Since the last post

Here I am back with another edition of my night stand books. It has been a fortnight since my last nightstand post and my pile looks bigger and newer. I feel good about the direction my reading has been heading in 2017.  Also the way I have evolved as a reader is interesting. I have started paying more attention to the structure, the voice and the words this year. The plot is always important but am trying see more in the books I read.

My January Read 2017 post will be up soon.

My Therapy

A few days ago, I made a routine trip to the library. It was a sunny Friday afternoon and I had plans for the weekend. Plans that included books, family, dance and togetherness. And like most often, the plans started to crumble. I happened to walk into the library right when everything seemed to go wrong and before I knew I had 4 books in my hand. This was before I even finished the books I had previously borrowed from the library.

Borrowing books from the library is my therapy. It doesn’t have the calories or a price tag. Cheap and guilt free indulgence. I scanned the shelves and picked books that have been on my TBR for years and random titles that caught my eye. It felt good. I floated in a cloud of words and it made me feel free.

My Night Stand Book Haul

Presenting my night stand book pile

As you can see, I still haven’t started on Pride and Prejudice. Trying to read and re-read classics continues to be a challenge. It is going to be the book I start this week. I did re-read The Great Gatsby last weekand was able to appreciate it more the second time around.

I have a couple of books from my daughter’s book shelf on mine too – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the Little House on the Prairie. She has been wanting to read (re-read) these titles and I plan to read them as well. One of my favorite indulgences is reading books my daughter reads. We discuss them a lot and often I post videos of her reading to me on Instagram and Twitter. (Hint! You need to follow me there) Again, classics.

Recently I made a trip to Atlanta, Georgia. One of my travel resolutions for 2017, is to read books set in the place I travel to and Emily Giffin’s First Comes Love fits that category. It is set in Atlanta among other places.

The title of book The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper Fry always intrigued me and I recently saw a friend reading it. I was intrigued.

The Kite Runner will be a re-reads. It is bound to make me cry but I do want to go back to the world Hossein creates. It is raw, painstakingly beautiful and heart wrenching. Kind of like All the Light We Cannot See, my current read. These books also remind me how lucky I am in life.

So this is my night stand book collection. What are you currently reading? Have you read any of these books before?