This morning I sat outside on my splendid balcony and sipped my citrus and chocolate infused coffee. I began to read some stories out of the book that has been abandoned for a few weeks and patiently waiting on my nightstand for me to open and flip the pages of brilliantly told stories. After finishing two stories in the collection I set out to collect more books and begin, officially, my summer reading.
I highly recommend "Delicate Edible Birds" as a pleasant transition into reading again. For the past few years I've only been reading textbooks and needed a good book to get me back into the fantasy lands of well written books. "Delicate Edible Birds" is delightful and Lauren Groff's storytelling is vibrant and tales are gripping, evocative, and worldly. Each of the nine stories feature women who find their lives going through a transformation that is as unpredictable as our day to day lives. Groff writes with honesty and paint her characters into a picture perfect world. Sometimes there are no happy endings, sometimes there are no endings but always does it leave you reflecting on your own life.
Summer reading list 2009:✓ 1. Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff
✓ 2. Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
✓3. Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
4. Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt
5. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
6. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
7. Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
8. House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Collapse by Jared Diamond
11. On Art & Life by John Ruskin
12. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
13. The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
14. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
15. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
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