Lately I’ve been having the urge to re-read a few books. This isn’t something that I do often because, quite frankly, I’ve got too many unread books living on my shelves. But sometimes you just want to hear a good story again. Or maybe re-reading a certain book isn’t so much about the story but about getting back that feeling of however your life was going the first time you read it.
Right now I’m a little stressed out about all of the graduate loans I’m about to take out, signing the lease on an apartment in a city
where I don’t know anyone, and packing up to move across the ocean. All big exciting things, for sure, but needless to say I’ve given more than one longing glance at the novels that I loved last summer when I was first working at the bookstore with no big plans to put into action, only possibilities. I could use a little dose of carefree right about now.
So the books of last summer that have been particularly drawn to (as you’ve probably guessed by the covers featured) have been Audrey Niffenegger’s Her Fearful Symmetry and Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. You can read some of my co-worker’s takes on these two wonderful novels here, here, and here.
What are some of the books that you find yourself drawn to over and over again? Is it solely for the story or maybe for a bit of comfort too? -Kaycie
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