Photo by Petar Milosevic
Spring is here again, and there’s no better way to celebrate than by digging out that old bunny costume from underneath your bed and walking the streets in it smoking a carrot and handing out to random passersby plastic eggs with cryptic messages inside like “Why does Dolly always get to lick the spines on brackish mackerel night?”
Hmmm…not sure where that…
Hey, what’s the SECOND best way to celebrate Spring?
By reading a good book outdoors, of course.
Here’s what I’ve been reading recently under the emergent sun: the stunning allegorical YA novel Challenger Deep, by Neal Shusterman, about a teen’s battle with mental illness; Purity by Jonathan Franzen, about a millennial’s search for herself and her parents’ true identities in a hyper-connected world; and Nothing to Envy, by Barbara Demick, about successful defectors from North Korea who survived its brutal famine of the mid to late 1990’s.
So that’s me, what have YOU been reading these days?
I read My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante and The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I really enjoyed both books. I would recommend both.
I’ve been reading over your shoulder and enjoying all the books! Next time pick something lighter, maybe something about the apocalypse.
All three of those sound good! I just finished Pretty Girls, which I do not recommend unless you love to think about the most awful things it’s possible for people to do to each other. Next I will either tackle Special Topics in Calamity Physics or Criminal Magic, which is set in a 1920’s where magic is real and under Prohibition, just like alcohol. I expect to learn that alcohol is magic, which I already know.