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 @ Book Journey wants to know what we're reading. I'm only too happy to oblige!
This week, I started reading The Face Thief by Eli Gottlieb. I have seen this book on a few blogs already, but fortunately or unfortunately, I don't remember what any of the impressions were. So it feels like reading a book without knowing anything about it. I admit that it is the title that pulled me into the book, but right from the first page, the beauty of the language is very obvious. I have a feeling The Face Thief and I will have a good time together.
Which pages were turned...
I just finished reading Mary Ann Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society hours ago and have to confess that this is one of those situations when I really wished the book didn't end. I also finished American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar, a book I have a lot to talk about. I am still reading Lynn Sheene's The Last Time I Saw Paris - which I didn't get to last week, but plan to finish this week. Short Story of the week - The Shawl (click for my review) by Louise Erdrich - a must-read in my opinion....And other news
Review: The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto Some literary tidbits and news. This stuff is so disturbing - on reading about topics that we find challenging.
Comments
Wishing you a great reading week!
Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out
My Monday Memes post
Here's
http://laurelrainsnow.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/monday-from-the-interior-mailbox-monday-what-are-you-reading-feb-13/
http://thelittlereaderlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/02/its-monday-what-are-you-reading.html
Here's mine: Colorimetry
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
PS When will you be posting wedding pics? I'm itching for more.
I caught the flu on Wednesday. I spent much of the weekend in bed reading. Please come see what I've read.
http://bookjunkiemom.blogspot.com/2012/02/its-monday-what-are-you-reading_13.html