Reading: I read 6 (!) books in July (all reviewed here on my blog). I generally do get several books read during a vacation, but it's been quite a while since I racked up 6 books in one month...! :)
- Mrs. Tim Gets a Job by D.E. Stevenson
- The Hot Young Widows Club by Nora McInerny
- I Ran With The Gang by Alan Longmuir with Martin Knight
- When the Screaming Stops: The Dark History of the Bay City Rollers by Simon Spence
- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (the Gateway Women Community book club selection for July)
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
I missed the July meeting of my library book club; there is no meeting in August.... not sure what September's selection will be.
Current reads:
- American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Listening: To Stingray's Classic Rock channel (currently playing Pink Floyd as I type ;) ). I have a backlog of podcasts to catch up on.
Drinking/Eating: My dad's garden got planted late because of the cold, wet spring, & thus wasn't quite ready for eating while we were there. :( Fortunately, new potatos, carrots & yellow wax beans were available from the local farmers' market. We all hoovered them up! Yum!!
Buying (besides books, lol): Not much lately (not much shopping in smalltown Manitoba, lol). My sister & I bought our parents gift cards to the local grocery store for dad's birthday/their wedding anniversary, and to help defray the cost of feeding us while we're there.
Wearing: Lots of shorts & tank tops to help stay cool in the summer heat & humidity. Thinking about what to wear for Older Nephew's Wife's baby shower in September.
Trying: Not to think about Katie's day/Older Nephew's Wife's obstetrician appointment (both happening next Wednesday).
Planning: What I want to do that day.
Fuming: SIL (who was let go from her executive assistant job of 28 years last year, after her boss died at a far-too-young age) has been working in a warehouse doing manual labour for minimum wage for the past nine months. She happily quit that job a few weeks ago when she was offered an administrative job in a small office. After a little more than a week... she was let go!! The boss/owner told her it "wasn't a good fit." So now she's unemployed again. Grrrrr.....
Feeling: Sad to leave my parents again, but happy to be back home & back to our regular routines.
Loving: Summer, when the sun is shining but it's not too terribly hot or humid outside, and I don't have to bother with coats, hats, gloves, boots, etc., before venturing outside.
I just checked my library book club website to see if the book for September has been announced yet. Guess what? It's "Everything I Never Told You," lol. So on the one hand, that's one less book for the Goodreads Challenge total, but on the other hand, one less book club selection I have to worry about reading (one more book of my own choice I'll have time to read). The October selection is Never Let Me Go, which I read years ago for the Stirrup Queen's Barren Bitches Book Club... not sure I will do a complete re-read, but I'll need to refresh my memory on that one...
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"Everything I Never Told You" is on my to-read list. I think I'll move it up. And "Never Let Me Go" was an amazing book - quite haunting, with so many questions. Kazuo Ishiguro is one of my favourite authors - every book is different.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for reminding me there might be another Handmaid's Tale (I can stream them after Thursday night, so that might be a good way to finish my Friday afternoon.)
Glad you're enjoying summer. We've had a few cooler days (as winter has been ridiculously, disappointingly,mild) recently and I loved it.