Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin was one of my “4 Before 2024” books, and it did not disappoint. This post is mostly spoiler-free, but if you want to go into this book blind then stop reading here!

I first started reading Jane Austen’s work when I was in middle school, but it’s taken me years and years to get around to reading Mansfield Park. I had read Austen’s five other novels and finished her collection of short stories before deciding this spring that the time had come — I had made it this far, and I owed it to Austen to finish all of her works…

“It was an afternoon for a pool and a hammock and an undemanding book…” This quote, one of my favorites from A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle, has been my approach to reading this summer. I carried this book around with me on several travel weekends, reading it on the beach, at the lake, by the pool, and pretty much anywhere I felt like escaping to the French countryside.

I finished this behemoth of a book — The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon — and I have SO many thoughts! Keeping them spoiler free because this book is daunting, but I loved going in pretty blind and I’d encourage you to do the same.

Just about three years ago I started working from home… and I never want to go back! The company that I work at now is fully remote (YAY!) and the second I saw this book on Netgalley, I jumped at the chance to read it.

I read 103 books last year. Here are the ones that I absolutely cannot forget…