whatcha readin'? 2020 {book 12::goal 30}

I am reading, I swear.

Just not as fast or as much as I normally do.
I am spending a lot of time in the yard,
cutting grass, planning a garden…
and the bulk of my reading right now
comes from a text book
about quantum computing and binary representation
and other stuff that
occasionally makes my brain feel like smushy-mush.

I read Waiting for Joe
in May…and made a note in my phone about it after
that actually just kind of caught me by surprise:

“It was…meh.
Sad & depressing like a cold rainy day
where the sun
never comes out.
A bleak existence.
A sad set of lives."

And then I gave it 2.5 hearts.

I’m not sure that it was the writing that bothered me
as much as it was the subject…
sad, hopeless, bleak, lonely.
And maybe that is just too much for me
right now.

Maybe, right now,
I just want sunshine and unicorns
and candy colored rainbows.

I’m a grown-up.
It’s my prerogative.
:)

(But…in the book’s defense,
normally, as soon as I finish a book
my brain seems to delete it from my memory bank.
But, the characters seemed to have
stayed with me for this one…
so I guess that says something.)

Also…I am starting something new…
I have decided I am not keeping as many books anymore.
So, for some of these, like this one,
if you want to read it
and have a book you would like to trade….
hit me up.
:)

2.5 ♥’s out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥’s
NEXT UP:: HISTORY LESSON FOR GIRLS - AURELIE SHEEHAN

whatcha readin'? 2020 {book 11::goal 30}

I have had a stack of books
by my “reading chair”
for a long time now.

And for a while, it just kept growing,
never shrinking.
But since COVID-19, I have been
just picking up the next book
in the pile
and reading it next.

And the pile is shrinking…
(not gonna lie, that makes me a little anxious…
I’m a bit of a hoarder).

The Farm
was the next on the list.
I had no clue what it was about.
It was interesting….I didn’t mind it…
I wanted to see what happened.
It felt a little like a “handmaid’s tale”
set in today’s time
and less forced…but equally disturbing.

(and it’s funny, I realized I had actually taken
a photo of this book while documenting
that I actually drink tea
and not just diet coke…heehee)

4 ♥’s out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥’s
NEXT UP:: WAITING FOR JOE - SANDRA BIRDSELL

whatcha readin'? 2020 {book 10::goal 30}

I think I remember there being a lot
of hype around this book
when it first came out.

And rightly so.

This book grabbed me right away.
Written from the point of view
of a 5 year old little girl
who is camping with her parents & little brother
when a bear attacks their campsite
and how she deals with everything that ensues,
it is both riveting and hard to read in places…
she captures the point of view and voice
of a 5 year old very well…

I pretty much read the book in 2 days…
it was so hard to put down.

5 ♥’s out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥’s
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whatcha readin'? 2020 {book 9::goal 30}

this was a book
i came across in a book sale
and picked it up
without reading
the back of it
as i was drawn
immediately
to the cover
and the title
which
sounded like poetry
to me.

and i was not disappointed.

this story kept me riveted
right from the beginning…
i fell in love with the characters…
and it made me think
about memory and the huge part
it plays in our lives…

i’m happy i took a chance on this one.

5 ♥’s out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥’s
NEXT UP:: THE BEAR - CLAIRE CAMERON

whatcha readin'? 2020 {book 8::goal 30}

Honestly…I thought I was going to like this
a lot more
than I actually did.

I think my problem is not
with this book or the writing…
I have just never been great with short stories,
even fairy tales.

I need more. I need to feel like
I know the characters,
I need a deeper connection.

But…it was interesting…
it just took me a long time to finish it.
I would just pick it up in spurts…
I liked the notes that he added at the
end of the fairy tales though…
:)

3.5 ♥’s out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥’s
NEXT UP:: LOVE WATER MEMORY - JENNIE SHORTRIDGE