Buried

Until this week, I haven’t been doing much adventuring this summer- at least not with passports and plane tickets. Instead I’ve been whiling away my time with some really fantastic books - the kind that you dive into like a new city to explore.

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Diodon - Brutally sad and honest, with an beautiful precision of language. It’s the primer on what your mind will do when you lose your life partner. Read it now. Or if too sad to contemplate for now, remember it for when it might be a more useful choice. And best not to fool yourself into thinking you won’t need to be reading this.
  

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - This is only my second Murakami book. There are talking cats, ghosts, and characters so vulnerable you want to wrap them up in bubble wrap. I enjoyed this story far more than Wind Up Bird Chronicles. I will now read every book Murakami has written

• Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver – Well written, precise yet visual language that makes me smitten with a writer crush. A la Sliding Doors, this story follows both paths of love and infidelity– the one of cheating and the one of not. So engaging I read over 200 pages in one sitting on my flight over to Shanghai.