Last week went much better than I dared hope it would be. I managed to catch some parts of the Presidential Inauguration and the evening program, and just the realization that the administration is really, truly, definitively changing has just sunk in, I think. I haven't spent more than about 5 minutes each day on the news (didn't feel the need to) and I hope to keep it that way for as long as possible. Life Yep, another busy work week. I know I hoped for a lighter work week, but who am I kidding. Work has been a different kind of busy each week this whole month and it will be nothing different this coming week. I just hope to figure out how to get my lunch hour freed up and use it to recharge. Not much happened in life this week - kids are loving being back at school, and I am loving my uninterrupted time, something that was only a luxury for much of last year. Reading Even if life was busy this week, I did read quite a bit. I'm slowly reading So You Want To Talk About Ra
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at Should be reading,
this meme asks you what great books did you hear about/discover this
past week?Not too many finds this week. I think I am finally getting very selective of what I add to my TBR! Probably has to do with the insurmountable size of it.
God Don't Like Ugly by Mary Monroe
I have to shamefully confess that I haven't read any of Mary Monroe books. I spotted this one for the first time when Barnes and Noble was giving this away as a free ebook. I read a few chapters of this book and I quite like it!
After her father left her mother for a white woman, Annette Goode has been overeating to get over her father's abandonment. When she is seven, Annette's mother asks Mr. Boatwright to be her daddy. Soon, he starts raping her. Believing that no one will believe her, Annette keeps silent about it and endures the abuse for years. Then she meets 13-year old Rhoda Nelson who changes her life.
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
I wish I remembered where I saw this one. I LOVE the cover and the title. It is based in Pakistan, has "sacrifice, betrayal and indestructible friendship". Enough to lure me in ..let me use that gift card.. This one released on June 1st.
Zaki Shirazi and his female cousin Samar Api were raised to consider themselves "part of the same litter." In a household run by Zaki's crusading political journalist mother and iron-willed grandmother, it was impossible to imagine a future that could hold anything different for each of them. But when adolescence approaches, the cousins' fates diverge, and Zaki is forced to question the meaning of family, selfhood, and commitment to those he loves most.
Everything Is Broken
by Emma Larkin
Wendy at Caribousmom wrote an awesome review for this book. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should!
On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone wreaked untold havoc in Burma, leaving an official toll of 138,300 dead and missing. But the Burmese regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, provided little relief to its suffering population and blocked international aid from entering the country. Emma Larkin, who has been traveling to and secretly reporting on Burma for years, managed to arrange for a tourist visa in those frenzied days and arrived hoping to help. She chronicles the chaotic days and months that followed the storm, revealing the secretive politics of Burma's military dictatorship and the bizarre combination of vicious military force, religion, and mysticism that defined its unthinkable response to this horrific event.
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