Our 5 Fave Books for Winter Reading
For many people fall means new beginnings and starting over. Right now, we’re putting away our dog-eared beach books and diving into reads that are more appropriate for the winter season. In an effort to help you fall gently into the new season, here are 5 books to help you get started.
1. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love is autobiographical as Elizabeth brings us along as she makes the difficult choice to leave behind her modern American life—complete with a dysfunctional marriage, a beautiful home and a career that consumed her—to find what she really wanted, and needed, from life.
2. Starting Over by Elizabeth Spencer
The characters in this book don’t just want to start over—they have to.
3. Maya’s Notebook by Isabel Allende
Maya’s Notebook is a contemporary, coming-of-age story that follows character Maya Vidal, an incredible teenager who was abandoned by her parents.
4. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
The Paying Guests is Waters’ latest story that tells the tales of an aristocratic British family who loses a large portion of their wealth and is forced to take on boarders. If you’ve faced bankruptcy, this might be a fun (or not so fun) choice.
5. The Red Stick Diaries: Betrayal by Diamond Ryan
A criminal drama that reveals the power and control that state and local justice system has over its residents. A young woman finds herself enthralled in a romantic love affair after rebuilding her life from a previously traumatic relationship. She soon learns that the man of her dreams is abusive, controlling and untouchable. He uses his network to enable his behaviors while he finds his next victims.