I read every chance that I probably get. Many books at a time, often on a few pages when I have for a few minutes. It is not supported by fragmented consumption; It is just how I secretly in some livelihood at this point in my life. I am glad that my children also like to read, so we sometimes sit and study together at home. This is one of the rituals that make us the basis. Not without effort, but after all we all settled in ourselves.
I get the inspiration to read a lot of my people whom I follow on Instagram, such as my sister @alliearends, @Lementstyle, and @Brittanychaffee. Other RECs come from the legendary writers (eg allice Lohanan drawing a thread) and authors who write writers (brilliant Josh Cook’s high recommendation by the book (ESH) by Josh Cook. I look for books that help me see something different – especially those who are cool, are a bit strange, or are so beautifully written that it wants you to read a sentence again three times.
Today I am sharing a handful of meaningful reads (about 200 pages or less), which leaves you with a calm understanding, Oh, this is what is about life, They are cute books to read this summer, or any time of the year.
There are seven small books to read in this summer.
Summary: Color blue, a lyrical meditation on grief, desire and memory.
Why do I love it: This is a book that you do not read so much. Its pieces feel like pieces of mosaic, which together, make something larger than the sum of their parts. When I feel too much or not enough, I return to it. She says that I am afraid to accept myself sometimes.
Summary: Thirty -nine women have been imprisoned underground without any clarification. A girl, the youngest of all of them, begins to question what else can be possible.
Why do I love it: It is terrible and darker. This questioned me all the things that I thought I knew about identity, freedom, and what it means to be human. I read it twice a week.
Summary: Set in the 1980s Ireland, a coal trader ignores the truth about a local convent and must decide what kind of man he wants to become.
Why do I love it: It is running small, sparse and deeply. The kind of book that leaves you with a lump and a new understanding of calm courage in your neck.
Summary: A raw and intimate diary chronic the author’s obsessive relationship with a small man.
Why do I love it: Ernaux is not flinch. The diary is written in united and beautifully. A picture of the latter half of the 40s, itching and itching to self-dedicate without forgiveness. She shows you hunger, madness, waiting and somehow makes you feel universal.
Summary: A woman refuses to get out of the swimming pool, and in this process, all the secrets hidden under her marriage come out.
Why do I love it: It is real and sharp, in which a thread of humor is running through stress. Reads like a short film. Completely unpredictable and completely luxurious.
Summary: A Shepherd boy goes on a trip to find the treasure and discover his personal legend on the way.
Why do I love it: It is simple but powerful. A reminder that the answers are often within us – and that the deitors are part of the path.
Summary: A dream of stories installed in a mythical version of the author’s hometown is filled with real imagination and poetic prose.
Why do I love it: Shulz writes like someone else. His stories seem to be memories from another life – Strange, rich, and a little enchanted.
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