2017 in Review: Podcasts & Books

Top 10 Podcasts and Favorite Reads of 2017

2016 Reading Challenge: 50 books

This book is a masterpiece of storytelling. The human and emotional depth is especially impressive given the vast cultural difference the author also had to include and make understood. There is nothing funny about this book. What makes it so good is the depth of honesty and pain that the author doesn’t shy away from….

A Few of My Favorite Books

The Chosen by Chaim Potok An instant favorite. Chaim Potok is an incredibly gifted writer and captured emotions throughout the book that I don’t think I have ever experienced in writing before. A beautiful story full of pain, heartbreak, love and friendship. To write about friendship and the relationship between men and their sons in…

2015 Reading Challenge: 50 books

I have to give A Little Life 5 stars because it was truly an ambitious and masterful work. It is 700 pages of pain, heartbreak, and devastation with a smattering of joy. Yanagihara’s writing style was mostly gripping, but at times difficult to follow. This book kept me turning page by page hoping for redemption but…

2014 Reading Challenge: 56 Books

My love affair with Goodreads began in 2012, though I didn’t start using it regularly until about a year later. Since then it has been my first stop for all things books. In 2014, my goal was to read 50 books in the year and I made it! I read 56 total. The full list is…