I'm Thinking of Reading a Book 💁🏻‍♀️

Another summer is over, and a new autumn is here. The only consistent thing in this ever-changing life is my urge to read books. My autumn reads are a bit gloomy and dark so that they can reflect the weather and the nature outside. I guess that I am not alone in that regard. There is no reason to keep this intro long. Below, you will see all the books I intend to read this autumn.  1. September [Original Title: Septembre] by Jean Mattern (2015) The Israeli Olympic team is held hostage during the  1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . A young BBC reporter has found the perfect place to watch the developments live. But there is something -someone- else in his mind, and it is hard for him to focus on the tragedy of the situation at hand.  2. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019) This is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born...

  How does a teenage boy feel when he falls in love for the first time? What is going on in his head when he desires another man even though a homosexual relationship is considered reprehensible? Elio is an artistic but quiet teenager. Every year his family accepts a postgraduate student to spend the summer with them in Italy. This year, Oliver visits them, and Elio can't stop thinking of this confident American. Will his desire overcome the shame associated with being attracted to another man in his small and old-fashioned village? Elio recalls all the emotions and thoughts he had as a teenage boy when he first saw Oliver until twenty years after their life-changing relationship. The book is divided into four parts. The first two parts, where Elio recounts meeting and having a crush on Oliver, provide limitless access to Elio's teenage mind. Although some of the thoughts discussed might sound extreme and excessive, the intensity and the uncertainty experienced when falling in ...

  A literary gem that deals with the inner conflict a person feels when they are happy with the life they are leading but society has labeled them weird and abnormal.  Keiko has been working at a convenient store for all her life. She has never fallen in love, and she has never had a boyfriend. Her family and friends cannot stop thinking that it is weird that she is thirty-six years old but she hasn't gotten married or gotten a better job yet. Will Keiko ever be normal?  Keiko narrates her story of how she has always been considered weird despite her efforts to act normal. The only place where she feels as part of a group and she can be useful is at the convenience store where she has been working for eighteen years. The writing style is a first person narration, and we are inside Keiko's mind. What is intriguing about this point of view is that we get a brutally honest and emotionless voice which expresses how Keiko keeps trying to understand how society works and to bec...