September Reading List
September is the month of the year when I really get excited about reading! Summer reading is great, but there is something about the onset of Fall and the cooler weather that makes me want to curl up with a book. Lucy is getting a lot better at staying still — she loves to build with her blocks or look at her own books, so we get to cuddle up on the couch together and I read while she plays.
I’ve already read one book on this month’s list and am partway through another and both are SO good! I don’t really have anything on my radar for next month yet, so if you’ve read anything amazing or heard of anything great, let me know.
Rowell’s previous book, Eleanor & Park is one of my all time favorites (ugh — SO SO GOOD), so I was excited when I heard that she had a new book coming out. I’ve also read her book Fangirl and loved it (I haven’t read The Attachments), so I was surprised when I saw that Landline has mixed reviews. I hesitated to add it to last month’s Reading List and decided to read it before I recommended it. And I loved it!
The premise is slightly far fetched but the story and the characters really drew me in. It’s a sweet and heartfelt story that I had trouble putting down. I definitely recommend it!
The synopsis, according to Amazon:
From New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell, comes a hilarious, heart-wrenching take on love, marriage, and magic phones.
Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply—but that almost seems beside the point now.
Maybe that was always beside the point.
Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her—Neal is always a little upset with Georgie—but she doesn’t expect to him to pack up the kids and go without her.
When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything.
That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts. . . .
Is that what she’s supposed to do?
Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?
My friend Anna recently read this book and loved it (she did say she cried, so be warned). The movie is out and looks pretty amazing, so I need to read the book first! There is also a sequel to this that I plan on reading after.
The synopsis, according to Amazon:
In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make. Heartwrenchingly beautiful, this will change the way you look at life, love, and family. Now a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia’s story will stay with you for a long, long time.
This is actually an old book, but it came up in a recommendation and it sounds really good! The reviews are great, and if you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, you can download it for free!
The synopsis, according to Amazon:
For Alessandro Giullani, the young son of a prosperous Roman Lawyer, golden trees shimmer in the sun beneath a sky of perfect blue. At night the moon is amber and the city of Rome seethes with light. He races horses across the country to the sea, and in the Alps he practices the precise and sublime art of mountain climbing. At the ancient university in Bologna he is a student of painting and the science of beauty. And he falls in love. His is a world of adventure and dreams, of music, storm, and the spirit. Then the Great War intervenes.
Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, still tall and proud, finds himself unexpectedly on the road with an illiterate young factory worker. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers distant, the old man tells the story of his life. How he became a soldier. A hero. A prisoner. A deserter. A wanderer in the hell that claimed Europe. And how he tragically lost one family and gained another.
The boy is dazzled by the action and envious of the richness and color of the story, and realizes that the old man’s magnificent tale of love and war is more than a tale: it is the recapitulation of his life, his reckoning with mortality, and above all, a love song for his family.
I read Moyes’ last book, Me Before You and loved it SO much. If you haven’t read it, you must! It’s sad, but so so good.
I am about 1/4 of the way through One Plus One and so far it’s very good. It has definitely sucked me in, and the reviews are great, too!
The synopsis, according to Amazon:
Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight in shining armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages . . . maybe ever.
One Plus One is Jojo Moyes at her astounding best. You’ll laugh, you’ll weep, and when you flip the last page, you’ll want to start all over again.
That’s it for this month! If you’re looking for more suggestions, feel free to check out my other Reading Lists.
Enjoy and have a great day!
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