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!
Which pages were turned...
I finished reading Tayari Jones' Silver Sparrow, my second of the Indie Lit Awards reads. I am looking forward to talking about it, once the awards are announced. I'm also halfway through Lynn Sheene's The Last Time I Saw Paris and Mary Ann Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Right - that makes it three books going at a time - book polygamy's in full swing. The Guernsey Literary, which I'm reading at work is pretty entertaining, making me wonder why it took me so long to pick it. As part of my current goal to read more short stories, I read another one recently - A Moment of Wrong Thinking by Lawrence Block....And other news
Review: Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri (Short story) Review: The Silent Land by Graham Joyce Review: The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka Oh, and for Hunger Games' fans: My brother (and fellow fan) just shared with me this awesome map of the Panem courtesy io9 - looks like a good chunk of North America is in the water or bombed off - my town just about made it into District 12, barely.
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Enjoy your week!
My daughter's homework requires reading out loud to me. Come see what she and I read together. I also got some other great books finished on my own time.
Wishing you a great reading week
Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out
My Monday Memes post
http://mustreadfaster.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-are-you-reading-monday-5.html
Have a wonderful week!
Tasha @ A Trillian Books xxx