One huge massive shoutout to my wonderful friend Heather for gifting me this book on my last birthday. Heather and I met this past May and she just gets me. Her passing of this book to me on a special occasion just shows the level to which that is true.
Title: Places I Stopped on the Way Home
Author: Meg Fee
Genre: Essay collection
Pub date: May 3, 2018
Read if you like: falling in love, NYC, falling out of love, hope. Continue reading
As a tribute to Girls Write Now‘s publication today, I’ve written something in the style of the other essays in the book. Something I’d like to talk about with my past self. I wouldn’t call it advice, per se, because I’m not sure what advice I’d give. But it did force me to think. Thank you to Tin House for sharing this book with me, and for giving me the chance for this self-reflection.
Title: Girls Write Now: Two decades of true stories from young female voices
Genre: Essay Collections
Pub date: October 16, 2018
Read if you like: female voices, honesty, and vulnerability.
Thank you to Dante Fabiero for my copy of Slothilda. All thoughts and images are my own.
Title: Slothilda
Author: Dante Fabiero
Genre: Comic Series
Pub date: October 2, 2018
Read if you like: the illustrations of Liz Climo and all things sloth. Continue reading
Thank you to the lovely people at Tin House for my copy of The Seas by Samantha Hunt. All thoughts and images are my own.
Title: The Seas
Author: Samantha Hunt
Genre: Modern Mermaid Mythology
Pub date: November 1, 2004 – re-released July 10, 2018
Read if you like: magical realism, The Bell Jar, Han’s Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid.” Continue reading
Thank you to the lovely people at Atria Books for my copy of You by Caroline Kepnes. All thoughts and images are my own.
Title: You
Author: Caroline Kepnes
Genre: Millennial Thriller
Pub date: September 25, 2014
Read if you like: Black Mirror, obsessively updating your social media, & second person narration. Continue reading
Thank you to the lovely people at Berkley Romance for my copy of The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory. All thoughts and images are my own.
Title: The Wedding Date
Author: Jasmine Guillory
Genre: Romance
Pub date: January 30, 2018
Read if you like: The Kiss Quotient, The Proposal, bingeing on rom-coms. Continue reading
Thank you to the lovely people at Viking Books for my copy of Ghosted by Rosie Walsh. All thoughts and images are my own.
Title: Ghosted
Author: Rosie Walsh
Genre: Rom-com mystery
Pub date: July 24, 2018
Read if you like: a good twist. Continue reading
Thank you to the lovely people at Doubleday Books for my copy of Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. All thoughts and images are my own.
Title: Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Author: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Genre: Fiction
Pub date: July 31, 2018
Read if you like: stories of badass, very human women, set against a powerfully dramatic backdrop. Continue reading
Am I the only one who loved the feeling of going back to school? Don’t get me wrong, I always mourn the end of summer – of long days full of freedom and sunscreen. But, for me, there is truly nothing better than fresh notebooks, a full pencil case, and an entire year ahead of you. To get you in the mood, here are 11 novels I love (and two I have yet to read) that will fill you with that campus feeling.
As always, I’ve packed way more books than I need for our Labor Day weekend trip. If you need some packing inspiration, my reads are organized by vibe below!
Click on a title to read its synopsis: