.
Signs:The Secret Language of the Universe(Laura Lynne Jackson)-I find this topic so interesting and it's something I enjoy reading about to mix things up between novels.
What Alice Forgot(Liane Moriarty)-One of my favorite books I read in 2019. Nothing heavy, this one just really stands out to me as one of my favorites last year.
