Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
BookishKateNYC

BookishKateNYC

Joined April 2016

I moved to New York because of Kathleen Kelly. I like art, whiskey, and black coffee that is smoldering hot. Oh, and books.
blurb
BookishKateNYC
post image

Mandatory to read my first #murakami while in #japan for the first time.

tpixie Have an awesome trip! 🇯🇵 6y
BookishTrish I'm reading this now too! (But not in Japan) Have a fantastic trip! 6y
cariashley Ahh have an amazing trip, I LOVE Japan! Great book too ☺️ 6y
JessieReadsInBK 👌🏻 picture! Hope you guys are having the best time! 6y
40 likes2 stack adds4 comments
quote
BookishKateNYC
Problems | Jade Sharma
post image

Notafraidofwords Holy cow. So effin true 💅🏼 7y
31 likes1 comment
review
BookishKateNYC
Pickpick

Levy's writing is detached in a way that makes this heartbreaking story palatable. There's no sense that you are meant to pity her. It's read more like an explanation. Or like she herself is trying to see and figure out what has happened to her. It's quite amazing, actually.

blurb
BookishKateNYC
post image

I'm in a memoir state of mind.

28 likes1 stack add
review
BookishKateNYC
post image
Pickpick

Rave rave RAVE review. Dark subject matter meets the most colorful writing. Rolling Stone called Cat Marnell "Hot Bukowski" and that sums it up perfectly. Just... So. Damn. Good!

mabell Love the photo! 7y
Audrey Which ice cream store has all these lovely treats? 7y
LauraTFrey Ooh man, the ice cream... so wrong but somehow so right! I loved this book too. 7y
21 likes1 stack add3 comments
blurb
BookishKateNYC
post image

Light reading.

15 likes1 stack add
blurb
BookishKateNYC
post image

Super Bowl Sunday, Italian style.

Audrey You need dueling cannolis to cap off the Italian super bowl. 7y
27 likes1 stack add1 comment
blurb
BookishKateNYC
Story of the Lost Child | Elena Ferrante
post image

Florence reading.

Sarah83 So pretty 😍 7y
Zelma Wow, beautiful! 💕 7y
22 likes2 stack adds4 comments
blurb
BookishKateNYC
Couple Next Door | Shari Lapena
post image

Breakfast of champions.

Amandajoy I see what you did there 😉 7y
24 likes2 stack adds1 comment
blurb
BookishKateNYC
Couple Next Door | Shari Lapena
post image

Good morning! Or at least as good as it can be when it is gross outside and all you want to do is sip hot coffee and binge read...

Wellreadtraveler This book was soooooo good. 7y
JazzFeathers I know the feeling ;) 7y
27 likes1 stack add2 comments
blurb
BookishKateNYC
The Futures | Anna Pitoniak
post image

Loving this book!

JessieReadsInBK Great cover! 7y
18 likes4 stack adds1 comment
review
BookishKateNYC
The Mothers: A Novel | Brit Bennett
Pickpick

Smart and readable, THE MOTHERS is a novel that you feel emotionally attached to from the very first paragraph. Brit Bennett writes with such great confidence that it is shocking that this her debut.

29 likes1 stack add
blurb
BookishKateNYC
The Mothers: A Novel | Brit Bennett

Just started this for my book club and already taken by the writing. I was hesitant to read it because of all the hype and now I don't want it to end!

beagle.mama I'm just at about page 100 and really enjoying it too. Takes place only a short distance from me IRL, and where my BFF lives so that's been fun. 7y
JessieReadsInBK Laura discovered she knows one of Brit Bennett's good friends so we had her text him questions. All I remember is that she is not religious and has another book in the works. :) 7y
21 likes2 stack adds2 comments
review
BookishKateNYC
The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes
post image
Pickpick

This is one of my favorite books of all time. Read it.

22 likes2 stack adds
review
BookishKateNYC
post image
Pickpick

I read this book during the days leading up to my 30th birthday and am not sure I would have the same response that I did if I had read it at a different moment it my life. It was one of those reading experiences when you sigh to yourself "Someone gets me" and you feel less alone as a result. Heti's "novel" is an acquired taste and I am glad I waited till I was older to read this one.

