It's Monday, What Are You Reading

This week I'm back to real life after a week in Nashville with girlfriends (with plenty of downtime to read whilst sitting out in the sun!), so likely I will be reading less this week. I will find some time, though! I've got five books going at once right now, all in different genres and/or formats, which is pretty typical for me. 

The book I'm most likely to finish this week is Other People's Houses, by Abbi Waxman. I love this author, especially her book The Bookish Life of Nina Hill—but I have to say, I'm struggling to get through this one. It's focused on the day-to-day lives of a group of wealthy moms, and I'm finding it a big boring. (Also, I've had about enough of so many books focusing on wealthy people's lives.) That said, it still has plenty of funny moments, and I'm still appreciating the author's quirky and amusing writing style. Also it's the kind of light, easy-to-read book I appreciate for my bathtub reading time. 

I'm also reading an interesting graphic novel called The Worst Journey in the World, based on Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910. And I seem to have an obsession with living and/or traveling to extreme cold-climate locations (even though I hate cold weather) because I'm also reading Life on Svalbard, a memoir that includes beautiful photos of life on a remote island near the North Pole. Likely I am fascinated with remote places more so than the cold climate! 

For nonfiction I've got Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. While it was published in 2020, it's even more relevant now given our current political situation. I grew up evangelical, so I've read many books like this, and this one is now considered a classic in the genre so I thought I'd give it a go. 

I've also been reading Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, by Oliver Burkeman—which talks a lot about anti-productivity type things, which I love. However, I'm finding the book pretty repetitive, so I'm not sure I'll finish it. I bought it as an ebook through Bookshop.org, though, to try out their new ebook interface, and I'm liking it a lot! So goodbye to Kindle books and Amazon!

I always have an audiobook going too (which I get from Libby through my library), because it helps me settle down for sleep, and I've currently been going through the Little House on the Prairie series. I'm up to Little Town on the Prairie. I love the narrator of these, and it's a fascinating experience reading them as an adult and noticing things I would never have noticed as a kid—including how much of a racist against Native Americans Ma was!

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