A look back at summer and this reader's confessions of reading for escape and how reading fits into my life plus more reading aspirations and hopefully some new titles for you! Here are the books and authors I mention: The Five Invitations: Discovering what death can teach us about living fully by Frank Ostaseski Quicksilver, by Callie Hart  Dreadfulwater by Thomas King Under One Roof, Loathe to Love You, Below Zero and Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center Roomies by Christina Lauren It’s a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan Out of the Woods by Hannah Bonam-Young Two Rogues Make a Right and We Could be So Good by Cat Sebastian The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match and The Hating Game by Sally Thorne The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Permanent Astonishment by Tomson Highway Weyward by Emilia Hart  Death of the Author by Nnedi Okarofor The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne  A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver Steering the Craft by Ursula le Guin