Winter is the absolute best time to read. I have killed many afternoons with a book, a blanket, a snack, and a hot cup of tea. I am starting to accumulate piles of books that I have yet to read; I am the anti-Marie Kondo. The piles of books, they bring me joy.
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
This was such a unique book. The author explores the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles library. The story is partly true crime, part autobiography, and wholly a love letter to books and libraries.
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Less is the Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction for 2018. I have a personal goal to read them all, and this title clocked in at number 26 for me. Less is a fair to middling author approaching his 50th birthday. He actively wants to avoid attending his ex-boyfriend's wedding. His solution? Say yes to the stack of literary event invitations that have been sitting in his inbox.
Less travels the world, makes connections, and finds his way back home in the most remarkable way.
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
I seem to love books that Barack Obama puts on his end-of-the-year list. The man has good taste in literature. Celestial and Roy are newlyweds living the dream in Atlanta. A truly egregious set of circumstances rips them apart. The book sheds a light on a very timely topic and the writing is superb.
World's End by Upton Sinclair
If I've said it once I have said it a million times: Do yourself a favor and marry a smart man. When I first started dating Spencer, he was completely in the grasp of this series. During a thirteen year period, Upton Sinclair wrote eleven books featuring the central character, Lanny Budd. (Or LB, as I like to call him.) Each story is separated into two books, for a grand total of twenty two books. One, Dragon's Teeth, won the Pulitzer Prize. World's End covers the years 1913-1919. LB is an American being raised in France. His best friends are an English and German. Sinclair expertly tells history through the eyes of Lanny, a very likable fellow, indeed.
I am giving myself a two-year window to finish these books.
How has your 2019 reading year started? Did you set goals or are you just enjoying your books?
Other Books Read Winter 2019
Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
Florida by Lauren Groff
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
All-American Murder by James Patterson and Alex Abramovich
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
The House Next Door by James Patterson
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