Jaclyn posted: " Last week was a slow reading week; heavy on the doomscrolling, light on the books. I found myself unable to look away from my Washington Post app and focus on anything except the horrifying news from Uvalde. As a parent, school shootings " covered in flour
Last week was a slow reading week; heavy on the doomscrolling, light on the books. I found myself unable to look away from my Washington Post app and focus on anything except the horrifying news from Uvalde. As a parent, school shootings are my absolute worst nightmare. But that sounds completely trite and I expressed my thoughts in emails to my U.S. Senators and donations to Everytown and Moms Demand Action, which is where those thoughts belong more than they belong in a post about what I read last week.
Anyway - I finished Delight, by J.B. Priestley, last Monday and then spent most of the week attempting to focus on Tom's Midnight Garden, which was a very cute children's timeslip novel (and you all know that I can't resist a timeslip novel) but nothing was going to hold my attention last week. I finally finished my sojourn with Tom and Hatty on Saturday night and turned to The Book Lover's Bucket List, because I can resist neither a book about books, nor a book about literary tourism. Still really at the beginning, but it's good fun and definitely making me crave another trip to England. (Maybe I can swing an overseas assignment at work. Our London office is looking better and better.)
Still rather too early in The Book Lover's Bucket List to start thinking about what comes next, but I do need to finish my spring poetry anthology before it's really officially summer. And I've had my eye on Mariana, by Monica Dickens, for awhile - a charming story about a young woman growing into herself is sounding appealing these days.
It's finally warm enough to paddle! I'm sure everyone is glad that my incessant grumbling about cold, rainy spring days has finally ended. Hurray for paddling season!
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