Hello!
I hope the first weekend of the year is treating you well.
I want to share a little glimpse into my Reading Plans for this Weekend!
And What My Sister is Reading Too!
Let's see how I intend on spending this weekend!
WEEKEND READING
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini/// My first official read of the year and one that I am so happy to get back to. Honestly, I remember next to nothing about this book and I am happy to be reminded of the story and the it's people.
I remember LOVING it when I first read it in 2009..2008..I am not entirely sure.
Like I said over on Instagram, I don't own a copy of this book and had read it back in the day after borrowing it from my library in Bangalore.
This copy belongs to my sister's office. I was there on Thursday and saw it sitting on the bookshelf and decided to give it a read.
So happy reading it.
Ten Dollar Bride by Sanya Runway/// Now on to something I've already read. I read this very quick read in the early hours of this morning. It is only 56 pages long and is an easy, yet deep and relevant read. Short stories centred around the many issues and social ills that affect Indian girls and women. Dowry deaths, Acid Attacks, Stalking, Rape and similar horrendous evils.
Well- written and thoughtful and thought provoking.
I read it via my Kindle Unlimited subscription.
I rate it a solid 3/5
Another main activity of this weekend is setting up my Book Journal for 2018. I chose this gorgeous Rifle Paper Co journal.
I will share a proper post about my book journal and a flip through the pages.
This is the front page that I did up last night, decorated using goodies from my Planner Society Kit and stickers from La Dolce Vita and my favourite bookish washi tape.
It's so beautiful...even if I do say so myself.
:)
My sister is way too gripped and engrossed in her current read. She has been reading it all evening and can't seem to put it down!
Always a good sign in a book!
:)
We bought this book on our Kindle yesterday and it sounds pretty amazing and has some rave reviews on Good Reads.
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate/// Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale.
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize that the truth is much darker. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together—in a world of danger and uncertainty.
Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions—and compels her to take a journey through her family's long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or redemption.
Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.
OK time to go back to my book!
Happy Reading!
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