Musings

Time // 8:30 a.m.

Place // Back at my desk… it’s too chilly to be out on the porch today.

Eating // Nothing yet. But I am hungry. I might break in the middle of this to grab some food, but we’re pretty low on anything delicious right now. I suspect I’ll be going to the grocery store this afternoon.

Drinking // Lemon-flavored black tea.

Reading // I had a great reading week to follow up last weekend’s Readathon. Since last Sunday I finished three books: Divergent by Veronica Roth, The World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne and Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon. The top quote above is by George Orwell from The World’s Strongest Librarian.

Today I need to finish Pain, Parties and Work by Elizabeth Winder so I can post a review for a TLC Book Tour tomorrow. It’s very interesting so far, so I’m excited to share more about it with all of you. After that, I’m not sure what I’ll read next, probably one of my library books (Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg or A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan — I decided I’m going to hold off on Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs until the October Readathon).

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Time // 9:00 a.m.

Place // Today I’m coming to you from my old reading chair out on our porch. It finally warmed up enough that I can sit out here, which is so excellent.

Eating // Strawberries and a donut.

Drinking // Black tea, I can’t remember the brand or flavor.

Reading // I had a pretty good week of reading. I finished You by Austin Grossman on Thursday afternoon and finished a couple of other books during the Readathon yesterday — Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff and the audiobook of Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. I also started World War Z by Max Brooks, but didn’t quite finish it last night. I’m hoping to get though the last 60 pages or so this morning.

After that, I'm not sure what I'll be reading. I didn't get as many books read during the Readathon as I wanted to, so I may try to read through another one of those books today, either Divergent by Veronica Roth (at my sister’s recommendation) or Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

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Time // 11:30 a.m.

Place // My desk. Nothing exciting here.

Eating // Nothing at the moment. I’m trying to decide what to have for lunch after I finish the post.

Drinking // Egyptian mint green tea

Reading // It’s been a strange week, reading and otherwise. I haven’t really been able to settle into a book, so I’ve been dipping in and out of a few different ones – A Chance to Win by Jonathan Schuppe, Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon and You by Austin Grossman.

Tiny Beautiful Things, in particular, has been wonderful. I’ve been very, very out-of-sorts and depressed because of the weather here in Minnesota and all of the craziness happening in the world, but Strayed’s columns have been comforting.

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Time // 9:40 a.m.

Place // At my very messy desk. I need a system for corralling paper.

Eating // Strawberries, powdered sugar donuts, and peach Greek yogurt

Drinking // Blood Orange Cinnamon tea

Reading // I had a crazy week at work, so I didn’t have as much time to read as I would have liked. I did finish Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and the first section of Telegraph Avenue for #readchabon. Yesterday I also read a few chapters of A Chance to Win by Jonathan Schuppe, a book about a little league baseball team in Newark, N.J.

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Time // 10:45 a.m.

Place // Back at my desk in my office, of sorts, in small town Minnesota.

Eating // A fried egg on toast, contemplating finishing off my Easter candy.

Drinking // Bigelow Lemon Lift tea

Reading // I should be reading The New Republic by Lionel Shriver because I am reviewing it for TLC Book Tours on Wednesday. But I’m actually reading Catching Fire because I watched The Hunger Games on Netflix last night.

Overall, I had a very productive reading week (mostly because I had a couple of books almost finished at the end of March that I actually finished this week): The Outsourced Self by Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Round House by Louise Erdrich and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. I can’t wait to write reviews for all of these.

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Time //  8:30 a.m.

Place // On the couch in my sister’s apartment in Minneapolis (change of location!)

Eating // Easter candy, the breakfast of champions

Drinking // Off-brand black tea

Reading // Despite making a list of books I want to read RIGHT NOW, I ended up reading something entirely different: The Outsourced Self by Arlie Russell Hochschild. I also want to start reading The Round House which I am going to have to return to the library really soon.

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