This is like when I was a pen pal as a kid and every letter started with “Sorry it has taken me so long to reply!” I had hoped to finish this post on my lunch hour, but I didn’t, so late again!
I have been trying to spend less time on Facebook, but instead I keep checking Substack and YouTube, so am defeating the purpose of reducing stress from the constant drip of bad political news. Too late for today (big Senate budget vote, etc.) but tomorrow I’m going to stay off the hour-by-hour stuff, and at the end of the day, just read the daily summary from one of my favorite authors Connie Willis (follow her political posts on Facebook at CW Daily) and the daily letter from my favorite historian, Heather Cox Richardson. Maybe I’ll check in for updates from Meidas Touch and Stephen Tyler Cohen, as well, but that’s it.
To distract me, and keep me on books instead of politics, please let me know what you’re reading in the comments and/or share your blog link! (If you can’t see where to comment, try clicking/tapping on the title of this post to open it in full.)
My current reading is almost the same as I reported in my last post, where I talk about them in a little more detail. The audiobook I’m listening to is new!
Currently Reading
The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
A Big Book Summer challenge book! (Over 400 pages)
Trouble Ahead by Bill Fleming and Joe Peters
Smart Girl Summer by Kristin Rockaway
I bought Smart Girl Summer for our Mediterranean cruise in April, but I packed too many books to read them all while on vacation. It’s about a post-doc in physics who, after her university research position implodes, takes a summer job tutoring math to the daughter of a tech billionaire on a yacht sailing around the Mediterranean. Romance blossoms and takes her mind off her problems, until new problems arise!
Currently Listening To
All Fours by Miranda July
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS OF 2024
ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 2024
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:
THE NEW YORKER ● VOGUE ● FINANCIAL TIMES ● OPRAH DAILY ● VULTURE ● VOX
The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life.
I just realized All Fours is narrated by the author, and I never would have guessed. Also, it’s exactly 400 pages (10 hrs, 14 min) long, so it counts towards Big Book Summer! The audiobook is a wild, hormone-fueled ride. (I’ll just say “irreverently sexy” is an understatement, and leave it at that.)
Recently Listened To
Jeeves in the Offing by P.G. Wodehouse
This post is linked up to It’s Monday, What Are You Reading, hosted by The Book Date. It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is a place to meet up and share what you have been and are currently reading each week. Visit the link-up for more books to your groaning TBR pile.
