I love a good summer read! This season is definitely the best for a reading catch up! ❤ Here are my choices:
I'm a sucker for stories with bookstores or libraries involved and this book was a bargain, so I had to buy it at Lisbon's book fair last month!
It was published in 2015 but it's set in 1962, in Denver, where Kitty Miller runs a bookshop with her best friend, Frieda. She dated Kevin, a doctor, for a while, but it didn't work out. Now she just does what she pleases, without having to justify herself to anyone.
Eventually she begins to have very lucid dreams about an alternate reality.
At night, she is Katharyn, a married mother of two small children, living in a nice house surrounded by good friends. In the beginning, Kitty was convinced this was a product of her overactive imagination, but as time goes by and her dreams start to look like reality, she is overwhelmed by confusion.
Ultimately, she has to figure out if she can choose who she wants to be and what's real and what's imagined.
At night, she is Katharyn, a married mother of two small children, living in a nice house surrounded by good friends. In the beginning, Kitty was convinced this was a product of her overactive imagination, but as time goes by and her dreams start to look like reality, she is overwhelmed by confusion.
Ultimately, she has to figure out if she can choose who she wants to be and what's real and what's imagined.
A free e-book version of this Young Adult novel was provided to me by NetGalley, which I'll review when I finish reading it.
Harper, a 16-year-old teenager from Texas, has a complicated relationship with her conservative parents. She has already engaged in sexual activities and uses drugs with her older boyfriend.
After a confrontation with her father, her boyfriend's betrayal and the discovery that she's pregnant, Harper needs to get away from the mess her life has become.
She calls her grandfather, Cooper, who she hasn't seen in 10 years, and although he's dealing with problems of his own, he's willing to give her granddaughter the help that she needs.
After a confrontation with her father, her boyfriend's betrayal and the discovery that she's pregnant, Harper needs to get away from the mess her life has become.
She calls her grandfather, Cooper, who she hasn't seen in 10 years, and although he's dealing with problems of his own, he's willing to give her granddaughter the help that she needs.
This is another novel I bought for a lower price at the book fair. I was going to buy Inherent Vice, by the same author, as I recognized it because of the movie with the same name, but I ended up finding this one's premise more interesting.
V, first published in 1963, is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, and tells the story of Benny Profane, a discharged US. Navy Sailor and his return to New York, where he spends an idle existence with his friends.
However, Benny's life is turned upside down when he meets Stencil, an ambitious young man on a mission to discover the identity of a woman named V., who met his father during the war and disappeared without a trace.
However, Benny's life is turned upside down when he meets Stencil, an ambitious young man on a mission to discover the identity of a woman named V., who met his father during the war and disappeared without a trace.
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian author, and I've been wanting to read The Piano Teacher ever since I visited Vienna in May and did some research on Austrian books. I wonder what great stories are out there in non-English books.
This is the most famous work of the author, for which she was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Erika Kohut is a thirty-eight year old piano teacher at Vienna Conservatory who lives a seemingly boring life with her controlling mother. However, she has a side no one knows: she secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films.
At the same time, one of her teenage students becomes obsessed with her and it origins a dark and strange relationship between them.
At the same time, one of her teenage students becomes obsessed with her and it origins a dark and strange relationship between them.
In this book, which has been described as a mix of Dexter with Gone Girl, we are introduced to Millicent, a real estate agent, and her husband, a tennis pro at the local country club. They live an apparently ordinary life in the Florida suburbs with their two teenage children. They do date nights, family dinners and have plenty of friends.
However, this kind of life is too dull for them. They needed something new and exciting, so they found an unconventional hobby to keep their marriage alive: murder.
However, this kind of life is too dull for them. They needed something new and exciting, so they found an unconventional hobby to keep their marriage alive: murder.
I love a good psychological thriller. This is definitely going to give me the chills!
This novel caught my eye as I read it's recommended for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, which I absolutely loved. It tells the story of Valencia, a debt collector with OCD and many fears, especially flying and turning thirty-five.
In order to confront this, her therapist suggests that she flies somewhere before her birthday. Meanwhile, she begins a telephone romance with a man from New York that might actually not exist...
In order to confront this, her therapist suggests that she flies somewhere before her birthday. Meanwhile, she begins a telephone romance with a man from New York that might actually not exist...
Valentine is a lonely old woman who desperately needs company. She's happy when the new cleaning lady is willing to listen to her story - a life of adventures around the world with her husband until he disappeared without a trace.
The book's premise ends with the guarantee that the life of these women has more in common that we might think.
