Slice of Life is a regular update on the latest in my life. This is where I write about my books, movies, tv, food, fashion, family or whatever subjects are on my mind this week. It’s just a little glimpse of my slice. (“But what about the great deals on books?!” Just keep on scrollin’.)
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- Book lovers will appreciate (and be annoyed) by this list.
- Looking for a way to get even more book Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs)? Check out this new site.
- These are keeping my kids (ages 6 and 8) thoroughly entertained during quarantine, and I foresee them to be invaluable for heat-of-the-day indoor activities this summer.
- Bookworm humor is the best humor.
- It’s the time of year when all my fave bloggers and influencers are putting together their summer reading guides. (A few good ones here, here and here.) Mine is here (spoiler alert: it’s ALL thrillers!)
- We are officially counting the days until (home)school is out and summer is here. While things won’t change drastically at our house (we are still sticking close to home for the most part), I am majorly looking forward to a more relaxed schedule and some fun in the sun!
Weekend Reading: Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
New on the Blog
2020 Summer Thrillers Reading List – Don’t mist this (PRINTABLE) list of 30 amazing thrillers that are perfect for summer reading. {Pin this Post}
Dutch Oven Blueberry Cobbler – Do you know what is a really good quarantine activity for this summer? Camping! This is the best and easiest way (no special tools, except for the actual dutch oven, required) to cook cobbler by the campfire on your next camping trip. {Pin this Post}
16 Audiobooks to Escape into During Tough Times – My post on escape books was my most popular to date, so I decided to do one solely focused on audiobooks. {Pin this Post}
Amazing Book Deals
Whether I have read (and loved) it, heard about it from fellow bookish friends or actually have it on my own “to be read” list, each book below made this list because it’s on my radar (AND because it’s on sale). Note: Book bargains are subject to change so act fast!
NOTE: My weekly book deals list will soon be moved out of “Slice of Life” and onto to its own page on my site. The new book deals page will be updated (and emailed to my mailing list) on a weekly basis.
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The Other People by C.J. Tudor
The Swallows and The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The River by Peter Heller
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon
Don’t Overthink It by Anne Bogel
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier
A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms (FREE with PRIME)
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon (FREE with PRIME)
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Widow by Fiona Barton
Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson (free with PRIME)
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
True Grit by Charles Portis
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Whisper Man by Alex North
Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey (FREE with PRIME)
Audiobook Deals
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Gulp by Mary Roach
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
1984 by George Orwell
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia Macneal
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Virgin River by Robyn Carr
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
