Recent Reads: 5 Fiction Books I'm Giving 5/5 Stars
What I'm currently reading and my favorite recent fiction recommendations
Hello from a rock outcropping where my hammock is blowing in the wind under a tree, my almost 360 degree view affording me spectacular views and plenty of fun for my two adventurous dogs.
Last week I published another article in The Source Weekly, a fun one to write amidst the chaos that is our current world. It profiles entrepreneur, Elise Porter, who’s using her gifts to help others. Give it a read here: Movement Enthusiast Unlocks Joy Through Dance
As we segue into my five favorite recent fiction reads, here are three articles I wrote about two books I LOVED. You’re Safe Here is a novel by the same creator of the popular Substack newsletter, Morning Person, and Never Leave the Dogs Behind is Brianna Madia’s second memoir.
Here’s to more books and more good reads 📚
A good chunk of my reading happens outside, often swaying in my hammock when not curled into a chair with my 75 pound lab-shepherd mix, Busco, on my lap.
The background sounds of birds chirping and trees rustling with a light breeze are hard to beat, the occasional ruckus of my two dogs darting off following a noise, their noses, or both.
Without more pretense, below are my fiction book recommendations: five favorite recent reads that earned my 5/5 star rating, plus my current page turner.
Current Read (That I’m Currently Loving)
After the Flood by Kassandra Montag follows Myra and her daughter, Pearl, as they build a life of survival on a boat in a future world where floods and rising waters changed the landscape of the earth, most of what we now know lost under the sea. A little over halfway through, I’m hooked, eager to discover how their story unfolds as they risk their lives to reach Myra’s older daughter, Row, kidnapped from her years before. Montag’s prose guides us through their story with an unmistakable tenor that rises deeply from human experience.
5 Recent Reads (That Earned My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rating)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig follows Nora as she navigates a library containing only books in which every possible life she could have lived exists, her chance at having the life she wanted, free of regrets and failures. Haig explores the question so many of us struggle to answer - what is my best life and how can I get it? - while wrestling with the realities of what it means to be human. Trigger Warning: content containing discussions of mental health and suicide.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid gives us a story within a story, an unknown journalist selected to tell the very scandalous story of a now old Hollywood diva finally spilling her secrets, the mystery behind why this specific writer was chosen a twist worth waiting for. Reid sheds golden nuggets throughout, sentences that landed for me like wisdom falling from the sky.
Weyward by Emilia Hart charts the intersecting lives of three women across different centuries, connected by witchcraft and their experience of existing as feminine in our masculine dominated world. As their stories unravel, Hart confidently pulls the reader along paths well trodden by women around the world, an age old stirring of female power.
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley builds an imminent world where the government employs a highly confidential time-travel project utilizing long-dead people as human lab-rats in this inquisitive collision of past and future, her female lead caught between realities, growing feelings for her new “roommate” and what’s worth risking to create a better future.
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow is the gripping tale of a young 1900s girl as out of place as the collection of unique things in the mansion where she lives with her wealthy warden, and how the power of one fantastical book sends her spiraling through physical space via magical doorways, discovering more about her own destiny than she imagined possible.
That’s all for now, folks. Share your favorite reads with us in the comments and keep reading.
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