Currently Reading

Thank you @grandcentralpub @williammorrowbooks and @thedialpress for these #gifted books.

Today’s post is more like currently jamming in before the end of the month.

📖I’m binging The Siren today for our #SpontaneousGroupRead discussion tomorrow. I’m already over 1/3 of the way through, and flying through the pages.

📖Both @mamas_top_shelf and I are determined to get another buddy read in this month with Hairpin Bridge, and will dive into this one tomorrow.

📖Lizzie & Dante just screams summer reading with it’s gorgeous cover and Italian setting.

Synopsis: What if falling in love means breaking someone’s heart?

On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespeare scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-star boyfriend. Once settled into a luxurious seaside resort, Lizzie has to make big decisions about her future, and she needs the one thing she may be running out of: time.

She leaves the yacht owners and celebrities behind and sneaks off to the public beach, where she meets a sardonic chef named Dante, his battered dog, Lily, and his wry daughter, Etta, a twelve-year-old desperate for a mother. While Dante shows Lizzie the island’s secrets, and Etta dazzles with her irreverent humor, Lizzie is confronted with a dilemma. Is it right to fall in love if time is short? Is it better to find a mother briefly, or to have no mother at all? And most pressingly, are the delicacies of life worth tasting, even if you will get to savor them only for a short while?

A luscious story of love, courage, and Italian wine, Lizzie & Dante demands to know how far we should travel to find a future worth fighting for.

💬𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞?