On the blog in the past few days, I reviewed Twain's End and checked in for the readalongs of Alexander Hamilton and Headstrong.
This week, I'm hoping to read The Bluest Eye and Ariel Lawhon's upcoming Flight of Dreams.
It's Book Blogger Appreciation Week! Today is the first day and we are supposed to pick five books that represent us. This was a surprisingly difficult thing to narrow down!
I think the books that impacted me the most as a child were the Narnia books and A Wrinkle in Time. Narnia taught me to expect world-building and magic to amaze me and A Wrinkle in Time made me believe that girls could be complicated and spunky and heroes. As an adult, I love nonfiction that stretches me and makes me think about life in new ways; The Empathy Exams is a great example of this. I read a lot of fiction. I tend to gravitate toward really excellent historical fiction like A Constellation of Vital Phenomena or People of the Book.
Are you taking part in Book Blogger Appreciation Week? What are you reading right now?
Totally know how weeks like that go! I've had The Gone Away World on my shelves for so long - can't wait to see what you think in the end.
ReplyDeleteI have had weeks like that where I did not finish a book. Sometimes life just gets in the way.
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I really want to read Flight of Dreams. I love the cover and the whole story seems very intriguing. Though I don't think I'd want to ride in or is it on one of those.
ReplyDeleteSo many people are reading Ariel Lawhon's book...I'll need to get to it soon!
ReplyDeleteA appreciated A Wrinkle in Time a lot more as an adult - I had to read it in school, which pretty much ruined it for me for years!
ReplyDeleteNarnia was a big part of my childhood. I didn't read A Wrinkle in Time until I was older but I loved it too. I wish I had gotten in on that Alexander Hamilton readalong!
ReplyDeleteNarnia really affected how I judge world building skills too. I feel I hold really high expectations for world building, and it can be difficult to fall in love with a book when it doesn't have that awe inspiring foundation.
ReplyDeleteFlight of Dreams is really good.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy it, and I hope you are having a good week.
Elizabeth
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