{"id":3072,"date":"2015-03-24T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspire-canada.com\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2015-03-24T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T09:41:11","slug":"spring-reading-6-books-to-pick-up-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspire-canada.com\/?p=3072","title":{"rendered":"Spring Reading: 6 Books to Pick up Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking it\u2019s time to start a new read? Spring is the perfect season to switch up your book routine and pick up something new and fresh. Whether that means starting summer a little early by getting lost in romance or sticking to the edge of your seat with a classic thriller, there\u2019s loads of books out there just waiting to be read. Here\u2019s a roundup of the best books to pick up now.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3074\" src=\"https:\/\/aspire-canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/girl-sitting.png\" alt=\"girl sitting\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spring Reading: 6 Books to Pick Up Now<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop.com\/search\/the+last+time+we+say+goodbye?k=60&amp;sort_popular=&amp;t=0\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Time We Say Goodbye<\/a>\u00a0by Cynthia Hand<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author Cynthia Hand comes a gorgeous and heart-wrenching story of love, loss, and letting go.<\/p>\n<p>Since her brother, Tyler, committed suicide, Lex has been trying to keep her grief locked away, and to forget about what happened that night. But as she starts putting her life, her family, and her friendships back together, Lex is haunted by a secret she hasn\u2019t told anyone\u2014a text Tyler sent, that could have changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>In the tradition of Jay Asher\u2019s\u00a0<em>Thirteen Reasons Why<\/em>, Gayle Forman\u2019s\u00a0<em>If I Stay<\/em>, and Lauren Oliver\u2019s\u00a0<em>Before I Fall<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Last Time We Say Goodbye<\/em>\u00a0is a thoughtful and deeply affecting novel that will change the way you look at life and death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop.com\/Books\/american+sniper?k=60&amp;sort_popular=&amp;t=0\" target=\"_blank\">American Sniper<\/a>\u00a0by Chris Kyle<\/p>\n<p>From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly precision from rooftops and stealth positions during the Iraq War, called him \u201cThe Legend\u201d; meanwhile, the enemy feared him so much they named him\u00a0<em>al-Shaitan<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cthe devil\u201d) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle, who was tragically killed in 2013, writes honestly about the pain of war\u2014including the deaths of two close SEAL teammates\u2014and in moving first-person passages throughout, his wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their family, as well as on Chris. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle\u2019s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Wild-Oats-Project-Midlife\/dp\/0374290210\" target=\"_blank\">The Wild Oats Project<\/a>: One Woman\u2019s Midlife Quest for Passion at Any Cost by Robin Rinaldi<\/p>\n<p>What if for just one year you let desire call the shots?<br \/>\nThe project was simple: Robin Rinaldi, a successful magazine journalist, would move into a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a beautiful flat a few blocks away, that she was forty-four, or that she was married to a man she\u2019d been in love with for eighteen years. What followed\u2013a year of abandon, heartbreak, and unexpected revelation\u2013is the topic of this riveting memoir,\u00a0<em>The Wild Oats Project<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Things-You-Wont-Say-Novel-ebook\/dp\/B00LD1S3F4\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426817635&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=THINGS+YOU+WON%E2%80%99T+SAY%2C+BY+SARAH+PEKKANEN\" target=\"_blank\">Things You Won\u2019t Say<\/a>\u00a0by Sarah Pekkanen (Coming out May 2015)<\/p>\n<p><em>How far would you go to save your family?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Every morning, as her husband Mike straps on his SIG Sauer and pulls on his heavy Magnum boots, Jamie Anderson tenses up. Then comes the call she has always dreaded: There\u2019s been a shooting at police headquarters. Mike isn\u2019t hurt, but his long-time partner is grievously injured. As weeks pass and her husband\u2019s insomnia and disconnectedness mount, Jamie realizes he is an invisible casualty of the attack. Then the phone rings again. Another shooting\u2014but this time Mike has pulled the trigger. In her characteristic exploration of true-to-life relationships, Sarah Pekkanen has written a complex, compelling, and openhearted novel\u2014her best yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop.com\/Books\/david+vann?k=60&amp;sort_popular=&amp;t=0\" target=\"_blank\">Aquarium<\/a>\u00a0by David Vann<\/p>\n<p>Twelve year old Caitlin lives alone with her mother\u2014a docker at the local container port\u2014in subsidized housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be picked up after school, Caitlin visits the local aquarium to study the fish. Gazing at the creatures within the watery depths, Caitlin accesses a shimmering universe beyond her own. When she befriends an old man at the tanks one day, who seems as enamored of the fish as she, Caitlin cracks open a dark family secret and propels her once-blissful relationship with her mother toward a precipice of terrifying consequence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop.com\/Books\/donna+tartt?k=60&amp;sort_popular=&amp;t=0\" target=\"_blank\">The Goldfinch<\/a>\u00a0by Donna Tartt<\/p>\n<p>Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don\u2019t know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.<\/p>\n<p>As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love\u2013and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Goldfinch<\/em>\u00a0is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s on your spring reading list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking it\u2019s time to start a new read? Spring is the perfect season to switch up your book routine and pick up something new and fresh. Whether that means starting summer a little early by getting lost in romance or sticking to the edge of your seat with a classic thriller, there\u2019s loads of books&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"btnReadMore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aspire-canada.com\/?p=3072\">READ MORE<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3301,"featured_media":3074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","pmpro_default_level":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spring Reading: 6 Books to Pick up Now - Aspire-Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Spring Reading: 6 Books to Pick up Now\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aspire-canada.com\/?p=3072\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spring Reading: 6 Books to Pick up Now - 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