Great Books To Read in Quarantine
During this Quarantine I know a lot of us are using some of this extra time to catch up on our reading lists. I recently read these books and loved them so much I wanted to share.
I read the night tiger completely in about two days and I actually am re-reading it again now for a second time. It was such an enjoyable read and tok me to another time and place. I think that’s one of the reasons I would recommend it for right now.
“Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger pulls us into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love. But anchoring this dazzling, propulsive novel is the intimate coming-of-age of a child and a young woman, each searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible.”
The next book I want to recommend is Michelle Obama’s Becoming. I love Michelle Obama and reading her stories were so inspiring and made me so happy. She is about to have a series come out on netflix about her book tour so now would be a great time to read the book so when the show comes out you can watch it.
“In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.”
I adored the book pachinko, I think if I could I would have read it in one sitting. I have always loved Japanese and Korean culture and history and I studied it in college. This book also hit home for me because parts of it were very similar to the story of my fiancé’s grandparents coming to Japan from Korea so it hard a sentimental spot for me.
“Profoundly moving and gracefully told, Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by her wealthy lover, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life.”
The Swans of New York takes you back to new york in the 1950’s which is just so glamours. It’s a really fun read with a lot of gossip in it. "The New York Times best-selling author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's "Swans" of the 1950s - and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman - a woman desperately longing for true love and connection. Enter Truman Capote. Through Babe, Truman gains an unlikely entrée into the enviable lives of Manhattan's elite along with unparalleled access to the scandal and gossip of Babe's powerful circle. Sure of the loyalty of the man she calls "True Heart", Babe never imagines the destruction Truman will leave in his wake. But once a storyteller, always a storyteller - even when the stories aren't his to tell.”
The final book is beautiful ruins which I also reading a few days.The story is set in Italy which just takes you away and makes you want to go there, but we can’t which makes me sad. At least I can dream about it through this book. “The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.”
Are you reading during quarantine? If so what are you guys loving? I’d love to know
