Halfway through Lady Tremaine. A retelling of the stepmother from Cinderella. It's an interesting read but not a page turner.

Just read two books by two of my favorite writers:
The Shippers by Katherine Center and Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan
Both are light rom-com books, but well written.

Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff.

Ugh I also feel slumped. Book club chose Nina Totenberg's bio "Dinners with Ruth" and I am not excited...

please change my mind!

I bought Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, on impulse and I can't get excited enough to start it. Anyone read it? Won the Booker Prize.

Listening to the Unselected Journals of Emma Lion, based on recommendations seen here. I am on Vol. 3 and not getting the hype. The writing is alright, but nothing really happens. I think I'll bail if things don't pick up by the end of this one.

Count My Lies by Sophie Stava. I'm loving it so far. But mostly loving that it's a linear narrative. I can't anymore with the back and forth, people and dates, flash backs, parallel worlds or sliding doors like the ten year affair (I just finished that trash). I needed a normal freaking book for once and so I'm loving it thus far.

I'm reading Trust by Hernan Diaz. It won the Pulitzer a few years back. I'm enjoying it a lot. But it's a harder read.

I'm listening to "You With the Sad Eyes", Christina Applegate's memoir. It's funny and honest and really sad at parts. I love her and hearing her read/tell the stories is an important part of the experience, I think. It's fairly intense so I only listen to a chapter at a time.

With my eyeballs I'm reading "Annie Knows Everything" by Rachel Wood and I'm wavering about whether to continue. I think I'll stick with it for a while longer. It's a workplace romcom that feels heavier on the "workplace" and not quite enough rom or com but maybe I need to be patient.

The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity

By Carl Trueman

A modern follow up to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man, it seems.

Lonesome Dove for BC - second time through. Quality character development in that one.
Then, Elizabeth Strout's new one - The Things we Never Say.

Nothing yet…..!
But I plan on visiting my local library 📚 later on this wk to get some new books to read & will keep everyone posted!

In such a rut.

Am listening to Drift by Rachel Maddow and reading The Martian by Andy Weir.

Both are “easy” books to get me out of a slump but it’s taking me forever. Drift was written awhile ago but is pretty enraging because everything being brought to light in the book is still happening.

Great Expectations, a friend recommended it and it was slow and boring but Miss Havisham and Eliza just came on the scene so maybe it gets better.

The Long Ships, by Frans Bengtsson. It's about a Viking and his adventures (originally written in Sweden in the 1940s) and it's a fun page-turner, but based on real history.

What is everyone reading this month?
What is the book about?
What is your opinion of the book?