My Spring of Reading

I think spring has finally arrived in Sweden--it's a good sign when the evening breeze doesn't feel so good and the cherry blossoms are beginning to bloom on the trees outside my apartment.

For some reason, I am really excited about spring this year. I haven't got a clue why. Maybe it's because we had such a crappy winter here in Stockholm. Hardly any snow and weirdly mild weather that meant you never knew what clothes you should wear.

Maybe it's because I've finally had time to read other people's books instead of obsessing over my own. A few days ago, I finished reading Mistress: A Novella and Secret by Nia Forrester (if you haven't read them, you should!).

Now I am reading Taste for Love by Tia Kelly, and Wife and Afterwards by Nia Forrester.

I'm also super excited about Xio Axelrod's upcoming novel, Starstruck. Xio and I have known each other since we were kids in Philly, and even back then we both knew we wanted to be writers. I read an early version of Starstruck and it was so riveting--with a great love story and authentic characterisation and storytelling. I think you will all love it when it finally comes out.

Of course, the sci-fi/fantasy girl in me wants George R. R. Martin to finish writing the next instalment of the Songs of Ice & Fire series. Until he does so, I'll just keep drooling over Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister and wishing he'd get over Cersei already and hook up with Brienne of Tarth. Though this morning I heard someone on the subway talking about Game of Thrones and he presented the idea of Jaime and Sansa somehow ending up together...now that would be an interesting conflict. Cersei would probably go apoplectic from that. ..

I've already pre-ordered a few books for my spring list--namely Daisy Goodwin's The Fortune Hunter, Emily Giffin's The One & Only and Jennifer Weiner's All Fall Down.

My TBR list is growing every day so, even if the weather suddenly worsens, I'll be prepped. And--if all else fails--I've got another novel to write. ;)