Books Are My Favourite has been taking up space on the interwebs for over five years. Time flies.
I noticed that Cleo and Susan both do/did retrospectives and I thought it was a top notch way to revisit books I’ve enjoyed over the past five years (in other words, expect eleven more of these posts).
2012: Summer Sisters by Judy Blume – Blume for grown-ups. She can do no wrong in my eyes.
2013: Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead. I’m still thinking about the exploding whale.
2014: Apron Anxiety by Alyssa Shelasky. Because she talks about zucchini, cocktail rings and Marimekko bags in the same sentence.
2015: Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett. So, so sad.
2016: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. A relationships story (the best kind of story).
And last but not least, this year my hands-down favourite has been Ann Patchett’s wonderful Commonwealth.
So glad you loved Commonwealth! It was one of my faves of 2016. And like this retrospective post.
I’ve not read any of these – I need to sort my priorities out, clearly!
Out of the six books, I’d choose Crossing to Safety for you first, followed by Commonwealth.
Thanks for the link, Kate. I hope you enjoyed writing it as much as I did mine and delighted to see both Commonwealth and Crossing to Safety on you list. Looking forward to the next eleven!
It was lovely to look back – suspect some years it will be hard to choose!
I’m sure it will. I also enjoyed remembering what I was doing when I read the books.
I love seeing past favourite books. I’m looking forward to my fifth bloggy birthday for just this reason!
I would really love to finally get to Seating Arrangements.
The only one I’ve read of these is Summer Sisters. I love this post idea. I might have to steal it…
Steal away… (I did!).
Seating Arrangements is still on my wishlist that I want to read one of these days; definitely need to bump it up my list!
The only one of these I’ve read is Past The Shallows and I LOVED it also. I actually listened to the audiobook – narrated by David Wenham, but bought the book straight after.
Apron Anxiety just got added to my TBR. Think I need to look into a few others on your list… need some variation in my TBR of things I wouldn’t normally read but probably should. 🙂
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