Alright...last time I shared I was reading Pilgrims, short stories by Elizabeth Gilbert. I got about halfway through and stopped. Short stories are not my favorite, apparently. And I tried The Woman in White and couldn't get into it. I'll try again in another life season for sure.
Here are some of the more notable books that I did get through in the past few months...
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling. I found this to be such a smart and funny memoir. Yep, I laughed out loud. Yep, I read parts out loud to Paul. But deeper than that, I loved how often Mindy mentioned her parents. It was clear that their relationships were special and influenced her greatly. This was notable to me because I, too, consider my parents my best friends and I hope to cultivate the same feelings of mutual respect with Ellerie. I also thought her section about marriage and how married people need to stop complaining that "marriage is work" was profound. There is no doubt that my marriage is something I "work on" but I choose to do it daily and I absolutely don't want to complain about that.
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer. this book was recommended to Paul by one of his co-workers. Paul is currently a radiology resident and his goal for the next four years is to get really good and really familiar with what "normal" looks like in the human body and then be able to spot accurately and quickly when something is slightly amiss. Basically, it's intense memorization. This book was about building and training our memories and the crazy capacity the human brain has for storing images. I found most of it totally facisnating (and a few bits boring - I skimmed some longer of the historical parts). Overall, worth the read for sure and I picked up some memory training party tricks. (Don't you totally want to be at a party where people bust out memory tricks? No? Just me then?)
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. I picked this up at the library because it was by the same author as my beloved The Time Traveler's Wife. When I got home I looked it up on amazon and saw the reviews were not great. (I shouldn't have done that.) It was ...interesting. But not in that magic way where you're totally into it and can't get enough of it. I was mildly intrigued, if that makes any sense. I had to know what happened, but was at the end more let down than anything else. It was haunting and depressing but also well-written. I don't know. I guess I'm torn. Bottom line is that I loved The Time Traveler's Wife and I didn't love this.
Currently on my nightstand is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver and I'm 692nd in line for one of the 77 copies of The Goldfinch in the San Diego public library system.
What are you reading?
For past book reports from me check here, here, here, and here.
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