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i’ve not written a book update on here in months, so i decided to do a quick summary of what… Read more reading roundup // september 2016.

i think mindy kaling is hilarious. i don’t always like the characters she plays on television, but i think she’s very… Read more book number seventeen of 2016: why not me? [mindy kaling]

perhaps if we allow ourselves to remember the pain of the people in the past, we can be kinder, better… Read more book number sixteen of 2016: the other side of the stars [katherine king].

i like to intersperse my non-fiction reading with some light reading, especially when on holiday, and for years nora roberts… Read more book number fifteen of 2016: whiskey beach [nora roberts].

i’ve always believed that happiness is just around the corner. the trick is finding the right corner the second best… Read more book number fourteen of 2016: the geography of bliss [eric weiner].

continuing with my quest to read the booker winners of my lifetime, i recently completed a s byatt’s possession. it was… Read more book number twelve of 2016 + booker winner 1990: possession [a s byatt].

most people in the world – and especially any who work in education – know who malala is. she is… Read more book number eleven of 2016: i am malala [malala yousafzai w/christina lamb].

i got into a bit of a reading rut last month and decided to take a break from little women to read… Read more book number ten of 2016: modern romance [aziz ansari w/ eric klinenberg].

‘and now, harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure’ toward the end of… Read more the great harry potter re-read of 2016.

lauren groff’s fates and furies was one of the blockbuster books of 2015, and i finished it while i was in… Read more book number nine of 2016: fates and furies [lauren groff].