It got busy this week! Lots going on at home, work, and otherwise as well. Life My daughter's school decided to close on Friday, along with several other schools in the area, with some being closed from Thursday. Not enough staff. The school had been on a mask mandate since the beginning of the pandemic, dropping it only for one week when the pandemic had appeared to have stabilized last year. And yet, they dropped the mandate completely at the beginning of this year, when cases were exponentially rising, only to bring it back again starting next week. I've gone from being very annoyed to angry to feeling fatigue in these first two weeks already. I won't lie - we all mask around here and try to avoid going where we don't have a need to be in, and still, we are not taking anything close to the extreme precaution we all took at the beginning of the pandemic. I cannot and don't want to keep my kids home - I have at least that much faith in the schools' precautions
Sheila @ One Persons Journey through a world of Books wants to know what we're reading. I'm only too happy to oblige!
It's been a busy week for me. I had to work on Saturday too - something I wasn't too happy about, but then who is. So my Sunday was mostly a catch up day for sleep, blogs and reading. But I had a great week of reading, with all three books (technically, two) likely to make my end of year Best of.. lists!
Books completed in the last week
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman: Now I know why this graphic nonfiction WW2 biography is a Pulitzer Prize winner! What an amazing book! I'm so so glad that I finally read this one. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman: Just as awesome as the first book! Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America by Les Standiford: I hope you have this book on your TBR, because this book is awesome! Really well-written, very suspenseful, and well-researched! If you loved Truman Capote's In Cold Blood or Dave Cullen's Columbine, then this is for you.
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I have a busy week in books ahead. If only I had more reading time. I would really love to have a snowstorm hit us this week. (Doesn't help that spring is almost here.)
Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli: I just started this yesterday and was completely unprepared for Lisa Napoli's beautiful writing. I don't know what I expected, but I prayed that it isn't another Eat, Pray, Love kind of travelogue/memoir. So far, it is not. 
Palestine by Joe Sacco: This is the last of the graphic nonfiction books that I have on my pile right now. I've heard plenty about this book. In fact, Palestine is actually a series of ten volumes collected together in a single book. I just started this one last night, and it's riveting so far!
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb: This book is set in Vietnam, and there's a passing mention of the war in the synopsis, but I'm glad it's not the same Nam war that all too often features in any book set in Vietnam. I'm anxious to read about Vietnam without any hint of the Nam war tarnishing it.
Slow Death by Rubber Duck by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie: I've heard this book is scary - like how Food, Inc made us worried about the food we eat and An Inconvenient Truth made us fear for our climate. I'm really eager to find out.
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Radio Shangri-La sounds great so will have to check that out.
Have a great week!
Funny, just received an ARC called Lost in Shangri-La. Will wait to read your Radio Shangri-La. I enjoyed the "Eat" in Eat, Pray, Love (love was okay).