Books I’ve read this summer and what they remind me of.
☉Fiesta, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Spain, crying about someone that was never truly yours, fighting people you don’t like, going around with your friends, fresh early morning, an headache after drinking too much, wine, pretty women.
☉1984 by George Orwell
Rats, cold sweat, sex, losing weight, cameras, eyes, whiskey burning your throat, oil, betrayal, polluted air.
☉The Great Gatsby by F. S Fitzgerald
Parties, booze, white wine and champagne, bright lipstick, green, boats, brand new cars, blood, admiring someone, daydreaming, fake friendships, uncomfortable silence, the sun setting.
☉The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Worn out converses, smoking, ordering drinks as a minor, the color red, walking without a purpose, spontaneity, calling your ex, pretenciousness, getting beaten up after starting a fight, loving your family, ducks, professors complimenting your writing, letters.
☉Circe by Madeline Miller
The moment right before the sunrise, plants and flowers, moon water, the sun hurting your eyes, islands, loneliness, significant jewelery, grace, redemption, good intentions, love, not being sure about where you belong, the sea, strong women.
☉The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Wanting to impress your parents, writing, foods that remind you of your childhood, guilt, hate, pain, filling up notebooks, family, mistakes, goodbyes, war, tears, loosing innocence, blood, hope.
☉A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Women, tears, loosing hope, closeness, the sunset, loosing everything, sandals, found family, surviving, war, pain, bombs, orphanages, veils, non romantic love, women’s solidarity, betrayal, sacrifice, hope.
☉As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Death, misery, brothers, farms, fishes, mental illness, desperation, a lantern in the night, anger, caskets, secrets, loss of innocence, selfishness, dysfunctional families, children, yelling, the countryside.
☉The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
Spirituality, ghosts, early afternoons, happy childhoods, teeth, filling notebooks, green hair, young love, baby blue, grieving, the revolution, blood, strong women, brothers, dysfunctional families, prostitutes, old books, candles, clean clothes, poverty, yearning, young deaths, songs and poems, love.
☉Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Bays, the seaside, fear, the unknown, ships, court, blodshot eyes, doctors, death, guns, car rides, suspicion, jealousy, inadequacy, a white dress, flames.
