Current and past reads from bookclub and my personal library 📚 ✨
I share some of my thoughts on each book, so please note these are my own personal opinions and I encourage you to read and reach your own
This book made me like thrillers. As someone that was apprehensive towards reading thrillers, my friends insisted so much and I glad they did. Such a fun and great read!
The Family Upstairs
I get the hype! Such a great read - it’s tense and entertaining.
The Housemaid
Have been recommending this vook to everyone! I just loved it 🖤
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Really enjoyed this story and the author’s take on challenging family dynamics, intersectionality with culture, race, gender and just societal challenges.
Olga Dies Dreaming
Love Isabel Allende and this autobiography takes you through her “love life”. It’s a short (but mighty) book!
Mujeres del alma mía / The Soul of a Woman
What a beautiful and heartbreaking story of family. Woven between the intricacies of life in Palestine 🇵🇸
Beautifully written!
The Blue Between Sky and Water
The title says it all! Great read to learn more about the women’s body…
Easy to read and doesn’t overwhelm you with the science 🧬
It's Not Hysteria
This was my introduction to Amanda Montell’s writing ✍️ Love the topics she chooses to write about and her love of language
Cultish
Great book by Amanda Montell ✨
Wordslut
Love her work and had my bookclub read this - a good book on the power of our minds 🧠 and how unrelated events may affect us
The Age of Magical Overthinking
Love the female stories in this book and the historical and cultural context where the plot is taking place
The Lion Women of Tehran
Very skeptical about this book at first but my bookclub selected it 🤔
Ended up really liking it and lead to so e great conversations
The Wedding People
I tend to be really apprehensive of books that go “viral” but really get the hype on this one!
The Housemaid
Once you get past the octopus 🐙, it’s such a lovely story about life, aging, grief and the connections we make 🥲
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Love me a financial book 📕 that makes it easy to learn and take concrete next steps
Women, financial independence and literacy is hot 🔥
Friends That Invest
Absolutely loved this book! The background, the mystical, the suspense 🤌🏼
The Possession of Alba Díaz
This is one of my favorite books 📕🩵
I have read it multiple times and just find it to be perfection
Crónica de una muerte anunciada / Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Another by Gabriel Garcia Marquez because he was just that great 😌
Del amor y otros demonios / Of Love and Other Demons
Another amazing book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ✨
El amor en los tiempos del cólera / Love in the Time of Cholera
Isabel Allende’s beautifully written book about the magic of being a woman in time
La casa de los espiritus / The House of the Spirits
Was introduced to Isabel Allende in school when my teacher had us read this book 📕 It’s the first in a trilogy and it’s fun and adventurous
La ciudad de las bestias / City of the Beasts
The 2nd book in Isabel Allende’s YA trilogy
El reino del dragón de oro / Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
