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!
Right now, I am going through two books. I started Arcadia a couple of days ago, and since then I have come across the book a few times already in other blogs. They have been mostly raving, so I'm eager to see where this goes for me. Though, I should admit that I started it at the wrong time - when I was going to sleep, and Arcadia isn't a book you should start at such times unless you do want to be put to sleep.
Which pages were turned...
I'm also reading Catherine Ryan Hyde's When I Found You. I've been eager to read this one for a while, because the synopsis about an abandoned baby and the man who found the baby in the woods sounded interesting. Short Story of the week - In the Bed Department (click for my review) by Anne Enright.Since the last update, these are the books I read:
Dance Lessons by Áine Greaney Cross Currents by John Shors I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu Divergent by Veronica Roth My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf...And other news
Short Fiction: A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Short Fiction: In the South by Salman Rushdie Review: First You Try Everything by Jane McCafferty Review: The Dispatcher by Ryan David Jahn Post hunger games mania
Indie Lit Awards winners A long month of books and TV
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My favorite read this week was the audio version of Shutter Island. Please come see what else I'm reading.
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Sorry I am a bit late stopping by this week, I've been swamped! I hope you have been enjoying Arcadia
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