So excited to finish off this series!

Weird and awesome, my favorite kind of short stories.

I haven't read an essay collection in ages, and this one reminded me everything that I love about them. Each essay had its own center, but the emotional resonance traced through them all. It had so much to say about how we experience pain and emotion, and how we relate to others--this book definitely made me wish I hadn't checked it out from the library, because my copy would be absolutely filled with underlining and notes!

A few days late 🙈 but January was a great reading month for me! Listening to audiobooks at work has really changed my ability to read. And I checked off four books for #readharder too!

Absolutely LOVED this book. I somehow wanted to simultaneously slow down and absorb every sentence and wanted to fly through the pages to take in the story in all it's funny, sad, totally compelling glory. Especially at a time where the stories of immigrants are so so important, I would (and definitely will) recommend this to absolutely everyone I know.

Library haul for February! Already almost done with Americanah--I can't believe it's taken me so long to pick it up!

Any book that's good enough to keep me company on a run is a win! This definitely made me want to pick up another Elizabeth Strout...but do I go back to Olive Kitteridge or forward to My Name is Lucy Barton? Help!

I love a fun thriller to rev me up for a longer listen, and this was a perfect one! Finished just in time too 🙈

I've been on a role with reading complicated + interesting women in the new year. This book had a such compelling central friendship and I just could. not. look. away. And I love that it scratched my old English class itch by somehow making me want to write an essay about those shoes! Ah well.

I don't think I'll ever read Eat Pray Love--not really my thing--but this novel was incredible as both a character study and a piece of writing. So rarely do I read about a female character who still has a story after 50, but Alma Whittaker was so richly drawn that I know I'll be thinking about her through all her life's stages for a long time. A slow, simmering, expansive period piece. And I'll never think of mosses the same way!

Ready to read about some awesome girls this December!

Loved the möbius ending mentioned on @bookriot 's Get Booked podcast! And Jim Dale nailed this narration--the perfect magical summer read.

Bus reading with some black comedy 🤕