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30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 16: "A Prayer for Owen Meany"
After a few days in New Hampshire, back to our regularly-scheduled programming! Hiking through the White Mountains in New Hampshire this...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 13: "A Thousand Mornings"
You can breeze through this next book, A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver, in an afternoon at the beach as you gaze out at the sea and...
30 Books in 30 Days Day 12: "My Name is Lucy Barton"
Inspired by yesterday’s review and recent languid summer days, we’ll continue the trend of simplicity with today’s review of Elizabeth...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 11: "Gilead"
Today, on a slow and sun-drenched Sunday, it is time to share one of my favorite books of all time. I wrote my college senior thesis on...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 10: "Where'd You Go, Bernadette"
Where’d You Go, Bernadette is the perfect beach read: funny and fun, part mystery, with strong messages of self-love and...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 9: "Me Talk Pretty One Day"
Me Talk Pretty One Day, the first non-fiction book recommended in this series, will—I guarantee!—have you laughing out loud. The book is...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 7: "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
I absolutely loved this book. I don’t say that often, because typically if I like a book, I don’t like all of it—I find a plot element...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 6: "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"
I had been curious about Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake since it came out a few years ago—mainly because of the...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 5: "On Chesil Beach"
If you’ve read Atonement, you know that Ian McEwan is a master at taking seemingly happy situations and twisting them, squeezing...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 3: "The Luminaries"
Today’s review is not a typical beach read—clocking in at 848 pages, it’s a novel to spread across a few beach days or devote a plane...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 2: All the Light We Cannot See
If yesterday’s Sweetbitter captivated the senses through excess, today’s read—Anthony Doerr’s incredible All the Light We Cannot See does...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 1: "Sweetbitter"
Let’s kick off the series with a glass of wine and a burst of excess, shall we? I first read a review of Stephanie Danler’s Sweetbitter...
Review: The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale was an accidentally timely choice when it popped up on my “recommended” list on my library app. I’d heard of the...
After a disappointing election, feeling a little responsible.
I didn’t drink on election night, but I woke up on Wednesday feeling hungover. I went to bed late, because I physically couldn’t handle...
Review: Room
Room is a book I’d been wanting to read (and slightly dreading reading) for several years. I first read about it in a New York Times book...
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