It has been soooo cold and wet and rainy in New England the past few weeks. That’s nothing out of the ordinary and doesn’t really affect me much since I’m not leaving the house, but when you can feel the cold through the windows you know it’s cold-cold!
Work has started to pick up for the spring like it usually does, so my reading will be slumping for a bit even though this list looks like a lot, it’s back to MM Romance novels because they’re quick and entertaining. Hopefully, I’ll switch them out so it’s not all MM Romance all the time, but who knows!?
The best weekend we’ve had in a while was Presidents’ Day weekend when we rented a cabin up in Maine for a long weekend. We didn’t watch any TV and spent the weekend playing Magic the Gathering, reading, and knitting. It was the perfect unplugged weekend and we both needed the refresh!
Books and Bookish Things
The big book of the month was Wolf Hall. I mention in my response that two random people who I don’t talk books about with regularly mentioned it and that flagged it for me that it was time to read it. So, I did, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. After that, my mind needed a break so I jumped into so many romance novels!
- Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell #1) – Hilary Mantel
- Summer Lessons (Winter Ball #2) – Amy Lane
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- Fall Through Spring (Winter Ball #3) – Amy Lane
- Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
- In the Middle of Somewhere (Middle of Somewhere #1) – Roan Parrish
- Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run #2) – Roan Parrish
- Keeping Casey (Keeping Him #1) – Amy Aislin
I also got to another Booker Prize winning novel, The God of Small Things, that had been on my bookshelf for ages and revisited Hallucinating Foucault, a beautiful debut novel (from like 3 decades ago) 😀
On the new book front I picked up an ARC/review copy of Adam Jentleson’s Kill Switch after hearing this fascinating teaser/story on NPR. We all know I love a random nonfiction book that goes in depth on one subject. Oh heyyyy, mosquitos and earthquakes. I also got a copy of Hair Ziyad’s Black Boy Out of Time with my Kindle Prime membership. I don’t always take advantage of the monthly free book, but this one sounded really interesting and I can’t wait to get to it at some point.
What’s Next?
I’m currently reading a new book by Annabeth Albert, Cup of Joe, and I’m a little disappointed in the editing. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s a collective series from a bunch of authors but the proofreading and even the story just aren’t quite up to her usual standard 🙁
I’ve also been knitting up a storm testing a pattern for a friend’s sister; studying and doing a lot of classwork; and following the first few days of the new administration after all the chaos at the end of 2020 and start of this year. I never thought I’d cry so much at political things, but I think the relief after the insurrection and just the enormity of Kamala Harris’s nomination and swearing in and then Pete Buttigieg becoming the first openly gay confirmed secretary, it’s just been a lot to see and experience.