I too loved The Calamity Club. I was reading My Friends right before and just couldn’t get into it. Put it aside. Even you’re my age you don’t have enough time left to waste it on books you’re not really enjoying! I’m finishing reading Theo of Golden and it’s good, but I don’t think I’m loving it as much as my sisters. I don’t often do audiobooks but I heard that my favorite Ann Patchett was reading her new novel, Whistler, and that got my attention. So I started the audiobook last night and it’s great so far!
Audiobooks: Sissy Spacek reading To Kill a Mockingbird never gets old for me. I want to listen to some Harry Potter, read by Jim Dale, again this summer.
I usually don’t look forward to summer, but we had a really hard spring and I was desperate for the school year to be done (silly me). Late April and May seemed worse than ever. But because I stumbled through the spring just trying to keep everything going, I made no plans for summer. Booked no camps other than our church’s VBS. Now we are in the midst of summer, the kids want to be entertained or rot watching You Tube all day, and I still have a job to do. I’m so grateful to have a flexible schedule, but I feel very deeply what you said about the interruptions and their actual cost.
I wasn’t terribly sad when my copy of Yesteryear had to be returned on Libby. I was not enjoying it at all. I thought I would love it based on reviews but I couldn’t get into it. I had also been reading Everyone is Lying to You by Jo Piazza which is an influencer novel but more of a thriller and I did enjoy that one.
The Both/And-ness of it all both helps and hinders (see what I did there?)
Books: I just started listening to the Calamity Club and liking it so far! I love an easy romance to listen to - not too long, not to challenging, but kind of like candy: Annabel Monaghan’s Nora Goes Off Script from a few summers ago was so lovely and I’m looking forward to this summer’s Dolly All the Time. Meryl Streep reading Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake is a slow delight.
This season (Summer/Of Life): trying to figure out my late-40’s hormones so the brain fog I’ve been wandering around in for months (years?) could possibly lift. It’s what I’ve been hardest on myself with (“why can’t I figure this out? What is WRONG with me?”) and it might actually be solvable? Hoping against hope I can find my words and myself again.
I too loved The Calamity Club. I was reading My Friends right before and just couldn’t get into it. Put it aside. Even you’re my age you don’t have enough time left to waste it on books you’re not really enjoying! I’m finishing reading Theo of Golden and it’s good, but I don’t think I’m loving it as much as my sisters. I don’t often do audiobooks but I heard that my favorite Ann Patchett was reading her new novel, Whistler, and that got my attention. So I started the audiobook last night and it’s great so far!
Audiobooks: Sissy Spacek reading To Kill a Mockingbird never gets old for me. I want to listen to some Harry Potter, read by Jim Dale, again this summer.
I usually don’t look forward to summer, but we had a really hard spring and I was desperate for the school year to be done (silly me). Late April and May seemed worse than ever. But because I stumbled through the spring just trying to keep everything going, I made no plans for summer. Booked no camps other than our church’s VBS. Now we are in the midst of summer, the kids want to be entertained or rot watching You Tube all day, and I still have a job to do. I’m so grateful to have a flexible schedule, but I feel very deeply what you said about the interruptions and their actual cost.
I wasn’t terribly sad when my copy of Yesteryear had to be returned on Libby. I was not enjoying it at all. I thought I would love it based on reviews but I couldn’t get into it. I had also been reading Everyone is Lying to You by Jo Piazza which is an influencer novel but more of a thriller and I did enjoy that one.
The Both/And-ness of it all both helps and hinders (see what I did there?)
Books: I just started listening to the Calamity Club and liking it so far! I love an easy romance to listen to - not too long, not to challenging, but kind of like candy: Annabel Monaghan’s Nora Goes Off Script from a few summers ago was so lovely and I’m looking forward to this summer’s Dolly All the Time. Meryl Streep reading Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake is a slow delight.
This season (Summer/Of Life): trying to figure out my late-40’s hormones so the brain fog I’ve been wandering around in for months (years?) could possibly lift. It’s what I’ve been hardest on myself with (“why can’t I figure this out? What is WRONG with me?”) and it might actually be solvable? Hoping against hope I can find my words and myself again.