I've been in a bit of a reading funk lately. I have been re-reading a lot of books like Harry Potter the Deathly Hallows and Les Miserables, but I also haven't been as motivated as a reader either. Total books read for this year is 75...down a little from last year.
I have given up some of my usual reading time to my new little hobby of watching documentaries. I told Dave that since I have always had more of a interest in non-fiction, I'm the stay-at-home mom who watches documentaries instead of soap operas. I have to say there are no bon-bons involved but it is keeping me from books. On the other hand, ask me about the Milton Hershey boarding school, segregation in Mississippi in 2008, honor killings in Jordan, hair weaves, or Edie Beale and have I got some information for you!
Anyways, I'm hoping an enticing new to-read book list will be just the remedy I need. So I am going to start with the Chicago Tribune's 10 must-read books of the year. Here they are:
1-How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
2-William Trevor: Selected Stories
3-A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
4-The Shallows:What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
5-I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
6-Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
7-Agents of Treachery edited by Otto Penzler
8-The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
9-Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
10-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
I don't know if I will make it through all of them but numbers 1, 8, and 10 have piqued my interest, so did 6..but then I read it.
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