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
Has anyone realized yet that it is November already? Can't say that I'm excited about getting older so fast. In my last recap, I did innocently ask if anyone was excited about Fall. I don't know what happened this year, but the leaves are too eager to fall, so Fall hasn't been long enough. And if the weather outside is any indication, looks like we are going to have a long winter. Not that I'm complaining. I love the winter, and have been waiting since April for the winter. Summer though makes me meh! Anyways, I didn't recap last month, because I didn't really have that good a reading spree then, so here's a twin recap.
Books of the months
Other Reads
Reviews posted
- Irma Voth by Miriam Toews
- The Giver by Lois Lowry (WOW!)
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Goliath (Leviathan #3) by Scott Westerfeld
- Naked and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
Other posts
- Some favorite fiction titles so far
- Some other favorite titles so far
- Why it's okay to have robots recommend books
- When I feel like throwing a book
- Blogger Recommends - September Finds
- Shelving a read book (and fretting about it)
Traveling with my books this year
Japan and Guyana are the new additions. My around the world reading has taken a hit. I think I'll forget about it for now and start afresh next year. There are some books I want to clear off my shelves now.
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Comments
like you had a productive fall J Kafka On The Shore is
one of my favourite books (I’m a huge Murakami fan) and I loved your review. (and LOVE the map!)
I’ve
been meaning to read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian for some
time now, fingers crossed for November!