Look! It’s BB-8! Check it out, you guys! So, we’ve been having too much fun around here. Last week included my husband’s birthday, and the kids and I gifted him a BB-8. Peanut is craaaaaaaazy for it. She keeps chasing it and shouting “BE MY FRIEND, BB-8!” and BB-8 is all “Unidentified human life form detected! Unidentified human life form detected!” We’re basically dying from laughter. Which is good, because I’m so overwhelmed at work and at home that laughter is in pretty short supply otherwise.
Anyway, that’s my way of saying that I hope you’ll forgive me, but I barely have any books to tell you about this week. It was a week of starting and stopping. I started The Witches: Salem 1692, and then returned it to the library when I realized I would not have time to finish it and there was no way I would be able to renew it. (I ordered a copy, because I decided I wanted it for my own.) Then I started Sloane Crosley’s debut novel, The Clasp, and tossed it aside after 80 pages when the characters were annoying me too much to continue. (I love Sloane Crosley’s essays, but this fiction was not doing it for me.) Then I started My Brilliant Friend, the Elena Ferrante novel that started the Neapolitan series, and didn’t like that either. (Everyone is constantly getting wailed on or hit in the head with rocks. Why?) On looking back at my Goodreads, it appears that the only book I finished this past week was Fables, Volume 2: Animal Farm. (Now that, I liked.)
Current read: I’m finally working on Carry On, the new Rainbow Rowell novel about Simon Snow (the subject of Cath’s “fic” in Fangirl). It’s fun and cute and I’m doing my best to squeeze it in whenever I can. But with work and Thanksgiving prep, I don’t have much time left over for reading – and that’s okay. I’m not slumping, just having a little more trouble fitting book time in. I’m squeezing a few pages in here and there, whenever I can, and that will have to do until life settles down (maybe after the holidays). At the moment I care more about getting done what I need to do, and spending time with my family.
What are you reading this Thanksgiving week?
covered in flour 
This picture is cracking me up.
I’m reading Sorcerer to the Crown, since both you and Rebecca from All the Books liked it so much. Fun!
I first heard of it on All the Books, too! Love that podcast. I hope you enjoyed the book – I thought it was fabulous. The way that Zen Cho wrote magical imagery reminded me of The Night Circus, which I also loved.
Happy belated birthday to your husband! I’m looking forward to reading Carry On, though I must admit I’m in a reading slump at the moment. I have to finish writing a chapter a week for the project I’m working on with my kids. It doesn’t leave much time for reading anything but the books I’m reading with them (A Wind in the Door at the moment).
Thanks! He says thanks. 🙂
I have not made much progress on Carry On, because reading time was in short supply while I’m on vacation. But so far, I really like it!
A Wind in the Door – oh, I LOVE Madeleine L’Engle! I hope the girls are enjoying Meg and Charles Wallace. It might be time for a re-read for me…