26 likes6 stack adds
blurb
BookishKateNYC
The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes
post image

Pre-Inauguration reading

Tamra I added this to my TBR recently too. Looks good! 7y
27 likes3 stack adds1 comment
quote
BookishKateNYC
Swimming Lessons | Claire Fuller
post image

blurb
BookishKateNYC
Swimming Lessons | Claire Fuller
post image

Snowy and cold outside and I'm taking SWIMMING LESSONS.

Lacythebookworm Teehee! Enjoy! 😊 7y
32 likes2 stack adds1 comment
review
BookishKateNYC
post image
Pickpick

Unlike anything I have ever read , THE VEGETARIAN is a searing novel that makes your skin crawl (in a good way). It is a difficult book to read but aren't those usually the best ones?

JulAnna It was a difficult book to read! I found it disturbing. 7y
RiotMom I'm really looking forward to getting into this one! 7y
Tamra I am anxious to read it! 7y
Aurora99 Hey Kate 7y
Wellreadtraveler Just ordered this! 7y
31 likes2 stack adds5 comments
blurb
BookishKateNYC
post image

New year, first read.

britt_brooke Nice photo. 📷👌🏻 7y
32 likes4 stack adds1 comment
quote
BookishKateNYC
post image

"Because, here's the truth: life is a catastrophe."

Suet624 Gorgeous photo 7y
Audrey Did you see the exhibit when it was at the Met? It was a few years ago and I missed it. I couldn't get my timing down to NYC to coincide with it. 7y
BookishKateNYC @Audrey I did!!! It was amazing 7y
28 likes3 stack adds3 comments
quote
BookishKateNYC
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
post image

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell." #thebelljar

36 likes4 stack adds
blurb
BookishKateNYC
The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen
post image

Holiday reading.

BookishTrish Me too! Me too! 7y
kdwinchester Heartbreaking 💔 7y
jcgoody And me too, ha... 7y
24 likes1 stack add3 comments
blurb
BookishKateNYC
post image

"Thou doth protest too much"

blurb
BookishKateNYC
post image

New life motto.

24 likes1 stack add
blurb
BookishKateNYC
post image

Hump day reading.

28 likes3 stack adds
review
BookishKateNYC
The Dinner | Herman Koch
post image
Pickpick

This book was strange, dark and delightful. It's an acquired taste, for sure, but anyone who likes quirky, unexpected books will enjoy this one.

MrBook Nice spread 😊 7y
Janitor One of my favorites! 'Summer house with swimming pool' is just as delightfully sick and twisted. 7y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders When I finished it my very first reaction was "Holy Shit!!!" And then I passed it off to my friend who had pretty much the same reaction. I still have to read his others that sit on my shelf! 7y
Zelma Love your table set-up! 👍 7y
23 likes1 stack add4 comments
blurb
BookishKateNYC
post image

The only proof that I was at the National Book Awards after party.

JessieReadsInBK Cute top! See you very soon! 7y
30 likes1 stack add1 comment
blurb
BookishKateNYC
A Man Called Ove: A Novel | Fredrik Backman
post image

Beach cover up

31 likes1 stack add
blurb
BookishKateNYC
The Dinner | Herman Koch
post image

Sometimes a good cover needs a good backdrop.

britt_brooke Gorgeous photo!! 📷👌🏻💕 7y
DebinHawaii Great shot! 👍😀 7y
JulAnna Listened to this on audio-it was great! 7y
BookishMarginalia Nice pic! 7y
Zelma Cool photo! 7y
33 likes2 stack adds5 comments
blurb
BookishKateNYC
The Dinner | Herman Koch
post image

Happy animals taste better

saresmoore This reminds me of an episode of Portlandia. 🐓 7y
22 likes1 stack add2 comments
review
BookishKateNYC
Siracusa | Delia Ephron
post image
Pickpick

This is a hard book in some ways. Much more subtle than I thought it would be. But there's something about it that is gripping. It reminded me of a De Chirico painting. Quiet but full of suspense. https://www.wikiart.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico

