I love the current pop culture so I read a lot of memoirs.

My favorite for the summer was Holly Madison's memoir, "Down The Rabbit Hole." Not only was the cover in my favorite color pink, but the book was super juicy. She didn't hold back one detail and spills the beans on Hef and Kendra. I couldn't honestly put it down and went through it in a day.

I also read, "The Girl on the Train" which comes in a close second. Excellent book that had me hanging on every word. Best part, the ending was divine. Unlike "Gone Girl" which was a great book too, but the ending felt like a slap in the face!

I wasted three days of my life on that damn book that I can never get back.

Anonymous wrote:The Martian. It's a few years old but I really loved it!

Me too. It's hot right now, so it is definitely a "this summer" book. I tore through it.

I get lots of my recommendations from DCUM or from The Week.

Jump Off the Front Porch by Shannon A. Patterson

Convinced me to start my own business!!

Reunion by Marty Almquist (Saw in the Washington Post that there is a book reading this Wed. at One Page Books in Arlington!)
Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy
The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey
Madame Picasso by Anne Girard
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper

I just finished the Southern Reach trilogy on a trip and it was really different and absorbing.

Killing Patton
American Sniper
Wizard of Earthsea trilogy
Outliers
David and Goliath
Tipping Point
Doctor Sleep
Bomb
Think Like a Freak

Lots of travel this summer and time on planes.


Mat Johnson: Loving Day
Samantha Matthews: That Thing You Do With Your Mouth
Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts
David Gates: A Hand That Reached Down To Guide Me
Don Winslow: The Cartel
Matthew Thomas: We Are Not Ourselves
Karl Ove Knausgaard: My Struggle Book 4
Harper Lee: Go Set A Watchman
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between The World and Me
Jo Nesbo: Blood on Snow
T.C. Boyle: The Harder They Come
Steph Cha: Follow Her Home
Julia Pierpoint: Among the Ten Thousand Things
Brian Panowich: Bull Mountain

Anonymous wrote:Go dog go

I'm waiting until the movie come out.

Vagina by Naomi Klein.
The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto.
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo.
What We May Be by Piero Ferrucci.
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes.

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Condo
Expecting Better by Emily Oster
Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

The best book I read this summer was Guantanamo Diary. Recommend.

The Martian. It's a few years old but I really loved it!

I read:

* Yes Please (Amy Poehler)
* Not the End of the World (quirky skirt stories)
* I Was Told There'd be Cake (personal essays)
* The Interestings
* The Memory-Keeper's Daughter

Right now, I'm reading Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.

I credit my local library's summer reading game (for kids and adults!) with re-introducing me to the pleasure of taking time for myself to read. It's been a long while since I've read this many books in such a short time!

Go dog go

10% Happier - read based on a DCUM recommendation. Short, pick me up. Thanks for the rec.

Emperor of Maladies - interesting, comprehensive look at cancer research for a lay person. I should have saved this for a time when I could read more pages at a clip. It's hard to jump in and out of.

Disclaimer - nice summer read. Quick paced and managed to surprise me.

Family Life - beautiful and difficult to read. The author manages to captures the family's pain so sharply.

Plan to end on a much lighter note this week and next.