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by Malena Lott

No, it’s not a Mission:Impossible code, but often getting through your TBR (To-be-read) pile can seem pretty daunting, if not impossible. Moreover, it’s frustrating because the saying, “so many books, so little time,” definitely applies to my towering TBR and my lack (or slack) for plowing through them.

I’m pleased to share a few of my favorites I’m currently reading or getting ready to read. The first three were sent by publishers, the last I purchased.

The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice
Just when you think werewolves are passé, the goddess of dark paranormal re-emerges with this tale of a young man gone canine. Fifty pages in and I’m bitten, fo’ sho.

The Thirteen by Susie Maloney
The Stepford Wives gone occult-y or better yet, Desperate Housewives if they were a coven of witches looking for than unlucky number 13 to add to their pack makes this a book I plan to cast a spell on me this weekend!

Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
I like to always have at least one non-fic book going and this month it’s this New York Times bestseller about The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. As someone with squirrels in my brain and too many years of slurping evil diet sodas, I can use all the help I can get.

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
This YA is definitely worth the ten bucks it costs for the Kindle. Mara has survived an accident that killed her boyfriend and two friends. They move away and she’s seeing their ghosts and slowly remembering what happened that fateful night. Great, great storytelling here.

Where Did I Leave My Glasses by Martha Weinman Lear

First line: “It is a comfort – not total, but I’ll take whatever I can get – to know that we’re all in this together, complaining more about remembering less.”

I have a terrible memory. I don’t know why, but it obviously isn’t getting any better with age (and I’m 36) or with our multi-task obsessed society. I must rely on lists more and have forgotten key to-dos and events that simply “slipped my mind.” Including my daughter’s big Girl Scout party that she’d been looking forward to for weeks. She didn’t remember, but she’s not the mother. The author tells it like it is, and her book delivers on the sub-head’s promise of the “what, why and when” of normal memory loss. The book is highly readable – not a scientific textbook at all, but more like an elongated conversation with really smart people about why are memories are going to crap. She also offers up many personal experiences and others’ bouts with “tip of the tongue” disease that make the book extremely relatable.

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