4 Books I’m Currently Reading (+ picks from the team!)
January was a little bit slower of a reading month for me (you can see all the books I read in January here!) but February has been a way bigger reading period.
(Blazing through the whole Meet Cute series included in my Kindle Unlimited subscription definitely helped!)
Here are some of the books I’m reading right now:
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents by Lisa Damour Ph.D.
I started reading this over the summer and then got distracted and never picked it up again. It’s sat patiently on my bedside table for the last 8 months and last week, I opened it up again and I can’t get enough! I’m reading huge chunks of it aloud to my husband and as we look ahead at the next decade of having teenagers at home, it’s really a useful and readable book!
The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers
I grabbed a copy of this from the library after it won the Newbery in January and I’ve been reading it aloud to the girls at night. It’s an odd book, but in a delightful way and we’re all quite enjoying this story narrated by a dog.
The Good Part by Sophie Cousens
I’ve been waiting for this library hold for a while and now it’s the perfect audiobooks to listen to while I run in. It reminds me of What Alice Forgot (although so far not as good as that one!) where the main character wakes up to find herself 16 years in the future, no longer an under-employed 20 something living with multiple roommates in a very dodgy flat but instead married with two lovely children, a gorgeous house and a very legitimate career.
Parachute Kids by Betty C. Tang
I didn’t do a great job of my goal of reading more graphic novels last year so I’m trying to continue to weave more of them into my reading this year. I can’t even remember where I saw this one recommended but it popped up on my library holds and I brought it home and jumped right in to this story of three siblings who take a trip to America from Taiwan with their parents only to discover at the end of the trip that their parents are returning home without them, leaving them in California to go to school and learn English.
And here’s what the team is reading!
Analese
Yellowface by R.F Kuang
June and Athena are both young authors and best friends, but Athena has been able to shoot to writing success, while June is stuck being a nobody. Things start to change when June steals Athena’s newly finished manuscript after witnessing Athena’s incredibly rare death. June faces a hard decision to claim the written book as her own, but decides to go through with it and ready to take on any repercussions that may follow – and repercussions there will be!
Jennifer
Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens
I needed a light, fun book for a long trip we recently went on. I have a hard time reading anything too deep or long on a plane and this book was checked all the boxes for being light and fun. Laura is a lifestyle writer for a popular British Magazine. She travels to island of Jersey in the English Channel in an attempt to retrace the steps of her deceased parents’ courtship and love story. She mistakenly switches her suitcase with another traveler’s and after going through the contents or the swapped out luggage she is convinced she has found her soul mate. Now she just has to find him. Will he be her soulmate or does fate have something different in store for her?
Kelsey
One by One by Ruth Ware
After working on the blog post for Winter Books for Adults, I knew I wanted to dive into this mystery thriller. In this one, executives from a tech startup head to the Alps for a ski retreat. But tensions start rising between the team when some members want to take a multimillion dollar buyout and others want to go public with shares. When an avalanche traps them all in the ski chalet, people start dying…one by one. This one was full of twists and alternated between two points of view. I also thought the audiobook was very well done.
One by One was the first Ruth Ware book I listened to this year and now I have read three more. Turn of the Key was SO creepy.
I’ve read Untangled by Lisa Damour (loved it and it has a permanent place on my bedside) and will have to read Emotional Lives.
Could you please share the name of the Meet Cute series you mentioned at the top? Thanks!!
Just added the link!
I really liked Parachute Kids! My 8 year old daughter read it as well and had tons of questions about things happening to characters in the book, which led to some really good discussion for us.
I just listened to The Eyes and the Impossible. The narration was wonderful. I could not have done justice to the different animal voices, but it is an excellent audio.