Find A Way
Diana Nyad is… badass. That’s just all there is to it. Find a Way was interesting. I enjoyed it, after following her attempts so closely. Also, she’s badass. Sheesh.
Women
Church of Marvels
Church of Marvels was good but a little long in a couple of places, for me. It seemed to take forever to move through part 2 of the story.
I think the author did a nice job with the trans character and all of the characters, actually. I’m glad I read it, even though I wasn’t saying that a couple of days ago when I felt like it was just dragging.
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
I really liked Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future. Do not drink bats. Also, the whole loophole in the Fair Pay Act thing scared the holy hell out of me. I can see some asshat white dudes with power thinking this is a good idea.
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The Secrets of Midwives
I enjoyed The Secrets of Midwives but there was something about Neva and her storyline that I just never quite liked. I am not sure what it was, exactly, but I just didn’t love it like I had hoped to.
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Shirley, I Jest
When I saw Shirley, I Jest on the shelf at the library, I figured what the heck? It’s short, I liked Laverne & Shirley, and I don’t know all that darn much about Cindy Williams, really.
And, it wasn’t a bad book. It wasn’t a great book, either. I feel like I still don’t know all that much about Cindy Williams… really.
She talked briefly about her early childhood with an alcoholic father but she didn’t really dig into the emotional issues around that. Or the emotional issues around anything. Like how she left Laverne & Shirley (she was pregnant and the studio wouldn’t write the show so that she’d have time off to deliver a baby… that had to be horrendous but we got about three lines about it and that was that.)
It could have been better but it was fine, for what it was.
The Lure of the Moonflower
I was worried. The last book in a fabulous series… I was going to love it or hate it, there would be no in between. I loved The Lure of the Moonflower. Which makes it even harder to deal with the fact that this is the end of the series.
I’m tempted to read them all over again… seriously.
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Now, Voyager
Oh dear, I’m way behind on tracking my books here. I’d be even further behind if I’d actually been reading as much as I normally do. Silver linings?
The library cart was mostly empty so I turned to my shelves … and had trouble figuring out what to read because when we Kondoed our books, my little shelf of mixed TBR was integrated into the full library. Oops. Blue was easy to get to so I started there and decided a little pulp fiction was in order.
Now, Voyager was awesome, as most old pulp fiction is. I’m glad I read it. I also kind of want to watch the movie again. It’s been a zillion years since I’ve seen it.
Arabella
Sassymonkey mentioned some guy who I can’t remember was the reader of some of the Georgette Heyer books and I was interested in this. So, when we needed a new audiobook, I pulled up Heyer’s books in Hoopla and realized I couldn’t remember which titles she’d mentioned or even the dude’s name who read them so I shrugged and just borrowed the first one I saw that I didn’t think I’d read before… and that’s how I got Arabella.
TW says she had read it before but she still seemed to enjoy it on audio. It was amusing, as most Georgette Heyer novels are. I think we should just listen to them all on audio because it was so amusing to listen to this one.
2 (Southern) Fiction
I couldn’t resist the cover of Mama Does Time and I was happy to hear TW chuckle through it. I chuckled through it, too. It was a lot of fun and I’d definitely read more Mace Bauer mysteries, (this was the first book in the series.)
Next, I read Karen White’s The Sound of Glass. Hoo boy. There’s no such thing as coincidence. Having said that, I could have hated this book because really???? These people were all tied together this way? Really???? But I didn’t. Every single character was likeable and I cared about them way more than I expected.
What’s extra interesting about me reading these two books, back to back, over a 2 1/2 day period is… I didn’t really feel enticed to move to the Okeechobee. I did, however, feel really drawn to moving to Beaufort. Which is interesting since I’ve spent more time thinking about moving back to Florida than I have thinking about moving back to SC. So here I am, looking at houses in Beaufort again. I think I need to lay off the southern literature until after we buy a house. This flip-flopping around is nuts. We need to just pick a spot and stick with it. Or something lol.
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Housewitch
I wasn’t sure what to read but remembered TW said Housewitch was surprisingly good. So, that seemed like a good choice.
A few chapters in and I thought I’d made a bad choice and that TW had gotten this book confused with something else. It was fine but not “surprisingly good” — turns out, I just needed to wait a tiny bit longer because before I knew it, I’d stayed up until after midnight to finish it. Couldn’t put it down.
I’m not even really sure why I couldn’t put it down. It was just surprisingly good. Maybe it was a spell on the book or something…