Looking for a good book? Read along with my October Reading List!
Happy Fall, y’all!
Or is it ya’ll? No one can ever agree. Please do a scientific study on the matter and get back with me once you have the official results.
I have done so much great reading lately! I’ve done some traveling, and I end up reading a ton on the plane. And also sometimes at home my husband is all, “wanna snuggle up and watch a movie” and I’m like, “no but you can watch a movie next to me while I read my book”.
Non-readers just don’t understand. I’ll be in the middle of reading and my husband will just want me to start watching TV with him. Nope, doesn’t work that way feety peety. I’m immersed. Getting out takes time.
So here’s what is on the list for this month! For the record, I read THIS and THIS a couple of weeks ago and LOVED. So good. So SO good!!
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
I actually just finished this and it’s SO good! A really sweet YA that is great for fans of TFIOS or Eleanor and Park.
Via Amazon:
My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Because when Rainbow Rowell writes a new book, YOU READ IT.
Via Amazon:
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen.
That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right.
Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon’s face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here–it’s their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon’s infuriating nemesis didn’t even bother to show up.
Carry On – The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell story – but far, far more monsters.
The Good Neighbor by Amy Sue Nathan
This won’t release for another week, but it sounds super cute!
Via Amazon:
When small lies have big consequences…
Things are a little rough for Izzy Lane. Still reeling from the break-up of her marriage, the newly single mom moves back to the Philadelphia home she grew up in, five-year-old Noah in tow. The transition is difficult, but with the help of her best friends-and her elderly neighbor, Mrs. Feldman-Izzy feels like she’s stepping closer to her new normal. Until her ex-husband shows up with his girlfriend. That’s when Izzy invents a boyfriend of her own. And that’s when life gets complicated.
Blogging about her “new guy” provides Izzy with something to do when Noah’s asleep. What’s the harm in a few made-up stories? But when her friends want to meet the mysterious “Mac,” someone online suspects Izzy’s a fraud, and a guy in real life catches her eye, Izzy realizes just how high the stakes are.
This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison
This sounds exactly like the kind of book I like to get lost in.
Via Amazon:
With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet’s past.
There, amid the overwhelming buffets and the incessant lounge singers, between the imagined appearances of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter midway through the cruise, Harriet is forced to take a long look back, confronting the truth about pivotal events that changed the course of her life. And in the process she discovers that she’s been living the better part of that life under entirely false assumptions.
In This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at the helm. Through Harriet, he paints a bittersweet portrait of a postmodern everywoman, her story told with great warmth, humanity, and humor. Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother-daughter relationship, nothing is what it seems in this tale of acceptance, reexamination, and forgiveness.
That’s it for this month! As always, I’d love to hear what you’ve been reading, too.
Have a great day!
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