We made our way back to the hotel where we had been staying after our flight was finally canceled last night after getting rebooked on a morning flight out of Dallas. Unfortunately, instead of the direct flight we had, we now have a five-hour layover in Louisville, KY before our connecting flight to Boston gets us in (we hope!) sometime before 10 tonight. Who knows where our checked bags will end up!? We never got them back last night, even though the flight was canceled.
Trying to make the best of a canceled flight and a wasted vacation day — here’s another airport post!
Tex-Mex breakfast at Dallas / Fort Worth Airport included brisket instead of bacon and leek hash browns 
Texas looked flat and brown from the air when we finally got to leave. 
I noticed the writing on the wing was designating where NOT to walk. Don’t worry, I’ll stay off the whole wing. 
Kentucky looks a lot greener than Texas from the air!
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It’s almost Kentucky Derby time! 
Given all the bourbon-related shops, I’m starting to doubt my husband when he said the connecting flight out of Louisville was the only one we could get! 
The bourbon tasting wasn’t open in the morning. Guess this isn’t Nashville!
I Meant It Once by Kate Doyle
Written with crystalline prose and sly humor, the stories in I Meant It Once build to complete a profoundly recognizable portrait of early adulthood and the ways in which seemingly incidental moments can come to define the stories we tell ourselves. For fans of Elif Batuman, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood, and Melissa Bank, these stories about being young and adrift in today’s world go down easy and pack a big punch. — From the Publisher
This collection of short stories is an advanced reading copy from Algonquin Press via NetGalley. Just beginning it, but am enjoying it so far! Good for readers of Sally Rooney’s novels, I would say.
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Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
- Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel
- A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
- A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- Washington Post 10 Best Thrillers and Mysteries of 2017
Set in rural East Texas, Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke is a noir thriller about a Black Texas Ranger caught up in an existential crisis, as well as more than one murder investigation, each with the potential to explode with disastrous political and personal consequences.
45 Books About Texas from Flying Off the Bookshelf
I chose Bluebird, Bluebird from a list of books set in Texas to buy and read on my trip to the Dallas area this past weekend because it had been on my TBR list for a while (probably since 2015 or so when Attica Locke was first making a splash in the crime fiction world.)
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
