Tiina
Every time I write the Friday Reads – even though several weeks have passed -
it always feels like time has flown by and it’s been two days at the most. Time
moves way too fast. I also know I say the same thing every time. Anyway, now on
to my reading plans. They are not going to be majestic. I think my main aim
today is to finish off the last 90 pages of The
Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt. This is a Western that features, you
guessed it, the Sisters brothers, or brothers Sisters as I mistakenly call them
all the time. They are mercenaries and the novel follows their journey from
Oregon City to California; it’s violent, and filled with random sidequests. I’m
not sure I fully understand it but at the same time it’s a fun read, somehow.
What else? I’m in a bit of a slump after my holiday so I don’t know if I’ll
continue with The Wrath and the Dawn
that I started last Monday, or just pick up something else. Maybe a new adult
novel? Elle Kennedy’s The Goal in the
Off-Campus series is a definite contender. Books that read fast and are
entertaining at the same time are good for when you need to get yourself out of
a slump. Also, I have been highly anticipating it since I read the third over a
month ago. I really can’t wait to conclude the series. I’m heading on a trip to
Amsterdam on Sunday and may only make a dent in my audiobook (Samantha Young’s The One Real Thing) as opposed to
reading physical books, but as we’re going into a long weekend, I may find some
more reading time on Monday, as well. You deserve a gold star for reading that long
sentence. In short, the reading slump has taken over so I don’t really know my
mood yet. That’s it. This was rambly, but that’s me. What about you? What are
you reading?
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Well this
will be a rainy and blah weekend in here in New York City so I will be spending
plenty of time indoors reading. Part of me wishes for warm and sunny weather,
but then a bigger part of me is happy for the blah weather so I can be lazy all
weekend and just read, drink wine, and play video games. I started Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy on
Monday so I will be continuing with that. It is not an easy read, which I don’t
mind, and it is written in a very unique way which I find myself really drawn into.
I can’t wait to get further into it and see where it goes. I am also working on
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King.
I have had this book for a while now and it is one of the King books I have
actually not read yet. It contains two stories and is not so much scary and it
is creepy and disturbing and I am obviously enjoying every second of it. To me
it is perfect bedtime reading (Tiina would beg to differ). I am also still
working on Half the Sky: Turning
Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and
Sheryl WuDunn for the Emma Watson book club, which I spoke about last week.
Then I am hoping to start two new ones this weekend, both for Read Harder 2016
challenges. The first is Inside Out &
Back Again by Thanhha Lai (East Asian author challenge), which is about a
young girl who must relocate to America as a result of the Vietnam War.
It is actually written in verse, which really intrigues me. Annnnnd, the final
book I will mention is My Year Without
Meat by Richard Cornish (for the food memoir challenge). It is about a man
who was so in love with eating meat and decides to reevaluate his food
lifestyle and how obsessed with meat he was by becoming vegetarian for a year.
Being a vegetarian (and a person who was never in their life a big fan of meat)
I am really interested to see what it was like for a meat lover to go to the
extreme and turn vegetarian for a year. Whew, that is it for this #FridayReads
I guess. Looks like Tiina and I have some big plans, now let us see if we
follow through with them. ;-)
Happy
weekend and happy reading everyone!
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