I love to read! I read about 100-150 pages a night after I put the girls to bed. I have always been a voracious reader. Since I did not grow up with a television, I never gained the habit of mindlessly sitting in front of the tv every night. I review books (fiction and nonfiction) for Elle Magazine and a variety of genres for Portland Book Review. People always ask me “What good books have you read lately?” So I am posting a few of my recent favorites.
Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Odds by Stewart O’Nan
The Story of Beautiful Girl byRachel Simon
Long Drive Home by Will Allison
22 Britannia Lane by Amanda Hodgkinson
Faith by Jennifer Haigh
The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt
Next to Love by Ellen Feldman
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow
The Secret Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
The Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
Send me some of your recent favorites. As soon as I finish reading and reviewing IQ84 (925 pages!), I will have time to read since I am not writing any reviews December 16-January 16.
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This is a great list–now I need to go to the library! Bruce is finishing IQ84, look forward to reading it next. I’d recommend “Blood, Bones & Butter” (memoir) and “This Life is In Your Hands” (memoir), “Emily, Alone” (novel by Stewart O’Nan) “Maine” (novel by J. Courtney Sullivan and “You Know When The Men Are Gone” by Siobhan Fallon (short stories)