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My new year’s resolution for 2015 is to read more books. And not just the “How to Get Your Baby to Sleep NOW” books. I want to read more of the enthralling, can’t put them down, can’t stop thinking about them kind of books. I have found quite a few of those, and thought I’d share them with you. Here are the latest books to make it On My Bookshelf:
We Were Liars | A wealthy family owns an island off of Cape Cod where they spend every summer all together. I won’t say anything else about this book (I don’t want to ruin it for you!) other than read it. It is an easy, quick read that will likely leave you rethinking the entire story. | “We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up | This book! I have always been obsessed with cleaning and organizing, and I found myself smiling as Marie Kondo described her younger self because it sounded just like me. I purge like it’s going out of style, but still held on to some things that I just couldn’t get rid of. This advice was a game changer for me: “The best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one’s hand and ask: ‘Does this spark joy?’ If it does, keep it. If not, dispose of it. This is not only the simplest but also the most accurate yardstick by which to judge.” If you have any kind of clutter in your life whatsoever, you need to read this.
The Goldfinch | When Theo Decker is 13 years old, he miraculously survives a terrorist attack in a NYC museum that killed his mother, escaping with a painting called The Goldfinch in his book bag. This painting becomes the sole source of joy and comfort for Theo throughout a very tumultuous adolescence. Do not let the size of this book deter you. It is so, so good. I listened to the audio version, and the narrator was amazing. Something about the voices that he used, it was simply mesmerizing. | “Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
If I Stay | 17 year old Mia loses her whole family in a car crash and watches herself lie lifelessly in a hospital bed. She then learns that she can choose whether she wants to live or die. Another quick YA fiction, I read this book in one sitting, and immediately got on the waitlist for the sequel. | “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
I’m always looking for book recommendations! Have you read anything good lately?
