The sad truth is that I am reading the same book today that I was reading one year ago. Growing up, I was always an avid reader. I would stay up way into the night reading. It’s only been in the past few years that this changed for me. I got overwhelmed and busy with work, and reading was something I didn’t have time for anymore. At least I thought I didn’t.
I have listened to a lot of books on tape over the years. It’s not like books aren’t a part of my life at all. But there is just something about laying on my bed and losing all track of time while I fall in to another world. I’ve missed that.
Well, it happened again tonight as I fell in to my friend Tali’s book. I’ve been reading this book in short spurts when I find the time, but today I had a lot of time. So I got lost in her world of jewelry and memories and following your passion in life. And before I knew it, I’d finished the book.
If you are looking for a fun read, you should check out her books. talinaybooks.com
A few weeks ago I asked my friends on Facebook if they had any book suggestions. Boy did they. I now have this list to tackle:
- Peace Like A River
- The Name of The Wind
- Ready Player One
- This Book is Full of Spiders
- Anansi Boys
- Trigger Warning
- 11/22/63
- The Partner – John Gresham
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Secret Life of Bees
- Unbroken
- Eat Cake
- Me Before You
- Strength in What Remains
- Book Thief
- These is my Words
- The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
- Code Name Verity
- Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination
- The Night Circus
- Her Fearful Symmetry
- Still Alice
- Audition – Barbara Walters
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- The Summer Guest American Gods
- The Goldfinch
- Where the Wild Things Are Into Thin Air
- The Five Chinese Brothers
- Devil in the White City
- East of Eden
- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- The Lost City of Z
- My Song – Harry Belafonte
- The Uncommon Reader
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Dear Killer
- The House On The Corner Of Bitter and Sweet
- The Martian
- All The Light We Cannot See
- Up From Orchard Street
- Manhood in America
- Bonds that make us Free
- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
- Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hr Bookstore
- The Last Queen
- Tiny Beautiful Things
- Wild
- Just Kids
- How to be a Woman
- The New Jim Crow
- Travels with Charley
- The Signature of All Things
- Alice in Wonderland
- The Wheel Of Time Series
- The Mistborn Trilogy
- I Am Malala
- How to build a girl
- At of stillness
- Yes Please – Amy Poehler
- Hyperion
If I take a year on every book like I did with this last one, I won’t finish this list before I die. I’m in the process of changing and bettering a lot in my life right now. Getting back in to reading is just one part in the larger plan of improving my life. I look forward to the next year and the number of these books that I will have read by then.
Feel free to suggest any books for this list, but I make no promises on finishing them before I’m 90.
What’s Tomorrow?
September 7
- National Neither Snow Nor Rain Day
- National Grandma Moses Day
- National Acorn Squash Day
- National Salami Day
- National Labor Day – First Monday in September