My October Reading list has lots of great suggestions for a book to curl up with! Read along with me this month!
I have SO gotten majorly sucked into Stranger Things and it’s making me get behind on my reading!! I usually do most of my reading before bed, but now I can’t make myself turn off the television.
I put Stranger Things off because I wasn’t sure if it would really grab me, but OMG obsessed. Even though it’s so far-fetched, it still scares the ever loving crap out of me. It actually gave me nightmares the other night, but I still won’t give it up. And I don’t know if I can ever stop hating Matthew Modine now. What a creepy jerk, you guys.
I LOVED this book from last month’s list. It reminded me a lot of the book Defending Jacob, which is one of my all-time favorites as far as page-turners go. I highly recommend it if you want something that will keep you up way too late!
Here are my picks for this month:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Jon David has been having trouble finding a book to get into lately, so I suggested we read this one together. We are both LOVING it! It’s about video games and gamer culture, which he loves, but it’s got a really great and fast-paced storyline, which I love. I’m about a quarter of the way through and I can’t wait to see how it ends!
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In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world’s digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator’s obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade’s going to survive, he’ll have to win—and confront the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.
The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
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I love complicated and character-driven stories that center around families, so I was instantly drawn to this book. The hoarder aspect is a really interesting twist! The reviews are really great and I can’t wait to start reading!
Meet the picture-perfect Bird family: pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and towheaded twins Rory and Rhys, one an adventurous troublemaker, the other his slighter, more sensitive counterpart. Their father is a sweet, gangly man, but it’s their beautiful, free-spirited mother Lorelei who spins at the center. In those early years, Lorelei tries to freeze time by filling their simple brick house with precious mementos. Easter egg foils are her favorite. Craft supplies, too. She hangs all of the children’s art, to her husband’s chagrin.
Then one Easter weekend, a tragedy so devastating occurs that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear the family apart. Years pass and the children have become adults, while Lorelei has become the county’s worst hoarder. She has alienated her husband and children and has been living as a recluse. But then something happens that beckons the Bird family back to the house they grew up in—to finally understand the events of that long-ago Easter weekend and to unearth the many secrets hidden within the nooks and crannies of home.
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
This book has had a lot of buzz and has been featured on the top of several must-read fall book lists! Any book described as having “lyrical prose” usually scares me off, but I’m really hoping that this book lives up to all the hype. Also, to be honest…they had me at love triangle. I love a good love triangle!
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It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.
In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.
The Lost Girls by Heather Young
I am always excited when I find a promising book from a new other! This debut novel has really great reviews and promises to be a chilling page turner. It was actually a toss up for me between this and The Woman in Cabin 10, but this has better reviews and sounded more promising. If you’ve read The Woman in Cabin 10, I’d love to hear how you liked it! It seems to be everywhere lately!
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In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family—her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child.
Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook that she leaves, along with the house, to the only person who might care: her grandniece, Justine. For Justine, the lake house offers freedom and stability—a way to escape her manipulative boyfriend and give her daughters the home she never had. But the long Minnesota winter is just beginning. The house is cold and dilapidated. The dark, silent lake is isolated and eerie. Her only neighbor is a strange old man who seems to know more about the summer of 1935 than he’s telling.
Soon Justine’s troubled oldest daughter becomes obsessed with Emily’s disappearance, her mother arrives to steal her inheritance, and the man she left launches a dangerous plan to get her back. In a house haunted by the sorrows of the women who came before her, Justine must overcome their tragic legacy if she hopes to save herself and her children.
I’d love to hear what you’ve been reading and loving (or hating) lately! Let me know!
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