National Book Lovers Day

My all-time favorite book? That's such a good question! I just finished up Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson, but my all-time favorite book would have to be Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas. I'm a huge fan of young adult books 📚

This is such a hard question-- I don't know how I can pick just one! My all time favorite might be Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, but my favorite and one I'd highly recommend from 2022 is True Biz by Sara Nović. 

Fun topic! ✍️ My favorite book is The Shining by Stephen King. I also love Kubrick's movie but even more so, the made-for-TV miniseries because it's closer to the book. He's a brilliant author, and I love that we share the initials SEK!

I love suspenseful thrillers (not horror), and this is definitely one worth digging into! Living near The Stanley Hotel where King was inspired to write this novel is a bonus. I even have a 16x20 print of the black & white group photo of the "Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921" that's seen at the end of the movie hanging on the wall over my desk with a brass ornament of the hotel below it. Fangirl much? You betcha! 

I do have to say that The Stand is a much wordier read/listen. I'm currently listening to this audiobook, which is especially creepy on the coattails of the pandemic. ☠

Any other Stephen King fans out there?

My favorite book ever is "The Color Of Water" by James McBride.

Some of my more recent favorites are:

• "Anxious People" by Fredrik Backman
• "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• "Daisy Jones & The Six", also by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• "A People's History of Heaven" by Mathangi Subramanian

Ooo, it's so hard to pick just one, but recently, I absolutely LOVED The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune! 🌊🏠

There's no way I can pick an absolute favorite book! Too many to count!

But, from what I've read in 2022 (so far), these stand out:

For fiction:

• "Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St. John Mandel
• "Long Way Down" by Jason Reynolds
• "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
• "Virgil Wander" by Leif Enger

For non-fiction:

• "As You Wish" by Cary Elwes
• "Labyrinth of Ice" by Buddy Levy
• "I Am, I Am, I Am" by Maggie O'Farrell

It's difficult to pick just one, but every year I re-read "A Day No Pigs Would Die" by Oliver Netwon Peck. I read it for the first time in sixth grade and the story has stuck with me ever since. 

Other great reads: 

- All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr 

- The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett 

-  The Couple Next Door, by Shari Laperna

I don't think I have an all-time favorite *yet*, but here are a few fiction books I've read recently that I really enjoyed: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Sentence by Louise Eldrich, and A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne.

In a change of events, I'm currently reading a non-fiction book, What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. Not even that far into it and already learning a lot!

Okay, so I LOVE greek mythology, and Circe by Madeline Miller was sooo good! I could not put it down. I also really loved Where the Crawdads Sing even though I know it is probably over-hyped 😅

Can't wait to read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo!

I don't have a favorite book, but the book that has impacted my life most to date is On the Road by Jack Kerouac. It opened me up to a love of the open road and all of the possibilities that come with it when I was a very impressionable 18-year-old. Now, I love memoirs, and some of my favorites written in the last few years include Heavy, The Yellow House, Crying in H Mart, and Punch Me Up to the Gods.