the belated recaps continue. in april i read:
the light we lost, by jill santopolo (so this was a book club pick that i bought at an airport bookstore - which tells you something about the book - that it's appealing to a large enough audience that airports carry it. i want to turn up my nose at this book, but i sped through it and was totally captivated by the plot. it is not the best book i've read, but it would make an excellent beach read!)
elmet, by fiona mozley (this book was one i got from the local independent bookstore, and it was the exact opposite of the light we lost. this was a book for literate people who are okay with weird characters and a plot set in the present but oddly reminiscent of the past (so kind of set in no time period and all time periods?)...i didn't love this one, but it made me think and some of the scenes have stayed with me since, so it clearly made an impression.)
graffiti palace, by a.g. lombardo (this book pissed me off. it's set in LA during the watts riots of 1965, as a guy tries to get home to his pregnant girlfriend and keeps getting waylaid. the odyssey-esque. i kept yelling at the main character: "just get home already! stop getting distracted!" but he kept getting distracted. would not recommend.)
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
march: 7, 8, 9 & 10
guys, apparently i am horrible about telling you what i've read. but i *do* want to tell you, so i just need to get my act together and write my couple sentences and share this. here we go!
in march i read:
turtles all the way down, by john green (i have other favorite john green books, but this one was good and worth reading - but if you've never read a book by him, start with something else.)
the sun and her flowers, by rupi kaur (this is her second book of poetry and i love her writing. tore through this and i know it's the kind of book i will actually read again.)
the rules do not apply, by ariel levy (i underlined this line:
"One day you are very young and then suddenly you are thirty-five and it is Time. You have to reproduce, or else. By that point, many of my friends had already been working on their reproductive ambitions for quite a while."
so yeah. 35 over here. i guess i share this line to tell you that the author was, for parts of the book, in a similar place as i am in the span of my life, so i related to a lot of what she was talking about. i loved her voice. the story of her trip to mongolia was horrific, and i would actively NOT recommend this book to anyone who has had a miscarriage. but i'm really glad i read it - i sped through it on my spring break trip!)
braving the wilderness, by brene brown (this was another spring break read, in the claire-goes-outside-and-looks-inward spring break trip i took to dripping springs, tx. a lot of it was really similar to what she said when i heard her talk this fall on her book tour, but i was glad to have the book in hand to organize her arguments and be a resource i can go back to.)
in march i read:
turtles all the way down, by john green (i have other favorite john green books, but this one was good and worth reading - but if you've never read a book by him, start with something else.)
the sun and her flowers, by rupi kaur (this is her second book of poetry and i love her writing. tore through this and i know it's the kind of book i will actually read again.)
the rules do not apply, by ariel levy (i underlined this line:
"One day you are very young and then suddenly you are thirty-five and it is Time. You have to reproduce, or else. By that point, many of my friends had already been working on their reproductive ambitions for quite a while."
so yeah. 35 over here. i guess i share this line to tell you that the author was, for parts of the book, in a similar place as i am in the span of my life, so i related to a lot of what she was talking about. i loved her voice. the story of her trip to mongolia was horrific, and i would actively NOT recommend this book to anyone who has had a miscarriage. but i'm really glad i read it - i sped through it on my spring break trip!)
braving the wilderness, by brene brown (this was another spring break read, in the claire-goes-outside-and-looks-inward spring break trip i took to dripping springs, tx. a lot of it was really similar to what she said when i heard her talk this fall on her book tour, but i was glad to have the book in hand to organize her arguments and be a resource i can go back to.)
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