KarenUK Loved this one... very page-turning! 7y
21 likes1 comment
blurb
BookishKateNYC

"Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing." #hereforthebooks

19 likes1 stack add
blurb
BookishKateNYC
Siracusa | Delia Ephron
post image

Love me some good foreshadowing

15 likes1 stack add
quote
BookishKateNYC

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." #hereforthebooks #litsyriotlive

20 likes3 stack adds
blurb
BookishKateNYC
Siracusa | Delia Ephron
post image
18 likes1 stack add
blurb
BookishKateNYC
Siracusa | Delia Ephron
post image

In desperate need of an escape. #hereforthebooks

19 likes1 stack add
review
BookishKateNYC
The Red Car | Marcy Dermansky
post image
Pickpick

So many feelings in such a tiny book. Not one bit of me wanted it to end but the length was just what it needed to be; every sentence is more important when there are less of them. There was a hopeful melancholy mood to this book that felt strikingly real to me. I don't know if it is possible for anyone to not like this book.

18 likes1 stack add
blurb
BookishKateNYC
The Red Car | Marcy Dermansky
post image

I am so glad that I know how to make myself happy with museums and books and new places and coffeeshops and NYC and that being here, amongst my people, will be enough for me. #hereforthebooks

LauraBeth That's one of the most important things I've ever learned - find what makes you happy and then choose those things - especially in times of discontentment 😀❤️ 7y
BookishKateNYC @LauraBeth you are so right 7y
13 likes2 comments
quote
BookishKateNYC
The Red Car | Marcy Dermansky
post image

@mdermansky gets me.

mdermansky I always love that line. 7y
11 likes1 stack add1 comment
quote
BookishKateNYC
Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger
post image

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I respect..."

21 likes4 stack adds
blurb
BookishKateNYC
A Little Life: A Novel | Hanya Yanagihara
post image

#FBF to a very memorable read.

23 likes3 stack adds
blurb
BookishKateNYC
post image

On to the next one...

22 likes2 stack adds
review
BookishKateNYC
The Fall Guy | James Lasdun
Pickpick

You know that dropping feeling when you just finished a really great book and have to figure out what to read next? That was the state I was in when I started THE FALL GUY. And thankfully-- it was another solid book. It is a little too pleasurable to be considered "great" (I think "great" implies something important) but I couldn't put it down. Read it, just read it. It is really fun and I promise you'll be entertained.

15 likes2 stack adds
quote
BookishKateNYC
The Fall Guy | James Lasdun
post image

review
BookishKateNYC
Behold the Dreamers | Imbolo Mbue
post image
Pickpick

I had been aching for a book that was plot driven with empathetic characters (aren't we all) and this hit the spot. I found it to be an engaging read that opened my eyes to a different side of New York that I see everyday but haven't taken the time to truly notice. I am so thankful for this book for making me see my city and country in a new way...

celtichik Which character has your heart more...Jende or Neni? 7y
BookishKateNYC @celtichik such a good question! And I am torn... which is why I think this is such a great book! I could identify with each character. What about you? 7y
celtichik I was really team Jende til that one particular page...such a great job of showing the male and female perspective of immigration. I think this should be freshman required reading. 7y
JessieReadsInBK Definitely adding this to my to-read list based on your review. I'm tired of NYC from the POV of a working Millennial novels. I've read at least 5 in the past 6 months or so! 7y
22 likes3 stack adds4 comments
blurb
BookishKateNYC
Behold the Dreamers | Imbolo Mbue
post image

Some morning rituals involve yoga and green juice. Mine includes reading and iced coffee.

blurb
BookishKateNYC
Behold the Dreamers | Imbolo Mbue
post image

Color blocking

blurb
BookishKateNYC
Behold the Dreamers | Imbolo Mbue
post image

A (very) good morning.

katedensen ❤️ Think coffee. I used to live across the street from the one on Bowery. 7y
19 likes1 stack add1 comment
blurb
BookishKateNYC
The Past: A Novel | Tessa Hadley
post image

15 likes1 stack add