Thank you for saying that about books finding us at different times! I have embraced my oftentimes chaotic reading desires and it’s been great. Have been meaning to post about the trio of books I’m reading now that would make one think I was three different people and which pleases me greatly.
I love an end of year book recap! I read a few that you liked too. My favorite book of the year was My Brilliant Best Friend by Elena Ferrante. I loved how it described the dark parts of intimate friendships. It’s something I’ve known about all my life but never seen depicted so clearly. Plus I’m living in Napoli now so it helped me understand life here. Thanks for sharing, I’ll add some of these to my list!
I love when I remember a book by where I read it! This past July, while vacationing in mid-coast Maine and waiting for the rain to stop long enough to hike in Acadia, I read Little Monsters. Wonderful summertime read. While waiting for a delayed flight home from Maine (a different trip), I read a great big chunk of Wellness. I keep fastidious lusts and track my reading & TBR in Goodreads, but traveling with books makes them even more memorable. Here’s to another year of great travel with books!
Thank you for this. I read a LOT but have not managed to settle to a routine of recording what I read. Would you mind sharing how you keep the notes and built the habit of doing so?
Love this - What a great list! Added some of these to my To Reads. I am old school and use Goodreads to keep track of my reads of the year. That web site hasn't changed since 2008.
Thanks for sharing these reads, Abby. I'm making notes! So true that revisiting books is like traveling backwards in time to remember the places, feelings, and people they evoke. I've just reviewed my own literary year (mostly conveniently recorded for me on Libby:) and am awash in memories of Cambridge. (Re-reading, I see so many 're-' words. That time of year, I guess.)
I love that you're parenting a half-grown daughter while your bedside is piled with half-read parenting books!
We read quite a few of the same books this year:) And NORA GOES OFF SCRIPT is one of my all-time favorites!
Have you read any of Gillian McAllister's thrillers?! I read WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME & absolutely loooved it - and then read quite a few of her others. She's great!!
I just finished The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. Even though it broke my heart I didn’t want it to be over. I’ve read three Maggie O’Farrell books that I really liked this year: Hamnet, This Must Be the Place, and After You’d Gone.
Thank you for saying that about books finding us at different times! I have embraced my oftentimes chaotic reading desires and it’s been great. Have been meaning to post about the trio of books I’m reading now that would make one think I was three different people and which pleases me greatly.
I love an end of year book recap! I read a few that you liked too. My favorite book of the year was My Brilliant Best Friend by Elena Ferrante. I loved how it described the dark parts of intimate friendships. It’s something I’ve known about all my life but never seen depicted so clearly. Plus I’m living in Napoli now so it helped me understand life here. Thanks for sharing, I’ll add some of these to my list!
I love when I remember a book by where I read it! This past July, while vacationing in mid-coast Maine and waiting for the rain to stop long enough to hike in Acadia, I read Little Monsters. Wonderful summertime read. While waiting for a delayed flight home from Maine (a different trip), I read a great big chunk of Wellness. I keep fastidious lusts and track my reading & TBR in Goodreads, but traveling with books makes them even more memorable. Here’s to another year of great travel with books!
Thank you for this. I read a LOT but have not managed to settle to a routine of recording what I read. Would you mind sharing how you keep the notes and built the habit of doing so?
I need a bread baking book! suggestions? i can't seem to make a decent loaf anymore, so a basic recommendation please! & happy new year!
Love this - What a great list! Added some of these to my To Reads. I am old school and use Goodreads to keep track of my reads of the year. That web site hasn't changed since 2008.
Thanks for sharing these reads, Abby. I'm making notes! So true that revisiting books is like traveling backwards in time to remember the places, feelings, and people they evoke. I've just reviewed my own literary year (mostly conveniently recorded for me on Libby:) and am awash in memories of Cambridge. (Re-reading, I see so many 're-' words. That time of year, I guess.)
I love that you're parenting a half-grown daughter while your bedside is piled with half-read parenting books!
xoxo
Yay, Abby!! I love this!!
We read quite a few of the same books this year:) And NORA GOES OFF SCRIPT is one of my all-time favorites!
Have you read any of Gillian McAllister's thrillers?! I read WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME & absolutely loooved it - and then read quite a few of her others. She's great!!
xoxo
Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos was my favorite this year! Beautiful sentences, consuming story. Thanks for sharing these recommendations!
I felt like I time-traveled along with you. Thank you sharing these titles!
I just finished The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. Even though it broke my heart I didn’t want it to be over. I’ve read three Maggie O’Farrell books that I really liked this year: Hamnet, This Must Be the Place, and After You’d Gone.