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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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#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

Amor Towles tonight in conversation with Michael Krasny @cityartssf ✨ Are there any books you wish you could read again for the first time? A Gentleman in Moscow is one of those books for me. I loved the incredibly charming character of Count Rostov, it’s such a pleasure to be in his company for the length of the novel, a voyeur to his story. While the novel takes place almost entirely within the interior of a hotel, Towles manages to create a setting that is worldly and expansive for his character/s, proving him to be a master of his craft. As the reader you can’t help but feel you are in capable, generous hands.👏 If you’re one of the few who hasn’t read it yet, you’re in for a treat...

Currently reading and thoroughly enjoying Maria Kuznetsova’s quirky and heartwarming coming-of-age debut novel Oksana, Behave! What are you reading?

Airplane reading... 50 pages in and I’m loving this one already.

Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss's engaging, quirky novella about a teenager named Silvie, her powerless mother and overbearing father, and a university professor and his students, living a summer-long Iron Age archeological experiment in contemporary North East England, sent me down a rabbit hole of articles about and photos of bog bodies. Seriously, Google "bog body." FASCINATING. Ghost Wall is a quick read that builds steadily from page one to an intense and satisfying conclusion. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I'm back on #bookstagram and catching up after our vacation in Hawaii and a really big spring clean (I organized and cleaned out closets, sold and donated books and clothes, and made multiple trips to Goodwill). In the month of April, I went on a Louise Penny kick, reading a few of her Inspector Gamache mysteries. On the whole, they're a little too cozy for me, but I found the later ones in the series more entertaining and slightly less saccharine. My favorite read last month was Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing (not pictured), a beautifully rendered book about a young girl growing up impoverished and isolated in a swamp along the coast of North Carolina. Books Read in April: 7 Glass Houses (Gamache #13) by Louise Penny ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 A Great Reckoning (Gamache #12) by Louise Penny ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Fatal Grace (Gamache #2) by Louise Penny ⭐️⭐️ Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan ⭐️⭐️ Force of Nature by Jane Harper ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Passenger by Alexandra Bracken ⭐️

Pages away from finishing this one... Loved it!

Poolside reading in Hawaii

One of my favorite things about packing for a vacation is deciding which books to take with me. For beach vacations I love to pack a few page-turners... what was the last great book you couldn’t put down?