What I'm Currently Reading:
Evicted by Matthew Desmond- This is for book club and while it's really important and infuriating, it's also really depressing, which isn't doing anything for my mood.
So many papers- This is typically one of the craziest weeks of the year for me; parent-teacher conferences always coincides with the ending of a work-of-study (this time Macbeth), so I'm buried. Imagine someone (me), being buried in the sand up to their nose, but pretend the sand is now essays and assignments.
Halloween children's books- Sawyer has a few that he loves and he's super pumped to trick-or-treat this year, so we've been reading them quite frequently.
Articles on how much water sprinklers use- Fun story: I received my water bill today and it had gone up a lot. I panicked, thinking that we have a leak somewhere slowly destroying our foundation or inner walls. THERE GOES MY TRAVEL FUND. I then remembered we have had some sprinkler repairs, so I got swallowed by landscaping articles. An hour or two later my husband came home and reminded me we had increased our outdoor watering by two days a week. And there you have it.
What I Actually Want to Be Reading:
Banff, Jasper & Glacier National Parks Lonely Planet Guide- I want to reserve the hotels for next summer in the next week. I need to plan and overwhelm myself with information!
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng- I read about thirty pages of this and then put it on the back burner for everything else. It was such a tease.
Recent Acquisitions
The Accusation by Bandi- Stories out of North Korea
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander- Clearly the political and social climate of the country and world are influencing my reading.
Wanting:
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett- This collection of short stories is quite old, but I had no idea he had written so much else!
Good Without God by Greg Epstein- Religion is hard.
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward- All the cool kids are doing it.
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