Book Roundup (the best of the summer)

I've been meaning to write a little recap of some of the best books I read this past spring/summer.  I probably got through about a book a week, which is pretty good for me these days.  But there were a few really good ones.  I like to look back at certain periods of time and remember what I was doing when I was reading a certain book.  So here is my list:


Wild: I have a weird obsession with books about long distance hiking.  A Walk in the Woods is still my all-time favorite book.  This one wasn't a funny story and the author wasn't particularly likeable (it was a memoir), but I could not put it down.  I was reading this right after we flew into town to move here - we were still staying at my parent's house.




The Fault in Our Stars: I read this just a few weeks ago.  It's a young adult novel, so I avoided it for weeks, but the positive reviews on Amazon eventually persuaded me to get it.  It's about cancer kids.  How uplifting!  No but really, the writing was so good - the dialogue between the kids in this book made it hard to put down.



Gone Girl: This book has been all over Facebook.  Everyone has read it, including my parents and Josh.  It was a thriller of a book about a seriously dysfunctional marriage.  Quite the guilty pleasure.  I read most of this when we were camping up in Challis, Idaho.



Scott Jurek's book, Eat and Run, was another Challis read.  I cruised through this book in a couple of days.  He's one of the world's best ultramarathoners and also happens to be a vegan.  It's a pretty unusual combination and it was interesting to hear how he does what he does.  He gave some really good advice on following a plant-based diet and almost convinced me to try an ultra one day.


The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: I'm reading this right now - more than halfway through it (thanks to a couple of nights of persistent insomnia, yay).  So far, I like it a lot.  It's a story about a guy who decides to walk the length of England to visit a dying ex-coworker.