Looking for a good book to read this month? Read along with my September Reading List!
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We are halfway into September. What is even happening?
I did not finish all the books on last month’s list. I’ve had such a hectic few weeks and then spent a weekend in Vegas. I planned on reading on the plane, but all I did was sleep. One time I woke up wondering why we never took off, and then I realized we’d been in the air for an hour.
We leave for a cruise at the end of this week! Carnival invited me and my family to sail on their renovated Sunshine ship, so hopefully I get some down time and get to relax and read a little. I’ve never taken a cruise before and have a little anxiety about bringing Lucy, but I’ve read that their children’s program is really great. So fingers crossed!
In the meantime, I’m just packing and working and planning like a crazy lady. Sometimes I wish I could experience what it’s like for a dad to plan a vacation. Everything just kind of comes together.
Here are my books for this month.
Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner
I totally cheated and read this one already because I couldn’t wait. And I LOVED it. So SO much. Couldn’t put it down!
Via Amazon:
Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just eight years old when they meet one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she’s intrigued by the boy who shows up alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy’s taken back to a doctor and Rachel’s sent back to her bed, they think they’ll never see each other again.
Rachel grows up in an affluent Florida suburb, the popular and protected daughter of two doting parents. Andy grows up poor in Philadelphia with a single mom and a rare talent for running.
Yet, over the next three decades, Andy and Rachel will meet again and again—linked by chance, history, and the memory of the first time they met, a night that changed the course of both of their lives.
A sweeping, warmhearted, and intimate tale, Who Do You Love is an extraordinary novel about the passage of time, the way people change and change each other, and how the measure of a life is who you love.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Somehow this series escaped my notice until recently. The reviews are AMAZING and it sounds really good!
Via Amazon:
The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime- ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard. It is a high-action novel written with a poet’s hand, a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to read this book is to be the hero.
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
I’m just a little ways into this one and I love it already. It’s sweet and sad and funny all at the same time.
Via Amazon:
Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?
Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents’ association to their very foundations.
What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
I’ve been seeing this book everywhere, so I decided it needed to go on the list. It’s free on Kindle Unlimited and sounds really good!
Via Amazon:
Ten years ago, Izzy Stone’s mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother’s apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy’s help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past.
Clara Cartwright, eighteen years old in 1929, is caught between her overbearing parents and her love for an Italian immigrant. Furious when she rejects an arranged marriage, Clara’s father sends her to a genteel home for nervous invalids. But when his fortune is lost in the stock market crash, he can no longer afford her care–and Clara is committed to the public asylum.
Even as Izzy deals with the challenges of yet another new beginning, Clara’s story keeps drawing her into the past. If Clara was never really mentally ill, could something else explain her own mother’s violent act? Piecing together Clara’s fate compels Izzy to re-examine her own choices–with shocking and unexpected results.
That’s it for this month — I’d love to hear what you’re reading and loving!
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