This post is a little delayed because I’ve been on vacation, enjoying the beauty and culture of the Dominican Republic. August wasn’t that great of a reading month for me anyways, I was super busy and only managed to read two books. Thoughts on them below 🙂 Deep Work by Cal Newport My rating: 3/5… Continue reading August Wrap-Up 2019
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty My rating: 3.5/5 stars I picked this up because I saw “#1 Bestselling Author of Big Little Lies”. I unfortunately never had a chance to read Big Little Lies before it became a tv show. Given how good the tv show is (I binged season one in a day),… Continue reading June Wrap-Up 2019
Domestic by Tobi Nifesi My rating: 3/5 stars Gone Girl meets 13 Reasons Why ? When Alicia returns home to find her husband dead, she is distraught. An early investigation leads police to consider Alicia the primary suspect in her husband’s death but it becomes evident that there is much more to this murder mystery… Continue reading March Wrap-Up 2019
The Nest by Cynthia D’aprix Sweeny My rating: 4/5 stars Nothing was a sure thing; every choice was just an educated guess, or a leap into a mysterious abyss. Life has a funny way of working out in the end. Everything happens for a reason. What’s meant to be will be. Those are all common… Continue reading February Wrap-Up 2019
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry My rating: 4.5/5 stars “When I hear him laughing, out there in the sky and in the night, and that laugh burns me deep down in my heart, I know I’ll find a way to make him sorry. I will make him sorry. I… Continue reading December Wrap-Up 2018
Wake Up Missing by Kate Messner My rating: 3/5 stars When Cat falls out of a treehouse, she suffers a serious concussion which lands her in the most advanced brain treatment centre in the country. There, she meets four other kids: Ben, Quentin, Sarah and Trent. Soon after arriving at the centre, Cat becomes… Continue reading November Wrap-Up 2018
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer My rating: 4/5 stars “And didn’t it always go like that — body parts not quite lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure… Continue reading October Wrap-Up 2018
Another month of reading only two books and oddly enough, I’m okay with that. In Some Other World, Maybe by Shari Goldhagen My rating: 4.5/5 stars You ever think about all the people you’ve ever met? The friends you’ve had. Past romantic relationships. Career decisions. The way people come in and out of our lives.… Continue reading September Wrap-Up 2018
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion My rating: 3.5/5 stars “It is the blight man was born for. We are not idealized wild things. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses… Continue reading July Wrap-Up 2018
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman My rating: 4/5 stars “If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we’d want… Continue reading May Wrap-Up 2018
Dreaming of Book Pages 