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.