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Just finished: Truly Madly Guilty by Laine Moriarty

Up next: The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

Do some people love beginnings more than endings?

Endings more than beginnings?

The book I just read – Truly Madly Guilty – had the best middle. It was yummy. It was smart. It was thought provoking and sharp.

Now it’s done and while I am satisfied with the ending and in general the feeling of accomplishment of having read a book (hey, you take it where you can get it) it was just okay. I guess I just love the middle of a mushy juicy read.

Who doesn’t?!

Just call me Captain Obvious for now.

 

 

Currently Reading: Truly Madly Guilty by Laine Moriarty

The truly madly weird thing about this update from the trenches of my couch from which I read is that my last post was, “Waahhh! Woe is meeeee! I can’t get into anything! I’m not reading! I’m not following my bliss. Not reading for 14 minutes a day to be happy. I’m an unhappy and a sad little thing.” Or something along those lines, maybe?

And then boom! I am inhaling this. Taking it everywhere with me and all around the house too. I don’t want to be upstairs when it is downstairs and I don’t want to be down when it’s up. So I gotta go and finish. . .

 

 

Some over communication when there might not need to be any communication at all. I’ve been reading everything AND nothing for the past 4 weeks. It’s cool. It’s all good (as a children’s storybook character, Pete The Cat says). And yes, I have been reading Pete the Cat this summer. Does that count?!

Some of the more adult stuff I have been reading AND ignoring includes:

The Girls by Emma Kline. A friend in the know (she works for a publishing house) read it and love love loved it! (direct quote) I’ve been reading it on my iPhone. Not ideal. And at the beach. Ideal bc I am at the beach but not ideal because my current iPhone is one iteration back. That would make it a 5 and not a 6.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling. This one I will finish first. It’s in play format and I am enjoying it very much! I honestly forgot how fun those books are. I was swallowed into Harry Potter 6 and 7 when they first came out and for me those dragged and dragged. I finished them but I could not tell you what happened. Not one thing  – aside from the epilogue. Who doesn’t love a good epilogue, right?!?

Since this is a blog about reading and I haven’t done much of it over the past few weeks, I am going to stop writing to make some more room for that reading!!

 

 

Currently Reading: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

It’s my third time into it and in this case, the third time is the charm. I’m gonna go all the way! I have talked about this book with many people and so I am sick of talking about it. Now on to the finish!  Although I am only a small number of chapters in, it’s summer so I know a finish is around the corner.

I haven’t added all of these to my Goodreads list but I will be adding most of them.

20 Fun Novels To Read At The Beach This Summer

I already have The Assistants so that is up next.

Up Next: The Assistants by Camille Perri

 

Currently Reading: How To Start A Fire by Lisa Lutz

Can Reading Make You Happier?

Read the article and find out! And maybe you will be happier while you are reading it.

Am I right?

Currently Reading:  Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

I’ve been reading this tome for a long while and had only read about 5 pages at a time except for earlier this week when I was up at 2 am (yes, 2 am) and I got thru almost 40 pages. I was on a tear. I don’t know why and yes, I am refreshed! After a 2 week break, I am ready to read again.

The question is, am I ready to run?

Talking to a friend at a karate dojo last week while our dojos karate’d I learned she reads sport psychology books and Born to Run by Christopher McDougall came up. This one was on my list for a while but it never got done so it fell off the list. I think it’s time to put it back on there.  And on another note entirely, maybe it will inspire me this summer to run?! That might not be a bad thing.

 

 

 

 

 

Just finished: My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Next up: The Assistants by Camille Perri

On these pages I have said Elizabeth Strout is a favorite author of mine. Still is but this book, My Name Is Lucy Barton I have to stew over some more. I didn’t start enjoying it until I was over halfway through. Coming around to the end was a highlight. I might have been tricked a bit to think there would be some larger ending bringing it all together. Alas, there was not. As I stew, I realize that the writing was interesting and very different from her other novels. That in itself makes me glad to have read it. In the “And for something completely different” kind of admiration I have for writers who, in fact, from novel to novel write something completely different than what came before.

With this one, I am going to hit the internet and read some reviews to see what I missed. Perhaps, I’ll see the book in a new light and from a different perspective.

 

 

Currently Reading: How To Raise An Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims

What’s funny is that I am reading this book in which the title hides that fact that it is really about raising kids while also binge watching the first season of the show Younger in which an older woman pretends to be a younger woman.

Got that?

The show is great as is the book!