First, in case anyone’s forgotten where I stand on things like welcoming the stranger and protecting the most vulnerable and not making money into an idol by screwing over everyone else to give tax breaks to the least vulnerable (otherwise known as generally following Jesus, not just the shallow husk of a god capitalist Americans have created in their image), there’s nothing beautiful about this bill – call your House representatives today and tell them to vote no and also to feel free to publicly shame their colleagues who are voting in favor of it. Loudly. With pointing.
*deep breath*
Now on to the books.
This month, I’m saying goodbye to Everand (formerly just Scribd). It has changed in the last year, and I’m not enjoying the new way they offer the service. It took me a couple of months to even figure out the new structure, and I still find it clunky.
It sucks a little that, with the cancellation, I’m losing titles that I’ve paid for. But the only unlocked title I still have on it that I am interested in and haven’t finished is Words Are My Matter, and I’m going to end up buying a printed copy of that one anyway. So I let it go. As just another subscription (especially one where the unused unlocks expire at the end of the month with no refund), it’s not something I’m interested in anymore.
Speaking of lack of interest, I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump lately, which is unusual for me in summer. I think between the worry about my car issues, my budget changes, this country’s nonsense, and my parents’ health, I’ve just been blank and unmotivated in general for anything else. I’m going to carve out a little time this weekend to see if I can find something that holds my scrambled attention span long enough to finish it.
Maybe something from a previous TBR this year? Maybe a book off my shelves at home that I haven’t read yet? Maybe some of these?
Book clubs:
- What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange [general fiction]
- Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett [general fiction]
- Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan [cozy – perfect for beach read prompt at Rise & Shine]
- The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin [general (historical) fiction]
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald [general nonfiction with hint of memoir]
Other books I’m looking forward to/need to take back to the library:
- The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King [fantasy, nonrealism]
- The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali [general fiction]
- Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting edited by Ann Hood [essays]
- The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch [general (historical) fiction]
- Back After This by Linda Holmes [romance-ish]
- Rural Voices edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter [essays]
- Lush Lives by J. Vanessa Lyon [queer lit]
- On the Brink of Everything by Parker J. Palmer [inspiration]
- What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown [general fiction]
What are you reading these days?
M. Suzanne Terry 