Mom's Reading Corner
As I look over my reading list and my weekly stats and check ins I am currently 3 books behind so I will just do a quick recap of what I have read so far to catch up or what caused me to be so behind in the first place.
I finally finished Emma by Jane Austen. This book was for the prompt "book that has been on my To Be Read list for too long". Now I know why it took me so long to finish. Getting interrupted during a Jane Austen book is rough for me. I lose the flow of the language even if I am already familiar with the story. As much as I did enjoy this book I never should have stopped part of the way through. It made for a very difficult jump back into it book- it took an embarrassing 2 weeks to finish only about 20% of the book.
So for my next read I went in pretty much the opposite direction. Bossypants by Tina Fey was.....interesting.....um....mildly funny.....disjointed....didn't have a clear message or flow, but it did have a couple of relatable parts including Tina's feelings about animals and not driving and motherhood struggles. I needed a short read and I really wanted to read this one and I wanted to really like it because I enjoy Tina Fey's humor. But this book came off just a little too self-deprecating and I didn't need to know how to "label" people (she peppered quite a few chapters with a lot of talking about gays, lesbians, blacks, whites, Greeks, Koreans etc) which I believe perpetuates the problems of racism and sexism, but what do I know. I am not a liberated feminist. What else can I say except that this wasn't laugh out loud funny, but certainly not a complete waste of time. I learned some rules about improv comedy and I liked when she explained some things about 30 Rock. Originally I wanted to read this book for the prompt "a book about an interesting woman" but I filled it. Then I thought about using it for "a book written by someone you admire", but I sadly feel less admiration for Tina Fey considering her slight over use of curse words (just a personal thing) and her fishing for complements attitude. This may be a stretching it but I am using this book for the prompt "a book with career advice".
Because I am trying to catch up I needed another short book so I used Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke as my audio book. This was a good book. I really enjoyed the character of Igraine. She is brave, thoughtful, resourceful, and confident. This is really a story about family working together to keep a neighboring enemy from stealing the family's magic books. Leave it to a German, though, to make the nickname for the bad guy- hedgehog. A hedgehog is one of the most adorable animals in the world in my opinion so that was a little disappointing but it didn't ruin the story. Since this was for the prompt "audio book" I had plenty of time to cross stitch during this time. I would highly recommend this book.
I have four more books to read in the next 5 days to stay on schedule. Realistically I will only get 1 or 2 done this weekend because my sister is coming to visit and Lucy has a big scary dentist appointment on Monday. I picked some really short books though so you never know. Good luck to me.
I finally finished Emma by Jane Austen. This book was for the prompt "book that has been on my To Be Read list for too long". Now I know why it took me so long to finish. Getting interrupted during a Jane Austen book is rough for me. I lose the flow of the language even if I am already familiar with the story. As much as I did enjoy this book I never should have stopped part of the way through. It made for a very difficult jump back into it book- it took an embarrassing 2 weeks to finish only about 20% of the book.
So for my next read I went in pretty much the opposite direction. Bossypants by Tina Fey was.....interesting.....um....mildly funny.....disjointed....didn't have a clear message or flow, but it did have a couple of relatable parts including Tina's feelings about animals and not driving and motherhood struggles. I needed a short read and I really wanted to read this one and I wanted to really like it because I enjoy Tina Fey's humor. But this book came off just a little too self-deprecating and I didn't need to know how to "label" people (she peppered quite a few chapters with a lot of talking about gays, lesbians, blacks, whites, Greeks, Koreans etc) which I believe perpetuates the problems of racism and sexism, but what do I know. I am not a liberated feminist. What else can I say except that this wasn't laugh out loud funny, but certainly not a complete waste of time. I learned some rules about improv comedy and I liked when she explained some things about 30 Rock. Originally I wanted to read this book for the prompt "a book about an interesting woman" but I filled it. Then I thought about using it for "a book written by someone you admire", but I sadly feel less admiration for Tina Fey considering her slight over use of curse words (just a personal thing) and her fishing for complements attitude. This may be a stretching it but I am using this book for the prompt "a book with career advice".
Because I am trying to catch up I needed another short book so I used Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke as my audio book. This was a good book. I really enjoyed the character of Igraine. She is brave, thoughtful, resourceful, and confident. This is really a story about family working together to keep a neighboring enemy from stealing the family's magic books. Leave it to a German, though, to make the nickname for the bad guy- hedgehog. A hedgehog is one of the most adorable animals in the world in my opinion so that was a little disappointing but it didn't ruin the story. Since this was for the prompt "audio book" I had plenty of time to cross stitch during this time. I would highly recommend this book.
I have four more books to read in the next 5 days to stay on schedule. Realistically I will only get 1 or 2 done this weekend because my sister is coming to visit and Lucy has a big scary dentist appointment on Monday. I picked some really short books though so you never know. Good luck to me.
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