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At the start of 2017 I set a goal to read 40 books by the end of the year. In February I hit 20 so I increased my goal to 65 with hopes to reach 100 by the end of December. This a record of what I’m reading.

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#9 We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Posted on January 23, 2017February 28, 2017 by Brief Book Reviews

22738563 We Should All Be Feminists is the book/essay that grew out of Adichie’s TEDx talk of the same name.

The premise? We should all be feminists. It’s really that simple. Adichie argues a case for feminism with personal stories, using her own experiences as a lens to examine gender inequalities and sexual politics. It’s a breezy 30-minute read.

Oh, and have you read Adichie’s Americanah? Go read it. It’s GREAT.

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June + July Reading Wrap-up... Some great/good reads in this lot! ✨ Books Read in June + July: 13 ✨ On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (not pictured) by Ocean Vuong ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Recursion by Blake Crouch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson ⭐️⭐️ Big Sky by Kate Atkinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Snap by Belinda Bauer ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The 500 Hidden Secrets of Stockholm ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith ⭐️⭐️ Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lethal White by Robert Galbraith ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly ⭐️ Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered by Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I started Elizabeth Gilbert’s City of Girls yesterday and stayed up late finishing it last night. It’s a quick, entertaining read full of excellent descriptions of Manhattan in the 40’s and beyond. Gilbert excels at the details in this novel, of costumes, of the evocative theater setting, and she is so skillful at writing witty, snappy dialogue. While I enjoyed the story of young Vivian Morris’s creative and sexual awakening, a number of the characters remained one-note throughout the novel which made the relationships ring slightly hollow. ✨ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 ✨ Have you read City of Girls? Thoughts? Also... one of my favorite books to recommend is Elizabeth Gilbert’s non-fiction book The Last American Man, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002. It’s funny! And just a really great book...

Poolside... the perfect spot on a sunny Sunday afternoon. #currentlyreading and totally enjoying Lethal White, the 4th Cormoran Strike novel by Robert Galbraith (J.K.Rowling). Have you read this series?

#Currentlyreading and exploring #Stockholm with this awesome guide from the @500hiddensecrets series. The perfect, easy-to-navigate guidebook for bookish/foodie/design-loving travelers.

I picked up Belinda Bauer’s suspense thriller Snap (40/100) for a quick read on the airplane from Oakland to Stockholm. It’s a solid vacation book and a page-turner for sure, but with some glaring narrative holes smattered throughout it is surprising it was longlisted for the Booker prize... ⭐️⭐️⭐️

#Currentlyreading this Gorgeous debut novel from Ocean Vuong, author/poet of Night Sky with Exit Wounds (poetry). From On Earth: “I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn’t trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.” ✨ You guys, go read this book.

May Reading Wrap-up! ✨ Coming-of-age stories dominated my May reading list, the highlights of which were Lights All Night Long by Lydia Fitzpatrick, Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld, and Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. Two books in this mix, Lights All Night Long and Oksana, Behave!, featured Eastern European kids (Russian and Ukrainian, respectively) moving to the U.S. in their formative years and the culture shock that ensues. Other People's Love Affairs, a collection of loosely interconnected short stories centered around the small English seaside town of Glass, are lovely and tug on the heartstrings. I liked but didn't love Queenie and The Water Cure... ✨ Have you read any of these? ✨ Books Read in May: 7 Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lights All Night Long by Lydia Fitzpatrick ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐⭐ The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Other People's Love Affairs by D. Wystan Owen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Oksana, Behave! by Maria Kuznetsova ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

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