magazine writing – gina tomaine

My Instagram looked amazing.

It was filled with shots like a stunning aerial view of Vatican City from the dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral; plates of spaghetti and glasses of red wine resting on a classic checked tablecloth on a candlelit Trastevere evening; me laughing behind Ray-bans on a boat off Capri Island in glimmering sunlight.

Of course, it’s Instagram. So what it didn’t show was the truth: that I was feeling a little sick and sluggish. I was wiped out from the constant travel, daily planning, organizing itineraries, and sightseeing—combined with eating heaps of mozzarella and an ungodly amount of prosciutto.

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reading:

2017

And The Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Young Widower’s Handbook – Tom McCallister
The View From The Cheap Seats – Neil Gaiman
The Young Widower’s Handbook – Tom McAllister
Hunger – Roxane Gay
Devil In The White City – Erik Larson
Daring Greatly – Brené Brown
Midnight Salvage – Adrienne Rich
Crush – Richard Siken
Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far – Adrienne Rich
So Sad Today – Melissa Broder
Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
Love Warrior – Glennon Melton Doyle
The Mothers – Brit Bennett
Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi

2016 (26 books)
Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
Born A Crime – Trevor Noah
Yes Please – Amy Poehler
Heartburn – Nora Ephron
Losing It – Emma Rathbone
Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
Running: A Love Story – Jen A. Miller
Between The World And Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Monstress (Vol. 1) – Marjorie Liu
The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo- Amy Schumer
The Girls – Emma Cline
The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
You Look Like That Girl… – Lisa Jakub
The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J.K. Rowling
Bloomabilities – Sharon Creech
Pilgrims – Elizabeth Gilbert
Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff
Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
Brain on Fire – Susannah Cahalan
The Mystery of Hollow Places – Rebecca Podos
Tenth of December – George Saunders
Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman
The Woman Warrior – Maxine Hong Kingston

2015 (16 books)
Trigger Warning – Neil Gaiman
Writing Down The Bones – Natalie Goldberg
The Performing Word – Frederick W. Reid
Madame Deluxe – Tenaya Darlington
Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
salt – Nayyirah Waheed
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Saga: Book One – Brian K. Vaughn
My Age of Anxiety – Scott Stossel
The Pillowman – Martin McDonagh
The Pale King – David Foster Wallace
Looking for Alaska – John Green
The Art of Asking – Amanda Palmer
Laughing at My Nightmare – Shane Burcaw

2014 (18 books)
The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
Trespass – Thomas Dooley
Not That Kind of Girl – Lena Dunham
The Opposite of Loneliness – Marina Keegan
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
The Circle – Dave Eggers
The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter
Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
The Lost Years of Merlin – T.A. Barron
The End of the Suburbs – Leigh Gallagher
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
The Signature of All Things – Elizabeth Gilbert

2013
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Catherine – April Lindner
The Receptionist – Janet Groth
The Killing Joke – Alan Moore
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jeanette Rhys
Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson
Lit – Mary Karr
Ex Machina – Brian K. Vaughan
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Emma – Jane Austen

2013
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
No Death No Fear – Thich Nhat Hanh
Thrall – Natasha Trethewey
Poetry in America – Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Freefall – Joseph Stiglitz
The Dark Tower I, II, III, IV – Stephen King
Song Without Words – Gerald Shea
Bossypants – Tina Fey
A Pennsylvania Deer Hunter – Edward Murphy
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Passage – Justin Cronin
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
29 Gifts – Cami Walker
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
On Writing Well – William Zinsser
The Diviners – Libba Bray
You Are Here – Thich Nhat Hanh
A Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers

2012
The Personal MBA – Josh Kaufman
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Superfreakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
The Flight of Gemma Hardy – Margot Livesey
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
The Singles – Meredith Goldstein
Cereus Blooms At Night – Shani Mootoo
Omeros – Derek Walcott
The Bone People – Keri Hulme
Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Without a Net – Michelle Kennedy
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? – Mindy Kaling
Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
Tell Them I Didn’t Cry – Jackie Spinner/Jenny Spinner
The Hunger Games Trilogy – Suzanne Collins

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