Finished reading: With Teeth by Kristen Arnett 📚
Kristen Arnett’s books are sad, funny, and ultimately hopeful. I don’t often miss the Florida of my early childhood, but when I read her work, I do. I tore through this one in one day.
Finished reading: Home for the Challah Days by Jennifer Wilck 📚
Sweet, like an apple dipped in honey. A Hallmark movie if Hallmark made Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur movies.
Finished reading: When Strangers Marry by Lisa Kleypas 📚
Finished reading: The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang 📚🎧
Esmé Weijun Wang writes beautiful prose. This book is intense and upsetting; over and over again I found myself sympathizing with a character only to be appalled by then when perspective shifted away from them and to someone else. Read the NPR review before picking this one up.
Finished reading: Lady Sophia’s Lover by Lisa Kleypas 📚
Kelly J. Baker and Book Riot continue to do critical reporting on the current administration’s impact on the Institute of Museum and Library Services in today’s piece about Freedom Trucks. 📚
📚 I kind of want to have this quote from Anne Trubek as a poster, cross-stitch, or tattoo:
conceive of reading as pure, unadulterated pleasure. A hobby, a way to shift gears, a way to get away from the damned phone, a thing you can do in bed, an outlet for curiosity. A way to counter loneliness, a way to soothe, free therapy. Conceive of it in any way you can that strips it of whatever pressures, should’s, competitions you may have placed on it.
Me, looking at book festival stuff: I gotta read more. There are so many good books! Ack! How can I read more?
Me: Self, reading begets reading. Don’t worry, you’re doing it right.
Finished reading: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 📚