Jul
2014
SUMMER READS
Today I’m delighted to diverge a little bit from fashion and get into a topic than I enjoy so so much and probably never shared over here. Books.
My love for books started at the very early age of four when I learnt how to read. Yes, I was a very precocious girl, always with hunger for adventures and books were my first journey. All through my childhood, specially during the summer me and my sister would beg my parents to buy us books so we could devour them at night before going to sleep and then exchange them, then ask for more and more and more. The rest of the year I would read what was scheduled for me to read at school, some books I enjoyed greatly others not so much…but the sole act of reading meant to travel to a new world and that has always been one of my drives in life.
So each summer as I did as a kid I get my books ready to come with me wherever I might go. I want to share with you some of my favorites and would love for you to do the same, that way we can exchange titles and hopefully I can get to know some new titles/authors which I am also eager to do.
Lately I have become more of a non fiction reader so many of my titles will come from that category, but of course not all, some fiction is always good.
-The House of The Spirits by Isabel Allende
-Quiet by Susan Cain
-Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
-The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
-The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
-All Those Things We Never Said by Marc Levy
-The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
-What Remains by Carole Radziwill (currently reading and loving this one)
– Just Kids by Patti Smith
-Be My Baby by Ronnie Spector
There you go, ten…no eleven awesome books. Let me know which ones are your favorites!
On picture: Chanel flats and Marc Jacobs sunglasses.
Ria
July 21, 2014 at 8:55 PM (10 years ago)Quiet and The Bell Jar are two of my favourite books of all time! Xx
Stefanie
July 22, 2014 at 12:17 AM (10 years ago)Could you share the style name of your Marc Jacobs sunglasses? They’re so nice!
Laura
July 22, 2014 at 7:36 PM (10 years ago)I love breakfast at tifannys and I havent read bell jar yet but is in my wishlist for a time now. One of my all time favorites is definitely sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami, kafka on the shore is also great. If you like the short stories grab anything form alice munro, she is an amazing writer. And i just finished the goldfinch by donna tartt, is a really long book, but is that kind of book that you cant put down. And of course j.d salinger’s “nine stories” is always a good idea. Hope you like any of my recomendations. Tks for sharing!
Marlena
July 22, 2014 at 7:42 PM (10 years ago)Trini, if you enjoy non-fiction and travel, then Kapuscinski’s Travels with Herodotus is a classic. Also, but in fiction, Camus’ The Plague stays in one’s mind for a long time.
Helen
July 25, 2014 at 3:23 PM (10 years ago)I also love reading ! Some recent recommendations from me are – Dostoyevsky’s novels are long but REALLY worth it, I thought Frannie and Zooey by JD Salinger was a quite unusual novel, a lot of dialogue but it feels quite real, Fathers and Sons by Turgenev is a beautiful book and quite suitable for summer reading too (well it’s not too long anyway…), also Hound of the Baskervilles would be good summer reading. (also if anyone is interested in kiddy books, The Little White Horse and Howl’s Moving Castle are both really sweet, I’m sure adults might enjoy them too) Thanks for this post! Also, i’m happy that you post so frequently these days, hehe
Helen
July 25, 2014 at 3:28 PM (10 years ago)oh and also (‘also’ for the millionth time …) PG Wodehouse’s novels are the perfect comforting, cozy, funny books
John Scherber
July 28, 2014 at 9:38 PM (10 years ago)Truman Capote is always great, one or our finest prose stylists. I read Just Kids last year and enjoyed it hugely as evocative of an era and a relationship gone bad, as many do.
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