Have you read any good books lately? I’ve slowed down on my reading lately, but I do have a few great reads that I wanted to pop in and share with you all. I don’t know about you, but I feel like I never know what to pick when I’m searching for a good book. I like to bookmark it when my friends share books they enjoyed so I have something to refer to when my book-amnesia hits.
First up is this sweet little book called Inward by Yung Pueblo (Amazon). I bought this book because I wanted to support his work after really enjoying his instagram and I’m really just pleasantly surprised by how much this book is touching me. It’s already totally dog-eared and on its way to tattered status. Here a few quotes I loved:
progress
is when we
forgive ourselves
for taking so long
to treat our bodies
like a home
-yung pueblo, inward
and…
if you spend too long
not letting yourself be creative
you can literally start feeling sick
you were born to create
let it flow, do not overthink it
-yung pueblo, inward
It’s full of these very wise snippets. I find it’s the perfect book to read before bed or before you meditate in the morning.
I also really enjoyed reading The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Amazon). It was a beautiful, lyrical, gripping novel. You know the kind of books that just propel the pages to turn? That’s this book. Coates writes about slavery and the underground railroad and Virginia and magic with such vividness. I learned so much reading this book and I’m so thankful that it exists.
Educated by Tara Westover (Amazon) is another book I can’t stop raving about. What an incredible memoir. She writes about growing up in an uber conservative evangelical Mormon community in Idaho where she never went to school and spent her days working in her dad’s junkyard. This book documents her coming to terms with her upbringing and her eventual separation from her family whens she went to college and took a different path than the one laid out by her family structure. While her experience was way more extreme than mine, I identified with her story in so many ways. I went to a liberal arts college many states away after growing up in a conservative Christian home. I had to negotiate so many different worlds and understand where my roots still fit into my life and where I needed to chart my own path. I didn’t do it with nearly the grace that Westover did and I still feel like I’m finding my way, but reading her story helped me to understand some of the turmoil I went through in my early twenties.
Okay, those are my latest books. What about you? Reading anything great?
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