My Reading List, Virtual Book Club, and some Spring Style

04.07.2020

I don’t know about you all, but my mind has been all over the place the past few weeks. Some days are great with the weather and happy kids, and others are really hard. I was walking yesterday morning and listened to the birds chirping and appreciated their chipper sounds and blissful normalcy. A friend mentioned hearing noticing the same thing and how it made her take a moment to practice gratitude.

It’s crazy how quickly we can adjust to a new normal, right? On a typical rainy day, instead of feeling an excuse to watch movies all day, I’ve forced us out into the rain to play. Because almost any day can be a movie day right now.

Blogging has felt so back burner for me. Especially since I have so much less time to myself. Selling clothes and baby products just doesn’t feel inspiring (even though I have some random things I’ve eyed at the bottom of this post). Focusing on self care and happiness is more important. So I’m just doing what feels right and not putting any pressure on myself to have consistent content.

But my quarantine challenge has been an awesome distraction for me. Every day, not only do I put myself up to each challenge, but I have to document. And that takes a lot of work and serious timing for my photographer who is also working! It’s been fun seeing what you all have come up with and what’s been fun for you. And now I’m really excited for virtual book club.

So, this post is going to be a hodge podge of rambling and also sharing some things that have been on my mind. So let’s just roll with it!

I’ve rounded up my favorite books that I read in the past few years and also created a reading list of books that I plan on getting to in the next month or so! So let’s get to it.

Favorite Books:

The Royal We– best chick fick ever…I’ve read it twice and don’t doubt I’ll read it again…
The Unhoneymooners: pee in your pants funny
The Wife Between Us: best page turner I’ve read all year ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Little Fires Everywhere: now a movie with Reese Witherspoon & Kerry Washington
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Eligible: modern retelling of Pride & Prejudice…SO good
Cancel the Wedding by Catherine Dingman
The Red Scarf by Kate Furnivall: historical fiction that takes place in Soviet Union during WWII
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena: thriller
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom Civil War Historical Fiction
The Beach Trees by Karen White
Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly…WWII novel
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Confessions by Kinae Minato
The Dutch Wife by Ellen Keith
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams 🙌🏻
One Day in December by Josie Silver⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

On my list:
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks- COMES OUT IN JULY!
All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Maybe This Time by Jill Mansell
Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing by Allison Winn Scotch
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
The Whispers of War by Julia Kelly
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell
The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis

TUNE INTO MY FIRST VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB THIS THURSDAY APRIL 9th at 7:30pm Central Time! We will be discussing One Day in December by Josie Silver! Email me to be included in Zoom chat.

And here are some outfits I’ve been eyeing that have nothing to do with our reading list but are bright and fun for Spring. They give me the sense of time changing, things to look forward to in the future, and just feeling like myself. Plus, today is the final day of the Quarantine Challenge and it’s Treat Yourself Day!