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27 Unread Books in my Library

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I like to consider myself an avid reader, and as most avid readers, I like to buy books. Unlike most avid readers, I buy books and don’t read them. I love everything about books; the cover art, the font, the feel, the smell, the stories. I love everything about stories; the characters, the phrasing, the descriptions, the flow, the plot twits, the unravelling, the tone, the themes.

However, whenever I have time to read, I inevitably turn to books I’ve already read. I love the familiarity, I love enjoying a story knowing the outcome, and I love reliving it again and again. I love catching things I missed the first couple times. I always feel like I don’t have time to commit to a whole new book, and in it, a whole new world.

I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and decided to do a tally of how many books I have yet to adventure into! This is the list I came up with in the process:

  • The Light Between Oceans, M. L. Stedman
  • Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
  • The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins
  • Dunkirk, Joshua Levine
  • Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
  • The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
  • Concussion, Jeanne Mable Laskas
  • Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
  • Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  • The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
  • The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan
  • Beartown, Frederik Bachman
  • The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
  • Turtles All the Way Down, John Gree
  • Miracles From Heaven, Christy Wilson Beam
  • Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey
  • It’s Not What You Think, Jefferson Bethke
  • Jesus > Religion, Jefferson Bethke
  • The Last Letter From Your Lover, Jojo Moyes
  • A Few of the Girls, Maeve Binchy
  • Christmas on Primrose Hill, Karen Swan
  • Don’t Go, Lisa Scottoline
  • The Moon and More, Sarah Dessen
  • Granite Mountain, Brendan McDonough
  • Thank You for Your Service, David Finkel
  • Against All Odds, P. J. Naworynski

If you have any suggestions for me to read or any comments or reviews on any of these you’ve read, leave me a comment.

Hope this finds you well,

-L

Creative Process

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I consider myself to be a fairly expressive person, especially when it comes to putting pen to paper(or finger to key). I have so many things I’d like to write about and I’m working on them, I promise! But I find myself looking for subjects to write about so, as is the norm nowadays, I turned to Google. Lo and behold this lovely list of 50 Things to Blog About popped up in my search. So while I get used to wearing my writer’s hat again I will be drawing prompts from this list! So many great ideas from Fat Mum Slim. So the next while will be a mixture of some of these great ideas, as well as some of my own topics. Some will be funny, some will be sad, and some will hopefully be thought-provoking. Also, if there’s anything you’d like to see me write about, feel free to leave a comment!

Hope this finds you well,

-L